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The year plummets a little bit after July. From August on, there are plenty of good - great matches, but they aren't nearly as plentiful, and they aren't coming from all corners of the world they way they are early on. WCW dropping off created a huge gap. I'm not sure at this point which is the best year of all of them, but yeah, you aren't reading too much into things. August - December didn't match January - July.
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#20 - Great Sasuke vs Jinsei Shinzaki (Michinoku Pro 04/29/94) #19 - Chris Candido vs Tracy Smothers (SMW Bluegrass Brawl 04/01/94) #18 - Yumiko Hotta vs Toshiyo Yamada (AJW 06/03/94) #17 - Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW Saturday Night 05/14/94) #16 - Blue Panther vs El Mariachi (AAA 10/30/94) #15 - Jushin Liger vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 02/24/94) #14 - El Dandy vs Javier Llanes (CMLL 02/22/94) #13 - Great Sasuke & Black Tiger vs Wild Pegasus & Shinjiro Otani (NJPW 10/16/94) #12 - Volk Han vs Mitsuya Nagai (RINGS 12/24/94) #11 - Steve Williams vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW Championship Carnival 04/16/94) #10 - Jushin Liger vs Great Sasuke (NJPW 07/08/94) #9 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Juventud Guerrera (AAA 11/30/94) #8 - Steve Williams vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 07/28/94) #7 - Bret Hart vs Owen Hart (WWF Wrestlemania X 03/20/94) #6 - Vader vs Nobuhiko Takada (UWFI 08/18/94) #5 - Eddy Guerrero & Art Barr vs El Hijo del Santo & Octagon (AAA When Worlds Collide 11/06/94) #4 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW 05/21/94) #3 - Espectrito vs Mascarita Sagrada (AAA 03/12/94) #2 - Aja Kong & Bull Nakano vs Akira Hokuto & Shinobu Kandori (AJW Queendom 03/27/94) #1 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 06/03/94)
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#40 - Shawn Michaels & Diesel vs Razor Ramon & 1-2-3 Kid (WWF Action Zone 10/30/94) #39 - Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Kyoko & Takako Inoue (AJW 10/09/94) #38 - Genichiro Tenryu vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 02/17/94) #37 - Arn Anderson vs Steven Regal (WCW SuperBrawl IV 02/20/94) #36 - Angel Azteca, Volador & Winners vs Misterioso, Solar I & Super Calo (AAA 03/19/94) #35 - El Hijo del Santo, Jushin Liger, Octagon & Tiger Mask vs Blue Panther, Eddy Guerrero, La Parka & Psicosis (AAA Triplemania 05/15/94) #34 - Cactus Jack & Kevin Sullivan vs Nasty Boys (WCW Slamboree 05/22/94) #33 - Aja Kong vs Yumiko Hotta (AJW 01/24/94) #32 - Rick & Scott Steiner vs Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase (NJPW Tokyo Dome 01/04/94) #31 - Steven Regal vs Larry Zbyszko (WCW Saturday Night 05/28/94) #30 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (AJPW 07/22/94) #29 - Bull Nakano vs Shinobu Kandori (LLPW 07/14/94) #28 - Rock & Roll Express vs Heavenly Bodies (SMW Bluegrass Brawl 04/01/94) #27 - Manami Toyota vs Aja Kong (AJW Big Egg Universe 11/20/94) #26 - Wild Pegasus vs Great Sasuke (NJPW Super J Cup 04/16/94) #25 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Gary Albright (UWFI 06/10/94) #24 - Shinya Hashimoto vs Shiro Koshinaka (NJPW G-1 Climax 08/06/94) #23 - Bull Nakano vs Kyoko Inoue (AJW 01/24/94) #22 - Devil Masami, Dynamite Kansai & Chigusa Nagayo vs Mayumi Ozaki, Plum Mariko & Cutie Suzuki (JWP 01/09/94) #21 - Jushin Liger vs Great Sasuke (NJPW Super J Cup 04/16/94)
