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  1. KB8
    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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    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.
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    General thoughts about 1992

    KB8 replied to Loss's topic in 1992

    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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    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.
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    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.
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    Shawn is gloriously obnoxious, from calling Jeff 'Jeffrey' to the way he even chews his gum. And sitting poolside with the Intercontinental belt is fucking great. I've seen a bunch of early 90s douchebag Michaels promos, but I don't remember any being this good.
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    Tatanka telling a bunch of 8 year olds to work out 6 times a week was waaaay the best part of this.
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    Yeah, this is great stuff; felt like a top 10 singles match for both guys the last time I saw it. There's one spot where Heyman cheapshots Dustin with his phone and a lady in the crowd goes totally nuts. She's holding a kid that looks about a year old and winds up swinging him/her around like a ragdoll in a rage. Not sure where this falls in a worldwide "best of the year" list, but I'd say it's a top 20 lock for WCW and adds to both guys' case as the WOTY for 92.
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    General thoughts about 1992

    KB8 replied to Loss's topic in 1992

    I don't have this yet, and probably won't for another few months (still barely scratched the surface of 93 and I just picked up 96), but I watched a ton of 92 All Japan last year and over the last year or so I've watched a truckload of 92 WCW. From those two companies alone there's about 15 legit WOTY candidates. WCW in 1992 is probably my favourite single year for any company in history and there is a ridiculous amount of stuff worth watching.
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    I'm not much of an Ultimo Dragon fan, but I agree with Loss - this looks like a possible career match and maybe his best performance. But this is really the Negro Casas show as he is spectacular here. The matwork in the first caida is really strong; nothing necessarily tricked out, but it came across as a struggle. Casas has such charisma - and is so good - that I found myself focusing on him practically the whole time. He's pretty much a master of subtlety. Love how he'd sort of play to the crowd's cheers in the opening fall during the matwork only to clearly stop giving a shot after he goes a fall down. The low blow after he second fall was such an amazing cheapshot, and from that point on the crowd are fully behind Ultimo. The stretch run had me biting on a few of the nearfalls as well. In some ways this might be the biggest surprise of the set for me so far.
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    I actually liked this more than the January six-man, and while I agree with Loss in that this is a good Misawa showcase, I thought it was Kawada that looked like the best in the world (I'm only two months and four days into this, but right now I'd say Kawada and Tenryu are at the top of a hypothetical WOTY list). Everything seemed to really pick up and hit another gear whenever he got in there, especially when he was abusing Akiyama. Misawa comes across as a born leader while Kawada seems like the most vicious "second in command" possible. Felt like it was only a matter of time before he got tired playing second fiddle and wanted to run things his way. Misawa didn't kick enough guys in the spleen. Kawada as Nicky Santoro to Misaswa's Sam Rothstein probably isn't a good analogy, but it was the first one that came to mind.
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    Watched and wrote about this a few months ago, and my thoughts are more or less identical after another watch. Strangely enough I actually liked the handheld version a little more than the TV version. I'm not usually a handheld guy, but I thought some stuff, like the Choshu lariat where he changes direction and blasts Tenryu, came off better from the handheld view. Then again, Tenryu's reaction to it is caught better in the TV version, so it evens itself out in the end, I guess. Kido down the stretch is still tremendous.
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    Matches of the Month

