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  1. PeteF3
    Really fun brawl with Bigelow looking pretty good in the clips that we see. Bigelow rescues Lawler from a ringpost-crotching that's both a nice nod to history and a well-done feat of strength spot for Bam Bam. Idol slugs Jerry Calhoun and the match gets thrown out, and wrestlers swarm the ring to try to break things up. Blink and you'll miss the Yearbook debut of Brian Christopher, working as 1/2 of the underneath babyface tag team the New Kids.
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    I don't know if that's where it'll go but I love the idea of a new third threat putting bounties on both the top babyfaces and heels.
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    Jesus. Okerlund drops the "date that will live in infamy" line in regards to the invasion of Kuwait. Slaughter and Adnan have received a personal gift from Saddam Hussein, wrapped in a USA Today with Hussein on the front. It's a pair of military wrestling boots in the Iron Sheik style. Slaughter pledges to wear them as he conquers the Ultimate Warrior, and take his rightful place alongside Hussein in the streets of Baghdad, two conquering heroes. I really don't have much that I can say about this.
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    That they were able to sit on this angle for almost four years--I think a Virgil turn was a fairly obvious thing to go with from the very beginning--is an aspect of wrestling booking that I miss.
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    With days to spare, we may have found our WWF MOTY. What jumped out to me was how from a layout standpoint this didn't feel like a WWF match much at all. Piper playing duck-and-run at the beginning, punching away at Perfect wouldn't have looked out of place in the Mid-South Coliseum--Piper as a babyface Dundee unloading on Perfect as Lawler. The brawling has more intensity to it than just about anything else the WWF has put out on the year, and then we damn near go All-Japan at the end. Not in terms of big moves, but the back-and-forth near-falls come at a similar pace. It's all much more back-and-forth than the shine-heat-comeback three-step formula that the WWF had standardized. Not really a bad countout finish at all, and the post-match brawl is just as frenzied and heated as the brawling during the match. This had a much "bigger" atmosphere than Rockers/POP despite the same setting and made one anxious to see more--that's enough to put this at #1 for the promotion for me for 1990.
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    Another testament to the greatness of Bockwinkel. Not a MOTYC-type match at all but quite good, and Bock was 56 and had been inactive for 3+ years. He takes a pretty scary Saito Suplex for the finish.
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    Rick Martel

    PeteF3 replied to shoe's topic in The Microscope

    That tag match was at the WWF/NJ/AJ Tokyo Dome show that had Hogan-Hansen, Warrior-DiBiase, and Savage-Tenryu. Haku worked a lot for All-Japan on the native side in the '80s, so he'd have been treated as a babyface (as such). It's a fun enough little match, though not really Yearbook-worthy, and worked totally American face-in-peril style with Jumbo as the house afire. Found this at Graham's site: WWF @ Hamilton, Ontario - Copps Coliseum - January 16, 1989 Prime Time Wrestling - 2/6/89: Mr. Perfect fought Rick Martel to a time-limit draw
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    Is Thesz the oldest guy to compete in a match? He's in better shape at 74 than a number of guys have looked at 44. Thesz, bless him, actually tries to power bomb Chono and it ends poorly, and Chono gets the submission with the STF. This is definitely a curiosity more than anything but I must have watched a severely clipped version when I saw it years ago because it's actually better than I remembered.
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    This is a really good rather than great match but I have no problems calling it a great Liger performance. His bicycling and struggling trying to kick out of pin attempts is at its best here. Casas took a few nice bumps but was mostly along for the ride.
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    Well, no retired, non-wrestler has ever been attacked before.
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    Larry Z is still clinging to his World Championship dreams and cuts one of the most bombastic, over-the-top promos of his career. Not a bad promo, but his talk of David talking to God about the secret to life was verging on Warrior-esque.
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    Albano is more entertaining in these than I would have expected.
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    As good of a Doc promo as you could expect.
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    More intensity from Orndorff, who seemed to get shit on for his promos for reasons I never really understood.
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    Good promos from both guys in the face of long odds. Flair does a quasi-Scorpion imitation and...whatever. The angle's over, we can get back to Sting vs. Flair. I'm on board.
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    Zenk is such an ineffective dork. Arn talks about being labeled an overachiever all his life--how he wasn't big enough or strong enough or well-built like the Tom Zenks of the world to be anybody. Another great promo from Anderson, one that would probably make Vince McMahon's head explode.
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    "Dude wrestles for an extended period of time in his ring gear" is a favorite wrestling occurrence of mine and Rogers comes through with flying colors (mostly pink) here. We get chokeouts with the ring jacket, a payback choke spot, and some surprisingly vicious brawling on the floor. The best WCW Rogers match yet--was THIS the match RE voted as #1?
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    Without contemplating every guy on the yearbook I think Gilbert is a pretty safe Promo of the Year.
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    Cornette is bringing the Fabulous Ones back together to watch over Lawler and for Cornette to counteract Sam Bass Lowe. Cornette is a breath of fresh air here, not that the USWA was getting stale or anything. Good promo from all 3 guys and the Fabs return comes off as a pretty huge deal.
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    Austin Idol is coming back to attempt to collect the bounty on Jerry Lawler! Lawler invokes his feud with Idol & Rich and more or less dares anyone to try to collect in another excellent promo. A music video follows with Lawler punching the snot out of almost every big name to come through the area: Race, Bockwinkel, Hogan, Kamala, etc. etc. etc.
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    It's too bad that the Crockett Dusty didn't re-emerge until he'd practically given notice.
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    DO I LOOK LIKE AN OFFICER? I'M DA MOUNTIE!
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    This is a lousy match in front of a mostly dead crowd (that had been jacked most of the night) that's only interesting for the novelty of seeing Flair work head scissors and cravats and not being able to throw chops or even take big bumps, lest he give away that trademark side bump of his. Even the postmatch Horsemen beatdown is tepid by their standards, including a tepid babyface save and an anticlimactic unmasking. On one hand this is the worst "big card" main event of the year by a country mile, but on the other the fucking Scorpion saga is over. In my book that's a net result of a ***** MOTY that easily eclipses anything that El Dandy joker did in 1990.
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    Nuclear pop for the victory. What a great crowd this is. Steiners win the Pat O'Connor Memorial and get a monster-sized trophy for it. This is all quite classy, actually.
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    Don't get time being an issue at all. Ross outright says at the start that this will be too brutal to last long. Honestly, street fights SHOULDN'T be 25-minute epics. Anyway, this is fantastic and on the shortlist for U.S. MOTYC. The ending is a little lame but there's so much awesome shit during and after the match--this is seriously one of the greatest "brawl to the back" moments in wrestling history. Simmons is an absolute monster here, crushing Windham with an awesome spinebuster and clobbering Arn out of mid-air with a clothesline.
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