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"GET SECURITY! GET THE POLICE OVER THERE AND GET OLE ANDERSON AWAY FROM THE SWITCH!" I'm a ways away from this, but the post-match features a Top 10 All-Time Ross Call.
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Sugar Ray Long explains all the penthouses and long Cadillacs he'll be buying as manager of the World Tag Team Champions, while Rick Steiner mercifully gets cut off seconds into his rebuttals. This ends predictably--not that that's a bad thing--with Doom backjumping Rick and Scott making the save.
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There were "Misawa" chants during Tiger Mask vs. La Fiera way back in '83. It might have been the worst-kept secret of all-time, if it was a secret at all. There's a big to-do when the mask comes off and some fiery kicks thrown by Misawa immediately afterward, but holy shit this is an ASTOUNDINGLY bad match. It can't be pinned on Yatsu & Fuyuki either, as this is probably the worst Kawada performance I've ever seen. Absolutely lethargic in everything from the pacing to the execution--there were way too many instances of someone getting his opponent down and then standing there picking his nose instead of doing something to follow up. All four men were guilty at various points, usually multiple times. I can't recall a single move other than the first few post-unmasking kicks and a few of the whipping around of TM by his mask that were done with any snap or energy to them. The SWS exodus, at this point, cannot happen a minute too soon. Apparently no one on either side of the fence is interested in making the other look good and the match results are foregone conclusions as the exiting wrestlers are jobbing out. After such a fantastic 1989 it's incredible how disappointing All-Japan has been on the yearbook to this point. Luckily the quality will shoot way up sooner rather than later. But WCW has weathered a somewhat similar left-turn to start the year in far, far better fashion. -
I've seen a lot worse from indy promotions. Hey, Robin never did LOSE the belt that I can recall. She and the title simply disappeared, with occasional lip service to Sherri having held the belt before.
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Clips from SNME of DiBiase again jumping the Boss Man during a match with Akeem and handcuffing him to the ropes and beating him down. DiBiase promises that BBM will get the money he refused--stuffed right down his throat. If Boss Man truly did turn down "enough money to retire on" he kind of comes across as the bumpkin that DiBiase and Heenan claimed that he was.
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Had trouble getting into this. It was certainly action-packed and well-executed but at no point did I have any emotional involvement in who won, who lost, or what happened to anyone. Part of that is never having heard of Minami or Nishikawa but part of that was just that the work just didn't grab me. It was just a physically impressive series of spots and counters.
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Austin does tend to meander between moves but his stuff in working over Adams outside was solid--as Percy pointed out, he at least knows the ins and outs of breaking the ten-count. Jeannie yanks Adams leg on a suplex to give Austin the victory and Adams gets slapped around more after the match. It's amazing how much more potent the Austin/Jeannie combo was booked here and during the angle in general--Adams' big opening sneak attack goes absolutely nowhere, he loses the match after Austin controls most of it, and his attempted post-match attack is thwarted as well.
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All six representatives get to speak. Sid isn't quite where he'd be on promos but does a decent job for what he has to work with. Arn shits on the idea of "R2D2 and Sting on one leg" challenging the Horsemen. Flair promises the Horsemen will break Sting's leg again.
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Effective promo from Luger. At one point something that was on the table was to drive a Brinks truck full of money up to Flair's house in exchange for dropping a hair vs. hair match to Luger at CC'90, which would have been non-title and given Luger a signature PPV win over his rival and been a unique drawing card. Flair understandably didn't trust WCW and the proposal didn't last, and then Luger refused to do another job to Flair and we got...what we got.
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Lawler declares that "What you saw was not actually what happened" and Dave's WTF look of bewilderment is priceless. Lawler plugs some radio station DJ and a masked bodyguard before introducing a video piece on Jimmy Valiant's mother. The audio seems to cut out 1/3 of the way and Lawler has to narrate it for us after the fact. He tracks Valiant's mom to a laundromat where she has to do his laundry and receive dog food as a Mother's Day gift. This part went on way too long for very little payoff. Valiant runs Lawler off with a trash can before exhorting all of us to do something nice for Mother's Day and defends the feelings of the fans in the crowd mocked by Lawler each week as well as the woman in the video. Another stretcher match Monday, this time with Ronnie P. Gossett suspended above the ring, hopefully without the MSC roof caving in.
