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  1. PeteF3
    It may not have been 315 pounds but it was clearly a hell of a lot of weight.
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    "Brother Rhythm" and "Brother Blues" are set to appear on American Bandstand, MTV, and Soul Train! They make threats towards the Bushwhackers for ruining their WM6 performance.
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    We apparently caught Ole in the middle of his day job as head coach of the University of Minnesota football team. Ole assumes that Sting is going to announce his retirement from wrestling, and Sting pretends to waffle on the decision before putting Anderson in his place. Sting promises a BIG surprise for Capital Combat. I know of two surprises Sting unveiled at that show and neither of them are good.
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    So this one has its own interesting backstory, as the advertised match was Hulk Hogan vs. Terry Gordy for the WWF title. When AJPW got word that Hogan dropped the title to the Warrior, Baba was quite upset and Gordy ended up backing out of the match entirely, supposedly (according to a Meltzer post on Classics) at the advice of Stan Hansen himself. Guess who "selflessly" volunteered to step in and do a job to Hogan in order to save the show. Great performance from Hogan, who is all business and vicious aggression here, which is fitting in the face of his title loss and is something that I really wish the homogenized WWF product could have touched on at some point. Double juice and that a hot finishing stretch of countermoves before an Axe Bomber puts Hansen down.
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    Lousy match that the crowd is quite clearly shitting on. There's audible laughing during the early Warrior power spots and then it sort takes a Hack Myers ECW feel with the constant "Shah!"-ing from the audience on every move.
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    Great to see Tenryu being drawn into a WWF Sportz Entertainment match in the face of what's to come with Hogan later. Sherri is working for about 6 outside, getting into arguments with Tenryu, the crowd, the AJPW officials, and everyone else within earshot. She also has a tremendous moment where she's putting her high heels back on after clocking Tenryu with one, and she flashes a ridiculously insincerely innocent smile and wave at Kyohei Wada as she does so.
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    Bret and Misawa work like they're underwater, and the crowd shits on the ending in a major way though it seems the (in)action didn't lose them before. Supposedly the WWF policy of not doing time limit announcements was one of several factors working against this. Of interest to see that, yes, Bret and Misawa worked each other once.
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    Similar promo on Awesome as before. Lawler is somehow being forced to team with Ronnie P. Gossett in what amounts to a handicap match against Mike Awesome & Chris Champion.
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    Atlas is his OWN partner. And he is, in fact, the Man.
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    Lawler focuses on an intensely creepy-looking man lurking in the background. Lawler gets louder cheers with every insult he dishes out.
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    Rude points out that he's already beaten Warrior for one title, and he aims to do it again. The vignettes and interviews were good but Rude never seemed to get a quality win that really established him as a main event threat in the WWF. It would have been nice to see one of the WWF's myriad top babyfaces do a job for the greater good. I saw Rude pin Roddy Piper at a house show in February (albeit with a ref bump and a Bad News Brown distraction and a ring bell to the head). Such a match on SNME would have accomplished wonders.
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    More angle advancement that went nowhere. The Horsemen have completely gone off the rails after a hot lead-in to WrestleWar. At this point I'm pretty much counting the days until Sid and Windham come back.
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    Jesus Christ, this NEVER FUCKING ENDED. I've watched Ironman Matches that seemed shorter and had fewer finishes than this. I mean, I like the left turn this takes from shoot style to ECW brawling to blood, but don't ever ask me to watch this again.
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    Long drawn-out spots to try to beat the "50/50" drum over our heads, though the crowd seems pretty solidly behind Hogan, particularly when the Warrior goes after the knee injury. The knee spot was constructed as a deliberate shot at Sting, and Gorilla even mentions a possible dislocated patella which of course Hogan shrugs off. 50-50 is the story of the match and Patterson deserves credit for consistently laying it out as such, but...well, this is a bunch of comic book splash panels come to life. There is some certain appeal in that, but this is SO much looser and not all that well-executed compared to the other matches of the time period--long chinlocks and a bearhug that really kills the crowd. Warrior also pretty much blows up running the whole length to the ring and it really shows by the end of the match. This didn't hold up as well for me either. Part of that is greater exposure to what else was going on in the country and in the world, and part of it is knowing now the extent that Warrior's title run was a failure and that the reset button wasn't all that far away.
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    WrestleMania in the LA Sports Arena = THE TERRORISTS WON.
