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JYD is back in the N-Double-A. He wants the Four Horsemen ... and ... Mean Mark? Cornette interrupts him, gloating about the MX tag title win. He wants to know where JYD has been. JYD tells him he has been at 845 Deberry Street in Louisville, KY. Cornette: "That's my mother's house!" JYD: "That's what I'm sayin'. I'm yo daddy." Hilarious!
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Gordon Solie is forced to call Robocop's arrival. I'm sure he died a little inside. Sting is out. Robocop is on his way out when the Horsemen ambush Sting and lock him in Cornette's cage. Robocop makes a slow entrance and pulls the doors completely off the hings to get Sting out of the cage. The Horsemen completely back away. This could have been worse -- the Horsemen could have bumped for Robocop, which was what the movie company wanted. The bookers were insistent that this would not happen.
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For the U.S. tag titles, with Cornette in a cage. Cornette tries to run and EATS A CLOTHESLINE from Randy Anderson. These guys are all over the place in the early stages, but this doesn't have much heat. I love how the MX wrestle this match, as they are completely lost at the beginning without Cornette! Bobby Eaton gives another great performance. I love the luchaesque sequence with Pillman followed by the neckbreaker on the floor to segue to Pillman as FIP. We get some really great neck work on Pillman too. Bobby Eaton's amazing top rope elbow drop and leg drop really wakes up the lethargic crowd. Pillman seems to be bleeding hardaway. Zenk's hot tag doesn't get them very far, as the MX quickly swing the momentum back in their favor, although Zenk does kick out of the rocket launcher. As excellent of a match as this was, the heat not being where it normally was for MX matches shows just how much Cornette added to the act.
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Austin recaps what happened in the I Quit match. Jeanne was locked in a cage. Jeanne is ready to bring skeletons out of the closet of Chris Adams. She talks about some things Adams had to do make it in Los Angeles, and says she's about to write a tell-all book. She says when she reveals all the dirt she has on him, he will be headed toward divorce number two. Good stuff.
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Dundee is quickly interrupted by Tatum, dragging Tessa out with him. Tatum gets in Dundee's face to make sure he understands that Tessa loves him and no one else. He bullies Tessa into saying she loves him, then attacks Dundee by throwing him into the post. Dundee is bleeding. Tessa tries to reason with him and he yells at her. This angle is just getting started.
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A Von Erich birthday party was destroyed, apparently, and there is a $1000 reward for anyone who has information. Terrence Garvin says he knows who ruined the party. Gary Young is out before he even says anything and tells him to leave him out of it. Garvin wants his money, a Kerry/Young brawl breaks out, and Kevin is out to break it up. This is all to set up a Kevin/Young feud. Very weird segment.
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Kerry is upset with Percy Pringle for calling him a coward. Percy seems to be in the right here even though they are building to a heel turn. Kerry's whole defense for not taking on Borne as soon as he challenged him was that Borne wanted to fight and Kerry wanted to wrestle. The next Kerry/Borne match will be a lumberjack match. Kerry is his typical coherent self here, but his delivery does seem sincere and I believe he doesn't like Matt Borne one bit.
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The Horsemen and Luger do hard-sell promos for Capital Combat. Luger recaps the history with Flair and even mentions Tully and JJ. Luger says if he can't beat him in the middle that he will never ask for a world title shot again. He says this is the first time he has ever had Flair right where he wanted him. I can't believe the bookers actually instructed Lex to say that when they had no plans of putting him over.
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Connie Chung hates to break it to us, but -- wrestling is fake. But it's big business. It has literally THOUSANDS of fans. We cut to TOD GORDON and his family watching the Royal Rumble! The WWF gives no access for this story since WCW was interviewed also, which makes Ric Flair being called "a pretender to the throne of Hulk Hogan" pretty hilarious. Luger claims to have made more money in 1989 than in his entire 7-year USFL career. Sting had no interest in wrestling until he found out how much money he could make. Wonderful thing for your top babyface to say! Ted Turner apparently took a failing wrestling troupe and turned it around in one year, with WCW making $33 million in revenues in 1989! How amazing! Jim Herd and David Crockett are in a boardroom at CNN Center fretting over the costume design for El Gigante! They show a Michael Hayes sketch?? WCW's lighting guy says WCW events are bigger events than Madonna concerts. Green and purple represent bad guys, and pinks represent good guys apparently. To make this even more surreal, we cut to a clip of Jim Wilson talking about being blackballed, and we get Muta walking around backstage without facepaint in a Sting t-shirt! They cover the real causes of Sting's injury and all I can think is wow that WCW allowed this to air. But that's okay, because SEVEN FOOT SIX GEORGE GONZALES is waiting in the ring. THE most whaaaa segment on a yearbook so far.
