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    He’s getting sick and tired of everybody coming up into his face, thinking they can talk to the champion without an appointment. Now everyone wants to know who he’s got for a partner? Well 23, 23, 58, that’s his partner! He don’t need no partner, he’s his own man, he is the man, he’s got the gold, he don’t need nothing!
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    Lawler is scheduled for a match, but before he gets in the ring he wants to browse through the audience as he’s seen some sights today. He first fins a couple of men in Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler shirts (one of them is the same chap from several weeks ago) and of course they meet with his approval. A woman starts booing him and he says that someone with a face like hers should boo! He goes to a guy who is not blessed in the looks department and says how everyone has a right to be ugly, but he abuses the system! He then says the only reason that he’s got that bears is because even the razor backed up from that face! You would have thought he’d be a little pissed about being mocked on national TV, but nope, he just laughs at ‘The King’s’ insults of him. The people are practically begging Lawler to pick on them at this point. He spots three girls who are all dressed up and jokes that they’ve all dressed up for the prom. Until he notices that one of them is holding a young baby and says that it’s a little late for the prom for her! The lady tries to say something back, but she seems to have a bit of stage fright and struggles to speak when he puts the microphone in front of her. His parting shot is saying how that when she goes to the beach in a bikini even the tide won’t come in! The crowd are all chanting ‘Jerry, Jerry, Jerry’ by now and you’d have no idea he is supposed to be the lead heel in the promotion! Oh how I’ve missed these segments!
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    Rick Rude is in the gym drenched in sweat while the Brain is also in workout gear. Rude bets that the Ultimate Warrior is happy, and as the new WWF champion he has every right to be, but he’s happy too. Only one man has ever beaten the Ultimate Warrior for a title, and that’s him. He’s now issuing a public challenge to him, one that he must accept. Heenan says that he’s not going to be smart or cute, they’re 100% dead serious and if the Warrior doesn’t understand that he’s in some serious trouble. Rude says that he’s embarked on the most rigorous training schedule the human body can endure, and when they step into the ring and stare eye to eye, there will be no doubt who the ‘ultimate athlete’ is. Once more he will cross over into parts unknown, and once more he will take what the Ultimate Warrior thinks is his forever. Strong, ultra serious promo from Rude and Heenan here. Problem is that I don’t take Rude as a legitimate threat. Sure he already beat Warrior for the Intercontinental title, but it wasn’t clean in the slightest. Pete touches on it, but a clean win over a fairly top level face would have really helped here and Jimmy Snuka (who he is coming off defeating at Wrestlemania) isn’t that top face.
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    The guests on this week’s Louisville Slugger are the most influential woman in professional wrestling and the six time NWA Champion, Ric Flair and Woman. One of the reasons Cornette asked the ‘Nature Boy’ to be his guest, other than knowing that Woman would be with him, is that he wants to talk about the Four Horsemen. For a long time they’ve been the most influential and elite group in professional wrestling, but now, through unforeseen situations that they had no control over, you don’t have them at full strength due to the injury to Arn Anderson. Cornette wants to know what Ric Flair is going to do in order to bring the Horsemen back to full strength. He says that Woman is currently in charge of all future acquisitions and she’s on a manhunt. She’s got a bank book bigger than Dallas, she’s got brains, she’s got Ric Flair, and if she picked him, you know she’s going to pick another winner. Cornette says that he’s had some cash flow problems recently and he would be willing to lease Woman the contracts of the Midnight Express temporarily, providing the price is right, in order to bring the Horsemen back to their former glory. Woman thinks that it’s an interesting prospect and it’s very possible that they may do some business. He thanks them for being guest on the Louisville Slugger and wonders if Woman would like to have a later dinner tonight to discuss this big business deal they’re going to go through? She tells him that she’ll see him on Monday, much to Cornette’s disappointment! I always enjoy these three together as I really like their interactions with one another, though despite this I’m not overly convinced on the Flair and Woman pairing. Her in charge of the Horsemen, pulling the strings, it just doesn’t work for me. This looks as though it is building to something, with Woman not outright quashing Cornette’s proposal, but I think it ends up going nowehere.
