dawho5
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Horner looks great here. Totally lost career for Horner as a mdicard babyface in WCW just churning out good sub-10 minute matches and then occasionally having a good match with an upper card match guy where Horner is the underdog with the good hope spots. Nothing wrong with being that kind of worker, as long as you aren't pushed as a top babyface.... Loved Wright here, amazing stuff post-match.
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I will throw another vote in the camp of "silly" for this being about a towel. Had he reacted that way to the hanging he had been subjected to, it would have been amazing. Orndorff is really good here. Please tell me more of this made the SMW set because I kinda need to see how Garvin handles this. The match (even if the promo was about a towel) promises to be all kinds of violent.
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To start with I fucking hate this ref. He has destroyed almost every match I have seen him in with his bullshit. Fuck you and stay away from wrestling rings forever. Dandy and Satanico did great work, but I would agree the 90 match was better and this one was odd in that Dandy walked through a bunch of stuff that ought to have had him selling like death. Kind of a flaw when you start thinking about it. There was a lot of great stuff that made the match worth watching, a lot of it mentioned here already, I just think that if Satanico is going to get away with murder over and over again it ought to be sold as such for at least the next 30 seconds to a minute. The false finish sucked too. Great job ref, completely missed the guy's hand on the ropes. Or "didn't want to see it" because he is rudo too, whatever. I think with a half decent ref enforcing the rules on both guys this could have been a great match. As it was it was a good match with amazing sequences in there.
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For a debut match this is amazing. Kobashi gives Akiyama a lot of good mat counters while not killing his own image, which is a super hard thing to do. And he gets Kawada levels of vicious at points, which Akiyama responds really well to. Also, that German by Akiyama was superb with the way he bridged into it. Really fun midcard match. A lot more matwork than you might expect, but both of these guys are good on the mat so it works.
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I love this match. Along with the April match I would say that Flair and Tenryu make great, great opponents (in 1992). The production values help a lot and the viciousness Flair shows is just great. I have thought for a while that holds like the figure four, crossface, etc. start out really great as finishing holds, but end up losing a lot of respect over time due to how everyone can stay in them for ages. It's a finishing hold, make it one. I know tapping out isn't manly, but wrestling is based on fighting. In MMA if you don't tap you are out with a broken leg or arm for much longer than if you tap and try again next time. Where is the shame in that in what is called a finishing hold. Not a criticism of this match, just the pro wrestling philosophy overall.
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I liked this a lot actually. There was a story throughout with limited (and mostly sensible) no-selling. Not only that, but both Bull and Aja showed vulnerability when targeted and isolated by the opposing team. Really good structure to it and it took a few turns I didn't see coming. Good match and one of my favorite joshi matches so far.
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Not a fan of even mentioning the idea that Bret's loss was some kind of curse at work. He squashes that pretty quickly though, and references Monty Python in the process! Love ya Bret! I liked the shot he took at Curt too. I can't imagine Bret was really into any kind of feud with Shango.
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So 2 of my top 10 wrestlers ever and the first instance of my favorite wrestling theme song (Kawada's theme is so amazing!) on the yearbooks. Week made. Loved how chippy the transitions are in this match. It's always something like a few kicks to the head from the ground while the other is trying to pick them up or a counter off of a big move into something that opens up a big move for the other guy. Everything feels earned. And the way they worked those headlocks was great. Taue really was scrappy early on with his. Finishing run was amazing with a lot of out-of-nowhere counters basically out of desperation because they didn't want to eat the next big bomb. I liked the short, terse handshake. It's so characteristic of both of these guys not to make a huge deal out of it, just a quick handshake and walk away. Just want to say it extremely clearly. Matches like this are why I love pro wrestling and AJPW.
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Love seeing this match. While it may not stand up to the more polished-for-TV matches it will eventually be compared with, I love how they worked this crowd. For what it was meant to be it is perfect. Lane and the ref ducking Corny's wild, blind tennis racket swings is absolutely amazing. Shit, anytime Corny gets involved the match gets incredible. Not that any of the wrestlers are bad, but Corny just brings things up a level. Probably due to the crowd hating him so much. What was the crowd chanting at him that got him so mad?
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Loved Razor here. He's so great at making you believe he is the gimmick despite how far away from Scott Hall it is. Something tells me that Hall might have been the most wrestling-smart of the guys in the Kliq, but the drugs and booze kept him away from his true potential. I've also heard people talk about how difficult he was to deeal with, so that may have factored into it. Not sure I enjoy how the WWF aired their TV/PPVs and the different markets and how damn confusing that had to be for the people in charge of what aired when. How often did that lead to spoilers I wonder.
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I'll say it was a fun match with the Fultons (I can't call them the Fantastics with Jackie there) playing kind of a Fabulous Ones-style asshole babyface team, which is what they have been all along. They worked the stip well with some obvious exceptions, which have been mentioned. And it was structured like a Southern tag, which is always a huge plus for me. Best SMW match yet.
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