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  1. PeteF3
    Good promo even though I'm hardly in the mood to be sitting back and enjoying Ric Flair right now.
  2. PeteF3
    That guy's arms are smaller than mine--clearly not a wrestler, which makes the second-rope piledriver all the more insane. Embry has been on a major roll these past few weeks, and they've done as great a job as possible of compensating for the loss of Lawler with as many hot programs as possible. I could have done without Gilbert's Chef Boyardee line, which fit into this promo and angle about as well as Cowabunga's reaction to Gilbert hitting Lawler with the car.
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    Just when I was wondering if Eddie had walked out again, he walks out promising to have the back of the people who supported him, while swearing revenge on Eric Embry. The Texas Boys put a beatdown on Eddie for his troubles. Really good stuff to make Gilbert's turn look organic while leaving the door open for a continuation of the feuds with Jarrett and Lawler--you know Gilbert is only going to remain a babyface for so long.
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    This might be one of the great double-shot main events in Memphis arena history. This is about as intense as it gets, with a real star-making performance from Embry: his transition from begging off to assaulting Lawler in the corner with punches and headbutts is a great one, on the level of an Onita comeback. Plus he throws some pretty great clotheslines. Even shit that tends to annoy me like Lawler going all Masato Tanaka on the chairshots to the head made sense here in context. Frank Morrell takes TWO separate ref bumps and then eats a piledriver and it doesn't really feel excessive. Lawler gets choked from the outside of the cage by Tom Prichard's belt while Embry levels him with chairshots. I liked the Sportatorium cage a good deal but this blew it out of the water.
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    Highlights can of course be misleading but this might be the single best arena match of either of the first two '90s yearbooks. Great action, great false finishes, and a great actual finish, leading to a great post-match attack. One of the best USWA Memphis segments of the year.
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    Lots of amusing things in the arena clip, from Bruno wrestling in regulation gear to JC Ice needing the ropes to pin him, to Bill's spanking of JC getting censored, to Jamie's tantrum. Dundee cuts a more low-key promo than usual, running down the people he's run out of Memphis who associated with JC and targetting Steve Austin next. Jamie is out to make amends but it's a setup for a Texas Hangmen attack. Kind of a predictable angle but well-done for what it was.
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    IRS threatens to tighten any tax loophole RIGHT AROUND YOUR NECK. One thing this and the Mountie segments are missing is motivation. So he's a mountie and a tax collector--what are they doing wrestling, then? Later preview segments would get better at that aspect regardless of how absurd the gimmick was.
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    Another great, wholesome attempted-murder angle (plus one without the "attempted") in a running series in 1991 WWF. I didn't quite like all the heat being placed on the road agents for not being able to get the casket open, but everything else was great--and they do strongly get over the inability of someone to breathe in there. Warrior and Bearer even cut pretty good promos on each other. I really like how Bearer never backs down even as the Warrior is grabbing and threatening him--that makes Bearer look like a legitimate scary bastard and it makes storyline sense because he knows he's got the Undertaker backing him up. Great, great visual once the casket is open, with the Warrior unconscious and the inside torn to pieces. That's a pretty existentially horrifying image seared into the brains of all those Little Warriors and may be the single moment that makes this segment so memorable.
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    Now Tojo gets handcuffed to Bill Dundee while Jarrett wrestles. Someone explain to Michael St. John what "turnabout is fair play" means. Tojo has been really great in this episode, incidentally. Solid match, with a re-do of the Flair/Fujinami finish almost to the letter. Multiple ref bumps in one show just exacerbates what a lazy booking trope this was becoming. Neighbors and Falk get into it after the match and the title is held up again.
  10. PeteF3
    So somehow the Texas title got held up after last week's cage match--controversy or just Lawler vacating it after proving his point? Embry is pretty solid in control but this goes awfully long. The mic spots aren't bothering me but the constant ref bumps and chains are. Tony Falk takes one of the worst ref bumps ever here, which doesn't help. World Class and USWA-Texas have always been clever with screwjobs but it's starting to get lazy at this point. Would be a good to very good match if five minutes or so were pruned away.
  11. PeteF3
    Well, I liked Octagon's sudden flurry of offense--though victory came awfully easily for a guy who got his ass kicked the entire match. I get that Octagon was probably CMLL's biggest singles star at the time but is he anything more than a one-match wonder from a sheer working quality standpoint?