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    Jake says here at Wrestlemania it is the biggest match in Ted Dibiase’s career because everything he stands for, namely the Million Dollar Belt, is on the line. It can be his once again, all he has to do is go through Damian and him. The thing is, they don’t forget though. They remember all the times he made people grovel for his money, people far less fortunate than him, people that could use that money for essentials. What did he do? He made fun of them, humbled and humiliated them. Well now it’s his turn. He’s going to make Dibiase beg and get down on his hands and knees. This time he’ll be the one that’s humbled and humiliated, the one that grovels for the money. And how appropriate that the money you grovel for is your own, a victim of his own greed wallowing in the muck of avarice. The match is joined in progress and a short clothesline from Jake and he signals for the DDT. Dibiase grabs the referee’s leg to stop him applying the hold, and with the referee distracted, Virgil pulls Jake out of the ring. Jake clocks him with a right, slams him on the concrete, but Dibiase sneaks up from behind and puts the Million Dollar Dream on him. Jake runs into the ringpost to break the hold and both men are down on the arena floor. Virgil rolls Dibiase back in the ring just before the ten count to win the match and regain his Million Dollar belt. Dibiase celebrates in the ring with the belt whilst Virgil is flashing the cash, and Jesse Ventura says how it’s a non-sanctioned title so you can win it on a count out or a disqualification. Jake gets back in the ring and hits them both with a double clothesline and the money goes flying everywhere. Virgil is able to grab the Million Dollar belt and sprints to the back, but Jake finally catches Dibiase with a DDT. He gives the money out to ringsiders and stuffs a bill in Dibiase’s mouth for good measure. He’s about to Damian over him when Virgil rushes back down and gets Dibiase out of there. For a feud that ran for so long it’s a lousy finish, but I ‘suppose’ Jake got a bit of retribution with the post-match DDT and the ‘ultimate humiliation’ of stuffing a bill in Dibiase’s own mouth. Promo before the match from Jake was excellent.
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    Steve Allen has a piano set up in the shower (for the acoustics!), so he can rehearse the Russian Narional Anthem with his favourite Soviet Union tag team, Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov! Allen plays a few comedy ditties that Volkoff doesn’t appreciate, and when Allen says about doing a song for mother Russia and the toilet then flushes, Boris has to hold big Nikolai back from going for him.
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    ‘Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of Superbowls, the World Series, the Olympics, and now the site of Wrestlamania VII. The event that will shatter all past Coliseum attendance records on March 24th 1991’ If only they knew…
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    Piper has gone from just painting half his face black, to painting half his face, half his neck and one arm black now! He says that you can call him ‘Hot Rod’, that some folk call him the ‘Hot Scot’, or you could say that he’s a little ‘two faced’, before revealing the whole ghastly half and half sight. He says that Bad News Brown has just got the one face, the kind of face that needs customizing and segues this into just throwing insults at Bad News’ appearance. From his bug eyes that look like they are going to pop out, to his out of proportion ears, to his nose with hairs that are three and a half foot long coming out of them to his big mouth. He says that he is going to shut that mouth and the only thing Bad News doesn’t know is if it will be the ‘Hot Rod’ or the ‘Hot Scot’ that will do it. Considering this seemed to being pushed as third from top (after the main event and the mixed tag), this did absolutely nothing to build the match. Piper just throwing a bunch of childish insults out whilst looking like a reject from the Black and White Minstrels (UK reference there folks!). Hated this.
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    We join the match with Haku working on Ax. He makes the hot tag to Smash and you can tell Andre is in no state to wrestle, as after the hot tag, and with Smash beating on Haku, the Giant just watches on from the apron not even attempting to come in the ring to help his partner. Andre finally gets in the ring but a double clothesline by Demolition sees him slump backwards into the corner. Double beat down on Haku and the referee tries to get Ax out of there. Andre is back to his feet by now and grabs Smash. Haku goes for a thrust kick but Smash moves and he nails the Giant who falls backwards and gets tied up in the ropes. Heenan tries his best to free Andre but to no avail as a Demolition Decapitation on Haku sees them become the tag team champions again. Crowd were pretty hot for this. Heenan starts berating and prodding Andre after the match, but when he slaps him it’s a step too far. Andre paintbrushes Heenan (although one of these misses by a country mile) and Haku tries to attack him from behind, but the Giant sees him off too. He then throws them both off the cart for good measure before riding to the back. This was pretty much it for Andre as a wrestler in the WWF so it was nice for him to go out as a babyface with some cheers and get this ‘goodbye’.
