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[1994-08-05-NJPW-G1 Climax] Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Yoshiaki Yatsu
soup23 replied to Loss's topic in August 1994
Best of the three G-1 matches so far but never really built to the dramatic finish I was hoping for. -
[1994-08-04-NJPW-G1 Climax] Riki Choshu vs Yoshiaki Yatsu
soup23 replied to Loss's topic in August 1994
Solid match but not much else to say. -
Great post FLIK and got me excited to watch as I have seen probably 5 GAEA matches in my life.
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[1994-08-03-NJPW-G1 Climax] Keiji Muto vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara
soup23 replied to Loss's topic in August 1994
Was not as into the mat work in this match. Muto really has lost a lot of luster in my eyes over the years. The finish was awesome with Fuji grabbing the arm and getting the submission. -
[1994-08-03-NJPW-G1 Climax] Hiroshi Hase vs Shinya Hashimoto
soup23 replied to Loss's topic in August 1994
Enjoyed the opening mat work but I expected it to be setting the table for a long match, Hase getting the flash pin felt like a big moment and worked well in that he really caught the crowd, Hash, and myself by surprise. Really nice thing to do to add intrique to the G-1 -
The pre Backlund stuff was really great and felt like something that wouldn’t take time to bother with today but showed how much of a jerk Lawler could be. I also liked Backlunds promos during this era as he really presented being an out of touch person that snapped.
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Agree more with Kevin on this match as while I thought it was good, it had a bevy of problems. Savage mixes in a lot of court references in the match which is amusing. Shawn bumps like crazy for Razor but Razor controlled too much of the match as we didn’t get a heat segment on him proper until after the second commercial. Then when finally Shawn is in control he results to rest locks. The ending was nice and Diesel was really starting to get pushed big but his post match shots looked pretty weak. Overall good, but considering this was the longest Raw match we have seen so far this year on the yearbook, and how high I am on both of their ladder matches, this disappointed me.
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Savage yelling NOT GUILTY was a great moment and VInce was such a pompus, giddy ass gloating about this.
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Really long TV match that did seem to meander a lot but also featured a lot of good stuff. The bump Sherri took to the outside looked awful as her head bounced off the mat. Sting has had a real solid 1994 which I didn’t realize.
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In my opinion, the greatest promo of all time
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Bockwinkel does a Tunney style announcement and has a more outdoors themed office. The fine amount for Sherri seemed legitmate and appropriate here.
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Didn't think the angle could get any more cheesy till I saw this.
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Really great match that made Backlund look like a threat. Jerry once again was great on commentary putting you inside backlund’s train of thoughts were you can understand that he might be annoyed by Bret extending his hand again.
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Nice ending with Jado securing the win. Match was fun but didn’t have much lasting impact and I thought they did cram in to many styles for a 15 minute match.
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Surprised to see someone not like the selling Misawa does for the first backdrop as that is one of my favorite sell jobs ever. Misawa is the ace and this is the first time I can remember that he truly looks out on his feet and was lucky to fall to the outside. The build to that moment was incredible as Doc seemed like someone who had a equalizer in his pocket at all times. This match really grabbed me more after watching other Misawa defenses than it ever has before and to me the match gets better the more you reflect and analyze it.
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To me this felt like the greatest hits version of Flair/Steamboat where they mixed in some of their signature spots but also try to use Sherri to build up the Hogan feud. It didn’t work out to well and makes you really wish the SN match was the last match they had against each other.
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Interesting setting for this match with a hockey rink but the middle of summer with kids walking around with towels and swimsuits on. This match started off fine but then kept going and got progressively worse. Lots of slow climbing and an anticlimactic ending. Sabu moonsaulting twice at the end through a table and looking like he could himself only to have a couple of people chant Sabu was really sad. He had to raise the belt over his head to get an reaction.
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Flair has really shifted his tone from the beginning of the year and has done a good job making it look pretty convincing. In some ways the Steamboat feud helped that. Real good promo here and I am not at all sick of him and Hogan at this juncture.
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Decent little segment and great slap and fire by Steamboat. Austin getting bleeped for about 10 seconds was amusing.
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Sad to see Jake feud come to a close but DWB is really on a roll promo wise and this continued the streak.
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I thought the tone of this was great and New Jack played his part perfectly. Just an awesome scene that represents a lot of tones in the South.
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Wasn't to into this as it seemed real by the numbers USWA. The chain shot looked good though.
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For how stupid the Undertaker angle is, this is actually pretty clever and its kind of weird how Luger was involved in this and the 1996 Sting angle which to me are both pretty high concept angles for wrestling.
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Didn't know who Leslie was as a kid so never connected to this angle.
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Kind of cliche to talk about how disengaged Lawler is now compared to earlier WWF but this is a shining example. he was amazing here an it is nice to see early him and Ross working together. Good little tv match and Kid had a really good year in 1994 with TV matches when given a chance to stretch them out.