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#60 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Stan Hansen, Giant Baba & Takao Omori (AJPW 04/16/94) #59 - Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW Spring Stampede 04/17/94) #58 - Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs Atsushi Onita & Tarzan Goto (WAR 03/02/94) #57 - Steve Williams vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 09/03/94) #56 - Mitsuya Nagai vs Masayuki Naruse (RINGS 12/17/94) #55 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Naoki Sano (UWFI 10/14/94) #54 - Cactus Jack & Tracy Smothers vs Chris Candido & Boo Bradley (SMW Christmas Chaos 12/25/94) #53 - Pantera vs Felino (AAA 12/27/94) #52 - El Hijo del Santo, Octagon & Rey Misterio Jr vs Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera & Psicosis (AAA 07/15/94) #51 - Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW Championship Carnival 04/10/94) #50 - Bret Hart vs 1-2-3 Kid (WWF Monday Night RAW 07/11/94) #49 - Hiroshi Hase vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 12/13/94) #48 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW 11/25/94) #47 - Kazushi Sakuraba & Masahito Kakihara vs Gene Lydick & Steve Nelson (UWFI 06/10/94) #46 - Manami Toyota vs Sakie Hasegawa (AJW 06/03/94) #45 - Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon (WWF Wrestlemania X 03/20/94) #44 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (AJPW 12/10/94) #43 - Cactus Jack vs Sabu (NWC 10/30/94) #42 - Great Sasuke, Sato & Shiryu vs Super Delphin, Jinsei Shinzaki & Gran Naniwa (Michinoku Pro 02/04/94) #41 - Steve Williams vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW Championship Carnival 03/29/94)
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#80 - Steve Austin vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW Clash of the Champions XXVIII 08/24/94) #79 - Steve Austin vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW Saturday Night 03/12/94) #78 - Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue (AJPW Championship Carnival 03/24/94) #77 - Manami Toyota & Takako Inoue vs Aja Kong & Reggie Bennett (AJW 12/10/94) #76 - Bret Hart vs Bob Backlund (WWF Superstars 07/30/94) #75 - Ric Flair vs Hulk Hogan (WCW Bash at the Beach 07/17/94) #74 - Jushin Liger, Shinjiro Otani, El Samurai & Tokimitsu Ishikawa vs Great Sasuke, Shiryu, Sato & Taka Michinoku (NJPW 06/15/94) #73 - Vader vs Sting (WCW Fall Brawl 09/18/94) #72 - El Hijo del Santo, Heavy Metal & Mascara Sagrada vs Jerry Estrada, La Parka & Psicosis (AAA 06/03/94) #71 - Nasty Boys, Dusty & Dustin Rhodes vs Arn Anderson, Terry Funk, Bunkhouse Buck & Col. Parker (WCW Fall Brawl 09/18/94) #70 - Vader vs Dustin Rhodes (WCW Clash of the Champions XXIX 11/16/94) #69 - Rick & Scott Steiner vs Bret & Owen Hart (WWF Wrestlefest 01/11/94) #68 - Genichiro Tenryu vs Atsushi Onita (FMW 05/05/94) #67 - Mascara Sagrada vs Black Cat (AAA Triplemania 05/15/94) #66 - Jake Roberts vs Dirty White Boy (SMW TV 05/14/94) #65 - Sabu vs Al Snow (California 09/11/94) #64 - Terry Funk vs Sabu (WWN 02/28/94) #63 - Jerry Lawler vs Dream Machine (USWA Mid South Coliseum 04/25/94) #62 - Ciclon Ramirez vs Javier Cruz (CMLL 06/07/94) #61 - Dustin Rhodes vs Bunkhouse Buck (WCW Spring Stampede 04/17/94)
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#100 - Steve Williams vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW Championship Carnival 04/15/94) #99 - Heavenly Bodies vs Chris Jericho & Lance Storm (SMW Night of the Legends 08/05/94) #98 - Vader vs The Boss (WCW Spring Stampede 04/17/94) #97 - El Samurai vs Great Sasuke (NJPW Super J Cup 04/16/94) #96 - Jushin Liger vs Super Delphin (NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 05/30/94) #95 - Steven Regal vs Larry Zbyszko (WCW Slamboree 05/22/94) #94 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Masa Fuchi (AJPW 01/07/94) #93 - Sabu vs Terry Funk (ECW TV 04/19/94) #92 - Kiyoshi Tamura vs Naoki Sano (UWFI 05/06/94) #91 - Eddie Gilbert vs Tracy Smothers (NWA World Title Tournament 11/19/94) #90 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW Championship Carnival 04/11/94) #89 - Dustin Rhodes vs Bunkhouse Buck (WCW Slamboree 05/22/94) #88 - Ric Flair & Steven Regal vs Sting & Ricky Steamboat (WCW Munich 03/12/94) #87 - Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon (WWF San Jose 01/14/94) #86 - Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda (AJW 01/24/94) #85 - Cactus Jack vs Chris Candido (SMW Christmas Chaos 12/26/94) #84 - Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon (WWF Monday Night RAW 08/01/94) #83 - Vader & John Tenta vs Gary Albright & Kazuo Yamazaki (UWFI 10/08/94) #82 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW 10/07/94) #81 - Dave Finlay vs Doink the Clown (Germany 12/17/94)
