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DDP, Kimberly and Maxx Muscle shop for jewelry, and we get Kimberly trying on multiple hats. DDP looks at art while classical music plays, which is pretty funny, then we have Saved By The Bell graphics while Kimberly gets a makeover. She tries on a wedding dress, which makes DDP nearly choke on his cigar. Entertaining stuff.
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First we get a taped promo of PG-13!!! They're coming to SMW. They do an obnoxious white boy rap, which is great, and promise to win the SMW tag titles at Volunteer Slam. Back in the "studio", Smothers and Dirty White Boy, explain the THUGZ spelling, which is always funny. The Gangstas are out and challenge them to a match next week, saying whoever wins can fight PG-13.
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Ricky Morton sends in a taped promo from home in a neckbrace. He wants Al Snow one-on-one in a cage. Al Snow asks if he did that interview from a barn and wonders when that "skank of a bag of yeast" will realize what she has been sleeping with and leaves! This actually brings her out and she's trying to take swings at Snow. They called her Adria (??) I think, so I guess this isn't the Kim that caused him to leave SMW. He says he'd take her over his knee and spank her, but she'd probably like it. Snow is great here.
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Corny and Bob Armstrong are in an SMW board room and Cornette worries that he's not going to like the guy who will be his partner in the upcoming Texas Death Match at Volunteer Slam IV. He signed Terry Funk as Armstrong's partner, and Bob says no way can he trust him. Cornette goes overboard to make his case and has a cashier's check for $50,000, saying SMW can use it to refund all admission fees for all fans if they don't win the match. Armstrong says he'll take the offer, but he will be looking over his shoulder. Nice segment.
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Buddy Landell is at a car dealership called Classy Motors with the SMW title, calling himself an "outstanding pillar of the community". He is going to personally buy Bobby Blaze a car. A 1989 Pontiac Grand Am is too nice. A 1992 Chevrolet pick-up truck won't work because he won't know how to operate it without jumper tables. A 1997 (???) Mustang won't work because Landell will run moonshine out of it. Landell is giving Classy Motors one week to find a suitable vehicle for Bobby Blaze. This is HILARIOUS and one of the highlights of the yearbook so far.
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Solid interview promising to regain the USWA tag team titles.
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Finish only. Tatanka has his back turned and trips Bigelow, costing him the match and leading to Diesel winning the match. I had a LOL moment when Diesel looked back at the ring and Earl Hebner did a "shoo" motion at him. DiBiase berates Bigelow over the loss and fires him from the Million Dollar Corporation and slaps him. Tatanka attacks Bigelow from behind and Bigelow comes back with a clothesline and takes him out. Bigelow corners DiBiase and says DiBiase can't fire him because he quits. IRS is out now and it's a doubleteam as the crowd chants for Diesel. Now Sid is out too to make it a triple team. Sid does a terrible powerbomb on Bam Bam, and Diesel finally comes back and clears the ring. This all needed to be in the follow-up -- Bigelow had lost so much that he needed to be pushed hard to be a top babyface. We all know what happened from here though.
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Bigelow, sporting quite the shiner, vows to win the WWF title and bring it home to the Million Dollar Corporation.
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Hey, it's Maxx Muscle! I forgot he existed. Eric Bischoff interviews DDP and Kimberly at a nice restaurant in Atlanta, and DDP tells her to zip it as soon as she starts talking. Kimberly's exaggerated "aw shucks" facial expressions are ridiculous. DDP shows off his "titanium Oakleys" and explains that he won $13 million at a table in Vegas. I always agreed with those who said they showed they didn't know the WCW audience here, as mispronouncing Dom Perignon isn't really going to get DDP over as a douche considering that most WCW fans probably couldn't pronounce it either.
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I really like being able to track Snow's improvement on interviews by the week. They eulogize Ricky Morton by asking people at home to put their hands on the TV (I opted not to participate after careful deliberation). They have a coffin and start throwing stuff in there that symbolizes Morton -- tag team championships, dumb entrances, bandanas (which Snow says Morton wrapped around his thighs to cut off the blood so they'd swell up to normal size), and he begs Morton to jump into the 90s. It's 2011, and Ricky Morton *still* hasn't jumped into the 90s, which is why he rules. They have women's lingerie saying Morton secretly wore this stuff under his clothes. Ricky Morton was apparently a closet transvestite. Transphobia is fightin' words in the South in 1995, so Gibson comes out to fight them, but they easily lay him out then throw him in the coffin too, actually hammering it shut! Well, that's the idea until the babyfaces save. Wild scene that got super heat.
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Tommy Rich, at this stage of the game the best talker in wrestling, immediately calls out Bill Dundee and Brian Christopher. Dundee hits the ring first and they have an impromptu brawl, while Doug Gilbert sneaks up on Christopher with powder and they doubleteam Dundee. They work an arm injury on Dundee, with Rich putting Dundee's arm in a spinning toehold-like position, which the announcers sell like death. Solid piece of business.
