PeteF3
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I can't imagine many things less comfortable to watch than bodybuilding. Unique setting for a syndie interview, which I approve of. We're back to focusing on Savage's tights pull--apparently this is officially it for Elizabeth. Reading between the lines doesn't HAPPEN to HELP Ric Flair.
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That was quite funny coming directly off the first Yearbook appearance of La Parka. The promo overall, less so.
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This had to be one of the very first AAA shows, if not the first. And they sure as hell aren't skimping on the names in this one. Dig La Parka working a full-on Undertaker/Bray Wyatt gimmick, coming out all somber and stoic, with a lantern. I'm pretty sure the first fall ended with Santo getting a submission on Panther with the camel clutch, and all the chair-related stuff outside was extracurricular and post-fall. Loss summed this up for me--crowd-pleasing with lots of big names, but Aguayo looked his age and Fishman looked pretty awful. The brawling especially at the beginning was pretty tepid, and they got my attention much more effectively with Santo's way cool headscissors and Octagon finding new ways to do armdrags. More goofiness in the third fall as Fishman tears off Octagon's mask and Aguayo immediately tears off Fishman's. Both referees are in disagreement as to whom gets disqualified. Pretty sure the technicos had their mask taken off first. Speaking of '80s WWF, all three technicos beat up the official who ruled against them because they're babyfaces and anything they do is justified. There were some fun parts to this but I wanted more takedowns and flying instead of the brawling we've got. Lucha can give us some awesome-looking brawls but this wasn't it. -
This was a better version of Arn vs. Big Josh--better setting, better heat, and Windham is a more dynamic opponent. Plus the body part work paid off better--even Windham's flying lariat to end the first fall was indirectly set up by his leg giving out as he was climbing the turnbuckle. Full credit to them for not losing a crowd through 30 minutes of work. But that third fall ending...fuck. If they were going to go 30 minutes, they could have easily just went to the time limit draw and saved the Austin run-in for afterward.
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Madusa gets in some good lines, pointing out that Missy is only good for "BLOWING...hot air." This was more entertaining than it should have been.
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At some point in '91 he got a TV pinfall victory over Davey Boy Smith. That was a shocking result both then and in retrospect, considering that Davey was extremely well-protected because of his international marketability. Graham has it on the 8/5/91 Prime Time, I guess as a last-ditch effort to give any sort of credibility to the Triangle of Terror going into SummerSlam.
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Why couldn't Landell cut loose like this in WCW? After ranting non-stop for about a minute, Landell's "Hey Tim, good buddy, how ya doin'?" completely cracks me up. Horner and Landell knock out the audio as they brawl to the back. The $5,000 is still up for grabs.
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Bobby Fulton sends in a phone promo and gets bleeped in the process, vowing revenge for tearing up Jackie Fulton's knee. Cornette, Prichard, and a giant hairpiece with Stan Lane hiding underneath it are out to respond. Cornette produces an "I WILL WORK FOR FOOD" sign for Jackie to wear once the Bodies finish taking out his knee.
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More gold from Anthony and Wright.
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I hope business spiked for this, because the build to this match has been incredible. Enough to make up for the program fizzling the year before with Gilbert's walkout, return, and face turn. This is one of Lawler's very best promos of the '90s so far.
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A study in contrasts: Eddie Gilbert's reaction upon his #6 ranking with Stan Hansen's the year before. Tremendous promo, with Gilbert rattling off the names Lawler has faced and more or less declaring this to be the final showdown. No DQ, no countouts, no holding up of any belts. I'd like to think we'll get a clean unification finish but I'm about 99% sure that isn't going to happen.
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Pity the mic is so visible on Razor's white jacket.
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"Mmmm...evil goo." Okerlund recites the recent history of Papa Shango, including the angle I loved from the previous week--"HIS OPPONENT'S FEET ARE ON FIRE!!!" Shango doesn't say much of note but just when Mean Gene thinks the interview's over, Shango casts another spell and that goo comes down Okerlund's hand.