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    Lawler wonders where the USWA officials, these jerks like Max Andrews, find these clowns that they keep running in here to try and take his USWA title like this Mike Awesome. They’re scraping the bottom of the barrel now! He wants to give us a history lesson and says that there used to be these huge, muscular, powerful creatures called dinosaurs, but for all their great size they only had a brain the size of a hen’s egg. Sure they were the strongest and biggest thing that roamed the earth, but they weren’t strong enough to keep themselves from becoming extinct. Mike Awesome might be big and powerful with muscles sticking out all over that deformed looking body, and while that may impress these idiots in Dallas, he knows him for what he really is, an idiot and a halfwit! Mind readers only charge him half price! He’s going to make an example out of Mike Awesome, and brains will win out over brawn any day of the week and twice on Sunday! He’s going to expose him for the imbecile he is and he’s a halfwit if he thinks he’s in the same category as ‘The King of Wrestling’.
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    ‘Everybody is talking about it, everybody is reading it, Wrestling Wrap Up, the newsletter of World Championship Wrestling!’ Nice A3 poster of Woman in the issue that the women in the hairdressers are looking at, whilst businessmen are pretending to read the newspaper but in reality are checking out Wrestling Wrap Up. A Michael Hayes and Jim Garvin cameo at the end of the commercial, with Hayes looking especially sleazy hanging around in the hairdressers with his shirt off.
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    Jim Cornette says that Sting’s leg is making far better progress than the doctor’s thought it would, he’s really overjoyed to hear that! Jim Ross has the opportunity to join Sting for a workout; they’re going to be riding a bicycle, maybe Jim will have a heart attack and keel over? Who knows what will happen? Ross says that he’s done some research on Sting’s injury, and a ruptured patella tendon is one of the most serious injuries an athlete can face. Some All-Pro athlete (whose name I didn’t catch) came back in four months from the same injury, but he came back drastically too soon and was never the same again. He wonder if it’s ever crossed Sting’s mind that he might never be the same? Sting says he’s not going to be the same, because when he comes back he won’t have to worry about wrestling this guy or that guy, as he’ll be focussing on one man, Ric Flair. He’ll be mentally prepared, physically stronger and his leg will have had all this time to rehabilitate. He’s thinking about one thing, and that’s coming back for Ric Flair. This was fairly similar in vain to the interview he cut on his return to World Championship Wrestling last week.
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    ‘This Sunday afternoon, live from the Skydome in Toronto, Wrestlemania VI, ‘The Ultimate Challenge’. Don’t delay, pick up the phone right now, call your local cable company and be part of it all!’ Mean Gene can’t recall a match in WWF history that has ever been bigger than Hulk Hogan vs Ultimate Warrior! Gene runs down the full card for Wrestlemania and the mixed tag is being pushed second, followed by the Roddy Piper vs Bad News Brown match. There is an awful lot of filler on this show and at least half a dozen matches wouldn’t look out of place on Superstars. Interviews from Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire, Akeem and Slick and the Big Boss Man intersperse the run down, before Gene announces Rhythm & Blues will debut ‘Hunka Hunka Hunka Honky Love’, while celebrities like Steve Allen, Rona Barrett and Robert Goulet will be in attendance. I thought it when I watched the Royal Rumble report, but Gene Okerlund is perfect for these. I can’t imagine anyone else doing a better job than him here.
