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    Grizzly Smith should not be used on TV in any capacity. Road agents should not be dwarfing the wrestlers and they really shouldn't be dwarfing guys like Luger and Nikita. Koloff is out to present the new U.S. championship belt to Luger, which he does right upside his head. I can't fathom the WWF drawing upon a 4-year old title change to set up a new feud at this point in time, but Nikita makes sure to exposit further motivation--like Terry Funk, he's upset about not being a contender for the World title. Good angle, and the Nikita of old is back, for better or for worse.
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    Luger continues his unbelievable PPV hot streak--a better streak than Flair's at this time, in fact. Spivey busts out all kinds of cool offense centered around Lex's neck. Not all of it is executed great but in some cases that just adds to the danger effect. In particular his reverse flying elbow looks absolutely devastating--I daresay more devastating than any Tenryu elbow. Dan works hard but is pretty charismatically challenged--Luger works hard and has the crowd way into this. The end result is one of the great synergy matches in wrestling history.
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    Highlight here for me is Ross getting almost legitimately pissed at the brawling surrounding him while at the same time Dusty is positively giddy. This is fun but it ends almost as soon as it really gets going. They were on their way to something really memorable, too. The crowd is way into Vader at the end of this.
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    Missy is eager to see what babe she's going to interview--Stan Hansen. That ends well. Per the Observer, this running joke about Missy being the first woman in a wrestling locker room was directly lifted from the Lisa Olson/New England Patriots scandal, which was a relatively major mainstream story at the time. "Mind rape" as wrestling gag fodder, in light of how Missy was often treated by WCW in real life...eh, this is still funny.
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    Hey, Gigante knows a few more phrases of English.
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    No way could the WWF burn an American flag without pissing off sponors and drawing an even bigger media backlash than the one they got. Nonetheless, Sarge and Okerlund absolutely pound us over the head that this Hogan poster is EXACTLY THE SAME as the flag. Slaughter's assertion that Hogan is a foreign invader who doesn't know what combat is like is a rather neat thing to point out. Big heat for this.
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    Okerlund is a pro's pro. At least in pre-tape segments like these.
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    Missy Hyatt, looking like she just rolled out of bed, gets comments from an upset Sting. Kind of ironic that Arn would be the one knocked out of the match before it started, huh?
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    Holy fuck, Arn's line DID make sense! What a great, "oh, SHIT" moment as the Horsemen slowly surround the ring and leave Pillman laying.
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    Arn is fantastic, wartime metaphors and weird closing statement aside.
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    Holy shit, Jeff Jarrett with the interview of his life. I can't fathom anything else that's ever come close.
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    Gilbert outright promises chains and possibly fire. Lawler is still sickened by and distrustful of Eddie Gilbert, but will take advantage of Gilbert's underhandedness to take out Embry and Prichard.
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    USWA Crash TV claims yet another promising angle. I'd have liked to have seen a big blowoff match between Lawler and Gilbert, too.
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    Tenryu gets the leadoff match announcement! The man is the Forrest Gump of professional wrestling. Hogan's promo, even while invoking POWs and Hussein and scud missiles, is really great and intense. Strong comments follow from Martel, Jake, and yes--the Warrior. I wonder if Warrior was reprimanded for his constant referrals to the "WWF championship belt."
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    Brother Love is going out on top--this is one of his best performances, and yet another great Savage interview.
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    Teddy's parading of the PWI Manager of the Year Award is getting to Owen Hart Slammy levels. I'm all for it, particularly since he'd have gotten my vote. Simmons brings up his college football credentials and is all about hard work and business, while Reed is out buying cars. The face turn is imminent.
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    Embry is now a full-fledged heel in Texas well, aligned with Tojo Yamamoto. He insists that the Sportatorium is still his family, though. I'm going to have to track this angle down. Even Tony Falk gives Embry a public browbeating. Dundee goes NUTS outside the ring, just heaving a chair at him on the floor. There is some great brawling on the floor and great headbutts thrown by Dundee, until Gary Young assaults Dundee and Billy Travis comes out to even the sides. The Embry turn is treated as a really monumental deal, as well it should be. I was surprised at how much more I liked this than Jarrett/Gilbert--this is really one of Embry's better singles matches.
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    Another good match in a great feud, though not as good as the excellent first one. I love Gilbert taking Jarrett's leg out as he bumps off of a punch. Some good leg work follows and then a weird finish with James Beard and the timekeeper not sure whether to call for a DQ when Gilbert uses a foreign object. JC the Ice Baby runs in and that's the real DQ, then he calls out Awesome Kong to splash Jarrett's leg. Kong is about to dive off the top turnbuckle but Billy Travis and Bill Dundee make the save. Was not a big fan of Jarrett popping up to slam Kong off the top after his knee had just been splashed twice.
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    This Prime Time redesign is a pretty transparent attempt at re-creating TNT, but crossed with The Bobby Heenan Show. I can deal with that. I'm not complaining, but man is "taking potshots at televangelists" one of the longest-running recurring gags in WWF history.
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    $2.00 a minute is absolutely bonkers.
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    Piper literally cuts promos for both himself and Virgil. We sort of redo the JYD/Pez Whatley angle from Georgia with Piper slapping Virgil around and forcing him to stand up for himself. Good stuff here. Even though a Virgil/DiBiase feud practically writes itself, Virg was clearly not ready to be on his own in any way.
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    Missy Hyatt is booted from the locker room area, ruining her big scheduled interview with Doom, but she gives a report of an incident involving a fan who jumped into the ring. Oh, it turns out he's an "old huntin' buddy" of Tommy Rich. Yeah, buddy, this is the most well-traveled Northwest country boy ever to be BFFs with Kerry Von Erich AND Wildfire. Borne is cast as a total backwoods buffoon in a gimmick that just makes you shake your head. Also, Borne was a multiple-style wrestling talent but "strongman who breaks handcuffs" is NOT a gimmick for him.
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    Jeff Jarrett thinks Texas STINKS! I love this feud set-up but knowing this comes when the two offices are getting unified makes the timing rather odd, unless they're going for a Bret Hart-Hart Foundation thing, which I approve of. Lawler corrects Jarrett--Texas SUCKS. Fuck, man...Lawler namedropping him makes SO wish we could have gotten EVIL KERRY as part of this feud.
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    I do wonder how much of Memphis was booked in advance or how much was winged. Probably a combination of the two considering the roster turnover was so great and oftentimes sudden. What is known is that before Gilbert's walkout he was supposed to double-turn along with the Fabs. It's great that we have the crotch-posting as this sort of reoccurring, lurking nightmare for Lawler. Eddie Marlin makes the save for him and gets into maybe the greatest senior-citizen fight in history with his old partner and '80s Memphis set opponent Tommy Gilbert. Tommy and Eddie choke out Marlin by his own tie--fire those men right now! Lawler takes over on Eddie, but is soon laid out by Eric Embry and Dr. Tom Prichard. This sets up Gilbert & Embry challenging for the USWA Tag Titles on Monday night. I LOVE that Embry could have cut literally cut this exact same promo in the Sportatorium and still been a total babyface. The only Tennesseean that Embry might have any respect for is Eddie Gilbert, and he can be a Tag Champion if he just stands in the corner and does what Embry says. Uh-oh! Gilbert's reaction to this is pretty great--he gets across that he doesn't take kindly to Embry's comments but he doesn't overdo it. Subtle and subdued is sometimes the right way to go.
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    JC's outfit is something else. Anthony is fantastic as the kindly foster parent. His inspirational speech has me damn near tears.
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