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Why did anyone ever like Joey Styles? He's more preoccupied with being clever than calling the match. He also repeated the line about messing up his suit at least 3 times. Anyway, not really my thing, but a fun, crazy brawl, and you can see how considering how much more the crowd was into stuff like this than traditional indy stuff, they got the inspiration for what ECW would become.
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Joined in progress from Mid South Coliseum. Tatanka seems to be living it up as a heel and this is pretty heated for Lawler's comeback. Tatanka wins the Unified title. (They showed the end of the match later in the broadcast after Vince's interview.) Tatanka enters the studio with belt in hand to do a promo. Lawler is out after a couple of minutes and after a few minutes of bargaining, ends up getting Tatanka to agree to a Mid South Coliseum Survivor Series-style match with the top babyfaces and heels with all the top titles at stake. That's a pretty interesting idea for a Monday night match and I'm curious how it drew. The studio crowd is really, really into all of this.
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Joined in progress from Mid South Coliseum, 20 minutes in. After a ref bump, Rich pulls out a chain, which Jarrett gets away from him and then pins him. Paul Neighbors points out what happened, the ref finds the chain, the match gets restarted and Rich gets a three count even though the ref doesn't see his foot under the bottom rope. Wish we could have seen more of the match itself. Rich comes out to do an interview, and it's a pretty good one. Jarrett comes out to try to get to Rich, but all the babyfaces are holding him back.
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I suspect Providence of Quebec rules were Vince making fun of the territories in as many ways as possible: (1) No jumping off the top rope (2) No piledrivers (3) No throwing an opponent over the top rope (4) Title changes hands on a countout (5) Title changes hands on a DQ You also catch Vince jumping on Heenan for using a pronoun on commentary. Also appears to be the debut of Johnny Polo, and one of the best wrestling outfits ever: We Are The Quebecers Jacques And Pierre And I Am Johnny! The Quebecers have some fun double-team spots. I love it when teammates perform wrestling moves on their tag team partners but land on the other guy. I love the heavy focus on the rules here. The ref refuses to count a fall because the legal man isn't in the ring. With all the cool Quebecers offense, heated crowd, getting over the gimmick and nice hot tag build, this is one of the better Steiners matches, believe it or not, and I'd probably rank it decently in an all time WWF/E poll. I also really loved the nature of the screwy finish, because it's the only way I think anyone would have believed the Quebecers taking the titles. Great stuff! The title change is put over as a really big, tragic deal and I even enjoyed the gloating post-match promo.
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Nash wanted to show that no matter what they put in the first hour of Nitro, they were going to get the exact same rating. If I remember correctly, he was wrong.
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Flair's biggest win of '93 aside from Starrcade was taking the NWA title from Windham. He did that with a figure four in the middle of the ring. That's a pretty forgettable match, though, so I understand the oversight. I liked this match, but I do agree with Ditch's general point about Chono. His style isn't really that much different from the good American heavyweights at the time, and he would have blended well with them. Tenryu's best matches are against guys who can be a little more aggressive. Chono didn't have his mean streak yet. Did heel Chono against Tenryu ever happen? I suspect it would have been awesome. Tenryu's timing is second to none. Cutting off Chono's top rope dive with a chop was awesome. Even if the drama was lacking for the rope reaching stuff, the angles at which he's able to apply the STF are pretty cool. Also, any match where you can't hear Chono doing his weird breathing thing is a nice relief. In terms of their respective places on the card at this point, this seemed to have exactly the right amount of build to a finish that it should have. The post-match stuff with Hase going crazy rocks and helps set up their match later on this disc.
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Rude was pretty done by this point, but this is super heated in the last few minutes. Flair does color commentary. After a ref bump, he grabs a chair, but Flair intervenes and takes the chair. This leaves Rude prone to a quick schoolboy, Dustin wins the U.S. title, and Center Stage ERUPTS. Seriously, it's an insane pop.
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