Loss
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I don't want to dismiss that point entirely by any means, but I would be interested in doing a breakdown comparing the travel schedule of Ric Flair in 1985 and Hulk Hogan in 1985. I think we'd find that Flair worked a heavier schedule with more trips abroad, and maybe covering just as wide an area of the country. It would also be interesting to compare guys like Savage and Steamboat to guys like Arn and Tully during 1986 to see what type of schedule differences there were. Since Savage, Steamboat, Jake, etc. were the type that headlined most of the house shows, it would be an interesting comparison. -
1983 set the table for the boom. Most territories did at least one show that did huge business, usually more than one. Super Sunday, Starrcade, Final Conflict, Lawler/Dundee, etc.
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One of those matches that people tended to feel very strongly about when it happened ... in both directions. To me, between the spectacle of it all, the piledriver on the ringside table, the weapons, the blood and the Space Flying Tiger Drop (which isn't an ECW move, but it's the type of move ECW fans would love), this felt like an ECW match that happened to take place on a New Japan show. So I think ECW fans would love and probably did love this match, while people who aren't huge fans of ECW probably wouldn't care for this at all. I felt like this had to go on because it always seemed like a match people were pretty vocal about either way. I remember the RF Video highlight reel at the end of all of their videos having a clip of this, and seeing this show as a result of that, and loving the match at the time, then watching it a few years later and hating it, so I've been in both places. Today, I guess I'm too objective for my own good, which kinda sucks. But I do remember this having way more heat than it actually had, it turns out.
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This is the best Nash has ever looked. Great brawl, with Diesel looking like a million bucks! Lots of WWF standard spots debuted here, specifically Michaels using a fire extinguisher. Incredibly, Diesel takes off the prosthetic leg of Mad Dog Vachon at ringside and tries to attack Shawn with it. This was Nash's last televised match before heading to WCW.
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Nice video package setting up the match, even if it is narrated by Lee Marshall. Brutal match. Having not rewatched the Parking Lot Brawl yet, I'd call the Uncensored match their best match, but with this one ahead of the Nitro match. Finlay does a tombstone on the floor and the match gets thrown out.
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Dok Hendrix narrates a fun face-to-face segment with Diesel and Shawn Michaels. Dok asks Diesel what motivated him to attack Shawn. Diesel points out Shawn's wardrobe and asks if he really needs to explain himself further than that. Shawn even calls him "Kev", and says he got where he is by riding his coattails to stardom. Nash calls him Mr. VH-1 and says "There's only one Kliq, and you know who that is." The two talk over each other for the rest of the segment.
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I'm still getting acclimated to the style, so I don't feel too comfortable calling this good or bad. I enjoyed the matwork, but want to see more RINGS before I comment too much.
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The World, TV and tag titles are all on the line in one match, a concept copied from the main event of September 1995 In Your House. On the way to the ring, Flair stops and kisses Debra McMichael's hand, which riles up Mongo. Then Savage comes out and has to be escorted out in handcuffs. Flair can have a decent match with Sting and Luger in his sleep out of nothing but familiarity. The finish is ridiculous. Woman hands Flair a cup of coffee. Flair tries to sneak up on Sting and Luger with the coffee, and ends up hitting The Giant in the face. It also sparks this over the top quote from Giant: "That coffee burned. But it lit a fire in my soul." Flair is great here: "I tried to apologize. You didn't like it. Now, I'm mad. I don't like the way you look at the girls anyway. So you got to the end of the show to apologize to me, or next week, I'm gonna kick your big ass." Then he takes off running. Bischoff apologizes for Flair's language. Great ending.
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Last few minutes. Goldust regains the IC title. I'm not sure why they even switched the belt at all unless they thought it was a title thing they could afford to do without hotshotting a money match while popping a rating. Maybe I just answered my own question.
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Not much of a match, thanks to crazy overbooking, but lots of booking significance, as Douglas turns heel, setting up a feud with Scorpio.
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Tremendous match, one of the better Memphis studio matches you'll ever see. They kept the show wide open anticipating they would go long, since these two had a 60 minute draw the previous Monday night at Mid South Coliseum. The match probably goes about 30 minutes in real time, with about 18 minutes shown here with commercials edited out. Great finish, as referee Frank Morrell fakes a heart attack as Lawler is about to win the match! Lawler goes to check on him, Jeff schoolboys him, and suddenly he's fine and does a fast count, giving Jarrett the USWA title. Well worth seeing.
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Some awesome clips of the Dundee/Cyberpunks feud. The Cyberpunks are PG-13 for those who don't know. Awesome stuff with bumps and brawling aplenty involving Randy Hales, Bill Dundee and Jesse James Armstrong.
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By far, the best Joshi match on the set so far. I wonder if that's because it's the first JWP match. Even though Kyoko Inoue has appeared in both promotions, there does seem to be a style difference, plus there was no Toyota to mess things up. Plus, they sold the finish like it mattered. This was tremendous, in the upper echelon of the matches on the set so far.
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Something to that effect I think, but the match was JIP.
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Doc's big comeback! I know this has been said before, but this match just re-emphasized to me how well the All Japan style could have gotten over in the U.S. since it was pretty much the same heavyweight style, only more modern. Incredibly heated, well-executed wrestling with tons of stiff shots and suplexes, and big nearfalls. The match is terrific, but the storyline is what puts this over the top. I kept wishing Jim Ross could be calling this.
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I love the moment of Akiyama having enough of Kawada's kicks and Kawada casually walking away from him. This has lots of the great moments you expect from these guys in a condensed format. All action format, and all the potential pairings are given plenty of time and focus. Not the best primer for 90s All Japan, but a really good one.