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    Austin gets in his clothesline counter, and Rhodes follows up by clotheslining Austin out of the air when he comes off the turnbuckle in a fantastic spot. Not much else to say about this--did Rude and Windham ever have a one-on-one match? Even if it couldn't really carry a feud, as Loss says, it would have made for an excellent one-off for TV or a Clash.
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    Cornette is 0-for-3 in unveiling his tag team, as he opens the hotel door and is greeted by thrown underwear. Ron Wright is through being nice about requesting money, and now he's laying into the hillbilly redneck fans, before clutching his heart and having to stop. DWB's Brian Lee impersonation cracks me up. Lee rebuts, rather stiffly. Wright is thankful that DWB is too gentlemanly to squash Lee in front of everyone on TV.
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    Of COURSE a stretcher match ends in a DQ. Richard Lee swears that EVERYONE will pay a price for what happened earlier. DWB gets laid out, and when Embry comes in to celebrate, he gets nailed as well! They're about to inflict some more punishment on Anthony when Lawler and Jarrett are out with more weapons and another brawl is on. Fresh blood in the Moondogs feud. I approve.
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    The Star Riders looked horrid, thank God they're shunted to the background while Richard Lee rants on the mic. Spike has been hospitalized and is out "with his brain swelled up" and Lee demands that Lawler and Jarrett be suspended. Lee is dragged into the ring and stripped to his boxers before Spot and a new Moondog make the save. Postscript: that Monday in MSC was main evented by a tag team battle royal. The Star Riders stiffed one of the Moondogs and quickly got themselves eliminated, then with everyone else still in the ring they ransacked the boys' wallets and fled the arena.
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    Weird dynamic on the Hogan/Andre match, as Heenan calls it like it's a retrospective and Monsoon acting like it's live. We follow with Hogan vs. Warrior from WM6--that should have been a major sign of what was to come, because there was no way they'd ever show the Warrior otherwise, much less pinning Hogan. More self-aggrandizement from Hogan, about less than 100% commitment to Hulkamania = failure. He still manages to tie it into the match with Sid, though, in a very effective manner--"Any time you try to take a shortcut through the WWF, you end up running into Hulk Hogan." Hogan leaves open the question as to whether WM8 will be his last match--he won't know until he comes through the curtain. Very well-done segment, that would be a fitting cap on Hogan's WWF career as it was.
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    The centerfold was a total con job--Perfect had it with him in the pre-match promo but it wasn't mentioned at all once the match ended. Great Flair promo once again in a classic Flair setting.
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    Yes, Ric and Liz were seen watching TNT with things like Rampage '91 on the shelf, which was a pretty clever way to expose the truth. I always thought Liz, as good as he looked, was a generally awful performer when she wasn't standing there looking concerned. But she's admittedly been consistently good in pre-taped and likely heavily scripted and rehearsed settings (the sitdown interviews with '96 heel Liz were good, too). Randy Savage has compiled a HITLIST, which includes the publishers of WWF Magazine!
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    The GWF's production values and presentation are deteriorating, as the stip here should have come across as a bigger deal than it did. David Webb pronouncing Gilbert the "new" North American champion didn't help matters, either. Patriot loses and indeed takes his mask off, but evidently the contract didn't specify anything about showing his face. Gilbert is incensed that the Expert got one over on him, and vows to fight back dirtier than before. Fun little angle that deserved more than it got.
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    A fine TV match, with some good matwork and good offense from Horowitz. I get annoyed by heel announcers who don't do anything except complain about imaginary violations by the babyface, and that's exactly what Prichard does here.
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    An improvement over the first match between these two. The stand-up portions were surprisingly heated and good--Han seems to have been a very underrated striker in comparison to the love for his matwork.
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    I'm the exact opposite of everyone else--I thought the ending and post-match were done brilliantly and didn't think the body of the match was anything at all. I was left staggeringly unimpressed by Barr, whose offense looked incredibly loose and sloppy--and incidentally he looked ridiculous with his pom-pom mask. Love Machine is well on his way to evening up the match when he forgets what country he's in and levels Panther with a tombstone piledriver, costing himself the match and his mask. Barr throws a fit afterward and tips Panther over on the stretcher and beats him down some more, which was the highlight for me. Eventually he capitulates and unmasks, and gives a pro-Mexico speech which is pretty jarring to hear. I would think losing that mask would be seen by Barr as CMLL doing him a favor. This is an historic match that's the first Yearbook set-up to When Worlds Collide, so I'm glad I saw it on that basis. I just hope Barr looks better in the future because as a between-the-bells worker he didn't offer a lot besides his mannerisms.
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    I didn't find the pacing all that weird overall, but it did stand out compared to other lucha matches--if that makes sense. Lots of long control segments and extended body part selling that isn't always a focus of lucha matches but are commonly seen elsewhere. The finishes to the first two falls, Atlantis' reverse flippy thing off the top and Fiera's great dive--are both beautifully done. Then we get the big limb work in the third fall, with Fiera making an awesome return to offense when Pierroth tries to remove the boot from his injured leg, and while the referee is chastising him and Rayo de Jalisco Jr. Fiera uppercuts Atlantis in the groin. And yes, the referee did turn around too early. Still a clever rudo transition, though. And of course we get Fiera's terrific back body drop bump (where was he in that Microscope thread?) I think I liked this more than the Blue Panther match as an Atlantis performance, as the stakes seemed higher with Atlantis having to fight for his life against a larger, nastier opponent. Fiera didn't have a performance as transcendent as that AJPW '80s match with Tiger Mask but I agree that he makes his matches seem "big."
