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    Tony Schiavone has come home again, interviewing Sting in front of a weird green screen. Sting's letters came from ALL over the world--Little Stingers, Medium Stingers, and Big Stingers alike want him back, so he's going to be at Capital Combat.
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    Dueling promos for Capital Combat, which are much shorter and to the point than Hogan and the Warrior.
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    Lawler goads Jordan into putting his #1 contendership on the line, and Jordan being a total spineless dumbass agrees to it. The match goes predictably with Jordan blading off chain shots. Valiant comes back after the match and for some reason Calhoun and Marlin are more concerned with holding Valiant back instead of Lawler brutalizing Jordan in the ring. Honestly...as awesome as the opening segment was this got a big "whatever" from me. Lawler was good but his constantly making every babyface look like a complete idiot is starting to wear thin just as it did with Triple H in '02 and '03. Every time he shows ass he immediately gets more and greater payback on someone else, whether it's Chris Champion or Ben Jordan. I'm no big fan of Jimmy Valiant's but it is refreshing to see a babyface capable of coming across as being an actual peer to Lawler and who won't let Lawler's comments get to him, and Valiant fills that role nicely.
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    I wonder how much that People's Celebration was planned. Crowd instantly turns on Valiant as soon as he takes a shot at Lawler. It's a good babyface promo, though.
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    Jordan has a title shot presumably by virtue of his win the previous week, yet they never mention that part, which doesn't do much to help Jordan's case against being a joke challenger. The crowd has solidly backed Lawler by this point--I know it's Memphis but not only is Lawler as entertaining as he is, but he's been all over television doing interviews, segments, and commentary throughout and eventually fans anywhere are going to see his side of things. This is sort of pushing things into egofuck territory to allow Lawler to masturbate on the mic instead of accomplishing anything to get anybody or any program over. Lawler finally switches gears to talking up the New York Mauler and points out that he wears a mask. Then "The Boy from New York City" hits and a spazzed out guy with long white hair and a beard stuffed under a mask comes out. Now Lawler is stuck in a title match that he bragged about having, with no way to DQ himself or get counted out to save the title. Lawler is able to more or less stall out the ten minute time limit in between getting beaten up, but then realizes that the new sudden-death rules are in effect. The OT period is FUCKING AWESOME, even though the actual match was FF material. The rules are a bit goofy but the teases here are absolutely epic, especially by Lawler though Valiant provides a few near-falls (see what I did there) of his own. Valiant puts his head down for a backdrop but moves away when Lawler tries to kick him, and that sends Lawler flying and sends the Unified belt back to Valiant. For my complaints about Lawler in the first part of this segment, Lawler's stooging to put over Valiant and the new rules more than made up for it.
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    Yes, Brother Love as manager of the Undertaker for an extended time, into the Hogan feud, would have been interesting. We'll see how it goes later in the year but it gave Love a chance to be a semi-serious hellfire-and-brimstone character instead of the goofball he usually was. I was expecting Earthquake to come out right here, but I guess that's still to come as they were pushing a Hogan/Earthquake house show series at this point.
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    Another good interview from Rude in a series. Yet 5+ weeks' worth of strong interviews in a gym didn't make for a better program than one posedown angle 16 months earlier.
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    Good Lord, I'm not sure if this is as weak of an excuse for a feud as Chris Jericho spilling coffee on Kane, but it's not far behind. A paranoid Bad News Brown, after declaring that he fears no one, is scared to death by a birthday gift of a rubber snake. He takes his frustrations out on Okerlund. Jake tries to sell this, as does Bad News, but two guys with characters this strong and unique and as good on the mic as they were are deserving of a better program background than this.
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    Very unique, creative match--sort of Texas Death meets Survivor Series. Four on four, and when one man is pinned the winners of the fall can pick any one opponent and get a 4-on-1 for a full minute. If the wrestler can't answer the bell afterward, the match ends. Seems like it'd make far more sense to just have the loser of the fall have to face the 1-on-4 situation, but the big sell here is the babyfaces getting to pick Ronnie P. Gossett.
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    Really hot opening with Michaels absolutely murdering DiBiase with a dropkick. Ted is sort of standard when he's in control but Michaels does take some tremendous bumps, and we go back and forth a few times instead of the usual shine+heat+comeback WWF formula match. Jannetty and Virgil both get involved and it's a double-DQ. Remember when the WWF wasn't obsessed with jobbing guys out in their hometowns?
