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  1. PhilTLL
    This match is far from perfect, especially compared to a lot of the "dream" Steiner matches (i.e. vs Harts), but I always get a big kick out of watching it, which is all you can really ask. Seeing it in the context of the whole PPV really puts home how hungry the crowd was for this, as almost everything beforehand was either rushed, weird, or just plain awful. They don't really even regain the energy in the next match until Eaton wins.
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    Yeah, I ache for the other half of this match that could have replaced the Johnny B. Badd introduction, or the Diamond Studd introduction, or the Oz introduction, or the Oz match. As it is, a marvel of time use as everyone has said, though I can't say I liked it more than their 4/6 match. The head collision spot is just brutal.
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    WCW move: Airing a SuperBrawl control center in which Solie introduces a clip of DDP to hype his upcoming interview with Sting and Luger, but in said clip DDP hypes an interview with Sid. Quintessentially WCW move: Airing it on every show for the entire week before SuperBrawl.
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    Uh...yes, there's so much overlap between wrestling fans and Spooky Ghostest Warriors! Who of course all hold whatever barely-coherent straw opinion you've devised.
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    Yeah, I refuse to believe this person exists. Or if they do, perhaps their work just gets ignored week after week.
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    That Badstreet cover makes me want to stab my ears out. The drummer is just all over the place. The Fabs getting swole reminds me of Butch Reed's "Body Talk" in Mid-South, which is one of the best worst things I've ever seen.
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    Matt Hardy

    PhilTLL replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    Not insane at all. I rewatched it recently too on the basis of some similar "slept-on GOAT candidate" praise (can't remember where unfortunately) and was stunned. I always knew it was good--I was there live--but had kind of forgotten about it for a few years. I love so many things about it, especially the way it toes the line between crazy and messy booking so well.
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    I always assumed this was at the heart of their reluctance to put him back on top, not a concerted effort to piss off or retrain their fans. The Rumble booking was still avoidable nonsense, of course.
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    The (mildly essentialist) way WCW announcers in the early '90s talk about Japanese fans like they're Zen monks. Learned, patient, focused, quiet, etc.
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    The first episode of "WCW" Main Event wasn't until 12/6/1990.
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    Mr. McMahon ended no later than the Bret match at Mania 26. This is a really tough one. Mr. McMahon was so entertaining in so many ways--menacing, jerkish, arrogant, obsessive, crazy-tough, laughingstock, etc. Powder blue is maybe the best announcer ever at getting an angle over. Some of his moments are all-time good at generating pathos: "For Elizabeth to have to witness this HORRAH!..." "Dusty, look, they're beating your son!"
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    They work the same match the same weekend on Worldwide, only the Reed fight is replaced with an ineffective masked (and tasseled) mercenary, whom Simmons piledrives, spinebusts, and finally unmasks as Marc Mero. Or as Tony calls him, "I don't know who that guy is." Great plan, Teddy!
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    Barry Windham vs Ricky Morton, Worldwide 3/23/91: Morton is replacing Pillman, who is scratched on doctor's orders, so this is just a couple of (decent) minutes to set up a Sid run-in. The fun escalates quickly after that: Sid powerbombs Morton, and BW calls for the gurney, though he does a bit of accidental slapstick and gets draped under the pad and shelf when he tries to bring it over the top rope. No matter, they get Morton mounted on it, but Pillman comes in for the save (Tony: "He has defied the medical experts!") and chases Sid over the top with a dropkick, a feat which Tony treats with the appropriate excitement. Then Pillman throws the gurney frame down the aisle at them! It crashes at Barry's feet, nearly clobbering him. The jobbers in scrubs (scrubs in scrubs?) show a rare commitment to character, rushing the frame back to the ring and trying to help the still-downed Morton. In the next segment, Gordon Solie describes Big Daddy Dink: "Certainly much more than a road manager...dangerous in and out of the ring, and quite frankly, an evil genius."
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    Things I wish I had grown up with (10+ years too young) but didn't see until years later: The "New Orleans Police BARRICADE" signs in the Municipal Auditorium. The orange mat at the Tulsa Convention Center. The KATT mascot from 100.5 FM (which still exists!) hyping up faces on their way to the ring at the Myriad. Boyd Pierce's wild jackets and sleepy voice. The state flags hanging in the Irish McNeil. Announcers correctly pronouncing "Rapides Parish Coliseum."
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    This was less than a month after Milli Vanilli's Grammy got stripped. The story was on literally everyone's lips.
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    WrestleMania 31...

