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Robert Fuller has a broken heart! His Georgia peach has left him! He brought out a guitar and decided to play a song. He's actually pretty good. Bill Dundee is out crying crocodile tears, which (rightfully?) infuriates the Stud Stable. Brian Lee suggests doing a Star Search to find him a new woman. Fuller needs a woman who don't mind bein' the first one on the bus ready to ride! Robert Fuller is so awesome. -
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This would have been a MOTYC with 10 more minutes and more momentum shifts. As it stands, it was still tremendous. Travis takes some wild bumps on the floor, including a back body drop and a piledriver. Lawler, doing commentary at ringisde, runs in and attacks Jarrett after the match, breaking the guitar over his head! Kerry Von Erich finally makes the save and both guys bump like mad for him. Eventually the numbers catch up to him though, and Lawler starts attacking him with broken pieces of the guitar. Eventually, Jarrett makes the save with a chair. The post-match stuff is a hell of a brawl on its own, and taken together, this is a GREAT segment.
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This is some crazy heat! Forget WCW, this is a Jim Crockett Promotions crowd. Johnson City, TN rocks! This has been a *really* good month for wrestling in WCW. Flair/Eaton is better than this, but this has a much hotter crowd, and they kept the pace and energy up. Flair and Sawyer having the chop battle was awesome. Flair is FIP during most of this and does a really good job of it. Muta sprays Sting in the eyes to end this on a DQ, then Sawyer splashes him from the top rope. Great way to build heat on the Clash, and yet another indicator that turning the Horsemen when they did just killed the 1989 goodwill they had with the hardcores.
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Just the finish of Tenryu snapping. This was put on to show that he was clearly being phased out as early as January, as a match involving these guys would not have ended this way a few months earlier. Sounds like we just included the good part, but I'm interested in checking out the match in full sometime based on what we see here. I want to see it for myself. That Inoue shoulderblock on Tenryu that sent him to the floor was spectacular. Genuine rewind moment.
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This is a match I always thought the WWF should have run on a big show. In fact, I would have rather seen Savage/Piper and Dusty/Bad News at WM 6, instead of the other way around. This started out fun with the Piper/Sherri comedy, got pretty pedestrian, then picked up again when they battled each other over the airplane spin. Savage totally made the match when he fell off the top rope because he was so dizzied by the airplane spin he just performed on Piper. I knew this wouldn't have a finish before even watching it. It's a Roddy Piper WWF match after all.
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We start with 10 seconds to go before Hogan's appearance. The Hogan/Warrior standoff is something iconic. I know it's the popular point, but I don't think there was any reason to put Perfect over in this match when he was drawing poorly against Hogan on the road. I do see value in putting Warrior over, though.
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Another good match between these two. I think the announcers explained the instinct to go for a pin quite well, and it's not something I had a problem with at all. Both guys throw punches from boxing stances and hit each other really hard. The idea that a figure four won't hurt if you wear a brace is silly, but that's really the only negative thing that stood out. Really good, and outside-the-box for the WWF.
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Last few minutes. We get a ref bump, and Beefcake puts Genius to sleep. He starts cutting his hair, but Mr. Perfect cuts him off. Beefcake was facing the aisle, but I was guess was too blind to notice a man in a neon orange singlet running at him. Genius ended up with a huge bald spot on his head and the heels work Beefcake over with a chair. I wasn't sure why this was a double DQ, then I remembered Brutus bringing shears into the ring, so yeah.
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Some will complain that this is too showy without much wrestling, and it is, but if you compare this to the Flair/JYD match at the Clash, I think Lawler's approach looks better. It's a lot of build to just a few spots, and Lawler plays hide-the-chain. Not a good match, and not really a fun one, but an interesting one worth watching nonetheless. The match ends in a DQ when Terrence Garvin interferes on Lawler's behalf.
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To the tune of "Born To Be My Baby". Arena footage interspersed with Jeff Jarrett getting ready for the world first thing in the morning. HAWT. A DJ is doing wraparounds during this, and calls him the "new sensation", which segues to the INXS song of the same name. This caps off with Jeff Jarrett coming into the room to do a radio interview.
