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  1. Cox
    I wouldn't call this good, but it was laid out well, and I don't think Drake is terrible. Larry Winters is the shits, but he does at least look like a guy who would appeal to Philadelphia area fans. By that, I mean he looks like a guy who could have been an enforcer on the Flyers, a fanbase that always loved tough enforcer-types, even if they weren't very skilled, and that seems to fit Winters to a T. So he has that going for him.
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    Good promo, but it's pretty meandering. Embry throws out a random challenge to Kerry Von Erich and Billy Joe Travis in the middle of this, which makes me wonder if he was loaded when he went out there. That might explain why he signed 5-7 open contracts without looking at them. Might also explain why he goes off on the poor camera guy for trying to wrap him up, too.
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    Proof that Mike Awesome definitely existed around this time period.
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    Jerry, nobody in this audience believes in dinosaurs! You can't use that analogy and hope it might work.
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    Wait, they didn't distribute this in stores and such? Pretty sure I saw the WCW Magazine in there, but I didn't realize its previous incarnation worked on a subscription-only model. That's strange.
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    Of course Ross compares Sting's injury to a football player's (Joe Klecko). It's kind of a strange comparison, since Klecko injured his knee eight years ago. Had there been no advancements in patella tendon surgery in the eight years since Klecko injured his knee? I'm generally one who isn't annoyed by Ross' football comparisons, but it's still a weird one.
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    Also, is it wrong that I can't take Robert Goulet seriously after Will Ferrell's impersonation? And who is Rona Barrett?
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    I miss the Wrestlemania music. WWF should invest in a hype man like Okerlund to do segments like this before PPVs. I know they do some hard selling on the Raw before PPVs, but having somebody different from the announcers, somebody whose sole job is to get people excited for PPVs I think could make a small difference in the number of buys.
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    You know you must be acting crazy if you manage to seem crazier than Randy Savage, but Sherri gets the job done. Sherri was a great fit for Savage at this point in his career, as he needed somebody who was the complete opposite of Elizabeth and Sherri delivers that in spades. They are great together.
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    The Ultimate Warrior is actually in a world that somewhat resembles our own here, and is not acting completely crazy. Guess somebody told him to dial it back a notch (or 50). Strangely, it's Hulk Hogan that goes off the rails here, talking about driving his Harley into the Pacific and finding God, who tells him that Hulkamania will live forever. Not if you keep driving your Harley into the Pacific it won't, brother.
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    Wow, back when they actually knew the direction of programs weeks in advance and could foreshadow them somewhat.
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    Weak Jesse, weak.
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    Watching Robert Fuller work with Bill Dundee doesn't even seem fair, he's like two feet taller than him. Fun tag team match that starts with a long period of the babyfaces outsmarting the heels, a nice heat segment on Dundee setting up the hot tag from Jarrett, and then the split finish, which I assume is because Lee has probably finished up in Memphis and they're sending him to Dallas for a while. I do have a question about running the split Memphis/Dallas territories. You have things like the Studs still being together in Dallas weeks after they split in Memphis, or Lawler holding the Unified title in Dallas when he lost it in Memphis, but at the same time, the Dallas stuff is being televised nationally on cable on ESPN. I know ESPN's penetration isn't what it is now, but clearly SOME people in the Memphis territory probably had access to the network. Wouldn't a lot of this have been confusing for those folks?
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    If there's one thing Jimmy Valiant knows how to do, it's how to get through a match that keeps the crowd entertained without doing a damned thing. This is a master class in that, that I honestly think should be shown in wrestling schools as a way to have an entertaining match that doesn't destroy your body.
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    "There is no reasoning in the thinking of the Ultimate Warrior." You got that right, buster. How did they not even flip the conference table? C'mon guys, get it together.
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    Bill Dundee's promos contain at least one politically incorrect statement that would get wrestling thrown off TV if he said it today. Good music video. The good thing about the Texas branch of the USWA using guys like Dundee and Jarrett is that the Memphis side has so many of these videos laying around, it can't be hard to plug one in and show it when they need to hype a guy up.
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    Great succession of angles, which do a great job of making me want to see Percy and Embry vs Young and Akbar.
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    The crowd is hot for Zeaman and Pillman to get their titles back. Looks like a good feud so far, and it's kind of a shame this never develops into a MX classic.
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    Great match. Ricky Morton hasn't exactly been pushed hard since his return to the NWA, but the crowd still reacts as if they believe he can beat Ric Flair and win the World heavyweight title, which is a testament to both Morton and Flair. I think I preferred the Eaton match, but it's hard to find fault with either, and I'd rank them both among the best TV matches I've ever seen.