  12. PeteF3
    As good as Luger has been and as well as Nikita's return was done I really can't get worked up over seeing these two in the ring. Nikita bends the (new? old?) U.S. title over the ringpost. Maybe we should have had Spivey do that and THEN bring out the new title belt, but what do I know.
  13. PeteF3
    Flair and Missy are enjoying themselves way too much. Cute segment.
  14. PeteF3
    I admit--I genuinely love the converted-PAL film effect we get with these UK classic shows. This was fun up until the goofy overbooked Dustyriffic ending. Somehow El Gigante is legally tagged into the match and actually executes a passable, heated sequence with Flair and Windham until Sid hits the ring. Crowd was chanting "WE WANT STING" as soon as Morton was isolated, so naturally this means that Big Josh makes the save.
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    Pillman with one of the singles performances of his life and we get a singles glimpse of the Windham of old. Fantastic TV match, one of the best WCW has had in months. The post-match was just as good.
  16. PeteF3
    This is actually a new building that the USWA moved into until around September. They had gotten into disputes with the MSC, who had raised their charges for security, raised the weekly rent, added a $2 parking fee, and almost tripled the ticket surcharges. And was actively courting WCW to run 7-8 shows a year, to boot. Not sure what specifically led to the reconciliation but with the new Pyramid opening and siphoning off Memphis State basketball and other major events, the MSC would soon be left without any regular tenants at all. The Pipkin Building only seated 2500 so the USWA is in a bit of damage control trying to justify why the smaller low-rent facility is good for YOU, the viewer. And free parking, too! Wait, now they're hyping a Lawler/Embry cage match? When exactly is this guy's vacation going to START? Highlights of what appears to be another fantastic match between Embry and Lawler that I'd really love to see in full.
  17. PeteF3
    This was effective, with a little bit of guilt-tripping of the fans--YOU don't want to see Lawler in constant pain, do you?
  18. PeteF3
    Piper storms out in disgust when DiBiase comes out, and then Savage bails when Sherri is introduced. This was quite the angle-intensive Superstars for a show that didn't really have any notable angles to speak of--just set-ups and advancement.
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    "Short clothesline right there! The exact opposite of a long clothesline!" That made me chuckle. Seems that few people remember that Savage remained a heel, or quasi-heel, in the booth for awhile, until the wedding talk really started getting pushed. I definitely remember thinking "big bad heel cowers from the snake" was getting to be a tiresome angle at this point.
  20. PeteF3
    Undertaker's first extended promo under the gimmick. Not too bad. Even though this qualifies as sort of a dream match from a kid/mark perspective this program--not a feud yet--could still use a shot in the arm. I think we'll get one.
  21. PeteF3
    "Haven't you ever heard of generic drugs???" Decent advice, actually. Per Irwin's opening quotation here, the WWF missed out on the marketing possibilities of IRS teaming with the Undertaker as Death & Taxes.
  22. PeteF3
    I might have to give this a rewatch--somehow the matwork opening held my attention less than Lawler vs. Embry. The closing stretch was fun and Tsuruta's righteous indignation that Kawada had the chutzpah to kick out of the power bomb was fantastic, as he gratuitously backdrops Kawada a second time, just to prove his point.
  23. PeteF3
    There were probably a few too many Embry mic spots and I would have preferred to see one or two microphone shots to the face, but overall I thought this was absolutely tremendous--a contender along with Jarrett/Gilbert and a few others for the #1 USWA-Texas match ever, in fact. And definitely Embry's best singles match. We had some good-looking offense from both guys after a real fun start, and a nice swerve false finish where Embry takes advantage of a ref bump but bumped him too hard to get the win.
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    I definitely got a "house show" vibe from watching this (DUH!)--okay, but more than that. It was worked as such as opposed to something you'd see on television, which isn't a "Misawa Was Lazy" argument either. A lot more basic hold-working and basic psychology--but it all worked. Kobashi tried to unleash a bunch of big guns from the start while Misawa was more content to slow things down, as per custom. Definitely won't be among the high-end AJPW matches but very effective for what it was.
  25. PeteF3
    I'm afraid that's not the Beastie Boys that the Dynamic Dudes are coming out to--that's the BEACH Boys teaming with the Fat Boys to record a cover of "Wipeout." I'm not making this up. No, the Dudes coming out to the Beasties right as Paul's Boutique was being released would have tainted them with a scent of legitimate cool, and we couldn't have that. Teddy Long's Giant Gold Key was supposedly the key to Norman's cell, and was the prop he used to control Norman. Yes. Possibly the lamest manager foreign object ever.
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