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The Stud Stable haven't broken up in Dallas yet, only Memphis, which is why you see them teamed here. I love Fuller selling the armbar by screaming "Woah, Dear God!" Dundee and Jarrett do the switcheroos in armbars behind the referee's back without tagging. Dundee is FIP. Good match, just by working the tag formula really well. The Studs make the breakup official in Texas in the post-match, when Fuller blames Lee for the loss and turns on him after the match.
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Travis tries to get into Valiant's entrance, dancing and even grabbing the house mic to sing the song. Valiant starts making fun of his singing, which pisses him off. Valiant kisses Marc Lowrance and a lot of other people around the ringside area. Too much funny stuff to list it all here. This match is all clowning, and Travis has an even better sham of a match with Valiant than Lawler had.
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It seems a little weird that they wouldn't actually sign the contracts for Wrestlemania until just a few days before the show. Warrior mentions the "Intercontinental Championship of the World", which is perhaps where Road Dogg got it from. The camera angles here are hilarious in how bad they are. Weird that Hogan also didn't get a chance to respond. Not that I'm complaining.
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Gary Young and Medicine Man attack Eric Embry and Percy Pringle while Akbar directs traffic. Percy juices. Akbar grinds some type of object into Percy's forehead. Dustin Rhodes, Jimmy Jack Funk and Matt Borne hit the ring to run them off. After the commercial break, Akbar cuts a promo telling Embry if he thinks he can run Devastation Inc out of the USWA, he's dead wrong. Next, we have Gary Young in a squash against James Rapp. Embry is back out and interrupts the squash with a promo. He warns Rapp to get out of the ring unless he wants to take an asskicking too, then rushes the ring and goes after both guys. The heels outnumber him and are beating him down until Percy Pringle makes a valiant return with his head bandaged and slinging his cowboy boot at anything that moves. Fun stuff. The glory days of the feud are over, and Embry's USWA run this time around was short-lived, but this is good while it lasts.
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Super match! Flair has been on fire this year, but Ricky Morton is the one who shines. These two still have the chemistry they had in 1986. The headlock work in the early stages was fantastic, and the chop/punch slugfests were consistently awesome. There were a few spots where I thought Flair was a little off, but except for those moments, this was great. Even better than the Eaton match in January, and one of the best TV matches you'll ever see. This crowd was very excited to see these two lock up.
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Ole with another great heel promo.
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Absolute classic match. I like how violent this gets without even drawing blood. Estrada gives the best performance I've ever seen from him, taking great bumps, working nifty submissions and highspots, and directing traffic perfectly. It's obvious he's the one calling this, and his sense of timing in terms of knowing just the right moment to cut off Satanico's comebacks or stop his own offense is pretty close to perfect. It's odd to see him having a great match where he's actually coherent and trying instead of just doing it in spite of being stoned and going on instinct. This is nearly a half-hour of two guys throwing the kitchen sink at each other, pulling on every resource they have -- wrestling, flying, brawling and smarts -- to try to keep an advantage. For most of this, Estrada outclasses Satanico, but when the stakes go up in the final fall, he finds it a little harder to finish the job. A fan (I think?) runs in and tries to keep Estrada from going to the top rope, but he keeps his cool. Satanico ends up getting lucky, catching Estrada slightly off guard with a backslide to secure the win. This is probably the best one-sided match I've ever seen. Yes, Satanico got in some offense, but it was kept short, and most of the match really went to Estrada, who gave one of the best performances I have ever seen in a wrestling match. Estrada loses his hair in the post-match, but can't decide if he wants to accept his fate or start a fight. Really great in every way possible, and one of the best matches of the year so far, if not the best.
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I thought this started off a little on the disappointing side, but it picked up in a big way about 10 minutes in and became a great match. It's the June match between these two that gets the most praise from these two, and based on everything I've read, I'm expecting that to be the lucha MOTY, so I wanted to include as much lead-in to it as possible. This progressively got better with each fall, with the third fall being the most interesting and competitive. It feels like a title match at times, as there is some nice working of holds, but there is also more flying and brawling than you typically get in a title match. There's a confrontation in the post-match, with Dandy throwing a punch. The draw finish makes this feel unresolved, so I'm glad there's another match between these two coming. This is the Championship Carnival draw equivalent to a Triple Crown title match in All Japan.
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Looking back, Steve Austin had the best wrestling education of anyone I can ever recall. He worked a year-long program with his trainer, who was very talented, right out of wrestling school. He worked so many different gimmick matches, worked in front of the same crowd every week, had to learn to do promos ... it was basically the best crash course ever. In this match, there was no referee in the ring. Tony Falk stood outside to count the fall only. Austin is already working hard and his stuff looks really good, but he was still green and didn't really know how to feel out the crowd yet. It will be fun - when all the yearbooks are done - to watch Austin from the beginning as he evolved into a great worker and finally a major superstar.
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I didn't expect this to be such an excellent *wrestling* match, but it is. This is a nice showcase from both guys, and it's not the out-of-control brawl that they'd start doing on the indy scene later in the year. These two work really well together. They do some surprisingly solid chain wrestling early on, and Gilbert's strategy of disorienting Cactus by coming at him from so many unexpected directions is clearly conveyed and works very well. I think Cactus's chinlock goes a little long and takes this down a peg, but this is still a very good 15-minute draw worth checking out, and there is a surprising amount of attention to detail. I'm really curious what others will think of this. They do tease some of the higher-risk brawling stuff at the end. I like seeing the wrestling fundamentals of Cactus Jack, and I would pretty safely call this one of either guy's best matches.