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El-P

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  1. The answer would be that kayfaybe doesn't make sense. And yes, it annoyed the hell out of me when I was a teenager. Like when a mid-card face turns mid-card heel,he doesn't beat anyone anymore with his finisher. All of a sudden, it lost all efficiency against anyone above jobber status. There are tons of stuff like these.
  2. Well, FLIK just pimped pretty much every notable Yoshida match on my list.
  3. I was fascinated by those videos at the time. I didn't know who Bam Bam was, as I became a fan in late 1989 and only got WWF back then, but those video made me a fan right away. His stint would end up being a bit disapointing...
  4. The problem is that she was still low on the totem pole. I go back home tonight (end of vacation time, argh...), so I'll try to dig up my old notes, I'm pretty sure I had some Yoshida matches to pimp.
  5. Now that's a worker.
  6. Well, I'm not exactly on the same page as far as the rest of your ranking goes (not digging Toyota and Yamada nearly as much as you do), and although I wouldn't put Yoshida at the number 1 spot, I'm glad someone else is feeling the early Yoshida love. I'll have to find my old notes about Yoshida in 92, but I felt she was already a terrific worker and had a great year in 92. You dig a really good job summing up why. It's well known, well to people who know me from long ago, that I'm a huge Yoshida mark from ARSION, and finding out that she already ruled, in a totally different fashion, in 92, was really my biggest enjoyment of watching joshi 1992.
  7. Yes, probably. After Savage and DiBiase, being paired with Sherri equalled = important heel.
  8. Why Sid got settle with Harvey Whippleman in the first place ? Funny how Sid destroying jobbers in 1992 seemed fun, but Sid destroying jobbers in 1999 in WCW was annoying.
  9. Never cared much for "in-love Sherri", always thought it didn't fit her crazy-ass character. Plus she didn't get physically involved as much anymore, which wasn't as much fun as her kicking Tenryu or outworking the Warrior from the outside. That said, she looked sexy as hell during the Shawn era.
  10. Hogan's character is pretty compelling in the long run for that reason. He was really the all-time hypocrite bastard he ended up portraying in the nWo. Sid's fake tag was just great. I realize I loved Sid at that time.
  11. Great goofy WWF style press conference. Goofy because it tried to be serious, not because it was intentionnally goofy. Yeah, Flair and Sid's promo were great. I can't help but root for Sid here, as it's obvious Tunney is so far up Hogan's ass it's not even funny. Loved Sid's reaction. Hogan's "Yes yes !" is terrible Hogan acting as always and make it even better, you feel Hogan is overacting because he knew he would get the match anyway.
  12. Martel's character was so ridiculously fun. I could watch anythinh involving the Model, even a feud with Tatanka. I remember this angle very well.
  13. I loved Papa Shango. I thought Kama was decent. I thought the GodFather was rather embarrassing (a face pimp was the nadir of the Russo era in WWF). I thought the GoodFather had zero reedeeming value.
  14. In 1983 in Charlotte it could have been a great match. I never knew these two even met in the WWF. I have a vague recollection of the Slaughter vs Mountie feud. Very vague.
  15. I know, I got lazy and stopped rewieving old shows after a while. Sambo was so much fun at one point. I'll have to check out where exactly I stopped one of these days. EDIT : actually, I stopped after 92 because most of the post 93 shows are well known. I think I uploaded every bit of Sambo I had.
  16. I feel for the girfriend. If I was her, I would run far far away. Yeah, really good work Bix, enjoyed reading you.
  17. Warrior's outfit was distracting to say the least. I wonder why HHH never tried it, seems right in his alley. I remember watching this stuff on Superstar, and the fact it looked like total chaos to me. Ah, being a mark again...
  18. Was Chaz "just a guy from NJ who beats his girlfriend"/"Headbanger"/"Beaver Cleaver" ?
  19. I couldn't tell you the specifics for lacking of speaking japanese, but I remember Toyota being pissed off of her best friend Yamada for not picking her as her tag partner in some tag league, and it jumpstart their rivalry. The hair-match was all about Yamada emulating her childhood hero Chigusa. Toyota trying to stop Yamada was all about her getting super emotionnal and not wanting her friend to cut her hair after all I guess. I think there's something lost in translation here, as I don't think we can apply the same psych to joshi puroresu than to US men's wrestling. The über emotionnal stuff seems very japanese to me.
  20. Funny how things work. Foley was always thought of as some sort of sick fuck to some extent, especially with the "get bashed 10 times with a chair before my childrens" incident. Yet...
  21. The Hardy boys story is a sad sad one.
  22. Sat behind the curtains.
  23. Surreal to watch Flair vs Taker V0.1 on Superstars.
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