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  1. PeteF3
    Is Woman the best female promo ever? The Horsemen are still glossing over the Sting/Flair showdown...for now.
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    Eat your heart out, Slick. Callous has some pretty funny background reactions to the antics of Funk and Teddy.
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    The photos do look legit, if nothing else.
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    Robert Fuller: Emo Pioneer. The Tennessee Stud pours his heart out for his dear departed Sylvia (and he can legit play the guitar a bit, which is a treat) and the reaction from the heartless fans in attendance is really pretty sickening. Jerry Lawler gives some sage advice about just letting her go, and I think off-mic he added something to the effect of, "Whatever you do, don't spend the last half of your autobiography talking about her after she's gone." The Sylvia Star Search '90 is on! Col. Parker could have redeemed the whole stupid Sherri/Madusa angle with something like this.
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    DiBiase cuts a promo from the weight room challenging Jake to a match in one week. Did DiBiase wear that sparkly suit while pumping iron?
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    Incredible, crazy match and post-match. I can see the argument that this veers into Kurt Angle territory as Travis takes a DDT on the table, a piledriver on the floor, and a tombstone in the ring all in the span of about two seconds. By all rights he should have been in a coma. Still, this is worked as a feud blowoff and Jarrett's big revenge, and he doesn't disappoint in that regard. Great heel beatdown afterward with a Kerry Von Erich run-in and the post-match actually has more momentum shifts, transitions, and false finishes than the match itself. That wasn't a cheap-shit cardboard guitar they were swinging around, either.
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    Frenetically paced match in front of insane crowd that's equally awesome and frustrating, as it highlights (as if we needed more reminders and indicators) what a dumb move the Horsemen turn was. Flair vs. Buzz seems like one of those quasi-dream matches that I'm not sure ever happened one-on-one. They're going all-out to make the Mad Dog Splash into a killer move, and it's working.
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    A weird, sort of low-rent venue I've never seen before and the lack of lighting combine with the chaotic frenzy of the match to make for something that looks like a high-end Japanese indy more than All-Japan. Mighty is in peril while everyone else brawls around ringside until he manages to ward off a Kawada attack and fire a leaping headbutt at Tenryu on the apron, pretty much knocking him cold. And Tenryu gets counted out! Tenryu loses it after the match and chairs and tables are thrown all over the place. I don't know if this was a punishment for Tenryu or an attempt at duplicating the awesome Umanosuke Ueda/Akira Maeda moment from the NJPW/UWF elimination tag a few years earlier, or what, but that was a pleasantly unexpected result especially by AJPW standards. This seemed like a '70s match for the promotion (in terms of atmosphere at least) complete with a non-pinfall finish, that makes for a fun little anachronism in the increasingly conservative world of All-Japan.
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    Piper does some fun stuff at the beginning. I mean, it's basic small packages and stuff but Piper wrestling on the level isn't really what you expect of him. He only ramps up the usual Piper punch-and-kick-fest after Sherri gets involved one too many times. Savage with a pretty epic airplane spin and then he plummets to the floor--I was kind of hoping he'd take his backwards turnbuckle climb all the way and leap off to nowhere. We get the birth of the Attitude Era after the match as the camera gratuitously zooms in on Sherri's exposed rear end after she takes a bump off Piper in the post-match.
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    Summer sounds right. I seem to remember these ads being close to the end of Ventura's tenure with the company.
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    Not that it stopped me from buying them, but I was pissed when the LJN rubber bludgeon line got discontinued in favor of these.
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    We start with a footnote moment here in the little Hogan vs. Snuka exchange. That might be the only "match" the two ever had against each other. It also sticks out how meticulously this was booked to set up a babyface-babyface main event match without turning either guy heel, between Warrior saving Hogan from elimination and then coming back to only hit Rude and Barbarian when he gets eliminated himself. I don't think there was ever anything to the idea of Perfect winning besides made-up Scott Keith horseshit--once Warrior goes out the result is pretty much a foregone conclusion. Hogan works a whole lot with Rude here for a guy supposedly "afraid" to work with him, by the way.
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    This is a really awesome blend of stiffness the southern wrestling way, and WWF-style sportz entertainment. The dueling shinguards gimmick is goofy as all get-out but dammit, I like it anyway. The internal logic states that Valentine's brace makes the figure four more painful and that Garvin's blocks it, and as long as they stick to internal logic that makes sense within its own universe, then it's all good, even if it doesn't make sense in the real world. The pin attempts are pretty Sledgehammer of Plot-worthy in that WWF style, but the early attempts are explained away as instinct and the later ones like the small package on the figure four are done more as escapes and counters than the guys forgetting the rules. Crowd was sort of bored early on, and Garvin was always a fish out of water in McMahonland, but all the hard shots won them over eventually. A big (albeit temporary) rejuvenation for Greg Valentine as a worker and a testament to how great Garvin was. I won't lie. When I was eight I hated this match and I hated Garvin. And he does sometimes come across as the world's most badass goofball. Now I more or less see hard evidence of how stupid I think 8-year old kids are.