    PhilTLL replied to goodhelmet's topic in WWE

    Maybe it was watching with friends, but this Mania exceeded expectations for me and I actually enjoyed large parts of it. But I did hate those shoulderbutts...I mean headbutts in the ladder match. Oof.
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    Current WWE

    PhilTLL replied to Smack2k's topic in WWE

    Trips and NXT just got a Sunday SportsCenter feature spot, a teaser for the E:60 doc "Behind the Curtain", premiering May 5th.
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    Bobby Eaton vs Buddy Landell, Pro 3-9-91: This is the first five minutes of a really good match, with some good outside action, some searing chops and punches, great detail work, and Bobby doing a great job working face. But that's all it is, as at around 5:00 Bobby gets the transition neckbreaker and Alabama Jam for the finish. A real shame. Terry Taylor comes in for the two on one and Zenk (!) makes the save, but Bobby belts him for his trouble. The Beautiful Lone Wolf! **1/4
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    They have a rematch on Worldwide 2/16 that is humming along better than this, mostly with Bobby shine, Arn's increasingly desperate viciousness, and some great strikes and selling of same, until it's cut off much too early with a clean/dirty leapfrog ballshot headbutt finish. Alas.
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    Hansen and Sid tagging in February 1991 when they obviously both had other matches to build at WrestleWar and no apparent motive or previous association is one of the best examples of Rule Of Cool booking I've ever seen. On a related note, their pre-WW Omni opponents are Sting and Luger, similarly paired for nothing more than Rule Of Over (which I never realized until now), and they certainly are that.
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    Between this and Sid's string of ripping jobbers off of stretchers really putting over his maniac potential, I'm glad to see there was some good build to the WarGames finish I've seen so many times (other than the infamous legitimate injury). I knew there were Flair/Gigante matches too but didn't really know the particulars.
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    The match in whole is quite watchable. As for the Hogan beatdown, I honestly think that was about right for two chair shots on a fairly fresh Hogan. I mean, on the sliding scale. You take what you can get.
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    It was just the standard Pro show with new voiceovers, UIC Pavilion hypes including occasional local promos, and a bit of local content like Schiavone and Brickhouse tooling around famous places or the Brickhouse Bonus. Pro did often have replays from the other shows, but sometimes they recycled from it for the other shows. They replayed the whole Arn/Terry series from Pro a month later on Main Event without even hinting as such. This was a solid outing, nothing landmark but exactly the reason you watch a WCW TV show. The hot brawl would count as story advancement, rare for Pro, but of course the Horsemen aren't feuding with Doom anymore. (Well, as of the next WCW episode they are...sort of.) On a similar note, this episode of Pro also featured a match with Michael Wallstreet, who had been mentioned as out of the company at the Clash and on last week's WCW.
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    I don't think so, but you have to be aware that the aura of Valentine is enhanced by him being mostly different from the norm in the environment. He's having those matches with Tito while elsewhere in the promotion the Hillbillies are running around and most of the guys are bringing live animals to the ring. But also while Sarge and Sheik are making each other bleed for national supremacy and Savage is snapping necks over top ropes. (I know these are a year apart but, well, the Santana/Valentine feud ran for over a year.)
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    Dusty is back with a bang at Clash 14, describing an Arn Anderson front facelock thusly: "He is LEANIN' on him! Now you see right here, if you at home take your wife, get her up in the livin' room, put her in this hold and lean on her, and see how quick she'll break down, like a shotgun." Ross: "...yeah..." Ross: "Now I can see we got a lot of men in trouble at home. 'Honey, get up off the couch, I wanna front facelock you.'" "Well we don't wanna hurt 'em of course, because we love 'em and can't do without 'em." It's a pretty bad show overall, with the Sting/Luger-Doom match and the Vader/Hansen highlights(!) probably being the most fun. Cappetta accidentally telegraphs Terry Taylor's mid-match turn by including "The computerized man of the nineties" in his introduction.
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