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Looks like Ron kept the old music in the Doom divorce. This is a short, but really spot-on squash with Rip making Simmons look like a million bucks. Butch Reed attacks him after the match and they have a brawl around the ringside area. It seems like this feud should have been much more, if they really insisted on doing the breakup in the first place. This was a team that worked almost exclusively with main event singles wrestlers during their time as tag team champions, so it would have been cool to see this treated as more earth-shattering, instead of just another feud. Because it's WCW, this brawl - hot as it is - will never be mentioned again.
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This is an outstanding Flair promo. He says the difference between the two of them is that Flair woke up the day after Sting beat him for the title still knowing he was the best and plotting his path back to the top, while Sting hasn't shown him that. That's such an awesome thing to say for someone in the elder statesman role. Because it's WCW, he hypes a cage match that is apparently taking place in some unknown location on an unknown date.
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Lawler talks about how teams aren't always alliances of best friends in pro wrestling. This is all bullshit, but it's masterful, as he explains everything like he's giving fans a peek behind the curtain when he absolutely is not in any way at all. There is a lot of old school stuff that wouldn't work today, but I do think that general approach could be applied today. Keirn makes his position clear - he doesn't like Lawler at all, but he does respect him, and because he respects him, he's telling him to his face that he doesn't like him. I like how Keirn keeps his distance during this interview, and this is a more than satisfactory explanation for why they are teaming.
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Clip of a match from Mid South Coliseum where Jamie Dundee interfered on Austin's behalf to give him the win. Dundee is pretty upset about this, but considering that he physically abused his son on live television, it's hard to argue that Jamie's behavior wasn't justified.
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Lawler is out to just pat the territory on the back on having aired 400 TV shows. They mention that they are doing a special "tomorrow", which makes me wonder how they got those numbers. I'm also confused because 400 shows would be one show a week for approximately 8 years and they were airing on WMC-5 on a weekly basis long before 1983.
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Jackie Fargo has a few comments for Team Texas, while they show old photos of him. I like how the guy is presented as THE legend, but if Steve Keirn's recent history as a Fabulous One feuding with Lawler is completely forgotten, that's pretty ridiculous. I won't say it doesn't make sense, because even as a heel, Keirn was protective of Fargo. But Lawler hopefully comes up with some high quality bullshit reasoning in his interview. I like how Fargo taught Keirn some stuff he never even learned himself!
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Embry and Pritchard demand that they show footage of what happened to Jackie Fargo Monday night at Mid South Coliseum. Dave doesn't want to play it because he says it's not up to production standards. Insert your own jokes. After Fargo pins Tojo, Team Texas (Embry, Pritchard and the Texas Hangmen) hit the ring.
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When Jumbo's team dropped Kobashi knee first on the guardrail, I wanted to yawn, because even this early in the feud, that's the most tired transition they have. But when Misawa tagged in for the first time, the match improved exponentially. The battle between Misawa and Taue took center stage, and they worked one great crowd pleasing sequence after another. It was an interesting pairing, and one I wouldn't have expected. I also liked the Kobashi/Kikuchi teamwork, and Taue did a hell of a job selling for Kikuchi to build to the finish and make it seem like he had accomplished something in beating someone much lower on the totem pole than him. This aired JIP, and from the looks of this, that appears to have been a wise decision, because the first few minutes of this are good, but feel like a re-run.
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The Hashimoto/Muto G-1 Climax match in '95 takes it for me.
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Interested to listen to this one. So you know, for whatever reason, Luger's turn on Steamboat is one of Paul Heyman's all-time favorite angles.
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I definitely want to do a 1990 Yearbook podcast, but I'm not sure I want to do a watching party. The main reason is that the more low-key, mat-based matches aren't going to get the recognition they deserve, because everyone will feel like they have to talk the entire time. So the match itself becomes secondary to talking about it. I also like listening to commentary and the crowd, even when the commentary is in another language. I don't know that I can divide my attention that successfully.
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Excellent match given plenty of time to really develop. I liked the pacing of this match, and I like that they worked this differently as a title match. The early matwork, Pritchard rolling outside, the leg work, Jarrett's comeback ... it was all really well done. This is less sizzle and more steak than your usual USWA Texas footage. These two have really good chemistry and I'm anxious now to see more matches between them. I like that they screwed over Jarrett for the finish to keep the program going, but also made him look really smart and strong in losing. Intercepting the chain from the Austin run-in, hitting Pritchard with it, then tucking it in Pritchard's tights instead of his own was a cool touch.
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This was a better match than I expected. While Flair is still an excellent wrestler, he has slipped from where he was in 1990, and he was with an unfamiliar opponent, so I wasn't sure to expect. But here, he does look like the Flair of old. He gives a really tough, inspired performance. Fujinami is perfectly good, but this is Flair's match all the way. I like how he always ups the aggression when working in Japan, and there are a couple of spots like the neckbreaker that he pulls out that aren't part of his normal repertoire. I do think these two had a classic match in them that would never find its way to the surface, although five years earlier, they almost definitely would have hit that level. They do have really good chemistry, and it's a credit to Fujinami that he puts Flair over so strongly in the body of the match. The bullshit Dusty finish is a terrible, terrible idea in front of this large a crowd, especially when it was to set up a U.S. rematch that had absolutely no appeal to a stateside audience. It brings this match down a level. But everything preceding that is gold.
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I'm guessing that move was a mid-match transition, right? That makes me hate it even more.
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There is a Onita/Goto match in February of '91 that I would call the best match either guy had.
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My favorite thing about that Nash segment was the crowd chanting "Show Your Tits" at the girls, and Nash responding by saying "I would, but it's cold."
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Not that Jericho is a star at the level of most of the other guys on the list, but he has had a much more successful career than Angle.
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Ah, I didn't see the list earlier in the thread. Jericho.
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Cena.
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The layout of the match was supposed to be Hogan getting screwed by a referee that was a huge Flair mark. I thought it made a lot of sense in a vacuum, just not in the big picture.
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And another memory: I think during this time, Eric Bischoff took his daughter to France for making the honor roll (because that's a normal reward and all), and was gone for a long time while Nash was left in charge.