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December: #1 - Volk Han vs Mitsuya Nagai (RINGS 12/24/94) ****1/2 #2 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (AJPW 12/10/94) **** #3 - Hiroshi Hase vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 12/13/94) **** #4 - Pantera vs Felino (AAA 12/27/94) **** #5 - Cactus Jack & Tracy Smothers vs Chris Candido & Boo Bradley (SMW Christmas Chaos 12/25/94) **** #6 - Mitsuya Nagai vs Masayuki Naruse (RINGS 12/17/94) **** #7 - Manami Toyota & Takako Inoue vs Aja Kong & Reggie Bennett (AJW 12/10/94) ***3/4 #8 - Dave Finlay vs Doink the Clown (Germany 12/17/94) ***3/4 #9 - Cactus Jack vs Chris Candido (SMW 12/26/94) ***3/4 #10 - Akira Maeda vs Yoshihisa Yammamoto (RINGS 12/17/94) ***1/2 #11 - Vader vs Hacksaw Duggan (WCW Starrcade 12/27/94) ***1/2 #12 - Cactus Jack vs Chris Candido (SMW TV 12/03/94) ***1/2 #13 - Jerry Estrada, Cien Caras & Mascara Ano 2000 vs Perro Aguayo, La Parka & Octagon (AAA 12/05/94) ***1/4 #14 - Manami Toyota & Takako Inoue vs Kyoko Inoue & Sakie Hasegawa (AJW 12/10/94) *** #15 - Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Stan Hansen & Giant Baba (AJPW 12/10/94) #16 - Rick & Scott Steiner vs Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase (NJPW 12/12/94) #17 - Buddy Landell vs Dirty White Boy (SMW 12/30/94) #18 - Cactus Jack vs Boo Bradley (SMW TV 12/17/94) #19 - Tommy Rich vs Bill Dundee (USWA TV 12/24/94) #20 - Cactus Jack vs Chris Candido (SMW 12/30/94) #21 - Great Nita & Tarzan Goto vs Mr. Pogo & Hisakatsu Oya (FMW 12/01/94)
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Fun, but not as good as the match a few days prior with these two. I mentioned the tag match feeling like something that just happened to get out of control. This was more, "I'm Cactus, and I brawl, so let's go everywhere because that's what I do, and fans expect it", which is how I see a lot of his ECW stuff. Still, I enjoyed this for the stuff they did well, which is similar to the previous match in terms of spots, but more abbreviated. Cactus kisses Tammy! And with that, 1994 is done.
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Buddy is using the Memphis theme as his entrance! Buddy keeps tricking the ref into thinking DWB is cheating. He does this hilarious fakeout thing where they are in the corner and the ref is trying to separate them, and he slaps his hand to make it seem like DWB clocked him. Is this a title match? If so, as well-worked as this is, it doesn't make a ton of sense, because a DQ would cost him the title. Buddy works as heel Lawler, hitting DWB with a chain and then hiding it for the duration of the match. DWB finally wins when the action picks up for the last two minutes. I enjoyed this, but I think these two were capable of better.
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Last few minutes. Hogan wins the most trying match of his career. He's not really getting booed, but this crowd is not as into Hogan as they should be. Post-match, Hogan is threatening to lovetap each face of fear with the chair. Savage comes in and teases being a heel (HUGE MISSED OPPORTUNITY) but instead sides with Hogan. Hogan and Savage shake hands and they even copy the zoom in on the hands from the 1987 SNME. Wow. Savage does some posing and soon will be wrestling without a shirt again, thanks to WCW's lack of steroid testing. Hogan and Savage do some obnoxious gloating and Hogan is waxing poetic about his friendship with Beefcake, when Vader barges into the locker room and ends this facade and cuts an AMAZING promo on Hogan. Hogan shoves him and we have a pull-apart brawl. This was an excellent segment once Vader came in.
