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    Boss Man and Heenan play this to the hilt, with BBM working hard to get this issue over as a blood feud. Heenan takes one of his last absurd bumps of his career, careening off the broadcast booth to the floor, as Boss Man drags him to ringside and cuffs him to the barricade. Boss Man works a pretty good squash match, incidentally. He's about to dish out hard time to Heenan afterward but officials shield Heenan. Boss Man responds by heaving the key into the crowd. Power & Glory are out for their match. Heenan offers them $10,000 if they can get him free, but as Herc is about to work on breaking the cuffs, the referee starts counting them out, forcing them to abandon the project.
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    Nice to see Rogers working on top for most of this. Petitpas throws in a few unexpected offensive wrinkles as he looks sort of like a big lunkhead but doesn't remotely wrestle like one. Petitpas is making his comeback when a decrepit Bulldog Bob Brown ruins things with a DQ run-in, and THE MARITIME GIANT comes in to make the save. Yep, that's definitely (a very, very skinny) Kurrgan.
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    If space wasn't always such a premium, this match should have been put on Disc 18, 23, 27, and the first several discs of the '91 yearbook. Tony Rumble is possibly the most annoying commentator in history. Pete Doherty might be the only guy definitively worse.
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    We start with a green screen promo from the Freebirds as they unveil Rocky King in a ridiculous paint job as LITTLE RICHARD. Yes, there are always more than 2 Freebirds. It's hard for me to fathom this group sinking any lower. All that in the first post, plus it's telling that Flair is #2 in the Gauntlet instead of the climax. If Flair can't beat Scott Steiner, should we really expect Arn Anderson to do it? Anyway, it's an okay match, but not nearly as good as the Eaton bout the night before as Eaton got lots more offense in and more or less kept Steiner in check. We get a lot of smoke-and-mirrors false finishes and Arn interference that Scott keeps shrugging off, before one Rick Steinerline puts Flair down. It's rather fascinating to see such a rapid Flair de-push at this point.
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    Cookie Monster vocals and cheesy background music aside, these promos are admittedly not terrible. Sting is more confident in his response promo this time.
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    Abysmal. What on earth was Iron doing?
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    What a weak-sauce DQ, as the match is thrown out because Arn DDTs Zenk on the floor. Match was sort of an abbreviated good match before then. I've bitched about matches that I felt were longer than they needed to be, and we had the opposite problem here. Pillman was great working with Arn and lighting up Flair with chops, but the FIP segment was pretty perfunctory. Doom runs in after the match and a brawl is on.
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    Funny stuff. I like Gilbert being upset over getting a clunker car and then getting equally upset about Lawler stealing it.
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    Really clever finish to a blindfold battle royal--Lawler ties up Frank Morrell, thinking it's Gilbert, and Gilbert peeks out from under the hood and uses that to cold-cock Lawler with a foreign object to take the pin and get his choice of mystery cars. His pick is a lemon, and he takes his frustrations out on the car including a pretty epic running chair throw. Gilbert leaves the junk car behind, and Lawler is making an Airport Toyota appearance with the car and some spraypaint, inviting fans out to spraypaint their thoughts on Eddie Gilbert on the car. That's fantastic. The incognito Unified World Title is finally mentioned again, as the tournament for the vacant belt is coalescing. They're really going all out with the participants here--Dick Slater, Mark Callous, Steve Keirn, Austin Idol, and others. Lawler takes some parting shots at the Snowman but invites him to be involved in the tournament anyway. Then he announces a spot show at Catholic High School where he'll meet Gilbert in a coal miner's glove match. As I was typing this up I was going to make that EXACT phone book analogy, dammit. That's exactly how it comes across and yet I'm still hanging onto every word.
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    She had her price, just like Dusty has his, but we haven't IRONED THAT OUT YET. Cue laughter.
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    Arrogance is now presumably the new sponsor of the Brother Love Show. Love is still wearing his medal that Slaughter bestowed upon him at SummerSlam. Agreed that there is no way they could run any kind of heel military gimmick nowadays, regardless of whether or not they hitched him to a foreign menace. This Slaughter run is a tale of contradictions. He really does play the gimmick well, both as the '80s relic and as the turncoat Iraqi sympathizer. But the latter gimmick in particular is so distasteful and so utterly wrongheaded in the face of what was actually happening that it's really hard to call it an artistic success. At the same time, Slaughter was considered washed-up physically very shortly after he departed the WWF and hadn't been perceived as a top-shelf worker in 5+ years, yet he came back to a company he had been drummed out of on very bad terms, was given the Heavyweight title, and headlined their premier show...a premier show that had to get moved from a 100,000-seat stadium to a standard arena. Slaughter headlining even a failed WM was utterly inconceivable mere months before this. The entire stint was a personal success for Sarge but a failure on all other levels. Anyway, I was enjoying Sarge as a guy who couldn't handle a '90s post-Cold War world, but it all goes off the rails here as the Iraq alliance is now introduced to the character. The WWF tries to book an angle around current, outside world events but in their own hamfisted way, in the end everyone involved ends up looking even more trapped inside the wrestling bubble. Contradictions. (I should add here that Piper was really great in responding to all this.)
