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  1. PeteF3
    Love Pillman eschewing the ten-count punches in the corner just to slap Windham in the face instead. Lots of other great touches throughout, like Windham's bump off the turnbuckle to the floor and a really sick brainbuster. Another shit finish, but the crowd is NWO levels of rabid over the post-match attack, littering the ring with crap until and after Bobby Eaton makes the save.
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    This is an incredibly tough sell, Fujinami in a PPV main event. Even a stock Flair promo does a decent job of it, though. Flair manages not to butcher Fujinami's name.
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    Luger channels Magnum T.A.--REPRIMAND THIS. Strong, focused promo.
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    I suspect that this is where Jim Herd's strengths--such as they were--lay. It's a little sad how relatively ahead of the curve the AWA was in terms of action figure merchandising. Crockett and a bunch of other territories should have been all over that shit much earlier.
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    Meadowlands highlights--Nikita wraps a chain around his arm to deliver the Russian Sickle, but mistakes Bill Alfonso's crawling for a three-count--this apparently, if I'm interpreting Nikita correctly, results in a held-up U.S. title. Nikita promises to break Luger's back, his neck, and then his spirit. I wish they would decide if Missy was a babyface or a heel already.
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    Steve "Gator" Keirn--in fairness to the WWF, every indication is that the real-life Keirn is closer to Skinner than he is to a Fabulous One. The crowd seems to be able to keep track of who is whom despite the fact that this match involves two blond guys named Steve--incredible. This is short and basic and mostly well-done for a studio match--I dug Keirn trying to pry at Austin's fingers to escape the chinlock. Keirn eats a spike piledriver on the floor from Austin and the Texas Hangmen. Fuller makes a rather tardy save and eats a loaded boot enzuigiri from Dr. Tom Prichard. Even with Lawler out the USWA roster seems to be as deep as it's been since the early '80s, and almost all of them can talk you into the building.
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    Embry talks about the imminent unveiling of Miss Texas, a Texas Death Match with Eddie Gilbert, and a Texas Brawl (bunkhouse stampede) all in one magnificent promo. Embry is such an arrogant, sleazy jackass. His best overall promo was the one shortly before the Cage Match to Decide Everything against PY Chu-Hi, but this is not far behind--and easily his best heel promo. Chain match highlights from the Pipkin Building follow. Embry becomes the first wrestler in recorded history to actually attempt to RUN to touch all four corners as quickly as he can--a daring strategem that does not pay off, but the effort was there. After some really good action, Paul Neighbors gets bumped and misses Gilbert touching all four corners. Embry then unleashes GREEN MIST (??!!!) and that gets him the victory. I guess this is part of the Tojo Yamamoto connection but that's the most hilariously incongruous green mist gimmick in the history of wrestling--they may as well follow up by bringing in Kendo Nagasaki and have him wear loud suits and carry a tennis racket. Gilbert covered with blood and mist is a pretty disgusting sight. Gilbert sticks up for some of the few good apples in Texas but declares that the ugliest girl in Tennessee looks a lot better than the prettiest girl in Texas--and then he gets into a DEAD-ON impersonation of Embry which is fantastic even if I'm not sure the studio audience grasps the genius of it. Gilbert as the babyface with an edge is so much better than Gilbert as WCW babyface that it's absurd.
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    I'm stunned that the brains/dynamite/nose thing is thought to be that complicated. Calgarians don't have enough brains to generate the force necessary to blow their noses, even if brains were dynamite. I don't think it's a line that DiBiase invented.
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    IRS' heart bleeds for us.
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    Although we did not see the senseless and deplorable act just committed by the Earthquake, we can surmise its outcome. Mooney promises that we will not return to the arena until the Walking Natural Disaster's destruction has ceased, but we will return to the Event Center if the carnage continues. This was a pretty hokey premise and even hokier in actual execution, but...Damian was in his own way an on-air character for 5 years, so this does come off as a fairly major deal. The angle is also helped by some fantastic performances from Jake, Vince, and Piper. As annoying as Vince is calling matches, he's been outstanding when calling angles on these two Yearbooks. Vince laments how a pet loss can affect a person while Jake psychotically tears the bag open with his teeth, "having to put himself through that" as Vince puts it.
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    Bearer introduces "Roddy Roddy Piper" as his guest, and Vince's disgust with that error is palpable. Piper's baby fetish isn't as creepy as seeing Piper and Virgil play with wrestling buddies and Virgil doing a falsetto Sherri voice. Piper and Virgil: meaner than the LAPD!
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    Arnold Skaaland and Pat Patterson make cameos. Sherri squeals over Andre in highly disturbing fashion and gets a spanking for her troubles. Andre is pretty funny here. Gene actually points out that this is the second time this year Sherri has been turned down.
