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  1. Cox
    Pretty cool to see Owen bust out a Sharpshooter a year before Bret starts using it in WWF - or before it was even called the Sharpshooter. I was kind of bored and falling asleep during parts of this. I wouldn't call it bad, and I think the bad crowd hurt it a lot, but I don't know that they were doing enough to engage the crowd, either.
  2. Cox
    One of my first memories of wrestling is the Roberts/DiBiase feud and an angle I suspect will be taking place shortly so it's definitely nostalgic to watch this for me.
  3. Cox
    Good for Dusty, you know?
  4. Cox
    Man, Curt Hennig loved to bump. I mean, he just straight up loved bumping. In some ways, that makes him Hulk Hogan's perfect opponent, but yeah, there's never any sense of danger when Hogan and Perfect are in there together that Perfect is going to win, even with the Perfect record gimmick. I wonder if Perfect stopping the count on the Perfect Plex was because Warrior was supposed to break the count and didn't, and they wanted to at least protect the Perfect Plex. At any rate, exactly what you'd expect this match to be. Kinda surprised they didn't do anything to tease dissension during the actual match, to at least make it look like Perfect and Genius have a shot here.
  5. Cox
    This is good, but it seems to be missing something without Obsession as the background music...just a little.
  6. Cox
    Wow, did Shane Douglas fuck that finish up something fierce. Took some of the shine away from what had been a fun eight man tag before that, largely carried by the Midnights and the Rock 'n' Roll. Being in the ring at the same time as the Rock 'n' Roll really exposed that the Dynamic Dudes really weren't very good. I don't think either guy was cut out for this role at all, as most of what Ace does looks awkward as hell, and Shane Douglas just looks slow when he's doing his dropkick comebacks. But complaints aside, worth watching for the Midnights and the Rock 'n' Roll.
  7. Cox
    That makes a lot of sense and would have been a lot better than what they wound up doing. I think they could have gotten another good year of business out of Flair as a babyface, especially since they didn't really do an extended babyface Flair vs heel Luger feud.
  8. Cox
    Awww the Arn Anderson/Eddie Gilbert TV title match isn't on the set? That sounds like something that would have to be decent, right? They start teasing the split of Sting from the Horsemen here with Ross (called JR by Flair, years before that became his nickname) asking Sting about facing Flair at Wrestlewar. Woman cuts a pretty decent promo here, and I have to imagine being married to Kevin, she had coaching from one of the best wrestling minds ever, so that had to be a benefit. Good segment.
  9. Cox
    You mean the guy with fewer Wrestlemania matches than Koji Kitao?
  10. Cox
    Pretty noticeably, all they let Callous do here is grunt. Welcome to the NWA, Mean Mark. By year's end, better things will await you.
  11. Cox
    Who does Dave Brown think he is, anyway? Questioning whether or not Lawler is actually talking to these celebrities...he's the motherhumping King of Wrestling!
  12. Cox
    "In the tradition of Elvis, Billy Joe Travis, and some of the finer singers"...tremendous. I was predisposed to like this segment because I'm a huge Robert Fuller mark to begin with, but this was amazing. Even loved Lawler trying to talk Fuller out of it but Fuller goes ahead with it anyway. I hope the Tennessee Stud was able to find love.
  13. Cox
    This was definitely a promo by Ted DiBiase.
  14. Cox
    Great brawl with Jarrett beating the snot out of Travis pretty much the entire way and getting some revenge, but Lawler and Travis double on Jarrett post-match to keep the feud going. I thought Travis kept getting up from a lot myself, but since he didn't really get any offense in and just kept getting beaten up, I guess I don't have a problem with it. Really looking forward to watching more of Travis on this set, as so far he's been terrific.
  15. Cox
    Great match in front of a hot crowd. It really is a shame Flair wanted to go heel so badly. I know the heel side in WCW was weak, especially when they're trying to squeeze every last bit of juice they can out of J-Tex before Muta goes back to Japan, but there had to have been another way to go. Maybe instead of going fully heel, they could have gone with Arn and Ole butting heads with Flair about putting Sting in the Horsemen, and Arn and Ole turn on Flair and Sting? Then add Luger and Windham (when he comes in a few months later) and you have a Flair-less Horsemen feuding with Sting, Flair, and maybe the Steiners or Pillman and Zenk or some other babyface foursome? You could probably get away with turning one out of Flair and Arn, but I think turning both took the wind out of the sails of the hardcores in the NWA.
  16. Cox
    Have to say, I did not expect to see this much crazy brawling and the general out of control vibe that has been present so far out of AJPW on these yearbooks, as the reputation I've always had of All Japan is the stodgy, conservative group, but I guess that's what it's transitioning to at this point. Kind of a shame, as I am really digging all of the Tenryu and Tsuruta I've seen on the yearbooks thus far, but I say that as somebody who is new to this, so that might be why I'm viewing it differently.
  17. Cox
    Loved Savage's airplane spin. Did he ever use that in another match? He seems legit discombobulated by it even before the fall from the top rope. Decent match between two big names that somehow never had a WWF PPV match, or even a program, against one another. In fact, I think their only other time working with one another in any way was when they teamed with Vince on WWF Superstars in '91.
  18. Cox
    Ventura had no mustache so I think the original airdate was closer to the summertime, but I guess that's largely irrelevant. I'm guessing they had to work hard to find the one moment in an Andre/Warrior match where one of them does something that looks vaguely painful for this commercial.
  19. Cox
    Man, Snuka couldn't wait to feed himself to Hogan. He must have really wanted out of there. The setup for Hogan/Warrior is done extremely well and their brief time together in there does a great job of teasing a match between the two of them for Wrestlemania, and that's really all this Rumble is about. Nice to see Hogan act like a jerk and eliminate Warrior after Warrior had saved him moments earlier, which provides more fodder for the "Hulk Hogan is an asshole" thread.
  20. Cox
    Alright, is somebody trying to put every Andre the Giant promo from 1990 on this set? If so, bravo. Solid segment.
  21. Cox
    I agree about the pinfall attempts to a point, as I feel like they really beat that over the audience's head with the repeated pinfall attempts, but that really doesn't bother me too much, and at best, it's only a minor quibble as this is a hell of a match. Hard to believe they actually gave these two time on a PPV to put together this match. I can see something like this showing up on an MSG house show or something, but not a PPV, though Royal Rumble undercards tended to be lowest of the low priority. Both of these guys were pretty low on the totem pole coming into this match, and the crowd had little reason to give two shits about either guy, but they win the crowd over by beating the snot out of each other, and Garvin gets a legitimately big pop when he makes Valentine submit at the end. This was definitely the high point of Garvin's WWF run, and there are guys who went through the WWF with worse high points than this for sure.
  22. Cox
    This is a perfectly acceptable build towards Beefcake/Perfect at Wrestlemania, I guess.
  23. Cox
    Typical crazy Warrior promo, with Warrior firing his first shots towards Hogan's direction after Hogan had mentioned him on The Brother Love Show. I guess it's Wrestlemania Season already in the WWF!
  24. Cox
    I like that this is on the yearbook, because this is a good example of The Lawler Show as a heel, where he does every trick in the book to get something watchable out of JYD. It's a master class on how to get something out of an opponent who brings little to the table.
  25. Cox
    The only obvious mark against Cena is that it is WAY too early to start discussing his career as a HOFer, but that is true of literally everybody when they first hit the ballot, so as long as this is the dumbass criteria Dave insists on, Cena belongs.
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