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  1. Cox
    Suitably obnoxious.
  2. Cox
    From looking at taping results, it looks like this match was taped the same night as Perfect's IC title win, which took place later in the show, so this is likely the last time The Genius manages Perfect. The outcome for this one never feels like it's in doubt, which might be why Hogan/Perfect never drew. As much as I like Hennig, he never feels larger than life enough to work a program with Hulk Hogan.
  3. Cox
    I have to think being associated with Robocop is not going to do much for Sting's career in a promotion like WCW.
  4. Cox
    Hey, welcome back Tony Schiavone. Good Sting promo, I felt like he had more to say here than Luger did in his promo, and shows good intensity as well. One thing you can say about Sting, he was a much better babyface promo than Luger.
  5. Cox
    Flair's promo was a typical solid Flair promo, but man, I thought Luger's promo sucked. Good intensity but there was no real content there and it felt like he could barely get out whatever he was saying.
  6. Cox
    Ben Jordan's mullet should have probably gotten the fuck out of dodge while he still had a title shot for this Monday night, since lord knows nobody that tiny, pasty, and mullety will ever get another shot at the Unified title. Sadly, he sticks around just long enough for Lawler to outsmart him and get him to put up his title match, which ends predictably badly. Was I the only one who noticed how Lawler pretty blatantly blades Jordan right on camera? Dave Brown tries to cover for it by saying he saw Lawler cut him open with something, but it wasn't chain shots at all that I saw, he was just caught blading him by the camera guy. Looked terrible, and I figured a pro like Lawler would know how to cover a blade job better than that. While the segment was good, I can't help but notice that the heel side in Memphis is so depleted, that they have to get Lawler his heat back before the TV program ends just so they can get some interest for the Lawler/Valiant rematch, since they have nobody else who can challenge for the Unified title. I can't help but think that sending Dundee and Jarrett to Dallas has left the Memphis show without much of any star power whatsoever, which leads to things like Nitron getting built up for a title shot, Jimmy Valiant winning the Unified title twice, King Cobra getting a title run, etc. It really feels like a dead territory to me, and even though Lawler is entertaining as a top heel, it's not a role fans want to see him in.
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    I wouldn't say this was planned, more like the kids were happy to be on TV and will pretend to like Valiant if it means getting to hold the title and mug on camera with him, but once that's all over, they are right back to hating him. This would have been great if Lawler had any heat in the WMC Studio. Sadly, he's over like a babyface here. Loss mentioned earlier about crowds being down, so they went to the extremes of making sure fans knew that BS finishes were out the window. I wonder if the real reason crowds were down was because nobody wanted to go out and boo Lawler. If they couldn't cheer him, they'd rather stay home. The new rules seemed like a last-ditch effort to keep Lawler a heel, but I have to think it's a matter of time before they turn him back, which I'm looking forward to as I imagine they have to have something pretty clever to get him back to the babyface side after he's been the ultimate heel the past several months.
  8. Cox
    Ben Jordan's mullet will be getting a Unified World Title soon, and Lawler does an amazing job dressing him down. He does a great job making you want to see Lawler get his here by being this terrible, terrible jerk to poor Ben Jordan and his hideous mullet. Lawler referencing the New York Mauler and how he was smart enough to hide under a mask sets off my shit detector, knowing that Valiant is still around nd is billed fom New York, and sure enough, out comes Valiant. Here is where this segment loses me a bit, as the match is just the shits. I thought Billy Joe Travis showed how to get a good match out of Valiant while relying on bullshit, and this match just isn't as good as that one. Lawler is stalling like crazy, knowing that Valiant only has maybe 45 seconds of offense at this point, and they need to go ten minutes. This needed a hot match, and we don't get one. I expected to hate the finish with the "first man off his feet loses" stip, and it is kind of a bullshit way for Lawler to drop the title, but to Lawler and Valiant's credit, they sell the hell out of it on the finish and make the finish dramatic. I wonder if they changed plans here and originally were going to go with Nitron here after the big segment with Nate a couple of weeks ago, but changed course after they saw how shitty that punch was.
  9. Cox
    I love Hogan selling everything Brother Love says in this segment in that mugging, goofy, yet endearingly Hulk Hogan style.
  10. Cox
    They need to nominate Invader then. Compared to Invader, Colon doesn't look nearly as bad.
  11. Cox
    I continue to think these are really good. I don't know if there was much they could have done to make Rude a strong challenger for Warrior (at least partly because, we'll, it's Warrior) but you can't blame them for trying. The ideas are there, but there wasn't anything they could do.
  12. Cox
    Hey wait a minute, Bad News Brown's birthday is in October! Something isn't on the up and up about this, if you catch my drift.
  13. Cox
    If there was one thing that Memphis was good at, it's coming up with these unusual stipulation matches that hadn't been done before. If there's one thing Lawler excels at, it's explaining the rules to these unusual stipulation matches. Strong promo, he does a great job putting the focus on the heels getting their hands on Ronnie P. Gossett.
  14. Cox
