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A referee in a kilt! Awesome. This just feels like the first five minutes of a long match, only stretched out to a 20 minute match that never goes beyond first gear. No sense of danger, nothing consequential and not even wrestling exchanges or moves that were all that special. It's an interesting glimpse of what two guys who were off the radar in some ways were doing at this point in time, but beyond that, this just didn't do anything for me. -
His promos are really enjoyable for the most part, and he was probably the best interview in wrestling. I'm not really down on Lawler, as much as I am more willing to criticize him.
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Short and almost no heat. The least of the four matches between these two teams on the yearbook, but it still has its positives. Eaton does an amazing vertical suplex, and this is pretty well-structured in spite of being rushed. The crowd finally wakes up near the finish when Cornette eats a punch, but they are pretty dead for everything else. I love the blind sunset flip finish.
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Devastation Inc. (and John Tatum) bring Skandor Akbar, suffering the effects of a Jeff Jarrett piledriver I believe, out on a stretcher as Jeff Jarrett is finishing a squash match. They end up putting him in a wheelchair. Akbar cuts one of his best promos very upset about what Jarrett has done to him, then stumbles out of his wheelchair just long enough to throw a fireball in Jarrett's face. Billy Joe Travis immediately runs out to carry Jarrett away from the ring. Akbar leaves on a stretcher, barely getting out the worst "Devastation" and pumping his fist in the air, and the show goes to black. Great angle! No commentary over this totally makes it!
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Based on winning the Marquis of Queensbury match the night before, Chris and Toni now get whatever kind of match they want with Steve and Jeanne. He has quite a bit of fan mail, and announces they will be doing another mixed tag match, but this time it will be in a cage. Percy Pringle will be in a penalty box outside the cage. Toni takes credit for breaking Jeanne's arm. Percy Pringle is conspicuous by his absence. Hmmm. A hideous looking elderly woman comes out of the crowd and starts choking Jeanne. It's Percy Pringle! In a dress and pearls! Adams has no idea this is happening outside the ring. Adams finally breaks this up and gets a few punches in, but Austin finally attacks. Pringle going crazy in a dress and makeup is hilarious! He pulls a coat hanger out of his purse and starts choking Chris! He is the ugliest man in a dress I've ever seen, and I live in the Boystown neighborhood of Chicago, so ponder that. Adams gets locked in the penalty box with Chris Von Erich getting thrown in too. They finally throw Toni in too, and then uses handcuffs to lock the cage. Later in the show, Austin is facing the Dog of War, who kisses Jeanne after the match. Austin says that other than Jeanne, Percy is the best looking person in the building. Percy screams about being in the penalty box. He's not an animal! Jeanne is really comfortable on camera at this point. She has a letter from her attorney and announces that she's going to be suing Chris over her broken arm, and she plans on using the money to buy lots of clothes for Steve. The wronged babyfaces run back out - Adams with his head bandaged - and we have ourselves a pier-six brawl. This feud has been excellent, but it's coming to an end.
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All I ask is that you and Matt D don't recall this six months from now and think it was me.
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I have become less of a fan of Lawler after watching the 1990 Yearbook, sadly. I still think he's a great wrestler, who at his best is as good as all but a handful of guys ever. I still enjoy him and always will. But I don't like that on promos, he treats most of his opponents as nothing happening losers who aren't even worthy of his time, because it makes me less excited to see the upcoming match. Also, I'm willing to watch those WWF house show matches with an open mind, but if any of them involve Lawler talking on the house mic during the match or hiding a non-existent foreign object, I'm not likely to enjoy them all that much. I am suspecting that they all do, but we'll see.
I'm more of an optimist in the sense that if a wrestler is not put in a position to have good matches and manages to have them anyway, that's what impresses me. I'm also not sure Lawler wasn't put in that position. He worked in a headline or semi-headline position with Bret Hart on and off for a couple of years.
Nope. I'm more firmly in it than ever. I don't care how good you are if I don't enjoy what you're doing.
On the level of the best Bret Hart stuff? No.
I'll defend him and say that most of his WWF stuff isn't that good. I would be surprised if I saw a good Jerry Lawler match there too.
Dundee hypes a local Jonesboro show, and laments rising gas prices. If he only knew. Some local band is standing perfectly still behind them while they are interviewed, smiling and not speaking. Lawler is so good. We close out with an Austin Idol music video that's obviously pretty old. The song is "Kid Is Hot Tonight" by Loverboy.
Cage match from MSC where the loser can't be a valet anymore. Kimberly throws powder in Tessa's face and pins her, and that's the end for Tessa in Tennessee. Gilbert and DWB gloat over this, and Doug and Sam Lowe bring her out in a chair hoisted on their shoulders. She is even wearing a tiara! Lawler and Dundee interrupt this and announce that they have found a new valet who is a little bit tougher than Tessa. Her name is Vicious Vicki, and she's a pretty stacked woman that is probably twice the size of Kimberly. She immediately goes after her and pulls her into the ring, stripping her to almost nothing. Lawler and Dundee have chairs and keep the heels out of the ring.
Footage of a Lawler/Dundee/Idol vs Gilbert/DWB/Doug Gilbert cage match from MSC that looks pretty great once again. As a result of the pre-match stipulation, Doug Gilbert has to get his head shaved. The heels are being interviewed in the studio, with Doug wearing a mask. Eddie talks about hair elixir his great grandmother left him. They remove the mask to show that Doug's hair has remarkably grown back. I don't know, it looks like a wig, but I trust Eddie, so I'm conflicted.
I really hate that they keep doing all of these interviews in front of a green screen instead of a live crowd. Flair has no idea who the Black Scorpion is, and he's not associated with the Four Horsemen. Well, he was telling the truth at this point. Flair is so phased down at this point -- he's one of the Horsemen, not the leader of the Horsemen. Flair shoots a little about how there are powers that be that are trying to push him out of the picture, but that they won't be able to do it, no matter how hard they try.
One of the better trios matches so far, with everyone involved displaying some pretty awesome feats of athleticism and hitting all of their spots so cleanly. Emilio is in a constant state of shock that he's getting outwrestled in the early stages, while Dandy is the upstart prick that tries to pick his spots as much as he can, as he still has enemies in Azteca and Atlantis. The dive train at the end is getting awesome when Atlantis cuts off Satanico and submits him to the backbreaker to bring the match home. Really good, and a nice chapter in the feud with these guys.
The fake "Word Up" continues to provide the background track as Masakre is a man about town. He walks next to a boy in a funny moment that for some reason reminds me of the kid in the Madonna "Open Your Heart" video. He is Un Gran Rudo.