PeteF3
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Eh, different time periods. Reagan was the one who got credit for ending the Cold War--the Big Bads were in the Middle East now. Besides, I've never gotten the vibe that Vince cared about Conservatism in any form other than how it affected his tax rate.
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I have new respect for Arsenio after reading that. Rude starts by calling out Arsenio for not taking the opportunity to spank Madonna (???) when offered the chance. They give the hard sell for a Rude/Warrior title match on SNME. Nonsensical booking aside, Heenan is great here, comparing his alleged "cheating" to Earl Weaver or Tommy Lasorda getting provoked by umpires. The Arsenio tights are spectacular. Rude had the best ring attire in wrestling history. I think it's fantastic that we have a major talk show with WWF guys acting in character putting over the storylines with a cooperative host. No way there's a forum for anything like this today.
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None of the options given have been very good, but can we please pick a name for the babyface team and stick with it?
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"I have a question from Bill Albright..." "WHO??!!" "Our next question is from Elena Parsons..." "WHO??!" "Our last question is from Steven Cohen..." "WHO??!" In a way, ever since I got to the ICW stuff on this yearbook, my whole life has been building to this moment. It did not disappoint.
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Chief Thunder Mountain got some sort of DQ/countout win but could not pin the shoulders of the Atlas to the canvas. No DQ and no countout in the rematch.
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Yeah, better than usual stuff from the Warrior--his talk is about meeting challenges and the threat of the cage and retaining the title. No film over eyes, poisoned bloodstreams, or even any talk of "the Normals." Heenan is great on commentary. "Looks like a worried man."
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I remember that drawing in an Apter mag ad. I think they were trying to pass it off as somebody else.
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When Dundee takes another man's woman, he keeps her forever. When Tatum takes one of the fat, ugly Texas women he only uses 'em for the night. Good fired-up promo where Tatum challenges Dundee to a "Texas Tornado Death Match."
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Parsons is out to do what he does best--beat up on Uncle Toms. As he gets into the ring to show Skip Young what bein' black is all about, Jeff Jarrett tackles him from behind and we get a big pull-apart. Skip Young will be guest-reffing their match on Friday and exhorts the locker room to "LET 'EM FIGHT," but nothing comes of it, though Parsons does deliver a jumping headbutt to John Brazelle that's barely sold in a funny moment. I still don't know why these two hate each other so much beyond "That's the program" but these are good segments nonetheless. -
After watching the NJ '80s set I'd rather watch 500 Tiger Mask matches than anything involving Shiro Koshinaka again. TM and Dynamite struck gold at least one time--the Koshinaka/Takada matches were just fucking mind-numbing. I guess objectively speaking Takada is as much to blame but I actually liked some of his stuff on that set including the much-maligned Cobra match. If/when the Portland set hits I could change my mind, but I have very little enthusiasm for the Sheepherders and the more I watch the less upset I get about what they became in the WWF. Before they turned into shitty comedy workers they were shitty brawlers. Tellingly the best 'herders match I've seen is against the Fantastics at Clash II and it's pretty much a straight tag and not a barbed wire juicefest. I don't think he's really seen as a superworker but he got some love during the World Class '80s set: I cannot fucking stand Gino Hernandez once he stops talking and starts trying to wrestle. Thought he was actively terrible in his singles matches and the tag matches were good by virtue of Chris Adams and the opponents. His matches were heated and he was charismatic, but all the guys in Will's OP are charismatic too. I think Skandor Akbar is a pretty terrible manager in all aspects. No timing at all at ringside, tended to stumble or get lost on the mic, and that fucking Texas accent. That Devastation Inc. came off as effective as it did in '89 is a testament to the forgotten genius of Eric Embry. Give me Adnan any day--came off as more of a threat and was actually authentic. But Akbar's a southern wrasslin' staple so he tends to get most of the love.
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"Anything you can do, Toni, I can do ten times better--if you don't believe me, ask your husband." Austin: "Or just ask me!" Jeannie declares that she's not a fan of violence and holds up an envelope that supposedly contains recent photos of Chris Adams in "not so innocent positions."
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Sting's the Man, now he has to stay the Man. Flair dismisses Jim Herd and Ted Turner if they stand in their way of the Horsemen getting the title back.
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Rehash of the Hansen suspension. Meanwhile, Sting hasn't changed just because he's the champion.
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Cowabunga is called away from TV where he's been gushing over Jeff Gaylord's muscles, The Bold and the Beautiful, babes, and a Jerry Lawler match before being called away by Splinter, who declares that his greatest battle against evil--JEFF GAYLORD--is at hand. Fascinating. God, I hope Splinter appeared at ringside.
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#1 contenders match for the Unified World title live in studio. Gilbert plays a masterful game of hide-the-rope with Jerry Calhoun, and about as soon as we get going the Dirty White Boys hit the ring for the beatdown. DWG hands something to Gilbert, and out comes a fireball that misses Lawler and hits Burton! Between eating a piledriver last week and getting burned now, Burton ought to be near dead. Gilbert declares that it was Lawler who burned Burton and dares he and Dundee to bring their fire and bats to the MSC for the Texas Death Match. Vote Kathryn Swisher for Chancellor of Chancery Court, Part 1!
