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  1. PeteF3
    Holy shit, it's BUDDY ROBERTS. I had no idea this actually happened. Check that, it's GENERAL BUDDY LEE ROBERTS. They're back in Confederate gear and this is as close to the UWF/World Class 'birds as we'll ever get in WCW, I believe. Jimmy and Michael cavort around Hollywood and naturally wear their wrestling gear while doing it. It's too bad they were pretty much zeros in the ring at this point because from a strict personality standpoint both guys had a lot to offer.
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    Bill Dundee and Cowabunga...THEY'RE the original Odd Couple. The word "shells" is thrown around until its practically lost all meaning.
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    There have been several WTF moments on this set and this is one of the biggest. Ohio has its share of cities with gratuitous confusing pronunciation changes, but..."Char-LOTTE, Iowa"?
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    Kevin Von Erich is tired of being attacked by the Diamond Exchange, so he's brought in Moondog Spot to watch his back. They're the original Odd Couple!
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    Good stuff that makes Cactus out to be a lot more dangerous than WCW ever did in '89-'90. A lot of the Cactus staples are there, like elbowdrops to the floor and the Cactus Clothesline.
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    Memphis booked Bockwinkel as traveling World Champion a lot, much more than the NWA title. Mostly against Lawler, but occasionally against others, Jarrett being one of the last. Great match, too.
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    Craig Johnson name-checks The National--the Frank Deford-edited sports paper that had one Dave Meltzer in its employ. Meanwhile Jeannie shows off x-rays of her broken hand, but is more upset about Toni yanking her hair, and follows up with more alimony threats. Really good stuff from Jeannie here. Now it'll be Austin vs. Adams in a chain match and this probably isn't a necessary addition to the feud. Chris & Toni are out yet again but this time they retain the upper hand on the heels. Percy eats a low blow and chairshot, Austin a superkick, and Jeannie loses more hair. The war has only just begun. That's what I was afraid of. The Adams promo is interrupted, as Percy and Austin do a number on him with a wooden club. Toni gets nailed in the perpetually injured ribs with the timekeeper's hammer. Toni gets tied to a chair and Percy is about to give her a trim when Chris recovers and runs the heels off...until Percy downs him with a chairshot and it's Chris who gets his hair cut. By God, they've gotten me interested in where this goes yet again. This seems to be building to a hair vs. hair stip, possibly involving the valets, that we won't ever see. That sounds like a hot ticket and it'd be interesting to see how the promotion would weasel their way out of the payoff.
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    Two leather-clad legs, walking through a junkyard. Thrilling. Sting sells this match as best he can.
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    I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, GADGET. NEXT TIME. I think these are better than the Dungeon of Doom skits, at least so far.
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    Lawler forces Marlin's hand into re-hiring the Gilberts by threatening to quit himself. Eddie cuts an awesome promo that turns Lawler's accusations about attempted homicide into a shot about Andy Kaufman, his past of idolizing the King, and his goal of having the Gilberts go down in the same class as the Funks and the Briscos, all in 30 seconds. But yes, this is extremely rushed, even by Memphis standards. The fallout from the Marlin attack alone should have eaten up a week or two at least. Instead that's brushed to the side almost immediately.
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    Eddie Gilbert hitting Jerry Lawler with a car is totally bogus, dude! Major pukus maximus! Eddie Gilbert is also sporting major wiggage. What an absolutely flabbergasting production decision from a promotion that was still clinging to kayfabe in many ways. The previous Lawler promo almost hypes Monday night to be another Snowman shoot-type situation, and then we get this. "Other wrestlers react to the big angle" can be an effective storytelling element but this is so not the way to go about it.
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    I have no idea how true this is but I have read they wanted to head off calls to the police. On the other hand, senior citizen Eddie Marlin is walking around fine and dandy after being brained with a chair and beaten down 5 days earlier, so maybe that's just how Memphis rolls. Lawler is awesome, of course, and is sporting a nasty bump above his right eyebrow. He basically threatens to stalk Eddie Gilbert and gain his revenge outside of the world of wrestling, the same way Gilbert tried to do to him.
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    Eddie STILL isn't getting his $5,000. Gilbert believed that Brickhouse Brown would split the prize money with him, but Brown eliminates him instead. That leads to a big beatdown on Brickhouse and Gilbert taking the check. Eddie Marlin's threats of a fine don't work, and when he climbs into the ring, he pays for it. Eventually he manages to get the mic and scream Lawler's name, and the King makes the save. The announcers actually do attempt to cover the delay, explaining that the other battle royal participants were showering and/or going home after being eliminated. This Monday: the Gilberts vs. Lawler & Brickhouse, and Eddie Marlin vs. Sam Lowe in a cowboy boot match. Holy shit, that sounds fantastic. Gilbert declares that he and Doug ARE the USWA and without them, this rinky-dink promotion would be playing in front of empty arenas. Marlin finally calls their bluff and evicts them from the studio. Oh yes, THIS angle. As Jerry Lawler comes out to see them off, Eddie suddenly floors the gas pedal and Lawler goes fucking FLYING. Dave Brown is so shocked that he undersells it to such a degree that it's some pretty unintentionally brilliant understated announcing. Apparently the car was only supposed to paintbrush Lawler--instead we came close to live televised vehicular homicide.
