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  1. PeteF3
    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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    Destroyer is scheduled to wrestle Chris Champion, but he's obviously in no condition to compete so Lawler comes back out to vent some more frustration. He takes it easy on Mr. Not Dick Beyer, content to use a stepladder on him for a bit before pinning him with the fistdrop.
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    A psychotic Lawler beats down Ben Jordan in an aggressive but not overly chaotic fashion, but when Chris Champion tries to get him to stop he gets the full Moondog treatment and then some. He eats a piledriver and DDT on the floor, gets the desk turned on top of him, gets attacked with the remnants of the desk, and gets beaten to a bloody mess in the ring. All over a bucket of water--incredible.
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    Nevermind, going back again Meltzer debunks the $1 million story. I think that Pro Wrestling Chronicle blog is less than trustworthy.
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    Robert Fuller laments that his custom-made tag title belts are around the waists of the Southern Rockers. Brian Lee tries to pay his respects to the Rockers, to the ire of Fuller. Lee finally calls out Fuller for being too hung up on Sylvia to concentrate on wrestling and storms off. Fuller tries to apologize and suckers Lee into a DDT on the concrete, then turns to rant to the camera in a pretty masterful way to cover up Lee's bladejob. Big beatdown follows. Dave: "It appears the Lee and Fuller partnership is in serious trouble." A meme could probably spring from that statement. Eddie Marlin finally runs Fuller off with the threat of a permanent banishment. Kerry Von Erich comes out with a present for Lawler on behalf of Jimmy Valiant, the one man capable of making the JYD look spry. It's a bucket of water, which the studio crowd pops big for. Lawler cuts a promo on Valiant over the phone and they reference their whole history together. Awesome fired-up stuff from the King--amazing how he can make a water soaking sound like the most egregious act in history. Nate picks a really, really bad time to come back from McDonald's. A Jimmy Valiant video follows to "Boogie Woogie Man" by Charlie Daniels. Can we get Valiant vs. Soultaker booked, just for the hell of it?
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    Lawler only drinks Coke out of a crystal glass, preferably served on a silver platter. I'd pay for a Chris Adams Wrestling Training video packaged with Jerry Lawler Sings a Whole Bunch of Songs. Not too much, but something.
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    The only thing lower than a snake is a law enforcement officer who won't take money. That draws the ire of the Boss Man, who takes Brother Love to "jail." Seeing Brother Love get abused was always a highlight for me. Count me in as one who saw Prichard as walking the perfect line between "heel heat annoying" and "change the channel annoying."
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    Gene Okerlund: Champion of Temperance. He is reassured once Douglas clarifies that he and Hulk are straight-edge all the way.
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    Warrior's locker room shrine is pretty hilarious, and his post-match promo is still in its own little universe but a little more on-point. Problem is he really comes off as a heel instead of just an egomaniac babyface like Hogan. Abusing Okerlund, accusing Hogan of being afraid when Hogan said the opposite, questioning the faith of the Little Hulksters...why WOULD the Little Hulksters take to this guy?
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    When the fuck did the Warrior develop a New England accent? "The Wahryah has felt the powah of Mahs...the powah of Mehcuree, pahking his cah in the Hahvahd yahhhhd..." I'll wait until we see "Amanda" to get into this, but yes, this show illustrates the fundamental flaw that would ever prevent the Warrior from doing what Hogan did, or what Austin, Rock, and Cena did later on. Warrior gets the pin on Bravo but gets laid out by Earthquake afterward. As 'Quake prepares to deliver a splash from the turnbuckle, Hogan makes the save, much to the consternation of the Warrior who declares he doesn't need Hogan's help. Pull-apart follows.
