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Portland! Hey, there's Evad Sullivan! Scotty the Body offers $100 to anyone who'll take him on in arm wrestling. A fan comes out of the crowd, and Scotty and Al Madril can't stop laughing at his arms. Scotty beats him easily, and suddenly we hear a fuss in the crowd before RODDY PIPER shows up! Surprise surprise. Piper wins after a little struggle and collects the money, but starts giving it out to fans at ringside. $100 was at stake, were they just getting $1 bills? Anyway, who knew Piper was here this late? -
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2/3 falls match and 25 minutes. Why Hayes and Garvin were booked to go this long in 1990 I'll never understand, but this is a decent match that has a pretty simple, but effective layout, and there are some good moments. It's amazing how washed up Hayes was at this point, despite only being 31 years old. He still had some basic stuff he could do, but he really looked old and broken down. The finishes to every fall are very well done, and Hayes has a nice elbow drop. A good match through sheer will. Ricky Morton working the tag formula with heels who are at least smart is always going to produce a good result. And Gibson looks really good here when he works FIP in the third fall too! A greatest hits version of this that went 15 minutes would be excellent. Post-match, the Birds attack the Rock & Rolls with belts to set up Capital Combat.
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Really good segment. Flair and Woman are *again* guests on the Louisville Slugger. They are talking trash about Luger, which brings him out to object. Flair tells him he'll kick his ass and Luger gets in some shots on him and Ole, but Arn Anderson returns, hitting Lex with his shoe. The Horsemen triple team Luger for a few minutes until other babyfaces finally make the save.
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The match never gets started, as Savage attacks Dusty with Sherri's purse. Sapphire is distracted, then Sherri runs in and attacks Sapphire with a shoe. Sapphire is being forced to kiss Savage's foot when Dusty finally recovers and clears the ring. Savage and Sherri must be butter, because they are on a roll!
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Terrific match. Hogan works as hard as I've ever seen him work, to a point where it may be one of the best performances of 1990. Both guys work really aggressively, which suits Hogan well at this point. I like the brawling side of Hogan, and I think Hansen would have been the perfect 80s opponent for him. Hansen did kick out at the last second to save himself a little, but if these two matches don't show the difference between Hogan and Warrior (and for that matter, Hansen and DiBiase), I'm not sure what does.
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So the crowd totally mocked this match. That's the story here. However, if you don't know Japanese fan tendencies, it's apparently not something you'd pick up on. The back story is that Dave had predicted Warrior would get this reaction in the WON. The WWF was not aware that the "Whoooooooaaa" before each move and the "Yaaaaa" noise when it finally happened was a typically Japanese way that crowds entertained themselves during bad matches when they wanted to mock what they saw in the ring. So anyway, after the match, the WWF called Dave and said he was wrong, and that Warrior just got over great in Japan. Anyway, more proof that Warrior was not the guy. Sure, Hogan was not Ric Flair, but Hogan was competent in the ring and could be good when presented properly. Warrior struggled with even basic wrestling.
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Just with the two goading each other, this is awesome before the match even starts. This was super fun. I love how true to themselves Savage and Sherri are here, not changing even a slight thing about their WWF style, and the audience eating it all up. Savage takes a few big bumps, and Tenryu is more than happy to work an American-style face/heel match. Really fun colliding of worlds.
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The beginning of Rude being repackaged as a serious, threatening top guy. He has started a new training regimen and does a very serious promo that works really well. I remember really enjoying these. I'll take this as the top feud over Hogan/Warrior.
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Woman is on a manhunt! They are out to find a replacement for the injured Arn Anderson. Cornette offers to "lease" the contracts of the MX to the Horsemen. Woman simply says that's an interesting proposition. As you can imagine, there were lots of politics with this that kept it from playing out.
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It's Ryuma Go. It's Masaji Aoyagi. It's Pioneer. That's the entirety of my reason for wanting to put this on. I was not expecting this to be anything more than weird. It's weird all right, but it's also spectacular, with tons of blood, stiff kicks, punches to the face and hyperactive melodrama, filled with mic work, concerned managers, Aoyagi being carted out and dramatically returning to continue fighting and more. This is a handheld match worked in a small building. The footage occasionally goes into black and white. But this is dramatic enough that I seriously think Brock Lesnar could headline Wrestlemania working a match with this exact layout. It would be super famous if it took place on a bigger show. Possibly the biggest hidden gem on any yearbook.
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Historic match. Maybe I'm just down on the build, but I've always thought this was a solid match, and I just ... didn't think that this time. When you see what other people are doing during the same time period all over the world, it stands out less than it would have otherwise I guess. It is wisely laid out (well, sort of), which is more a credit to Pat Patterson than these two, who were competent but not really actively good. I agree that Hogan used the post-match to build sympathy, but I don't really understand how they could have gone in a different direction. After all of that Clash of the Titans build, Hogan can't exactly just leave and let that be that. The hug is actually the best part of the match, and the image of Warrior celebrating in the ring with both belts while Hogan literally fades into the background before our eyes is a powerful one. An effective match, but I wish I still enjoyed it as much as I did before.
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As I've said many, many times -- it's not about inducting superworkers. It's about inducting people that those in the biz and the opinion establishment think were superworkers. Dave doesn't want revisionism in his HOF, even when it's valid. That said, Buddy Rose had a good rep then, and he fits the WON criteria. But if you want to make the case to Dave and HOF voters, don't list his great matches. Pull positive things that have been said by people inside wrestling, especially people who were stars in the same era. That's how you make the case.
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Jake does what is probably the best interview in Wrestlemania history before the match. Then we cut to the last few minutes of the match. DiBiase gets his million dollar belt back as this year-long feud finally ends. I didn't remember Jake making the comeback post-match, but DiBiase eats a DDT to get the last laugh in the feud. DiBiase getting the bill stuck in his throat is really the PERFECT conclusion to the feud. Wow. Again, there is no heat due to bad acoustics.
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