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I love how into this the crowd is. I've seen this match many times before, and my favorite part has always been the payback spots on Jumbo. It's been fun to watch Misawa and Kawada evolve into this very confident team that knows who they are. All I could think the whole time was how far everyone involved has come this year, and that made the match seem better than it ever has before. It's a feel good sprint with great action and story. -
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Windham claims that he's back three months early from his six-month vacation because there's Horsemen business to be taken care of. Ric Flair is missing! Arn and Windham vow revenge. They really could have gone overboard with the "Have you seen Ric Flair?" stuff. As much as I like this feud, SO many missed opportunities.
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Let's see Teddy Long drive Ric Flair around. He announces that he has a big surprise at 3:00 -- Janet Jackson will join them! Uh huh. Long claims to have lost control of the car, and Flair knows he hasn't. He pulls over though, and a bunch of guys kidnap Ric Flair! Reed and Simmons happen to be there hanging out. What a delightful coincidence! This was fun.
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Mike Rotunda is making business decisions left and right because he's boss like that. He really looks frightened the whole time he's talking to everyone at the table. I think we caught him in the middle of some insider trading! Maybe that's why he left. Alexandra York announces that they have created a program for each and every wrestler. They review a bunch of charts and graphs while loud classical music plays. Tremendous.
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November: #1 - Pirata Morgan vs El Faraon (EMLL 11/16/90) ****1/2 #2 - Lightning Kid vs Wellington Wilkins Jr. (PWA 11/90) ****1/2 #3 - Keiji Muto & Masa Chono vs Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW 11/01/90) ****1/4 #4 - Aja Kong, Bison Kimura, Madusa Miceli, Tarantula & Xochilt Hamada vs Manami Toyota, Mariko Yoshida, Kaoru Maeda, Mika Takahashi & Esther Moreno (Hamada's UWF 11/17/90) ****1/4 #5 - Jerry Lawler vs Eddie Gilbert (WWA 11/09/90) ****1/4 #6 - El Dandy, Ringo Mendoza & Sangre Chicana vs El Satanico, MS-1 & Ken Timbs (EMLL 11/16/90) ****1/4 #7 - Aja Kong vs Bull Nakano (AJW Wrestlemarinepiad 11/14/90) **** #8 - Jerry Lawler vs Terry Funk (TWA 11/10/90) ***3/4 #9 - Riki Choshu vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 11/01/90) ***1/2 #10 - Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey vs Dory & Terry Funk (AJPW 11/15/90) ***1/2 #11 - Manami Toyota & Kyoko Inoue vs Akira Hokuto & Suzuka Minami (AJW Wrestlemarinepiad 11/14/90) ***1/2 #12 - Atsushi Onita vs Mr. Pogo (FMW 11/05/90) ***1/2 #13 - Jushin Liger vs Wild Pegasus (NJPW 11/01/90) ***1/4 #14 - Los Brazos vs Gran Hamada, Yoshinari Asai & Kendo (Hamada's UWF 11/12/90) ***1/4 #15 - Ultimate Warrior vs Ted DiBiase (WWF The Main Event 11/23/90 ***1/4 #16 - Arn Anderson vs Terry Taylor (NWA Pro 11/10/90) *** #17 - Brian Pillman vs Rip Rogers (NWA World Championship Wrestling 11/10/90) *** #18 - Terry Taylor vs Rip Rogers (NWA World Championship Wrestling 11/24/90) *** #19 - Ted DiBiase vs Dustin Rhodes (WWF Superstars 11/03/90) #20 - Undertaker, Ted DiBiase, Honky Tonk Man & Greg Valentine vs Hart Foundation, Dusty Rhodes & Koko B. Ware (WWF Survivor Series 11/22/90) #21 - Legion of Doom vs Orient Express (WWF Superstars 11/10/90) #22 - Sting vs Bobby Eaton (NWA World Championship Wrestling 11/10/90) #23 - Ric Flair vs Buddy Landell (WCW Power Hour 11/23/90) #24 - Eddie Gilbert vs Jamie Dundee (USWA WMC-5 11/24/90) #25 - Arn Anderson vs Terry Taylor (NWA Pro 11/24/90) #26 - Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior & Tito Santana vs Ted DiBiase, Rick Martel, Hercules, Paul Roma & Warlord (WWF Survivor Series 11/22/90) #27 - Eddie Gilbert vs Jeff Jarrett (USWA Nashville 11/17/90) #28 - Arn Anderson vs Terry Taylor (NWA Pro 11/17/90) #29 - Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker (NWA Clash of the Champions XIII 11/21/90) Overall thoughts: I love the progression of this yearbook from ecclectic wrestling to great wrestling. We'll see if 1991 continues this, but it's been clear to me watching 1990 and 1992 that the huge gulf between match quality in the U.S. and Japan and Mexico didn't really happen until 1993. That was a combination of the groundwork Japanese promotions laid for the first few years paying off, and the American scene sinking. There was a lot of great wrestling everywhere around the end of 1990. I only wish that could have continued on a consistent basis as the decade progressed.
