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    A tearful Richard Lee laments how he ALWAYS trains his dogs to wrassle bah the rules, and Jeff Jarrett had the audacity to use a chair on Spot. Jeff Jarrett has signed a death warrant for the USWA through his actions. The Moondogs brutalize two jobbers, opening one up with the can opener, then lay waste to several others who try to make the save in a wild scene. MSC footage of the Moondogs getting a pin on Jarrett & Fuller. Afterward they do the Decapitation finisher using the dog bone, which Fuller sells huge. He has to get stretchered out. But Spike jumps off the apron and hits him with another bone shot! Fuller cuts a taped promo from the control room, rewatching his tag title loss and invoking his family name. This is Fuller's best promo yet. Jeff Jarrett is out for a promo that's quickly interrupted by the ominous whistle. The Moondogs beat Jarrett to a pulp and choke him out with a rope while Richard Lee rants on the microphone. Wild angle as Jarrett is hanged from the ropes while the Moondogs cut off help from Reggie B. Fine and T.D. Steele. Cory Macklin rips off his jacket and prepares to take the Moondogs on (??!!) but sadly nothing comes of that. Sad as it is to see Embry relegated to mid-card heel status without a proper main event blowoff, the Moondogs are a breath of fresh air in the territory that was becoming saddled with inferior geek heels and silly gimmicks. It's been established now that the Moondogs and Lee can come out at any time and start messing shit up, which brings to mind NWO-era Nitro with tension filling seemingly every segment.
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    Embry in a suit looked like Johnny V, and here he looks like Ken Patera having really let himself go. He gets a pin on Prichard with a piledriver behind Paul Neighbors' back as the match takes a backseat to catfighting between Miss Texas and CJ. Prichard levels Embry with five piledrivers of his own after the match.
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    There's Jake, and there's everybody else.
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    Reasons I'm Going with 1992 First: 3. Seeing the AJPW transition to a post-Jumbo world. 2. Seeing what the hell was up with New Japan because I frankly have no idea what happened in NJPW in '92. The rise of El Samurai, I think? 1. Despite the fact that I've watched Will's DA comp--Dangerous Alliance matches. Is there a better collection of talent in one match on U.S. soil in 1991? I'm guessing not. This had some fine triple-teaming by the babyfaces and a really great performance from Eaton--just a total dick. This is something to show anybody who tries to make the claim that Eaton was uncharismatic. This ends the way practically every DA victory ever did: babyface has a pin, but Eaton does the Alabama Jam onto the back of his head. Another hot scene post-match as Barry Windham goes nuts on the heels using his cast--somewhere Jesse Ventura is throwing a fit.
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    "I got two words for ya...COME HERE, PAL. I guess that was three!" I know it's been quoted twice but it bears repeating. Really hot segment where Rude no-sells the idea that Sting can apply the Scorpion Deathlock, but gets trapped in it anyway and sells it like his career is ending. Great eye-for-an-eye booking to set up the idea that for house show rematches it will be Rude coming in injured.
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    Hase and Muto do a tremendous job of setting up Norton's offense, from bouncing off of him to going up for his way-cool double-suplex. This is really New Japan's answer to the Misawa Army vs. Doc/Gordy tags but it's probably better than all of them, in fact, since Hash is better than either of the two MVCs and can work the bulk of the match, and the natives do a better job of feeding themselves to Norton even if he's not as good as Doc or Gordy. There's a consistent story of Muto and Hase having better continuity as a team, constantly making saves and executing double-teams while I don't think Norton and Hash do any such thing the whole match. Not going to be a MOTY finisher but I think I'm way higher on this than Loss or Kevin. This was an excellent closing chapter for 1991 New Japan.
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    I thought this was a god awful match--limited strictly to Yearbook matches, maybe a Worst MOTYC. The Pistols' heel shtick seemed like it was right out of a WWF House Show Stalling 101 textbook and the Patriots are just beyond hope. They can't sell anything; their offense is weak, even their Rockerplex attempt; and they're too juiced and inflexible to go along with any kind of sustained heel offense. Badly timed finish on top of everything else, with Steve hitting a diving headbutt to Chip's back that barely connects. With Chip's knee taped up and the token leg work, why not just have him clip the knee out? Watts was wise to kill off these belts soon after his arrival.
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    So I heard mascara contra mascara enough times to pick up on that and was able to figure out the stips from there, knowing that 3/4 of the guys here weren't losing their hoods. But I didn't pick up on Black Shadow being so blatant about wanting to go after Santo's mask until reading this--and that's awesome. I also love Fuerza just sort of standing idly by while Shadow whoops on Octagon, and is completely taken by surprise when Shadow turns and clobbers him as well. That's some primo, Royal Rumble-type shit. Black Shadow, I would assume, was attempting to avenge his father's mask loss to El Santo,* and the legendary ancestor's offspring facing off against each other comes off as a big deal even with the muted crowd noise. There's some great outside brawling here and Santo laying among a pile of chairs with his mask turned red is an incredible image. Shadow looks real good and this is a low-level lucha MOTY. * So he's not actually related to Black Shadow at all, just using the name. Doesn't change things that much.