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    Today’s guests on the Brother Love show will shatter the dreams of Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire at Wrestlemania VI, the ‘Macho King’ Randy Savage and the ‘Sensational Queen’ Sherri! Love is practically hyperventilating when he talks about the comments Dusty Rhodes has made should he ever be alone with Sherri, one on one, in the ring. Sherri says that the ‘Macho King’ is a former WWF World Champion, she’s a former WWF Women’s Champion, and she would knock him on his butt almost as quick as the ‘Macho King’ would! When an again excitable Love wonders what should happen if Savage ever got his hands on Sapphire, Savage says the thought of little Sapphire in the ring with the ‘Macho King’ drives him insane. Let your imagination run wild, let the ‘American Dream’ sweat and think of the possibilities with the whole world watching on, in the first mixed tag team match in the history of the WWF. I said Sherri outshone Savage in the last promo and she did it again here. Sherri is just a ball of energy, even when Love isn’t talking to her she’s working, playing off what Savage is saying, pacing around the set, gesturing and getting wound up. When you compare how hard she works to the likes of Fuji, Slick and even Jimmy Hart, I just hope her effort and work was recompensed sufficiently.
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    Warrior says that there are only a couple of sunrises and sunsets left before the greatest battle that shall ever take place will be upon them. Two of the greatest warriors that commanded the greatest forces will face each other. Hulk Hogan will see it in his eyes that he is the chosen one! Hogan says that this Sunday, he and all his little Hulksters predict that this will be the last sunset for the Ultimate Warrior. Physically he’s ready, the largest arms in the world can handle him at any time! Emotionally and morally, the support he’s got worldwide is unsurpassed at any energy level! Spiritually, he's driven his Harley Davidson into the Pacific and screamed to God ‘what is the destiny of Hulkamania?’ His God looked down and said ‘Hulkster, you were born to rule, Hulkamania will never die!’ That’s all he needed to hear to carry him through the final few hours. This Sunday the Warrior will realise that Hulkamania is the strongest force in the universe and he will become the Ultimate Hulkamaniac and he will be on his side! Thank God these promos are over!
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    Demolition have just won a squash when the Hart Foundation come down the aisle and into the ring to confront them. Neidhart says that they are here to issue a public challenge to the winner of the tag team title match at Wrestlemania VI, whether that is Demolition or Andre the Giant and Haku. Bret says that they want the winner and they want the titles! Kinda obvious who was winning when there was no challenge made to the Colossals!
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    After predicting victory for the Ultimate Warrior last week and Hulk Hogan the week before, this time Jesse Ventura is dressed as some Hogan/Warrior hybrid, with Hogan cap, Warrior face paint and a T-Shirt featuring them both. Vince says the flip flopping is over and asks Jesse for his impressions on who will win the Ultimate Challenge. Ventura says that hes a broadcast journalist, he doesnt do impressions! He wins either way. Hulk? Warrior? Its a toss up!
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    Jimmy Valiant makes his way into the ring and kisses both the ring attendant and the referee (no Tony Falk this time. No doubt knew what was going to happen so hid out in the toilet until after this match was finished!). Travis (who is seconded by Terrance Garvin) mimics Valiant’s dancing and also tried to sing his entrance theme. He starts arguing with a lady in the crowd, then Valiant goes outside and kisses her. Marc Lowrance is the next unfortunate recipient of a kiss from Valiant, but he ends up fainting and falling off his chair! The camera is still on Lowrance so we miss him do something to Travis, however Lowarance says how Garvin is jealous, so we can assume he kissed him too! Garvin goes over to Lowrance and tells him that he hopes he’s got his rabies shots as he’s probably caught something from Valiant kissing him! Travis tries to rally the crowd but they just boo him, and then Jimmy shows him how it’s done. A pelvic thrust to both Travis and Garvin, then after nigh on five minutes they finally lock up. Valiant is backed up into the corner and Travis goes to hit him, but Valiant moves out of the way and the momentum of the punch sees him fall over, with Travis then claiming Valiant pulled his hair! Lock up and this time it is Travis who is backed up. Valiant motions as if he’s going to deliver a punch himself, Travis ducks, Valiant waits, and when Billy Joe stands back up ‘Handsome’ Jimmy pokes him in the eyes! Wristlock by Valiant, and at every opportunity when the referee is distracted, he pulls Travis’ hair to keep him trapped in the hold. Of course Garvin and Billy Joe complain to the referee about the hair pulling, but the crowd back Valiant up and say there wasn’t any. Travis finally gains a brief advantage and the crowd starts chanting ‘Go Jimmy Go’ to try and encourage Valiant. Travis starts joining in the chant and encouraging the crowd until he realises they are chanting ‘Jimmy’ and not ‘Billy’! A right floors Valiant and then Travis starts doing women’s push ups. He climbs to the top turnbuckle but misses a big elbow. Valiant starts throwing some terribly pulled punches, and when he’s near Garvin, Terrance grabs his foot. Valiant kicks Garvin who takes a fall backwards, but he’s in the ring sharpish to attack Valiant from behind for the DQ. The two of them beat on him until Jeff Jarrett and Bill Dundee make the save. This was a lot of fun, although I think I prefer the Lawler vs Valiant match which was the same schtick, clowning around affair. Travis was wonderful here, especially with the array of facials and expressions he has. Even when he was trapped in an arm wringer he was selling it fantastically, while his attempt to sing Valiant’s entrance theme had me in stitches. Finish was incredibly lame with a cheap interference DQ, think I would’ve preferred the referee bump, foreign object one to that.
