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    The U.S. Males--a mailman and a Tarzan knock-off, together at long last. Incredible. Walker and Thompson are here to go after the Dirty White Boy and Doug Gilbert. Meanwhile Jarrett will be defending his Southern title against Steve Austin at the MSC. Jarrett takes issue with Austin's BLASPHEMOUS MERCHANDISE association with Jeannie. Jarrett pretty much says outright that he'll pop Jeannie one if he gets the chance. Jeannie rebuts and boy was she missed. She CREAMS Jarrett with a slap. Jarrett stays calm and blocks a second slap attempt, and that brings out Austin. A good segment in theory but one that probably shouldn't have come on the same show as the Lawler/Gilbert stuff. It's not any less heated with the studio audience, though. They do change things up by going to the ring and using wrestling moves.
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    Gilbert cuts an absolutely psychotic promo, maybe the promo of his life, which is saying something. And Lawler's back out and it's back on! If it's Lawler vs. Gilbert on Monday night then we've got two of the greatest match builds in Memphis history in back to back weeks. Awesome stuff.
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    Dan Davis has Steve Austin pinned in the ring, but Jamie Dundee is busy conferring with Jeannie in the corner. A disgusted Eddie Marlin calls for the bell and browbeats Dundee in public--he's not ready to referee and he OBVIOUSLY wasn't ready to be a wrestler, either. But, Jamie is an employee of the USWA hired by Max Andrews, not an employee of Eddie Marlin's. After a back-and-forth, Bill Dundee declares that Jamie just quit. Jamie disagrees with this assertion as well and this gets personal quick--Bill suggests McDonald's as a line of work, Jamie reminds his dad why Mom left. This ends with a SPANKING, as Dundee takes off his belt and teaches his son a lesson. Intrigue! I so want to see a Max Andrews vs. Eddie Marlin microphone battle.
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    Perfect use of Fargo and a perfect payoff to the Saturday angle--Jackie prevents cheating, Keirn prevents Lane from clobbering Jackie with the racket, and it all backfires on the Fabs and Lawler & Jarrett are the new tag team champions. EDDIE GILBERT makes a shock return to Memphis afterward. Lawler absorbs two piledrivers, yanks the strap down, and takes Gilbert almost to the locker room, but after the Fabs lay out Jarrett & Dundee they make their way to the back as well, and hold Lawler for a Gilbert fireball. We get cool bootleg-style locker room footage of a post-scene Lawler interview. He explains that Gilbert, Cornette, and the Fabs all split the bounty money that Funk laid on Hot Stuff and are planning to do the same with the bounties on Lawler & Jarrett. That's borderline clairvoyance on Lawler's part, but hey, it works for me. This is all interrupted by Gilbert trying to barge into the locker room, but he's headed off by Eddie Marlin. Gilbert gets time to cut a psychotic promo before Marlin tells him to take off or get arrested. Lawler's out in the studio and is just getting warmed up when Gilbert flies into view and one of the greatest pull-aparts I've ever seen erupts. Just as awesome as Lawler/Snowman and Gilbert/Jarrett. This feud is just getting started--they watered this down with the presence of the Memphis Mafia and the Gilbert/Jarrett sidetrack feud, but now it seems like we're going to get Lawler vs. Gilbert for real. Let's do this! ("Watered down" is not pejorative here...it was pretty genius, in fact, and the Gilbert/Jarrett feud obviously speaks for itself.)
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    Now that he's on top of the WWF, Sarge is actually showing off a bit of a smarmy cockiness about him. This is the birth of the "Slaughter Rules" run which I recall being far, far better than the conquering Iraqi hero shit. I wonder if this shift was developed out of good taste or out of the fact that the coalition offensive in the Persian Gulf was coming to an end.
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    Savage is on top of the world looking down on the career of the Ultimate Warrior, ooh yeah. After some months of genuine progress, Warrior's back to being a blithering fool.
