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The annual November Rain video (Not sure how many years they did this ...) This one focuses on the Cactus/Raven vs Funk/Dreamer feud, shows Sandman in an embarrassing getup in 1993, shows Woman showing up in 1994 and arguing with Dreamer, shows Public Enemy clips from '93 and '94, Mikey and Scorpio winning titles, Bill Alfonso debuting and feuding with Todd Gordon, Beulah on the beach and tons of other clips. -
Konnan wants to prove himself, Cactus gloats over hurting Dreamer, Alfonso isn't scared of Todd Gordon -- he mentions things Brisco and Sullivan have done to him, the Eliminators, Silent But Dudley, Bubba Ray sneezes, Beulah talks too soft for anyone to hear, Public Enemy wants titles, Dreamer is covered in blood and wants privacy, Dances With Dudley sings, Austin does more Monday Nyquil, Francine shows up, Woman looks into the camera and Raven is Raven.
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Dances With Dudley does a semi-offensive Native American parody while Bubba Ray shows that he can juggle lenses. He can also breakdance, I bet he's a blast! Anyway, he gets elbowed and accidentally swallows a full lemon and then starts doing a CMLL ring announcer-like introduction to November To Remember. Funny, but this is stoned guys goofing off in front of a camera.
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This is a long, feature-like recap of a recent Cactus/Dreamer match. Cactus heels on the audience, and I always loved this line: "If it was up to me, I'd have that TV tuned to TBS, watching movies for guys who like movies ..." Elsewhere, Dreamer does a sit-down interview interspersed with clips of Dreamer with Terry Funk. Dreamer mentions being at the Night of Champions in the Meadowlands with his dad cheering for Ric Flair and the Road Warriors, but having Funk in his corner trumped it. He mentions his being disgusted by Cactus giving a clean break twice in their match. The match is hilarious for Dreamer trying to goad Cactus into a fight, and Cactus just working a headlock. My favorite moment is Cactus teasing the apron elbow and instead doing WCW cheers! I also love that he calmly declares the match a no contest and tells everyone to have a night and drive home safely. Funk tries goading him back in the ring by saying terrible things about his wife, girlfriend and mistress, even calling Dewey a whore! The action picks up from here, and I like the spot where Raven tapes brass knucks Cactus's boot so he could kick Dreamer in the groin. There were things I liked about this, especially the Dreamer cut-ins, but at the same time, this is one of the biggest egofucks in wrestling history.
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Ah, Stephanie Wiand, the Kimmy Gibbler of wrestling.
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This is really good. I much prefer Diesel pushed as an athlete in a serious setting like this to the typical Nash smarminess. I crack up when Bret says he gave Diesel his toughest match, and Diesel responds not to toot his own horn, because Shawn gave him a run for his money too. Bret uses this to make the point that Diesel has a tough time with technical wrestlers and that he doesn't give technical wrestlers title shots, which was what Davey Boy's beef was. That was weird. Nash says he'll knock him out, and knock him out quickly, because he doesn't get paid by the hour. They both take shots at each other, but both give credit where it's due also. Nash: "The question remains in my mind, 'Can I beat this guy?' ... I'm bigger, stronger and smarter than I was in January." I love Vince also asking these very, very pro wrestling-themed questions. Not sure why they had to pipe in faint crowd noise though.
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Sting says he's not done with Flair, says he's not ready to explain his relationship with Luger yet and that if Hogan puts his finger in his face again, he'll bite it off. Pissed off Sting is fun. Again, I think WCW was toying with the idea of turning Sting, but he got overly cheered in every interaction he had with Hogan.
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Cornette explains Gibson's heel turn by pointing out that Tracy Smothers is the reason Ricky Morton got fired, and that the Thugz took the Rock & Rolls' title shot. They take it a step further by saying he carried Morton on his back. "You saw the Rock & Roll Express wrestle -- who got the snot kicked out of him? Ricky Morton. Who came in and cleaned house? Robert Gibson." They declare the Rock & Roll Express dead and Gibson the King of Rock & Roll. Now we go to a Thugz interview and WOWEE that's a black background. It literally looks like they're in space. They do a good promo, but it's just really hard to care about death bed SMW. There is something morbidly fascinating about it though.
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Arena clip #1: Bob Armstrong wants Eddie Marlin in the ring. He obliges and this is some awesome old man action. Tracy Smothers and the Armstrongs quickly run in and do a number on Marlin. Bullet Bob locks in a figure four while the heels hold everyone at bay. Arena clip #2: Jesse James Armstrong is making fun of Eddie Marlin by taking his cane before hitting him with it. The referee doesn't like that, so he hits the ref too. Eddie juices. Brian Christopher and PG-13 finally make the save.
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This is a hell of a match. Again, very different than the other FMW matches to the point. The 10/28 tag was more gimmicky. This one had a few table spots, but no more than some heralded AJW matches, and the rest of it was focused on really great looking highspots and offense. I feel like I should know who Super Leather is, but I have no clue, but he looks really good. Oya and Tanaka work really well together, and I wouldn't mind seeing a singles match between the two. Tanaka takes a lot of punishment, juices, sells well, has great offense and otherwise looks excellent. This would be a good match to add to a Japanese wrestling primer.
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The Giant is out with Jimmy Hart and Kevin Sullivan with the WCW title. Jimmy Hart, who signed the contract for Havoc on Hogan's behalf, revealed that there was a clause that Hogan would lose the title if he was DQd, and Hart got him intentionally DQd, so therefore, Giant is champ. Give Jimmy Hart something to talk about -- no matter how convoluted -- and he shows just how underutilized he was for so many years. Nick Lambrose interrupts to say that Giant is not the champ. Nick Bockwinkel and the Board of Directors (Why not the Championship Committee since this is a championship matter?) release a statement declaring the belt vacant, with a new champion to be crowned at World War 3. Then Gene Okerlund says "You heard that statement from the Championship Committee" ... I give up.
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Really heated match. Sting attacks Flair at the opening bell and this has a little more hate than your usual Flair/Sting match at first. I remembered this being one of their better matches, but it's odd in that it's really hot at the beginning and end, and just too by-the-numbers in the middle. When Sting is making his comebacks, this is terrific, but when Flair is in control, this drags. I really liked the finish, but they treated it as a blowoff to the feud when it could have just been a way to heat it up even more, with Sting refusing to release the scorpion until Luger whispered something in his ear. What is up with Sting and Luger whispering things to each other and WCW never telling us what they were saying? This was hot enough that they should have run with this for a while. This was around the time it seemed like they were teasing a Sting turn on Hogan, but Sting was consistently more over than Hogan, so I guess they dropped it.
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Landell subs for The Wolfman. The match is cut short by the end of the TV show, and wow, they are really doing all the stuff dying promotions do now. But we do still get to see the whole match. Every time Cornette tries to interfere, Butch Cassidy chases him out. Still, Cornette comes back in and hits Buddy with the racket for the DQ so again, it's a feud about getting Cornette over. And again, the heels are dominant to close things out. "They have hit the bottom of the barrel," says the announcer. Indeed.
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Last few minutes. Smothers bumps into Robert Gibson. He takes Cornette's racket from him and hits Smothers with it to secure the win for the Bodies before also hitting DWB. Robert Gibson has turned heel! This was too late to do any good, and he really needed Morton to play off of, but it's still pretty cool to see. Both teams are unwilling to do interviews after the match, so we're left not yet understanding why Gibson turned.
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