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[1982-01-01-NWA-St. Louis, MO] Ric Flair vs Dusty Rhodes (2/3 falls)
Loss posted a topic in January 1982
This isn’t complete, but we still get 22 minutes of footage with a healthy amount of action from each fall. I don’t think it’s clipped much. Fun seeing Dusty work the mat! The early part of this is Dusty working over Ric’s arm and going for quick pins while Flair tries to bridge out. Dusty is a competent mat wrestler. It’s wild seeing this because I’m used to the more character-driven flip-flop-fly-type action from these two where they stay vertical and Flair plays pinball for Dusty’s elbows. So seeing them do a chess match where they fight over a gutwrench suplex is something else. The crowd stays with them for this though, probably because they are in St. Louis and both guys are stars, so they can get away with it. I’m also impressed with how they pace this in such a classic way – lots of slow build with bursts of really fast action before they slow things down again. Athletically, Flair was at his peak in the early 80s, so every quick burst of action looks really good. I love the finish of each of the falls. The first fall finish puts Flair over both as a great wrestler and a cheating asshole, and it’s kind of a surprise to see Dusty take a pin from the champ in the first fall of a match, especially when it’s relatively clean. The second fall was Dusty’s retaliation and a decisive victory, coming back after Flair dominated the early part. They really do a great job putting over Flair’s resourcefulness in this one. He’s managed to be dominant before the third fall without even going for the leg, which makes it a bigger deal when he finally does. There’s a great sequence where Flair throws kicks at Dusty, which pisses him off enough to try to stand right up and fight him, but he collapses under the weight of his bad knee. Then Flair locks in the figure four and we get a time call of 30 minutes elapsed about 19 minutes into the clip, so not too much shaved at all. Pretty typical finishing stretch that was still fresh at the time, with Dusty putting Flair’s own figure four on him. Then Dusty goes for a press slam and his bad knee gives out, with Flair collapsing on top for the win. Great booking and surprisingly great action makes a great match. **** -
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[1980-02-05-NJPW-New Year Golden Series] Tatsumi Fujinami vs Dynamite Kid
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[1990-06-08-AJPW-Super Power Series] Mitsuharu Misawa vs Jumbo Tsuruta
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[1995-10-25-AJPW-October Giant Series] Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi
Loss posted a topic in October 1995
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[1996-06-16-WCW-Great American Bash] Rey Misterio Jr vs Dean Malenko
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[1996-05-24-AJPW-Super Power Series] Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi
Loss posted a topic in May 1996
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[1994-04-17-WCW-Spring Stampede] Dustin Rhodes vs Bunkhouse Buck (Bunkhouse)
Loss posted a topic in April 1994
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[1996-03-31-AJPW-Championship Carnival] Toshiaki Kawada vs Akira Taue
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[1996-03-31-AJPW-Championship Carnival] Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi
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[1990-11-14-AJW-Wrestlemarinepiad] Aja Kong vs Bull Nakano (Cage)
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