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  1. PeteF3
    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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    This is definitely a match made by the crowd, as they're nuts for everybody but with a preference for Team NJPW and further preference for Kido. The pops that he gets when he gets Jumbo in the wakigatame are probably the loudest he's ever gotten. Jumbo also doing a Jumbo Killer of his own was a nice touch. That said, Kido especially was not afraid to sit his ass in a chinlock for awhile and there was very little sense that the AJPW side was in grave danger, especially with Jumbo being in the armbar for so long that he almost killed the move. I'm assuming interpromotional politics necessitated booking a match of this type. It was fun, but you really wish they could have run something closer to a dream match, like a Jumbo vs. Fujinami (though I think he was hurt at this time).
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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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