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Aside from the uneventful March match, so far Liger has had three excellent matches with Honaga in 1991-1992, with more to come. It says a lot about Liger that Honaga looks so good against him, but not really against anyone else. This develops into a wild brawl, with Liger swinging chairs and making Honaga bleed, and wrestling half the match with his mask off. Liger does a Macho Man elbow (!) and pulls the long turnbuckle pad completely off the post and uses it as a battery ram! The match ends with Honaga holding the ropes to get a cheap win. Tremendous! Great, great match. This feud is gold.
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Another disappointing match. I like some of the later matches these two had, and I suppose it's interesting to see the evolution of their feud. But I just couldn't get into this that much. It wasn't bad - in fact, it was pretty solid, and I thought the frantic nearfalls near the end where they were trying to beat the clock were really well done. I just had trouble making myself care.
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I was looking forward to this, but it didn't feel at all like Lioness/Hotta. Moves like sunset flips and Irish whips seem out of place if that's what they're going for. Not that there's anything wrong with "pro style", but this match was total pro style, so I don't really get the comparison. I was expecting more of a ground-and-pound match wrestled more like something from UWFI or RINGS. This wasn't that. I didn't really care for this. It seemed less like a style shift and more like two wrestlers stiffing each other because they don't know what else to do.
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Dusty has a new show, and Jason Hervey is his usual trollish self. We also get the debut of PN NEWS, just to really make this a collection of ... something ... personalities. He calls Dusty the original Rapmaster, and we close out with PN rapping, and WCW makes sure to show us black fans. Dusty works overtime to get over the gimmick, I'll give him that. Jason Hervey's dancing is punch-worthy. This wrestling promotion existed. Oh, WCW.
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Larry Z conducts the interview. Sting gets a pretty anemic pop. He calls out Nikita Koloff. Nikita tells Sting he has no problem with him, that his problem is with Luger, and to stay out of his business. But he blindsides Sting anyway, and they end up brawling out of sight.
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I'd be surprised if Robert Fuller has ever done a bad interview in his life. He's not as exaggerated as he normally is here, but I like him and Jarrett as a team. The USWA roster has some really strong depth right now, and they have a lot of young guys coming in over the coming months too.
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Eric Embry is out with Tojo and Miss Texas. He's not at all happy about the contract manipulation we saw in the previous segment, and threatens to slap Jamie Dundee at McDonalds if he sees him there. Embry addresses Lawler, who is close to a return, and they've done a great job building anticipation for that eventual matchup.
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Lawler is back! And he's here to moderate a conversation between Dundee the elder and Dundee the younger. This is Jamie's return from a 30-day suspension. Jamie is out to apologize for his recent behavior. He felt the need to do it on television since that is where this all started. He's willing to leave Memphis for 30 days instead of Bill Dundee, since the contract says "William Dundee" has to leave for 30 days if he loses, and that's also his legal name.
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Hype for the WBF pay-per-view. Ultimate Warrior and Randy Savage will be there. Warrior of course can't just say "I'll be there" like a normal human being ... he has to wear a costume and cut a promo. Savage does too, of course, but Savage is awesome so he gets leeway. Tony Pearson, "a ripped Michael Jackson lookalike who will have to do more than just moonwalk to win the championship."
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The Bushwhackers love ice cream bars so much they smear them all over each other in some odd pseudo-sexual act. Next up is the Funeral Parlor with Jake as a guest. Paul Bearer is amazing in this. Those facial expressions and that voice ... I can almost hear Vince going crazy over this. The clips of the previous angle mixed in are WWF production values at their best. Jake apparently hid Lucifer in the casket before coming out, and Bearer runs off screaming. I really liked watching these two playing off of each other.
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This is a cage match with a twist, as there are handcuffs on the cage, and if you manage to cuff your opponent, you are cuffed for one minute while your opponent does whatever he wants. After the minute is up, the referee unlocks the handcuffs. The match has a lot of interesting stuff built around the handcuffing. Dundee is one of the best gimmick match wrestlers ever, so of course he comes up with some really creative spots. Good stuff with both guys put in positions to attack their defenseless opponent pretty often, although Dundee even adds some interesting twists to that when he does his one-armed comeback. I loved Dundee taking his boots off and attacking Embry. After a ref bump, Tojo tosses an ether soaked rag into the ring and after another ref bump, Embry covers Dundee's face with it. Having to listen to Michael St. John do fake coughing aside, I liked the finish and thought this was again one of the better USWA Texas matches. However, Elliott Mays is out again to HOLD UP the belt, and Embry manages to get fined $5000 in the process. Not crazy about doing this twice on one show, but it's what they did.
