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Lawler is surrounded by heels trying to prop him up and maek him feel better. Lawler starts doing a promo, but can't finish and has to be carted out. We close out with a very lame interview from new tag team Sweet Daddy Falcone and Brickhouse Brown, and their manager Brickhouse Brown. Brickhouse is gonna kick hiney in nineteen-ninety!
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Nate comes up just to cover the floor with a plastic tarp, then leaves. He then comes out with a plate of food and wants to talk to Lawler. Nate tells Lawler how much he hates him for what he's done to him. He tells Lawler he wants to feel the same rage once again. He insists on Lawler throwing all of the food in his face and then slapping him. Lawler is happy to oblige him and ends up bullying him around the studio. Nate isn't backing down, and finally, NITRON is out and throws Lawler into the ring. He knocks him out with one HORRIBLE punch. I wish this segment hadn't happened in front of such a heel studio crowd, but Lawler was great in this, and I liked the segment a lot.
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Eddie Marlin is out to announce new USWA rules! (1) All matches will end by pinfall or "technical loss". Every match will have a winner and a loser. No more disqualifications or countouts. Titles can change hand on either win or technical loss. (2) The first time a wrestler interferes in a match he's not part of, he'll be fined $1,000. The person who he interferes on behalf of will have a technical loss. The second time is $2,000. The third time will be a 30-day suspension. (3) Matches will no longer end in a draw. They will go into sudden death and the first guy taken off of his feet loses the match. (HELLO SCREWJOBS!) Marlin points out that Lawler has saved himself more times by getting DQd than by actually pinning his opponents. Lawler chimes in with great smarmy questions to really get this over. I liked this segment.
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Lawler is announced as having regained the Unified title. It's a heel crowd that is totally supporting Lawler. Eddie Marlin will have an announcement later in the show.
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Lawler grabs the mic and offers Jarrett a chance to leave the ring and save himself a butt kicking, but Jarrett isn't interested. I love Lawler, I really do, but I've had enough of him grabbing the house mic during matches. Fun match with Lawler breaking out a clawhold! If we're being fair, one thing that really bugs me about Lawler is the disconnect between his promos and how he wrestles, at least as a heel. He's able to convince me that he is the best in the world as a heel. Then he wrestles matches like any other midcard stooge, makes stupid displays of overconfidence and has no real offense. He's a guy I really prefer as a babyface, as it neutralizes all of these things. I love heel Lawler promos, but his matches are too focused around stalling, cutting promos and hiding chains. It starts to feel like if you've seen one match, you have seen them all. He plays the crowd like a fiddle, so I don't want this to come across as overly negative. I am just ready for the coming babyface turn.
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Really heated match built around Pillman and Zenk getting revenge. Excellent stuff. Bobby Eaton was at worst one of the top five guys in the world at this point. Lane also did a lot of really good stuff here, but Eaton was just *so* good. Pillman and Zenk get in quite a bit of offense before they even start working over Zenk as FIP. The MX upset the champs here to set up Capital Combat.
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Kevin Sullivan isn't in the HOF.
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Hansen gets himself a piece of Tenryu before the match even starts, tying him up in the corner and then hitting him with a lariat. Jumbo ends up chasing Hansen off with the belt. It's a little weird seeing All Japan run an angle like this before the match. Jumbo tries to check on Tenryu before the match starts and Tenryu slaps him in the face. Jumbo then insists that they start the match and starts unloading on him. I would safely call this a Tenryu burial. He gets in some offense, but not a lot, and this is all very much designed to make Jumbo (and Hansen) look good. I think the timing of his departure was good, because even though I haven't watched the All Japan 80s set yet, the first few months of the year do feel stale. Tenryu's departure forced the promotion to go in a new direction, and it's one that paid off. I guess you could call this the real end of the 80s for All Japan.
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Fantastic match, and yeah, the best match on the show for me. There is an aggression here, and a sense that something worth fighting for that is missing from the other matches on this card. Both guys are pretty aggressive and the match has quite a few big momentum swings, with both guys dominating at times and both guys looking like they aren't going to make it much longer at times. I wish I had more to say about it at the moment, but other than calling this the match of the night, I'm not sure what else to add.
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I'll put it this way. This may be a bold statement, but ... NO ONE deserves to go in the WON HOF solely for what they accomplished in WCW. I can't think of a single person who is in primarily for their time in WCW, come to think of it.
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I liked this more than Phil and think it was a great match in spite of any flaws. But just like Maeda in the Takano match, Takada's performance kept this from becoming a classic. There is a nice underdog story with Anjo coming at the kingpin pretty aggressively, but this same layout would be improved as a match a few years later when Takada had pretty much the same match with Tamura in UWFI. Mechanically, Takada is fine, but he doesn't have much charisma, so he comes across as the Dory Funk Jr. of the UWF in this one.
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Bret wasn't bad. To me, though, it didn't seem like Bret was trying to steal the show. He was doing enough to get by.
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Anything positive Nash ever did is outweighed by his part in killing WCW. It wasn't all him, but was a large part of the reason people stopped watching their TV shows and buying their pay-per-views. And that just wasn't any decline. It completely changed wrestling for the worse.
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Last few minutes. Not exactly good action, but look at who's involved. Grappler has the full nelson on Brian Adams, and by the time he turns around, it's in Larry Oliver's hands. He thinks Larry was the one who hit him, and we suddenly have ourselves a heel turn. ART BARR and RICKY SANTANA finally make the save. How random does it get? Haynes does a fascinating interview explaining the turn, which is basically that when he ran the outlaw fed in Portland, fans didn't support it.