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  1. PeteF3
    What a gloriously done screwjob finish. That's fucking All-Japan levels of layering, except instead of long-term selling, learned psychology, and escalating moves it's multiple ref bumps and escalating foreign objects and run-ins. Jarrett loses but not only does he look smart, he looks like a tough SOB who needed 3 guys and a manager to put down. And the heels get to look crafty for managing to pool the wool over the eyes of two referees. I stand in awe of the USWA's ability to manufacture creative bullshit finishes regardless of the stipulation.
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    Yeah, I honestly didn't see a lot of great chemistry here--definitely not in the early going and certainly not to the level of Sting and Muta. They almost lose me early on but come back to put on a pretty good closing stretch, and even the ending is pretty well-executed for what it is. I dunno why they felt the need to bring in Fujinami for a U.S. PPV main event, but if you're going to do that this is as good of a way as any to establish him to American audiences and quickly. Sorry, but my MOTN goes to the IWGP tag title match.
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    It's the Steiners, so you're probably not going to get a lot of depth--meaningful or not. So, Rick and Scott are pretty great at throwing bombs and generally pretty lousy at selling. How do you work around that? You let them work on top and let Hase play FIP, duh. I have to say I really dug the semi-shoot-style amateur takedowns at the beginning of the match, and at the beginning of Hase's comeback. He's an Olympian--this *should* be a case where the Steiners are overmatched on the mat for once. I can get behind a bomb-throwing-fest if the bombs are well-done and the Steiners' shit all hits here, plus you had Sasaki hitting one of the most awesome lariats ever on Rick. Match of the Year? No. Match of the Night? We'll have to wait and see, though I definitely thought it was better than Liger-Nogami. Match of the Week? Ditto--I only see Flair/Fujinami and Jarrett/Prichard as challengers. The Steiners now hold three separate tag championships all at once, which has to be a record.
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    Really good start to this match and then it dies down. These two do have really solid chemistry due to past experience and are pretty clearly on the same page throughout, which isn't always the case in these crossover type matches. Both the moonsault and Stinger Splash are attempted twice and are countered twice, though at least they're countered in different ways each time. Muta catches Sting with the mist and then hits a reverse cross body for the pin. I think Sting did want a really good match here, but Muta wasn't always as willing to go along--plus he blew some weird stuff like that almost-horrifying monkey flip bump. I'm actually surprised Sting did a job here considering this is a match that was presumably aired back home. He did get some protection with the mist to the face. Sting lays Muta out with the deathlock after the match to retain some heat.
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    I suspect the markets with appropriate tennis venues have better indoor venues for wrestling nearby. For example, the tennis stadium at the Home Depot Center in LA hosts a couple boxing cards every year, but that venue only seats about 8K. 8K seems like too large a venue for indies and TNA, but not big enough for summer slam. That said, it is a pretty good place for boxing, so I don't think your idea is too far fetched. For what it's worth, the "Roman Coliseum" at WrestleMania 9 was a converted tennis venue.
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    Hah--I watched the NJ '80s set and this still feels like my first Nogami match. I do love the Kabuki gear for Akira and alt-color outfit for Liger. I wonder if anyone else like me was introduced to Liger through this match (or pictures of it, in my case) and for years thought of the green & gold as the "standard" Liger colors. Anyway, I wasn't really as high on this as everyone else, I guess because this felt like a total one-man show by Liger. And a fine show it was, but Nogami just wasn't compelling enough as an opponent or aggressor for this to be a standout great match. His offense was pretty pedestrian, though credit to whoever booked the ankle injury to give him something to focus on. Liger was great but the overanalyzer part of me couldn't help but notice how his ankle injury seemed to come and go as was convenient for the plot.
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    I doubt it, considering how knocked around he got at the show itself. Kind of a weird booking decision, though.
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    I hated Brother Love. In the sense that I wanted to see a babyface come onto his show and kick his ass. For me he was the precise opposite of "X-Pac heat" in the most precise way possible.
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    One week before the show is certainly an odd time to have the contract signing. Savage and Warrior cut promos on each other, before the Undertaker comes out to stare the Warrior down.
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    Gang is back and I always thought this gimmick with Sullivan was only a very slight step above Akeem in the dignity department. Gang makes goofy "crazy" faces while Sullivan rants, wearing eye shadow, red suspenders, and light blue pants. Simmons confronts OMG even though he really wants his hands on Reed, and dares Gang to enter the ring as we go off the air. Sullivan and Long make for a funny mismatched pair, with Sullivan doing his usual Satanic rant with Long as a one-man Baptist congregation.