    KB8 replied to Loss's topic in 1993

    Well February was pretty spectacular. 1. Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJ 2/28/93) 2. Riki Choshu, Tatsumi Fujinami, Osamu Kido, Hiroshi Hase & Tayayuki Iizuka vs. Genichiro Tenryu, Ashura Hara, Takashi Ishikawa, Ricky Fuyuki & Tatsumi Kitahara (2/3 falls) (NJ 2/16/93) 3. Vader vs. Sting (Strap Match) (SB 2/21/93) 4. Genichiro Tenryu, Ashura Hara & Takashi Ishikawa vs. Keiji Muto, Akira Nogami & Shinya Hashimoto (NJ 2/5/93) 5. Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kiyoshi Tamura (UWFI 2/14/93) 6. Chris Benoit vs. 2 Cold Scorpio (SB 2/21/93) 7. Rock & Roll Express, Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs. Heavenly Bodies & Hollywood Blonds (WWW 2/27/93) 8. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue (AJ 2/28/93) 9. Rey Mysterio Jr., Winners & Super Calo vs. Heavy Metal, Picudo & Psicosis (AAA 2/14/93) 10. Brian Pillman vs. Ricky Steamboat (Lumberjack Match) (WCWSN 2/20/93) 11. Rock & Roll Express vs. Heavenly Bodies (SB 2/21/93) 12. Rey Mysterio Jr., Winners & Super Calo vs. Heavy Metal, Picudo & Psicosis (AAA 2/7/93) 13. Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs. Aja Kong & Bat Yoshinaga (AJW 2/16/93) 14. Bobby Eaton vs. Ricky Morton (SMW 2/27/93) 15. Misterioso & Volador vs. Tony Arce & Vulcano (AAA 2/21/93) 16. Eddy Guerrero, El Hijo Del Santo & Konnan vs. Cien Caras, Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 (AAA 2/7/93) 17. Rock & Roll Express vs. Stud Stable (SMW 2/20/93) 18. Steve Armstrong & Wendell Cooley vs. Randy Barber & Johnny Starr (USA Wrestling 2/13/93) 19. Vader vs. Rick Thames (WCWSN 2/13/93) 20. Eddy Guerrero, El Hijo Del Santo & Konnan vs. Cien Caras, Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 (AAA 2/14/93) Hansen/Kawada is my working MOTY and really just an amazing match. The WAR v NJ 10-man tag and Vader/Sting aren't that far behind it, though, and the WAR/NJ 6-man from the 5th is the fourth match from February in my working top 5. I had already watched a chunk of the WAR v NJ feud before this, and it's easily one of the best feuds ever for me. I could watch that shit all day. Benoit/Scorp kind of blew me away in that it was always a match I thought was good, but still came away from it this time with a much higher opinion of it. That 8-man tag from Worldwide was so much fun, too. Crowd was amazing, everybody got to do some stuff...if it was longer and they got to stretch out a bit more then it would've been excellent. Great month.
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    I watched a ton of RAW from 2000 last year, and while I'd say the ten man tag from February is the only match that's a real slam dunk, there's a decent amount of fun stuff (unfortunately I don't remember much in the way of specifics). Super fun lead-in to Backlash. Crowd is insanely hot. This is a cage match that overbooked to high Hell and I love it. Shane takes a couple crazy bumps, the crowd are molten, and JR makes gay jokes because Patterson is hanging around ringside. This isn't the best triple threat match in company history, but it might be my favourite. Angle and Hunter spend most of it double teaming Rock before Hunter punts Angle in the balls and from that point it's every man for himself. The early HHH/Angle v Rock story and the fact it's short means there's no annoying "one guy takes a breather" stuff, which is generally what prevents me from liking this stip. I thought this was one of the better Kane matches I had seen. Rock does a great job making him look like a legit threat heading towards the Unforgiven PPV the next month. Crazy match that winds up breaking down into a big brawl. Eddie is awesome as a smarmy little douchebag, and Austin hurls Saturn across the announce table like it's a slip-n-slide. Probably the second or third best WWE TV match of the year. Don't remember much about this other than the outcome. Did think it was a really good TV tag, though. And the crowd was rocking as usual. There's also the HHH/Jericho match and angle where Jericho "wins" the title, but that's something that gets talked about pretty regularly, anyway. Although they had another match on June 12th that I thought was better as an actual match.
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    I got all long-winded and shit and rambled about this on my blog earlier. ----- The build up video packages to this are truly too spectacular to describe. Totally ridiculous and hilarious and there's Cheatum the Evil Midget. The build up as a whole was legitimately really good (the video packages are awful, but in the best way possible). Vader kills a jobber on an episode of Saturday Night, smears face pain over him and starts whipping him with a strap. There's a tag match from late January where Race holds Sting down and Vader whips him across the back. A week later Sting has a match with Barry Windham (Vader's partner in the aforementioned tag) and he winds up trying to hang him with the strap. And there's Cheatum the Evil Midget and a tug of war over a burning dinner table. Actual match has always been my favourite of the Sting/Vader matches, and I didn't change my mind this time around. Really feels like one of the definitive violent masterpieces in wrestling history. Vader just yanks Sting across the ring with the strap a couple times at the start, and you get the sense he's gonna enjoy fucking around with him like this. Sting is a strong dude, but can he do much of anything when he's literally attached to Vader? Dragging him around the ring so he can touch all four corners is akin to towing a horsebox up a hill with a BMX. And even if he can possibly overcome the GIRTH, there's still the fact Vader will punch your fucking face through the back of your head if you get close enough to him. And well, the strap means you can't really NOT get close to him. The early stages are all Vader and before long he's whipping Sting like a mule, using the strap to draw him in close so he can squash him, dropping big elbows (there's one where he blatantly elbow drops Sting in the nuts), splashing him, etc. Sting takes