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    I don't know exactly what specific injury Sting suffered, but if it was an ACL tear then 6-12 months is about right. Sting says he doesn't have great feelings for Luger, but he's pulling for Lex as he's the lesser of two evils compared to Flair. Sting's status as a draw has always been in question but interviews like this illustrate the difference between him and the WWF's attempted '90s star. Imagine what the Warrior would be like in this setting.
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    Hence the "FWIW" and the qualification about one of the reasons for the Hart/Kabuki split.
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    Profanity back when it actually meant something. I'm stunned that two uses of the word "ass" made it onto a taped program. Pillman is great here and Flair and Woman are awesome as usual. Flair shits on the Cincinnati Bengals and Pillman gets in a zinger on Woman, which has an affect on Flair. A match is on for tonight, in this (or that) very ring.
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    What is with Cruise constantly defending Cornette? This is a shockingly one-sided affair that makes some of the WWF heel-in-peril tags look one-sided in the other direction. Some good energy from Pillman but Zeaman (I'm stealing Terry Funk's pronunciation from now on) is pretty useless. Cornette getting the sleeper gets a big reaction which I guess is partially to Zenk's credit, as is his kickout after the racket shot--a false finish that had the crowd completely fooled judging by their pop. Finish comes right after that instead of any segment of Zenk getting worked over. Pillman & Zenk vs. the Freebirds is a pretty anticlimactic tournament final. A testament to how far the Midnights had fallen.
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    That lady cuts a pretty good promo, pointing out the pink on Lawler's shirt makes him look like a little girl. "They hang your picture inside of prisons to cure sex offenders." He had a battle on his hands this time, but score another verbal knockout for the King.
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    Lawler with a William F. Buckley-esque torpedo job, or an attempt of one, on the idea of the Unified title being a strictly Tennessee/Texas championship, with press from both the U.S. and Japan. He repeats the line about the NWA and WWF belts only being for "company champions." Lawler continues to be the master of being able to believably kayfabe anything and everything.
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    A Lawler pin on Cobra is overturned when Jerry Calhoun finds Lawler's chain and restarts the match. JYD quickly gets a pin on Soultaker, and when Lawler rants on the mic after the match, comes back to the ring and headbutts him out for another pin! This gives the Dog a shot at the Unified title. JYD sends in quite a good babyface promo that would be a great one if he'd had an editor--as it is he tries to cram in about 37 catchphrases and sort of lost me when he talked about salt, pepper, and good cookin'. The stuff before that was great--worthy of Dusty, even. It's too bad JYD was in such abysmal shape because his charisma and mic skills could have been something to offer still on a national level. Lawler gets in a dig about JYD's family tree and how his parents are in the iron & steel business (his mother irons, his father steals), then gets serious about the new environment Dog is going to find himself in now that the title's on the line.
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    Shockingly good promos from Slick and Akeem. Slick actually shows some fire here instead of just being a cartoon stereotype. Ted DiBiase comes out, gives lip service to the Jake feud, and then offers Akeem a bounty cash incentive to take out the Boss Man for him. This whole angle held up much better than I remembered. A rare instance of feuds in the WWF overlapping with one another and other characters getting drawn in to an existing program--booking that I've always liked.
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    Hogan is Hogan but he still delivers a strong, focused promo--he puts the Warrior over in somewhat homoerotic fashion, he wants to put his title on the line, and he threatens to give the Warrior a taste of his own medicine. HO KOGAN HAS WALKED INTO A FRUSTRATION LIKE THE NORMALS THAT HAVE TRAVELED BEFORE US. And some more bullshit about injecting selves with the poison of mankind and believers with no film over their eyes (???). THEY BELIEVED, HO KOGAN. YOU STOOD IN THE PATHWAY, HO KOGAN. Warrior vainly attempts to wrap this up by getting back to the match and promises to bring "Ultimate Reality," but too little too late. Warrior was completely outclassed in the promo department here. Hogan's an egomaniac but he's at least getting the storyline and his personal motivations across. Warrior could really have been talking about anyone here.
