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Super-hot ending...I got taken in myself by the Air Pillman near-fall, but Flair rolls through a cross body and yanks the tights to pull a win out of his rear end again. Ole does a good job of setting himself up at the closing segment, and Flair is just about to invite Luger back into the Horsemen when Luger's appearance cuts him off. Lex gives his answer in the form of clotheslines to the Horsemen and the main event is on.
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Luger and Cornette have barely begun when the Horsemen come out. Ole rehashes the Clash interview (and is somewhat self-referential about doing so), giving a fun dickish ultimatum to Luger about giving up the title shot--was the Horsemen plan just for Flair to never defend the title again or what? Luger laughs Ole off to the delight of the crowd. Flair slips off the apron, and that makes the crowd pop even bigger! Fun stuff with Luger still doing his cocky act but turning it against the 4H was quite the effective way to get him back to the babyface side quickly. This was so much more sensical and organic than Luger going from the Narcissist to humble Made in the USA in the span of two seconds. It's still another career trajectory fucked up by the Sting injury, but WCW was in full damage control mode by this point.
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I don't know exactly what specific injury Sting suffered, but if it was an ACL tear then 6-12 months is about right. Sting says he doesn't have great feelings for Luger, but he's pulling for Lex as he's the lesser of two evils compared to Flair. Sting's status as a draw has always been in question but interviews like this illustrate the difference between him and the WWF's attempted '90s star. Imagine what the Warrior would be like in this setting.
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Profanity back when it actually meant something. I'm stunned that two uses of the word "ass" made it onto a taped program. Pillman is great here and Flair and Woman are awesome as usual. Flair shits on the Cincinnati Bengals and Pillman gets in a zinger on Woman, which has an affect on Flair. A match is on for tonight, in this (or that) very ring.
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What is with Cruise constantly defending Cornette? This is a shockingly one-sided affair that makes some of the WWF heel-in-peril tags look one-sided in the other direction. Some good energy from Pillman but Zeaman (I'm stealing Terry Funk's pronunciation from now on) is pretty useless. Cornette getting the sleeper gets a big reaction which I guess is partially to Zenk's credit, as is his kickout after the racket shot--a false finish that had the crowd completely fooled judging by their pop. Finish comes right after that instead of any segment of Zenk getting worked over. Pillman & Zenk vs. the Freebirds is a pretty anticlimactic tournament final. A testament to how far the Midnights had fallen.
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Lawler with a William F. Buckley-esque torpedo job, or an attempt of one, on the idea of the Unified title being a strictly Tennessee/Texas championship, with press from both the U.S. and Japan. He repeats the line about the NWA and WWF belts only being for "company champions." Lawler continues to be the master of being able to believably kayfabe anything and everything.
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A Lawler pin on Cobra is overturned when Jerry Calhoun finds Lawler's chain and restarts the match. JYD quickly gets a pin on Soultaker, and when Lawler rants on the mic after the match, comes back to the ring and headbutts him out for another pin! This gives the Dog a shot at the Unified title. JYD sends in quite a good babyface promo that would be a great one if he'd had an editor--as it is he tries to cram in about 37 catchphrases and sort of lost me when he talked about salt, pepper, and good cookin'. The stuff before that was great--worthy of Dusty, even. It's too bad JYD was in such abysmal shape because his charisma and mic skills could have been something to offer still on a national level. Lawler gets in a dig about JYD's family tree and how his parents are in the iron & steel business (his mother irons, his father steals), then gets serious about the new environment Dog is going to find himself in now that the title's on the line.
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Shockingly good promos from Slick and Akeem. Slick actually shows some fire here instead of just being a cartoon stereotype. Ted DiBiase comes out, gives lip service to the Jake feud, and then offers Akeem a bounty cash incentive to take out the Boss Man for him. This whole angle held up much better than I remembered. A rare instance of feuds in the WWF overlapping with one another and other characters getting drawn in to an existing program--booking that I've always liked.
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Hogan is Hogan but he still delivers a strong, focused promo--he puts the Warrior over in somewhat homoerotic fashion, he wants to put his title on the line, and he threatens to give the Warrior a taste of his own medicine. HO KOGAN HAS WALKED INTO A FRUSTRATION LIKE THE NORMALS THAT HAVE TRAVELED BEFORE US. And some more bullshit about injecting selves with the poison of mankind and believers with no film over their eyes (???). THEY BELIEVED, HO KOGAN. YOU STOOD IN THE PATHWAY, HO KOGAN. Warrior vainly attempts to wrap this up by getting back to the match and promises to bring "Ultimate Reality," but too little too late. Warrior was completely outclassed in the promo department here. Hogan's an egomaniac but he's at least getting the storyline and his personal motivations across. Warrior could really have been talking about anyone here.
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Lots of stiff shots and a decent finishing stretch, with a pretty surprising false finish when Kurisu kicks out of a sick Thunder Fire power bomb. Even though the build to it was good there and it was the whole raison d'etre for the match there was a little too much laying around in barbed wire for my liking. Crowd was way into Onita and he does already have a crowd-pleasing style, especially with his comebacks. Of COURSE a barbed wire death match ends with hugs and handshakes.
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I wonder how much you had to drop on the hotline until you got to the "win an NES" part. More or less than the cost of the actual system?
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A rather surprising lack of crowd heat considering the history of this feud, but the action is fantastic. Great opening stretch and some surprisingly good bombs thrown by Lane. Gibson rolls up Lane, but with Morton tying up the referee it leaves him open to a racket shot to the head, giving the Midnights the victory. I'd complain about the shitty camera work but I rather liked the effect of the racket going off like a gunshot off-camera.
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