Loss
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This was spectacular, and I know nothing at all about either of these guys. The body is simply not meant to bend the way it did in a few of those half crabs, and there were more palm strikes than in typical UWFI matches as well, which I always enjoy. Had the feel of two guys really trying to make it and putting it all out there. They start really selling the toll of the match and their own exhaustion toward the finish, which is really cool. With great matches happening in three countries, February 29, 1992 may have been the best day of wrestling ever.
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Sensational match! Another great UWA 6-man. There are really some creative sequences here, that if they were worked on the fly is doubly impressive. This is as good as or better than the best Michinoku Pro matches because of the comedy mixed in with the great pacing and highspots. Casas staggering over to tag in the wrong corner and getting slugged was fantastic, but this match is filled with spots like that and it would take too long to list them all, and it would also take some of the joy out of watching this. One of the best matches I've ever seen and possibly the MOTY. We'll see.
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I was never a huge fan of this before and I'm not sure why. Great match. The heat for this is exceptionally strong. I love that Rude can barely get out his pre-match stuff because the boos are so loud. He probably loved it. The negatives are that it's not as good as Beach Blast, and I don't care for the finish. But this was probably a hard match to book because it was too soon for either of them to do a real job. Rude was always terrific at selling something long-term while executing moves, in this case his arm. One of the first top-rope superplexes I can recall seeing in the U.S. too. It's amazing that a guy as talented as Rude wasn't in a major promotion for over a year before this.
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I have talked about this match many times before. I'm not sure what else I could add to it. I definitely don't think it's overrated, and I loved the repeated Austin clotheslines because it advanced the match. It was the move Dustin couldn't avoid. I definitely thought this had really strong heat. They were chanting Windham's name and popping big pretty consistently. I thought the Milwaukee crowd was great.
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Ron Wright reads a letter from a fan, and this is really, really funny. Wright is thankful for being recognized as a "good, clean, Christian scientific wrestler", even when his opponents tried to maim him. $5.00 is included in the letter, with the writer saying he wished it could be more. Hilarious.
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Another crazy brawl. Not at the level of some of the other ones. It would seem easy to blame JYD & Big Black Dog for that, but I think the bigger issue is just that this feud was at his best when it's either Jarrett & Lawler or Jarrett & Fuller teaming. Richard Lee is interviewed backstage at MSC after the match, where Big Black Dog is selling a bad knee injury, and Lee vows revenge.
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The Undertaker babyface turn is official. Great segment! Jake is just phenomenal in this, taking Undertaker down with a chair repeatedly, and every time Undertaker just keeps coming back again and again and again. It's a shame Jake was privately self-destructing at a time when he should have been entering a big money run. I always felt like this feud did way more to establish Undertaker as a top guy than the Hogan or Warrior feuds did.
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I don't think it's much a point of contention that Rude hit his career peak in 1992. What I think could be an interesting debate is who had the best year between Rude, Steamboat, Sting, Vader and other guys who had an excellent year. There's no right or wrong answer, but hearing the logic behind it would be cool.
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Curious -- if we were to do supplements, what would be the most intriguing way to release them? 1993: The Missing Matches -- Matches from all promotions that year that didn't quite make the cut OR WWF in the 1990s: The Missing Matches -- Matches from a single promotion for a decade that didn't quite make the cut
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I think using the numbers as proof of anything after such a short amount of time -- good or bad -- is a mistake. The WWF got hot months before the ratings caught up to it in the late 90s. I'm not saying this is that. I'm just saying that some of the conclusions that the angle is a failure because there was no immediate ratings spike is awfully short-sighted. Angles haven't driven business in WWE in nearly a decade. Names -- and not even names involved in anything particularly compelling -- do. Reading too much into the short-term is why WWE has the systemic issues that prevent them from getting over new stars.
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Flair/Luger at Bash '88 has Luger still becoming good, and the two still working out the kinks of "their" match. I like the match, but there are things like the bearhug spot that go on way too long that they'd refine later. By Starrcade, Luger has improved exponentially and they have a great match, with Luger getting less winded and his selling of the knee injury being really good. Side note: I was still a fairly new wrestling fan around this time. I remember seeing a promo a week after Starrcade where Luger wasn't hobbling around or anything, wondering why he wasn't still hurt. Then I realized wrestling doesn't work that way, which is a shame, because it would be awesome if it did. Starrcade '89 is a match I need to watch in full sometime. I've only seen the clipped commercial version. It's bizarro world Flair/Luger since Luger is working heel, and it's shorter than their other matches, but I'd still like to see it. Wrestle War '90 was their best match, as Luger is at his peak and the Sting thing would be an iconic moment in a company that was better at self promotion. Capital Combat I think is great also for Flair bleeding a gusher and Luger working through a legit injury and still putting on a good performance, but I hate the finish. Clash XII is ridiculously heated, but it's just a condensed version of their previous matches.
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He was kind of a non-factor. He mostly stood on the apron, but when he was in, he kept up fine. He just wasn't in very much. He is the one who convinced Casas and Wagner to do the Fargo strut, his biggest contribution to the match.
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Nishimura in CMLL sounds amazing? Is there other footage of him that year? Awesome.
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Handheld footage of a cage match on a house show. Probably 10 minutes total, and it's not something that's going to change the world, but these two meshed well during this time and the match had lots of heat and typical Flair cage spots, so you can imagine what you'll get. It's not for the title, and Piper wins.
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