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    Excellent match with Kawada getting a ton. He controls most of the beginning with headlocks and focuses big on Jumbo's head to set up the sleeper and enzuilariato. Unfortunately for him he just can't match Jumbo when it comes to throwing bombs. Kawada gets a few token kickouts before a sick backdrop suplex puts him down. Kawada got put over enough here that he didn't need a ton of epic kickouts--Jumbo does a fabulous job of getting him over but taking only a few big moves to win, which gets himself over in the end as well. Brilliant match layout and brilliant work.
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    If Kroffat had gotten the opportunity to work matches like this in the WWF, then maybe the team could have gotten over as babyfaces after all. He pulls off the sympathetic babyface act beautifully here, though it helps that he's working opposite a master in body part dickery in Fuchi. Kroffat gets in some great hope spots but Fuchi just methodically tears the knee apart until he wins by referee stoppage.
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    Finlay working a hair pulling spot on the bald-as-a-knob Wright is one of the silliest things ever. That bit aside, this was certainly high-energy with another ultra-enthusiastic German (Austrian?) crowd, though I think Finlay-Benoit is still the best of the CWA matches so far.
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    Kazmaier came off as a real idiot in the tag title tournament final and here he becomes the first man in history to allow Abdullah the Butcher to sneak up on him. Ross goes off on a tangent wondering why Kazmaier didn't get a submission victory instead of by DQ. Yes, that's where this angle's focus needed to be.
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    Ron talks about his dreams that came true, and those that didn't--he draws parallels to Luger's upbringing, and their past on the football field (which I'd assume is legit--Simmons played for FSU, Luger played for Miami). I like this build, but Simmons could have used another intermediate feud before the World title push. Problem is...it's 1991 WCW. Who was available? He probably should have gone over on a mini-feud with Arn, actually.
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    I wonder if even WCW knows who's supposed to be in the Chamber of Horrors at this point. I know Vader turns up for it and he's been a complete non-factor on WCW TV since the Hansen feud.
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    Lawler rebuts Travis' rebuttal. This feud needs either a decisive blowoff Monday or a hot angle (either literal or figurative) to send it in another direction. Instead, the big sell is "Watch Lawler do something to Travis' jacket." I want to see Eddie Marlin instead.
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    Big heat for Travis blasting Clint Black in favor of his girlfriend Paula Abdul. These are two passionately done promos but, yeah, this feud is underwhelming so far.
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    Lawler browbeats Travis for having no friends, pride, or life, which is why he lashes out to destroy other people's property. Lawler is veering dangerously close to his old heel days of burying his opponent. It's a really odd tack for Lawler to be talking about Travis' scrawniness. This is the wrong territory for that kind of promo, and Travis looks to be in better shape than a lot of the rest of the USWA roster. Lawler takes nearly 5 minutes to say what could have been summed up in about two.
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    Jeff Jarrett, Robert Fuller, and Eddie Marlin against Eric Embry, Dr. Tom Prichard, and Tony Falk. Killer promos from everyone. Marlin is somber and serious, and Fuller starts that way before getting wound up.
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    El Diablo doesn't do much but for his time out there, Jake does an incredible job of hiding his mannerisms and acting like somebody completely different--not an easy task considering how recognizable Jake's body and body language usually are. Duggan's involvement here was really random. You'd think Jake and Undertaker would target him for interfering just like they targeted Sid.
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    Tito is introduced in front of a bullfighting stadium and some very badly edited bullfighting footage follows. I love the extreme close-ups of Santana's face right as the bull is unleashed. Like some idiot is going to walk out there with a heavy video camera and then turn his back on a bull so he can get that shot.
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    Jumbo's Army are about the biggest cocksuckers ever in this. Fuchi gets on the mic and trash talks something before the bell, sparking a brawl. On the rare occasions Misawa is in the match they all home in on his broken/injured nose. Kikuchi gets brutalized some more, with a few gratuitous drops on the guardrail. Fuchi flips off Kawada as he attempts to make a save in a great moment. Kikuchi fights his ass off and gets in some great punch flurries on Taue and Jumbo. But...it's basically a 3-on-2 handicap match and that's only going to take the babyfaces so far. Misawa's presence loomed large over this match even when he wasn't in, which was well-done. He was more of a factor than Kawada, who had a really nice exchange dodging Jumbo strikes and the meltdown with Fuchi, but otherwise didn't offer a lot. Still a great match, based on hate and heels trying to torture babyfaces which is a refreshing change for an All-Japan 6-man even in the context of this feud.
