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    Fuck me, Jason Hervey is back to haunt my life again. Windham says that Dustin is one of Hervey's biggest fans, which makes me lose a lot of respect for the Natural. Windham is targetting Austin's TV title. He quickly confronts an Undertaker-looking fan heckling him, while Missy holds the microphone, and it's Paul E. with a fake beard. Cute segment even with Hervey polluting it.
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    The Bodies aren't concerned over their tag tournament finals opponent, whether it's the Fantastics or the Maulers/New Zealand Militia.
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    Embry looks like hell, and warns Lee and the Moondogs to pray that he never regains his sight.
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    Confusion over the Southern title, as Eddie Marlin oversteps his authority for the second consecutive week.
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    It's hard to believe that Crush got over at all--these may be the worst promotional vignettes the WWF has ever done.
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    Martel, due up next, has to disinfect the ring of Tatanka's smell first. Tatanka shoves him off the apron and Perfect accuses him of sneaking up from behind, "just like a typical Indian!" Tatanka attempts a chop off the apron but eats Arrogance into the eyes. Tatanka sells it big but somehow I don't recall weeks of blindness, so maybe Martel was ordered by Jack Tunney to water the cologne down. Martel makes off with some eagle feathers that he makes look fashionable. Kind of dopey, but Martel is so committed to his role that you have to respect him.
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    Spanish overdubs of a Spanish woman holding an English conversation with a French man.
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    These guys actually made the PWI 500 that year, so I'd assume McAdam knew whose palms to grease in the Apter mag world. Fulton cuts a decent promo to start--but "Freight Train" is not a good name for a robe-wearing trash-talking heel. This was sort of what I expected the first Kid/Lynn match to look like--some impressive spots mimicking the stuff making the tape trading rounds at the time. That's what this was, without those matches' build, hatred, and psychology. That said, indy 2.9 nise-All-Japan wrestling was not nearly as widespread as it was in the ROH days through today, Fulton is somewhat attempting to work as a traditional heel, and Wilcox busted out a few submissions and pinning combinations I still haven't seen. It hasn't aged well at all but I can see why it generated the buzz that it did. And yes, the table spot or to be more exact the way it was worked was ridiculous.
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    This was whatever. Horribly blown top-rope dive by Norton and an anticlimactic finish.
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    The closing stretch did meander into a bit of a mess at times, which is the only thing holding this back from MOTYC-dom in its own right. It's still a hell of a match with three terrific performances and Keiji Muto...well, he had a great '91. This is really the Hase and Bam Bam Show, however. Hase has had a number of standout performances so it's hard for me to say this is his best, but it's definitely the best Bigelow performance I think I've ever seen. Hase slugging it out with Vader brought to mind the great Vader/Dustin opening at the Clash, and Hase hitting the Northern Lights on him was a markout moment. Really great closing moments, as Muto is cut off from a pin save but Hase kicks out anyway, and then Muto is held up inches away from a second pin save, just like Kevin Dyson at the goal line in the Super Bowl, as Hase goes down.
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    No, Samurai isn't as good as Liger, at least not here, but this is not Liger vs. a broomstick by any stretch. Sammy is awesome just destroying Liger at the start and heeling it up to the crowd, he's awesome selling the beating (and I love that he never bothers to remove the remnants of his mask, wearing it like a bandana and having it flop over his eyes when he's prone on the mat), and he makes an awesome comeback after Liger's paid him back several times over. Incidentally, another little bit that I thought was great was Liger trying to hit a German suplex, and being ready when Samurai tries to do the reverse punt to the nuts--shifting his body turning it into a backdrop suplex instead. Great little play off the previous encounter. I didn't think the submission portion dragged this down at all--they worked it so well with so much hatred and urgency that it was one of my very favorite parts of the match. There are some spectacular spots, of course, but this is all about Samurai coming in as an overconfident dick and Liger coming back to kick his ass, with Sammy showing that he's a little more than just a lucky cheapshot artist towards the end. On the contrary, I expect this to age BETTER than just about any NJ juniors match to come, because the storytelling element is there and the layout is different than the typical juniors contest. This match had a great deal of buzz in the first Liger/Samurai thread, so I came in with pretty high expectations. For better or for worse, expectations can play a huge role in how I view a match, so that means this match had strike 1 going against it from the start. To me it's *****. Easily. It's one of the 2 or 3 best matches of the 2.33333 Yearbooks I've watched, possibly better than any '80s NJPW match. It was really fucking good, is my point here.