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    Not only would he be Col. Parker soon, here he's waling away on a future protege! Jarrett is pretty clearly the USWA Wrestler of the Year to this point, having all sorts of great performances in a number of different styles.
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    What the hell happened in the crowd here? I get the criticisms of DiBiase's work and the chairshots here, but there had to be more to the story than that. The crowd looked actively distracted by something without making any noise--I honestly wonder if a fan didn't have a heart attack or some sort of medical emergency. It was something non-match-related, I'm almost positive. The match is kind of a mess at times, with DiBiase being late to pick up on Piper trying to feed him his bad knee, throwing weak chairshots, and then ramming the wrong knee into the post. Piper's selling was top-notch, however. DiBiase busts out the old figure four for probably the first time in his WWF career and gets a UTC victory out of it. Piper gets his heat back afterward and strips Sherri, but that's about as decisively as you'll ever see Piper get beaten in the WWF, which was a treat to see. I enjoyed this okay, actually. Like I said, I think there was some outside factor here that took the crowd out of it. It wasn't a primo DiBiase performance but MSG crowds have popped a lot more for a lot less in the past.
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    Sting and El Ji-gon-tee against Flair and Windham in a cage. I think even Gigante could be covered well in such a match.
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    Gratuitous shots of Sherri's ass as she's bending over to pick up the money, and her cleavage as she's sticking the bill back in there. I approve. All-Japan's great but after slogging through 4 or 5 epics I need a bit of a comedown.
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    What do I have to add besides "MOTY"? That's where this is sitting now and where it's likely to stay. Fuchi did jump out at me as having his standout performance out of any any of these Misawa Army vs. Jumbo Army matches, and Kobashi went through possibly the most agonizing FIP segment in wrestling history. Great payoff at the end, with Kawada getting payback for all those Taue cheapshots with the move that's become Taue's Achilles heel and Kawada's go-to weapon for the first half of this year. Misawa gets the pinfall but it really feels like Kawada got the victory.
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    I think those ESPN standards & practices have struck again. This is worked well but what an absurd cheapass copout finish. Jarrett managing to beat Prichard to the 4th buckle wouldn't have hurt Dr. Tom in the least. The post-match beatdown is well done but isn't really anything we haven't already seen before.
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    The closing stretch was a bit more of a mess than I recall, but this is definitely a match that sticks with you just because the feel is so different from a typical AJPW match of the era, with a long FIP segment on Hansen of all people and the stuff revolving around the missed tag.
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    I admit they were close to losing me during the long surfboardery in the middle, though part of that is trying to split attention between the NCAA tournament and the Yearbook. It was enough to make me question if this was better than their '88 match. But goddamn what a closing stretch that was. Misawa's elbow is now getting major play as a potential one-shot finish, which will pay off later in the year. It doesn't finish Jumbo off in this case but Misawa goes from being dead in the water to being in control thanks to one huracanrana and one elbow to the face. We get big moves and flash pin attempts, plus one last little gasp from Misawa that only serves to piss Jumbo off, before Tsuruta reasserts himself as the Man. Not a MOTY, I don't think, but not far off.
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    Blood, a ref bump, AND a countout?? With what's to come in the tag title match later on, it's like AJPW stepped into a booking time warp. Not a complaint, just an observation. I really like the arm work in the middle portion here, with a bunch of "near-falls" based around submissions rather than 2.9 wrestling. It's yet another out-of-the-box element for AJPW at this time and is a strong point of difference compared to their January match. Kawada is able to weather a power bomb on the floor, but a Golden Arm Bomber on the same does him in. Still not a fan of Taue's finish at this point and while I get the idea, the power bomb on the floor looked far more devastating.
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    Yeah, if this is like the 3rd or 4th best match on a card, that's one hell of a card. Kobashi picks up yet another decent-sized win.
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    I actually think the '90 match was a tad better. This had a very hot crowd by Center Stage standards but that audience was absolutely nuclear. I had less of a problem with the bullshit finish being a bullshit finish, and more with the fact that Arn is out acting as Flair's errand boy again right after declaring that he was his own man. That's pretty bad quality control on somebody's part. But the body of the match was pure gold.
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    Arn joins Barry in expressing desire to be his own man and making his own opportunities. With Sid pretty close to being gone maybe they felt the time was right to, as Arn would say later, let it be.
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    I think the proposed "Wings" tag team of Owen & Pillman could have gone places. Owen looks good here, but unspectacular, and he clearly doesn't have Pillman's fire. He's more about crisp execution, like his older brother, than the high-flying that Pillman and the announcers were hyping up.
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