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  1. PeteF3
    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?
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    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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    Gilbert goes from calm and collected to raging white-hot intensity as he promises to carry Lawler's head out of the Mid-South Coliseum.
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    Gilbert is on the short list for promo man of the year. I honestly think they're rushing into the barbed wire match, and it's been my one constant complaint about this feud--sometimes they draw things out slowly and then one week just completely bombard us with all kinds of crazy stuff. They could run 2 weeks of "straight" Lawler/Gilbert matches while Funk is in Japan before going to the crazy stips.
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    This must be a fairly big roster crunch for Lawler to have to pull double-duty like this. Great promo to sum everything up, though. Funk's gone to Japan for 21 days, so Lawler has to go after the Southern title to ensure that he'll have first ups when he gets back. But he has to get through the Internationals in a LLT match first.
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    I know this is Memphis but I think things would have been shaping up for a hot Lawler vs. Gilbert title match, but this switch is going to dilute that somewhat. Match layout and action itself are very good.
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    Dundee is livid that he has to pay A DOLLAR-FIFTY per gallon of gas. *sniff* It appears to be a loser-leaves-town match set for Monday between Lawler/Dundee and the two Sheiks.
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    Definitely. Downright Crockett-esque, as the show goes off the air with the beatdown ongoing. Animal actually looked better than Hawk here, which surprised me, showing some nice crispness to his moves even accounting for the fact that Tanaka could make Santino's Cobra look like a killer strike. LOD dominates the match until Fuji waves to the locker room for help, and it's a 6-on-2 attack.
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    This makes for two weird Survivor Series matches in a row involving the WWF Champion going up against a team captained by an opponent he doesn't have an issue with. Hogan vs. DiBiase and now Warrior vs. Perfect. Somehow Kerry Von Erich gets more lip service than the ostensible New Ace. Demolition's masks certainly don't do anything to help shed their image as S&M aficionados, and they seem to have trouble talking in them to boot.
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    The thing I like about Gilbert's heeling here as compared to Lawler is that he makes an honest effort of things at first. He goes after Lawler guns a-blazing with his fists, but Lawler has a counter for all of it. Then and only then, after his attempt at wrestling more or less straight-up has failed, does Gilbert resort to the chain. That's Tully Blanchard's SOP to working heel and is more befitting of an ostensible title contender or champion than what Lawler was doing, regardless of how enjoyable it was. Both guys pay back the other with various moves like DDTs and piledrivers, and Gilbert gets some near-falls both with and without foreign objects, while Lawler is just hanging on trying to get in desperation moves like the sunset flip attempt and roll-ups that fail due to a distracted referee. Cactus Jack blows his attempt at interference to give Lawler the win. Best "straight" Lawler match of the year that we see.
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    Dylan mentioned Windham's ability to "work small" in the thread that begat this one. That is one of the Boss Man's primary strengths. He was a 357-pound badass with a nightstick who, once he turned babyface, was able to legitimately work sympathy against guys like DiBiase and the goddamned Mountie. I'm glad that the entire BBM/Mountie match apparently made the '91 yearbook, because leaving aside the brilliant jail antics I remember it being quite a solid match. Probably the best Mountie match ever, which isn't high praise or anything, but it was good. BBM/Barbarian from the Rumble is probably the best Barb singles match in the company. I really, really like the 3-odd-minute match with Doink which is a virtual squash for Borne with Boss Man getting tied into knots. And incidentally he was an excellent squash-match worker for the company and the time period. It's rare for a guy to improve that rapidly working for the WWF but Traylor did it. He went from never saying a word and never working as a (pushed) babyface to being a very good, underrated interview and a good babyface worker. I haven't seen that Garvin match, but the dude fucking no-sold a wooden chair that Klondike Bill forgot to gimmick. No-sold a taxi door getting slammed on his fingers too, until he got inside. That has to count for something, maybe even enough to make up for fucking up Jim Cornette's knee permanently.
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