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    Yeah, this was fucking AWESOME--maybe even the second-best MOTY to this point behind Liger/Sano. How was this match completely slept upon (to my knowledge) until now? Zbyszko kicking out of *two* Saito suplexes and then getting in another run of offense of his own gave this a downright AJPW feel. The very closing stretch had that feel too, with one suplex not putting him away but the second being enough. Also I can't say enough about Saito's little running-man dances to pump the crowd up. Worth watching just to see Saito working as a gladhanding babyface but the match holds up, too.
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    Ross goes into quasi-Owen Voice mode. Sting suffered "somewhat" of a knee injury Tuesday--yeah. The Horsemen capitalized and injured him away from the ring. Thanks to Flair actually promising an attack away from the ring at the Clash, this doesn't quite reek of as much of a CYA job as "Dusty attacked Ronnie Garvin in a hotel parking lot and put him out of wrestling," or "Lenny Lane lost the Cruiserweight title to Psicosis in Bumblefuck, Colorado."
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    "I don't want somebody that's very GOOD...I don't want an Arsenio Hall, I don't want a Johnny Carson, I don't want a David Letterman--I need somebody that's really BAD like a Geraldo Rivera." Fantastic.
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    Gorky Park evidently was a semi-big deal at the time, which makes their appearance here all the more random and ridiculous. This must have been one of those "bogus Soviet rock bands to make fun of" that Wayne & Garth lamented the disappearance of after the fall of Communism. Vladimir Putin would approve of this message.
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    God bless Fujiwara for continuing to work the iron head gimmick. This is so much more flowing and organic and focused than the Takada match it isn't funny, with Maeda again fighting from underneath as Fujiwara seems to have an answer for his kicks, constantly getting him into anklelocks and leg scissors and Maeda has to fight his way back to his feet. Maeda gets in a sleeper once and gets it in again a second time when Fujiwara leans a little too far back in a leg grapevine, and that gets the chokeout. Fujiwara took a nasty shot that I missed, but we get the image of him spitting out blood as he's going out. These guys had an NJPW match that I think finished in the top 15-20 that I thought was overrated as fuck, but this was pretty good.
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    FWIW, Hart absolutely rips Meltzer in his book for the Muta-as-babyface story and calls it an "asinine myth." I do think Hart was upset about Kabuki working babyface in World Class. The match is basically a mess that's just a backdrop to the Sting/Flair angle. Sawyer's flight from the top is notable as is the huge pop Muta gets, but it's all chaos and not particularly organized chaos at that. The babyfaces then have to pretend to be "holding Sting back" while keeping him from collapsing, and obviously it'd be impossible to tell at that moment just how badly he was fucked up. I have no love for Jim Herd but seeing where this is going makes me wish he'd fulfilled his desire to pull a Bischoff and get Turner to organize a talent raid on the best WWF workers and give WCW a weekly live show. Ted DiBiase along with Tully as a rival Horsemen clan? Bret Hart on one side or another? Yes please. Instead Sting, Flair, and Luger will all see their careers go off the rails.
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    That's...actually some serendipitous foreshadowing on Flair's part.
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    Jim Ross did!
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    Norman takes a not quite Cactus Jack-sized but moderately impressive bump in the aisleway. Falls-count-anywhere matches date back to the '70s, but they always kept things around ringside and usually ended in the ring anyway--a necessary consequence of wrestling being catered to live events instead of television. Things had changed by 1990 and Sullivan (who mostly booked himself in the NWA and I'm assuming booked this) could recognize that, as this is probably the first FCA match designed for television with the brawl going outside of the ring area. A pretty revolutionary companion piece to the Cactus Jack match. Sullivan doing a drunken stumble out of the bathroom is pretty funny, especially for someone who can often match Ole no-sell for no-sell.
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    God, the sound of that smack on concrete is sickening. We cut to Missy for a bit and I was kind of hoping we'd get the Cactus vs. drummer brawl, but oh well. The birth of the Hardcore Legend is right here.
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    Good promo from Ole and of course Flair but...yeah. This reeked of the NWO reformation after the Fingerpoke of Doom--a completely groanworthy move backwards instead of forwards.
