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April: 1. Riki Choshu & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa (WAR 4/2/93) 2. Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJ 4/16/93) 3. Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki vs. Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada (2/3 Falls) (AJW 4/10/93) 4. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu (NJ 4/6/93) 5. Shiro Koshinaka, Kengo Kimura, Michiyoshi Ohara & Akitoshi Saito v Super Strong Machine, Ricky Fuyuki, Ashura Hara & Koki Kitahara (WAR 4/2/93) 6. Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori (AJW 4/2/93) 7. Toshiaki Kawada vs. Akira Taue (JIP) (AJ 4/12/93) 8. Manami Toyota & Yumiko Hotta vs. Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue (AJW 4/24/93) 9. Sabu vs. Lightning Kid (Grand Slam 4/17/93) 10. Bret Hart vs. Bam Bam Bigelow (Barcelona 4/24/93) 11. Volk Han vs. Mitsuya Nagai (RINGS 4/24/93) 12. Vader vs. Cactus Jack (WCWSN 4/17/93) 13. Vader vs. Cactus Jack (WCWSN 4/24/93) 14. Tracy Smothers vs. Tony Anthony (Tennessee Chain match) (Bluegrass Brawl 4/2/93) 15. Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi (JIP) (AJ 4/14/93) 16. Ciclon Ramirez, Corazon De Leon & Oro vs. Felino, Javier Cruz & Negro Casas (CMLL 4/30/93) 17. Bull Nakano vs. Devil Masami (JWP 4/18/93) 18. Takako Inoue & Kyoko Inoue vs. Cuty Suzuki & Mayumi Ozaki (AJW 4/2/93) 19. Ultimo Dragoncito & Orito vs. Felinito & Ultratumbita (EMLL 4/30/93) 20. Barry Windham vs. Steven Regal (WWW 4/18/93) 21. Jushin Liger & El Samurai vs. Ultimo Dragon & Norio Honaga (NJ 4/6/93) 22. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (JIP) (AJ 4/12/93) 23. Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Owen Hart (Superstars 4/17/93) 24. Terry Gordy vs. Steve Williams (JIP) (AJ 4/12/93) 25. Jerry Lawler vs. Randy Savage (Cage Match) (JIP) (USWA 4/19/93) 26. Heavenly Bodies & Bobby Eaton vs. Rock & Roll Express & Arn Anderson vs. Stud Stable & Dutch Mantell (Street Fight) (Bluegrass Brawl 4/2/93) 27. Eddy Guerrero, El Hijo Del Santo & Konnan vs. Cien Caras, Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 (AAA 4/2/93) 28. Konnan vs. Cien Caras (Loser Must Retire) (AAA 4/30/93) Tenryu is starting to run away with WOTY for me. Kawada is one of the main guys still in contention, but with some great Tenryu stuff still to come I'm not sure anybody's beating him out. That 4/2 tag is fucking terrific and, for me, Tenryu was the star of it. I suspect I like Hokuto/Kandori less than most. I guess I've just never really "got it", although I enjoyed it more this time than I ever have before. Hell of a month overall.
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It was hilariously overbooked, especially with the Smoking Gunns hitting the scene, but I found this alright in a weird sort of way. I mean, I wouldn't call it a "good match", but they did some things I really dug, like the spot where Perfect had Shawn in a leg lock (might've been the figure-four, actually) and Shawn sits up, gets slapped back down, sits up again, gets slapped back down again, then pops up and pokes Perfect in the eye before getting slapped a third time. The spot where Shawn gets his tights pulled down and starts hobbling around with the top layer at his knees while Perfect punches him around was goofy as Hell, but I thought Shawn actually taking the top layer off and choking Perfect with them was awesome and something I've never seen before. I didn't hate this.
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This Dutch/Sullivan stuff is fucking tremendous. I legit burst out laughing at every answer Sullivan gave here, especially when he started talking about waterfalls made of kidneys and spleens. This didn't quite top the one where they're in the dark and Dutch is holding the torch, but it was still awesome.
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Yeah, this was terrific stuff. The Lawler v Flair, Lawler v Dundee and Lawler v Mantel studio matches on the Memphis set were awesome, but I thought this might've been a better match, if not as spectacular an "overall package" deal (as this didn't have a great angle surrounding it). Finish was a bit deflating and really could've done with something bigger, but still, everything else rocked and I was buying a few of the nearfalls myself.
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Good God does Casas rule the fucking world. This isn't as spectacular a performance as the Ultimo title match, but everything he does here made me smile. Ramirez's tope at the end of the first caida was insane, too. I recall loving his eventual mask match against Felino as well and their exchanges in this made me eager to re-watch it. -
I loved this when I watched it last year. http://whiskeyandwrestling.blogspot.com/20...-of-day-10.html
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This is the one I mentioned in the matches of the month thread as my favourite Austin v Barry singles match.