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JYD does an empty arena promo in Dallas hyping his return to Memphis. He sets his sights on Lawler. This is a good way to present him. Lawler responds. By the way, Lawler responds from "outside the studio", likely taped earlier in the week, as Lawler worked the Dallas taping that morning. The guy can do a lot of things, but being in two places at one time is a skill I didn't know he had.
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Gene does a complete rundown of the participants in the Royal Rumble. I really do think these segments on Superstars were a difference maker in selling PPVs. I have nothing to prove that, but I sincerely believe it. Good look at the WWF roster at the time, with quite a few brief cut-in promos. The Andre one is amusing.
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Jumbo and Tenryu really light each other up, which is great to watch. I agree that this match is better than the other one, mainly because we get more of Jumbo vs Tenryu. Love all the chaos with the seconds at ringside. Jumbo and Kawada have a really spirited finishing stretch while Tenryu throws furniture on everyone at ringside. He must have been cut in the fracas because he has blood on him. Great scene and very good match.
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Sawyer is past his prime at this point, but still has a lot in the tank. The highlight is Sawyer biting Arn just to break an armbar. I don't think this match quite lives up to the hype I've heard for it over the years, but it is a really solid match, and it is fun to see Arn as a very over singles babyface for a sort-of-extended run. J-Tex run in and spray mist on Arn and spike piledrive him. Ole runs in for the save and it's 3-on-1, but he don't sell nothin' for no one. Ole ends up eating a top rope splash from Buzz, which is sold in a big way. The post-match is super hot.
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Well, how's this for a piece of trivia? Cactus seems really nervous and doesn't know which camera to look into. I wouldn't have pegged him a promo guy at this point. It's amazing how he got so much better by the time he returned to the promotion in '91. I'm not sure what experience he would have really had that would have made him so much better during that time, but yeah, Terry has to carry him through this one. Cactus would rather hurt a man than love a woman, and onions taste a little like owl. He sounds awfully young.
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I love the early comedy spots between Dundee and Travis. Adams sneaking in the punch, and Travis's selling of it, is just great. They are building to a couple of things early on, keeping Adams and Travis apart, and keeping Akbar out of the ring. Adams goes to the well too many times, then the heels work over his knee, with Gary Young in particular doing some nice stuff. Kind of a wow moment, as FLIK said, later in the match, when Embry shoved Toni Adams down for no real reason, which sets off a slugfest between partners Adams and Embry. Dundee tries to break it up to no avail while the heels cheer them on from the outside, which is funny. They finally use this as an opening to work over Dundee. This was a good match with a fun angle.
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I don't think this was a great match, but it was a really good one that felt like a big main event. Takada is the aggressor for most of this while Maeda works from underneath, which is not the role I am used to seeing him in. Takada shows a lot more fire than I often see from him in his more acclaimed matches. Maeda's 3/4 crab (a half crab and a half-half crab) was a highlight for me. As the match progresses, Maeda, despite having taken more punishment, looks fresher, and this match starts to look like a big rope-a-dope. Maeda starts to look like the surefire winner as the match gets close the finish. In the end, it wasn't enough to close the gap and Takada outskills him and comes back yet again. This was a nice story, and it feels like a chapter in a feud more than it does a great match on its own. There are probably some 1988-1989 prerequisites worth checking out to appreciate this even more, but I did like this a standalone match quite a bit. Very simple, but very good.
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This is one of those matches that I can't possibly give a fair shake the first time around, without being more familiar with the UWF style. I felt a little disconnected from it, but context always helps. I do like the match at times, but I don't really know if this is above or below the normal standards in the UWF. I'll revisit when going back through the decade. As it stands, it feels like the first 10 minutes of a New Japan juniors match, just with that being the entire match. That's being a little unfair, as there is more drama than that, and the match doesn't feel chopped off, but that's generally the working style here. I'm sure at some point a UWF match will give me something I can't find in the first half of really good Liger vs Otani.