Exposer
DVDVR 80s Project
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Hogan does a good job selling the knee here but he should have been dominated the whole match by Flair. The finish was terrible and Flair comes across like a total jackass. The one positive about this match was that the crowd was extremely into it so I was at least excited and invested into the match. I think this would have been a fine match if Hogan didn't have the phony ass attack on the knee earlier in the program. -
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The editing here was bizarre. Woman is pretty good in her role. Sandman getting revived with a cigarette was amusing.
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I felt I was just watching a solid match really. I didn't get excited at all until the finishing stretch and then Toyota began to fall off the ropes. The crowd seemed to die a little bit from the mistakes and never fully recovered either. This wasn't terrible but I didn't find myself begging for me at the end.
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Shawn would make my top 100 but I'm going to list the guys who'd definitely be ahead of him. U.S. Terry Funk Buddy Rose Ric Flair Arn Anderson Ricky Steamboat Brian Pillman Dustin Rhodes Eddie Guerrero Rey Mysterio Bret Hart Vader Jerry Lawler Steve Austin Mick Foley Randy Savage Tito Santana John Cena Christian Curt Hennig 2 Cold Scorpio Chris Benoit Finlay William Regal Tajiri Bobby Eaton Ricky Morton Barry Windham Stan Hansen Sgt. Slaughter Terry Gordy Steve Williams Owen Hart Greg Valentine Japan Jushin Liger Toshiaki Kawada Mitsuharu Misawa Kenta Kobashi Jumbo Tsuruta Akira Taue Jun Akiyama Shinya Hashimoto Genechiro Tenryu Aja Kong Bull Nakano Akira Hokuto Mexico El Hijo Del Santo Blue Panther El Dandy Negro Casas I almost haven't been exposed to Europe at all and some other top names like Race and Dundee I'm skeptical about because I've seen so little of what's out there of them although I would need to really ponder on it. To answer Matt's question Shawn more often than not delivered extremely well in big time matches such as Razor (Mania X), Jericho (Mania XIX), Cena (Mania 23), Flair (Mania 24), and both Mania matches with Taker. There are other great performances or at least memorable big time matches scattered around too like Jannetty on Raw in 93, the Jarrett match at IYH in 95, the SS Ladder Match with Razor, Mind Games with Foley, and the HITC with Taker. I personally feel his best individual performances were in the Midnight Rockers and Rockers in the AWA and WWF. He was a tremendous FIP and could sell his ass off. The volume of great matches the Rockers have from 86-91 is probably pretty high and I'm a firm believer that they're the greatest tag team in WWF/E history. Shawn could bump like a lunatic too and I can confirm that just from watching him manage Diesel on the 94 Yearbook. So yeah, I believe Shawn's positives were that he could deliver in big settings, was a great FIP with the Rockers, could bump really well, and (I failed to mention this earlier) was great in gimmick matches (Ladder, No DQ, Ironman, HITC). His negatives are there too though. During the mid-90s when he would pitch fits in mid-match is a major issue. The Vader match at SS is an extreme example of that. Post-comeback he's pretty hit or miss if you ask me. His matches with HHH were boring as hell and they participated in the most grueling (boredom) gimmick match to watch ever (HITC Bad Blood). Once 2008 rolled around he almost wasn't good at all. He nearly killed Jericho in the No Mercy Ladder Match and was a pathetic excuse for a wrestler at the end of the night. I forgot to mention his matches with Angle which are terribly overrated although I find the Vengeance match to be pretty good. Essentially, I feel his negatives would be mid-match tantrums, blowing spots post-comeback, and really coming off as average or only slightly above average (maybe) on a regular day if he wasn't in one of his good-great stretches. I like Shawn in the ring with the Rockers a lot and enjoy him in stretches from 92-98 and in spurts from 02-10. Like I mentioned above, he'd be in my top 100 and I actually think he'd be right at 50 because if I counted right I have 49 people ahead of him that I'm positive of.
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New Jack is slowly on the verge of becoming the best promo of the year. He continues to make me laugh and say awesome shit.
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Buddy Landell is now heel and cuts a good promo about why he turned on Brian Christopher.
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Randy Hales gets mauled and has his hair cut by Doug Gilbert. Eddie Marlin says Doug's next five matches will have his hair on the line regardless of who his opponent it or what type of match he's in. This was okay.
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Owen should have won clean here. This was a very good match though and Waltman is quietly having a great year.
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Jeff is only concerned with Spike Huber. I guess he forgave Sid over the phone. Sid cuts a fairly competent promo on Lawler afterwards.