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    Hogan and the Warrior are sat opposite each other with Jack Tunney between them and conducting the Wrestlemania VI main event contract signing. Tunney gets over the importance of the match by stating that it is the first time in the history of the WWF that it will be title vs title. Hogan signs first and says that the training, the prayers and the vitamins will prove at Wrestlemania VI that Hulkamania is still the strongest force in the universe. The Warrior pulls faces while Hogan is speaking, talks nonsense, then points to the belts and says something about two becoming one. Hogan has to remind him to sign the contract and the match is official. Hogan was a lot calmer here than he has been compared to the other promos he’s been cutting leading up to this point, while Warrior is Warrior! There are a couple of very strange camera angles as well, when they focus directly on Hogan and the Warrior’s faces that have blatantly been recorded at a different time and then cut in to the segment. Pretty sure that Pat Patterson was sat next to Hogan in the role of ‘lawyer’.
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    The end of an Eric Embry vs Medicine Man match and Gary Young interferes for the DQ. The two of them double team Embry and Skandor Akhbar prevents Percy Pringle from coming to Embry’s aid. Pringle is dragged into the ring and it’s three on two in Devastation Inc.’s favour. Akhbar puts on some brass knux and throws a couple of horrid looking punches to Pringle who blades himself. Young attacks referee Tony Falk, they spike piledrive Embry and continue to triple team the two of them. Akhbar grinds something into Pringle’s forehead, Young chokes Embry with the whip and finally Dustin Rhodes, Jimmy Jack Funk and Matt Borne (in a jumper several sizes too big for him!) make the save and run Devastation Inc. off. Akhbar and Young interview follows, with Akhbar saying how after all the beatings and all the humiliation, Eric Embry and Percy Pringle have started a movement to remove Devastation Inc. from the USWA. Akhbar does all the talking here (it’s because Gary Young is fired up!) and tells Embry and Pringle if they turn up on Friday night to face he and Young, he’s going to beat the living daylights out of them. When you step in the ring with Devastation Inc. you have to be prepared to pay the consequences. Next up Gary Young is scheduled to face James Rapp when Embry comes to ringside and gets a mic off Marc Lowrance. He says that they’ve hurt Percy Pringle real bad and probably feel really good about it. He doesn’t care what anybody does to him, but Pringle is part of his family and if you lay a finger on his family you’re going to have to answer to him. He tells Rapp to get out of the ring for his own wellbeing, then gets in himself and goes after Young. Akhbar gets involved and Embry is handling the two of them at first until Devastation Inc. get an advantage. Young with a single armed DDT, when out from the back runs a bandaged up Pringle who starts hitting the heels with his cowboy boot until they flee the ring. Embry finally promises to beat Akhbar from one side of the Sportatorium to the other on Friday night, and he doesn’t care what he’s got to do to in order to do it, because you don’t touch family! I was torn on this. I like Embry and Pringle was pretty good here (especially on his selling and the run in save), but Devastation Inc. has that ‘go away’ heat for me. I’d personally rather see Embry feud with anyone but this group. I also didn’t know who Medicine Man was until reading this thread, but did think he looked like one of the Renegade Warriors.
