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OH! Tully Blanchard vs Don Kernodle (Worldwide 05/11/85) Ric Flair vs Nikita Koloff (WCW Sunday Edition 08/11/85 - Easily their best match) Ric Flair vs Ron Garvin (WCW 12/28/85) Ole Anderson vs Magnum TA (WCW 12/28/85) Flair/Arn/Ole vs Dusty/Magnum/Manny (Worldwide 12/21/85) If you're up for including JCP matches that only aired on World Pro Japan, you should also check out: Ric Flair vs Magnum TA (Philly 02/01/86) Midnight Express vs Rock & Roll Express (04/12/86 - Arguably their best match against each other) And only aired on the Houston Wrestling TV when Paul Boesch was promoting cards, but: Flair/Arn/Windham vs Luger/Doc/Nikita (06/10/88) Not a TV match, but I would still recommend the raw footage of the Flair vs Steamboat match from 03/18 at the Capital Centre. And if you watch this, I'd also watch the MX vs Rock & Rolls match shoe recommended.
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I already had the Rock & Rolls vs Ragin' & Ravishin' match listed. The MX vs Rock & Rolls title change from August was not a TV match, which is why I didn't list it. I'm pretty sure Flair/Arn vs Garvin/Rhodes only went about five minutes.
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Team Texas beat up Jeff Jarrett later in the show. The beating goes a little long. Lawler takes forever, but finally makes the save, and immediately gets cut off. Embry even tells Gilbert during all of this just to watch so they can teach him Texas style. Lawler and Jarrett do an awesome anti-Texas babyface interview. They both have more matches coming up in Texas, so I hope no one tells the Dallas fans what they said.
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The finish of Lawler vs Gilbert from Mid South Coliseum. Lawler has Eddie pinned when Tommy Gilbert comes out of the crowd and attacks Lawler. They are about to post Lawler when Eddie Marlin makes the save. The Gilberts work over Eddie Marlin until Lawler recovers enough to help even the odds. The old men brawl away from the ring when Tom Pritchard and Eric Embry hit the ring and lay out Lawler. Tennessee vs Texas begins! Back at the studio, Gilbert and Embry are interviewed, which is a pretty effective heel pairing. Embry immediately criticizes every Tennessee sports team, and says a guy from Texas can beat a guy from Tennessee any day of the week. Pritchard celebrates this declaration in the background while Gilbert seems a little uncomfortable. Embry tells Gilbert to stand in the corner and listen to him and he'll be just fine. I like where this is going.
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Jamie Dundee is now JC Ice Baby, per one Tony Anthony. They accuse Dundee of child abuse for what he did last week, which isn't terribly far off. They talk about Dundee being a horrible father. DWB, Doug Gilbert, Downtown Bruno and Steve Austin agree to take him under their wing. With that group, I suppose he'll have wasted talent, get in fights over cigarettes, repress his sexuality and develop a crush on Husky Harris.
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Paul Bearer debuts, doing a totally different act than we're used to, keeping his head down as if he's attending a funeral, and speaking softly. Brother Love does all of the talking. It's a credit to both Undertaker and Paul Bearer that they were able to keep this act going for so long by adjusting it over time.
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Oh, I think the matches definitely work in that context as well. I wouldn't change anything on the list. I just left some things off if I thought they were repetitive.
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I have really grown to hate these lazy schtick matches, especially when watching wrestlers who I know are capable of giving us something so much better, but this is really well done schtick that I suspect Lawler fans will dig a ton. Gilbert apes Lawler's entire heel act and builds a match around it. It's not as much a Lawler showcase as it is a Gilbert showcase, but this is 17 minutes of playing hide-the-chain and cutting promos on the crowd. Worth checking out if that's your thing.
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Gordon Solie interviews Dusty in an empty Omni. They show a clip of Dusty vs Tully at Starrcade '86, and talk about Dusty's transition to announcing, with Solie even comparing him to John Madden. They talk about Dustin Rhodes heading into the company as well. They talk about an official retirement coming over summer at the Great American Bash. Nice feature.
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Flair has glasses that make him look ancient. Combine it with the hairstyle and it's a very odd look. Flair rubs salt in the wounds of anyone who thought he was done, because he's back! Aside from the weird look, this actually feels more like an 80s TBS promo than anything he did in 1990. Have to laugh at Flair's pronunciation of El Gigante.
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Jarrett is accompanied by Curtis Thompson and Chris Walker, who look hilarious in their ring attire. I keep expecting them to start stripping. Their team is even The U.S. Males, come on, it's perfect! Jarrett is disgusted by 1990 Rookie of the Year Steve Austin. He talks about the feud with Chris Adams and says Adams should have slapped her upside the head at some point! Jeanne interrupts him and says she's not scared of him one bit, even slapping him across the face. Eventually Austin runs in, and the two have an impromptu brawl. It's a shame Steve Austin held an 8-year grudge because Jeff Jarrett once made an innocent joke in passing about his paycheck.
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No, I just mean that most of the time, Rock didn't use the People's Elbow as a finisher. He used the Rock Bottom, or even the sharpshooter.
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Eddie Marlin interrupts a match Jamie Dundee is refereeing because he's doing such a horrible job. Jamie says Eddie can't fire him, because Max Andrews is the one who hired him. Dundee comes out and says Jamie should just quit. Bill tells him to go work at McDonald's or something. Jamie says he lives in his own house and pays his own bills, and doesn't have to do what his Dad says anymore. Jamie even says this is why his mama left Bill! Bill pulls off his belt and WHIPS HIS SON ON LIVE TELEVISION to the crowd's delight! Oh my God! I am completely shocked. Wow. Memphis.
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Last few minutes of the big MSC match. Cornette tries to sneak Lane powder and Jackie Fargo sees it and kicks powder in his face. Lane is about to attack Fargo with the racket, Keirn stops him, they bump heads and Lawler and Jarrett regain the titles. Great finish! Cornette tries to hit Fargo with the racket after the match, and Fargo catches him and chases him away. This leads to Eddie Gilbert storming the ring and attacking Lawler. He tries a piledriver, but Lawler pulls the strap down and Gilbert ain't doin' shit. This was a really impressive collection of talent, and I hate to see so many empty seats for something built up so well. Total chaos, as they brawl up into the stands of Mid South Coliseum and Gilbert throws fire at Lawler. Lawler makes sense of the angle afterwards, as I was wondering why Gilbert and the Fabs were co-existing. The explanation: Gilbert feigned being sidelined by the Fabs and Cornette. They'd all work together to take out Lawler, and then they could split $25,000 between the four of them. That's actually genius! Gilbert barges into Lawler's dressing room while he's explaining all of this, and Gilbert is quite upset at these accusations. Eddie Marlin tries to calm him down, and he says the hell with you! We wrap up with Lawler being interviewed in a studio, looking dapper. He compares Gilbert to a chihuahua at a friend's house that nips at your heels, then runs away every time you turn around. He doesn't get much more out than that before Gilbert completely blindsides him (seriously, I jumped and totally did not expect that) and they have a HELL of a brawl. The locker room clears to pull them apart. All of this was amazing. It doesn't get much better than this, folks. Gilbert/Lawler has been going on since summer of 1990 and I still don't want it to end.
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