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    Douglas was willing to work the show for about $110,000, or 1/10 what Tyson was commanding to appear. A serendipitous victory for the WWF when Douglas knocked Tyson out. Savage comes out with the shocking information that Mike Tyson's great great grandmother was a CARD-CARRYING Hulkamaniac and thus would be too biased to officiate a Hogan title defense, while also putting Buster Douglas over as both a nobody and a guy tough enough to knock out Iron Mike. Hogan declares that he and Douglas are a lot alike, except that Hogan was "chosen by the masses to lead them to higher ground." Then threatens that if Douglas doesn't call it down the middle, he'll also be the Heavyweight Boxing Champion in addition to holding the WWF title. Jesus, man. He was right about Buster's flash-in-the-pan status, though. While Savage is great, it's sort of telling that he was more or less shoehorned into this title match on an NBC primetime special with a guest referee with no real storyline to build up to it--the MegaPowers feud was long dead. As would become more evident later in the year, the heel/babyface imbalance in the WWF was pretty ridiculously slanted--and with the Boss Man turning babyface and Kerry Von Erich and the LOD arriving, it would get worse before it got better. With Earthquake still having to wait in the wings, there was literally no one else to put in this role. Douglas with a very wooden promo of his own, getting in a few extra potshots at Tyson. Standard SNME ad break--someone comes to or gets ejected from ringside. In this case, Douglas escorts Sherri to the back after she chokes out Hogan. This is all Hogan and Savage by numbers, but Savage does have some great clotheslines here. A standard Hogan and standard Savage match in a standard NBC layout deserves a standard "boxer as outside referee" ending, as Hebner gets bumped and Douglas counts the 3. Savage is INCREDIBLE in the post-match, doing a mini-Ali shuffle, laying on the turnbuckle, slapping Douglas and goading him all around. Douglas just sort of stands there until Hogan shoves Savage into him for the knockout blow. I didn't really use "standard" as a pejorative, though this isn't a great match. The post-match from Savage is fantastic, however. Douglas turns in what's far from a great performance but I do think he was coached and used quite well considering the short notice he was booked on.
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    Lawler takes one moment too many to mock Dundee's punchdrunkenness and pays for it. As Dundee applies a spinning toe hold, Lawler kicks him into the referee and in a dramatic twist, finds a foreign object other than a chain to use--in this case, taking off his boot and clobbering Dundee with it for the pin. Lawler then announces to the crowd that he's realized the source of the smell he'd been noticing throughout the match.
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    Yes. It might beat out El Gigante vs. Nailz for Worst Hypothetical Match-Up That Actually Happened.
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    Lawler dispenses the one-liners and jokes to declare he's going to leave Dundee and Jarrett behind.
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    Great match with sort of an out-of-the-box layout, as the RnR's shine for a LONG time and then it ends with no hot tag--like one of those AJPW tags where Kikuchi eventually just gets beaten down and pinned. Lots of classic Rock 'n Roll spots, though, and an amped-up crowd.
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    Literal interpretations of song lyrics are usually a bad idea for any music video, wrestling or otherwise, but they make it work here. Does that Dundee/Bockwinkel exist in full or nearly full?
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    Super-hot ending...I got taken in myself by the Air Pillman near-fall, but Flair rolls through a cross body and yanks the tights to pull a win out of his rear end again. Ole does a good job of setting himself up at the closing segment, and Flair is just about to invite Luger back into the Horsemen when Luger's appearance cuts him off. Lex gives his answer in the form of clotheslines to the Horsemen and the main event is on.
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    Luger and Cornette have barely begun when the Horsemen come out. Ole rehashes the Clash interview (and is somewhat self-referential about doing so), giving a fun dickish ultimatum to Luger about giving up the title shot--was the Horsemen plan just for Flair to never defend the title again or what? Luger laughs Ole off to the delight of the crowd. Flair slips off the apron, and that makes the crowd pop even bigger! Fun stuff with Luger still doing his cocky act but turning it against the 4H was quite the effective way to get him back to the babyface side quickly. This was so much more sensical and organic than Luger going from the Narcissist to humble Made in the USA in the span of two seconds. It's still another career trajectory fucked up by the Sting injury, but WCW was in full damage control mode by this point.
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