PeteF3
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I really don't have a fucking clue what to think of this situation yet. But yeah, that story was at some points enlightening and at other points reeked of the "no angel" crap you see in the media regarding people like David Dao and Eric Garner.
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Benoit had enough sense to lie about needing to be home and clearly knew that what he was doing was wrong. I don't think Verne truly realized what he was doing--what happened there was essentially a bad accident.
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Head apparently accuses Al Snow of eating a booger. How bad was this Raw that this is the ONLY Yearbook segment??!
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I seem to recall Sting's excuse being that he thought they were off the air. Still an incredibly lame thing to piggyback onto.
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I guess Eddie's been out of sight, out of mind for too long for the MNW era. Too bad, because the ring work is like he never left. I appreciate his commitment to staying as a heel when he easily (and one maybe could argue should) have been pushed as a sympathetic babyface.
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Yeah, the NLS come off as total heels here. Unless the hat said "Rap Is Crap" or something, Hennig is 100% in the right.
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"You've got great thumbs." "Thanks, Lenny!" And so it begins. All after a cameraman decided that stumbling upon Lenny picking out trunks was something that just had to be filmed.
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Master P and Silkk perform a very lip-syncy version of "Hoody Hooo."
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This is a chaotic mess, but the best kind of chaotic mess--a match that was probably even more fun to see live than watching on tape. It's just a bunch of stiff shots and chair-throwing but by the end it actually coalesces into a real match with false finishes and saves and strategy and all that fun stuff. It also features Shoji Nakamaki taking the time to shake the hand of an adolescent fan who helps him throw chairs into the ring, which is worth a * all by itself. -
I didn't think much of this, really. I won't say they lack guts but this was basically Itchy & Scratchy wrestling and far from being too gruesome for me to get into, they get me to a point where I just don't care what they do next. A tombstone off the apron through a light-tube board for an immediate 2-count? Pass. The best moment was the big face-off with the kendo sticks and the commentator yelling, "Star Wars!"
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BattlArts continues to kill it. At times it feels like a Yone-Ikeda singles match with two junior NPCs, but the action is still terrific as they take us on a roller coaster ride of momentum swings.
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Exhibit #2 A week after Terry Taylor loses his Mid-South TV title medallion to Adrian Street after Street passionately kisses him and then rolls him up, Taylor comes out during a Street match and lays one on Miss Linda the same way Magnum does, with less orgasming from the announcers. Except Linda actually does seem to like it or at least not mind it. Street is so incensed that he grabs Linda by the hair and starts smacking her as he drags her back to the locker room. I don't know which is worse but the abuse by Street has always made me really uncomfortable, even moreso than what we now know is sexual assault. It looked like an actual domestic incident which is somehow more disturbing than a babyface giving an evil heel valet a piledriver.
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I have nothing against the Dudleys but for Christ's sake enough of the God-level push already.
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I'd elaborate on what Danny B said but he was almost completely unintelligible. Brickhouse cuts a response promo that would make New Jack blush. Only in KAW.
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Better than it had any right to be. KAW's methhead announcer actually does a decent job keeping up with the old-school work and lamenting how Cruz got his win in a rather Styles-esque manner. The Hellraiser appears to be future NXT prospect Bam Neely if wrestlingdata is to be believed. The IPW that Loss talks about is the same promotion as the infamous Jumpin' Jeff Farmer promo.
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This wasn't quite the mindblowing transcendent angle of last week but Wolfie D showing up was certainly another eyebrow-raiser, coming off the awesome image of Smooth, Kulka, Gilbert, and DWB brawling on a tennis court. Randy Hales almost gets fireballed, Dirty White Girl almost gets piledriven, then DWG eats a shot to the throat from Smooth, and Doug Gilbert almost gets Hales' rent with the building in Jonesboro cancelled. I wonder if the guy taping this that Hales talks about is the same guy who taped those Jonesboro house shows in the 1980s. We get a sort-of repeat of last week's angle with Gilbert outside the building and the BSK attacking someone acting on his behalf, this time Wolfie D. Smooth is gloating over all this at the end of the program and the BSK get in another beatdown on Wolfie before Gilbert breaks through again. Against all odds, PPW has found it best feud of its existence and it doesn't even involve the King.
