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    They're really pushing the phrase "moment of compassion," as it's been tossed around by Funk, Cornette, and Solie. Flair is about the most evil he's ever been here, outside of the Monday Night Wars feud with Savage.
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    Supposedly he took a UK indy booking either without Bischoff's permission or actively against his wishes.
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    Tully would perhaps be the most miscast babyface in history. I've seen Ole work babyface on the Cornette garbage films--like, total, bouncing, hand-clapping babyface with Gene, not as an "antihero." He was actually really, really good and energetic about it.
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    Lawler doesn't let mere technicalities like the end of the program stop him from murdering a jobber.
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    Lawler warns Champion about showing up, even injured, to a wrestling program, where an accident might befall him. He illustrates this point by accidentally slapping Champion, then accidentally slugs him a few times, accidentally clobbers him with a chair, and is about to accidentally piledrive him on a chair when Eddie Marlin and Jerry Calhoun threaten him with a firing if he doesn't stop. Lawler then walks over Champion a few times as they're trying to help him out, and then throws a stool at him as they're carrying him out of the studio! Lawler is fucking incredible here as he was last week, just this constant lurking terror that hijacks an entire program if anything doesn't go his way, whether it's losing the Unified title or having water thrown on him. Champion's New Breed promos were pretty great...in their own way, I guess. So it's a disappointment to see how stilted and wooden he is in his role here.
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    Lawler completely eviscerates Nate for having the gall to fetch him a pie (more advertising for somebody) without Lawler asking for it. Then Lawler's abuse turns physical as he dumps the pie on Nate, fires him, and then pounds the crap out of him for good measure--all to put himself in a better mood. Nate's "I quit!" promo is actually pretty fiery and effective. Worked brawling on a tile floor that's been covered with pie and milk sounds like an ACL tear waiting to happen.
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    CHAMPYUN! MEMPHO! TENNESSEE! I don't recall Well Dunn being offensive or anything, but...if those are the BEST action clips they have of the Southern Rockers, that's not really a great sign.
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    "You keep sitting at that bar stool, Dave, which I'm sure you're used to." As many times as the Memphis desk got destroyed, Royal Furniture could have made a killing in all the potential advertising.
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    IT BELONGS TO JIM-MAY VALIANT. IT BELONGS TO MEMPHO, DADDY! At first I was kind of annoyed that Lawler's first priority was furniture rather than losing the Unified title, but he recovers to cut a strong promo on Valiant then hilariously gets silent and pouty when the fans get on his case too much. KIIIING FISH?? GOOO FISH!
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    Valiant levels Lawler with his own chain before passing it off before he can be caught. Same ref bump spot as in the Texas match, but Frank Morrell doesn't go all the way down. Nate passes something to Lawler and he attempts to throw fire at Valiant but catches Morrell instead. Valiant gets a rollup and Jerry Calhoun makes the count, and Valiant is the new Unified World Champion!
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    I'm flabbergasted that they would even allow this Warrior promo to air, especially in contrast to the Hogan one preceding. If one didn't know better they'd swear they were prepping for a Warrior heel turn, which isn't the effect you want to create for what is ostensibly your heir to the #1 Babyface throne. Warrior delivers a BDSM-tinged promo talking about how he needs no help from the normals and thrives on combat and talks of poisoning Hulkamania, and for the hell of it takes a potshot at "the God that you speak of, Ho Kogan." At age 8 I had not yet turned on Hogan at this point, and really wouldn't at all until his comeback in '93 and not fully until his arrival in WCW. But this is where I started turning on the Warrior.
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    Valiant is slowly starting to turn into the sickeningly emaciated Boogie Woogie Man of the '90s and '00s. Lowrance pushes that Lawler has held the Unified title since SuperClash III, which doesn't make sense in real life or in kayfabe. Valiant makes out with Tony Falk beforehand in a visual I didn't need to see, but Lawler cracks me up insisting that that be a disqualification. Total clown show to start, which isn't befitting of a World title match but has me laughing out loud multiple times, and that's better than watching Handsome Jimmy wrestle. Valiant making out with the cameraman and the cameraman getting his own "KISSED BY VALIANT" chyron is about the most glorious thing ever. They work about as good of a match as you can possibly have with Valiant, as he can at least bump a little and sell in his own convulsing way. Falk takes kind of a weak ref bump and Lawler misses a diving headbutt (!) for a visual pin. After playing hide-the-object for most of the match, Lawler pulls ANOTHER object out of his boot and knocks out Valiant for the win. Lowrance is utterly incredible throughout all of this. I don't know how the soon-to-be Baptist minister kept it so straight describing the action of Valiant. This was everything Lawler vs. JYD wished it could be, because in his own way Valiant was a much better in-ring worker than the Dog at this point.
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    Yeah, boy, another underwhelming appearance by Cactus. He just can't come off as crazy as the other two guys. Sullivan makes what is probably the first and only Kurt Vonnegut reference in the history of wrestling promos, and makes sure to emphasize that the Mad Dog was never PROVEN guilty. Sawyer had a lot of potential in this angle to make an impact on a national level, but his own problems ensured that it never came to be.
