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  1. El-P
    That Bruiser Bedlam, he sure looks like a killer...
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    They sure pushed the hell out of the Seekers. There's a problem when Lance Storm is more likeable and personable is every one of this videos than he end up being anywhere else in his career. Maybe he missed his calling as a goofy smiling babyface. I actually genuinely enjoy those videos, yeah it's cheesy but in a good way, considering the context.
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    Bluegrass Brawl II had to be the best SMW show ever, with two legit MOTYC back to back, culminating in a great moment after a similary great build. I guess it's the apex of the company.
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    And there you go, the ladder match ends up being the second best match on the show. Just a tremendous match, just about perfect. Love the heel in peril segment with Prichard, as he's amazing at it, bleeding a gusher, taking hilarious bumps, showing tons of awesome nody language of desperation and pain. The Rock'n Roll are great at controlling this segment, showing sweat tag team strategies. These guys still look quick and smooth. Then of course the Ricky Morton show, with the Bodies delivering tons of good offense and keeping the fast pace. There are several fake finishes, which is pretty rare in the US at this point, and it build the intensity to a formidable climax. MOTYC, like I said before, just about perfect.
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    I'd have to rewatch it back to back with Razor vs Shawn, but it's at least just as great. The wrestling here is better than at the MX match, which was more gimmicky (although not nearly as much as the awful 00's ladder matches will), and although it was a bit shakier at times, I'm guessing it was although way less rehashed. I love Candido's overbumping, I'm a complete mark for it. It's as great as Terry Funk's. They do less with the ladder, but some of what they do look really brutal. The missed huricanrana from the top by Candido looks really dangerous. Tracey is awesome here, the best I've seen him. MOTYC, obviously.
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    I thought this worked pretty well to establish who these guys were, and Lance comes off as actually likeable (shocker) while Jericho already has that obvious heel feel to him. That being said, I like that it was again a reality based interview that allowed fans to know the young guys from a more personnal standpoint. And then it comes. the BLOW-JOB section of the promo, where they say tahy are actually singles, and while Lance oretty much kills his gimmick at this point saying he wants someone to be quiet at hime with (Thrillseeker ? Really ?), Jericho goes all out saying he'll fuck any girl in the territory, no matter if she's hot or ugly. You can blow him, come to SMW shows. Well, he didn't say that but that was the spirit. What a trooper.
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    Dutch and Caudle have an awesome chemsitry at this point. Dutch getting a bodyslam I really didn't see coming.
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    I like that they mention that it was taped before Bluegrass Brawl too. LOGIC. (as opposed to those business exposing WCW TV tapings at the same time)
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    Really good TV match, and that's the third in a row on SMW TV, which makes me a happy wrestling fan. Finally the Rock'n Roll working with a fresh team, and it shows. Candido vs either one is a good pairing, and the Rock'n Roll vs bumping big man works well too so this is a promising feud. Dutch really cracks me up at times. I'll miss him a lot when he'll be gone ti WWF doing nothing. Tammy has such a great timing already.
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    Holy shit, Vince on SMW TV hyping the Bluegrass Brawl !!!! Totally surreal !!! Then the great part, Ricky reading his letter, it's just a perfect promo, Ricky is stuttering a bit becaus of the emotion, it's not overdone, it's not overacted and overdramatic (hum... "Sorry, I love you"...), it's just pitch perfect, feels real and genuine. Awesome money promo, *again*.
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    Tammy is such a star already, and really does looke like the female Jim Cornette as she can sell a match and really explain the stips right while keeping in character and insulting her opponents. Brian Lee looks more and more like the Bulldozer at this point. Only needs a hair dye... Dutch is always gold on these segments. Hell, Dutch is always gold.
  12. El-P
    A little bit rushed for a ladder match which would require some more time I think, but as a short TV one, it's very good, and there is more actual wrestling and less gimmick than in Shawn vs Razor. Candido takes some great bump, especially one from a Smothers back kick right into the ladder, face first, and the great gourdbuster one at the end. The money seems a little bit low though, and as it's been said Smothers look like he could jump and grab it. Anyway, nice to see a very good match on TV. Love these two worker together. WWF missed the boat big time with Freddie Joe Floyd and Skip.
