PeteF3
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Decent TV match with a hot pre-match angle. Garvin fits in perfectly with this outfit, and he surprisingly is the one to take the Morton role in Morton's absence. They take great, contrived pains to have Mark Curtis distracted so Cornette can whack Gibson with the tennis racket, then Curtis turns around and calls for the bell anyway. So what was the point? Ricky Morton comes back with one eye taped up to run off the heels. Strong, effective table-setter for the Thanksgiving Thunder tour. Incidentally it's ridiculous how good Cornette's punches are. -
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What's the one thing that dogs are scared of? BATHS. Uh...I thought that was cats. Yeah, it's a Waterboard Death Match at the Mid-South Coliseum. 1992 was a more innocent time. Richard Lee rebuts from the S.S. MOONDOG. Of all the vignettes involving managers and yachts on these Yearbooks, this is probably the second-best.
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Good action with Richard Lee taking a surprising amount of punishment. I don't know if it's quite to the levels of Cornette in latter-day SMW but I think Lee should be selling the long-term effects of these beatings a little more. The Moondogs beat down the babyfaces afterward. I like the involvement of the Gilberts to freshen things up a bit but Lawler should probably be moving into his own separate thing now and leave the two tag teams to face each other.
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No heat at all for this until Dustin and Barry start mixing it up. It's not a badly worked match but the crowd can't be compelled to care, and Rhodes comes off as more of the heel even though they make every attempt to make Windham look callous and Steamboat sympathetic. And the nod to Starrcade '87 was pretty great, though it went totally unnoticed by Ross. LOVED Windham crashing the locker room, a perfect exclamation point that saves a somewhat iffy angle.
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Was Undertaker's promo from the video wall? I think this was the pre-taped Raw where Shawn went off-script and started repeatedly daring Undertaker to come to ringside if he was so bad, knowing that Undertaker wasn't actually in the building or wasn't supposed to come out, and was probably delivering this promo on tape. This resulted in a segment that had to be chopped to pieces and rebuilt because it made obviously made UT look foolish. That may explain why this would have felt "off." Says a lot about how secure Shawn felt his spot was--showing up the Undertaker that blatantly is something that I don't think had been attempted before or since. EDIT: Maybe it was the 9/8 interview. It was somewhere around here.
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Sting turned in a very good performance and Rude did some fine selling, but it did taper off mightily when Rude was in control. I'm beginning to see the complaints about Rude sitting in holds, because we get a lot of that here. And yes, we suddenly have judges at ringside for the King of Cable matches. I like the idea, but Ventura in particular spends way too much time talking about how they're scoring points that the ending is pretty much a given. This was still a good match, but it like this whole tournament didn't feel very consequential, and I think these two have a better long match in them.
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"Ghetto Odds"...sheesh. Some awkward announcing as Scorpio is a mystery replacement for Robbie Walker and they can't identify him by name. This is a particularly vivid Watts-era memory for me--Scorpio's 450 splash caused my MOTHER, who happened to be in the living room as this was on, to mark out. Scorp is instantly drawing a bigger reaction than Simmons--this is a guy who should have been way bigger of a star than he was. He was charismatic, he could fly, he had urban appeal, he could mat wrestle...he could do everything except talk, at least at this point.
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What's interesting is some time ago I discovered on Youtube a Prime Time segment where McMahon and the babyface panelists called out Heenan for having Flair in the Rumble and not Perfect, which created tension before Heenan successfully reconciled the situation by show's end. So it seems they had a Perfect/Flair split in their back pocket for awhile, just like we know they had the Ringmaster gimmick in the can for a few years and probably had the idea of Nailz for as long. Anyway, everyone here is great but Heenan delivers a performance on par with his legendary work in the '92 Royal Rumble. I've liked WWF Flair a lot more than Loss, but I agree that this is him at his most Crockett-like. His work after Perfect makes the babyface turn official is the peak--"YOUR NAME IS HENNIG! YOU'RE NOT PERFECT ANYMORE!"
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It's hard for me to get into these early-'90s indy handheld bouts, since the build isn't there and these generally come off more as fantasy-booked dream matches than the culmination of some blood feud. The action is fine but these come off more as a product of their time than just about anything else during the year.
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It's been fun to see certain trends that have been (by sheer coincidence) popping up on various TV shows all at once on these Yearbooks. We had Racism Week in 1990, conflicting tag partners earlier this year, and now both of the Big Two are expressing a fetish for matches centered around injured backs. This is as complete of a Shawn singles match as we've seen, as he bumps great and even shows off some fresh offense. In a very weak year for the WWF this is probably the best match to air on free TV.
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Good match with some great cut-offs by the Barbarian, especially his casual tossing off of Dustin when it looks like Dustin is about to make his big comeback and hit the bulldog. They also do a good job of establishing that Barb is somewhat lost without Cactus Jack at ringside. Rhodes gets in a rollup for the pin and Larry Z on commentary actually sells it pretty great. As far as Barb singles matches I think the Boss Man match is still better, but this is one for a comp should one exist.
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Armstrong explains that Sullivan targeted Brian Lee because Armstrong wouldn't allow him to wrestle in the territory. He's going to allow Sullivan to wrestle, just not on television. With Lee out, Sullivan will be facing the Mongolian Stomper. Clips of a pretty intense fight between Armstrong and the Stomper. Once again Armstrong is doing Lee's work for him, but when the promos are that great, what are you going to do? Caudle reads a prepared statement prior to Sullivan's "paid advertisement." Sullivan blames Bob Armstrong for Brian Lee's condition, and laments how wrestling has become a sanitized kiddie show. I suspect Cornette is tacitly speaking through this promo, but it's instantly probably my favorite Sullivan promo ever.
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Total chaos, and Sullivan was a great payoff to the Master stuff. Jobbers try to make the save, a cameraman tries to intervene, and BOB CAUDLE leaves his desk to try to get Sullivan to stop this. Mantell is so horrified that he says, "This shit will never get on TV anyway." We can barely hear that Bob Armstrong says that Sullivan will never be allowed on television again ("you son of a bitch"). Crazy as hell that this aired on weekend television. Everyone sells this great--one of the angles of the year.
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