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    Youngblood has got as much chance as beating him as his ancestors had of beating John Wayne! The music video is set to ‘Wild Boys’ by Duran Duran and features some of the same clips that are in the ‘Gypsies on Parade’ music video from earlier in the Yearbook. We see Dundee against Nick Bockwinkle, Koko Ware, the Fabulous Ones, against Lawler in the studio amongst others. All in ring actino in this, which I prefer, although needless to say the clips are at least several years old as is the norm for these Memphis videos.
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    Jim Cornette introduces the Midnight Express as ‘the tag team that ran those gutless, yellow cowards Flyin’ Brian and the Z-Man straight out of the NWA’. Jim Ross says that in case anybody missed it, the Midnight Express stole the US tag team titles from Pillman and Zenk, and are being fined $1,000 a day by the NWA until they return them. Ross informs everyone that Pillman and Zenk have promised him that they will be here today (hmmm, I wonder what might happen?). A squash match that is better when Bob Cook is the one getting squashed. Stan Lane pins Panzer after a double flapjack, and Zenk and Pillman jumps the Midnights after the match and get their titles back.
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    Jim Ross starts by playing some video and recapping Sting’s appearance at Wrestle War, which was his first appearance since after his injury. We return from the footage to see Sting having now joined ‘JR’ and back on World Championship Wrestling. Ross asks how his training is going and what are his days like now? Sting says that he’s doing therapy every day, not just physical therapy, but mental therapy too. He gets up every morning and throws darts at the wall, but Ric Flair’s face is where he is throwing the darts! That’s good therapy mentally for him as it helps him to take out some of his aggression. As far as physical therapy, he’s got to bend the leg, ride a stationary bike, tighten up the quad muscles and slowly but surely, work himself into a groove again. Ross says how Ric Flair has said Sting will never be the same if he comes back, he’ll be a shell of his former self. Sting says that he’s not going to be the same when he comes back… he’s going to be wilder, stronger, faster, madder and ready to get in Ric Flair’s face! Good promo from Sting and he should be a huge babyface come the time he’s able to get back in the ring and face Flair.
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    Jim Ross says that there is a cloud of mystery surrounding these men (it’s Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom Jim!) and wonders if they are related to him? Ole says that it’s none of his business and all that he and the Steiners need to know is this is what they’re going to have to contend with. Everbody looks at the Steiners and they say, as good as they are, what chance does Ole Anderson, what chance do the Horsemen and what chance does the Minnesota Wrecking Crew II have against two of the greatest collegiate wrestlers in the world? Ole says that there’s a big difference between collegiate and professional wrestling, and there is a big difference in the Anderson and Horsemen philosophy of wrestling than everybody else’s. There is no place for sportsmanship in wrestling, they know they have to win and will do whatever it takes. Think back to when Gene was sacrificed? Now Arn is in the hospital and they’re not going to stop until the World tag team titles are around the Minnesota Wrecking Crew II’s waist. Ole is such a great mouthpiece here. The Horsemen have been having a stellar year on the mic so far, but I’d rank Ole as the best of the bunch. Not one dud segment and he always hits every point and gets everything across. I’ve always wondered what sort of agreement was in the NWA and AWA that allowed Enos and Bloom to be on NWA whilst they were the AWA tag team champions (even if they were under masks).
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    The Warrior says he must take Hulk Hogan into his world, his darkness, somewhere Hulk Hogan can never return from. Those that stood with film over their eyes will now see clearly that Hulk Hogan had no choice, and had to surrender to the power of the Ultimate Warrior. Hogan and all his Hulkamaniacs have had enough of all the Warrior’s Frankenstein talk (they’re not the only ones!). More talk about injecting poison, darkness and light, before saying that after Wrestlemania VI the Warrior is going to be a ghost. He says that Hulk Hogan is the greatest WWF Champion there was and ever will be, and after Wrestlemania he’s going to prove that to all the Warriors that still believe in him. Boy do I hate these interviews! Thank God there is only one week left before Mania as I’ve had a gutful of this nonsense from these two.
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