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    I'm pretty sure that for a million dollars, I'd take up an offer to write for Stormfront. I'd have to think it over, at least.
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    Gaylord was a member of the football team at the University of Missouri before wrestling--as a result, I have a hard time believing his death would fly under the radar like that, for that long.
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    Heenan is swarmed by protesters on behalf of Randy Savage, and suspects that one of them swiped his watch. Savage browbeats Heenan into holding one of the Reinstatement signs. 1-900-ATTACHED? Really?
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    I wonder if Flair fed all of these Phyllis Diller/Liberace lines to Piper, having been left over from the Terry Funk feud. Roddy warns Flair that it's a hell of a lot easier to jump on Piper than it is to jump off. Piper seems pretty excited to be working with his old buddy again.
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    Hammer headbangs while playing his guitar in some suspiciously wide shots. The video and the concept really aren't bad for what they are--he does look like a buff, badass Sammy Hagar, after all, so what else are you going to do with him?
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    Missy and Paul E. are friends now, presumably. Missy's "town" has also migrated from Tallahassee to L.A. Not much of a payoff to this one.
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    Seems they were desperate to spike MSC attendance with this show. Eddie Marlin gets attacked way, way, way too much. Dare I suggest that this presumably sets up Marlin vs. "Driver" Tony Falk for Monday night?
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    Fun, chaotic match that's basically wrestled tornado-style, that ends with Jeff Jarrett going nuts with Tojo's (why is he still around??) kendo stick. The match continues afterward and oddly Dundee, Pain, and Travis try to break the brawl up rather than escalate it. Fuller cuts a fine promo vowing revenge on behalf of Eddie Marlin. A match against the Texas Outlaws ends almost immediately with a 4-on-2 attack from Embry and Prichard. I guess that Prichard babyface turn is on hold. The babyfaces get handcuffed to the ropes and Embry goes nuts with everything he can find--the guitar pieces, the announcer's rolling chairs, and the guitar case.
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    Kind of cool that Lawler was involved in such a legitimately star-studded affair, and I'm amused that Gaylord Perry would be one of his heroes, which a baseball fan would find appropriate. But yeah, the home movie goes on for awhile. We don't see the guitar at any point during the 3-hour video, which screams work and angle--that, and the fact that Lawler is talking it up on TV. The program is going to be raffled off at the MSC, but the details are curiously left out. There's drawing something out to build a sense of normalcy until the bomb drops, like they did with the wedding reception, but this is a little much. Lawler segues back to wrestling and declares that he won't wrestle Eric Embry for the title unless Embry puts something on the line himself. How heroic. I guess they didn't have the guts to run title vs. hair or something. Lawler vs. Bull Pain, and...what exactly was Lawler expecting when he calls out Billy Travis AND comes out on TV with a guitar? And then leaves it unprotected at the desk. Travis "tunes" the guitar and tears up the autographed program. Lawler comes back out and they're recreating the Lawler/Dundee car angle right down to the letter, complete with the baseball bat and countdown. But that involved a Dundee heel turn, stealing Lawler's Southern title, and consequently stealing an NWA World title shot. Try as they might have, autographs don't measure up in comparison. I didn't think this was a BAD segment because the performances were good but it was underwhelming. I like Travis' act and I like Travis as a worker but I don't think his guitar-and-singing act works as a #1 heel, just as it didn't work with Don Bass, or the Honky Tonk Man, or Jeff Jarrett. Part of me wishes Travis had somehow tricked Lawler into trashing Dundee or Jarrett's car. The stakes just weren't high enough and Lawler comes off as an entitled idiot. This segment goes on for another 5+ minutes after Travis agrees to sign the match. I also can't believe Embry doesn't show his face until a tail-end cameo. The Embry of a few months ago would never, ever have stood for Lawler refusing a title match challenge.
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    I do like that Bobby was conducting this interview rather than Okerlund or Bearer, but...yes. Heenan had simply been a buffoon for too long, and when he's confronted with Monsoon or a babyface it becomes all about the babyface vs. Heenan rather than about Flair. This is still the closest to the Classic Flair of Old, talking up limos, women, and unifying the championships.
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    Patriotic music blares to the point where it practically drowns Slaughter out, just to beat us over the heads with this some more.
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    Tito gets a hero's welcome back home in Tocula. El Matador is Spanish for "The Killer," which always undermined this gimmick for me (aside from the fact that it's culled from a Lame Wrestling Stereotypes 101 textbook). The guys who fool around with (and yes, kill) bulls are toreros. This is the best of these vignettes but I can't fathom how this was really supposed to go anywhere.
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