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    I was with Ole until he starts talking about Rick Steiner being a nice guy. Has he ever seen Rick wrestle? Jesus, the poor guy used to practically cripple jobbers.
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    "You know something, Ultimate Warrior? Me and all my Hulkamaniacs have had it right about up to here with all your Frankenstein talk, man!" There's the pot calling the kettle black. Probably the least annoying out of all these promos, as they seemed to actually have more of a point and was not a bunch of paranoid psychopaths yelling in tongues at one another.
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    "If you knew anything about reversals, you'd still be an active wrestler," Vince says smugly. We also find out that Sacramento is home of the largest milk processing plant, but sadly, 23 years later it will no longer be home to the Sacramento Kings.
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    Yeah, I enjoyed this, but I'm not sure if I'd rank it among the best matches I've seen on the set so far. Estrada is great in this and takes some fantastic bumps, and Satanico takes his share of nutty bumps as well, and as a guy who loves bumping, that made me smile. As a lucha novice, what exactly did Estrada do to get the crowd so worked up in the third fall? Even before the fan hit the ring, it appeared Estrada did something as the crowd started throwing drinks towards the ring and everything. Love the post-match with Estrada starting out like he's the better man and will take his haircut like a man, then loses his nerve halfway through and starts acting nutty and not wanting any more cut. Seemed to fit his gimmick as a crazy cokehead nutjob to a t.
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    At the risk of starting yet another discussion of 80's WWF tag teams and 80's WWF style in particular (I know, your favorite topic)... Is this a case of Bret taking a match off, or is this a case of WWF House Style being different from NWA/Crockett House Style? We've read enough about 80's Crockett to know that the goal of the wrestlers was to steal the show. I think you can credit that from having Ric Flair as the top wrestler in the NWA, and the perception that Ric Flair was the best wrestler in the business. In order to steal a show with Ric Flair headlining, you have to work pretty damned hard. So you have the Midnight Express and the Rock 'n' Roll Express busting their asses and having a great tag team match, which causes Magnum and Tully to bust their asses to avoid being shown up by an undercard match, which causes Ric Flair and Barry Windham to bust their asses to top the rest of the show and have the best match of the night. That's why the Crockett style is so well-remembered, most of the guys up and down the card worked really hard. Rising tides raise all boats, and all that. WWF was different. Hulk Hogan was the top wrestler, and he couldn't work at the same level as Ric Flair. And from what we all know about Hulk Hogan, he's a very insecure man. Trying to steal the show when Hulk Hogan is on top is a very good way to end up pissing the big guy off. You piss off Hulk Hogan, now you're not working the Hogan tours, which were one of the two ways to make the best money in WWF in the 80's (assuming headlining B-shows was also quite lucrative). So my theory is that the goal of WWF undercard guys was to tell a story in the ring without outshining Hulk Hogan in the main event, knowing that working on the same show as Hogan was important to the bottom line. I think this vibes with Matt D's preference for watching guys who make every move count, versus having great matches, and why guys like Anderson and Blanchard would try to steal the undercards in the NWA, and why so much of their WWF work is pedestrian, and why ultimately they could not really last in the WWF. They were Crockett guys and WWF style just didn't fit them. Bringing this back to Bret and Martel (and Bret in particular), I didn't see this as particularly lazy. I do think both men are capable of way better, and another time and another environment, they probably would have had way better, but WWF style being what it is, there were limitations on their performance in place. Put both guys in the NWA, and I think they try to steal the show, but here, they don't want to take the shine off of Warrior and Hennig, so we get a decent, if utterly unmemorable match. That's what WWF undercard style was supposed to be, and that's why so many people prefer NWA style, and why with rare exceptions (Garvin vs Valentine, Rockers vs Powers of Pain), WWF undercard matches are a chore to get through. That's why I think Bret used to take exception to what Meltzer said about him in the Observer for years, and why he had the reputation for taking house shows off. It's not that he took house shows off, he just operated under a different system that valued things that Observer sheet readers didn't value, and that internet wrestling fans don't value now I can't blame anybody for preferring NWA/Crockett style to WWF style since it was specifically designed to provide wrestling fans with a better product, but I'm not going to fault Bret for not having the output of great matches that the Crockett guys had in the 80's when he worked within a system that discouraged great matches, and the Crockett guys worked within a system that encouraged them. I'd rather watch Crockett than WWF too, but I don't think it's fair to compare Bret to Crockett guys since it's not a direct apples to apples comparison. They had completely different goals in mind.
  25. Cox
    Good match. Glad I was correct in picking up on Dandy's heeling it up despite nominally being a technico here; I'm always worried about things like that with lucha. The finish did leave me confused but good to know a highly regarded rematch is coming.
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