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Last few minutes. Meet Jean Paul Leveque, the guy slated to be in WCW's upcoming cruiserweight division! Heenan predicts superstardom! I laugh at a horrible chinlock spot with HHH whispering to Wright for what seems like 15 minutes before letting Wright do the sequence. HHH's first yearbook photo! Alex Wright gets the win. Welcome to pro wrestling, where you can't always predict who is going to end up where in the long run. I should add that booker Ric Flair put pet project Alex Wright over the future Hunter Hearst Helmsley!
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Really good match. I wish these two could have worked together more, because for one night, Duggan looked like the guy from Mid South. He hits him with some pretty hard clotheslines and they do some really good brawling. Duggan missed a middle rope elbow drop (!!), which leads to a rib injury that Vader exploits. Duggan gets in an amazing jumping clothesline after Vader misses a moonsault. Vader was one of the two or three best wrestlers in the world at worst in 1994. He finishes Duggan off with the face eraser. Vader was the master of getting good matches out of those who could work, but didn't always choose to work (Bossman, Duggan, etc.) Really, really good.
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The kind of lucha match I'm a sucker for, with all the great matwork and slow build to a satisfying, three fall match. Who would I better know Pantera as, as he looks great here? Another AAA match in '94 -- and this seems to be a theme -- that feels more like a CMLL match, which tells me maybe my initial perceptions of what an "AAA match" looks like were too narrow. Felino was always great and continues to be.
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These two work really well together. This reminds me of (a better version of?) the Cactus/Gilbert matches. Cactus and Candido both do lots of stuff you have seen them do in plenty of matches, so it's not so much that they break new ground. It's more that they just have really great chemistry. Could have been a great, long feud. Cactus and Boo make nice after the match when Boo saves Cactus from a Candido post-match attack.
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Vince finds no humor in Lawler's rather humorous insults to the people at ringside. Lawler offers Diesel a handshake and Diesel death grips him, bringing him to his knees. Diesel gets tired of Lawler's berating, and throws him out of the ring while wearing his crown. They did a great job of having Lawler heat up the crowd before Diesel came out to ensure he'd get a big pop. Next, Bret Hart does his first interview after losing the title that has made the yearbook. Bret praises Diesel for giving him a title shot and says he'll deal with Owen and Backlund after the holidays. Next is Vinny Pazienza jumping rope and talking trash on Shawn Michaels.
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Quite the wild match that goes all over the building. All four take some wild bumps and keep things interesting. I really enjoyed this. One of the better SMW matches. Really had this feel of a wrestling match where things got carried away, instead of your typical ECW "we brawl like this because that's what we do" match.
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Cornette is at ringside with the Rock & Rolls and jabs one of the Infernos with the tennis racket. Cornette is even leading the crowd in a "Rock and roll" chant, which is surreal. The Gangstas attack the Rock & Rolls after the match and Cornette takes off, which causes Jim Ross to get self-righteous, until he realizes that Cornette came back with extra tennis rackets. He gets in the ring and hits New Jack and Mustafa with a few shots of his own. Great segment. Post-match, Morton tells everyone to snap a picture of the three of them together, because it will never happen again. Cornette does a great job hyping this.
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Buddy Landell has a new lease on life and is excited for Christmas Chaos. He wishes DWB's old lady would stop calling him, which gets Jim Ross very angry. He says in spite of his problems, just like Elvis Presley never lost his voice, Buddy never lost his ability to wrestle. Fantastic. Next is Cactus and the pointless Brian Lee. He actually speaks here! We get another brief Cactus poem. Also great. SMW has the two best interviews in wrestling now. Ooh, make it three, as The Gangstas are out.
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Diesel and Vince have a sit down interview at Titan Tower. Vince asks Diesel if he is looking forward to facing Bret, but first, Diesel turns to the camera to wish everyone a happy holidays! This whole interview is interspersed with black and white clips of him beating up people to the diesel horn. This is some bizarre production. Vince's questions are very high school newspaper interviewing the homecoming queen in how simple they are. It's weird that Diesel had to put Bret over so much, but I think they were doing that so Bret's fans wouldn't turn on Diesel. Still, they laid it on too thick.
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This was a stellar match, the yearbook equivalent of an October surprise. Han is incredible, at times tying Nagai in such ridiculous knots that he's almost applying painful holds to himself! He has a ready-made counter for everything Nagai throws at him and bends him into a ridiculous pretzel. Nagai gets in his shots too, but he can't seem to string together any momentum. This was a master's class in matwork, and it's my new favorite RINGS match. I don't know how much this is talked up, but I thought it was a bit of a lost classic.