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    Dragging beginning, as these two are unable to escape the "this is going to a draw" feeling. This does pick up towards the end, with some good back-and-forth action and a very well-timed finish. This is the least of the 5 matches, I'd say, but it's still quite good overall.
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    This looked like it was on its way to being another crazy brawl judging by the opening flurry, with Taue doing a great job of laying waste to Kawada before the bell. We don't get that, as the action sort of dies down from there. It's a good match, but they've had better and it didn't quite live up to the initial promise. The finishing stretch is one of my favorites of any AJPW singles match so far, though. Kawada countering the Golden Arm Bomber into a Fujiwara armbar into a Taue lariat was just a fantastic sequence, and Kawada kicking out of the subsequent Arm Bomber just icing on the cake. Taue's more familiar nodowa is starting to take some prominence.
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    Hah--all those knocks on Honaga are legitimate and also exactly why I find this feud so compelling. There's no rational reason why Liger shouldn't mop the floor with the guy, but Honaga seems to just have his number every time out. On top of that, even if Honaga isn't a great worker, he's definitely different. My favorite Cobra match during the '80s NJPW viewing was against Don Arakawa, who was also a scuzzy juniors heel (complete with interfering manager). I'm a sucker for New Japan juniors who work as Memphis-style heels just for the cognitive dissonance it can create.nitive dissonance it can create.
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    Amusing pre-match moment as Hebner holds up the IC belt for about half a second, before evidently realizing that this should be non-title. This is really fun, with some crazy bumps from Shawn, natch, and he busts out a really cool counter by turning a back suplex or atomic drop into a victory roll. Full credit to Piper for being able to keep up with this. Also a really clever finish, with Bret trying to even things out and accidentally leading to Piper getting DQ'd. Michaels gets a visual pin and a victory over Piper--that's pretty rarefied air and has to be a sign that the WWF was very high on him as a single.
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    Yes, Bischoff is no Mean Gene. I miss Solie on these. Nikita cuts a promo with Jim Ross asking "you know who you are" for a sitdown and talk regarding his return to WCW. Z-Man pins Greg Valentine with Valentine's standard go-for-the-figure-four-and-get-small-packaged finish. This combined with Bagwell's PPV victory over Terry Taylor leads to a U.S. tag title match. Bischoff pours it on a bit thick but that's effective enough build-up for a championship that's completely lost all meaning. Rick Steiner explains why he and his brother don't have a manager to combat the Dangerous Alliance.
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    Good match with an even better post-match. Steamboat takes out both Arn and Paul E. and Rude tries to whack him with a chair. Nick Patrick prevents that but Rude chokes out Steamboat with his karate belt. Rude is about to deliver a Rude Awakening with the belt, which would have been an awesome spot, but Steamboat flips out of it and pays Rude back by choking and HANGING(!) him. That's Steamboat at his nastiest. Huge reactions for all of this, as Steamboat manages to fight off all 3 guys by himself. Rude/Steamboat is going to make a dark horse run for Feud of the Year contention, at least as far as the Big Two go.
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    Another secret location, another spoiled surprise. This debut was built up to quite well.
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    Oh, I think a look at proto-Holly was worth it. He literally didn't do anything in SMW besides work squashes and cut promos, though.
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    All-American high school football player. U.S. Junior Heavyweight champion. Defeater of Road Warrior Hawk. Country superstar. How did this guy NOT get over as SMW's #1 babyface? Is it because the voiceover had more charisma than him?
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    Crazy setting with jobbers that the Moondogs have brutalized acting as lumberjacks. They're armed with chairs and get a few licks in, but otherwise fare about as well as they did on television. The fight is another awesome one, with about the only criticism being that Richard Lee is probably pushed too hard as being able to stand up to Lawler and Jarrett on his own. I did like him going nuts with the powder, though. He blinds Lawler, Jarrett, both referees, and the surviving lumberjacks before Jimmy Valiant runs in to pour the rest of the bag on his head and take out the Moondogs with it.
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    DWB has beaten Embry to a bloody pulp and taken out both referees. Eventually the other mid-card babyfaces try to restrain him, but when Embry fires back Eddie Marlin decides to restart the match. The fight continues with lumberjacks around the ring and eventually Christopher & Falk draw everyone else in for a crazy battle royal. These two had a Moondogs-level, MOTY-quality brawl in them, I'd suspect.
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    I was reading along with the '91 Observers while watching the Yearbook, and Dave mentioned that the Japan Big Two had a policy of not poaching talent from the existing indy promotions, and that guys who took tours with W*ING and FMW and the like risked not being able to get booked with a bigger company. Maybe it was some sort of response to SWS and it dried up when that closed up shop.
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