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Paul E. is doing this interview now to avoid CNN scooping the Dangerous Alliance reveal. Please. He announces each member of the Dangerous Alliance, and for reasons I'll never understand, this is the only time they were ever all together for an interview. Paul E. does a great job explaining the role of each person in the group, and again, WCW looks like they have stumbled on to something. Steamboat and Rhodes are out, and WCW being WCW, they still spend too much time hyping an Omni show that almost no one watching will ever be able to see. -
Tony Schiavone calls this in the past tense, speaking with the knowledge that the Bobby Eaton turn and joining of the Dangerous Alliance already happened. This is a repeat of Barry Windham's turn on Lex Luger, almost move for move. But this had no heat at all and no one in the crowd seems to care, which is very weird. WCW dug such a huge hole for themselves that it was going to take them a while to get out of it. But they are moving in a good direction now.
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One of the most famous angles the WWF ever did. Jake finishes a squash and starts taunting Savage at the announce booth, calling him someone who used to be a real man, but someone who has now gotten soft. He says he should see if he could borrow Piper's skirt. Savage gets up and assures Vince and Piper that all he's going to do is get a closer look. Savage has enough of Jake's taunting and hits the ring, but while the referees are trying to keep him out, Jake cheapshots him and ties him to the ring ropes, where he lets a snake gnaw on his arm in a WILD scene, which gets censored. I hate nameless WWF officials breaking up something like Savage walking to the ring, and they are nowhere to be found during all of this? In the kicker, Elizabeth runs down and is hysterical at ringside. The best angle of the year, and I'm shocked they got away with going this far.
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Full rundown of the Survivor Series card. Undertaker and Bearer's insert promo is excellent. Weird seeing Jake and Earthquake team after their angle just a few months ago. Cool to look at some of these guys and how they've worked together in other contexts. When the LOD and Boss Man were being interviewed, I was trying to think of how long they would have known each other, then remembered they were all involved in what was probably the most famous match of the Crockett era. Flair in team competition on this show seems out of place. He shouldn't have even had a match if the entire show outside the main event was going to be tags. Flair officially announces Mr. Perfect as his Executive Consultant, and they are already blurring the belt. Why would Neidhart be replaced at Survivor Series and not Sid?
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Great match that I think blows away their Beach Blast match. Cactus takes some crazy bumps, as you'd expect, but Sting looks awesome too. I love the spot when Cactus throws the mic in Sting's face to get him to say "I Quit" and he screams "Not a chance!" Foley does the spot where he swings a chair and it ricochets back in his face, and it looks better than any other time I've seen that spot. Cactus also takes a sick Nestea Plunge bump before the Scorpion Deathlock finish. It's amazing how much more over Sting is when he's working with someone who challenges him as a worker. He looks like a guy on track to maybe realizing his potential the second time around.
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What a difference Satanico makes! He seems to raise everyone's game, as the comedy spots are still there and still look great, but everyone is also doing better wrestling exchanges too. This is the best trios match of 1991 at this point and a MOTYC, as Los Infernales being such strong heels makes the match feel like a real struggle with meaningful momentum shifts instead of just entertaining sequences rolled out to pop the crowd, which is how all the Brazos matches in 1991 before this have come across to me. The heat for this is through the roof and all of the nearfall attempts (not just in the final fall) carry so much importance. Just an incredible performance from everyone involved.
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Loved this match. Pirata, Emilio and MS-1 are game to match the Brazos comedy spot for comedy spot, and the end result is a wildly entertaining match. This feels like a steady stream of sequences you'd see in the first ten minutes of a really good Midnight Express match, with some heel miscommunication spots I'd love to see adapted for U.S. wrestling. The spot where Pirata keeps punching Brazo de Oro in the stomach, only for him to repeatedly bump into Emilio, who is stuck in the corner behind him, was tremendous. Great fun!
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Fantastic match between teammates. Misawa and Kawada dominate most of this, putting Kobashi and especially Kikuchi in a position to sell and work from underneath. Kikuchi in particular puts on an excellent performance, both in terms of selling and the way he timed his offensive comebacks on both Misawa and Kawada. I love how he's so similar to Misawa in how much he relies on the elbows and forearms. Kobashi and Kikuchi also have some really good doubleteam spots. Not quite in the elite matches of the year, but just outside of that.
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This segment is the most effective thing Sting has been a part of in 1990 or 1991. That includes his title win. Everything about this was great. Rude, the red hot new heel, wins the U.S. title in his first big match, and Sting looks like the bravest guy in the world for showing up with his bad knee to tough out the match. Sting sells his injury great, and Jim Ross is awesome on commentary. This is a short match, but it's exactly as long as it should be. This was such a great presentation. This show made me think the magic was back in this promotion. Within less than two hours, they suddenly had three hot issues -- Sting vs Rude, Sting vs Luger and Steamboat's return.
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This may be my most watched match ever. Ricky Steamboat is an awesome reveal to sub for the injured Barry Windham. WCW had been in a major funk and really needed this show to be strong, and boy did it deliver. Anyway, it's hard to comment on this because I've seen it so many times. The soundbytes from this match are ingrained in my memory ("NOT RICKY STEAMBOAT!" ... "He's just a man" ... "Brand new tag team belts by the way", which is oddly memorable). This is pretty close to a perfect tag team match. I'll make the argument sometime when my mind is a little fresher, but I think there's a case for this as the best WCW match of all time (excluding the Flair/Steamboat series).
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Madusa is the first one to come out of the box, and she dances very suggestively with Sting in all sorts of positions to imply that she is going to give him a blowjob. Jim Ross makes sure to point out how she has Sting's "full attention", and then Lex Luger comes out of the box and clips Sting's knee. He attacks the wrong knee initially and Sting has to correct him in a funny moment. At least they paid off the angle with a reveal that didn't feel too anti-climatic, even though they obviously could have done more with it.
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Commercial explaining the concept behind the Lethal Lottery and Battlebowl. This was a pretty cool idea. I just wish Starrcade wasn't used as the experimental show. They asked how crazy it would be if Sting and Luger were partners ... right before the next segment. I remember that making it painfully obvious to me that Luger would be the big reveal. Classic WCW.
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Paul E. is livid about being kicked off of WCW TV, and says he ain't stopping until he's called Paul E. Turner. He says WCW doesn't respect the talent it has, which is ... true. Rude does a really good promo to set up the Clash, and he seems excited to be in this environment, as he should -- he is instantly the freshest guy on the roster.
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Dustin talks about the Clash this week and is quickly interrupted by Arn Anderson. Arn is wearing his glasses even though he is in his wrestling gear, which is awesome. Arn tells him to shut up and listen, and tells him that Barry Windham knows how he operates and should have seen that coming, and that Dustin should just walk away. Dustin will do no such thing, and wants Arn in the ring, but Arn tells him nothing in this world is free. Great line, and Dustin closes the segment by promising that Barry will be at the Clash.
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Nate the Rat has taken the nickname to a new level. He cuts a promo with rats crawling over him and calls them his friends. Gross. He hates Jerry Lawler, and rightfully so, considering their history when Nate was his servant last year. What's with all the silly gimmicks? I'm guessing Lawler was booking again.
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The "Spirit of America" is recording a vignette about how he loves America so much that he picks up garbage on sideways and in parks. He pleads with everyone for help. O ... kay. Eric Embry drives by and laughs (rightfully so) in a really funny moment. Embry starts throwing trash everywhere. This is SO horrible, but hilarious. Must-see.