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    Lots of stiff shots and a decent finishing stretch, with a pretty surprising false finish when Kurisu kicks out of a sick Thunder Fire power bomb. Even though the build to it was good there and it was the whole raison d'etre for the match there was a little too much laying around in barbed wire for my liking. Crowd was way into Onita and he does already have a crowd-pleasing style, especially with his comebacks. Of COURSE a barbed wire death match ends with hugs and handshakes.
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    The action is pretty fun while it lasts though this is mostly inconsequential--almost no babyface match that wasn't a WM6 main event ever had a decisive finish in the WWF. A fun historical footnote.
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    Jarrett and Dundee are at ringside being interviewed by Marc Lowrance, who's looking almost exactly like indie songwriter John Darnielle. KVE follows with a taped promo. Both sides are doing a major hard sell on Terrence Garvin getting into the ring.
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    Lawler predicts a rehash of the 49ers and Broncos in the Super Bowl, and reveals his plan for he and Travis to put the match away and let Terrence Garvin pick up the victory. Come see the Texas Champion and hero get humiliated!
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    I wonder how much you had to drop on the hotline until you got to the "win an NES" part. More or less than the cost of the actual system?
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    This video seems like a giant neon sign that says PLEASE SUE US.
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    "All your favorite USWA stars" and the first picture is of Bronko Lubich and another referee. Hopefully the months go uphill from there.
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    Dumb as the heel turn itself was, this was a classic promo. They raise a pretty good point...what WAS Sting expecting when he signed a title match against Flair? "You think I got a big mouth? SHUT IT."
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    A rather surprising lack of crowd heat considering the history of this feud, but the action is fantastic. Great opening stretch and some surprisingly good bombs thrown by Lane. Gibson rolls up Lane, but with Morton tying up the referee it leaves him open to a racket shot to the head, giving the Midnights the victory. I'd complain about the shitty camera work but I rather liked the effect of the racket going off like a gunshot off-camera.
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    Lawler checks to see if Dundee is standing under the table or if he or Dave accidentally stepped on him. Jerry laughs at the idea of Dave Brown asking how "I" become a professional wrestler and laughs even harder at the idea of Dundee training new wrestlers.
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    "Have you ever been to the Memphis Zoo? ... No, I meant as a visitor." Pretty sure my grandfather used that one on me when I was that kid's age.
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    Fuller with strong words for the Southern Rockers, threatening to let them rock all night "Southern style"--in rocking chairs with broken legs. Lee does NOT look at home wearing a sparkling robe and a feather boa.
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    Yves St. Laurent, Cristian D'ior, Calvin Klein, Heusen, move out of the way!
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    Unquestionably the greatest main event ever signed in World Wrestling Federation history!
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    Obviously this will come up again later in the year, but eyes and eye afflictions and eye injuries FREAK ME THE FUCK OUT. It took me 17 years to muster up the courage to even put a contact lens in. I've avoided seeing this match for almost as long and that continues here. I simply cannot and will not watch.
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    As for why Takano was there...if ever there was an "I'm here to do the job" spot, Takano was it. This has the same heat the previous match had, but the revival of the Tenryu/Choshu war adds a whole new layer to this whereas the previous match was basically an exhibition (even by pro graps standards). Takano wrestles like a guy who's in over his head, in that he has to go balls-to-the-wall just to keep up with the much more decorated opponents, and he does that with gusto, laying in some great kicks to go along with some hard-hitting high flying moves. This goes into a Texas Tornado match with all four guys in the ring for a LONG time trading moves, with Choshu and Tenryu going to war in the ring while Misawa and Takano trade dives to the floor. Eventually Misawa wipes both juniors out on a dive but manages to beat the count back in. Excellent bout--all four guys looked good but Takano put in a performance worthy of getting to save face at the end in avoiding a pinfall.
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