WingedEagle
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Cornette a solid promo talking about combining the 2 best tag teams ever and says from now on the Bodies will be Eaton, Lane & Pritchard at all times. The Studs come out and it turns to a brawl pretty quickly before the RNR join in for more chaos. Eaton looks a cut above the rest here bumping on that gym floor floor for the Studds. Dutch doesn't look at all of place in a brawl with these guys despite being a "non-wrestler."
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Just throwing this out there as a suggestion -- maybe keep the yearbook threads organized as is, but create similar folders or sub folders that are also organized thematically? i.e. one for discussing the four horsement, or certain favorite wrestlers like Kawada or Lawler, or 1979-1983. That might be easier for reference purposes.
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Dutch is on commentary doing a fantastic job furthering 3-way feud with the Studds and these teams. Fuller & Golden out with their bags as they got arrive late b/c of a slashed tire and the Bodies got their match as a result. Caudle brings up the RNR signing to appear on WCW PPV. Things settle with Morton in his FIP role selling well. We get a ref bump and then all hell breaks loose with Cornette & Killer Kyle getting involved, Dutch & the Studds involved, before Bobby Eaton comes from out of nowhere to help the Bodies steal the titles. Really fun and effective angle and a decent match, but this pales in comparison to the WCW tag title match. **3/4
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I feel like I just saw this on youtube the other night. It was not a good look.
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Hot start with Austin & Steamboat, then Pillman in to sell well, and you can see he's really developing into a prototypical tag team heel. Steamer then plays FIP for a while with a nicely teased comebacks while the Blonds (although still not officially in that gimmick yet) maintain control and heel it up behind ref's back. Pillman jumps in causing ref to miss and disallow a hot tag for great heat. Douglas finally gets in and is on fire before Pillman takes him out. Really great match with everyone looking better coming out of this. I think I preferred this to the Clash. ***3/4
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Clips of Lawler in the Rumble. then he's out with Jarrett, Danny Davis & Eddie Marlin. Lawler does an interview talking about Henning and their brawl at the Rumble, and their history in the USWA/AWA feud from 1988. Then a Perfect promo talking about coming to Memphis to take out Lawler. PG-13 video to Hip Hop Hooray. This feels like a Memphis version of Public Enemy in ECW and is *great*. Best thing I've seen from Memphis this year.
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Maybe Matt was a fan of stars & bars fashion? Cornette would definitely see babyface potential in that, year be damned.
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Unless he came into a lot of family money or had literally all of his earnings in some of the best investments possible the last few years, I don't see how he's got enough put away to last him into old age. All time is a long time. I've got no doubt he can ride it out for a few years, but forever? Not impossible, but a tough sell. And from PWInsider:
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Really long peril section for Kawada here before Misawa in with an awesome comeback on Gordy including the elbow suicida, a flying elbow and tiger driver. Kudos to him & Misawa as they made this fun despite Williams & Gordy trying to make this a slow, sluggish affair. It dragged quite a bit at times but the champs sold well enough and showed enough fire to keep it well above average. Really surprised that Misawa took the fall here. Were they already looking to keep Kawada strong before splitting him off? ***3/4
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Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi 1/26/93 Kobashi on fire early but Taue puts a quick stop to that with a Nodowa sending him to the floor. Such great back & forth offense with Kobashi looking to show he belongs on this level with the opposition's de facto ace in Jumbo's absence. Taue does so many little things here add up. His facials while wrenching an abdominal stretch and punching Kobashi's ribs. The way that much of his offense looks clumsy, but is so deliberate and impactful. Meanwhile Kobashi looks like someone who just got a huge weaons upgrade but doesn't quite know how to put it all together yet. The crowd is huge behind Kobashi looking for the upset and setting the stage for a year's worth of that. Really fun. Not sure why this was left off of the set, but glad I checked it out. ***3/4
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I find it a bit amusing that Punk will not hesitate to dump on the fans who generate his fat checks, but takes his ball and goes home to play in part over not liking his wrestling storyline heading into a particular show.
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All of this was almost worth it for HHH taunting the crowd there. Almost. He clearly had a lot of fun with it and it was great comedy.
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YES! YES! YES!
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It is the question. Let's say it has no tangible impact on bottom line results, but does result in sustained, uncontrollable and contradictory crowds that make for an awkward television product. Can they stomach that if the dollars and cents are still there? I can't begin to speculate what the answer to that is or the answer to if or when this impacts business. But it'll be interesting to watch.
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Yep, if there's no appreciable impact on business then there's no reason to change course.
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Basically sums up my thoughts as well, although you could argue it should've been more heated given the stakes. Perfect was taking some really exaggerated bumps here. Bartlett on commentary may have been a disaster, but this was a great example of Vince's unrelenting enthusiasm and ability to sell things as a big deal. He was in full Red Bull mode and was going to rise to the occasion even if no one else was. Perfect basically hulks up, Flair flips the turnnuckle, runs to the other and comes off to get nailed. Perfect hits the perfectplex on a backdrop attempt and wins. This was nowhere near as good as I remembered it. **3/4
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Just wanted to echo 2 big points others brought up here -- 1) First time the Rumble directly leads to the Mania main event, and 2) Yoko's win felt like it came out of nowhere. When we join, there's no one you could even imagine winning other than Yoko until Savage joins as #30. Yoko looks much smaller than in later years. Owen's elimination looked nasty landing on his knee, but I don't remember any big injury coming from this so he must've gotten pretty lucky. The finish with Savage going for a pinfall was pretty weak, even if it was a nice toss by Yoko to send him out. We then get some some Vegas characters out to set the stage for Mania.
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This. Might as well ding Magnum for his work at the Crockett Cup not living up to the I Quit standards.
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Whoops, I missed that. Sounds like Misterio was catching hell no matter where he was slotted.
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I think Rey gets a pass on that one. The crowd may have been willing to get behind Reigns a bit at the end, but I don't think it made a difference which of the 30 entrants came in at #30. If the name wasn't Daniel Bryan, they were catching hell.
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He suffered a stroke and it was an extended make-good angle / moment. Anyone who views that as a "match" is missing the point.
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I'm with you, but its time to make things official by bringing back the winged eagle belt.
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Dolphins1925 with his picks up for those interested.