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  1. PeteF3
    Okerlund is such a shit disturber. "I really don't know what to say" before continuing to talk for another 30 seconds.
  2. PeteF3
    That Flair/Hogan didn't come off at WM is a ball-dropping of monumental proportions and there's no adequate substitute for it. That said...this is as perfect of a storyline for Flair as you could ask for in the WWF, and this angle done with either Flair or Rick Rude a few years earlier when the WWF was hotter would have been absolutely huge. Like, possible mainstream media penetration huge. Vince's disgust at dinner with Flair is hilarious. Ric is absolutely awesome in this setting--no, it's not a Hogan feud, but it's a better use of heel Flair than just about anything WCW had done in Flair's final year and a half. "We're not going to talk about that!" "We're gonna talk about anything I want to, I'm the WWF Champion, have you forgotten?"
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    Solid is the best way to describe this. All the basics are done well and the match is psychologically sound. Just never hits that second level. And maybe it wasn't really meant to, because this seemed to be booked to establish Vader & Bam Bam as nigh-unstoppable monsters. Hash and Chono get some good spots in but it seems more like they're fighting just to keep their heads above water rather than getting either guy in legitimate danger. Much less wanton suplexing and tossing around of the foreigners than in previous bouts. I do love Bam Bam's somersault senton--I don't think he ever busted that move out Stateside. He also debuts the double underhook backbreaker which gets a pop and which Chono sells like death. Bigelow scores the pinfall on Chono, which seems to be an indication that he's meant to be more than just the Spivey to Vader's Hansen.
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    The dude in white's "let me jump over the guy I'm trying to clothesline" move is about the worst fucking thing I've seen in the past few days. Not worse than Davey Richards popping up from a German suplex to do a double stomp, but not far behind.
  5. PeteF3
    Too bad that Jake's time with the WWF is winding down. I'd love to have seen what the supposed Bret/Jake post-WM8 feud would have been like. Jake talks about foreplay, seal-clubbing, walking hand-in-hand with Satan, crushing the Undertaker's skull, and roasting UT and Bearer in a gas stove, and sending them to Hell. Freaky as hell.
  6. PeteF3
    The spin doctoring and fingerpointing and damage control are all out in full force. Stay off of steroids, or you may end up too bulked-up to successfully defend your World title despite being the hardest-hitting opponent Sting has ever faced.
  7. PeteF3
    I'm guessing that most of this is what those Japanese wrestler press conferences are like. Good, authentic setting that sets up the angle. Sting refuses Rude's request for a celebratory drink and gets the glass thrown in his face, and the brawl is on! The whole DA gangs up on Sting until a big bald man in a white dinner jacket helps him out. It was very rare indeed for WCW to pull off an angle in a non-ring setting that comes off this well. Usually there's some sort of set, sound, or acting disaster that gets in the way. There was none of that here.
  8. PeteF3
    I don't know if Arn was clean or not, but you definitely want somebody who at least LOOKS that way to deliver such an announcement.
  9. PeteF3
    Fairly realistic-looking post-match press conference setting, with Sting discussing the pre-match vibe in a low-key, down-to-earth manner. Fascinating that Frey was one the one spearheading the signing of Gordy & Doc. Yeah, that seems like it would have had Watts' fingerprints all over it. Bischoff discusses the potential arrival of the MVC in a rather bizarre manner right before interviewing DDP. That was fairly contrived. "They're not gonna come--NOT!" Yep, it's 1992.
  10. PeteF3
    I actually thought Caudle was the highlight of this, playing his role perfectly as the naive-or-is-he-really commentator. Neither Horner nor Rogers really react to this strongly enough to resonate. Rogers goes right back to squatting when I'd have preferred to see him throw a shitfit instead.
  11. PeteF3
    Cornette's tag team would financially ruin the entire area as a result of its men packing up and leaving. Having watched the first several weeks of SMW television, things are rather haphazard due to the staggered nature of the tapings and various wrestlers being unavailable for weeks at a time, but they were about as effective of an introduction as you could hope for in terms of establishing characters, rules, and pecking orders.
  12. PeteF3
    A "Hollywood" Bob Holly sighting. Ron Wright has a valid manager's license but no one to manage yet, so until he does, Bob Armstrong has him BARRED from ringside. Ron Wright is in disbelief that Armstrong would mistreat a poor, crippled old man. There are some people that Wright can "feed that malarkey to," but not Bullet Bob. These two are great together. Still, it's pretty self-defeating that Commissioner Armstrong is easily the most effective babyface on the roster.
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    Rogers is another guy who should have been bigger than he was. Horner doesn't offer much.
  14. PeteF3
    Those reaction shots are priceless. With those kinds of womanly charms attending shows, how could Storm and Jericho have resisted?
