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Minoru Tanaka http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/30352-taka-michinoku-vs-minoru-tanaka-battlarts-103096/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/29412-shinjiro-otani-tatsuhito-takaiwa-vs-minoru-tanaka-koji-kanemoto-njpw-final-dome-101199/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25743-naoki-sano-vs-minoru-tanaka-battlarts-013000/?hl=%2Bminoru+%2Btanaka http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25785-minoru-tanaka-vs-takehiro-murahama-njpw-strong-energy-042001/?hl=%2Bminoru+%2Btanaka -
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I was getting ready to post about similarities between Memphis and PR (and Lawler and Colon), and I see this. Oh well. Great show, guys. I love hearing about under appreciated territories. Maybe one on Portland, since Don Owen is on the WON HOF ballot?
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A long Randy Orton promo at the top of the show is not a good way to try to get me to switch away from the MLB playoffs, WWE. New Day saved the segment but a little bit of Orton goes a long, long way.
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Meltzer spent most of the 90s complaining about Heenan dropping *dated* references in WCW. And still complains today about JBL's occaisonally dated references.
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I was going to post about how much I enjoyed that six-man but here's yet another Rollins/Kane segment...
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Great stuff as usual. You guys talked about an Eddie Gilbert interview that came out after he left ECW. Is that available anywhere?
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Reigns cut a darn good promo there. It felt natural, not over-written, and seemed to be pretty over with the live crowd.
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This was great reading, but more than a little depressing. What is it about this business that breeds the conmen in droves? I had completely forgotten about the Lawler/USWA stuff. I'd love to read a Robert Caro-style biography scraping the dirt on that guy. Or Vince, or Watts, or any other major figure in wrestling world for that matter.
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This was a hell of a show. Insane heat for all three matches on this disc. And the Japanese handhelds I've seen in the yearbooks are miles better than your usual American! Come on American handheld tapers, invest in a damn tripod.
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From the 7/13 Observer's house show report for 7/5 in Rockford, IL: From the 7/20 Observer's house show report for 7/10 in Philadelphia: From the 8/10 Observer's house show report for 8/1 in Hidalgo, TX: From the 8/31 Observer's house show report for 8/21 in Bridgeport, CT: This probably means very little. It's all anecdotal, and there's plenty of reports from shows with Reigns where nothing is noted. And there is, of course, a huge difference between the crowds at TV and the house shows. (There's similar reports for Cena - very little booing, huge reaction/cheers.) But maybe a takeaway is that despite the heavy-handedness of his push that certainly has turned off the hardcores, they've succeeded in making him a star to at least part of the audience? So I don't think it's been the complete disaster most in this thread seem to believe.
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Tig in WWE is something I'd love to see.
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I was at this live, and it was amazing. I think I've seen it once or twice since, and I don't know if I want to see it again. I'm happy with my memory of it. I'm not going to go all Meltzer and say no one should rewatch things, but there's no way it can live up to my memory of it. IIRC, Regal was just out of rehab and this was his first big match back. Or maybe he had just been let go for the final time from WCW? (Wikipedia is unclear.) In any event, he hadn't wrestled a serious match in quite a while, it's a crowd full of hardcores, so everyone in the building knows Regal's issues. I'm sure he wanted to show not just the crowd, but the wrestling world good he could be. So all that (and the natural inflation that any match involving Benoit during that time) got wrapped up in the match's rep. I'm surprised, and pleased, that it was mentioned on WWE commentary in 2005, even on a smaller show.
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Kudos to these guys for having even a reasonable match in the rain - that whole setup looked treacherous. I'm always amazed at the reaction Konnan gets during his heyday in Mexico. Is it just me, or was this show, including the Rey Jr. trios match before it, mic'd better than normal? The great crowd heat came through much clearer than in the other early-'90s lucha I've seen.
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I have no idea, just going by what KrisZ said on the reaction show. Whoever it is isn't doing a great job, is the point.
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It might be a bit more complicated than just the same old Vince and Kevin Dunn are out-of-touch stuff. The biggest issue for me is that the women's matches just aren't particularly good. Something that's gone unmentioned: KrisZ brought up on the reaction show that Norman Smiley and Robbie Brookside aren't laying out the matches on the main roster. Maybe a pretty big issue, too, no?
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The bummer is that was a pretty good match, miles better than their WrestleMania match, and miles better than any hopes I had for it. WWE gonna WWE, I guess.
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Props to Owens for working that hard after last night. Too bad they stuck it in the death slot, it deserved more of a reaction.
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Jon Stewart as the Anonymous Raw General Manager! Make it happen, Vince!
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Thought that was the best skit of the bunch. (Although that's not saying too much.) Stewart does a good promo, but then again he's been more or less doing them nightly for 15 years.
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Amell was far from embarrassing. He's obviously a big fan and knew what do, even if he wasn't all that good at it. Could have been a lot worse.