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Another really good match between these two. While I've enjoyed the matchup, this is probably the right point to stop the series, so I'm glad there are no more coming. The cage is a little inconsequential, as I expected, but factor that out and you have a match just as good as any of the ones they've had before. This one was really held together by Pritchard's offense and Jarrett's selling. I love the finish of this, as they tease yet another chain finish, and end up doing tease after tease before Jarrett finally gets the clean pin. But this continues, as Pritchard manages to sneak the chain into Jarrett's trunks on the rollup pin, then accuse Jarrett of using it. The referee is about to return the belt to Pritchard until Elliott Mays hits the ringside area to declare that the belt is held up. Feels like a repeat, and I wish Jarrett could just get a decisive win, but I liked the match a lot.
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This was a better match than the March one, but Williams and Gordy sure know how to kill a crowd by taking too much offense. Here, at least it's building to a Kawada hot tag, but what's frustrating about it is that Doc and Gordy aren't all that good at coming up with something interesting to do to work Kawada over in the meantime. This is a face in peril tag where the peril part is a little boring, and I think that's what exposed them working for Watts in '92 as well. You get a lot of hold grabbing with no real rhyme or reason, completely made by the opponent's selling. When Misawa finally tags in, they can't even string together much offense. The build to Misawa locking in the front facelock near the end and finally getting the pinfall was excellent, but I just like Doc and Gordy as a tag team less each time I see them, mainly because they don't sell enough.
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In the case of Undertaker, I remember him wanting to do the match with Angle at Wrestlemania because he'd never really had a good Wrestlemania match. Until Batista in 2007, Undertaker never really had a great WM performance.
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It was mentioned also that Shane was in the audience for this match. WWE has used Shane to start the crowd doing things before. Shane is the one who started the "You Sold Out" chants at Brock at WM XX. I am not making this up. This is all stuff that was reported in the WON at the time. I understand being skeptical of the accuracy of it. I just want to be clear that it's not something I made up, or that wasn't reported at the time.
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We get the last 10 minutes or so of what looks to be an outstanding match. I wish we could see the whole thing. The majority of what is here is Kobashi offense, which is interesting, as even though Kobashi is not yet ready to beat Jumbo, it's clear watching this that he's just a couple of years away from knocking on his door. Jumbo still has the threat of Misawa. He has the threat of Kawada. And now Kobashi is on the rise too. He's the most wanted man in All Japan, and he's somehow surviving it all.
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Hogan stops by the Prime Time studio on a motorcycle to promote Suburban Commando and the Hulk Hogan Hotline. Heenan claims he can easily win Hulk Trivia and ends up losing after dialing the number on the air. They finally get around to the feud with Slaughter. Hogan's shameless self promotion can get grating sometimes, but I liked this. It felt like Jerry Lawler talking to Dave Brown about his softball games before getting around to his match on Monday night.
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I'm not sure what to make of this match. Flair worked really, really hard to get the crowd into this. It sort of worked at times, but they couldn't sustain any heat. Part of it is that there was some weird jingoism in the buildup, part of it is that Fujinami didn't really go over the top to put on a great performance and part of it is that Flair's tricks felt a little exposed. Part of it I think is that Flair's act just seemed so tired at this point, and part of it is that I think this just wasn't a feud that was meant to happen in 1991. Japan didn't quite seem like the right setting for the March match, and the U.S. didn't quite seem like quite the right setting for this one. I think they are both on par with each other in terms of match quality, but even though WCW becomes really dreadful for a few months in the immediate aftermath of his departure, Flair was stale and needed a change in scenery. Even in a unique setting with a completely fresh opponent, it's old hat. This is a very good match, but sometimes, that's not enough.
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There was way too much happening on this show. A card with this many big matches done right would have trouble filling out a 4-hour Wrestlemania card, much less this show. And this is a match that probably would have had more heat before Sting/Luger vs Steiners. It's hard to get a crowd into Bobby Eaton's hammerlock and Arn's systematic destruction of Eaton's knee after the 10-minute dream match spotfest they just witnessed. I'm not sure if I should blame the booking for the card placement of this, or Arn/Eaton for the type of match they worked after the tag, or if the problem is a little bit of both. But the match didn't work. Eaton wins the TV title, launching a brief singles push. The Windham/Pillman appearance at the finish was completely unnecessary and took away from Eaton's moment, as the camera even missed the pin. Oh, WCW.
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The pre-match video is INCREDIBLE, one of the best in wrestling history. Why couldn't WCW do these more often? I do have to admit that while I'm not a huge fan of this match, it was a major dream match at the time, with the only guys in the company aside from Flair who were legitimate stars. And re-watching it, I get the appeal a lot more. While a lot of the spots looked rough, to say the least, they gave the people the match they wanted to see. This type of power spotfest isn't really Luger's forte, even though he does work hard. The other three are great in this setting. The finish really detracted from this. It's hard to criticize wrestlers trying this hard, but they were trying so many new spots for the first time that they weren't executed very well. The Sting/Nikita brawl after the match was excellent.