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    Great rapidfire hammerlock reversals to start before Santana goes nuts on Perfect's leg. I love how Santana has kept the figure four in his holster for all of these years and how it can loom over any match where he cares to break out leg work. Bobby Heenan comes down for an unexpected distraction but Perfect gets a clean victory to become 1/2 of the WWF Tag Team Champions. I think the SNME match will be better but this was very good for Superstars.
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    Woman looks incredibly fetching in that lime green dress. Flair takes shots at Wade Wilson and Kent Hrbek and invokes his history training under Verne Gagne. MINNESOTA WILL EXPLODE--I have visions of Minneapolis and St. Paul descending into civil war.
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    Yeah, Nick Patrick with the best part of the match. A Jimmy Jam DDT puts Gibson down and gives the Midnights the victory. This isn't quite as spectacular (aside from that one spot) as the other matches involving these teams but the basics are executed so well that it doesn't matter. I'd just like to add that Lance Russell & Teddy Long is a rather bizarre commentary team that could be a disaster but their chemistry is actually pretty good.
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    Austin's future star power is evident here, though his ringwork could kindly be described as "raw." He sounds way, way more confident on the mic and particularly in how to work the crowd than Foley does at this point. We see the debut of Jeannie and we've already found out the story here. Adams sort of looks like a chump in the way he walks away after getting slapped. At one time I was convinced that "Frogman Leblanc" was a name that had to have been made up in PWI.
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    Gary seems downright distraught over his inability to break Featherweight lenses. Dan Aykroyd's illegitimate Texan twin brother consoles him.
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    Clips of Lawler heeling it up set to Joan Jett's version of "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap." Some great-looking action against Dutch Mantell is what really stands out. We also get what appears to be Lawler's regaining of the Unified title from King Cobra.
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    Really tepid match between Borne and Kevin that sees Borne use the ropes to get the win. Like there was any chance of Kevin ever wrestling Kerry in a title bout under any circumstances. Borne's promo is almost that of a psychotic babyface, with a few lines that could be borrowed from motivational posters but delivered in a high-strung whackjob fashion that really makes him look unhinged. Kerry insists that a fight will end their friendship, so in a week he's going to wrestle Borne instead. Kerry invokes the name of David & Mike to put over said friendship, then calls Matt's old man a cheater. We get into a my-dad-can-beat-up-your-dad argument, but Kerry won't take Borne's bait to fight then and there. Good stuff from Borne.
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    Very Memphis-meets-late-'90s-Raw segment with everyone getting a chance to speak a bit on the mic. Adams demands a match with Austin after Austin came out with Chris' ex-wife Jeannie. We go from the originally scheduled matches of Chris Adams vs. Terrence Garvin and Eric Embry vs. Steve Austin to Adams vs. Austin and Embry initially challenging Jerry Lawler, then getting rebuffed by Ronnie Gossett and Terrence Garvin before getting more or less tricked into facing Garvin with one hand tied behind his back. Everyone was pretty good here playing their roles even though this probably took a few left turns too many.
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    Numerous people also cut promos on his deceased father. "OOOOH YEAH, LAWLER--THINK OF YOUR DAD, MAN, BEIN' DEAD."
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    If Jerry Jarrett or Eddie Marlin had suffered a heart attack at any time from around 1983 to 1997, you know Lawler's second--maybe first--thought would be, "How can we make some money off of this?"
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    Billy Travis has apparently turned babyface as he's scheduled to form a team with Jeff Jarrett, whom Lawler says is the Most Hated Man in wrestling. Not to second-guess the King on a promo but I kind of wish he'd gone after Jeff for riding the nepotism wave instead of saying it's because "he's a punk."
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    Lawler is overselling this one punch to an absurd degree, losing by countout TECHNICAL LOSS to the Thriller and having to be carried to and from the dressing room. All he seemingly can remember is "Nate Whitlock." Reggie B. Fine cuts a dapper figure but is not one of the premiere managers the Memphis territory has ever seen. Sweet Daddy Falcone is an oversized Paul Heyman lookalike who is hardly representative of the "team of the '90s."
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    Great promo by Nate, with an interesting payoff. I didn't even remember Nitron showing up in Memphis, which is an indication that his stay was not a long one.
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    I can see all this lasting awhile.
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    A speed bag. So far we've seen nothing but Rude throwing out challenges and Warrior being a closet champion. I don't think this is just Yearbook selection bias--I think Warrior was legitimately off television for a month-plus after the supposed passing of the WWF torch.
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