over by essentially using the strap to force Vader into punching himself in the balls, and he goes on a great run of offense. You can clearly see Harley taking the blade across Vader's back after Sting's whipped him a bunch of times, and the visual of Vader stumbling around with his back all cut up was always a crazy violent image that stuck with me from the first time I saw the match. Love the spot where Sting uses the strap to draw Vader face-first into the ring post, and Sting trying to touch all four posts *outside* the ring is something I've always thought was really cool. Sting torpedoing head-first into the barricade is another nasty spot in a match full of nasty spots. Then we hit the final third and the brutality ramps way up. Vader's big paws open a cut in Sting's forehead and it's anybody's guess as to whether or not his stumbling around the ring is a sell job or not. Because Vader is really laying in the big paws. Feels like I've said that about Vader's punches a million times since I started this blog, but they're honestly as repulsive here as I've ever seen them. Sting's comeback is really tremendous. The German suplex is always a great spot in their matches, but the moment of the match for me is Sting's return onslaught in the corner. I don't think of Sting as a great puncher, but he threw some awesome punches earlier on when both guys were teeing off on each other (while they were on their knees. It fucking ruled), and the close up image of him rifling Vader with HUGE punches while Vader's crumpled like a lifeless sack in the corner was fucking amazing. He kind of collapses after he's punched himself out like a man who's just been pushed to commit horrific violence he never knew he had in him. And then he follows it up with one of the most impressive feats of strength I can recall seeing in wrestling when he carries Vader on his shoulders around the whole ring only to have Nick Patrick accidentally trip him up (after a really good ref' bump) six inches before touching the last turnbuckle, leaving Vader's entire dead weight to drop on top of him when he hits the mat. So close yet so far. Vader's back is all cut up, his ear is mutilated, he's covered in blood...he looks much worse off than Sting does. But Sting just towed a horsebox up a hill on a BMX before getting a freak puncture. Now he's got nothing left. Doesn't matter if he holds onto the ropes for dear life, doesn't matter if he tries to kick and claw and fight it. That stumble at the last hurdle has beaten him. Just an epic piece of pro-wrestling.
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    Hansen/Sarge sounds like something that's potentially spectacular. I'm assuming it'll be on the AWA set?
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    The 11/16/91 Hansen/Spivey v Misawa/Kawada tag might be my favourite Hansen performance. Not my favourite Hansen *match*, but he's seriously incredible as a crazy motherfucker in that tag. Kawada starts giving him his little kicks to the head at one point and Hansen just goes berserk, punting him in the head and trying to kick his kidneys through his ribcage. A little later Spivey has Kawada in a Boston crab, and Hansen just walks into the ring and starts stomping on his head, then he goes and gets a chair and blasts him with it, all while he's still in the Boston crab. Then he hurls the chair all the way across the ring at Misawa who's still on the apron, and when Misawa launches it back at him he dives clean out of the ring to get out the way. Just an amazingly surly performance. And the first Baba match on the AJ set is kingsized as well. There's always this sense of dread any time Hansen throws someone into the ropes because there's a good chance they're about to be decapitated. How many guys can make a fucking Irish whip seem like the scariest thing ever?
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    Big Man on Campus? I don't know if that's what he meant, but it's a good description either way. I thought this was fucking awesome. Feels like I'm being really hyperbolic, but I honestly thought this was up there with any multi-man match I've ever seen. The '84 gauntlet on the New Japan set is a different kettle of fish since it's basically a bunch of singles matches rolled into one (singles matches that build really well from one to the next, mind you), but I think I preferred this to the 3/86 and 9/88 matches that I had top 5 on my NJ ballot, and those two were pretty much my benchmark for multi-man tags. Just a million great moments, everybody gets to shine, tonnes of heat, guys being SCUMBAGS, Iizuka slapping Tenryu and Tenryu fucking MURDERING him...man, this was amazing.
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    I haven't really seen a whole lot of joshi compared to most around here, so I don't know if she screams way more than anybody else (all the joshi I have seen has been full of screaming, though), but she was really channeling Maria Sharapova with the volume turned all the way up in this. First time she gets in she's running around screaming non-stop as if she's deliberately trying to be a parody of a screamy joshi wrestler. Not criticizing her as a wrestler/worker because of the screaming (I usually stay out of most joshi conversations, especially when it comes to Toyota, because I honestly don't feel "qualified" enough to say anything worthwhile on it); it's just something that was almost jarring here, especially since more often than not now I just accept the screaming in joshi as background noise and manage pretty well not to pay attention.
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    Irrespective of how good or bad she may be, Toyota might be the most irritating wrestler ever based on the fact she just will not fucking shut up. I've never seen Yoshinaga before, but she struck me as a sort of Aja-lite, which I'm not really opposed to. Aja was a lot of fun here, I though; just bulldozing people, accidentally backfisting the shit out of her own partner, stopping a pair of Duracell bunnies by flattening them, etc.
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