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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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    An abbreviated good match--the opening shine was so good that you want to see the babyfaces go on another run of offense, but Dundee never tags back in and Jarrett gets a pinfall after ramming him into Terrence Garvin's pink chair. Both babyfaces are spike piledriven after the match.
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    Zenk absurdly comes out to the Danny Elfman Batman theme. It's a strong match and not having seen the WrestleWar bout could possibly be his peak--that said, aside from the pop for the sleeperhold Zenk seemed to be a guy along for the ride. Terry Taylor was that way in the Flair matches in Mid-South and I had one of those in the top 5 on my '80s ballot, so it's not a major detriment, but this match is more proof of Zenk's basic competence than proof of a lost great worker. Flair does a great job of walking the heel line--he was always the "dirtiest player of the game," so the tights grab works regardless of the future booking plans.
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    It's been a long time since I watched the NJPW '80s set. My first guess is that this isn't quite as good as the shoulder-pad match. But holy fuck is it a war. Liger sort of only has himself to blame for the post-match tantrum--as Ventura would surely point out, Liger started it with the pre-match slap and hey, it isn't Naoki's fault he's pinned him a whole bunch of times. Liger's aggression gets the best of him and Sano destroys his face with a scary combination of violence and intense focus, breaking the mask apart to make him more vulnerable and then pounding Liger into a bloody mess. All of Liger's comeback spots involve bombs or death-defying dives that are more intent on breaking Sano and doing it quickly before he falls apart again rather than highspots for the sake of highspots. Everyone has each other's moves well-scouted, but Sano goes to the well one time too many on more than one occasion, and it's those counters that ultimately doom him. He hangs on with one kickout of the Ligerbomb but he's pretty much beaten then. Liger throws the belt down in disgust during the post-match ceremony and blames it all on Sano for tearing his mask open. Crybaby. Match of the Month winner for January, as if you couldn't guess.
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    I think the soullessness is attributable more to the dead crowd than anything. Okay, maybe that's on the workers, but sometimes a dead crowd in Japan is just dead, especially when the juniors are involved. This wasn't Owen busting out pretty spots for the sake of it, though a lot of them did have that aesthetic element--but they also looked like he was out to fucking hurt the guy. They did a good job of building up to the bombs-and-highspots-fest at the end with some flashes early on, and Owen was not exactly Dynamite Kid but still at least more aggressive than he was showing most of the time in this pre-King of Harts phase.
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    Quick and to the point. You can't hurt DiBiase by doing anything to Virgil and no injury could make up for Jake's time on the sidelines--so you have to hit him where it hurts.
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    The difference between AWA Curt and Mr. P is pretty evident once you've watched a million different matches of Curt as AWA World Champion. Jesse stirs up shit as Warrior clotheslines Hogan in a blind rage.
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    Weird ending all-around. I mean, Eaton-hits-the-Alabama-Jam-on-covering-opponent is as standard as it gets, but the timing is all messed up from Shane having to blatantly put himself in position to Lane taking 45 minutes to cover. Before that this was fun with a classic performance by Ricky Morton doing what Ricky Morton does. Still, it was "fun," and with a sort of tepid opening there's no way I'd put this up against the higher-end WCW matches of January.
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