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    Outstanding match, maybe the second-best television match of the year behind Sting/Cactus. Steamboat and Eaton are pretty much perfect for each other in terms of bumping style and offense, and this is a sort-of dream match that lives up the billing and then some. A promising start to a strong era of television matches, with a set-up for another big match next week.
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    CJ ain't no Madusa, that's for sure. They have a few good false finishes here before Embry uses CJ's loaded purse to regain the Southern title and save Tony Falk's hair. Between the tease last week and Falk's fuckup here I suspect he's not going to be employed as a driver for much longer.
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    You'd think Sandman would just hit him with the surfboard instead of awkwardly setting up to ram Lawler's head into it. Regardless, the action here looks really good and Kamala continues to look like a focused, vicious fighter who happens to be in a culture he doesn't belong to, rather than a complete idiot. He's clearly the best freak Lawler has faced this year, but his title victory doesn't have the impact that it should because of all the trading Lawler has done with it over the past few months.
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    This seems really incongruous for the time period and for that matter, really perfunctory with a "let's get this over with" vibe. No intro, no acceptance speech from Bret.
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    I THINK a Tenryu win was the original plan at one point until Hogan got the finish changed. That could be my old anti-Hogan smark side coming out, though. Anyway, Hogan busting out the cross armbreaker to start with was a fun surprise, but the first half of this was plagued by what hurts a lot of Hogan-in-Japan matches: lots and lots of resets. It sort of shows Hogan's limitations in that he has a few rote takedown and mat sequences but never really learned how to put them together. So we get a cool Hogan takedown and hold you don't see in the U.S., an attempt at working it, then a crawl to the ropes and get up and start over again. This did get much better when Hogan hurt his knee, which was sold great and brought out a terrific, intense attack from Tenryu. I didn't really need two enzuigiri spots from Hogan but there was lots of drama towards the finish, with all the finishers getting kicked out of. The legdrop never puts anybody away in Japan but Tenryu kicking out of the Axe Bomber was huge, almost like somebody kicking out of Hansen's Lariat. Hogan has to hit him with 3 or 4 of the fuckers one after the other to finally put him away. I think I liked the Hansen match better than this, as well as the LOD match, as they had more intense action throughout. That said, it seemed like Tenryu had a better shot to win this than Hansen did and it did end decisively, so that should count for something.
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    I don't have much to say about this either way, except that holy Lord was there some vicious kicking going on here. Mostly from Yamada of course, but everyone else gets their shots in as well. I couldn't envision Jungle Jack winning both matches but there's a good, long, gradual beatdown of Aja towards the end--with a few teased comebacks--to put the outcome in doubt.
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    This is the type of heated, intense brawling I hoped to see earlier in the year. No big stupid weapons like hockey sticks (I guess Bison's nightstick is a little incongruous), just stiff shots with the "conventional" trademark weapons on hand. There was even some focus on Bison's back and Aja's legs. Jungle Jack look completely doomed after Hokuto and Bull hit some great dives to the floor, but Bull takes one risk too many and whiffs on a guillotine legdrop, allowing Aja to get one-on-one with Hokuto and that doesn't end well for Akira.
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    FWIW, Meltzer reported a legit injury at the time--not from the chair, but from UT's knee banging Hogan in the head and/or shoulder. I haven't seen the full show since renting the Coliseum Video at the time, but the same Observer states that Sean Mooney had to cut Hogan's Tuesday in Texas promo for him and that there was fear that Hogan wouldn't be able to make the show.
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    From the Island Death Match, we go to Leono, Panthro, and Tigro from the Thundercats cartoon facing Mighty Mouse, Pinocchio, and a proto-Ebessan. Eat your heart out, USWA. Apparently the Thundercats are the rudos here as they jump the other kiddie characters before the bell and lay them out to win the first fall, then keep going to work between falls. Big pop when the technicos make a comeback in the second fall. Panthro gets mask torn open and Pinocho finishes with a great 2 Cold Scorpio-esque twisting dive. Suddenly as the third fall begins there's blood all over the place, chairs are being swung, Super Raton is getting into it with a referee, Tigro's had his ankle Pillmanized, and Leono is blatantly punting people in the nuts. I love that a match between blatant cartoon franchise trademark infringements and another team that's 2/3 kiddie trademark infringements is worked as a completely straight, bloody brawl with no hint of comedy. It's the equivalent of 1988 George Steele working a double juicefest with the Red Rooster. I have GOT to have more matches in my life of classic cartoon heroes working as scuzzball heels. Please tell me there's a rudo run out there for Los Ninja Turtles or Los Teletubbies. Irony and weirdness aside, this combined the juice and hate of Santo vs. Brazo with classic trios work. The more I think about this as the lucha MOTY, the more I'm sold on it. I honestly had more fun watching this than watching the '91 Dandy/Satanico.