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Guess if Lawler's going to be a politican he's gotta have a significant other, so Stacy's back with him.
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Yes, it's a step down, but the match-up is fresh--TARU's in for SUWA and it's interesting to see Tiger Mask 4 and the two Kaientai guys teaming together, as though they're dealing with a bigger, incoming threat. It had the decency not to wear out its welcome, also.
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Yeah, I'm more open to this style than OJ but I didn't see the big deal about this one either. There were highlights, like Spike's balcony dive, Balls throwing an awesome superkick, and Spike hitting the Acid Drop on D-Von while also legdropping Bubba Ray for a hot nearfall. But the stabby-cutty stuff was whatever, Styles continues to ruin what could be great false finishes, and I don't get what rehashing exactly what we saw before with Balls and the flaming table is supposed to accomplish, other than to tell us that Balls is the only person willing to take the bump. And the Dudleys are getting to be as bad as 1996 NWO or '97 DX in terms of vanquishing their babyface opponents every time out. There are many crazy ECW brawls that are much worse than this but there are also a lot of better ones.
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This was a lot of fun, especially when Tanaka and Kanemura were in together. Maybe a few too many near-falls and saves for my liking (there's the thing about dumb babyfaces again--there are a few instances of the other 2 guys standing there picking their noses while the other heels dive back into the ring to rescue Hido). But with the stakes here I guess that's okay, and we get the right result. The Memphis influence is particularly strong here with that post-match.
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[1981-10-30-Houston Wrestling] Dick Slater vs Evan Johnson
PeteF3 replied to shoe's topic in October 1981
I had no idea Johnson ever worked outside the AWA. This looks very shootish and non-cooperative at times but I think that was just Johnson never really getting the hanging of working. -
The red trunks say Sakaguchi but the hair and face make me unsure. That could be Strong Kobayashi (also wore red) or the Great Kusatsu (had the flattop haircut).
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This guy: I don't know if he's ever been mentioned by name on TV, but one of Carmella's NXT videos acknowledged that she was second-generation and showed a brief clip of him.
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Nash in his tie-dye and leather pants is just the coolest motherfucker ever. I know this because Bischoff tries to put over his booking talent, calling him a "great mind," and putting the 39-year old Nash over as the "possible future of wrestling." Savage substitutes for Sid because reasons. "YOU ARE AT THE CROSSROADS OF A VICIOUS CAREER." God, Savage has NOTHING. Savage claims he pinned Nash last night but doesn't even come off well in a Hollywood Hogan delusional-heel sense. This crowd is not particularly happy about getting this instead of their announced main event. We get an exact replay of last night with Nash beating up Savage's ladies while Savage can't do anything, only for Sid to run in. Sting makes the save. Like I said after the Fingerpoke, this is pretty much all new to me. I've decided that I will not get overly angry at WCW now, and my laugh-filled reactions to what I've seen of this time period seem to support that. No matter how bad Bischoff's commentary gets, or how bad the booking gets, or how bad the execution of the bad booking gets...as ElP did his best to do I'm just going to enjoy the ride and the after-the-fact schadenfreude when this all comes crashing down on Eric's head.
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Konnan and Rey beat La Parka and somebody and are mobbed in celebration by the Zambuie Express while Bischoff treats this like the most historic win in history. "YOU STILL WANT P, COWBOY?!" Hmm...yeah, those sound like boos to me, along with groaning. P yammers some, but it's all sound and fury signifying nothing. Right as we go to break, Bischoff desperately tries to fit in the tidbit that the WWF supposedly offered them 3 times the money WCW did.