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    Dundee wrestles a clean match against a Sgt. Slaughter ripoff, putting him out with the sleeper. Steve Austin jumps him afterward with the coal miner's glove while JC Ice Baby rants and gloats at ringside. Dundee cuts a bloody response promo vowing to take Austin out like he did the White Boy and Jeff Gaylord if that's what it takes to get his son back, before he gets Frank Sinatra'd out of his allotted time.
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    Jarrett and Gilbert are getting laid out in a Hell in a Cell-type cage by the Texas Boys. Doug Gilbert completes what's at least a quasi-babyface turn only to get spike piledriven twice on the floor. Finally Jackie Fargo makes the save, setting up the 8-man cage match Monday night. Eric Embry plans to beat Lawler's Tennessee brains out and retire him in the name of the United States of Texas.
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    Lawler runs down a multitude of personal appearances for later that day, and invites the Texas boys to attend one of them. That sounds like a killer angle that I wonder if they ever ran. Lawler runs down the women and the wrestlers of the state of Texas--another great promo that could air in Dallas and Lawler would be the most hated man in the state. Gilbert sort of sulks in the background until it's time for him to talk, which is a nice touch. Fargo is ready to have some fun on Monday night.
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    "That devious...that devious...MORON. What is his name?? That devious moron...that, that, that Japanese... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... GOOF! How can I be better off than having a Japanese goof in my corner??!" It's Funk, Embry, Prichard, and Tojo (or maybe just the first three) against...Lawler, Gilbert, and Jarrett, I would assume. Presumably Jackie Fargo will be on the opposite side.
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    Great-looking clips from the MSC, but I'm really sour on the finish. After going a relatively long time without the title it feels anticlimactic for Lawler to regain it with a crooked referee and a fast count. Embry and Prichard are incensed, then they bring out Lawler, who cuts a victory promo before getting jumped. Eddie Gilbert evens the odds temporarily, until the Texas Hangmen run in to make it 4-on-2, much to the chagrin of Dave & Michael at the table.
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    I liked that the real-life "Queen" was dressed in a tank top with a visible tattoo.
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    Standard war metaphor-filled Hogan interview. These are still better than last year's WM promos.
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    In fairness, that was how the Events Center was being run in the WWF after localized promos were done away with (for the most part). Mooney ran down the card, and the wrestlers cut generic green-screen promos on their opponent, which had to have saved untold amounts of time. That said, I'm guessing WCW's local show advertising wasn't even that smooth. I'm amused that Flair no longer even bothers using the Spanish name for the giant.
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    With apologies to JVK, the overdubbed Mooney/Hayes commentary kills my mood right off the bat--particularly when there are a ton of shots of Monsoon and Heenan at ringside that I really want to hear instead. This is okay-ish but clearly inferior to the other Rockers singles match we just saw, as there's just nothing much to Tanaka in control. He bumps great but all he has to show on offense in this role are martial arts strikes and headbutts. The finish was good and sort of out-of-the-box by the standards of the WWF style.
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    One of the better straight Austin matches in his career to this point--despite the Coal Miner's Glove stip there are a few token climbing spots and the rest of this is worked on the level. I doubt Young would have ever gotten above Rip Rogers levels in WCW, but you'd think he would have had something to offer even in that role. Smoky Mountain could have used him too, in fact.
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    This isn't a classic, but it's definitely ammo for those who like New Japan's variety over All-Japan's sheer vastness of "epic" matches. I can't fathom a '90s AJPW match worked mainly around a removed turnbuckle pad. Honaga barely even looks like an athlete but is a willing bleeder who projects "scuzzball heel" pretty well, though there are other juniors who did it better. Just when he looks down and defeated, Honaga utilizes a Hiro Saito distraction to come back and get a fluke pin. Didn't have problems with the finish myself, mainly because Liger is so fantastic at struggling to escape pin attempts--I could be entertained by attempted Liger kickouts all day.
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    Yet another great on-location vignette from DiBiase.
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    Michaels bumped like a total maniac here--not just the two bumps on the outside but even for stuff like Perfect's kneelifts and neck snap. Michaels' comeback is absolutely outstanding--he looked better offensively here than he probably ever did as HBK. Why was Heenan not out at ringside to start with? One of a few curious overbooking decisions in this match.
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    "A HUGE, MEAN ORIENTAL HAS HIT THE RING AND ATTACKED FRITZ VON ERICH!" --Lowrance describing the surprise World Class debut of Killer Khan, at the first DVE Memorial Parade of Champions.
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    Kroffat & Furnas vs. the Steiner Brothers. Especially if Danny gets carte blanche to lay the match out.
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