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  1. PeteF3
    Gilbert hypes a Hospital Elimination Match for Monday--Lawler/Dundee/Jarrett vs. the Gilberts and BLACK MAGIC. Not Norman Smiley, presumably. Even his presence doesn't detract from another outstanding Gilbert promo.
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    How the fuck does a lights-out barbed wire match end in a DQ?? I'd have been royally pissed if I'd paid money to see a 1:38 main event like that. That the post-match beatdown goes about twice as long is of little consolation.
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    I guess that's the open-door policy for you. No company champion is Terry Funk. I'd have liked them to namedrop Jumbo Tsuruta or El Hijo del Santo, just to keep up with the pretense of a Unified "World" title.
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    I thought the Grand Finale was a way cool method to climax the show, but it's gotten very little hype so far--probably because you can't really hype a match where you don't know the participants. I wish WWF Magazine had produced scorecards for the Royal Rumble. I'd have been all over that shit.
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    All four babyfaces get mic time, and Warrior pays lip service to the Grand Finale as well--and to the egg.
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    Brilliant timing to trot this out two months before taking the belt off the guy. I don't think the Warrior ever wore that gear anywhere but in this intro.
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    I could watch this all night, pretty much. Moreno was the standout performance, other than Aja's. A 10-man makes the joshi go-go-go style much more palatable because you expect that kind of pace in any 10-man, whether it involves joshi workers or WWF fatties and muscleheads. But this had some structure to it, with a very well-done FIP segment on Maeda and some great big vs. little stuff when Moreno is trapped in the ring with Aja Kong. The heels go down 4-on-2 and that's when they get desperate, with the eliminated women interfering and...yes, Aja using the trash can. I was actually fine with that, because she wrestled on the level until the numbers were against her. The double-eliminations and disregard for tagging in the closing stretch is I guess one of those things I'll have to get used to, but it did make for a cool closing stretch with Aja splashing both Honey Wings for the double pin. The trash can usage didn't bother me, but I have to say Manami Toyota interfering at the end did. No matter--I agree that this is the joshi MOTYC and possibly a top 10 or so candidate for the overall list. This could easily have gone twice the length. As an irrelevant aside, Madusa didn't look out of place at all here, but with that hairstyle and the quasi-street-clothes attire, she looked like a psychotic Susan Ross, having finally snapped and beating the shit out of Kramer or Elaine for one too many societal transgressions.
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    You're forgetting his legendary tag run with Big Cat Hughes. The Madman is another part of Jim Herd's quest to find talent that's as young and cheap as possible.
  9. PeteF3
    A hard-sell for what the Black Scorpion is going to do at the Clash. Could anyone have seen anything good to come from this?
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    Flair talks about "owning" Teddy Long. For fuck's sake. Better stuff from Arn.
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    Morgan is repeatedly referred to as the best wrestler in the world, which I strongly question. Morgan clobbers Faraon before the bell and beats him to a pulp to win the first fall, and yes, the transition to technical work makes sense in that it's Morgan slowing the pace down now that he has a fall advantage. Faraon takes things in reverse, utilizing a mat reversal to even the match fall-wise and then taking things to the floor and opening a major cut on Morgan. We go from holds to brawling to a crazy Faraon dive to an even crazier bump into the ringpost by Morgan after he's already been busted. Eventually, after a few inspections, the ringside doctor orders the match stopped. Despite his tactics at the outset Morgan looks rather noble and tough in defeat. Without going back and checking my views on every match this should stand as the #2 lucha MOTYC. Faraon was already in his 40's when this match took place. I wonder how good his mask loss to Fishman or any of his '80s work was.
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    They sign autographs for children! They hang with elephants! LOS ANIMALES! Fear them! I immediately pegged the smaller guy as Randy Culley, but apparently these are Eddie Watts and Chuck Walton. Yes, THE Eddie Watts and Chuck Walton.
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    The 3rd fall definitely belonged to Dandy and Satanico, as this turned into an epic bloody brawl climaxing with a crunchy Dandy dive onto Satanico on the floor. The 3rd fall ending is anticlimactic as hell which keeps this from being among the high-end trios bouts of the year. I was also hoping to see a little more from MS-1, but he seemed to be the least of the 6 guys in this match.
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    Nakano wasn't an up and comer. This is how much I care about the UWF in general. It was a better match, regardless.
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    I think this is the Funks' last RWTL appearance together as a team, though Dory would show up a few more times with other partners. That run ends as the previous decade began, as sacrificial lambs for Stan Hansen & co.