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    Hogan promises to "save" the Warrior and the Little Warriors and bring them into the light. Hogan is already hedging his bets by saying what kind of winner or loser you are is more important than winning or losing. Ha. "And Warrior, I just hope you're a good loser" is the kind of lines we needed more of than the pseudomysticism bullshit both guys were spouting. Warrior foreshadows the coming of the Rock by abusing his interviewer. Warrior draws on then-current US/USSR events and pledges to bring the Little Hulksters and Little Warriors together. Warrior is now actively attempting to come off as a babyface (once Mooney's out of the way) but as I said in his last, more straightforward promo...too little, too late. I was off the Warrior bandwagon by this point.
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    "How appropriate...that the money you beg for will be your very own. A victim of your own greed. Wallowing in the muck of avarice." Yeah, that's legitimately chill-inducing. Virgil certainly earns his pay on this night--he gets DiBiase the victory, successfully protects the Million Dollar Belt after the match, then comes back to rescue DiBiase from Damian. I dub this the most successful night of Virgil's professional bodyguarding career. The finish itself is sort of bullshit but I can also understand it. DiBiase needed protecting more than Jake and Jake didn't really need the Million Dollar Belt. DiBiase gets to keep his gimmick and Jake gets the last laugh after the bell. This feud ran for a full calendar year (it began at WM5), an eternity by WWF standards, and this is about as well-done of a blowoff as they could have done under the circumstances.
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    The shower is supposedly an ideal acoustic environment for a singing rehearsal. Yes. Kids like me absolutely FLIPPED for the 1950's Tonight Show host going all Weird Al on old Cole Porter tunes, I can assure you. "I get no kick from Ukraine" is funnier now, though.
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    Piper goes over Bad News' physical deformities--his bug eyes, his giant ears, and his left nostril hair that's 3.5 feet long and that he can "slice and dice" with. Except for his mouth, which works just fine, but Piper's going to shut it for him. I have no earthly fucking idea what this Two-Face look was ever about, not then and not now. I can still understand Bad News' opposition to working this program, though.
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    This was a sad match to watch in full as Haku literally works the entire bout. Even as they're trying to push dissension within the team it's clearly obvious that Andre has literally nothing left. The crowd pop gets dissipated by the stupid fucking music overdub, though now I wonder how the atmosphere would have been different if they'd opened the SkyDome roof. Andre gets to go out as a babyface (and it's clear that Heenan doesn't have much left physically himself).
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    Not MOTY so far but perhaps not out of the top 3-5. The most southern wrasslin' brawl ever to take place in Japan, with the street clothes and use of the cowboy boot. Dragon Master goes absolutely nuts with the chairshots and literally destroys one as Onita blocks it with his leg towards the end. Eventually they manage to get a double team in on Kurisu and Onita puts him down with two thunder fire power bombs. Chaotic but not to the point of being hard to follow, with four guys focused on hurting and destroying one another than on being "extreme."
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    Lawler comes out to "Rockin' in the Free World," which I don't quite get on any level. Lawler goes into his "not a company championship" spiel and almost turns himself babyface by lighting into Hulk Hogan, but quickly rights himself by going after Flair as well. Lawler tells a black fan to sit down or he'll "wet his lips and stick you to that wall over there." Loong stall job revolving around a storyline I don't quite get with Lawler believing that the clawhold is outlawed. More hide-the-chain, which Lawler is a master at, but nothing we haven't seen before. Finish comes out of nowhere but makes for a nice surprise "gotcha!" moment. If only Kerry had sold it like it was something more than an eye rake.
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    Drake and Winters are both pretty objectively bad workers but there is an element of psychology to this, with Winters coming in with an injured arm and Drake going to work on it. There is definitely a proto-ECW vibe with the "I'll walk with you if you grab my hair" brawling to the upper reaches of the arena, with some pretty fucking dramatic brawling in the press box. Both guys trade piledrivers on the floor and Drake eventually switches to the leg, and after figure fouring him and crotching Winters on the top rope he gets the submission. Five thousand guys run in after the match and the post-match brawl is more fun than the match itself. Not really a good match but I'm glad I saw it as Goodheart's TWA was something that needs to be represented. I think there's more to come with some bigger names but this is at least a record of what his "homegrown" talent was doing. Edit: I feel like the crowd and setting should get some mention. The crowd looks pretty damn good by indy standards and is FAR more diverse than an ECW audience--not really a lot of kids but lots more women and older folks. I can see the comparisons to a Japanese indy--a Temple University gym is sort of a higher-end venue than most of the places ECW ran.
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    Embry has signed to meet Gary Young and then has 5-7 open contracts to face presumably more of Akbar's men. Embry is good enough to keep carrying this program even though Embry vs. Devastation Inc. is a feud that's ostensibly about 6 months past its sell-by date.
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    Awesome makes goofy faces and more or less confirms everything Lawler just said about him. Even if he were a better promo, Awesome's voice was always going to be a liability.
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