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Check out those Freebirds outfits. Wow was WCW really being booked like a regional outfit at this point. Good to see Buddy Roberts though. They do show a clip of them visiting Hollywood a few months earlier and being mobbed by fans, which has a great payoff later on the yearbook. Hayes and Garvin are entertaining, and they live the gimmick, but I have no idea why they'd invest so much in them this late.
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After a commercial break, Adams explains the stips of the chain match. Good promo. Later in the show, Chris and Toni are back out bragging about Jeanne's lost hair. They are gloating so much that it's obvious we are about to get an angle. Austin, Pringle and Jeanne are out to attack them. Percy hits Adams with a 2x4, then Jeanne hits Toni in the stomach with the bell ringer before choking her. Toni gets tied to a chair in the ring and they are about to start cutting her hair until Adams chases them off with a chair. You think it's over, but Percy hits Adams with a chair from behind and they get beaten down again. Now, all of Chris's hair gets cut off. Toni finally runs them off by hitting Austin with the bell ringer. I will miss this awesome feud.
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As I said, the cage match makes a good pretend blowoff for the feud. Jeanne has a broken hand and promises to sue Toni for damages. They are hyping an Austin/Adams chain match the following Friday night. Pringle calls Adams a "Slimy Limey". Apparently, them's fightin' words, as Adams and Toni come out. Toni lowblows Pringle and the women are brawling all over the place and we have another great scene. Toni tears out more of Jeanne's hair.
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WWF-style hype video where we see the feet of Al Greene and one Kevin Nash. Immediately after, we cut to Jim Ross interviewing Sting. Sting utters the phrase "Somebody That I Used To Know". Someone PLEASE make a highlight video of this program set to the Gotye song. I will say nice things about you.
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Gilbert has been re-hired. It seems like this could have at least played out over two weeks. Lawler/Snowman was awesome and in tune with the audience. This was a lot of hotshotting and bait-and-switch stuff, and the end result was a smaller house. They make this about Eddie Marlin explaining why he's not firing him, but there should really be explanation for why the police weren't involved, considering that Gilbert just committed a crime.
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We start with the finish of a battle royal in Mid South Coliseum with Eddie Gilbert and friends working over Brickhouse Brown. Eddie Marlin is telling him he will be fined if he doesn't stop on the house mic and it's not enough to get him to stop doing anything. Marlin finally gets attacked and eats a chairshot from Gilbert. FINALLY (why does it always take babyfaces so long to stop these things?), Lawler makes a one-man save and Brickhouse recovers enough to help. Back at the studio, Gilbert is on fire, saying he doesn't like it when people tell him what to do. Eddie Marlin is out to announce that he has made a cowboy boot match with Sam Lowe! He tells Gilbert in no uncertain terms that the only reason Gilbert wasn't fired was because Lawler and Brown assured him they could do more damage to him in the ring. This gets a chuckle out of Gilbert, who tells him he wouldn't be able to sell tickets without him. He says this in different ways a few times, and Marlin finally has enough and FIRES HIM and kicks him out of the studio! He escorts him into the parking lot, where Gilbert shoves Marlin to the ground. Lawler comes out to see him out, and Gilbert gets behind the wheel and FLOORS Lawler before peeling out of the parking lot. Lawler takes an incredible bump and was supposedly black and blue for a few days after this. All-time classic angle in so many ways, but it was not successful at all. According to the WON at the time, local fans thought running someone over with a car was so over the top that it all seemed fake. You do hear laughing in the studio as an immediate reaction, which I'm sure wasn't the desired reaction.
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There was a lot of excitement, but this was probably my least favorite match between the two. Why oh why did they adopt WWF escape rules? Using the garbage can and crowdhug brawling are my two least favorite things about Aja Kong. The absence of the latter was made up for with a healthy amount of the former.
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Jumbo is just ready to finally end this bullshit parade. He hopes everyone had a great summer, really, but yeah, these kids can find something else to do. The play off of the June finish is an awesome spot, with Jumbo rolling through on Misawa's quick pin attempt. The match then goes to a different level, as Jumbo completely snaps and obliterates young Misawa, building quite a bit of fan sympathy for him in the process. I don't think this match would have been as good without the June Budokan preceding it, simply because that result made Misawa's pin attempts so much more credible. I understand why the June match connected so much with fans at the time, but this one worked so much better for me because it was so much more action-packed, and the two had more history as well. This and the tag were a great 1-2 punch.