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The Rock & Rolls are back together! I like that they acknowledge Morton turning on Gibson in WCW instead of just pretending it never happened. Fuller and Golden are unimpressed, saying that Morton isn't even part of SMW so it's not like he's coming in. Armstrong comes out to say he's bringing Morton back.
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The last five minutes of the match was all that aired, but it was really, really good. Nikita gets DQ'd for throwing Rude over the top and they brawl their way back to the dressing room. Rude was at his best here. This has a real NWA feel to it, especially with the dressing room stuff.
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Vader and Race gloat about the title win at the Great American Bash. Vader makes fun of Sting's "pure white hair and baby blue eyes", which I'm pretty sure are brown.
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I really thought this was a great segment. The Savage/Warrior dueling stuff is really good, so is Flair's promo bitching about being left out. Flair and Perfect troll Savage into a fight, then start doing a number on him. Warrior makes the save, then the two have words and have to be separated. Nice piece of business.
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On a 1992 WWF yearbook, this might look good. Not really on a global yearbook. First, the announcing is absolutely horrible. Bobby Heenan seems high, and Jim Ross is annoyed and half-asses his own PBP as a result. Also, for a match featuring the WWF's top two feuds at the time, this should have had way more heat. Flair and Shawn seemed to be having fun working together, but Bret and Savage were pretty uninspired. This needed to go on the yearbook since it's a good glance at the WWF's four best guys at this point, but there's really not much to this.
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Last few minutes of the Natural Disasters winning the tag titles. Funny to hear Jim Ross do commentary for a WWF match when chronologically, he was still in WCW at the time, because they had the announcers call matches on Coliseum releases as if they were doing them at the time of the match. Big pop for the finish, possibly canned a little.
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Bob Armstrong, always a great talker, sets a barbed wire match for 8/8 with Cornette banned from ringside. Cornette refuses to comply, and says he'll get his lawyers involved to make sure he can be at ringside. Fulton offers a solution -- Cornette can come to ringside, but Armstrong is the referee. Cornette takes bumps off just the announcement! Awesome!
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Just the finish from MSC of Morton winning the Unified title from Gilbert. After the match, Gilbert handcuffs him to the ring ropes and then beats up his dad. Who is this valet always with Gilbert at MSC and why is she never with him on TV? Eddie Marlin comes to make a save and gets clocked. Jarrett and Lawler finally run Eddie off. Cut to the studio, and Eddie Marlin is out and wants Gilbert out now. He tells him the only reason he even has a job is because Morton said not to fire him when Marlin wanted to. Marlin says he is being fined $5,000, and Gilbert goes from nonchalant to suddenly caring a little bit. Gilbert tells him to make like Ross Perot and get out. I love dated references in the context of a yearbook! Gilbert says however much money he has to pay is worth it and he wants his belt back. Gilbert is going in the ring against Tony Falk and seems to be making quick work of him, but Morton comes out and goes after him with a vengeance. Fun studio brawl that I wish would have lasted a little longer, but Morton runs him off then does a great fired up promo.
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The Summerslam hype has begun! We get clips from BBC TV hyping Summerslam and of some of the stars doing public appearances, including Davey Boy. They show fans waiting outside for tickets. This for some reason is my favorite update ever. See it and you'll know what I mean. I think this was also the last year they used the awesome guitar riff music to hype Summerslam.
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It's 1992 lucha libre, what are we supposed to do, IGNORE Vampiro? As much as I'd love to, not really an option. Last few minutes of a hair match. When you're watching CMLL, a promotion that does a horrible job of making their crowds audible, and then it doesn't have the best VQ in the world and the crowd heat is still really loud, you kinda get an idea of Vampiro's level of stardom at the time. Pirata carries things and does a fine job. HUGE pop for the finish, as Vamp takes the victory and Pirata loses his hair.
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This isn't as transcendent as Dandy/Casas, but it is still a very good title match. Their 1983 match was solid but left me a little underwhelmed, so I guess time was good to them. While the match isn't on the same level, Satanico's ability to time his bumps and feed big moves is tremendous, and he's at least as good as Casas at that aspect. He's not as athletic as Casas at this stage of his career, but he doesn't have to be. He's the crafty vet and he masters that role. Nice long first fall with some fun matwork. The matwork is a little more commonplace than Dandy/Casas, but still really good. They do the headlock escape spot that always makes me think of Steamboat/Tenryu. Satanico does the Ric Flair bump from the press slam position off the top rope. So there are familiar staples here for those who are still getting acclimated to this style. If there's a problem with this match, it's that it's too one-sided. The third fall is just Satanico getting outwrestled for several minutes before falling backwards into a victory. I'm never really a fan of that. The strongest point of this match is the first fall, even if the rest is really good. Lizmark is solid, but I'm not overly impressed with him. It would be overstating it to say he was being carried, but it's not overstating at all to say that Satanico outclasses him. It'll be interesting to see how the yearbooks piece together Satanico's career over time, because the Pirata match from '93 was my lucha MOTY, this is strong and the 1990 matches with El Dandy will hold up really well for him as well.
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They ran Cena/Jericho a gazillion times after Jericho's return, and I always thought it was bizarre that they never pushed the "You cost me my livelihood for 2 1/2 years, you bastard" aspect all that hard, if they even pushed it at all. Those two had good chemistry in and out of the ring after Jericho returned, but their on-and-off feuds were always so poorly booked.
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I didn't care for this too much. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't really good either. If anything, I think it will make an interesting comp to the Misawa/Kobashi vs Doc/Ace match in '95. I think in the context of what all these guys would go on to do throughout the rest of the decade, it has a place on the yearbook to compare to other matches, but there isn't much here. Hansen going crazy on Kobashi with a chair was the highlight. Hansen pins Misawa again for the finish, I guess to really make the 8/22 match as much of an upset as possible.
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I agree that Cena just left to come up with his own material would probably be much better. It's kind of amazing that he has had the run he has had, because I can't think of a single program he's had during his entire time on top except maybe the Umaga feud that I'd call "hot". Dude has overcome some horrendous booking.
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On paper, both seemed like good ideas.
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WWE told Jim Ross to stop calling him that.
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How so?