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It's time for what may be the angle of the year, and one of the best segments in the history of Memphis wrestling. Lawler is out acting less heelish than he has at any point this year. He does an interesting spin on the Unified World title history, saying the NWA and WWF turned down the opportunity to unify their titles with the CWA and World Class. He is quickly interrupted by The Snowman. Dave Brown is stunned. Before he can get out a sentence, Eddie Marlin is out to tell him he can't just show up an interfere with the television show. Marlin points out that he tried booking Snowman in the past, and Snowman never made his bookings. He told him he'll give him another chance, but he has to work his way up. Snowman isn't happy about that and refuses to accept that. Snowman is tired of Lawler making racist comments on television - talking about welfare and food stamps. He says the reason Lawler won't face him because he's black. Eddie Marlin says all "the blacks" aren't on his side and starts namedropping black wrestlers that have been in Memphis the past few months. Lawler tells him his problem is that he won't take the time to work his way to the top to get a title shot, but he claims that it's all because he's black. Meanwhile, security guards are out to try to clear Snowman's entourage out of the studio and Eddie Marlin is PEEVED. Snowman says everyone in the USWA is worried that they'll wake up one day and that there will be a black king. Lawler mentions King Cobra in response. They argue for a few more minutes, with Snowman promising to buy a ticket to the show on Monday night. One of the first segments of its kind. Lawler tries to get back on topic, and deals with a heckling fan. He leaves the interview and gets IN HIS FACE and suddenly, the heckler is no longer a problem. What makes this segment is Lawler doing a segue back to Kerry Von Erich at the end, which was the original purpose of the interview.
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Brother Love complains about Uncle Fred pushing everyone around in the WWF in a very short period of time. Hulk Hogan comes out and Brother Love is NOT HAPPY. Hogan declares his bond of friendship with Tugboat. This seems like it would eventually lead to a program with these two, but Tugboat never turned on him.
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This isn't quite as crisp and heated as the match a week before, but it does work as a nice follow-up to the previous week's six-man. Dandy/Satanico/Emilio really dominate this match for the most part. Dandy hurts his shoulder in an exchange with Atlantis, and Satanico begs for a time out to tend to him. In spite of this, they win this two straight, as Dandy goes to the apron for the remainder of the match. Emilio and Cruz get into a little scuffle after the match that makes me wish they would have had a singles match around this time.
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Closing this out just by saying now that everyone has gotten it out of their systems, please just drop the issue. He doesn't care enough to respond, and I don't want it to take threads off course. Thanks.
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Cornette compares the Teddy Long/Rick Steiner debate to Lincoln/Douglas! So odd that they're actually having a debate. Any right-wingers who complained about Candy Crowley not being fair should see Cornette here, as he keeps calling time on Rick after he just gets a few words out. Rick takes exception and Doom run in and attack him in a pretty kickass beatdown. Scott finally comes down and now I'm psyched to see the Capital Combat match, as these guys are beating the hell out of each other.
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If Jumbo/Tenryu was the end of the 80s, this is the beginning of the 90s. This is a bit weird, because the unmasking is random and happens in the middle of the match for no apparent reason. And I have no idea how the crowd knew to do "Misawa" chants, but they did. I had always read that Misawa took off his mask and screamed "I am Misawa!", but there was nothing like that here. It was just something random that happened in the middle of the match. I guess it was the Jumbo match more than the unmasking that was Misawa's big moment.
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Welcome to 5-Star Wrestling, an indy based out of Louisiana. It's Mother's Day, so Sam Houston and Rockin' Robin are with their mother. There's nothing *wrong* with this segment necessarily, but knowing some of the family troubles, it's slightly creepy, and it's an interesting clip. 5-Star is billing Rockin' Robin as their women's world champ, but her mom talks about being there when she won it in Paris, which was a WWF show. Were they trying to keep continuity with the WWF women's title?
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Austin looks really, really green here. It stands out here more than in any match I've seen him in so far. Austin gets the win after Jeanne trips Adams during a vertical suplex. He attacks Austin after the bell and she sprays hairspray in his eyes. That's a step up from RAPE TEAR GAS. Austin holds Adams while Jeanne slaps him around. Good stuff, but I'm telling you -- this feud still hasn't scratched the surface.