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Dustin Rhodes is here?! Checking out the action huh? I didnt like this match but the crowd was wild for this so what do I know? All power guys here, and I think they played it up well.
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My 2nd favorite 6 man behind the May match, although this one is probably better. Jumbo really delivers the goods early on and looks strong and mean. I really liked the Kawada/Taue stuff and I'm looking forward to an eventual singles match between them. Taue looked really good here. There was a moment when he was trying to do the sumo push thing and Misawa just strips him short and levels him. Taue looks exhausted and desperate trying it and just gets creamed. Fuchi destroys Kobashi's nose and Kobashi shows early signs of that great fire of his. Great match.
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Going into this I was wondering how it would play out, since I couldn't really see the Steiners bumping and selling like death for the Midnights. Turns out that didn't matter at all because Beautiful Bobby bumped and sold enough for all 4 men. Great match. I didn't think the Steiners were using the Steiner Bulldog for a finisher at this point, but I still didn't care for seeing it that early in the match. The Midnights managed to get some good looking offense in as well, and I thought Sweet Stan's kicks looked especially good in this match.
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I was going to say it feels like Kobashi hasn't quite been elevated to the level of the other 3 yet, but then he comes off as a pretty big deal here, so nevermind I guess. I'm wondering when he kind of joins the other guys permanently. I was expecting kind of a squash here by Jumbo and Taue, but that's not what happened. Pretty good match, obviously not on the level of the previous big tag, and not as good as the Fantastics match either, but another cool one to add to the Ace/Kobashi run. Also, Ace looked good again here!
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This and the Lawler/Funk semi-final combined might be my favorite segments of the entire year. I don't know how many times I've said "Jerry Lawler is a genius in these threads, but man is it true. Just about the best comeback I've ever seen, starting with the multiple kickouts. And him just lying dead in the ring while Austin Idol steps on his neck. The crowd was going crazy too. This was an unexpectedly awesome tournament.
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This was incredible. Funk's "Pig" stuff and the punches were totally unbelievable. And Lawler's selling through all of this was just as good. The instincts kicking in at the end. I don't know where 1990 Jerry Lawler ranks in terms of his best work, but I can't imagine how he could be any better.
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Undertaker looks really big and ripped here. Really athletic too. This was a pretty good match. This tournament is really interesting to me in that I generally think of tournaments more in the "pure sports build" realm, where Memphis is way more based on storylines and angles. They've managed to weave storyline stuff into this but there's still some standalone matches like this one. I'm digging this so far.
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