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First, Vince wishes Randy Savage well in the future. Classy move, and not something you see every day, which tells me it hit Vince harder personally to lose Savage than it did to lose Hogan. 1-2-3 Kid is Lawler's guest again, I guess because the first time they did a segment before a match, it was so great. Backlund tries a sneak attack, but Kid is waiting on him and runs him out of the ring. Bret is out quickly to side with Kid, while Owen comes out to side with Backlund. Everyone is at ringside before you know it. -
Pretty run of the mill compared to the Clique tag. Wrestled more like a house show match than a heated TV match in a hot feud. It's clear the WWF was done with Bret/Owen on top at this point, considering that they started putting them against each other on television. Even Bret's hot tag doesn't get much of a reaction, which is weird, because this same crowd was pretty hot for Bret/Kid a few months later. It's easy to see why Vince decided to go in a different direction. Bret as champ just wasn't clicking.
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Sorry rovert.
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This looked better than it did the first time I saw it, where it felt like sort of an empty spotfest. I didn't get that vibe at all this time, and thought it was one of the best matches of the year. Maybe part of the rep is based on accessibility, but it also looks better than most of what surrounds it for 1994 AAA, and it's a classic fucking match. Only Espectrito/Sagrada is in the same discussion. I love all of the melodrama of Octagon getting carted out and the final stretch of this has an incredible amount of suspense because of Octagon eating the pin and Santo being on his own to save both his and Octagon's mask. Eddy doing the puroresu suplexes and powerbombs in this style isn't something I particularly care for, but it's really not enough to take down this match even a little.
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I love all of these on-location promos. This should happen way, way more often in wrestling now. Not everything has to be in the arena. I'm hyped to see a Ghetto Street Fight with the Rock & Rolls and the Gangstas. No disclaimer anymore, but SMW will NOT (in red) be held responsible for anything that happens in the street fight. Tammy is out petting a cat, and I can't help but think that's an intentional visual pun. Tammy threatens Boo Bradley that he has to do whatever she says or Boots the Cat gets it! Next, Jim Ross brings Jim Cornette and Bob Armstrong together to air their grievances with each other. Cornette isn't getting hoodwinked again -- he doesn't want the masked Bullet to show up if Abdullah beats him. Even putting Board of Directors guy on the spot to get confirmation of that, he doesn't get it. Finally, we get Cornette by video. He has to get rid of Ron Wright. Cornette does a lot of the metaphor insults that Jerry Lawler is fond of and has visual aids. Effective public speaking!
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Clips of a pretty wild Lawler/Christopher vs Rich/Gilbert match from Mid South Coliseum. Lots of crutches and blood, and Frank Morrell throwing a few punches at some heels who try to get froggy and scissors, what's not to like? Great stuff. Back in the dressing room, Rich and Gilbert are about to cut a promo and Frank Morrell gets in their face. They jump him and are doubleteaming the referee for a couple of minutes until Lawler and Christopher barge in and start throwing punches. More fun than just about anything from the USWA all year.
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Jerry, that's ridiculous. 250 is way too few.
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Go into threads for those matches and review them.
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Is it really "fiery"? Or just a strong disagreement?
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Why do you always think we're going to be FURIOUS when people have differing opinions?
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One of my favorite moments of the Tony/Jesse pairing was before Flair/Rude at Havoc '93. Flair gets the Michael Buffer intro and fireworks. Jesse: "ALL OF THIS FOR THE CHALLENGER?" Kind of a "you had to be there" thing, but the timing of it was priceless. Anyway, I still swear I heard a fraction of a second of laughter from Tony before he had to mute his mic.
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Not every match was great, but I have no idea how you can say the Arn match "isn't that good" or that the Zbyszko match "sucks". Also, I don't think he ever faced Austin in WCW.
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That's just not true. At all. Maybe he struggled with his appearance, but it's not fair to say he was out of shape. He worked a lot of long matches during 1992-1993 that are really good, with guys like Austin, Steamboat and Arn, and tags against Doc/Gordy and Austin/Doc.
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Maybe because he did a lot of long matches in 1992 with Steve Austin?
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October: #1 - Great Sasuke & Black Tiger vs Wild Pegasus & Shinjiro Otani (NJPW 10/16/94) ****1/2 #2 - Blue Panther vs El Mariachi (AAA 10/30/94) ****1/2 #3 - Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Kyoko & Takako Inoue (AJW 10/09/94) ****1/4 #4 - Shawn Michaels & Diesel vs Razor Ramon & 1-2-3 Kid (WWF Action Zone 10/30/94) ****1/4 #5 - Cactus Jack vs Sabu (NWC 10/30/94) ****1/4 #6 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Naoki Sano (UWFI 10/14/94) **** #7 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW 10/07/94) ***3/4 #8 - Vader & John Tenta vs Gary Albright & Kazuo Yamazaki (UWFI 10/08/94) ***3/4 #9 - Emilio Charles Jr vs Miguel Perez Jr (CMLL 10/14/94) ***1/2 #10 - Manami Toyota vs Takako Inoue (AJW 10/22/94) ***1/2 #11 - Arn Anderson vs Dustin Rhodes (WCW Halloween Havoc 10/23/94) ***1/4 #12 - Ric Flair vs Hulk Hogan (WCW Halloween Havoc 10/23/94) ***1/4 #13 - Daisuke Ikeda vs Yuji Nagata (PWFG 10/31/94) *** #14 - Hiromitsu Kanehara vs Yoshihiro Takayama (UWFI 10/08/94) *** #15 - Steve Williams vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 10/22/94) #16 - Genichiro Tenryu vs Ashura Hara (WAR 10/03/94) Overall thoughts: The wrestling quality has picked up again after a slower August and September, but I'm starting to look forward to a different yearbook that tackles a different era than 1992-96. Looking forward to seeing the big players in different ways, or with different opponents for a while.
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Finally, a Cactus/Sabu match that lives up to the hype. Really wild! Lots of brawling all over the building, table smashing, weapons use, etc. They sell the crazy stuff really well, which is the main reason I like this so much. The camera having trouble following them really gets over the chaos of this. They brawl into the casino by the slot machines, with Cactus piledriving Sabu on a casino table! This is organized chaos, is smarter than you'd think and I love it!
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Pretty spectacular mat clinic. This is really the first match since the '92 yearbook match Panther had with Super Astro where he has been put in a position to show everything he can do for any length of time. And he can do a lot - not just the matwork spots, but also the nice set up for his opponent. He's fun in this for at times wrestling himself into pretzels while making it look like Mariachi was this world class wrestler who pulled it off. This feels like the best of EMLL more than the best of AAA. Some really intricate stuff. For '94, the best comparison is Dandy/Llanes, and of the two I'd call this the better match. I shouldn't give Panther all the credit, just most of it. Mariachi absolutely looks good and even though I've never seen him outside of this match, he looks excellent.
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Awesome match. What stands out to me is how good even Nash looks. I enjoyed him doing power/speed stuff with Kid, and the out-of-nowhere flying shoulderblock on Razor later in the match was awesome. The one thing that does bug me is how long Nash was laid out by the superkick. Unconscious? Really? Everything else about this is gold.
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There's something amusing about Sting considering Hogan a "brother" just on the basis that they pumped some iron and hit some waves on the beach once. If that doesn't sum him up in a nutshell, what does? Dave is out to ask if he can be both a Stinger and a Hulkamaniac. Kevin is quickly out to slap him around. Sting gets Sullivan in the Scorpion, but gets distracted by Butcher long enough for Avalanche to run in and attack Sting from behind. Pretty pathetic, heatless beatdown.
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