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  1. PeteF3
    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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    Real quick segment. I don't root for injuries in wrestling or in real sports but in this case, thank God for torn biceps.
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    Welcome back, Eddie. He and Scott Anthony successfully frame the Handsome Stranger for using brass knuckles and thus Gilbert wins the TV Title tournament final. No building in history ever saw more creative finishes than the Sportatorium.
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    I know there was little control over these things, but man, London was about the last possible ideal spot for Flair to make his in-ring WWF debut. Both guys work hard, but the figure four is just a routine mid-match hold and Flair eats a bunch of near-falls before getting a cheap victory with a rollup and tights grab. I won't hold the WWF fully responsible because that's just how Flair rolls, but for a practical debut match in front of an unfamiliar audience that was SO not the way to lay this match out. This needed to end with Flair taking Santana's knee apart and getting a submission win. It would also have the benefit of not giving Monsoon anything to bitch about. Other than playing up the "patented figure four" he doesn't do jack shit to get Flair over.
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    Heenan raises some good points about Flair defending the title while Hogan's making movies. We get a lazy mime gag from the movie and threats from a costumed Hogan towards Flair.
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    Schiavone goes all-out to get Josh over as a wrestler, and he's incredibly detailed about it without being over-the-top. That in the middle of it, Josh throws in an armbar takedown when Austin attempts a clothesline is just icing on the cake. There is some great armwork here and a few cool payback spots too, plus some good bumps from Josh. And then ANOTHER lame-as-hell finish as Austin is disqualified for a fucking ringpost shot. These are hair-tearing at this point, like the late part of the AWA set. Which is a shame because I was really, really liking this. I know he's 1/3 of the prestigious 6-Man Champions but why do we need to protect Josh, exactly?
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    Apparently video game makers in the Suburban Commando universe have authentic specs and details on real intergalactic armies. I'm heartened they included "I WAS FROZEN TODAY" in the previews.
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    Pillman is set to face Thomas Rich, but when Morton trash talks about the Light Heavyweight title tournament final, he gets swapped in. It's Morton as a heel against the guy who maybe should have been his '90s heir apparent, and it's as good as it sounds. Until an absolutely idiotic finish. I mean, with a PPV match a month away I knew there was no way this was ending in a pinfall, and that's fine. But Randy Anderson not being able to tell Morton and Rich apart is the height of idiocy, it doesn't matter what the originally signed match was. Pillman gets triple-teamed afterward in a very well-done beatdown. Rich and Taylor do a spiked gutwrench power bomb and then hold Pillman so Morton can leap off the top onto his knee. Morton really is channeling Flair in his heel role. I'm heartened to see the York Foundation back on the Yearbook--they're really everything a mid-card heel stable should be.
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    Cactus hypes a tag cage match against Sting & Rick Steiner while Abdullah eats paper, Ross' microphone, and Cactus' hair. "Can't you control him, please?" "HELL NO, I can't control him, and why would I want to? Can't you see that violence can be beautiful?!" Cactus follows with the line about the lump in Sting's throat not being emotion, but his liver.
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    More Omni hype. Jesus. And I can't seriously imagine that Windham would have been in line for the title except as a quickie transitional reign due to Flair leaving.
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