dawho5
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I noticed that suplex on Kakihara that was not counted as well. I thought it would have been smarter work on Silver's part to make Kakihara come in on him and pester him with kicks instead of charging into the corner after him. Kakihara was coming up with more and better counters on the ground and struggled when pressured on his feet. Then again, Kakihara showed a lot more on his feet in the last 10 minutes. Good match, slow at points as mentioned. -
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I didn't really enjoy Gene twisting the knife on that deal. Why would he go through the whole quote when he could just say something like "what is your reaction to Ric Flair's comments?" Savage honestly should have decked him for going through the whole thing. Savage was pretty great reacting, just seemed excessive on Gene's part.
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Embry was great here as a sleazy bastard, but Dave really stole this segment for me. You tell him Dave!
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Horner seemed kind of over. I'd agree that Rip should have been much more aggressive. I'll also agreee that Dutch is a fantastic color commentator. This is a great announce team for sure. Once the match got past all the basic mat wrestling they almost looked like they were doing Southern cruiserweight wrasslin'. Which is actually kind of cool.
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I didn't think Vader was that much of a heel right away. He offers Chono a handshake, which Chono refuses, and then decides against hitting Chono on a break when Chono had just hit him on the break. Thought it was kind of strange. I honestly thought the match would go a little shorter than it did when Chono hit an early backdrop. Bam Bam and Hash had a really good, fast-paced exchange early. I thought Hash looked great fighting back against Vader. It looked like Chono had to be manhandled out of trying for more offense a few times. Also looked like Vader and Bam Bam gave Hash a little more offense due to him being bigger. I did think the Vader dragon sleeper was an attempt by Vader to give Chono something after he had been manhandled earlier that Chono missed. Vader playing FIP in the late stretch of the match was better than you would expect it to be. Good enough match, too long and at times didn't seem like the tag team aspect was used much.
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I had hoped for a better end for this. We knew Rogers wasn't going to be able to finish or Bob Caudle was going to catch him resting or whatever, but this seemed like a bad way to do it. I would agree that a confrontation of sorts would have worked better and poor Rip made his leg muscles that sore for a nothing reaction.
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Jumbo and Taue both came out of this match looking great, which says a lot for MVC. Speaking of the lengthy period of half crabs, we did get really close to super boring MVC when they were working over Jumbo with submissions. I thought both Gordy and Williams could have sold better for the Taue "hot tag", but we got what we got. Taue and Jumbo did a double team version of the atomic drop/backdrop, which was pretty awesome. Anytime Taue does a dive I am immediately happy, so I was glad he busted out the tope. Jumbo carrying the team to the win against the MVC was huge, and I actually liked the match as a whole despite my MVC bias. They are starting to remind me of the Choshu/Yatsu/Hara/Tenryu/Jumbo days of AJPW, but with more tendency to be super boring at times.
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Gave this a rewatch the other day and it is still not my style of wrestling 95% of the time. But I am also not a big "action movie" guy when it comes to movies. I prefer a more involving overall story and good detail work. I still enjoy a well-done popcorn action movie now and again and to apply the metaphor back to this, this is about as well done as insane spotfests get. And I would argue that something like this has to be thought out to really small details given the logistics of moving 3-10 guys around at a time and having the flow that it did manage.
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On rewatch I agree this did lack flow. Despite that I still really like it, I just don't expect great flow out of Tenryu matches with lower tier workers. I thought Kojima's comebacks were right, hit the big moves while you can because the old man is going to start beating the shit out of you soon enough. Good babyface fire too, so I am a fan of the match. The fact that it doesn't play out like an epic is one of the good points about the match for me.
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I rewatched this and AKIRA really brought a lot of intensity from the start. I imagine he hadn't forgotten the earlier humiliation Kanemoto had put him through. I also enjoyed Koji resorting to punches after the senton, nice change-up to show he was starting to feel the need to up the intensity as well. The last 6-8 minutes really does hold up, with Koji's unfortunate no-selling still dragging it down a bit. It ends up being the small things (AKIRA's desperation counters, etc.) that make me love it more than the big no-selling bits make me hate it.
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My schedule is weird, I'm always down for PR though.
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If you haven't read "East of West: The Apocalypse" I would recommend it. Essentially it's an alternate real world where the Civil War dragged on until everyone got tired of it. The U.S. gets split into 7 territories that have this "Game of Thrones" style of peace with politicking going on behind the scenes. And the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse exist with a religion built around the Apocalypse itself. Not the best comic I've ever read, definitely one of the more unique though. And like GoT, it's hard to put it away because you want to know what happens next.