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  1. PeteF3
    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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    Same Chamber of Horrors clip as before.
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    For a mask vs. hair I thought the first few minutes lacked a little in the way of urgency, which is enough for me to say the first match was better, but this sucker picked up big-time at the end. I don't know what the experience level of these two ladies was at the time but I give them a lot of credit for working a different match than the first, with Suzuki targeting the leg instead of the arm and Scorpion throwing some pretty great stiff shots in addition to her other jack-of-all trades offense. A few good near-falls leads to Suzuki pulling out a neat power bomb counter for the finish and the mask. This is clearly the Lynn/Kid series of 1991.
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    Good match, with Kikuchi and Ogawa getting to show their stuff off more than Loss had me expecting. Kawada was kind of a weak link for the first time since that 1990 Tiger Mask unmasking abomination of a match, but I also suspect with no further knowledge that he got knocked legit silly early on in the match. I know he's a great seller, but that would have been something else. If anything brought this down to just "good" levels, it's that I thought Misawa's big comeback was a little on the underwhelming side. He goes through a great torture sequence at the hands of Taue including taking the Golden Arm Bomber on the floor, but the tag out and hot tag back in are both handled a little anticlimactically.
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    Piper rattles off a list of his past misdeeds in a cool moment--invoking Snuka and the coconut, attacking Mr. T, and kicking Cyndi Lauper. This is the Piper that Ric Flair has brought out with his attack. I have no clue what was up with the Nasty Boys thing.
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    Even as someone who no longer regularly watches, I'm hoping against hope that WM returns to Indy someday. Jake compares Sid to King Arthur but reminds him that it's 1991, not 1521. He draws this metaphor out, talking about how Savage is playing Sid for a fool by having him carry the lance that he can't lift. Jake then delivers a warning to all WWF wrestlers or anyone else, that if they don't like what he's doing, to just take a deep breath and back away. Roberts is leaving when Okerlund starts to editorialize, and that draws the cobra out of the bag. And the brilliant thing is that it's all played completely straight--Roberts is diving after Okerlund desperate to get the cobra on him and Monsoon and Heenan junk their comedy routine to sell the moment. It's quick, but it's a refreshingly chaotic scene for a standard WWF podium interview.
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    Why do you bother flying Mel Phillips to Spain? Tito is over, there's no question about that. The Spanish commentators gush over Santana to a degree that would make Jim Ross snap and yell, "Look, tone it down some." Nothing match but interesting viewing in a "This actually happened" kind of way.
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    Dusty will guest ref a tag match between Luger & Hughes and Windham & Simmons, at...wait for it...the Omni.
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    There's a woman in the crowd visible between Cactus and Abby with the most perfect combined look of disgust and horror on her face as Abby stuffs himself and Cactus warbles.
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    Your Chamber of Horrors: Sting, The Steiners, and El Gigante vs. Abby, The Diamond Studd, Oz (???), and Barry Windham (?!?!?!). Even Solie has no explanation beyond "Strange situation there." I'm surprised they're showing so much footage of Simmons getting pinned by Luger, however screwy the circumstances. Not a great Havoc card, and it clearly won't have 1990's highs. But the lower and mid-card is probably better. Such a mess of a Chamber of Horrors match is pretty fucking bush league, though. Cute but pointless Missy/Paul E. segment follows, as they try to track down what exactly the Chamber of Horrors consists of. They're menaced by a dude with a knife, who gets a little camera-happy and starts doing rote James Cagney and Jack Nicholson impersonations, allowing Paul E. to brain him with the phone.
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    Good, quick little TV match that sees Embry steal an upset victory thanks to a timely guitar shot from Billy Joe Travis. Lawler sure comes across as a moron for getting into an impromptu match with Embry right before a big title unification bout. Since I don't expect this Gilbert return to last terribly long I hope this sets up a major title match for next Monday. One fan in particular makes a huge amount of noise throughout this and during Embry's promo as well, and even gets some face time on camera. He is so loud and within easy camera range that I'm expecting an angle, but nothing yet.
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    It's incredible how Memphis can provide the goofiest shit side by side with the most realistic...uh..."pure sports build" you could ever imagine in pro wrestling. Quite the stylistic shift for this week's title match.
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    Man, how many times has Marlin gotten talked out of firing Embry? And Gilbert? Sometimes Hamlet comes off as bold and decisive in comparison to this guy. Marlin won't be able to wrestle Embry, but vows to find a way to make Embry pay for piledriving him on the concrete.
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    The Davis/Dundee feud reaches its apparent confusion, and refreshingly nobody's turned over it.
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    I really don't think turning Sarge back into a babyface was an impossible task. Like I said earlier, I was always expecting it to happen in the back of my mind anyway. The heel character only had so much shelf life. But holy shit--Arlington National Cemetery?? Sarge cutting a wrestling promo (and it doesn't mean shit that he's talking about not wrestling again--it's a fucking wrestling promo) in this setting, with shots of tombstones as "Taps" plays...this is WORSE than the Gulf War shit. Assuming it's not a mock-up or public domain stock footage I'm completely floored that the Army would allow this. Fly is right. Sarge needed to be off TV for longer, and then make his surprise return while Mustafa and Adnan are destroying Jim Duggan. Cut more promos like the one with Gene and fewer while exploiting the dead.
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    Tito going through what I have to assume is an authentic bullfighter training drill.
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    Normally I wouldn't really think Flair and Cornette would go that well together, as great as they both are. But with Cornette here, Flair would really come off as more of an "outsider." Plus Cornette wasn't quite as established to WWF audiences as the buffoon Heenan had become. Heenan is a genius but his act, and Gorilla's treatment of him, has tended to undermine Ric.
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