Zenjo
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It was a nice mixture of matwork and high flying early on. After taking 1 fall Dos began to work over the leg of El with a nice variety of holds. Like others have said a mat clinic. The Champion hit one big move to level the score but Caras was right back on him. Had plenty of near falls down the stretch, the slow count adding to the drama. In the end Caras had more energy left thanks to the earlier damage inflicted and this led him to the victory. A logical and well constructed contest.
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I loved how the crowd booed the bizarre martial arts demo during the introductions. But even better was when a female fan got up and confronted Cien Caras after he delivered a low blow on the outside. She had to be held back by fellow members of the audience. You tell him girl! First couple of falls were a mixture of slow pace with flurries of action. It hit it's stride in the third. Octagon is flaky. A main eventer in terms of stature but not a top level worker. His offense here lacked focus. Aside from one blown spot Guerrera gave a decent rudo performance. Though there were issues with the technical quality it had the feel of an important title match. At the end there was an awesome Tope, but then unfortunately the 2nds interfered so no finish.
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Matwork in the early stages. I dug Villano's innovative submission holds. He also looked good in the air later on, an impressive performance. Benoit looked slightly out of place at times but improved a lot as it progressed. The start of the 3rd fall was high quality. Finish could've been better. Good overall.
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This was hugely fun. At times Taue and Kobashi were on the receiving end, but you just knew the Kikuchi in peril segment was coming. I love watching him get beat up! He tries his hardest but is always fighting an uphill battle against bigger and better opponants. What was particularly good here was how Jumbo added a little stiffness and emphasis to each move. The little man survived quite a pounding before the inevitable. Overall it was more even and competitive than expected. They always kept things moving and the crowd were lapping it up. No it's not a top 20 AJ 90's match, I've got it as #7 from the company this year.
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The greatest Rumble of them all? It's certainly right up there. Epic performance from Ric Flair in the ring and Bobby Heenan in the booth. Excellenly booked with the Superstars spread out well. I don't think they could've done it much better. From a technical standpoint the action was repetitive and got bogged down at times. But from a storytelling perspective this was top notch and my #1 WWF match of '92.
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Certainly not lacking in the duration department. JIP and it looked like they were moving towards a 15m finish before a long leg work section on Misawa began. They did a full out stretch too. Always watchable, just not as good as they were aiming for. Taue sucked in this one but not in this set.
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1) It was veteran vs youngster. 2) Tsuruta had the height and leverage advantage. 3) Jumbo's leg was going to be the focus. 4) Kawada wasn't intimidated. 5) Jumbo slapped the taste out of his opponants mouth and was going to put the upstart in his place. They'd established all of this within the 1st minute! Welcome to golden era All Japan. Having perfectly set the scene they then delivered the match. Kawada had all his success when going after the wheel. Jumbo had lost some speed but was still as strong as ever. The ending built up very nicely. First Kawada went close to the win, and then he survived lots of damage before falling. Fabulous match. Top 15 for the year. Perhaps the only slight downside was that the middle wasn't quite up to the level of the start or finish.
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[x] Poor VQ [x] No sound [x] Clipping [x] Loved every minute of it Another excellent installment in possibly the greatest lucha rivalry of all time. These guys work so smoothly together it's like poetry in motion. Beautiful matwork in the primera. It's an acquired taste for sure and I can see why people wouldn't like it, particularly at first. Santo continued to dominate into the segunda. Casas was having to fight a defensive match and just hanging on. He levelled things up with La Majistal. I love that move. Then in the tercera there were exciting 2.9ers. Shame about no finish. I'd have liked to see this with better VQ and audio, but I'll take whatever I can get. You'd be missing out by skipping this because of those problems.
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Marcus Alexander Bagwell always makes me laugh. How could such a fine young man turn into the egomaniacal Buff? Judge Judy should've kept a closer eye on her son. But anyway this was a decent TV match. Hot atmosphere as Sting was really over. Strong start and the condensed nature helped avoid a beatdown. There were a couple of silly tag spots and Eaton's finisher barely connected.
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Liked this one. A full length encounter with both men working over body parts. Short term selling was strong, although not so much later on. Wholesome stuff as Arn led the promising young stallion. This was heading for a higher rating before the horrible sportz entertainment finish. Ahh the eternal battle of wrestling vs bullshit. I thought JR used to be a decent commentator once he'd got the football career info out of the way.
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The only AJW match I didn't like from the yearbook. It was sloppy beforehand and then the end of the first fall just killed the match stone dead for me. Hokuto tried to do the Niagara Driver, failed utterly and Toyota lands on top of her so Hokuto takes the full impact from the move. That's fine, just pick her up, deliver one more move and go to the pin. Instead Hokuto rolled Toyota from on top of her like 'that hadn't just happened' and pinned her for the 3 which was ludicrous. It destroyed the whole wrestling illusion of this match and I couldn't get into it after that. This comm probably has the worst crowd muting and annoying commentator voiceover of any tape AJW released.
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This lasted 45 minutes but was nowhere near long enough. It was so great I could've watched the mudslinging for 2 hours. I loved all the deranged ex-wrestlers ranting. I would've felt sorry for Vince if he didn't have rivers of blood gushing from his hands. The exchange between Vince and Murray was gold with Vince telling him he got fired because he sucked at his job. Wrestling is such a sleazy business, which makes it a match made in heaven with a trashy talk show. And the truth is crazier than fiction.
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Really ugly promo from Coraluzzo, and I'm not talking about his face.
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