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Good match, although I like their match from Worldwide the next month more. Thought that one was much tighter, while here I started wishing Windham would take over and actually take some offence. Been a while since I watched it though, so my memory might be iffy.
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Yeah, I'm with Loss. Definitely my favourite match from both teams...I'd probably say it's both teams' best as well. Said this about it last year:
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I slightly preferred the Rude/Steamboat ironman match from Beach Blast as my WCW MOTY, but it'll be interesting to see what I think when I get around to seeing them both again. Loss pretty much covered it, but this is what I said when I rambled about it last year: http://whiskeyandwrestling.blogspot.com/20...-of-day-27.html
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I agree with pretty much all of this. I thought it was like the opposite of the "Samson effect"; the less hair he had, the better he got. He's in some strong matches in the first half of the year and the Superbrawl tag is great, but it always feels like he's the least of the guys involved. Then he gets a haircut around the middle of the year and not only is he involved in some good-to-great matches (I'd say more in the second half of the year than in the first), but it feels like he's pulling his weight as much as anybody and really had "put it together". Wargames is excellent and it feels like it's as much to do with him as Arn or Rude or Steamboat -- guys that were clearly better than him a few months before. There's another Windham match from June that is my favourite of all their matches and Austin had become a great opponent for Barry (I love how he sells Windham's taped fist punches. He makes them seem deadly). The Austin/Rude v Barry/Dustin match from the Great American Bash PPV is a match I like a good deal and I thought Steve looked as good as Rude did, which wasn't the case in the Clash tag at the start of the year. He's also great at playing off of Windham in it. There's a Pillman match from a July episode of Worldwide that is really good. It isn't as good as Pillman/Rude from February, but it isn't a blowout and I can't imagine the matches being as close in quality if they both happened in the second month of the year. The TV Title feud with Steamboat around the Fall is great and the Clash XX match is a terrific little match. That's probably the best example his growth that year. Compare it to a ten minute singles match from the first few months (I'm blanking on a decent example offhand) and the change should be pretty clear. He's far more focused and interesting on offence and has WAY more shit in the holster, and he's far better at staying interesting while working from the bottom. Just looks flat out better in general. I mean I'm not sure he'd even be top ten in his own company that year, but he improved leaps and bounds over the course of it and him not being top ten has more to do with the company he was in being *so* good.
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I plan on picking the yearbook up in the next few days, so I'll get around to re-watching this whenever it gets here, but my thoughts were similar to Dylan's after I last watched it. I slacked big time and never got a list together for the Smarkschoice poll, but I figured this would be a top 20 lock after I saw everything I wanted to (which never happened).
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March: 1. Shinya Hashimoto & Michiyoshi Ohara vs. Ashura Hara & Kodo Fuyuki (WAR 3/7/93) 2. Ultimo Dragon vs. Negro Casas (CMLL 3/19/93) 3. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJ 3/27/93) 4. Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs. Riki Choshu & Osamu Kido (WAR 3/3/93) 5. Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs. Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami (NJ 3/23/93) 6. Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Akira Taue, Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJ 3/3/93) 7. Koki Kikahara vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (WAR 3/7/93) 8. Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs. Hollywood Blonds (WWW 3/27/93) 9. Cicloncito Ramirez & Ultimo Dragoncito vs. Felinito & Nuevo Piratita Morgan (CMLL 3/5/93) 10. Misterioso, Rey Misterio Jr. & Volador vs. Heavy Metal, La Parka & Psicosis (AAA 3/12/93) 11. Ultimo Dragon vs. El Samurai (WAR 3/7/93) 12. Marcus Bagwell & 2 Cold Scorpio vs. Steve Austin & Brian Pillman (WWW 3/6/93) 13. Jushin Liger vs. Dean Malenko (NJ 3/21/93) 14. Tracy Smothers vs. Dirty White Boy (SMW 3/6/93) 15. Great Sasuke & El Gran Hamada vs. El Signo & El Rudo (M-Pro 3/16/93) 16. Jushin Liger vs. Chris Benoit (AWF 3/4/93) 17. Ricky Steamboat, Shane Douglas & Dustin Rhodes vs. Hollywood Blonds & Barry Windham (Main Event 3/28/93) 18. Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs. Steve Austin & Brian Pillman (Power Hour 3/6/93) Thought this was another great month. I really love that Kitahara/Kobayashi match. Just a short, super intense shit kicking from Kitahara and basically everything I love about WAR. Tenryu and Kawada are my top 2 wrestlers of the year after 3 months with Tenryu leading slightly (although I watched a bunch of other Tenryu stuff from Jan-Mar '93 that didn't make the set a few months back, so his case is stronger based on that). I'm tempted to toss Casas into the mix as well based on that one match with Ultimo. God damn was he fucking great in that. The Hash/Ohara v Hara/Fuyuki match is incredible and my overall #3 at this point. I first saw it earlier in the year and loved it then, and I loved it even more this time around.