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    Genius gloats over all the kids having to go back to school. He would milk this haircut thing all the way through to December, even with Beefcake long gone.
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    Piper's dig at Jim Bakker is kind of eye-rolling but his shot at Steven Seagal makes me laugh. Martel brings out Arrogance in a Magi prop nicked from a church nativity play. Martel makes a LOT statements relating to vision/seeing/eyes...this would come off as incredibly cryptic normally but I think we all know where this is going.
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    Boats docks boats ships steam. Your usual WWF Sledgehammer of Plot promo. Tugboat's big return would basically consist of mid-card purgatory until the Typhoon gimmick revived his flailing career.
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    Underwhelming. I'm not sure what the story with the ref was supposed to be about (oh, it's Gedo--that explains...absolutely nothing) and it was pretty dippy that the trashcan was even in the cage to begin with. Nakano, who has basically been sold as being invincible for this yearbook, starts despairing and crying like 8 minutes in because her guillotine legdrop doesn't render Kong comatose. Eventually Kong, like Sir Robin, bravely runs away to victory. That wasn't the WM3-esque payoff to Bull as Unstoppable Monster Heel that I was hoping for. Afterward both ladies talk trash on the mic and appear to either be ready to start fighting again or start making out. Turns out to be the former. All snark aside I didn't *hate* this--they did work hard and there was some attempt at trashcan-centered psychology. Taking out the monster's leg/knee is a pretty sound strategy and the blood on the leg adds to the effect. Still, I know where I'd rather be given a choice of wrestling cards in Japan to attend on this night.
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    Top 3 MOTYC. I don't have a lot to say about this, frankly, but this is definitely a "past midnight" feeling with how long the near-fall stretch goes. I thought the suplex-reversal callback came towards the end of the match, having forgotten there were 10+ minutes of bomb-throwing to come afterward. Even the first backdrop nearfall I thought would be followed up with just another backdrop for the pin. It was, but not without yet another teased Misawa comeback in-between. Just awesome stuff all around that makes Misawa look pretty much as strong as the June victory did.
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    Two of the blown spots have tangential things that really jumped out to me. First when Kikuchi splatters to the floor, Tommy Rogers doesn't miss a single beat. Two seconds later he's charging out to the floor to continue to lay the hurt on him--it looks as natural as if it were a planned transition. Second was the entire visible crowd practically leaping out of their seats in shock and horror when Kikuchi can't decide if he wants to take a back body drop or a flapjack and splits the difference by spiking his head into the mat. Seeing Fulton and Rogers work quasi-shoot-style with Joe again was a treat, too. If you're looking for a multilayered Triple Crown or AJPW 6-man, forget it, but this match isn't any less fun.
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    This is sort of a shoot-ish type setting but not really. Is Houston still in prison now?
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    WCW was still a lot more sports-oriented at this point than the other North American promotions. No one knows how big or little the Black Scorpion is or what his style is like. SO WHY THE FUCK HAS THIS GUY EARNED A TITLE SHOT?? This Clash apparently did a high rating. I always attributed it to genuine intrigue over the Scorpion's identity but now I seriously think Flair sold this show for his match with Luger, with the added possibility of Lex getting a decisive win in the series now that he was defending the title rather than challenging for it. Sting's promo is pretty good. The Scorpion's, less so. "If you beat me...I'll tell you name. If I beat you...I GET COOOOKIES!" Or something like that.
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    I'm sold on this match and am anxious to see it.
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    TV pretty much butchers this match itself, as we go from Adams in control to Jeannie choking out Toni with a rope while Adams has been handcuffed to the ropes. Toni gets in a rollup pin on Jeannie and the post-match is the real meat of this: Adams levels Austin with a sick superkick, Jeannie gets handcuffed to the ropes as Toni starts yanking out her hair, and Chris Von Erich with a cute little nod to history slams the door on Austin's head before releasing Percy Pringle so the babyfaces can do a number on him, too. Percy vows that this isn't over but we finally get the Adamses walking tall and convincingly vanquishing Austin & Jeannie. Fun stuff.
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    Holy shit, the NEW Rock 'n Roll RPMs. Somebody named "Silent But Deadly" Kevin Dillinger has replaced Tommy Lane and they're evidently running a Destruction Crew one-guy-talks-and-the-other-is-silent gimmick. I'm way too interested in obscure '80s tag team gimmicks. I giggle at Percy's declaration that Joe Pedicino is Ronnie P. Gossett's brother. This is basically every southern tag comedy spot ever invented all crammed into one match. Rod Price runs in and this time it's a DQ. Fun spot afterward as Dundee is working over Price in the corner and Dillinger comes flying in from outside of camera range, accidentally hitting Price and tumbling to the floor.
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    Tessa appears to be gone entirely. Hopefully the business didn't fuck her up too much in her short time in it. Akbar is also absent, having been crotched by Lawler earlier, and like the eye-based psych after the blinding of Jeff Jarrett, groin shots play a role throughout this. "Tatum KNOWS he has more strength in his whole body than Dundee has in his little finger!" --Verbatim commentary from Pringle that may or may not have been intentional. Somehow they work a hot tag despite this match being heel-in-peril literally the entire way. But the shtick is so good and Tatum and to a lesser degree Young are such brilliant stooges that it doesn't matter. Rod Price does a clumsy run-in and allows Tatum to steal a pinfall on Dundee.
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