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    I thought this was excellent as well. Hot start, hot finish, with a perfectly acceptable middle.
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    Excellent follow up from 5/11. Cool in match story with El Dandy's shoulder being messed up.
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    Super match - top 5 for me right now
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  12. Tim Cooke
    Small sample size but look at Rey's run from September-October 1997 on TV: Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Eddie Guerrero (Nitro 9/8/97) Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Juventud Guerrera (Nitro 9/15/97) Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. El Caliente (Nitro 9/29/97) Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 10/13/97) Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Eddie Guerrero (Havoc 10/26/97) Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 10/27/97) Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Eddie Guerrero (Nitro 11/10/97) Granted, it's against three of his best opponents, but it's a heck of a TV/PPV run. Maybe Benoit has a run like that in WCW. It's also fun to watch Rey try to get back into form starting at Superbrawl Revenge and basically be back at mid 1999 level by the last Nitro ever. Never thought that would happen after watching him get away with having to do nothing but a broncobuster during all of his Russo era matches. I agree about the AAA run not being great but whose AAA run was really all that great anyway. Plus, in the grand scheme of things, AAA is 1992-1996 and WCW was 1996 -2001. AAA was the shortest of the big three promotions he worked in. I probably don't have him above Eddy but he is in my top 10 as of this moment.
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    My Disc 17 is a bad burn so I watched this on Daily Motion today. Like the Wrestle War 90 match vs. RnR, I watched this SO MANY times 10 years ago that I got bored and worn out. Revisiting, it is still great and a match that needs to be talked about when within the contexts of pacing and crowd interaction. But I want to focus on something else right now. The MX double teams were one of the first things that drew me to southern tag team wrestling. This was before I got my first Japanese tapes and was exposed to KDX doing sick double, triple, and quadruple teams. Thankfully, this was also before I was exposed to Dragon Gate style double teams where none of the double teams matter. Lane and Eaton have their standard go to double teams: * drop toe hold by Lane, elbow drop by Eaton * Eaton lariat with Lane on his knees ready to trip the opponent * Rocket Launcher * blind tags that lead to face in peril (had a ton of variations) In 1990, they added some new combo's that still stand out today, none the less in 1990: * savate kick to the midsection by Lane into a backbreaker by Eaton * savate kick to the midsection by Lane into a swing neck breaker by Eaton * kick to the gut by Eaton into a swinging neck breaker by Lane * Lane with a Curt Hennig snap of the neck followed by an Eaton elbow drop * Lane atomic drop into Eaton backbreaker All great combo's and with these fluid double teams, you could take the crowd up and down within a matter of a few seconds. This match also has an All Japan like string of 3 near falls towards the end of the match, which got great heat. Southern tags often lack a conclusive finish after the hot tag is made, but this seems to put everything together perfectly.
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    One great thing I forgot about this is a referee spot (won't spoil it) that has people in the first few rows jumping out of their seats in disbelief of what they just saw. Loss mentioned this earlier but Bobby Eaton has a great move set and really refined it in 1990. His running vertical suplex always looks great (insert time #1 where I suggest that random Indy wrestler in 2012 should steal this move), his Irish whip-hold on-bounce you off ropes-backbreaker is beautiful (#2), and no one hits a better swinging neck breaker than Eaton. You combine those with the flying elbow, the flying legdrop, his assortment of punches and eye rakes (the best eye raker ever?) and he has a great all around moveset. That's without adding his bulldog, turn around lariat, and his individual parts of double teams.
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    Great TV match in front of a hot crowd. Much better than their Clash and August TV matches. More formula, southern tag team wrestling, which is the style I would pick if I could only choose one.
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    First time I had ever seen this. Lots of repetition, but when its heel Flair vs. someone that needs carried, you know that's part of the game. On it's own, a great match. Knowing the booking decisions and Sting getting hurt drags it down slightly for me, but I agree with Loss and jdw that this is the last true, 1980's Ric Flair match.
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    I watched this match to death about 10 years ago, to the point that I knew all of the spots by heart and was completely tired of it. When Cornette released the handhelds of the MX/RnR 1986 feud, I wanted to re-visit the 1990 matches to see Lane vs. Condrey and hopefully have a fresh perspective. This Yearbook finally gave me that opportunity. This is in the top 5 for 1990 from me. I'm 75% of the way through the Yearbook (being unemployed sucks but doesn't suck) and the only thing that really stands out as better than this is the 10/19/90 Misawa/Kawada/Kobashi vs. Jumbo/Taue/Fuchi 6 man. Everything you want from the MX vs. RnR "formula" match.
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    The Rockers show and a great one at that. It's not a carry job since Barbarian was fine and Warlord didn't mess anything up, but that was 99% Rockers. Michaels selling of everything was fabulous and not bloated (ala the 2005 Summerslam match vs. Hogan). I'm with Loss - wish this was on PPV.
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    One of Muta's spinning back kicks hit Arn flush in the face and made me jump out of my chair. This went too long - the equiv of a 2003-2005 ROH match that was always 5-10 minutes too long to really be an all time great.
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    Flair's selling of Eaton's figure four headscissors is great, especially after that move had been completely killed by Choshu and Tenyru for me. Another long TV match, with Flair as a face, something that is so rare since he was more comfortable as a heel. The 1997, 1998, ans 1999 Yearbooks with Flair are going to drive me nuts for the lost potential of a true babyface Horsemen.
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    The heat is great in this. In a perfect world, I imagine this is what some of the late 1998-early 1999 WCW Horsemen matches would have looked like, with Flair getting a huge reaction, Benoit and Malenko carrying the in ring action. But it would have needed solid booking and that was long gone. Sting's springboard lariat was excellent. Thought the build of Sawyer's splash throughout the month of January, kind of culminating here was also very cool, detail oriented booking. The best hidden gem of 1990, maybe of the yearbook series.
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    I really like Meltzer and even his more off beat opinions are at least valuable to think about, but comparing Tanahashi/Suzuki to Misawa/Kawada as the only 'close comparison' is crazy.
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    1990 hype!

    Tim Cooke replied to Loss's topic in Pro Wrestling

    Fantastic!!!! Eagerly awaiting this
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    I'd love to see that post from Meltzer, Loss. I have never seen that anywhere and it would be cool to have it sourced.
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