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Not much to add about this. Kawada's big TC challenge ultimately did very little to get him over in any way--he was decisively beaten down and the message was clearly sent that he wasn't at a true singles main event level yet. That's not the story at all with this, as Kobashi even through doing the job comes off as the gutsiest bastard in the history of the company. Some of his kickouts had me almost literally hopping out of my chair. Jumbo and Taue debut the Holy Demon Army "backdrop+chokeslam" spot that I thought for sure was the finish, but Misawa stuns me by coming back from that sick guardrail bump, goes THROUGH Jumbo, and makes the save. Then Taue hits the power bomb and Kobashi kicks out of THAT. Two of the absolute greatest near-falls I have ever seen. Kobashi even gets a mini-comeback, and I'm getting emotionally involved at this point--"Kenta, tag out--TAG MISAWA, GODDAMMIT." But he doesn't, and his comeback derails. Nonetheless Misawa & Kobashi absolutely come across as the team of the future. The point about the conservative booking is well-taken--I'm fine with Kobashi doing the job here but I'm hoping probably in vain that he gets a big victory at some point before the year is out. A pinfall on Taue, Doc, or Gordy doesn't seem like too much to ask for but I don't know if I'm going to get it. Kobashi looked great but I am hoping for a follow-up to this.
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Fine match that sort of dies down after a hot start. They weren't quite able to recreate the Kobashi/Hansen magic that also came after a big opening, as there was some meandering outside the ring. The finish puts Hansen over convincingly but does seem pretty out-of-place as he just sort of methodically takes Kawada apart. I guess they figured Hansen needed such a victory after barely eking his way past Misawa twice.
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Definitely some piped in crowd noise, but if you watch enough pre-Raw WWF you'll learn to tell visually how into things a crowd is, and they were definitely into this. Anyway, there was some excessively long chinlockery here, but this was a fun match with a really fun closing stretch. Shawn is surprisingly good at doing cut-offs here, and the Sweet Chin Music so much more enjoyable when it's a hot countermove rather than a finisher with all the big stomping theatrics preceding it. Bret turning the teardrop suplex into a sunset flip was a particularly neat counter. I vaguely remember this and one other non-ladder CHV match that Shawn won by countout, so I even popped a little bit myself when Bret got the winning roll-up.
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Kanemoto didn't look too comfortable here at all. Some good dives and sequences but I didn't think much of the match itself, especially considering the talent involved.
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This loses marks off the bat from the lack of awesome Muta entrance music. I've found it really bizarre that this quasi-TNT format change with celebrity hosts would include all these super-long 2/3 fall matches with non-wrestling announcers would have to commentate on. Big mixed message being sent. You'd never see the WWF forcing us to listen to a football player for hours at a time on any show. There is some good stuff here and the basics are all done well, and Muta does get over pretty well by the end of the match, but dear Lord is it a chore to sit through 30 minutes of this at a time. This could have been a very good match in about 1/3 of the time. Muto is a strong candidate for Most Unimproved Wrestler at this point of the year.
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Very realistic, Pure Sports Build promo from Arn. He outlines his future plans and strategy for dealing with Sting in a title match--take the crowd out of it and take a limb away.
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I liked the Pillman match better, maybe only because there are scarce amounts of Pillman vs. Dangerous Alliance guys, but this built into something really good and heated. There should be a thread discussing spots that seemed to primarily exist in one promotion: early '90s WCW was the exclusive home of the tombstone reversal. Any babyface match in mid-'90s WCW had the "two guys cross body each other" spot. All-Japan loved the "get up in a backdrop suplex but kick off the top rope" counter.
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During the Simba match, Vince rebutted Piper with a seemingly scripted zinger about Piper always wearing a kilt (in reference to Atlas "getting back to his roots"). Sounded like the whole thing aired exactly as planned.
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Great performance from Dutch, and the wrestlers are okay. I did notice Landell sort of laying in the bridge rollup--he needs to enroll in a Jushin Liger course in how to try to fight out of pinfalls.
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Repeated lines notwithstanding this is Horner's best promo to this point. Landell says that Bob Armstrong must be punch-drunk, and whines about having to put his $5,000 on the line.
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It's a special Saturday night show at the Mid-South Coliseum, and Gilbert has gone from defending the Global belt against Jerry Lawler, to Jeff Jarrett...to King Cobra. Gilbert puts this over as well as he can. Gilbert and Dave Brown have great chemistry together.
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I have absolutely NO recollection of Crush being in the WWF until just before his match at SummerSlam, to give you an idea of just how memorable these segments were.