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Teddy Long has hired the One Man Gang and Kevin Sullivan to take out Ron Simmons. The look OMG and Sullivan were sporting during this time was crazy! Teddy Long has been a real highlight so far in 1991. Simmons interrupts to tell Long if he's paid by the pound for One Man Gang, he's a broke man. Simmons really looks credible in the way he carries himself and I do think a slower climb to the top would have made him a star.
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Expiration of time match with some pretty top notch matwork! Dundee is first class. Terrific squash. Steve Austin attacks Dundee after the match by punching him with a coal miner's glove while JC cuts an obnoxious promo. Dundee juices to get this over. The angle was good, but the squash was the highlight. I'm glad they at least waited until after the match to do the run-in. Dundee's interview capping this off is excellent, even though they try to use the music to wrap him up. What a pro.
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This is definitely a good point and I will try to be more responsive when reading older threads. At the same time, I think one of the cool things about the yearbook threads is that we can bump them anytime we want. Think about this -- about a year from now, we will have an individual thread for nearly every significant match, angle or interview to take place in the entire 1990s! I think that's pretty impressive. After I finish 1991, I plan on starting my rewatching of previous yearbooks, mixing bonus matches in with the stuff I want to rewatch. I'm not sure how we'll do bonus threads yet, but I'll figure it out. I plan on beginning with 1990 and going forward chronologically. That will be what I do between yearbooks until I finish the whole decade, but everything notable gets a second view.
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Lawler really tears into Texas, its fans and its women. This is a scathing interview. I love it! I wish Jarrett would talk before Lawler when they're out together, because Jarrett is always going to come off flat no matter what. But if Jarrett drops the ball, Gilbert absolutely picks it back up. They cut to a promo of Jackie Fargo hyping his return to close things out.
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I know you didn't. I just was tired of hearing about it. Anyway, I think I'm over my little pity party now. Yay PWO!
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I don't know if we can do anything about it. What I typically do in cases of a long absence when I don't want to read everything is go into each folder and read the threads I'm interested in first, then scroll down and do Mark all posts as read at the bottom of the board. I find that's the best way to stay caught up.
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Can I suggest a montage on this comp of Lawler hyping all of his personal appearances before getting around to his promo?
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Terry Funk manages to make me laugh out loud no less than four times in this awesome promo. He completely blanks on who is going to be in his corner halfway through the promo and ad-libs and this just keeps getting funnier. Someone MUST transcribe this. This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen.
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The announcers are gleeful that Lawler has regained the Unified title, but Team Texas is out before they can say too much about it. Tom Pritchard's neverending Roddy Piper impersonation has become the most annoying thing in 1991 wrestling. They cut to highlights of Lawler vs Funk at MSC, with Jackie Fargo as special referee. Fargo is doing too much to put himself over for my tastes, but it doesn't really take down the match. Funk throws furniture all over the ringside area in a crazy scene, actually picking up the entire guardrail and hitting Lawler with it. The match looks to have pretty great, and once again, I wish we had it in full. Fargo makes a fast count and purposely turns his head after a piledriver so Lawler can get the win. I don't like the way Funk pops right up after the piledriver, but it is what it is. Back in the studio, Embry and Pritchard whine about the ripoff and they have a pretty valid point, although Funk won the title by cheating too, so I guess it's fair. Lawler hears all of this whining and is out to show off the belt. Just as you'd think, that doesn't last long, as the heels jump him, but Eddie Gilbert quickly makes the save and we've got ourselves a brawl! The babyface triumph is short-lived, as the Texas Hangmen storm the ring and attack Lawler and Gilbert. Jeff Jarrett finally runs out with a step ladder and clears the ring. "Just what we need, two more from Texas." -- HA!
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Flair hypes a cage match nowhere in particular against Sting where El Gigante will be the referee. TBS was hyping this same match at The Omni, and now the syndicated shows are hyping it, yet there's no date, no town, no method for seeing it. What a tragically inept promotion.
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I'm not sure I understand the divide. The faces changed during those years, but the story seemed to be the same. Yes, the WWF attempted to move on from Hogan a few times, but they always came back to him.
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I just removed the damn avatar. It's something I added when the board launched and never thought about again, but has come up quite a few times lately. I'm tired of hearing about it.
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People remember The Godfather, Val Venis and the New Age Outlaws too. They were all "stars" to an extent, but they were stars because their runs happened to coincide with the peak of Steve Austin. They weren't a key part of the WWF's success at the time. But they had effective gimmicks, did a few memorable angles and are associated with a time when wrestling was cool. 80s WWF has tons of Val Venises and Godfathers.
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Hiro Saito was awesome in this! Did you not see that bump to the guardrail from the apron? He was a regular Bobby Eaton in there.
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I wasn't criticizing him. I was criticizing the reaction to him. Me calling the opinion that Bret Hart was better than Ric Flair "stupid" set off a nauseating 17-page thread. Calling Kane fans -- who do exist on this board -- "weird and creepy" doesn't even get a peep.
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I wouldn't really lobby for Honky Tonk Man as a great worker, but if you're looking at an overall performer who has every single aspect of his act down, I'd have to give the nod to HTM over HHH. HHH's character has always sort of floated from thing to thing. He could never decide if he was Blueblood snob guy, immature degenerate guy, suit-wearing Flair wannabe guy or cutoff denim and leather guy. I could buy it as a progression over time if he didn't alternate between some of those identities so much long after he made his name. Instead, it was more about HHH shifting his persona to try to cash in on whatever was going on at that moment in time, be it booking Flair as his underling or doing the DX nostalgia run. There's nothing particularly wrong with that, but one could interpret it to mean that he didn't have a durable enough persona to be plugged into any program without having to change his gimmick. I never really saw those changes as reinventions like Hollywood Hogan or Stone Cold Steve Austin. Those guys weren't always those characters, but once they found something bankable, they stuck with it. For whatever reason, HHH kept changing.