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I'm in agreement with everybody else; this is such a bossy little match. I said this about it last year (and I liked it even more when I watched it again a couple months ago):
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Thanks. I did a bunch of write-ups of Arn matches and always got really long-winded talking about his shtick and otherwise obscure stuff. Might be my favourite shtick guy in history.
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This is one of my favourite matches ever. Did a stupidly long write-up of it last year: http://whiskeyandwrestling.blogspot.com/20...-of-day-17.html
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I watched this a while ago and dug the hell out of it. I love Jumbo/Kikuchi exchanges and there are a few corkers in this. Jumbo hits him with an atomic drop at one point that looked really fucking nasty, thumps him with a bunch a brutal looking kneelifts and generally abuses him. I remember being disappointed that the Kikuchi in peril segment got cut short, though, and didn't think the match reached the level it hit during that section afterwards. I actually had no idea this made the top 20 of the 90s vote. I probably liked it more than anybody else that's commented on it, but even I couldn't see myself putting it top 20.
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Watched this with a few friends not long ago and I still thought it was a ton of fun. Loss' recap does a great job covering it, but I also agree with Tim in that the Savage/Jake stuff was really good as well. Loved Sarge taking his signature corner bump for his elimination and Piper might've been my favourite guy in the match besides Ric. Post-match promo might be my favourite ever. "Y'all better pay homage...to the man!" And I totally forgot about Gene doing the "Put that cigarette out!" bit. That had all of us laughing like a bunch of idiots.
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I was pretty sceptical of this when I saw that it went almost 40 minutes, but I'm glad it was worked this way rather than quite as go-go-go. Actually dug it more than I expected to. I tend to agree with Ditch on it for the most part, but I liked how they - especially Devil - would add subtle little touches of selling to the matwork. Like Devil applying a half crab with one arm while she shakes off the effects of an earlier cross arm breaker on the other arm. The brawling on the floor was fine if for no reason other than the fact it led to some awesome Bull facials expressions. There's times where she walks around the ring with this great "Why am I subjecting myself to this shit? There must be office jobs at Nintendo." look on her face. Finish looked plenty nasty, although I thought it had overstayed its welcome by that point. I touched on the fact I sometimes struggle with joshi when I'm watching it in isolation in the Aja/Inoue v Toyota/Hotta thread. I thought the 4/10 Toyota/Yamada v Kansai/Ozaki tag was great, but it was probably helped by the fact I had already been "eased into it" by watching all the other joshi on the set leading up to it. I don't think this is the best joshi match so far, but it's probably the easiest for me to watch in isolation.
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[1993-04-24-AJW] Manami Toyota & Yumiko Hotta vs Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue
KB8 replied to Loss's topic in April 1993
Yeah, this was a blast. I usually struggle to get into a lot of joshi if I'm watching it in isolation, but the yearbooks are great for eliminating that problem. Thought Aja was awesome here; she totally came across as a serious ass stomper. There's this great moment where Hotta puts Kyoko in a Boston Crab and trash talks Aja, so Aja grabs something and just waffles it over her head. Liked all of the Aja/Toyota exchanges as well. Aja is definitely my favourite opponent for Toyota and this has me looking forward to seeing their Dome match again whenever the 94 set drops. The 1/15 JWP tag is still my clear #1 for josh so far, but this might be my #2 or 3. -
http://whiskeyandwrestling.blogspot.com/20...92-project.html I'll talk about most of the stuff there in the appropriate match threads, but that was how I ranked (loosely, mind you) all the 92 WCW I watched over the last year.
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Love how Duggan always calls him Yokozuma. With an 'm'.
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[1993-03-27-WCW-Worldwide] Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs Hollywood Blonds
KB8 replied to Loss's topic in March 1993
I'd agree with pretty much everything Loss said about this, althouh I slightly prefer the Clash match as my favourite of the series. Everything after Douglas starts playing face-in-peril is excellent, though. I'd probably say the first half of the Clash match is stronger than the first half of this while the second half here is stronger than the second half of Clash. -
The bit where Dutch almost starts laughing when Sullivan says he's being followed by a brown van with Missouri license plates totally set me off. I must've laughed for three minutes straight. I think it was Dylan that said SMW was a "promo" territory and so far there has definitely been a handful of really great promos.
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Yeah, White Boy smashing a pineapple in half with a chain because he hears Smothers likes his women bushy was incredible and would've been the best thing I watched last night if not for the AMAZING Dutch/Sullivan insanity. White Boy pulling out a gun and referring to it as the "peacemaker" was pretty shocking as well.