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Vince and Bobby never had the great chemistry of the Gorilla/Bobby team, but they're absolute gold in the pre-match. "Savage...nevermind." "WHAT?!" It's hard to describe, you'd have to see it, but it's one of my favorite Bobby moments ever. Flair had an interview earlier in the show where Okerlund, God bless him, actually called him out for being in his robe. "You're not scheduled to wrestle today!" Flair explained that when you're Flair, you're always "ready for any kind of action." Warrior's Grey's Anatomy singlet here is only a marginal improvement over the naked-fig-leaf outfit earlier. Nonetheless this is a very pro-Warrior and anti-Savage crowd. Both guys work hard, and there is an attempt to impart some psychology on this with Warrior's neck and Savage's back, but neither injury really impacts the match and Warrior does a laughably bad job of selling a neck injury. And Vince is at his absolute worst here, speaking in that LOUD VINCE VOICE throughout and falling for every two-count. I did like the interference spots, but they make it harder to compare this match to WM7 or the other high-end Warrior matches. I don't think it's as good as those, though. The post-match is excellent, and Flair going to grab the ropes while doing the figure four on the floor is SUCH a glorious heel spot that I wish he would have succeeded. I also liked how Flair and Perfect waited for the bell and then pounced--"Okay, let's cripple this fuck, but dammit, let's do it within the confines of the rules." Flair and Perfect are at their gloating best afterward. They're already pushing Flair vs. Warrior. -
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Cornette's mother has doubled her offer, and that gets the Fantastics on board. Bob Armstrong insists on cash money only, no checks. I love Dutch and the heels' reactions to the secret conference between the Fultons and Armstrong--the kind of thing that, as El-P mentioned, doesn't exist in modern-day scripted promos. Lane: "Why don't you just shoot us, Armstrong, and get it over with??" No-DQ rematch for $20,000 with no tennis racket, and it's next week!
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A Dundee/Rich MSC match gets out of control when Mike Miller and the RUSSIAN UNIFIED TEAM come in, followed by babyfaces. Good action but this sort of feels like the WWF suits randomly trying to keep Elizabeth from ringside, considering how many crazy brawls Memphis sees. Dundee vs. Rich in a cage this week. Dundee emphasizes the "one-on-one" nature of the match which makes me think someone is going to find their way inside the cage. Rich phones in a promo over top of a music video, channelling Axl Rose: "You gonna DIE!"
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I love Jimmy's insistence on referring to Jarrett as "Jeffrey." Hart is clearly loving the chance to cut loose--he takes about 45 seconds just to say, "Eddie Marlin paid somebody off," then regales us with his life story. He goes off on the announcing comparisons--the best announcers in the world are in the WWF, while the USWA has "Dave Brown, the Weather Clown and the guy next to him is so bad, he makes Dave Brown look good!" Hart issues a challenge, because Lawler & Jarrett are just like Memphis, Tennessee--built on a bluff! I think Hart got more great lines into that promo than he did in every single WWF promo combined. Lawler stands up for Carruthersville, Tupelo, and Arkansas in an incredibly emotional response promo. If not for Lawler, Hart and his Gentrys would still be singing at the Levy Lounge on Lamar Avenue for $150 a week. Lawler demands to face anybody in the WWF--goddamn, now I SO want to see Money Inc. come to Memphis to face Lawler & Jarrett. Eddie Marlin comes up and actually stands up for the WWF and Vince McMahon, and wants to downplay the USWA-WWF feud and for Lawler to concentrate on Hart. Fantastic stuff, and a great table-setter for then the WWF-USWA feud really explodes in '93.
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I don't have anything else between these guys to compare to, so I thought this was a perfectly good title match. I guess the one thing that puzzled me was how sympathetic Casas worked throughout, from the way he sold Dragon's kicks to Dragon's submissions to Casas' flash pin victory. I know, it's a lucha title match so that means less rudo shtick, but it still stuck out, like Shawn Michaels working Diesel at WM11. More of an observation than a criticism.
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It sounds like Wayne and Garth, but I wouldn't think they'd be on your radar, Parv.
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This show was the debut of the "video wall," IIRC, which in a sense would change televised wrestling in a major way. Warrior is covering himself with Warrior-shaped fig leaves over his naughty bits. It's ANOTHER partners-in-conflict match, which is taking over the wrestling world in the summer of '92, and Perfect and Flair are out to put a beatdown on the Warrior while the Nasties take out Savage. Good beatdown by all four heels, and it results in an upset countout victory for the Nasties. In a great bit of booking, THAT result would be significant as it resulted in the Nasty Boys being named the #1 contenders, but Jimmy Hart got a title shot for Money Inc. instead. Both babyfaces would have compelling backstage interviews after this. Warrior pointed out that Flair and Perfect only targeted him and not Savage, and Savage responded that they did that as a swerve and that they were actually working with Warrior. This was all a VERY clever, well-done build-up to the title match that sold me on the PPV.