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    Heenan tries to play peacemaker to no avail. Luckily for him the only internal heel conflict in the Rumble itself would be between him and Fuji.
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    Beefcake actually has his back to the aisle to start with, then stupidly turns around after playing to the crowd. Compounded by a Crockett-like replay job that shows Beefcake ignoring Perfect's run-in and showing Perfect throwing forearms instead of the chairshots. They push broken ribs for Beefcake but I don't recall that ever being brought up again through to WM6.
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    Warrior mentions "28 men" and Okerlund clairvoyantly surmises that the guy he left out was Hogan. Nope, I don't remember a Hogan/Warrior build either, though I guess it should have been fairly obvious in hindsight. Warrior closes out with threats for Earthquake and Bravo and threatens to more or less assimilate Bravo's power, Borg-style.
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    Terrence Garvin is a rather lamely transparent attempt to jump on the heel-commentator bandwagon when every promotion decided they just had to have a Jesse Ventura in the booth. He was beyond unnecessary at this or any other point. Lawler stalls, begs, pleads, and negotiates his way through the opening minutes and then has magically gained control during the commercial break. Great shot of the chain dangling in the corner as Lawler is being frisked by Tony Falk. Eventually Garvin gets involved and gets chased out of the arena by the Dog as the show goes off the air. Lawler was game but man, JYD was just sad at this point. Even his wind-up headbutt, which you'd expect to still be a decent-looking move, looks loose.
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    He also seems to refer to INXS themselves as a "new sensation," which I don't think was really the case in 1990. Penetratingly insightful questions from the DJ when Jarrett actually shows up. "We Are Dynamite" wasn't nearly this half-assed of a video.
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    "Elvis P. Presley"?? Surprised JYD didn't cite who made the "We shall overcome" speech, Martin S. King. Strong promo, though. "Needing to be outside for cell phone reception" has to be one of the lamer reasons to justify Lawler not being live on the WMC program. Lawler promises to send JYD back to the junkyard and more or less baits black fans into showing up to support the Dog, then throws in a shoeshining reference to add some class to the promo.
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    Between DiBiase's abuse of Virgil here and his being upset with Virgil picking #1 for him at the Rumble, it almost seems like they were teasing the babyface turn already. I guess that was something they always planned to keep in the holster until the time was right.
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    Yes, it barely is worth mentioning because it's so self-evident, but I miss 4+ weeks of knowing the entire card for a pay-per-view. Dusty refers to Sapphire as his "brown sugar"...how did I miss stuff this overt as a kid? As a kid whose favorite event was the Rumble and had most of the early matches practically memorized, I feel the obligation to point out that Gene only mentions 29 guys. The Widow Maker was gone at this point (for awhile, but for some reason was announced for the Rumble anyway) and evidently the Red Rooster hadn't been named as a replacement yet. Pretty amazing how much hype the Brother Love Show with Sherri and Sapphire got. The undercard matches don't even get a mention.
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    Hogan starts off somewhat respectably, even the talk about hoping to draw #1 isn't TOO over-the-top, and he at least has the decency to refer to "29 top contenders." Then he talks about eliminating wrestlers by posing and causing them to faint and it all goes off the rails. Hogan calls out the Warrior beforehand and all but guarantees they'll meet one-on-one, which I had no recollection of whatsoever. Brother Love corrects him and tells him that Mr. Perfect will be his opponent at the end--well, score one for Brother Love on that one.
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    I actually thought this match was about 5 minutes longer than it needed to be, but when Tenryu was in it was fucking ON. The Jumbo/Tenryu stuff is the stiff hatred you'd expect with some great fluid sequences thrown in. More well-done worked-shoot type stuff with the stiff kicks and the other folks at ringside seemingly objecting to his treatment of Takagi, prompting Tenryu to go nuts on them with a table and everything else before getting beat down for his trouble. Unfortunately that leaves Kawada alone in the ring with Jumbo and that ends predictably. It sucks that there are only about three more months of this feud.
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    And he was barely 30 years old! This wasn't quite as good as the title change but Buzz brings lots of varied offense all centered around Arn's back and ribs. Arn's comeback is just getting going when he gets laid out by J-Tex. It's a wonder Ole even bothered to sell the splash, because he didn't sell anything else.
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    He's also trying to affect a vaguely southern/western accent to cover up his New Yorkness, and that isn't helping. This is awkward as hell, and at times that actually enhances Cactus' supposed craziness and other times it really detracts.
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