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Meet Sean Waltman - shoot style worker! There are some incredible exchanges here, with Kid keeping up with Wilkins on the mat, and mixing in high flying and footwork that doesn't look the slightest bit out of place. Check out that victory roll! He also is still a total heel in PWA, yet manages to get over as this amazingly sympathetic babyface through his outstanding selling and near-perfect bumping. The way he keeps building momentum for a comeback over several minutes, only to finally pull one off as we approach the end, is awesome, as he's selling like he's just about dead. He looks like a million bucks for surviving such a beating from such an animal for 20 minutes, as he just barely manages to hang in there all the way to a draw. The announcer frighteningly predicts that Lightning Kid won't have much of a career past 30 years old working this style, and it's a shame how right he would be -- the guy looked on track to be the best worker in the world for the decade to come in 1990, and has been the single biggest "discovery" (if you can call Waltman that) of the year. If you have never seen Sean Waltman work in 1990, you have never seen Sean Waltman work.
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We get old clips of the Skyscrapers. Sid and Spivey are teaming again, which makes no sense with Sid as a Horseman. Teddy Long is also heavily featured in all of the clips, which makes no sense since he won't be managing them. I'm pretty sure they just recycled the existing Skyscrapers video to "In The Still Of The Night" from '89 with different music, which is probably why. But how lazy. This promotion has had a dramatic fall from grace this year.
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They show the finish of a recent Sting vs Buddy Landell match where a referee attacks Sting. Luger is doing the most half-assed save ever. They also show the Black Scorpion turning a person into a tiger at the Clash. The referee brainwash thing is cool, but everything else about this is some of the worst stuff I've ever seen. Sting promises to unmask Black Scorpion at Starrcade, which is the only redeemable part of this. We close out with a commercial for Wrestling Wrap Up, and another for the hotline.
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Excellent, fast-paced match that reflects better on Rip Rogers than Terry Taylor. I don't know, I have really written off the anti-Taylor stuff that has cropped up the last few years, but I really see it in this match and the Arn matches. But that's secondary to Rip -- he must be butter because he's on a roll! I'm looking forward to more of his matches.
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The third and final match in the series. The layout of this is good, but there's something missing from the execution. It's not a bad match, but they're trying to get over the hatred at this point and I'm just not buying it. Flair comes out a few minutes in to cheer Arn on, which is a nice touch because it allows me to piece together a storyline in my head where the Horsemen have Doom where they want them, and Terry Taylor is threatening to take the one piece of hardware the Horsemen have left at a time when they can't afford any distractions. If Tony Schiavone didn't suck, I wouldn't have to do that. Teddy Long is out. Flair chases him around the ring and Doom hit the ring and doubleteam Arn. Typically crappy WCW production that the show ends mid-beatdown, and I hate that the match to settle the score ended in a DQ. Oh well.
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Before the match, Gilbert invites Joey Maggs to join the Memphis Mafia. He also encourages him to use his real name - Joseph Magliano. Dundee is pretty green here, but Gilbert carries him to a nice match, working over his knee after he trips on a leapfrog. Jamie submits to a figure four. Not often we get a relatively clean studio match in the USWA. Better late than never.
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The recap of DiBiase's schemes through the years before the match is tremendous. This is a surprisingly good match, much better than the one in Tokyo. Ted works hard, and Warrior is above his normal level. This is a strong case for DiBiase that his supporters should point to, as he got the best match out of Warrior I've seen anyone get this side of Randy Savage or Rick Rude. The post-match beatdown by Savage and Sherri is fantastic. This feud is working, but Vince's commentary is extremely annoying.
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Well, it's not so much about one specific tag team, so we can keep it here.
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Of course, in fairness, the WWF also did a much better job booking their tag team division than WCW did booking the cruiserweight division.
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Morton was very over. Check out the crowd reaction to some of those early angles. Flair also drew 15,000 when Road Warrior Hawk challenged him on the Great American Bash tour in Philly. Vince didn't need to run Hogan/Michaels. Both were babyfaces. Bret vs Savage is really the closest a tag team wrestler got to interacting with the top singles stars in the era, and that only happened one time. The point was that the NWA treated their tag teams as stars on the same level as their singles performers, where in the WWF, they were an isolated division. I'm not saying it's not without its own set of flaws, but I am saying that the NWA would have suffered more from the loss of the Road Warriors or Rock & Roll Express than the WWF would have from the loss of the Hart Foundation or British Bulldogs.