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    Sort of FMW-meets-Crockett, I thought, with crazier and crazier weapons being thrown in (FMW meets Crockett meets the pit fight in Hot Shots! Part Deux) and two stables in a brawl on the outside of the cage. The outside stuff added to the war instead of distracting from it. Meanwhile Bull finally faces someone who's put across as being on her level, and she has to bring out a nuclear bomb to escape with a win. This did more to add to Bull's aura than stupid shit like no-selling kendo stick shots and cutting off her opponents at every turn, plus it made Aja look as badass as possible in defeat. Definitely a higher-end joshi match for the year.
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    Actually my bigger issue with the first fall is that Hokuto's shoulders are clearly being pulled off the mat but the ref counts 3 anyway. That looked REAL bad, especially in the face of how everything else came off in the fall. No wonder Inoue was confused. The kind of weird timing structure (normal first fall, super-quick second fall, long third) I think was a factor in why this ultimately failed to hold my attention. Same with not quite knowing the background of what's going on, though they do a good job of establishing Inoue and Toyota as reluctant-at-best partners from the get-go. I'm actually fine with Inoue winning the 1st fall more or less on her own--I think the story was more about the inevitable breakdown of the partnership and how one person could only last against two for so long. Hanging tough in a virtual 2-on-1 may result in winning a fall, but it's not going to be enough to win a match.
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    Major LOL-worthy moment at the start as the Brazos stage a walkout over the "Kendo" chants. Then Porky falls off the apron in a spot that I'm not totally sure was intentional or not. He's again the best overall worker here, though everyone looks good. Still, there's only so many times one can get excited by seeing Asai springboard off the ropes or someone trying to give Hamada a back body drop. Kendo's funky headscissors and Porky's insane high-flying moves (and the crowd's reaction for said moves and teases for such) are the highlight.
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    Funk comes out "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" segue-ing into "Born to Be Wild." Brilliant. Funk is managed by Mark Curtis, doing a doctor gimmick under a name that I don't pick up. This starts off like the MSC tournament match with Funk utterly dominating, until Lawler piledrives Curtis to go onto offense. Don't ask me how that works, it made sense at the time. Eddie Gilbert replaces Curtis at ringside as Lawler and Funk do their respective things. Chairs get tossed into the ring and Funk gets piledriven on one, but Gilbert breaks the pin. Cactus Jack runs into make the save for Lawler, albeit after he's eaten a spike piledriver. Yes, a Lawler/Cactus tag team would be outstanding. This was a little closer to what would make the TWA an ECW precursor but is still an excellent match. Thank goodness the TWA is providing us with full-length versions of the clips we're seeing from the Mid-South Coliseum.
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    Long is awesome here, using the names of Reed & Simmons to bully his way into the limo and onto the yacht and going over all the decorative changes he'll be making. Brass faucets! "Teddy Long's Soul Machine!" Graham's site says that when Long comes back out later to open the gift, Ross cuts him off and says we're out of time. I'm on the edge of my seat. Long is equally great on the set, quite sensibly wondering if the present is part of the Black Scorpion's "voodoo and hoodoo."
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    These two guys beat the shit out of each other in all manner of ways, from stiff chops to dives to the floor. Doesn't feel like a squash match at all. It's absurd that Rogers was languishing in this spot while J.W. Storm, the Renegade Warriors, the Motor City Madman, and Magnum Force got time on major shows. Yes, you could say Rogers came off as small-time, but would you say the other guys didn't?
  22. PeteF3
    Good match with another great performance from Eaton. For the first 3/4, at least. The Black Scorpion's music starts playing as Scorp starts taunting Sting, and eventually Sting heaves Eaton over the top rope for the DQ. Jesus. Luger cuts a promo promising that the other babyfaces will be backing up Sting against the Scorpion. Ross outright says that they're reforming the Dudes with Attitudes. More head-shaking stuff from WCW.
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    This was stiff, not in terms of hard strikes but stiff matwork, that really felt like two guys struggling for control instead of rote sequences. A promising teaser that has me looking forward to the rematch(es).
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    I think the blame for that would go to whoever booked a guy wearing sunglasses to try and look up into bright lights and catch a guy falling off a scaffold. You mean the guy who booked a non-wrestler to take a 20-foot bump and get caught "like they catch cheerleaders at the football games"? Don't see what could have gone wrong with that.
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    Hansen puts over both himself and the Motor City Madman, both gunning for Lex Luger.
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