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This was tremendous. I know the 3/16/96 match between these two has always been the one that got the most praise, and I want to re-watch it before I rank all the 90s matches together to make sure I didn't sell it short. But this had all the good stuff of that without the overbooking. Rey and Juventud totally expose themselves as tape watching nerds by aping moves from pretty much every major Japanese wrestler and mixing them into a match that works in lucha libre. Rey ends up winning this when Juventud is counted out after the third fall when Rey does an incredible dive, and I love how they sell it with Psicosis tying up his arm and Juventud shrieking in pain. Lucha candy with a Japanese center.
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This is of course awesome. I remember nothing about the '93 match except the result, so I don't know if this is "better", but it definitely made a better first impression on me. I love all the powerbomb teases before it's finally delivered, although Takada getting up so quickly when Vader finally gets it isn't much better than Hogan. I also like the way that Takada keeps high kicking and it has no impact on Vader because he's blocking all the kicks, so he starts after the legs, which works much better. This and the Tamura match in February of '93 are the most fun I've had watching Takada because he is fighting like he has something at stake way more than he normally does. Vader is also fantastic and has maybe the best in-ring style of all time, because it works in any setting. His selling is great here, because UWFI is supposed to be more legit, so he sells those kicks like he's about to cry, but he's trying not to cry. He makes some slight modifications, like adding a cross armbreaker, but for the most part, Vader is still Vader. I don't think this was epic feeling enough to be a great match (not sure how to place what is missing), but all the ingredients of a great match are definitely there.
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Am I the only person who at the time thought when Razor Ramon started doing those vignettes and using the word "Chico" that he was setting up a program with Santana?
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Oh God, that match is unbearable because of Sherri. Kudos to Sherri for managing to be as annoying as humanly possible because she knows she is the focus of the match.
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To that point, Kevin Nash is leaner and looks younger than he has in over a decade. How is this not raising eyebrows?
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I'm sick of people pointing to Jeff Hardy and Sin Cara as proof of the credibility of the wellness policy. When they suspend HHH, Undertaker, Nash, or Cena and publicize the results, then it has credibility.
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If you drink and drive, sooner or later, you're going to meet the Undertaker. Knowing how Undertaker used to party (no idea if he drove drunk), the WWF's "do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do" PSAs on this yearbook are pretty amusing.
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Regal just pummels Hashimoto, and it makes for some amazing visuals. But I do agree that what this needed to go over the top was Hashimoto getting in more of his own shots too. Regal doesn't feel like a guy in for one tour -- he feels like a regular rival for Hashimoto, which is a good thing, and can be credited to Hash giving him so much of the match. And I know they had another match in '96, but had they really had the chance to play out a rivalry over time, I think we would have seen quite the series, and we probably would have had Regal taking his lumps too. I really enjoyed everything about this, but it feels like the star of some great matches instead of a defining great match on its own. A shame we don't have a half-dozen matches between these two.
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I was pretty surprised at how great I found this. I have never seen a Kanemoto match that touched this, and for Otani, aside from the Dragon and Samurai matches, I can't think of anything else I'd put above it. While the stuff they tried in the tag a few days before this fell flat because Benoit and Hamada weren't really in sync with the storyline Otani and Kanemoto were working, this was more fleshed out and was pretty awesome. Because of all the hate and the way the big moves were built up, this resembled a big All Japan match in some ways more than a New Japan juniors match. Stuff like applying a figure four while spitting in Kanemoto's face played well. There aren't a ton of big highspots in this -- most of it is spent playing up the showmanship and matwork mixed in with some old fashioned punches to the face. It's funny watching this after '96, because getting overly emotional and pulling his opponent up when he has him beaten is an Otani staple in '96, and here, it's a Kanemoto thing. Also, it costs Otani matches in '96 while Kanemoto still wins this handily. But that messed up context made me think Otani's comeback and dragon suplex had the match won for him. The idea of ranking the best NJ juniors matches not involving Liger is an intriguing one, and I could see this near the top. Even with Liger in the mix, this may knock on the door of a Top 20 New Japan matches of the 90s list for me at this point. Just a really fantastic match.
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Not nearly as compelling as the barbed wire match from the IWA in January, and despite all the build, I'm not even sure this match has the better storyline of the two. I think Funk is too old to really be an effective heel in this environment at this point, but the IWA match worked because he was more of a sympathetic old guy. I guess no one really goes overboard praising this match anyway. The highlight is in the post-match when Funk comes after Cactus and tries to set him on fire.
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Here's what I wrote about this last time I watched it. I remember it pretty well and don't feel like sitting through it again at the moment, so here goes. I definitely wouldn't stand by what I said about this changing the way personnel decisions were made in the WWF and WCW, but I'd probably agree with most of the rest of it.
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Fans brought weapons that were used. Tommy Dreamer did the famous cunnilingus piledriver. It's easy to see why people ate this stuff up. But in 2011, it's not as fun.