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Last few minutes. I guess you could call this the very beginning of the Simmons push that would see him in main events later in the year and culminate with Watts making him his top guy in '92. I know hindsight is 20/20, but there was really no reason at all to break up Doom, unless Reed was having personal problems that made it necessary, which is possible. They work hard, but the crowd is just not into this at all. -
One of the biggest debacles in PPV history, as Sid has given notice to go to the WWF and refuses to do the time-honored tradition on the way out, making the end result what we got. Pretty horrible match with no heat at all, but at least it's short. They immediately look to shift focus off of Sid, as One Man Gang and Kevin Sullivan hit the ring. Sullivan looks like a goth Tammy Faye Baker as the crowd chants "Na-Na-Na-Na-Hey-ey-ey-Goodbye" at Sid, which shows just how pathetically hardcore the WCW audience was at this point.
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The PPV running gag continues. Missy enters the locker room, thinking she's going to get an interview with Pillman or Zenk. She manages to unexpectedly run into Terry Taylor, and in a funny moment, he's talking while she's obviously cockwatching and not paying attention. She decides to go into the shower to see if Z-Man is there and Stan Hansen comes out in his boxer shorts and spanks her with his cowboy hat before kicking her out! This may the best thing WCW did in 1991.
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Last few minutes. Maybe someone in WCW realized that rebel flags on a pair of babyfaces wasn't a good idea for a nationally televised promotion, as Smothers and Armstrong are now the Young Pistols. Hayes and Garvin are so broken down at this point, but they do work hard, and each guy still has just enough tricks to keep them effective. The crowd is solidly behind them and the cameramen is missing all sorts of stuff. I don't know, it could just be the favorable edit, but the last few minutes make this match look way better than it has any right to be. Brad Armstrong makes his debut as FANTASIA, coming in and laying out both Pistols after a ref bump. He's not named, but he'll later be repackaged as Badstreet after I think Disney may have sent a letter to WCW. The Birds win the U.S. tag titles.
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The fireball angle had such a great immediate follow-up, but Hogan is right back to cutting his artificial promos where he doesn't sound like he means a word he says. This isn't bad, but Hogan basically had one dimension, which made him annoying sometimes. Beefcake accuses Slaughter of wanting to spray agent orange on Hulkamaniacs, and I think Hogan may have accidentally called Beefcake "Barbara" instead of "Barber".
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This started off slow, but turned into quite the match around the 10-minute mark. The best thing I can say about this is how much of a struggle everything is. The strikes in this were much better than the matwork, although the matwork was first class too. Shamrock's desperation knees are really something. I thought they both did an amazing job of conveying a *need* to win. I also really like how Shamrock would just suddenly maneuver himself into submissions when it's not immediately obvious what he is doing. The final minute of this may be the most dramatic I've ever seen in this style. With his look, wrestling style and background, it's amazing that Bill Watts wasn't going through fire to sign Shamrock to a WCW contract in 1992. Seeing this match firmly plants an alternate universe in my head where he learns how to combine this style with some good US pro basics to become an amazing pro wrestler and the right guy to get U.S. wrestling out of its post rock-and-wrestling doldrums. Perhaps if he had continued to work with Bret Hart, it wouldn't have to be an alternate universe at all, but he really is a guy wrestling missed the boat on in a big way. Another great match from Naoki Sano's quietly stellar career.
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Fujiwara tries playing it cool and wrestles like a sportsman. However, Wilkins wants to keep cheapshotting him with strikes, slapping him on the ear multiple times, kneeing him in the back of the head and so on. Fujiwara gives him a few warnings, but Wilkins doesn't take heed, so Fujiwara sets out to beat Wilkins at his own game, since he chose to go in that direction. And just because he can, he's still going to tie him in knots on the mat too. Fujiwara doing this while also doing a relaxed pose to mock Wilkins was a great moment, but he sells the impact of what Wilkins is doing enough that too much shouldn't be read into that. It's not like he took him lightly. The point of this seemed to be to establish that Fujiwara will outclass your ground game, but he also has a mean streak that he's willing to bring out if provoked. And when will people learn to just leave their ankles lying around near this guy? This was a fantastic match with a great narrative. Wilkins doesn't have an act nearly as dimensional as Fujiwara's, but he doesn't need one in order for the match to work. In some ways, that's the whole point.
