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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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    What a big fat fucking waste this all turned out to be. Somewhere in an alternate universe, Tony Atlas helped sell a mid-card PPV feud blowoff on the mic and Ricky Steamboat carried him to a ***1/2 affair.
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    All that--and while Okerlund's flaws as an interviewer are usually apparent, there's never been a greater barker in the business' history.
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    I do love that old WrestleMania guitar theme, almost as much as the SummerSlam theme from the same era. All the talk for WrestleMania now has it taking place "in Los Angeles." Slaughter threatens to make Hulk Hogan a POW then makes an Unknown Soldier crack--classy as ever, that Sarge is. Hulkamania is more dangerous than nerve gas, brother! Oh, Christ almighty. What a horrible retrogression these promos were. The only thing worse than Slaughter actively talking up an alliance with Saddam Hussein would be to SNME-ize the Gulf War to make puns about. What a shock, Hogan's promo gets better as soon as he starts addressing the Slaughter Rules instead of war. The big Greg Valentine babyface turn is finalized as we get MSG clips and the announcement of Valentine vs. Earthquake. Savage gets promo time and is as spectacular as ever. He refers to the "Great Macho King in the sky" which is the most fabulously grandiose heel statement he's ever made and is a tack that I wish other heels would have done. Then he follows it up by quoting Bobby Brown! God help me but I actually kind of like Warrior talking about having the crystal sewn into his head--this is probably Warrior's strongest and most focused promo yet, or at least since the November Main Event. Good stuff to take the bad taste of the main event promos away.
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    Cool story bro time: I saw Bearer with UT at a house show before this aired, and through the less-than-optimal Ohio Center PA and seats we honestly thought the Undertaker's new manager was Paul Ellering. Love still does almost all the talking and has a vision of Randy Savage ending the Warrior's career at WrestleMania. Love promises that the Undertaker will spread flowers on the grave of Warrior's career. This probably should have made the result of WM7 obvious but I still think this a clever way to segue into a Warrior/Undertaker program.
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    I would not have thought this way as recently as a month ago...but I kind of really, really want to see that Hulk/Earthquake stretcher match. Pretty lazy battle royal, aside from the Rockers' cool escape and elimination of Demolition. Nasties get established as #1 contenders and we get a set-up for LOD/P&G for WM.
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    Jarrett was in the process of completely unifying the Dallas and Memphis circuits at this point, but I don't know how much of the feud was known to Dallas fans. As a result, this is a stall-and-shtick match when I was secretly hoping for a match befitting of a blood feud. In addition to overemphasis on chain usage my least favorite thing about the Memphis style is the lazy "guy applying a headlock gets thrown into the referee" ref bump. It's a little too homogenized and predictable of a spot for a promotion that tends to thrive on unpredictability. So we get that here, just as a cover for Lawler to kick out of a chain to the head. Doug runs in and the Gilberts lay out Lawler, with Eddie asking if this is all there is to the King. Not a great match, a downright disappointing one, but Eddie's mic work was fun. Dr. Tom is in full-blown Piper mode on commentary, moreso than usual, though I did appreciate his line about Lawler wearing "Dream Wear" gear. Once you see Lawler's outfit you'll be wondering how long it takes for Prichard to go there, and he doesn't disappoint.
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    "A Flair for Fashion"--that article title couldn't possibly have been an accident, could it? Okerlund points out that Martel didn't SEE all of the contract that he signed. Martel concentrates only on fine dining, fine clothing, and fine ladies--not fine print. Gene doesn't reveal the big stip yet.
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    Interesting they show clips of a Starrcade match that Dusty lost. Dusty explains how his body has worn out and talks about a desire to get into broadcasting. Rhodes and Solie put over WCW and the arrival of Dustin Rhodes. Yeah, you can definitely tell from Gordon's asskissing tone that Dusty's in charge again, but this is a nice low-key segment nonetheless.
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    Richard Flair: newest member of the York Foundation? He recites his stock phrases and then focuses in on El Ji-gont-ee. This build...has not been terrible. The anecdotes I've read indicate that Flair/Gigante actually helped WCW's moribund house show business just because Flair was finally wrestling somebody who wasn't Sting or Luger.
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