Matt D
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I'm 29 and past an unhealthy amount of nostalgia for the year 1991 tend to skew young and clueless.
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I read the Flair comments as him being a little jealous (or maybe envious, more than jealous) that Macho could have lived another 600 years while he's having issues, and then shrugging it off and going "oh well, I'm the Nature boy."
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The second bit I believe. Him forcing Angelo into the WCW HOF in 95 is rumored to be one of the reasons Solie distanced himself from WCW (not that it particularly mattered at that point).
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[1993-08-09-USWA-Mid-South Coliseum] Jerry Lawler vs Mr Perfect
Matt D replied to Loss's topic in August 1993
In the build to this match, they made it seem like it was the first time that Hennig and Lawler were going at each other since the AWA Title changed. Which was maddening since Hennig was in earlier in the year. -
For what it's worth, Andre/Hogan is a fairly smartly laid out match. Andre may have been hurting but his timing and body language was frigging amazing in his late run. (But then I'm the guy who thinks that Warrior/Andre SNME is a great match too).
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Re: Taker. I SWEAR to you that they added Paul Bearer to his act because he was too scary. Brother Love as his manager added to the package in a different way and just scared the shit out of kids. You can just see it on their faces in the crowd. When Percy came in, WAY WAY over the top, it made it all seem more cartoony and easier to accept.
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From the loads of shoot mp3s I've heard, it depends. Is Rip Rogers teaching you or not?
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I feel like Lawler had to do his very best to rationalize his WWF actions, where he wasn't just a heel but a smarmy annoying cowardly heel, but thankfully Lawler's best is quite considerable.
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What did he say wrong? Dont you think too much moaning by a rich millionaire? It seems he's always been up front about hating the travel and being in the public eye and that's why he quit. Hell, in UFC he doesn't talk to his boss for months on end. He maintains such a secluded lifestyle that he had no idea who Chael Sonnen was when asked. But do you think he knows who the Beatles and Bo Jackson are?
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Funny, I popped in a DVD the other day and both of those thoughts were going through my head. How hot Beth was. And how Stevens as the modern day Jimmy Garvin with two valets would seem perfect for RAW. Stevens was me and my college pals absolute favorite indy wrestler in 2000. We'd go to actually quite bad indy shows specifically to laugh our heads off at his antics. How he had the pointless WWE run he did (and if he gets called up as Damien Sandow, will probably have another) is beyond me.
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Storyline-wise, the trickiest part of that feud is figuring out if they were all in on it together from the get go or if not when they decided to reunite and screw Sting, because there was some pretty heated stuff at the beginning.
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I'll say this. I wasn't really into wrestling at this point. I had fallen off in mid 92, but as a kid, this was still a big deal.
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Dave was amusing on Observer Radio saying "God damn that's scary" at the prospect of Christian vs. Mark Henry main events, despite Christian being as good as he is. I can see that from a drawing perspective, but that's the single feud I want the most in the WWE right now I think. Christian had one-two (tops) matches with Zeke but he really wasn't fighting too many monsters in 09 during his incredible TV Title-esque run. Christian is so great at adapting and rearranging and teasing his spots and I can just imagine what he'd do against Henry and what Henry could do with him.
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And he did.
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I really love the transition that they did in Flair/Arn (multiple matches actually in that feud) where after the Flair Flip, Arn would go for the "babyface clotheslines Flair on the apron" spot and Flair would duck it.
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Really good match. To me it's frustrating that they took so long to debut Roma after they announced him at Slamboree. He should have been all over TV the next weekend if they wanted to get him over. Damn taping schedule.
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This is EASILY the best one. Dustin is absolutely hilarious in this, and so is Foley. "Oh yes, I know you. You're the great country western singer, Dustin Rhodes." "Well, I..." I'm cracking up now just thinking about it.
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I bet there are a ton of awesome Flair/Valentine tag matches. And if someone ever invents time travel we'll be able to see them.
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I'd take Heenan over Benoit anyday, for lots of reasons, but one of the main one being that Heenan can work 2-3 times a night easily and probably cut two promos on top of that. And if this is a MSG show, hell, he could do commentary too.
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Honky didn't have to do more than he did to achieve the results he wanted. In fact, if he did do more he might have sabotaged some of his own efforts, or at the least, he would have had to come up with a different structure and narrative to achieve what he was trying to do. Some of this was shaped (in his own recollection) by him going up for a bump early in his career (I think a belly to back) and a guy totally killing him with his cooperation. For some reason Disco Inferno comes to mind too. He's said on record that he loved watching Japanese tapes and tried to do all that stuff but he just looked awkward as hell doing it and he couldn't pull it off. Both guys were very self aware of what they were doing, what others were doing, and how they might have had better rated matches, but it just didn't make sense to them for one reason or another. I'm not sure what my point there was, to be honest.
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This match is WILDLY underrated and I'm not sure I get why. Zenk is the world's best possible Shane Douglas.
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I feel like I want to argue this but I don't want to go out of my way to watch a lot of Rotunda right now and contort it all into this argument. I shall give you a raincheck.
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I hope this means good things for Christian.
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By this point I am willing to hear any argument in the world, but I think positive things about Russo is where I draw my line.
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Retirement stip from WM 7 ? I don't think so. I think Savage wanted some time off with Liz as they were thinking of having a child. Then things degenerated between the two, I'm not sure when they divorced, but their relationship was probably not the best when they did the wedding angle. Savage really was phased out after Survivor Series 92, and when they began RAW. ANd it was all about Vince thinking Savage was too old, which was ridiculous, as he was a legit star at the time and could have helped a lot to build guys like Bret. His heat with Hogan culminated when Hogan came back in 93. It's amazing these two worked so much together in WCW, and that Savage ended up being Hogan's bitch again. I'm pretty sure they were separated if not divorced by the end of summer in 92, which helps, in my mind, to explain the belt going back onto Flair.