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    Not that I was tiring of the Adams feud (well, a little) but Austin & Jeannie are a good enough act that they deserve to interact with other parts of the roster, so seeing Lawler talk trash at Jeannie over the mic off the bat is a treat. Slow start but passable heel bullshit, and then we are mercifully protected from some shocking woman-on...man...violence? Either ESPN being weird again or Jerry Jarrett being super-duper careful in the wake of the KTVT cancellation. Oh, wait, Jeannie throwing powder is absolutely kosher. More promising stuff from Austin and I look forward to seeing him against new opponents.
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    Santo throws some pretty wicked punches, actually. The stuff at the end from what was probably the tail end of his career was the coolest part for me. I wonder how much of that kind of footage is still out there somewhere.
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    Not bad but not an elite trios match by any means. I do love Porky's flying fat man offense. However, Kung Lee mostly sucks and naturally he gets most of the face time for the tecnicos.
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    "Tell me once again, what is it that you want?" It's an odd thing to notice but Arn is particularly great for such a quick cameo. As the other Horsemen are beating on Gigante indiscriminately, Arn is working over his legs. At the sign-off he's still attempting to sneak into the ring against the babyface army. I guess we've established Gigante and Pillman as buddies at this point.
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    Yes, it's absurd that the Freebirds got a title reign--negative or otherwise--when there were so many other great teams still in the division. It applied in 1989, as Parv mentioned on the last WTBBP and it applies here. Anyway, the Armstrong FIP here is pretty amazing in its length and brutality for a TV match involving a JTTS team. There are about four or five moments when it looks like Armstrong is going to get the hot tag only for the Horsemen to cut him off again. Agreed on the sunset flip--Armstrong hanging on even as Arn is laying punches in is a pretty fucking awesome image. Horner looked really good throwing dropkicks early on but his hot-tag, house-afire work is pretty weak in the face of the beating Brad took. It's only a minor detriment, though, because we get a much bigger one moments later when Doom runs in to fuck everything up. Reed accidentally hits Simmons and the tension angle is officially on. Somehow this is ruled a double-DQ--I hope Nick Patrick underwent a serious official review and reprimand for that one.
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    A great unique kind of build to this, making this out to be a special kind of match that can only happen once and only on PPV. Note that everyone constantly refers to this show as "the third annual WrestleWar." Real-world events had put a rather negative spin on that name and the WarGames concept as well.
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    Flair's hair is just absurd at this point, particularly when he gets worked up.
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    An irate Cornette comes back out and boots the USWA ring girls from the set, just 'cause he can. Everything is ABSOLUTELY PEACHY between Cornette & the Fabs...oh, wait, Stan says he didn't make much headway with Keirn. Steve will make every effort to collect Terry Funk's bounties...but a little kid walked up to Keirn outside and asked him not to hurt Jackie Fargo. Cornette throws a fit and lays into Stan a bit, but then recovers to cut an irate promo declaring that the Fabs can win, regardless of the referee. The best build to a match in the short year continues.
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    Lawler shuts down a heckler in about the greatest way possible before going into his read-the-church-bulletin spiel, segueing into MSC highlights. The Fabs piledrive Jeff Jarrett into oblivion, but when Lawler manages to get a payback piledriver on Lane, ersatz referee Jamie Dundee runs in and calls for the DQ. Rematch this week for the held-up tag titles. Lawler & Jarrett will have Bill Dundee in their corner to counteract Cornette and Jackie Fargo will be guest refereeing and acting as sort of a guilty conscience for Steve & Stan. Michael St. John narrates a history piece on Fargo's history in the area, with some amazingly bloody photography and a shot of Fargo hanging with Muhammad Ali, as well as video of Fargo bequeathing his name onto the Fabulous Ones tag team...as well as a 9-year-old interview clip promising to "deal with them" if they get out of line. Uh-oh. Cornette comes out playing his tennis racket like a violin, then likens Lawler to a tough-talking poker player who's marked the cards, gotten his friend to deal the deck, and gotten a relative with a shotgun ready to blow away anyone who has a better hand. Then he complains about the added edge--"the only living man on the planet older than Eddie Marlin," which gets a legitimate laugh out of the crowd. He promises to mutilate Fargo if they get out of line...which draws a strong rebuke from Steve Keirn. Keirn will take care of anyone who Cornette wants, except for Fargo. Cornette tries to diffuse the situation, but suddenly there's trouble in paradise. Intrigue! Lawler cuts a great money promo and Cornette is on his way to matching him until we hit a gearshift as only Memphis can do. We get more greatness from Dave Brown as the cherry on top of an awesome all-around segment.
