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Funny stuff. Dennis sends in a taped promo blaming Lawler for killing Andy Kaufman and also saying Lawler has two illegitimate children in New Jersey. I won't even try to spell the last name of the guy he's brought in to take out Lawler, but they'll be at Mid South Coliseum Monday night. The two end up arguing face to face and a brawl breaks out. -
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Not sure how the setup didn't make it on the yearbook, as it was something we talked about that needed to go on. Direct any complaints to him, not me. Anyway, I always thought this was the best Steiners match ever, and possibly even the best Williams/Gordy tag ever. From what I've seen, the only thing that would come close is the Misawa/Kawada tag from 1/93. Aggressive matwork to start, followed by tempers flaring, including a great spot where Rick does a double leg takedown on Doc and starts punching the hell out of him. Scott gets his knee worked over, and Doc's football tackle outside the ring looks brutal. I liked the finish also. True to the typical face in peril layout but still feels fresh because of the aggression, and also because while Doc and Gordy are the heels, they aren't going overboard in a way where it takes away from what they were going for in the match. Awesome stuff.
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This is an exciting match. It's easy to see why it was so liked at the time. It doesn't really hold up well. The flash and offense does, but there's no real build, and I think at a time when they were trying to get over a more physical style with less high-flying, they did too much top rope stuff (They were able to do this since the match was under NWA rules), almost rubbing salt in the wounds of fans who enjoyed the style. Also, this is really kind of an empty match. Spot, spot, spot, spot, but no real momentum shifts that mean anything or the illusion of strategy from either side. Not a great match. A fun one, but when you look at it in the context of a global yearbook, everything that's good here is done better elsewhere.
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Bill Watts! I think he took over before this, but this is his first appearance on the yearbook. Watts appointed Ole as the senior referee in WCW since Ole has broken more rules than anyone and can see through anything. Watts also says no padding around the ring because WCW is the real deal. Interesting.
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This was way better than I remembered it being. I remember it being solid, but I remember telling Will while going through the matchlists that we could chop this down to just the finish to show the title change if we needed to. That would have been a mistake. I thought this was a terrific match. Austin again shows new confidence. There was some fun hold work at the beginning, namely Austin trying to get out of a hammerlock with a back body drop and it not working, but there are plenty of other spots like that too. I also really liked Austin's somersault shoulderblock spot he started doing around this time, although he dropped it quickly, maybe because it didn't get over since he always missed the move. Austin ends up regaining the TV title after a belt shot to the face. Another match everyone should check out, and one that I think I've slighted a little in the past, even in admitting it was good.
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It's scheduled to be Brian Lee defending against Rip Rogers, but DWB and Ron Wright show up and offer $2,000 to Rogers to scram. Rogers' exaggerated reaction is pretty funny. Brian Lee seems like he could be a star, but his in-ring just isn't very good. But Tony Anthony is solid and does a good job carrying this. Lee bleeds and Hector Guerrero tries to point out a hidden foreign object, which gives Lee the chance to get it away from him and hit him with it. Paul Orndorff comes out with a briefcase and Hector Guerrero gets hung from the top rope by his necktie! Wild post-match, but the match itself was a little dull.
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Gilbert continues to be the best interview (aside from Lawler) in wrestling, freaking out over his loss to Lawler and saying if he can't beat him this coming Monday for the Unified title, he will quit wrestling.
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Ron Oates, a big blond kid who looks like he'd be pushed. Not sure whatever happened to him. Oates failed in a recent bid for the Southern title and came to Lawler for advice. Lawler talks about how he reminds him of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior in Memphis and how a new look gave them self confidence, and maybe the same will work for Oates. Lawler paints his face and says wrestling has a Sting but it doesn't have a guy named THE HORNET. He now has Sting's haircut and has his face painted exactly like Sting and that's his new name. They can't be serious.
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First, we get a commercial hyping the WBF pay-per-view. Then, we get Gene Okerlund interviewing Randy Savage in an empty arena. I like this interview, but I also tend to be a mark for interviews in empty arenas. I love when Savage does the thing where he emphasizes every third word. I like that this promo is actually focused on wrestling and championships in regards to Flair instead of the stuff with Elizabeth.
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So this will chronologically be the first AAA match on any yearbook. It's a fitting first match -- you see that they've snagged several big names. It's also a fitting match because it nicely demonstrates a big part of what often stinks about AAA, namely that it isn't CMLL or even the UWA. This is intended to be a crazy brawl, but compare it to the 3/1 trios from CMLL. That match was full of intensity and hatred, and this match is all show. I like Perro sometimes, but he is really old and not very good in this match. The first fall's finish isn't really clear. You'd assume a DQ since the technicos were blocking the ref from intervening so Perro could tap each of the rudos on the head with a chair, but the technicos raise their hands in victory, so who knows? This reminds me in many ways of 80s WWF. They've signed a bunch of guys who made their name somewhere else, and the match is not as good as you'd expect if the match happened in a different promotion. They work a match with lots of crowd-pleasing spots, but it all feels strangely sanitized. This isn't all bad, but it just really did nothing for me. Standards for lucha libre are high in 1992 and this falls short.
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Barry vs Arn has historically not been a very good singles match. The 1987 and 1993 matches between the two are disappointing. But this is different and is worth checking out. I expect it to be a polarizing match, because there's plenty to love and plenty to not like so much. But I do expect most people who see this to easily agree that this is the best singles match these two have ever had. This is really worked like a 1970s-style match much of the way. They work holds and stay on the mat for most of this, which for a 30-minute match may seem a little worrisome, but the holds are worked so well and build so logically that the slower pace is not only fine, but in some ways a breath of fresh air. There's a real focus to most of the work -- Barry starts off by going hard after Arn's arm, Arn responds by targeting Barry's leg. In the second fall, Arn works over Windham's back for several minutes to set up a spinebuster pinfall. Arn in particular steps out of his comfort zone a few times, doing a great bodyscissors and even trying the figure four, which isn't a move he normally does. Windham doesn't step out quite as much as Arn, but he does do a cradle piledriver which is kinda cool, even though I've never really been a big fan of that move. The booking has some issues. The DQ finish of Austin running in as Windham prepares Arn for a superplex really feels anti-climatic considering how much time the match was given to the match. But Arn was being groomed as an interim challenger to Sting and Windham was the TV champ, so neither was really in a good position to lose at this point. Paul E.'s act is also a little annoying. He has his good moments at ringside, but there are so many times when it seems like he's doing something silly to put the focus on him instead of the match. This is really worth seeing. Anyone who likes body part work will really like this. It is a bit dated for 1992 WCW, but would have been a tremendous match in the late 70s or early 80s. I loved it, but I'm curious to hear what other people think about something that's really well-worked, but is missing flash.
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I'm with SLL. I didn't really have a thought at all. I was too shocked to think about how it must have gone down. I just thought that it did no good to have everyone speculating before all the facts were in.
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I always love watching Jim Ross and Paul E. argue. Another Springer-before-Springer segment, with both women trading insults and stripping, with security getting involved. Funny that WCW was trying this stuff not knowing that trashy talk shows would be all the rage just a few years later.
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