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    Fantastic match. Steiner isn't quite in Bobby's league as an all-around worker but he does his best to match him bump for bump here. In addition to the tennis racket off the ropes, Eaton cuts Steiner off with an absolutely murderous clothesline that puts any Steinerline to shame. The hype for Steiner vs. Flair is so huge that you know who's going over here, but I'm pumped to see the rest of the Gauntlet now.
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    Pedantic note, but I don't like having a backdrop conveniently backstage at what is ostensibly the Clash. Luger's promo is fantastic but it would have had more of an effect in a locker room proper. Hansen drips tobacco everywhere, calling Luger a "prima donna, preppy puke." He's always been #1 (just ask his wife), he's not fighting for it. I really, really, REALLY love storylines built around the Top 10.
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    I thought I was going nuts until I got to OJ's recap...because all I saw was a MOTYC. Not THE Match of the Year, maybe, but on the short list. Maybe because this is easily the most "American" lucha match of the set, but this is definitely an argument for a well-laid-out match trumping High-End MOVEZ. I know Rayo's rep as a respectable worker is pretty much nil but he seems to bring it in the right settings. He's not a great seller or bumper but he and Caras know how to pace a match and his headbutt-centric offense is just fine. Plus Caras is just such a gigantic cocksucker doing the Tully Blanchard strut after El Kabong-ing him to start the match that the selling is really secondary. Each Rayo comeback feels like an enormous feat of endurance while Caras gets some nice cut-offs of his own in the third fall. A psychotic crowd helped, too--evidence for a crowd possibly elevating a good match to greatness. The post-match just adds to the atmosphere with Caras throwing a tantrum over the result and being swarmed by both fans and photographers trying to get the first glimpse of his real face.
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    I pick up "Konnan no necesita compañeros" so apparently they're trying to push him as a loner/tweener. There are a lot of overlapping storylines going on here, with Konnan refusing to take part in any brawling/heeling, more of the Aguayo/Mendoza feud, and more of the Lizmark/Blondy feud getting the most air time. We also get more of the "What the fuck happened to him?" mat-wrestler Konnan in the beginning. The tecnicos take this in two straight, as well they should considering it was basically 3-on-2.
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    Mass chaos with partners on both sides turning on each other. Satanico has seemingly gone back and forth from tecnico to rudo so many times that I don't know where either he or Dandy are going to end up at the end of this.
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    Dusty is bedecked in a polka-dotted jazz funeral outfit. Spectacular. They actually give Dusty time here, instead of a quick soundbite smothered with canned noise. "You have paid the price for Dusty Rhodes, and that price is gonna be...that PRICE is gonna be...THAT PRICE IS GONNA BE PURE, HELL BAY-BEE." Every bit as good as "It's gonna be SHAAAMEFUL" from when Baby Doll turned on him. The storyline isn't much but Dusty's mouth can carry just about anything.
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    Lots of things, but in fairness Sting specifically requested to see the first video because he thought he could pick up on something. Then Sting tells us he can't figure it out. Okay, that ended up being pointless.
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    Same "I'm making something for you" promo as before.
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    Well-done locker room confrontation though this is a pretty contrived storyline, one step above "two guys meet in the aisleway" when it comes to generic feud set-ups. Good promo from Theodore. Flair says that tag team wrestling has never been his forte, even though he's been a multi-time NWA World Tag Champion. This really feels like a demotion for Flair rather than an elevation for Doom.
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    Role reversal time from the first meeting, as Gilbert is in full Memphis heel mode and Cactus is working babyface. Long, not particularly interesting legwork by Cactus after an interesting transition that may have been improvised for all I know. Cactus seems to take the BO-RING chants to heart because then we almost immediately get the Cactus Clothesline and a fight on the floor. We go back and forth with some good offense from Gilbert along with some awkward spots before Gilbert wins refreshingly clean with the Hotshot. These guys have good chemistry but yeah, the TV match was better and I suspect there are better matches to come.
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    Piper completely shits all over this gimmick in pretty hilarious fashion. Vince manages to shut him up with a zinger about Piper wearing a kilt. Duffy amazingly doesn't destroy his arm on the fallaway slam finish.
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    "HA HA HA HA! You ALWAYS have a rush when these guys are around!" Vince, for all of his promoting prowess, really had no clue how to get these guys over properly. This is mostly a good promo (especially from Hawk, naturally) but there's that glad-handing with the Hart Foundation and sticking up for the "Little Doomers" and questioning the Demos as role models that brings it all down. Hawk saves this again afterward.
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    Sid is the only man tough enough to walk through Watts with $50 hanging out of his pockets.
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    Not a great match--at times, even though I understood the storyline, it was frankly a bit of a mess--but an interesting look at what the heavyweights were doing in lucha at the time. Konnan surprises me by taking it to the mat with Mascara 2000 and looking good doing it, then doing a heel turn almost immediately afterward. He just stands on the apron for the first fall, posing or walking off when his teammates ask for a tag, and eventually the rudos are disqualified for the continued 3-on-2 attack and Perro leveling Mendoza with a piledriver just to be a dick. The beatdowns go on afterward with Konnan actively working with the rudos, and Rayo is eventually beaten down into defeat. The attack continues after the match and after looking like cowards in the opening portion the rudos are standing dominant.
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