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    I said it at DVDVR and I'll say it here, but as far as Footloose goes Kawada was the weak link. I mean, not bad or anything at all, but relatively speaking. He was just not as good as Fuyuki yet.
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    Williams' rescue victim appears to be Joey Maggs. He administers the worst CPR technique of all-time before going to the hospital...or arena. A must for sheer what-the-fuckery.
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    Champion and Mantell all have current clips while the Jarrett clips are against Bockwinkel and stuff from the Showboat in Vegas, which is an odd but not really distracting contrast. Does Champion look vaguely like Sam Kinison during those video effect close-ups?
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    The Soultaker is the biggest, toughest opponent Kerry has ever faced! The Sportatorium fans that remain really don't seem to care about how coherent KVE is, so I guess he doesn't have much motivation to be that way.
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    For a promo that pretty much just amounted to, "You're cowards," this was pretty compelling. Lawler knows how to spin a yarn.
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    Austin is pretty raw at this point but his potential is there, and he even starts to sound like Stunning Steve when he cuts the first post-match promo telling Adams and the fans that he doesn't need them. Pringle and Terrence Garvin sound almost exactly alike, which is jolting. Pringle's voice is not cut out for play-by-play.
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    Yeah, it's pretty much all about the cage match, and that involved a pretty major bait and switch.
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    Better than the WrestleRock Rumble, and shorter and to the point.
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    I love that they feel the need to impose subtitles for the Samoan Savage that say "HA! HA! HA! HA!" Actually for a Savage, his promo in English sounds like it could come from Conan O'Brien doing his old-timey boxer James "The Gentleman Master" Corcoran shtick--"I'll put corn in his muffin! I'll crimson his face! I'll butter his bean and serve it to him cold I will! Then I'll deliver a blow to the mouth area, the blood from which will issue most copiously!" They were making a pretty blatant attempt to give the Clashes an SNME vibe with the pre-taped promos and sketches. It didn't always work, but it does here.
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    Cornette is sporting a hot pink cover on his tennis racket to go with his pink jacket. I get the effect that they're going for and he can't talk about her the way he did Baby Doll, but seeing this character fawn all over Woman is all kinds of jarring. Meanwhile Woman is sporting leather dominatrix gear and is telling Cornette that he's going to do exactly what she tells him, and that she wants Ric Flair to come out and tell her no--the subtletly to all this is staggering. I'm all for it. Ric shoots her down again but she promises to be at the Clash.
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    I think he said, "I couldn't be happier, but you know..." Yeah, that was a solid, focused promo from KVE. More than I can say about Jarrett, who tried to play cool & collected and instead looked tense and rambling. Jarrett was a fine worker at this point but Lawler pretty much totally outclasses him on the mic. Lawler outclasses a lot of people, of course, but it particularly shows with young Jeff. His characterization of Kerry as a Cro-Magnon imbecile is great and almost a little too on-the-mark.
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    "Don't get excited, ladies, this is not a taste test!" Holy shit. After saying all that it's kind of weird that Lawler skirts around the effects of steroids on another part of the body. I have the feeling that at least a little bit of what Lawler is saying is coming from a real place.
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    Hogan declares Warrior's clothesline to be a "cheap shot" then stresses that it was an accident. His heart feels like it has a cancer in it as he has nightmares and visions over what the true strongest force in the universe is--and then wonders if the Warrior rides with darkness and gets his power from the sweat of the Devil's armpits, and declares that if he does, he and the "#1 Hulkamaniac upstairs" will by Gawd strike him down. Holy shit, in Hogan's universe even God acquiesces to the Hulkster. HOOOOOOOO KOOOGAN. I SPEAK TO YOU HOKE OWEGUN.
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    Decent match for Superstars with lots of DDT teases that Jake was a master of. The Big Boss Man retrieves Damian and the Million Dollar Belt and the plan all coalesces on the Brother Love set--until BBM hears something about a payoff. Jake gets the bag and belt back and we have a babyface turn. I don't know what the talk was about in the sheets, but this FLOORED me when I saw it at the time.
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