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    Yeah, we again got a nice solid match when I was secretly hoping for something a little more epic in scope. We never really got an extended beatdown on either Rich or Morton and while they're just fine working on top this is not a layout that quite plays to their strengths. Ron Simmons and Teddy Long make nuisances of themselves and the Horsemen lose on an upset countout. This is not exactly the ideal followup to that kickass promo video.
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    Solid yes, but a little disappointing because I was hoping for something on a level above the Arn/Taylor series and this wasn't quite it. Closing stretch was really hot, and while I wasn't a big fan of the slow start it did have me thinking "oh, time limit draw." Then they swerved me with an actual pinfall, screwy as it was.
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    Decent promo from the babyfaces, with Sting giving some lip service to how WarGames works, Pillman making a bunch of war metaphors, Rick popping into camera, and Scott alluding to puncturing Sid's lung in a particularly sapient nod to history. The Horsemen minus Sid are much more collected.
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    I'm envisioning an alternate universe in which Tunney's intense deliberations lead him to another decision and Hogan is relegated to doing commentary for Haku/Barbarian vs. the Rockers.
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    I wonder how intense Jack Tunney's deliberations really were. Other than referring to Hogan and the Pukeamaniacs as "infidels," Sarge dispenses with any Iraq references overt or otherwise, and Adnan is also dressed much more low-key than usual. Pressure from NBC, maybe? It's a refreshing departure from Slaughter in any case, as this is essentially where the "Slaughter Rules" stuff is born and I recall that being pretty good stuff. "At WrestleMania VII, me and Sgt. Slaughter are going to war, brother!" Oh, Jesus. Hogan manages to tie this crap back to pro wrestling, bringing up how Sarge is protected by the freedoms he's supposedly fighting against. Effective and well-done promo but it completely ruined whatever good vibes had been built up by Sarge's performance in the ring and on the mic.
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    Sarge's miracle run continues as from the last few minutes this is stunningly intense, with Slaughter taking some crazy bumps even by his standards and even Duggan taking some nasty shots. This makes for at least two occasions when Sarge dragged something good out of post-Mid-South Duggan which is one of the most amazing feats I can think of, wrestling or otherwise. I like Sarge immediately cutting off Hogan's attempted save. Yeah, Hogan sort of blows off selling it once Slaughter leaves, but eh, that didn't really bother me. Sarge would get in a much better beatdown on the Superstars & Stripes Forever show. By the way, the version of this show I have has a cut-in from Garrick Utley at NBC about a development in the Persian Gulf, either during or immediately after this segment. Contrasting with the angle here, it unintentionally served to just completely bludgeon any self-discerning viewer over the head with how distasteful this WM build-up has been.
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    BUY WRESTLEMANIA VII OR THE TERRORISTS WIN.
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    Skandor Akbar is sitting in providing surprisingly straight-laced color commentary. Billy Travis gets the endurance mark here, such as it is, and looks awesome throughout. That's one long ad break they take the second time--the first one had no time elapsed and after the second one there's three new guys in the ring. This is a pretty thin roster for a 10-man Rumble, but the top guys all work well and even Awesome Kong is utilized okay. Jarrett and Steven Dane trade some good near-falls but would anyone really buy Steven Dane winning this? The ending actually has the first-ever clever twist on the "ref kicks the hand off the ropes" spot that I normally hate with a passion.
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    I had fun doing the one show I was on, but Tuesdays and Fridays both are going to be a bastard for me for the next few weeks. I think there'll be a bit more to discuss when we get to '85-'86 anyway.
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    Is that the no-holds-barred match from MSG (w/ Hogan in Kamala paint) or the Spectrum match with Orndorff disguised as Kimchee? The NHB match was everything you'd expect out of Hogan/Kamala and more. It's kind of a throwaway spot, but the injured and limp Hogan dragging himself away from the corner as Kamala is climbing up for the top-rope splash is one of my favorite sells Hogan has done.
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