WingedEagle
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We get a pretty quick start with counters and strikes before things slow down. Muto delivers a dragon screw here before it was the hot move. Pretty clear early on we're not getting a repeat of the '91 Final but this isn't a stinker either. Muto works extensively on Chono's neck with a couple suplexes. We get a neat sequence where they trade Yakuza kicks and dropkicks before Chono wins with his second STF. ***1/4 -
I actually liked this a whole lot less than the Hashimoto match. This felt like a resthold display with some work on Rude's back and Sasaki's neck mixed in. It also felt unnecessarily long. I like Rude's use of the top rope kneedrop as a finisher in Japan but don't recall him ever using it as a big move in the states. **1/2
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Rude sells well for Hashimoto's kicks. I loved Rude selling his back while doing his dance. Man Hash's kicks were really something else. Nice to see their breakout moment on this yearbook. I agree that Rude looked out of place here, but I didn't think it was bad. He didn't tone down his heel schtick at all and it felt different and fun, with Madua's interference getting pretty solid heat. Hash eats a big DDT and gives Rude a pretty soft one. Rude with a great looking DDT off the top and top rope kneedrop for the finish. ***
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Ventura builds up Jake, who talks about his father telling him to say his prayers and eat his vitamins, and then Jake spit on that. Hell. Of. A. Promo. If you put this on a Clash or PPV instead of a Saturday night it should've been huge. I still wish we got his debut attack on Sting. Such a shame his run was short because he came in on fire.
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We get clips of the drawing for Vader's challenger due to Jake attacking Sting earlier (which unfortunately didn't make the set). We then join Simmons vs. Vader in progress, with Simmons overpowering the champion. Everything we get here is great. The crowd is on fire. Simmons' offense on the bigger man with a lariat, backdrop suplex and spinebuster make him look like some kind of superhero and not at all out of his league. Jim Ross also contributed with one of his classic calls here. Simmons kicks out of the Vader splash, flips out of a power bomb and hits a great looking powerslam to take the title to a *huge* pop. *** for the match, but a full 5 for how this was laid out as far as establishing a new world champion in a matter of minutes. Basically a perfectly executed money in the bank type situation about 15 years earlier. Now why is the Barbarian the best you can come up with for your hot new babyface champion all fall? Rude? Vader? Jake? Something?
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Cornette delivers a great promo before the match about women giving up their husbands & children for a night with the Bodies, Lane's busted eardrum & Armstrong. Cornette is ejected from the building which likely spells his return for the finish. Everyone blades, Cornette predictably returns but Armstrong cuts short his attempt to interfere with the racket and the Fantastics roll up Pritchard for the title change. Along with his pre-match promo, Cornette's post-match tantrum is the highlight here. This probably reads better than it was as the match felt unnecessarily long and didn't live up to any of the clips setting it up. SMW featured better storytelling both going into and coming out of Fire on the Mountain than it'd shown throughout the year so I'm really looking forward to seeing if it can get on a roll. **3/4
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Great clips of how the feud developed and built to barbed wire cage match. Starts with the Bodies winning the tag titles, then an backstage brawl with chairs & boards, which spills out to the parking lot before Bodies drive off & the Fantastics break the rear windshield. Clips of another match & brawl around the arena after. Finally clips of a street fight where Bodies tie Bobby Fulton to the post. Tough for the match to follow this video.
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RNR are super over. The production quality makes this look more dated than anything on the Memphis 80s set. We get your standard Morton face in peril segment early including a blade job off a post shot. Like Loss said, I would've liked the double dropkick serve as the finish here but what we go better set the stage for the post-match attack. That of course came with another Fuller promo, so in the end we win anyways. ***1/4
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This is the $5K Challenge, and they do a good job explaining the rules. The Bodies make good use of the ability to tag someone other than your own partner. The Fantastics are out first thanks to a loaded boot that the announcers completely miss, but then Fulton knocks the Bodies out with Cornette's racket to build for the big show. Awesome visual of Golden ripping at Davis's eyes and cuts. Studd Stable do a great job working over Davis and then Dynamite. Gibson is out to save the faces, who lose via DQ and the Studds win $5K. Both tag feuds are furthered here and it was a solid TV match. ***1/4
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Dave Brown sets up Tommy Rich as an opponent for Doug Gilbert. Then Dundee comes out as Eddie's opponent to a huge studio pop. Awesome Tommy Rich music video that looks like it was taken directly from the DVDVR Memphis 80s set.
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Lawler & Jarrett are out with an old clip celebrating Dave Brown being there for 25 years. Then clips of them vs. the Moondogs with Fifi's hair on the line. Lawler wins and they shave her head. That payoff was delivered really quickly.
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Fire and pyro here do not look like any kind of joke. Everybody ducks for the explosions -- perhaps they should've had this a bit more under control. But I guess that would defeat the purpose. Matsunaga bumps to the outside through the fire & pyro and this looks purely diabolical. Pogo Pogo and Quinones (?) split afterwards. Hope the crowd can't understand Quinones because he is not saying nice things. Pogo turns on him w/ cane. No way to possibly rate this as a match, but its something to see for what was going on in various parts of the world.
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Jarrett ducks and one dog eats a shot from a road sign allowing Jarrett/Lawler to win the titles and Eddie Marlin to shave Richard Lee's head. Lee out with a toupee under a hat w/ Moondogs for promo. A voodoo lady gave him his hair back. Says Fifi, the dogs' sister, is coming to town.
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Really looking forward to this. When I first got into the sheets and tape trading I was a *huge* Luger mark. I had someone put together this awesome Luger comp with 4 hours of his best stuff on a single tape and for some reason this kind didn't charge any more than for the standard tapes he had already compiled. Wore that one out pretty quickly.
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I probably haven't watched the character in 20+ years, but when I was a kid I thought Akeem was the greatest and funniest I ever saw hit a wrestling ring.
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Wow.
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I remember this angle so vividly. It'd been 6 months since the Sting angle started at Fall Brawl and given how things were hotshotted back then, you thought the longest they could hold out on the Hogan match was Starrcade, the '96 version. That they kept things on a low flame for so long until popping it here and still saving the match for December was really something special.