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  1. Tim Cooke
    I was just about to mention Choshu before I read Childs post. My favorite thing about him in tags, especially in All Japan, is that he used the high angle backdrop so effectivly as a transition move to tag in or out and to create a transition from defense to offense. Even if he was taking a decent beating, a backdrop suplex could turn the tide and not make me roll my eyes. Choshu/Yatsu are in my personal top 10 if just for the Jumbo/Tenryu series. re: MX Due to the lack of house show footage of Condrey (until Cornette released his personal videos recently), the Lane version of the team had far more matches that were taped and were longer. I chose Eaton/Lane as my favorite of the two based on this fact alone years ago. Initially, the 2/2/86 Superstars on the Superstation match against the Rock n Roll Express and the 8/16/86 match were the two main MX vs. RnR matches from the Condrey run in the NWA. The Superstars on the Superstation match is a cluster and until the 8/16/86 came out in handheld form, you couldn't make much of the last fall from what TV showed (especially with that ridiculous camera angle). Meanwhile, Eaton/Lane had FOUR good to great Fantastics matches, the 1990 PPV with RnR, and the Southern Boys match. With the recent Cornette footage, I think the Condrey team will continue to be more and more praised for their NWA work. I also think that the Condrey/Eaton team working more for heat, while the Eaton/Lane team was more of a work rate team, is something that affects opinions.
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    I'm glad it was a reader who wrote in because I wasn't sure Alvarez would even know about Cheers, with his limited pop culture knowledge.
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    Alvarez would have his mind blown by The Wire
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    Meltzer raved about the 6/6/01 Mutoh/Hase match being a "throwback to the 70's"
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    ROH couldn't get more than 400 in Baltimore twice in 2003/2004.
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    I like this as much, if not more, than the 7/2 6 man tag.
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    He worked late 2000 into 2001 with Disco in WCW. Had a decent Thunder match with Jason Jett towards the end.
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    When I started watching WCW in the fall of 1998, I had no prior exposure to Savage. So when he returned in April 1999 and had the horrific feuds with Nash and Sid, I figured he was always done after the WWF run. These two work well together and it's certainly not an epic title switch, but did make for compelling TV.
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    The month of Flair continues with a lengthy TV match with Sting. Nothing you haven't seen before but also something that needs to be looked at if your most recent Flair viewings are anything post 1999 because even in early 1996, he was a capable performer.
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    Decent interview that was a good way of putting two heel stables on the same side with a common reason. Arn and Sullivan leading the discussion helped keep things logical and moving.
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    Good match. Flair/Arn/Savage work very hard and Hogan is best at this point in supporting roles (hot tag guy). Really liked the reversal sequence on the apron with Arn and Savage which ended with Arn getting run into a big Hogan punch. The South Carolina crowd was all about Arn/Flair.
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    An interesting match to open the year. Flair is obviously still good at putting on one man TV shows at this point and Hogan getting boo'ed out of the building by the Atlanta crowd was entertaining. I do agree the post-match Horsemen booking was ridiculous.
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    I easily see Rey as a GOAT contender. Forget his AAA work and just look at this: 1996 WCW - the cruiserweight division would have still happened without him, but it stuck around and got over because of his work. Regular US fans had never seen this stuff before. I imagine it is similiar to the hardcore fans who found AJW in the mid 80's and were dumbfounded by what they were seeing. 1997 WCW - final 3 months make up for an injury prone year. Week to week during the last 4 months of the year, he was producing some of the best TV matches of the year 1998 WCW - Despite WCW falling apart, still pulling out new tricks and is still over. 1999 WCW - see 1998, take away his mask, put him in overalls, and he still gets Match of the Night most nights. 2000 WCW - sucked 2001 WCW - Superbrawl to 3/26/01, he was back to early 1999 form. Besides Eddy and Benoit, who comes close to being that consistent in an era of TV matches getting shorter and rosters being so big that many talented guys don't get on TV. His 2005 WWE work against Eddy speaks for itself as well.
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    The kid going nuts during the nearfalls for Misawa/Kawada 6/3/94. There is also a kid that goes insane for the last five minutes of the Misawa/Taue 4/15/95 match.
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    I always took the crowd reaction on 12/6 to be related with the year end show. You had more casuals show up for the annual year end show who didn't want to boo Santo.
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    He came into WCW to be the guy who would help Russo come up with more logical match finishes. When Russo bailed in October 2000, he was Bischoff's #1 guy during the sale. I think his greatest achievement was re-organizing the Cruiserweights after Starrcade 2000 and having the division be the strongest it has been booking wise, maybe ever in WCW.
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    Ditch - do you know an approx date for that match?
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    If WCW booked stuff like this in 1998 and 1999, they would have had a much easier time building stars. The announcers are clued in on the storyline (even if it is obvious, it's something that would be lost among the WCW announcers at a lot of points). Luger bumped well and stooged, Eddy was great, just a strong TV match that would have been completely different in 1998.
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    My brother and I were always highly amused by the WCW Executive Committee, which Hudson would talk about non-stop on WCWSN in late 1998/early 1999.
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    The turns happened in May-June of 1996.
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    No one said Henry carried Angle at Judgement Day 2006. The thought at the time was the match was crappy when Rey and other had good TV matches with him, but Kurt Angle didn't know how to work with the guy.
  24. Tim Cooke
    I think Gabe wanted to try to make EVOLVE the first US promotion that incorporated various styles of wrestling on each card, kind of like those New Years Eve Japanese shows where 7-8 indies would get together to throw a big show with many different styles (BattlArts, DDT comedy, Big Japan deathwrestling). Thus the involvement of Chikara along with Danielson and Richards anchoring the promotion working more "realistic" matches. Without Danielson (and maybe even with him), there was no hope of that happening and trying to establish new talent is cheaper than paying for already established talent. Just the fact that they were running in the building in NJ that doesn't hold more than 300 people is a sign of what they thought would happen. The DVD market tanking/rise of torrents and downloads null and voids the ROH model of surviving once and for all.
  25. Tim Cooke
    Yea, Jimmy Hart is my favorite. If there is no Hart, there is no Cornette. The Jimmy Hart running away from guys at sprinters speed is highly entertaining. Many Memphis matches were just based around faces chasing Hart and the Family around the ring in between in-ring action.
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