ajtroma
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Im interested in seeing what makes the final cut. I remember 1999 being the absolute nadir of the industry. Just complete dogshit but compared to today's stuff, its golden.
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Maybe it was more a comment on how the promotion felt about Marc Lowrance? More heat put on what has been an entertaining angle so far. Austin shows great poise on the microphone and continues to look like a future star. Lowrance mentions that Jeannie may keep tear gas in her purse to keep from getting raped, which is a good idea, what with hanging out in the same building as Bill Dundee every week and all. Shit, I was about to make that very joke. I got a helluva kick out of Marc trying his damdest to remember the word "mace". It was right on his tongue. I went into Teacher Mode going "c'mon, Marc. You know this. I know you know this..."
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This was mind-blowing shit for 1990. The audio guy was clearly incompentant. Whoever the PWA guys were should have done some voiceovers after to cover that up. Was shown on the famous KTMA where they shot the early MST3Ks? I also noticed the guy in the front rown wearing on of those REPREHENSIBLE "Maggie Sucks Bart's Dick" bootleg Simpsons shirts. Did he really think he was cool? Was there even ONE woman anywhere near Roper's that would go home with him? I'll bet a thousand dollars that guy went home, watched one of the lesser, more obscure Ilsa films while beating his half-drunk, limp dick. Oh yeah, I almost forgot (since that guy in the front row just PISSED me off) is that had I known about this tape, I would have locked Jerry Jarrett in a small room and DEMAND he bring these two to Memphis.
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Wrestling must have been pre-empted this week (or, most likely, I had a wedding to attend and didnt set the VCR correctly) so Ive never seen this. Nate was just...weird in this, almost getting a sexual thrill out of getting smeared and splashed with food (I know theres a term for that fetish but I cant remember it. Maybe I'll watch that one John Waters film with Tracey Ullman that dealt with like every perversion known to man). Nitron rolls in, whiffs on a punch. Lawler oversells this thing to the point that Nitron would have had to hit him with like a five pound weight or something. Dave says Nitron has a FOUR on ONE handicap match?! Nitron was one of the Memphis One Week Wonders, btw.
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I had never heard of this Kurisu guy in my life before this set. He looks like a total asshole. He's got that Ron Bass/Dick Slater/Black Bart vibe to him
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At this time, the syndicated shows for the other towns (Nashville, Louisville, Evansville) were split Half Memphis content, half Dallas. So, pre-internet, if we didnt see it, we didnt know about it. Yeah, the Apter mags kinda would expose shit but by that time, we'd forgotten. Actually, we were kind of used to the way things worked in the territory, what with the same title matches in every town and all that stuff. ESPN wasnt until about a year later and there was some continuity issues, but once again, you'd just shrug your shoulders and be like "ehhh". Some folks, like me, just made it easy and said "Well, Dallas doesnt count".
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The bullshit about slapping the "sissy headphones" off the stage manager just proves that Embry was, probably still is, a fat, tiny-dicked, fraile-ego bully. I bet he's a really dickish Asst. Manager at a Walmart somewhere, treating the Recieving Department like dogs while he spits out beligerent fat-ass orders to what he considers his slaves. Hey, Embry spit on me at a house show one night. Fuck him.
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Yeah, I have a very good feeling that the King was venting. I dont blame him. By this time, the USWA/CWA area had done such a substantial drop in attendence and public opinion. The glory days were gone. Stars came and went. We'd lost Lance. Towns were killed for various reasons. The Wrestling show, at this point in time, was a post-produced Half/Memphis Half/Dallas deal. It had started off 1990 as all Dallas. We hated that. It went from Wrestling on Channel 7 in Evansville being the top non-news, non-network show and "appointment viewing", to being seen as a cheap, knockoff WWF, which really pissed me off. I used to have to defend myself to my friends and the other guys in school for liking our kinda-sorta hometown promotion to the WWF. Fwiw, all the WWF Ive seen up to now on this 1990 yearbook has been utter sewage in my eyes. Plus, in fairness, the WCW stuff at this time is head and shoulders above USWA in quality. Not saying USWA isnt without its charm. Dale Mann's outlaw promotion ran my hometown a few times and was lamer each and every time. All non-WWF was painted with the same brush. USWA was called the "cheap shit", "local yokels", "Big Lots wrestling", "that really fake shit", "that Channel 7 crap" etc. NO ONE gave a shit about Travis or Dundee or Jarrett or the Southern Rockers or Fuller of whoever else. Lawler "sucked" and "Tim Horner could beat him" (that was an actual quote). Yet, guys like the Ultimate Warrior, Sid, Beefcake and all those other guys were considered "awesome". So, I gotta feel the King on this one. Even though his steroid tester looks like it was ripped off a medium sized appliance and had the afore-mentioned Star Trek noise.
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You can clearly see Sting limping badly after the second attempt at scaling the cage. Flair's dive onto him (and Flair couldnt have known the knee was messed up) could not have helped. Pillman and Zenks attempt at catching the Champ looks very odd but give them credit for trying. I think this was Muta's last hurrah as a regular. I love chaotic endings like this but WCW was just snakebit at the time