    I thought this was a bit better than most of what we have seen from the WWF on this yearbook so far, but nothing particularly great. Michaels takes a spin bump off of a weak DiBiase clothesline, which just looks fake and business exposing, and doesn't appear to have a ton of offense at this point and doesn't know what to do during his shine, but his selling when DiBiase is on top is good. We get a ddq, which I guess was a favor to Shawn since they were in San Antonio, and makes his spin bump a little more forgivable. Monsoon giving his son shit on commentary always makes me feel bad for the poor guy.
  15. Cox
    Short match. Not bad, but I'd hesitate to call it good. WWF heels have to dumb down their offense so much. Also, I found Ventura annoying on commentary, pointing out all the cheating Santana was doing leading to a clean Perfect win. He almost babyfaces Perfect here, and I remember as a kid thinking Santana was going heel when Heenan came down because of the way Ventura called the match, even if that made no sense. He did get a good line about Heenan coming to ringside because he was sick of Santana's rulebreaking, though. Also, is it me or did Perfect hold up a WWF tag team title after the match? Had they not re-strapped the IC title after Warrior had it with the yellow strap by this point?
  16. Cox
    Good Flair promo. It must have been a big deal for him to wrestle in the AWA at this point, as I suspect they'd have had problems drawing even in Minnesota at this point without him. I wonder if he name dropped Kent Hrbek knowing Herbie was a big wrestling fan (I believe he even talked of getting into the business after he retired, though that obviously never happened). The ensuing video is 90s cheese, but it does make the show seem like a big deal, so mission accomplished.
  17. Cox
    Fuck Roderick Strong, Bobby Eaton is the real messiah of the backbreaker. Fun southern tag sprint here. The only thing I didn't love is the finish. Not the interference, but right before that, Eaton eats a tennis racket shot, which is somehow used as a transition to a side headlock. Considering how the racket is often sold as death, it feels weird here and annoyed me a little bit. But otherwise, this is a great tv match that puts heat on the Freebirds in a way that TBS will actually show and keeps the MX strong for thir US Tag Team Title bout.
  18. Cox
    He probably doesn't do a double undertook suplex in the WWF because it looks like shit here. Good interview with Austin and Jeannie. I like how they don't come out and say right away that Jeannie is Chris Adams' wife and get two good segments out of the story. Austin is still raw as hell, but works with good intensity, and appears to be a good enough athlete to where you can see he will eventually be quite a good worker, even if he isn't there yet. Also, is it me or are the ropes disproportionately loose in the Dallas USWA? Frogman LeBlanc is amazing in every way. The name, the tights, the body, the lack of tan, the hair...everything about him screams prelim guy. When Steve Austin showed up for the first day of class at Chris Adams' training school, you know the first thing that went through Adams' mind is, "That man is going to be a World champion someday." When Frogman LeBlanc showed up for his first day of class at his wrestling training school, the first thing that went through his trainer's mind is, "That guy is going to know exactly how many lights the ceiling has at the Dallas Sportatorium before his career is over."
  19. Cox
    Feather Weight Lenses makes the worthwhile decision not to let Gary Young talk here, or else he'd probably talk about the lenses as being an abortion that made a mistake and lived.
  20. Cox
    What an odd cover of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Good action of Lawler cheating though.
  21. Cox
    What airs of the match isn't much, yet I'm still able to take away two things: Ronnie Gossett is a shitty color commentator and Bronco Lubich is a REALLY shitty referee. Great intensity from Borne in what feels like step 2 of a heel turn. Am I the only one who sees traces of Piper in Borne's cadence? Guessing that all of the Portland guys have that to a degree. Nice promo to build up the Texas title match the following week, and even Kerry seems mostly on point, though his story of Borne locking himself away watching matches of his dad is a little odd.
  22. Cox
    Embry seems approximately 100 times sleazier without his beard and appears to be at least a little drunk, but even drunk Embry can bring the goods with the intense promo. Adams brings the super intensity as well. Gossett appears to be doing his best to kill the heat in this segment, but it is funny to see Marc Lowrence cutting him down. Fun segment but probably a bit longer than it needed to be.
  23. Cox
    Lawler will turn out to be right about Jarrett being the most hated wrestler in the business, though it takes about 15 years. Lawler promises that his manager, Ronnie P. Gossett, will take out both Jarrett and Travis by himself, which even for a heel is a line of such amazing bullshit that I can't believe Lawler said it with a straight face.
  24. Cox
    I haven't voted yet, and don't know which way I'm leaning, but when discussing Luger and Sting, I guess it comes down to one question: Is it more impressive to have a great 3 year run (Luger 1988 to 1991) or a good 7 year run (Sting 1989 to 1996)? I genuinely don't know. Sting was never as good as Luger was from 1988 to 1991, but Luger did not remain good for a sustainable amount of time, whereas Sting did, although one can debate just how good Sting was during that time period. I think it's safe to say that Sting was a better worker than Luger from 1992 to 1996, to a degree where I'm not even sure it's close. I think Luger's case would benefit if he had more good stuff after 1991, but he did nothing remarkable in the WWF, and only occasionally did he do anything of note in his 2nd WCW run. I honestly see this as a toss up.
  25. Cox

    Drawing in Memphis

    Cox replied to goc's topic in Pro Wrestling

    I guess there's a possibility that it could have gotten close to a million people once you factor in Louisville, Nashville, Evansville, etc, but a million people in Memphis proper seems pretty close to impossible.
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