dawho5
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Such a strange match. They are in the Japanese version of the WMC studio I think. It just seemed so fitting that Davis and Pritchard would be in that setting. And I am again very underwhelmed by the Headhunters. Good thing the majority of the match was Davis and Pritchard. I'll compare it to the tag match I just watched (Enforcers vs. Hardliners). It's not a match where the structure is going to blow you away, just like that one. It has 2 guys who are good to great at what they do and motivated, where the other had 4. And both have aspects to them that are fun and worth watching. Davis and Pritchard beat the shit out of each other and put on a good show. It ultimately gets little to no response, but I enjoyed watching them and wish they had a program in Memphis. Danny Davis is really good when he gets the chance to go, it'd be fun to see what he could do with an actual feud that got airtime and matches we saw.
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I was excited to see these 4 guys work. Some miscommunication and no crowd heat, but it's heel vs heel in a cold promotion. The work on Arn's arm was really good and I loved the stiff shots they gave each other throughout. I'll go with this as a fun, pointless match, but one that gives you what you would expect from 4 solid pros in the ring.
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I thought Sting and Heyman were really good at playing off of one another. More box shenanigans, but this time it's something Sting would want? It seemed odd that the woman was very pro-Sting while she was delivering a note from Cactus. Wouldn't that normally be some kind of set-up or are we just trying to say that Sting has a way with the ladies?
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So what happened to the whole "open contract" thing? Shouldn't Jerry be talking to Eddie Marlin about this? I'm curious as to how awful the Dragon Master was myself. Jackie allowing herself to be shaved bald is pretty impressive. She shows a pretty good grasp of the idea that heels have to take their lumps. Embry has beaten DWB 872,000 times! How did he keep track? I would agree that this promo seems like a guy who is caught in a bit of a trap and doesn't know the way out yet. But he kind of is, so it makes sense. Or maybe he and Pritchard aren't really fighting and he just wants us to think that? Who knows?
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Kyoko really shines here. She doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning this, but she puts up enough fight for any two challengers. I loved Bull breaking out the cartwheel, 180 roundouse off the second rope and the moonsault. Really puts Kyoko over for having the toughness and skill to threaten her enough to warrant those risks. Even if I never once believed Kyoko was going to win, it's more like the Kobashi vs. Jumbo matches. One of the better joshi matches I've ever seen and I'd say both contributed a lot to that.
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Okay, if we call it something that is NOT the secret Santo I quit. And secondly, thanks for the match Matt D. Definitely my kind of wrestling and I'd never seen it.
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Tony did a pretty good job on commentary. He did take a shot at JR involving time-outs in wrestling that was pretty amusing too. Arn is really good at shining a babyface up and he really tries to make Barry look good here. The leg-arm stuff is incredible and done about as well as you're going to see it done. Arn only loses that focus a little bit when he forgets to sell the leg after dropping the 3 or 4 knees on Barry's arm. I liked the finish a lot, the false one anyway. I always hate when the ref reverses his own decision because somebody comes out and tells him something. If you didn't see it, how are you gonna call it? Even so, this was easily one of the best worked TV matches I have ever seen. Everything has a purpose and consequences. They don't do a whole lot just for the sake of killing time, they actually make all of the work matter. That's a very rare thing.
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Alright, I will hit that match Matt gave me later this evening. Or tomorrow morning, whatever. I had two I was looking at and one is not on youtube so I'd have to do some chicanery to find a way for Matt to watch. So I went with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5LKear9iLs It's a tag match from Puerto Rico in 1988. Post-match is as good as the match itself. Watch it all the way through.
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That Varsity Club Rush has some very big names on the list. Chris Adams!! I shoulda known what with all the superkicks. Khan on a massive rampage as well, great start for the AWA in 86.
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That awkward start was really odd, seemed like Toyota was just missing things entirely. I agree that the work on the leg by both got blown off pretty much instantly when it was the other's turn to go on offense. That took me out of the match, but I could see the makings of a really good to great match in the opening matwork. It's just not really the style to keep that thread going throughout and for me it works against the match.
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Couldn't we have just had the Steiners pull out of the tournament and some kind of squash match to give the titles to the Enforcers? It would have been more entertaining and far less idiotic. What we got was esentially a two-part squash anyway, Ricky going over on the Enforcers and the Enforcers going over on Kazmaier.
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I think Dusty has been watching his Lawler stuff from Memphis for these 2 videos. They get over the idea that Simmons is a great role model, but save them for WCWSN or something. The Bowden interview was more than enough. And then we get the race-baiting, yay! Why do you feel the need to shot yourself in the foot when you are building steam WCW? Oh, and the white limo Luger ran away in was just great symbolism too. Really.
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Match is forgettable, but Badd shows some promise. I hated that the distractions pot for Badd was so LONG. How long does it take to understand, "Go hit that guy!"? Then both Sting and Badd just stop and stare at the box. Nothing else important going on I guess. Foley almost saves this for me, but it's just too stupid.
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Yeah I felt like Tony killed any cred this might have built. Really good spotfest with tones of both guys bringing intensity to go after a championship. You could tell that WCW was pretty lukewarm (maybe cold by now) on the idea but Ross and Tony in their misguided way try to sell us that these guys are exciting to watch.
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Yeah, way too many stops and starts. Half the time it seemed like nobody knew what was coming next. My disdain for Kendo grows with each match I see. Also, it looked as much like a gymnastics exhibition as a wrestling match more often than it looked like a wrestling match. I'll echo Asai looking like the most polished guy in there.
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I guess we can chalk up the goofy Lawler opponents to Embry keeping Lawler busy with familiar opponents then. Makes a little more sense why Lawler hasn't forced the issue with Embry also.
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Taue's facebuster out of the corner is a really awkward spot and probably should go. Misawa getting taped up for all that time to just rip it off as soon as he got back in was kind of a misfire, but it ended up making it look even more like an epic struggle. Jumbo paid off his own little sleeper thing on Kikuchi from earlier on Kawada, but way way too early to make a difference. Kawada looks great and the first 3/4 of the match are more about him being at a high enough level to keep things held down while Misawa is pre-occupied with his useless tape. Easily one of the better tags in this feud for drama and action. Misawa getting the submission win over Jumbo is basically his 6/9/95 win. He is right at the doorstep of putting Jumbo away definitively in singles.