Matt D

It's amazing how much Memphis seemed to manage every week. Especially in a year like 93.

There's a ton of other good stuff in 86. The TV was pretty fun because Larry was all over it in entertaining ways.

Was there powder and a fan involved?

Dick Murdoch vs Pat O'Connor AJPW 12/15/75 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwXdMjWuwhc This is a very cool, very frustrating match. Here's the quick breakdown. Ten minutes of Murdoch putting on headscissors, O'Connor getting out, going for a headlock, getting put back in. Most of the work here is by O'Connor trying to get out and each time he makes it, there's an escalation of energy in him trying to get on top and Murdoch putting him back down. He finally takes over with a cheap knee to the face. This leads to some amazing looking arm stuff by O'Connor and then some back and forth legwork. THIS ends with a limping Murdoch being unable to hold onto the headscissors for long and punching O'Connor in the face. Up until this point it's a really fun match. I might doubt the logic of O'Connor going back to the headock again and again but I can see it as old man's pride. The problem is that the FACE PUNCHING leads into 6 or 7 minutes of comedy. And it's good comedy, first with Murdoch complaining about O'Connor's fists, sneaking his own, and then getting wildly out punched, and then with O'Connor escaping holds quickly as the crowd laughs and Murodch lumbering at him (including a great spot where he goes through the ropes). It's entertaining, but a minute or two before they were starting to punch each other in the face, while limping, after 20 minutes of holds. It's jarring and really, annoying. I like comedy a lot at the beginning of a match or throughout a match, but i don't think it belonged in the tail end of THIS match, even if it was all well done. Then the time-limit is coming so they go into a pretty compelling series of pinfall attempts until the bell rings. Well worth watching but highly frustrating.

I'm sure that won't keep us from doing it in the future.

Brody/Snuka vs Masked Superstar/Murdoch - 12/26/85. Crowd LOVES Murdoch. The spot where Murdoch apes Snuka's leap frogs and ends it with a dropkick is one of my favorite things I've seen in a while. Crowd is nuts for Brody vs Murdoch. Brody's slam is pretty shitty though. Lots of back and forth early. Murdoch looks universally great. I like Superstar's arm whips when he has Snuka in a grounded hammerlock. Crowd lights up for Calf Branding. What would have been a sort of hot tag is just lame as we get a transition after Brody stomps to break up a pin. I'll say this, he has a good spot where he eats a Murdoch shoulder block and staggers back to a knee only to hit a dropkick when Murdoch tries again. Give and take. Then Murodch hits a dropkick of his own. And Brody's selling is comical. He clumsily backsteps into the corner and then decides to drop down. Superstar has a bunch of fun and varied strikes, and eats both guys' offense pretty well. Brody's suplex almost turns into a jackhammer by accident. Snuka as a very pleasant and gentle backbreaker. There's a nice little segment where Murdoch eats a big brody boot only to duck a second one and hit a cross body. ... And everyone meanders around ringside for the finish. I'm not even sure I could impose a narrative on this thing. The only thing I got out of it is that Brody has shitty slams and Murdoch is really good at calling spots.

Jarrett in memphis in 93 is really painful til the heel turn

They had numbered pamphlets. I have talking points. You have quite wonderful comps. I also get your opinions mixed up with Charles' and John's all the time. Sorry. This is a fast-paced, high impact world of wrestling discussion.

I kind of want to see Backlund vs Afa

I can't keep track of you people and your god damn talking points from six years ago. Especially when you're not even putting out numbered pamphlets anymore. I have a hard enough time keeping track of my own that no one wants to engage me on.

I feel like sometime this year I really need to rewatch Eddie too.

I think people aren't saying much because the results this year just aren't very interesting.

Eaton used it as a slingshot move, no?

If something's done well, I'm okay with it built around talking. But it has to be done well.

BTW Re: Southwest for anyone who hasn't seen much. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_UlnC4Kjp_6ImKi7dkL9eg Catch it while you can.

I get the feeling that watching too much Robinson would get old fairly quickly, but as a guy you only see once every now and again, it's pretty god damn fascinating.

How long was Jannetty there and how good was he while there?

Who the hell is Mike George?

Re: Dustin. http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/forum/3...__all__st__1920

Bobby had a slew of babyface tags and six mans in 91. For the yearbook project you guys just went through a ton of them. Does his FIP work here stand out?

I'm not far off that match. I'm in November 93 in my watching now and will probably hit it within a few weeks, so I'll watch it for you when I get there. I haven't seen it in years.

Honestly? What Billy Gunn did was pretty impressive in its own right. I'm not sure you can give a lot of stock to the Smoking Gunns. They were kind of a "face of WWF" team between 94-95, but those were the dark ages drawing-wise. But New Age Outlaws were over, and according to some people, hugely over and key. And then Billy and Chuck were pretty featured players for a while, for one reason or another. They were three wildly different styled tag teams too.

At some point later this year I am going to watch a lot of Funk and Hansen. I've already made up my mind on that.

I like how many partners Arn and Bobby had. Bobby had fairly successful runs with Gulas, Koko, Condrey, Lane, Arn, Benoit, Keirn (ok that wasn't successful), and Regal/Taylor.

I reviewed over thirty fucking matches, with my long drawn out insane "mention everything I like and try to tie it all together" style of reviewing. If I did it for some ironic hipster post modern philosophy major reason then I have some sort of Keyser Söze split personality and it's fucking with me in some major way.