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Assuming it's a real question, I'm guessing the answer is Shawn Michaels, and I'm not sure if anyone else comes close.
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Nice, we get a studio match with some time given to it, and it involves four good workers at that! Awesome match with Gilbert losing his temper and taking DWB all over the studio, which gets this thrown out. Nice to see a Memphis segment during this time that isn't focused on getting Eric Embry over.
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Eddie Marlin has asked Bill Dundee and Eric Embry to come to a boardroom. Embry has a sunglass-clad Miss Texas and Tojo in his corner. There was a disputed finish between these two recently, and it looks like Marlin is here to resolve it. He doesn't really get far, as this is a pretty big shouting match. Strange, I would have thought these two to be level-headed, reasonable gentlemen. They sign a contract for another match, and once again, Embry is feuding with every babyface he can find. Perhaps he was doing this to prepare to fire Eddie Gilbert, as we're not far from the end of Eddie's Memphis run. On a side note, it seems weird that Eddie Marlin doesn't have his own Wikipedia page.
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Great match, much better and more memorable than the March encounter. This is not your typical Santo showcase affair, as he's more sympathetic against a very dominant, threatening Casas, and spends most of the match working from underneath. The end result of that is a better match, but also a more meaningful conclusion. Santo's low blow payback spot is the stuff of legend. What made this match work so well was that Casas was really built up to be a formidable challenge before Santo staged a comeback. If you like matwork, Disc 11 is where it's at, as we see it on display in different ways from New Japan, RINGS, UWFI and now here. This was super. These two don't always meet their potential in singles matches, but when they do, they do so in a huge way. Here, they did.
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They show the Superstars angle, and this time, there are no Sean Mooney cutaways. Earthquake brings out snakeskin from Damian, which appears to be pretty obviously plastic. He ends this odd segment by saying he's going to make Quake burgers and will be back later. Later in the show, he's out with a stack of burgers wearing an apron and a chef's hat. Vince takes a bite, only to find out that Earthquake cooked Damian. Alfred Hays starts spitting everywhere and screaming "That's a snake!" Vince ends up swearing in the air over it, telling him this is bullshit (which gets censored) and throwing his burgers on the ground. Horrible segment, just terrible terrible terrible. But it is the precursor to Pepper Steak in '99.
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Vince starts off by thanking Bobby for actually parking in a real space this week. Last week he blocked everyone out of the lot, including a pregnant woman going into labor, so Animal picked up the car and moved it out of the way! I know there's a camera trick involved in this, but I've never quite understood how it works. Then we get surveillance footage of the pregnant woman threatening Heenan at the front desk, as she's apparently somewhere in the building. No payoff to this, at least not yet.
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Larry Zbyszko interviews Barry to ask him when he's going to get rid of this thorn in his side named Brian Pillman. Windham says he's not even a thorn in his side, but Windham hasn't taken him out because he's a compassionate guy. Barry calls him a "Yellow Dog", in a bit of foreshadowing to an angle I completely forgot about that I'm now dreading going through again. But we'll worry about that later. Pillman hits the ring to shut him up and Windham bails.
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IRS has been investigating the tax returns of WWF wrestlers. It's a good thing for Flair that he wasn't in the WWF yet. Boss Man comes out for a squash, and that jobber is pretty stacked. The Nasty Boys attack him just as he's about to handcuff his jobber opponent to the ring ropes for no real reason. They handcuff Boss Man to the ring ropes and out comes The Mountie. Boss Man is all like "Don't tase me, bro" to no avail.