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Highlights from the big MSC tag. Dundee gets a pin on Anthony after Jerry Calhoun is bumped, but Tom Burton runs in and clocks Dundee and rolls Anthony over on top and a groggy Calhoun awards the match to the heels. Until Lawler, Dundee, and the fans convince him otherwise. Well, he DID count Anthony down and then raised the wrong hand afterward, so I'll buy the fact that Calhoun "reversed" the decision on his own because he isn't really reversing anything. If that makes any sense. Post-match goes about as expected (as Michael St. John tacitly acknowledges on commentary), as the DWB grabs Tessa and re-handcuffs her to the post and releases the Dirty White Girl, who rips off Tessa's top in order to bring some much-needed class to this feud. Lawler comes out and says that Dundee and Tessa are in Texas but have sent in a videotape, and that brings out Gilbert & the DWBs. As they're ragging on Lawler for being so stupid as to show up in studio without help, we and the heels get SWERVED as Dundee suddenly comes running in with two baseball bats and the brawl is on with the heels getting run off. This Monday is the same stip as before except that Tom Burton will be handcuffed as well as the valets. Lawler and Dundee more or less spell out that the Dirty White Girl will get stripped naked. Gilbert and the DWBs come out for an awesome psychotic heel interview demanding that the bout be a Texas Death Match. Gilbert brings up his burning of Lawler years ago and promises to bring out some things that you thought might have gone away. Kimberly even cuts a pretty decent promo by her own standards. Great studio segment.
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I never quite got why the cage was brought out for this match without any real build-up.
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Something else from 1990 that absolutely floored me when I saw it. I was no insider but I knew Sarge had disappeared from WWF television rather suddenly and that it was a departure on bad terms. But he was back--and as a heel, no less. I think "'80s relic who can't handle the fact that the Cold War is over" was actually a brilliant gimmick and it's really too bad they had to ruin it by hitching him to the Gulf War.
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The SummerSlam card is beginning to fall into place. The Ultimate Warrior isn't mentioned once.
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Yeah, this was a really drawn out squash. But a well-done one. There really is build to Toyota finally getting something in on Bull, as she has to back off and re-strategize, and then finally gets some offense in by diving at her from the top. Manami never really does get a "run," though, as she's constantly getting cut off including on a plancha to the floor just when it looked like she had something going. Toyota gets absolutely destroyed at the finish, taking a second sick lariat bump and then getting dropped on her head for the closing powerbomb. This is as monstrous as I've seen Bull look (which isn't exactly a ton) but she threw in other stuff like the Northern Lights and attempted diving legdrop without compromising any of that.
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And THIS is the USWA-Texas segment of the year so far. A much hotter start and the work in the chinlock/sleeper is much better. Austin takes some loony bumps to the floor and there are some great moves done by both guys, plus Toni finally gets some shots in on a helpless Jeannie which is long overdue. It's great that there's some actual psychology surrounding the catfights with Toni's perpetually injured ribs. One catfight spills onto the announcer's desk and Percy Pringle accidentally gets decked, leading to him grabbing Toni and imploring Jeannie to hit her. Chris Von Erich makes the save on Percy, Austin ties Adams in the ropes and goes after Chris, Jeff Jarrett makes the save for Chris, and Iceman Parsons comes out to attack Jarrett. Absolutely awesome stuff all around.
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Kabuki surprises me by still being in AJPW, then we get OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE in a '90s All-Japan match from Stan Hansen, and then he and Jumbo win the Tag Titles, too? What year is this??
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I'm sure these come off better when spaced out. These aren't as good as the Rude promos but in some ways I actually mind them less because we at least had a strong angle to kick this feud off, and this is just sort of bonus material. The Rude vignettes are promos in search of a feud--something beyond Rude beating the Warrior a year and a half earlier.
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This is a surprisingly intense brawl that was really getting going until a cheap over-the-top-rope DQ. Caudle even acknowledges that Hansen & Rich were partners at one point, which is a nice nod to history. I groaned at the finish at first, then Hansen nails Pee Wee Anderson with a lariat and throws a tantrum in the ring before leveling Rich with the cowbell, and it hits me that he must have an All-Japan tour lined up. Nick Patrick announces that Hansen has been suspended for 30 days and fined $5,000. Hansen goes nuts and runs both Ross and Patrick off before taking his frustrations out on the interview set. NOBODY POTATOES SUSPENDS ME!
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Pretty cheap to hype the stip of having two referees only for Downtown Bruno to singlehandledly make chaos anyway. A distraction allows Snowman to roll Lawler up for the victory and then the DWBs and Wild Things hit the ring for another beatdown of Lawler. Snowman lurks in the background for awhile, then suddenly comes to the aid of Lawler & Dundee. It's not quite the MegaPowers, but it's a pretty stirring moment in and of itself. Snowman's interview is interrupted and--dear God in heaven--Snowman vs. Jeff Gaylord is signed as a Unified World title match for Monday. THIS IS GONNA BE THE BIGGEST MELDOWN SINCE THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT IN RUSSIA, Y'KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN'?? Regardless of Snowman's claims that this will be "one of the most exciting championship matches of all-time"...forget JYD/Soultaker, this is the Worst Theoretical Match-Up That Actually Happened. Or may have happened, depending on when Snowman walked out.