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Two $10,000 angles at once is a little overkill. This bounty angle seems like a much better way to get Lee over than the initial go-round and this leads to a pretty compelling payoff that I'm looking forward to. Bobby's response to Cornette's offer is a verbal KO! I only wish Cornette were around to react to that line about his mother.
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JT Southern has the "Continental" title, which he's not going to defend, he owns. After mocking Van Hammer for months, Southern is now acting exactly like him. Did we ever get a JT vs. Billy Travis feud? Clips of the Gilberts, Buddy Landell, and Brian Christopher against the Rock 'n Roll Express, Bill Dundee, and Tommy Rich. Rich levels Morton with a chain (and then collapses into a corner like he's out) to allow the New Memphis Mafia to pick up a win. Rich disingenuously feigns innocence afterward. Rich then leaves Dundee to the Dogs--literally--in a tag team battle royal, and eliminates himself to give the Moondogs a win. Rich sends in a pre-taped promo, having shot a -6 to win a PGA Pro-Am tournament! Michael Jordan, Steve Avery, and Tom Glavine are WINNERS, and they convinced him not to hang out with Memphis losers anymore. Rich acting like he completely fooled the babyfaces with the chain is pretty funny.
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I didn't like this at all the first time either, and that was while watching all of '92 AJPW. Looking at it now, it's not THAT bad, but they could have JIP'd this 10 minutes in and I don't think we would have missed a thing. It picks up once Hansen really goes after the shoulder in earnest, and his work there is the high point of the match. It gets better from there but is still a letdown from their matches earlier in the year, and the finish is an anticlimax. I would have preferred Hansen falling straight back and Misawa collapsing backwards on top of him for the pin, the way Hansen often pinned people after hitting a desperation Lariat. This is quite a historical card that deserved a better main event.
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Ordinarily I'd wonder if this result was some sort of message, or if it would have taken place if not for Jumbo's illness. But they would swerve us in October when Jumbo & Taue went over in the October rematch. He did seem to go down surprisingly easily, though--they're clearly pushing that he's not at 100%, even if it's due to a knee/foot injury rather than hep. Doc and Gordy still aren't that great when on top, but the action when the natives are fighting back is really good. Jumbo's illness is only noticeable via his appearance, not his ringwork.
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I'd like to have seen that angle with Fernandez and David Webb--and the big Elvis-related fallout from it. Basic but solid little match, with Manny's offense looking really good. And Tatum and Price provide some entertaining hijinks on commentary--Price actually having a "rulebook" with him as we see at the end was great.
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Incredible first fall. Panther and Solar are fantastic together but all the technicos shine. Azteca doesn't look like a guy who lost it after 1990 and Astro is always compelling in a "how did this short fat tub DO all of that?" way. The first fall has me thinking this is going to be one of the all-time great trios matches and unfortunately it doesn't quite keep that momentum up. The second fall wasn't bad but it did have some of that AAA stuff that annoyed me as well as Astro mesmerizing the rudos by dancing a jig, which is shit that belongs in Chikara or something. And more stuff with a heel referee--it's kind of telling that Dr. Morales says the words "Chocolate" in reference to him more than any other word in calling the match. I don't mind heel referees but since they never seem to get a comeuppance or payback that I've seen, they only seem to get in the way. Really hot closing stretch brings this back up to being an excellent match, with Astro doing possibly the nuttiest thing I've ever seen in lucha with a somersault headbutt to the floor with Rambo laying on the ground. They actually work eliminations into the finish instead of 3 teammates all being pinned at once--it goes quick but it's something different. Best Blue Panther stuff of the Yearbooks so far and God, I need to see more Solar.
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Vrij looks like a total badass and is charismatic, and is sort of the rich man's version of Tony Halme. But this is very broomsticky and a Han showcase, with some awesome flying takedowns and great selling even though Vrij doesn't do much more than kick and a nice escape or two. Basic heat->babyface comeback story that should be accessible to anyone, made by Han.
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Fun spotfest of a match between two guys I've never heard of. Lots of big, broad throws and takedowns to hold your attention.
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Jumbo has a new haircut, but he also looks skinner and about five years older than the last time we saw him. I'm going to be more down on this than anyone else, because I thought this was towards the bottom of AJPW '90s 6-mans seen so far. It was a fine match, and got a lot better as it went along, but Jumbo's condition can't be un-seen and it's clear he's being somewhat hidden and protected here, as hard as he works. So we get a ton of Ogawa and Kikuchi in the early going and their work here simply isn't that interesting. It gets better once we lose Ogawa and Kikuchi is back to being a punching back for the heavies, before he does the inevitable job. We're really getting to the point where AJPW needs to move on from iterations of this feud, and unfortunately just as in 4/90 it's going to take a forcing of Baba's hand to do that.
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Christopher has strong words for Reno Riggins--a less-than-inspiring choice of babyface opponent. Eddie and Doug promise to take out every Memphis legend they want to throw at them. This is a stable with potential, but I agree they could use some muscle.