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    Count me as another one who liked the finish. Fit in with the story of the match, with Misawa having to get his shots in when he can. A good flash finish in an AJPW setting makes for a refreshing change of pace. Probably a stronger overall match than their bout the previous year, though that one was maybe a little more action-packed. This was a little more psychologically fulfilling and organic, with a good build to the closing stretch and Misawa doing a terrific job of working underneath.
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    Somehow they turn Nikita's U.S. belt shot into a quasi-babyface act because Luger didn't care about the fans or autographs. Hilarious. More excuses follow for Nikita's actions at SuperBrawl--so if he HAD clobbered Luger and cost he and Sting the tag titles, that would have been okay? Nikita kisses up to Sting to make up for that. At least they're not whitewashing these episodes. Nikita explains that he left WCW due to the political situation in Lithuania and trauma over the Sting/Ben angle in another rather clever rewrite of history. Nikita brings up the Magnum car accident and babyface turn in 1986...and you can tell that Dusty had a big hand in writing this.
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    Prichard's Piper impersonation is relatively subdued here. In USWA-Texas it was blatantly out of control. If there's one pukehole Stanfield Lane does NOT want to go to, it's Beckley, West Virginia.
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    Embry thanks the fans for their concerns, and is in disbelief that Richard Lee & the Moondogs would try to intentionally blind someone. He delivers a warning to Lawler, Jarrett, and anyone else who faces the Moondogs. Great follow-up to a terrific angle.
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    The departing Prichard regains the Southern title. Maybe Bill Watts booked this finish.
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    Sid takes credit for ending Hulkamania and promises to do the same to the Warrior. Wippleman stands nearby. All this hype for a house show run that was done in about a week. This Yearbook does do a tremendous job of definitively torpedo-ing the "Sid got fired for kicking out of the legdrop" urban legend. He's been as heavily pushed as ever post-WM.
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    The edgy, adult WWF of late '91 is rapidly deteriorating.
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    Better or worse than the Freebirds concert? I'll leave that for someone else to decide. What an odd hodgepodge of wrestlers at the brunch. Jake is a forgiving guy--he teams with the guy who squashed his snake at Survivor Series and now he's sitting next to the guy who blinded him.
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    This really feels like a role reversal from the Bull of the previous years. There she was almost selfishly dominant, cutting opponents off and coming off as near-unstoppable. Now, even a joshi n00b like me knows that she has a long way to go. But here in '92, with Aja having gotten multiple victories over her and making her look vulnerable, this comes off as Bull's "mid-'90s Stan Hansen" hour--the monster veteran suddenly working underneath. It's the most sympathetic look at Bull yet, weathering Aja's non-stop attack and getting in comebacks but with Aja withstanding every big move she can pull out. Definitely a primo illustration of storytelling and hate over big spotz, and this comes from a guy who really liked the previous match. This, however, is probably the best joshi singles match of 1990 to spring of '92.
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    Lots of holy-shit spots here, and I can't believe Toyota is still alive after Inoue splattered her with the springboard ass drop and the back of her head hit the bottom of the guardrail. Just a sickening-looking event. I dunno...I liked this a lot. Now, I won't disagree that ***** MOTY is overrating it, but I've seen overlong meaningless joshi bullshit already on these Yearbooks like that fucking interminable Toyota/Kong draw from 5/91. And this smokes that pretty easily. For all the spots there are very few of them that are blown and there was some "smaller" stuff that I liked, such as Toyota repeatedly countering into the rolling cradle attempts before successfully applying it. None of the transitions looked particularly out of whack, either. It wasn't a psychological masterpiece but it was up there with the best Steiner Brother bombfests. The only part I was really down on was a sort of anticlimactic ending, but since the JOCS seems to be Toyota's "no can defense" finisher of death, it was far from the worst finish I'd seen.
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    Not much to this at all. Keeping Eddy's slip was an odd editorial decision.
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    Man, I'm actually loving these sort of bite-sized juniors matches. The matwork feels more important because it takes up more of the match, and it's all so solid and beautifully done. Eddy gets in his spectacular springboard dive and a few nice near-falls. I agree that he doesn't look as good as Samurai, and maybe not as good as Benoit or Scorpio. Liger catches Eddy in the same hold he caught Negro Casas with in the previous year's tournament. That finish was executed a bit better.
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    Kawada really takes it to Hansen with the kicks, and Hansen's big moves like the power bomb on the floor all feel like desperation moves to buy time. Great way to get Hansen over as an offensive force but get Kawada over at the same time. Love, love, LOVE Kawada's forearm shot (and flop on top) for a near-fall--that's a spot he should have kept around and used more. Despite going undefeated through the Block Stage, they've done a terrific job of making Hansen look vulnerable to a loss in the finals to either Misawa or Jumbo.
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    Dear God, make this stop.
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