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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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    Apparently the Genius raided the remnants of Chris Champion's hair that had been cut off. They're still pushing a Genius/Beefcake feud--I guess it's a placeholder for the summer but it still seems like an odd program for a guy ostensibly being groomed to take the IC title.
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    Terrific match, actually I'm not overly convinced that it wasn't as good or better than WrestleWar. It's a little heel-in-peril-ish but the HIP stuff is so fast-paced and executed so well that it doesn't matter. Zenk is still an albatross around the other 3 guys' necks in any given match, but Pillman is excellent here. Pillman does a blind cross body and eats the tennis racket, setting up the Midnights for a title match at Capital Combat.
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    Hansen, apparently upset that Tenryu's getting this title shot and not him, unloads on Tenryu before the match, hanging him against the turnbuckle and knocking him silly with a Lariat. Jumbo runs off Hansen, but when he checks on Tenryu and gets slapped, he decides, "Fuck this sportsmanship shit" and instantly tries to put Tenryu away. Tenryu weathers that storm but it's pretty much Jumbo's match, as Tenryu sort of shoots his wad by hitting the power bomb early and seemingly the tide turns in the opening minutes when that fails to put him away. Totally agreed on Tenryu's departure being timed right in retrospect. Knowing how slowly AJPW liked to elevate people, they needed something to force their hand and get behind the future Four Corners. Tenryu is already becoming a forgotten man as he's quickly ushered to the locker room after his defeat and Hansen and Jumbo mix it up again after the match. There would still be occasions to come in this decade of Hansen going nuts on people before and after the bell, but this is is about the last time we'll see a prolonged, extended pre- or post-match angle in an All-Japan ring.
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    What a coup for the USWA to get Yahoo Serious at the height of his Stateside fame to cut a promo for them.
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    And here I thought there was far more aggression in Anjoh/Takada. I'm getting to the point where I don't even know what I'm watching anymore when it comes to the UWF. The upset finish was nice but this was clearly the #2 match of the night and only marginally better than Maeda/Nakano, which is not a knock per se, I just liked the other two matches a lot.
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    I think there's a Savage/Bad News match with the same dueling airplane spin spots with Savage in the opposite role. He definitely used it in Memphis a few times as well.
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    Christ, I'm finding these discrepancies comical at this point. Shave five or so minutes off of this and it's a legit MOTYC. Yeah, I said it. The stand-up strike exchanges were dynamite with Anjo throwing great palm strikes and Takada having the advantage when he kept his distance by throwing kicks. Takada even lands a VICIOUS spin kick that is worth preserving as it's probably the only time in his professional career that that ever happened. Some great "near falls" on the mat, but also a lot of LONG stretches where one guy or another is in a pro wrestling-style lateral press position and nothing much is happening--hence the length being an issue. Finish also sort of comes out of nowhere even by shoot standards. Still really good, and for the record my favorite Anjo singles match is still the one with Tenryu.
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    Hah! I'm just going to be the shootstyle maverick forever and ever. I think one of many issues I have with the UWF is the perception that the top guys are all interchangeable in terms of push and star power--it makes every match more or less inconsequential and the equivalent to a die roll, because I don't get any sense of anyone being elevated or not. Well, now we have a match where a top guy is facing someone clearly underneath him, and Mr. Underneath is going all out fighting for his life. Love the headbutts from Nakano and loved how behind him the crowd was. Maeda wins relatively quickly...but he SHOULD win quickly. He's the Top Guy, not Nakano. Great sense of impending dread as Nakano is about to go up for the capture suplex, and he's done after that. Fun way to get the bad Japanese indy taste out of my mouth.
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    In retrospect, I should have seen the result coming with the title vs. title stip. Can anyone seriously imagine Finkle saying, "The winner, and NEW Intercontinental Champion, Hulk Hogan!"?
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    Jesus Christ, seriously? She's practically in Nicole Bass territory here.
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    Billy Jack is certainly unhinged enough that you can buy him snapping by seeing Larry holding a trash can, video evidence be damned. BIG JUICE and LITTLE JUICE? I knew about the Juicer gimmick but holy fuck. Haynes goes nuts afterward, blaming Oregon for not supporting him or his gym. He says "SHUT UP" a few too many times but gets in a dig at the little Juicers--"You like midget wrestling, huh?"
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    Scotty squashes some fan in an arm wrestling challenge, and as he's gloating the crowd explodes. RODDY PIPER! Piper takes up the challenge and wins Scotty's cash. I vaguely remember seeing Piper's name in the PWI rankings for PNW, but that was unexpected.
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    A very dapper-looking Tony Atlas explains who the only ICW competitor is to dress this fine. We close with another Elmer Fudd laugh.
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    Cornette's facial reaction mirrors probably 99% of the audience. What's RoboCop "returning" from, anyway?
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    A testament to working smart over working hard, though it's not as though there isn't hard work on display here. The 'birds are out of shape and have perhaps the scuzziest, sleaziest look in the history of national wrestling promotions, but this is about as good of a match as you can hope for--especially with them going a half hour and having to work on top in three distinct FIP periods. Good lucha-esque opening fall that's mass chaos and ends quickly before we slow things down. The 'birds apparently lash the R'nRs with a leather belt after the match which Jim Ross says will not be shown in kind of a weird bit of censoring, setting up the Country Whipping Match at Capital Combat. This almost reminds me of WCW trying to hype the Hogan/Flair first-blood match without being able to say "first-blood" on television.
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    Woman is a paragon of sartorial pulchritude! The Midnight Express-as-Horsemen tease has apparently evaporated already. Great, heated segment with Luger coming off like a million-dollar star. Luger temporarily fights off Flair and an interfering Ole Anderson before Woman's high-heel shoe is used for possibly the first (but oh most definitely not the last) time. Arn, Ole, and Flair have enough time before the cavalry comes to leave Luger laying.
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    Good angle and I even liked Dusty going nuts upon making the save, as he sort of tries to channel the Cornette/Baby Doll attack. That said, it bears repeating how much at the time I hated the thought of Savage being stuck in this feud for months to come.
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