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    A bizarre angle leads to a bizarre match in a bizarre setting, even moreso considering the promotion that put it on. And to top off the surrealness we have announcers calling this in a low-key style as though it were Phil Mickelson deciding between a 5- and 7-iron instead of two psychos bleeding and choking each other. The athletic socks and sneakers really add to Jeet's Indian madman image. The regular NJPW announcer is apparently there live doing commentary. You can't accuse Hase of not putting forth an effort here, at least. Hase suplexes Singh a bunch until he's unconscious and acting referee (???) Masa Saito declares Hiroshi the winner. Singh is placed on a gurney and has a blanket put over him, as though he'd died. This isn't as terrible as one might expect considering Jeet was involved, and in a weird way this sort of feels like a legit triumph for Hase considering how few decisive jobs I've seen Singh do. Would be a MOTYC if we'd gotten Hase doing a spinning toe hold on the bank and then Singh bodyslamming Hase into the water. Hase pays tribute to some monument or another, and what could be more touching than a bleeding half-naked NJPW mid-carder paying silent respects?
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    I do love how many variations Rude has of the "block the Rude Awakening" spot. Here Rude tries to counter the counter with a clothesline, but Sting ducks and hits the Rude Awakening himself. Great action here but Sting blatantly heaves Rude over the top rope and then conks him with Paul E.'s phone, which the USWA would have picked up on, or at least concocted an explanation post hoc, but here it's just ignored. Eventually Sting is overwhelmed by the combined forces of Rude, Paul E., and Madusa. Rude starts whaling away on Sting's knee with a chair until Big Josh (who else?) makes the save. Good tease of a hot full-length match between the two to come.
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    Ha--from the back the new-look Embry looks EXACTLY like Luscious Johnny V. Was Falk seriously going to wrestle in that chauffeur's outfit? Embry drops Prichard with a DDT in front of the announcer's desk and screams about Prichard messing with his personal life.
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    Another freak challenger for Lawler, but this one at least carries a bit more cache than Awesome Kong or Dragon Master. Even as somewhat of a mark for the gimmick, I can't describe the confusion I had when I opened up an issue of PWI to find out that Kamala was some company's Heavyweight Champion. Dave Brown emphasizes that this match carries a one-hour time limit, which is hilarious considering who's involved. Kamala's attempt to do the babyface clap-and-stomp act and his resulting confusion when the fans don't join in is one of the most surreal and hilarious things I've ever seen him do. Lawler does some great bumping and selling in going out to the floor and then going into the upended USWA table. That bit of earlier stooging aside, I do like how Kamala seems to be a guy out to win the match rather than a guy with an extra chromosome. He even argues with Frank Morrell, in between headbutts, over the pace of his count. Lawler torches Kamala with a fireball and gets DQ'd--the "technical loss" stuff has been long gone but they're still pushing that this could be a title change. Instead, the belt is merely held up. After the break, Eddie Marlin is out and he's not sure about this decision either. He rightly points out that Kamala attacked Morrell multiple times and should have been DQ'd. Morrell brings that up and uses that to justify not awarding the title to Kamala outright. "Technical loss" makes its return to USWA lexicon after a long absence. Marlin DEMANDS a rematch for the vacated belt for Monday night, and Lawler insists it be anything-goes. I'm not going to champion this as a great match, but I think it does illustrate that there's a very real, tangible difference between Kamala and the various other weirdos whom Lawler has been wrestling the past few months in the USWA. In terms of ring smarts, in terms of bumping, in terms of charisma and presence, and in terms of offense. There are criticisms to make about Kamala's work and I can see where people are coming from with regards to the gimmick, and "better than the Ta-Gar match" may be very faint praise, but he was a guy who had definite strengths.
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    Yes, Tojo was a couple of months away from taking his own life. Embry comes out with a drastically changed look--no more stringy hair, and wearing a double-breasted suit. He looks a bit like Ted DiBiase if he were only the Thousand Dollar Man. Miss CJ is the one responsible for this. Meanwhile Embry has got his shot at Tom Prichard's Southern title, with Tony Falk's hair on the line. Embry says Falk has nothing to worry about but CJ remarks that even if he does lose his hair, she can give him a makeover. That doesn't seem to please Tony.
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    Tunney saw with his own eyes what was a flagrant and far-reaching oversight on the part of the referee. However, Tunney is left with little choice but to decree that the WWF title be vacated, to be put up in the Royal Rumble. Hogan and Undertaker will be guaranteed spots from 20-30. Okerlund's forced surprise ("WHAT?") and attempts to portray this is as live are pretty flimsy. It's nice to see Tunney stiffly handing down decisions again, though.
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    No, guys, you have it all wrong: this was the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, so it's okay to invoke it. Who thought having Liger's intro to U.S. audiences come courtesy of Missy Hyatt was a good idea? We get some cool dives and moves set to Oriental music that I.Y. Yunioshi would find overly stereotypical. Missy still can't decide if she's a face or a heel, or if Liger is.
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