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    Money promo from Morton.
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    DWG is pretty white trashy, to the point she really can be a babyface only in SMW or around those places.
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    This is classic. Yes, pro-wrestling is the greatest thing on earth sometimes. Especially in 1984. Wait...
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    As Cornette said about the Fabulous Ones videos in retrospect "They look gay as shit now." Come one, you know this is the homoerotic part of that TV show. Not as good as the infamous WCW video with Powers/Gomez/Renegade/Wright, but pretty damn good in that respect. Lance Storm looks boring even when he lift weighs. Did Cornette realized in was 1994, not 1984 ? Wait, it's the Smokey Mountains and as those white trash girls hairdo attest, it is indeed 1984.
  17. El-P
    Good little TV match, but as most of the times, it's only a backdrop for an angle, which is to bad. I would love to see those two work a good 10 minutes match.
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    I'm reaaaaaally bored of angles about Bob Armstrong at this point, no matter how good a promo he is. That said, he's that good of a promo, and we know from whom Road Dog got his agile tongue.
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    He was sent to NJ then, they had nothing for him to do. Rotundo came back with the immensely successful Varsity Club redux though, complete with Kimona jumping on a trampoline in a cheerleader outift.
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    Sullivan is fresh off ECW, and he's pretty great here. The fireball was spot on. Dave Sullivan is.... oh man, I'll have to watch this guy on my TV a whole lot now, whose friend was he to last that long ? The slap was nice.
  21. El-P
    Flair was waiting for Hogan and in the meantime gave himself and his friends some stuff to do.
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    Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. Gene thinks he's back in WWF, and who could blame him. Am I watching WCW TV here ? Before watching WCW in context, I never realized Hogan showe dup so soon on TV, and it really shines a new light on this few montsh before he actually debuted.
  23. El-P
    I fail to see how this is a great match. It's a good to very good TV match, with an exciting finishing stretch, but they didn't make it anything special. Austin vs Pillman on the main event was more exciting. But I understand it's the first match of the program, so it's understandable that Steamboat would pace it as such, and it shows he's a pretty great worker. That being said, I thought his matches with Regal in 1993 blows this one away, hell he even had a much better match than this against Orndorff. I feel like it has been way overrated because it's Austin and Steamboat. As far as the booking goes, Flair gets way too much credit from the "workrate fans" during this short period before Hulk comes in. Yes, it is nice to see Steamboat get a main event feud one last time, but did it build toward the future ? Not at all. On this show you had Pillman work a long, competitive match against Tex Slazenger in the opener, then challenge Regal from nowhere for the TV title. Pillman was feuding with his former partner Austin on the B-shows and then, whoop, got demoted to an undercard feud. Then Austin get to work a match with Steamboat but doesn't get the match against Flair at the PPV which should have happened. Instead, it's Steamboat's turn which makes no sense kayfabe wise since his last single title was a short TV title reign, and it's clear that, as he's getting the shot in storyline because he's friend with Flair, well, it's the same thing in actual reality. And this we get the first Hogan promo on WCW TV on the same show, already referring to Flair, it's also obvious Flair was killing time booking his friends on top waiting to have his big program with Hogan. Austin was never destined to go higher than he already was, and the impending arrival of Hogan garanteed that he wouldn't anyway.
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    He didn't side with Sting, but he was basically an outcast in the nWo after an altercation with Bischoff, and was beaten down on Nitro after a match with Hogan. On the same card he got beat by Luger and Hogan prevented the nWo guys from helping him, so as a receit he fucked Hogan in the title match. Savage was kind of a tweener than would eventually turn babyface with Nash in nWo Wölfpack a few months down the road.
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    He might have still been on Saturday Night at that point. I don't totally remember though. I know they started phasing him out of the television around the time he joined the nWo. He was announcing Saturday Night but just after Souled Out and the heel turn he was off and replaced by Scott Hudson & Mike Tenay.
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