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A stretcher match that has a ref bump (why? was Lawler going to get a TECHNICAL LOSS for using ether after Valiant had choked him out with chairs?) and a countout finish. Spectacular. And it's too bad because the clips looked pretty good, though Valiant is almost invariably going to look better in clip form. Cornette said that for ether finishes in Mid-South he used engine-starter fluid and used the dry side of the rag.
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Rude delivers an intense, deathly serious promo promising not only to beat the Warrior again but to break him. Ultimately (hah) I have to agree with a previous post that these promos and the Warrior promo and character are simply too incongruous. Save the Pure Sports Build stuff for something else or find a way to tone down the Warrior and maybe provide some insight as to how HE'S training (and not by running to Mercury and back or eating St. Paul's Cathedral, whatever his character would do).
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Brother Love gets in both people's faces about how they now know their place at the feet of royalty. Weird setting and presence of Sapphire aside, this is as close as we've gotten to a classic old-school Dusty promo to this point in the WWF, invoking his plumber father and Sapphire's hotel maid mother and their representation of Americana. Sapphire waylays Brother Love with a slap as an exclamation point.
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If the goal was purely to win/raise money for charity then ideally you'd swap out Rick and Animal for Cornette and Foley, both of whom I think would kick ass in this setting. That said you sort of have to admire WCW for sticking to the babyface/heel dynamic.
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Three college men on the WCW team--pretty good lineup construction. Scott and Luger fair decently but Rick is an albatross and Animal is even worse. Sting gives some good answers but in the final round in particular got hosed by bad survey results (I thought teething ring was perfectly reasonable). Actually this is about as good of a TV appearance as one could have hoped for--the WCW guys all had classic wrestler looks but came off as either somewhat intelligent or endearingly dumb instead of just big idiot screaming muscleheads. Animal's answers did have me wishing Richard Dawson could have still been there just to see his reactions.
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God forbid you have two women in one promotion. It's not like Liz and Sherri were unable to coexist.
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Sid was never a good fit for this group. I actually kind of like the comparison of RoboCop as being from the future as compared to Sid being the future, but...yeah. Still, the Horsemen are once again whole. Barry Windham is the personification of class with his dress shirt, tie, blue jeans, and leather jacket.
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USWA Texas segment of the year, hands down. Borne is a fucking...well, Maniac here, dragging what is by far the best post-amputation match out of Kerry that I've seen. I love the desperation escapes of the clawhold, going to the eyes and resorting to low blows. Then we brawl to a DCOR that heads outside into the parking lot and a frigging insane brawl on a pickup truck, which includes Borne getting bodyslammed onto the hood and some crazy swings with a giant 2x4 and a crowbar. John Brazille gets nailed by Kerry and eventually cuts the camera off and says something about a suspension, as Jeff Jarrett and Chris Adams drag Kerry away from killing Matt. I guess the former World Class was *really* under the radar nationally at this point, because I agree on not knowing why this segment isn't more famous. Of note: Pringle subtly heels on Kerry at the beginning of this match, blaming Von Erich for ruining the friendship by not taking Borne on the first time.
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I actually like the fact that Gossett's sheer size makes him formidable even though he's not a wrestler. Plus he needed Jarrett and Travis immobilized for every move he did. The match itself seemed a little rushed, especially at the ending, but the action before that was all good. I like Tatum's emo crying act but sometimes it's good to see him tone that down as he does here. Anthony and Jarrett is a singles match that needed to happen.
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I didn't quite see as much hatred except for a bit of scuffling between falls and with the energy Satanico threw into his armbar takedowns, as this was pretty much wrestled on the level. The first fall finish is pretty spectacular and the third with its double-pin screwjob leaves you wanting more instead of feeling screwed over.
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This time Lawler is focused on the fans for betraying him in favor of Valiant and aims to prove them wrong, rather than talking about what a talentless moron his opponent is.
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Well, I didn't post for the hell of it.
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Adams' body should have just simply shut the effects of the tear gas down. This is an absolutely loaded TV program, and I'm assuming May sweeps is making its presence felt here as well. "FEE, FI, FO, FUM! I SMELL THE BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN!"
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Dundee handcuffs Tatum to the rope and basically coerces him into a Southern title shot by making out with Tessa. Tatum is perhaps the most gloriously shameless wrestler who ever lived--virtually his every move is made with the intent of making himself look like a buffoon. He even takes a bump trying to go after Dundee without knowing he's been cuffed. Sexually assaulting a heel valet to the approval of the crowd and announcers? That's territory wrestling for you.