ajtroma
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This was a total jip. That 4 star plus match must have been in Louisville because it damn sure wasnt here. This was perhaps the most disappointing thing on this yearbook. The fireball is barely sold. Three guys interfere after Lawler sells the match as the barbed wire will keep Gilberts crew out. Long-ass beatdown. Lawler's color scheme. And its just ridiculously short.
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Wouldnt deliberately being counted out result in a title change under these "technical loss" bullshit rules? I dont know, either. Its not important. Gaylord, being a vain, ignorant jock, cant resist posing whenever he sees himself on camera. This would be the first appearance, kind of, of Brian Christopher in a yearbook. He, along with Tony Williams, are the guys under the mask. They were the Twighlight Zone: Nebula & Quasar. Brian was Nebula because, being an insane homophobe just like dear old dad, thought "Quasar" sounded to much like "Queer".
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I wish their were more Steiners vs MX matches that aired on TV. Much like 4-5 years earlier with the Road Warriors, Bobby Eaton knows what to do. The MX was just the perfect opponents for the Steiners at this point. Artistically (for lack of a better word), the Midnights had one HELLACIOUS year, even though they were absolutely miserable and underappreciated by management.
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This was (besides that quick clip from the USWA Title Tournament) the video they made for him when he was the Master of Pain. One clip shows him press slamming Mark Starr of the Wild Side. I just read that Mark passed away. I always liked the Wild Side. I actually voted for them in the 1989 PWI Awards for Tag Team of the Year. I was 12 and they dominated my "hometown" wrestling promotion. Someone needed to vote for them.
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I have no idea who the mystery partner was, but if I had a guess, it would be Little Richard Marley. Dont hold me to that. One of the Youngbloods there (I always get Mark & Chris mixed up) comes out in the tackiest "Stereotypical Indian But Still Early 90's Neon" gear I have ever seen. Tatanka looks positively Wahoo McDaniel-esque understated in comparison. Alan Iron Eagle is in this scene as well and that kid looks like he's just baby fat. I have no room to talk about being chubby but, in that era, he didnt have a chance with that bod.
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If Elvira is down with it, I'm down with it. I rent MANY a video back in the day with Elvira's endorsement on the over-sized box. One of them ended up on MST3K (Blood Waters of Dr. Z). Appropos of nothing, I saw three MST3K movies before they got MSTed (the afore-mentioned Dr. Z, Hobgoblins and Alien from LA). Katie Lee Burchill/Winter is now doing the Elvira thing on dvd now (even Angels Brigade, which was on MST3K, which I liked, dammit!). That POLEVAULTS her into the Top Position on My Favorite Wrestling Ladies list.
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I'd heard about this one for years but never seen it. I wish there was an option that, with a push of a button on that remote control, you can turn off the announcers and keep the crowd noise. I might be able to stomach the WWE these days if we had that. I've seen ropes break a thousand times (just about every USWA spot show had the top rope go down) but its always been the turnbuckles coming off the post. This time the actual rope (which is actual rope in the WWF. Not the cables everyone else uses) just breaks away. I loved Bret, instead of hitting the top rope with that "run full speed chest first into the corner" spot of his, going into the bottom two. That was just great prescence of mind there. That criss-cross spot would obviously hit the cutting room floor (so to speak, of course. I know all about the linear editing of videotape. I wasnt very good at it, but I knew about it). Between falls, we see Bret & Jim visibly pissed off at this whole thing falling apart around their ears. Im sure the Rockers werent thrilled either. Many years later, I was at a WWF Superstars taping where Shawn had a mini-tantrum over the microphone not working. I cant even imagine what that Shawn (the 1995 prima donna diva) would have done here in 1990. I guess they made the right call to scrap this one and pretend it never happened. I could see them airing still photos in an Update segment, claiming controversy, Harts keep the belts and rematch at the Royal Rumble. Oh, and the crowd. I wouldnt say they were horrible. God knows how long that taping was and how much they sat through before we got to this match.
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Lawler here proves his sinister genius. He gives Eddie Marlin the big pop line about hawking the belt to a drug dealer. Marlin, stupidly, thinks this gets him over with the people. It did get the big pop. Just like Lawler surmised. Lawler knows that this was a particularly slanderous line. Cleverly, Lawler is in the clear. He didnt actually say it. Lawler also knows that should any legal dealings ever arise because of this, well, Marlin will defend THE BUSINESS and KAYFABE to the point of perjury. Never fuck with the King.
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Skull Jones, shockingly, is not bald. And on the baldness motif (for lack of a better word), should the Hair Match have happened, I'd figure it being 3 on 2 with Pringle getting pinned and getting the shave, but alas, we never would know. Maybe Austin but, really, a bald Steve Austin??? Nah, never work.