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    I was pretty lost as to what was going on for a lot of this. Match is slow to start, though it's fun seeing Pierroth work some pretty athletic spots and Azteca (about whom I know absolutely nothing) looks really good. Then Pierroth takes a sick fall to the floor when the ropes break and the match grinds to a halt. We get a LOOONG argument on the technicos side after the second fall, I believe because Los Cowboys want to continue the match 2-on-2 and Azteca wants to keep competing. Then El Texano levels Estrada with a martinete for...what I guess is the DQ, except one referee counts a pinfall on Estrada anyway. This never really got out of first gear and then went off the rails with the (unplanned? shoot angle?) injury to Pierroth. I get the whole technico ref/rudo ref aspect of lucha but the officiating was all over the place. Aside from the finish, at one point the refs act like Azteca can't compete because it's supposed to be 2-on-2 now, but then don't make any real effort to break things up when the rudos move in to attack him. Hopefully the next lucha 6-man is just 6 guys wrestling.
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    I'm beginning to see where Yatsu got his rep of suddenly falling off a cliff as a worker, after not really seeing it in the '80s AJPW set. I wouldn't call him horrible but he's noticeably out of shape and is pretty lethargic. The pace when Jumbo tags in is strikingly faster and more upbeat. Yatsu goes down to the Oklahoma Stampede and...how much notice did the SWS guys give, exactly? Between Tenryu eating a countout loss and Yatsu being pretty decisively beaten down here, it sure looks like they're getting jobbed out. Yatsu was a valuable utility man for both major federations in his career, but performances like this...well, as Noel Gallagher said when Bonehead left Oasis, "It's not exactly like Paul leaving the Beatles, is it?"
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    I really like Aguayo working as a monster heel, and Hamada provided just the right amount of hit-and-run offense. That said, the first fall finish was a mess...actually, until reading this thread I thought it was a DQ and then a restart. Final finish was a bit anticlimactic with Aguayo just sort of methodically beating Hamada into the ground before finishing with the top-rope double stomp. Aaand there was a lot of meandering outside the ring. That said, I did enjoy this even if could have been pruned by 5-7 minutes. I don't get the purpose of the 2/3 falls stip at all, but this was a fun showcase of all the cool shit Aguayo could do, at least with the right opponent. I have pretty high hopes for the rematch.
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    Some of this did look overly cooperative, especially in the early going, but...well, I've overgeneralized enough about UWF without doing it for lucha too, but generally lucha tends to be a lot...looser than this match. No air in this--the holds were worked nice and snug and when they weren't working holds they were pounding the shit out of each other. There were some awkward moments and Asai did a whole lot of spin kicks considering he whiffed on probably half of them. Not a great match but Asai did get to show off a lot more stuff here than he did in the 6-man.
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    This is getting into arguing over ice cream flavor territory and I really don't want to come across this way in every post about this promotion, but this was FF material all the way. I'm trying to give this stuff a chance, I really am, but after 100+ '80s matches and a few so far into 1990 my opinion isn't getting any more favorable. The most enjoyable UWF matches invariably involve Bob Backlund, the Brits, or some other outsider shaking things up. The rest, even the good matches, are just a bunch of guys in a blender of matwork that almost never goes anywhere long-term or gets me invested in who wins or the consequences of such. The post-match really was good, though.
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    Not much else to say, but yes, this is the #2 MOTY (still behind Liger/Sano). Luger in some ways embodies some of Flair's worst tendencies when it comes to blowing off limb work, but that's something that just has to be accepted during a Flair/Luger match. In a way he's not dissimilar from the Ultimate Warrior. As miscast as both guys were at this point, that they were able to draw a crowd this hot this far into the match is a testament to the both of them. If WCW had had the guts to switch gears and put the title on Luger here or at Capital Combat, they may have had their franchise player fall into their lap.
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    I don't think this was as good as Liger/Sano but it's a pretty fair 2nd place. Just an epic teasing beatdown of Ricky Morton even by his standards, with about 5 or 6 hope spots and great cut-offs. Great near-fall on Robert Gibson kicking out of a racket shot and a counter to the double flapjack for the pin. Cornette was absolutely brilliant throughout all of this, timing his interference perfectly, interacting with the cameraman, and little touches like quickly flipping the tennis racket around and using it as a backscratcher to avoid getting caught.
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    Paul E. declares that Apollo's mother got pregnant mere months before the Roe v. Wade verdict came down, and that's the only reason he's here today! Only bits and pieces of a noticeably shrunken Tony Atlas' promo comes through to me but he does get some good lines in about how other people wish they were him and how since nobody helped him get to the top, he's not helping anybody. Doesn't have no girlfriend, don't want one--he only needs a woman for two hours. Apollo (or is that Savoldi?) confront Paul E. in the control room and the video cuts out.
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    Can hardly understand this, but Paul E.'s Lethal Weapons (Dennis Condrey & Doug Gilbert) are feuding with the team of Vic Steamboat & Phil Apollo. Paul E. is told that Apollo is taping a promotional piece downstairs and freaks out.
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    Ross is still trying to push Luger as a tweener here, making qualifying statements like "Whether you love him or hate him..." and stressing that the Steiners are out to confront the Andersons rather than out of kinship with Luger. Somehow keeping an edge to Luger seems to be more effective in making him popular than what the WWF attempted to do.
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    I actually enjoyed the Roadies destroying a car as well as Hawk's calm, casual answer to the voiceover.
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    Michael Hayes is about to drop Zeaman with the DDT but eats an Air Pillman for the pin. Pillman and Zenk win the U.S. Tag Title tournament.
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