PhilTLL
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The action is fine for the most part, the finish is absolutely atrocious. Ex-wrestler 6'1" 200-pound Nick Patrick takes a really weak ref bump--the only excuse for this is a Randy Anderson no-show--and Bobby Eaton ends his 8-week megapush by losing on an eye rake.
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Yep. I wasn't aware there was another Big Cat.
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On the same page, Dean Malenko was the most over in his WCW career during his series of losses and Dusty finishes to Jericho, not his US Title win or being the first ace of the CW division (though he was pretty big during the latter). Sure, it was botched in the long run by never actually putting him all the way over, but hey, it's WCW.
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You're in for a treat. The Rockers do things in AWA that you would not have believed possible based on their WWF run. At least that's how I felt when I got into it.
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In the CC on the next week's Pro Chicago, Paul E. announces a steel cage mixed tag: himself, Arn, and Barry vs. Missy and the Steiners. I thought surely I had hallucinated that, but Tony repeats it in the next segment. -
NWA @ Charleston, SC - McAllister Fieldhouse - December 27, 1990 NWA US Champion Lex Luger & NWA TV Champion Tom Zenk (sub. for Big Van Vader) defeated Stan Hansen & the Big Cat "Oh man, I get to see Vader and Hansen in a tag! ... Aw, fuck."
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Yeah, that was from well after the Doom split (right before their cage match at SuperBrawl, actually). Vader was a face basically from winter of '90/'91 to his first exit from WCW. He made a surprise turn on TV in late 1990 to help out Morton and Rich against the Freebirds a bit after they injured Gibson.
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Barry Windham vs. Tully Blanchard, Sunday Edition, 5/10/87. Nothing too fancy, just an exemplary TLD from two of the masters of the studio. I read a pretty good argument around here one time that Tully in Techwood was the best studio worker of all time. Another fun moment of Tully's is his match against Ray Traylor that supposedly got Traylor a lot of buzz as a shockingly natural neophyte. Barry Windham vs. Ron Bass, saddle vs. title, Florida 11/16/83. Not an _excellent_ match per se, but a very good and fairly famous one, with some excellent setup in the form of the "Saga of the Family" and an excellent post-match angle making a very good hour of wrestling television.
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YES. (WCW, 5/4/1991)
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That has to be one of the shortest segments in TV wrestling history. I have to think the heat might have gone up a bit if they had more than 10 seconds to milk it. I do love Morton shouting "That's not in the contract!" It makes me imagine a series of vignettes where Morton applies the contract as indemnity to everything, like picking up the tab at lunch or not getting to ride shotgun, to increasing eye rolls and grimaces from Taylor and Hughes.
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On the Network version of this match, the finish and post-match are quite obviously taken from a VHS. First time I've seen that. This was fine, but Rick no-selling five kicks to the head after the first one broke his headgear (to a huge JR reaction) was annoying rather than bad-ass.
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Poor Kalisto looked like he caught nerves from hell up there. Totally senseless spot that should have been an obvious scratch.
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In addition to the sheer satisfaction of the phone shot, I thought Ross and Schiavone gave this segment a boost with their surprising level of gravitas. Paul E hadn't ever been presented as a physical threat to anyone that I recall, including Cornette and Missy. Not that I was ever going to feel sorry for Jason Hervey.
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Wow, that dive over the table was a huge mess.
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The sound of clapping directly into a microphone in a heatless match is symbolic, if annoying.
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"Stay there Mark, stay there!" joins the Ted DiBiase Reverse, Charge Hall of Fame. (I am a bit behind. And yeah, this is crap. Just crap, not entertaining crap.)
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Terrific performance from both guys and they'll be lucky to get that level of heat back the rest of the night. 2.999 mass kickouts can lose me fast but they kept me enthralled. I enjoyed Lesnar/Reigns a surprising amount on second watch, and I'm not sure if the body will hold up as well as that one, but obviously it has a memorable finish instead of a lukewarm one, so they're neck and neck until I take my live glasses off. Oh, and I especially enjoyed a distinct lack of "T--s is a----me".
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They just swapped. WrestleWar was in May 1992, then by 1993 they started Slamboree. The underwhelming card was especially sad considering they promoted this endlessly as "the biggest PPV in WCW history" with the SuperBrawl Sunday tagline.
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That was a nice bit of booking with the pin off the swing, yeah. The match picked up a lot for me after the first 3 eliminations, as the spots got less contrived and more brutal. But still a bit of a mess overall.
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Starting to think the only European uppercut I like is the original. "Into German suplex" and "Dudley Death Drop" are kind of excruciating.
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Hmm, I think I actually enjoyed Bobby kicking ass/getting kicked 2 on 1 while Josh just stood there a bit more. This match is kind of aimless and sloppy in parts, and with a totally WTF finish even by WCW TV standards. There's an especially lazy "obviously going to be reversed piledriver on the floor" moment from Arn, which is one of my least favorite spots in wrestling when done so poorly.
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Apparently they drew a solid crowd here in Oklahoma City last night. I'm glad, as I had a previous engagement and want to see them come back.
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Memories from the video rental store
PhilTLL replied to Cross Face Chicken Wing's topic in Pro Wrestling
Family is the only major chain left in the US, yeah. If you can call less than 800 stores major--compare to the multiple chains with thousands of locations in the 1990s. We didn't have any local stores that I can recall, but I always got a thrill out of finding (relative) rarities at different chain stores around town. It helped that my mom enjoyed the same thing, just not for wrestling. I remember a lot of Video Update locations having a peculiarly large and varied selection; at one I was shocked to find the Demolition and Hart Foundation CHVs. And at the one Blockbuster in my grandparents' town I found my first taste of SuperBrawl III, the GAB and Starrcade compilations (!!!), Royal Rumble '90, and several others I never could find in OKC. -
Agreed. I'm heartily amused by Sid the character with his unbelievable aura and natural charisma (and his goofy Twitter feed), whereas Warrior the character is tiring after a pretty small dose. But Warrior has those two or three matches that are downright excellent, and I'm having trouble thinking of a single Sid match I've ever wanted to revisit, at least for good reasons. Sid is one of the most godawful in-ring workers of his era outside of squashes.
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This is too disjointed and messy for me to actually call it good. But there is some very good work within, and some stuff you'll rarely see elsewhere, like Flair's attention-getting chop to the back, three failed bridge-ups being used as a transition, and a sideways Flop that somehow ends with Flair upright and facing his opponent. The camera doesn't just catch Flair's blade, it seeks him out. Someone should smarten up those poor directors.