  15. PeteF3
    Embry is outside and shirtless, cutting a promo for an anything-goes match against Pat Tanaka. Embry talks up implanting Tanaka's "China-lookin' head" onto a shovel, and then promises to reveal to Tony Anthony behind-the-scenes rumors involving Tanaka and the Dirty White Girl. It's Illicit Affairs Week in wrestling, apparently.
  16. PeteF3
    Kamala fits right in with this bunch, going nuts with what's either a door or a big sheet of cardboard.
  17. PeteF3
    Harvey does make for a good contrast against Sid's size, at least.
  18. PeteF3
    Ah, back when 'shopping photos took a huge amount of effort. I also had the follow-up that "exposed" the photos as fakes (Liz and Flair were watching TNT on television, but with '90s Coliseum Videos on the wall). Flair is in street clothes, and Perfect has traded his track clothes for a suit, thank goodness. This, the locker room "Wall of Fame" photos, and Flair's subdued arrogance make this the most Flair-like of all WWF Flair promos so far.
  19. PeteF3
    JIP, as I lament all the snooze-inducing half crabs and chinlocks from the MVC that we missed. We join Taue getting annihilated, but withstanding two Gordy power bombs and this already feels like a Taue showcase. Jumbo gets the spotlight towards the end, however, getting beaten down before more or less making his own comeback with Taue providing bits of help. This, from what we saw, was better than some of the '91 MVC matches but not as good as the high-end ones.
  20. PeteF3
    Misawa managing to withstand the first Lariat seemed to be a deliberate sign that he was the heir apparent, if it wasn't self-evident already. Misawa takes a huge beating before starting a comeback, and the elbows and the facelock are put over in a big way. He just doesn't have it in him to put Hansen down yet. Crowd is SO ready to see Misawa get this victory, and the build to it throughout the year gets white-hot. Sadly I recall the end result being very anticlimactic, but I'm looking forward to see if it holds up better than I remembered.
  21. PeteF3
    Ditto on the ring entrances and everything else. I can't explain precisely why, but the image of Rayo looking stoically at the camera from under his sombrero as "Eye of the Tiger" played in the background is fucking awesome. Aguayo looks like somebody's jolly Mexican grandpa, which is a hilarious image in the face of how he's worked before and how this match goes. The match? It's lucha meets Memphis and it's fucking incredible. Yet despite all the chaos this is easily the most structured "heat->comeback" layout of any lucha match on the Yearbooks. Plus there are three individual match-ups that all get focus, between Konnan/Caras, Rayo/Ano 2000, and Aguayo/Chicana. Aguayo gets Misawa'd on the floor at some point and Rayo gets lost in the rows of chairs, and Konnan is beaten down unmercifully with Caras constantly yanking him up at two, just because he's a fucking cocksucker. Konnan does a shockingly good Ricky Morton sympathy sell here, and eventually Caras puts an exclamation point on the fall by pinning him with a pinky finger. The second fall reigns in a bit of the crazy brawling and gets a little more traditionally worked, but it's still pretty spectacular. Ano 2000 eliminates Rayo, but instead of going straight to the finish proper the match goes on after that, with an attempted technico comeback that ends when Aguayo misses a somersault senton off the top. Chicana levels him with a fantastic left hook and the rudos win in two straight! As much as I've loved Los Cowboys, WCW needed to leave one of them at home and bring in Chicana so he and Michael Hayes could just spend 7 minutes trading rights and lefts with each other. That would have earned Match of the Night honors at the Clash. This should serve as another gateway drug for those itchy about getting into lucha, as I was for years. Six guys beating the shit out of each other should appeal to everybody, and there can't be any complaints about the somewhat contrived nature of how the falls end (i.e., two quick falls and a long third, or everyone on a team always getting beaten at once). Different in just about every way from the Casas/Cowboys trios but probably as good. In the running for MOTY.
  22. PeteF3
    Good but not great action down the stretch, with a few moments of Bam Bam looking lost and Vader doing one of the most obvious spotcalls since Sid in WarGames. Plus Vader gets tossed around not just by Muto but also by Hase, which is pushing things quite a bit. Still, some hot near-falls and Muto is quite convincingly beaten down to net Vader and Bam Bam the IWGP tag belts.
  23. PeteF3
    Very deliberate, but they crafted a nice long match without the need for a lot of 2-counts and very basic action until Hash's belly-to-belly superplex. Not a classic, but a showcase of two guys who knew how to work in addition to knowing how to brutalize each other.
  24. PeteF3
    Piper is also probably a guy who comes off a lot better in a Yearbook or random Youtube-watching setting than having to put up with him week after week as most of us did.
  25. PeteF3
    I'm not ashamed to admit this--I thought the Dark Patriot was the coolest gimmick in wrestling. I'd never heard of an evil doppelganger gimmick before and him finishing guys off with the "Scud Missile" as opposed to the Patriot Missile just enhanced it. Pedicino does a good job of balancing kayfabe with paying respects when he talks of the death of Tojo Yamamoto. Take note, Larry Z.
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