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Are you sure that's $700 and not 700 rupees? Though that's only about 11 bucks, which seems low for a ringside seat even for India. -
This just got less and less exciting as it went along. Hashimoto's early rising-from-the-grave comebacks with fire in his eyes were electrifying, both for the crowd and myself. But it became more and more apparent that Ogawa either wouldn't or couldn't actually sell anything for more than a few seconds or put himself in any kind of danger of losing, so every time Hashimoto got back up it meant less and less and less. Both for the crowd and myself. We reach a point where Hashimoto looks dumb and overmatched instead of gutsy, until fucking Inoki has to come in and make himself the center of attention at the end. I don't hate this as much as the people who really hated this, but I think it's clearly a very, very disturbing trend for what's ahead for NJPW in the next few years and an inexplicable shitting-on of Hashimoto. Hash either had to win this or lose in a truly great match and neither happened.
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Sort of a better version of the AJPW 6-man tag we just saw--a relentless but not overbearing pace and lots of stiff strikes and hate amidst fundamentally solid wrestling. I actually thought this was a bit of a breakout party for Tanaka and even if he's raw, I want to see a lot more of him because his good shit was really good indeed. Way better and even more heated than the IWGP junior singles match earlier in the card. One of the more fun NJPW tag bouts of the year.
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After a long period of mostly indifference watching these Yearbooks I'm starting to see why people are so down on Ka Shin, as I thought he choked pretty badly in a major Dome title match. He has nice takedowns into the cross armbreaker but little else, and I have to say this wasn't really one for the Great Liger Performances Box Set either. I glanced over at a football game for 2 seconds and suddenly the match was over out of nowhere.
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Has Madusa *ever* completed a sentence successfully during a wrestling promo? This isn't just a return for Regal, it's a return for Finlay, coming off a horribly ghastly leg injury. Finlay explains that he didn't lose his leg or his career because he's not American, to some pretty ridiculous canned boos. The BlueBloods have words for Jim Duggan (makes sense) and Erik Watts (WHAT?!).
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Flash has a pretty strong case, since HIAC isn't supposed to be about what's "fair." That said, his talk about how the most anarchic period in WWF history would have the WWF be "afraid" of Flash is pretty eye-rolling even by the standards of heel bravado. I can't get worked up over Flash Flanagan feuding with a referee.
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There's one amusing moment where Sabre flashes a sex kit at the camera while Danica is looking at something else, but this is a useless video otherwise with an inexplicable choice of song. Scott Casey--and boy was I disappointed that this wasn't the '80s undercarder making a random-ass return to wrestling--laments that Danica is at the hands of a no-good sexual deviant. Wait, Sabre and Danica are the BABYFACES?? That just makes the use of "I Got You Babe" even worse. This is a very, very, very poor man's Edge vs. Matt Hardy.
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Christopher's sob story is pretty funny, as is his insistence after the crazy traffic angle that his story was legit and he "recovered" when he saw Doug Gilbert. We've seen so many angles in that WMC parking lot that it's probably second-nature to the Union Avenue drivers as well, and may by this point be a part of Dave's Friday evening weather report ("Cloudy, high of 52, with a 70% chance that one or more Gilberts will attempt vehicular homicide, so you may want to take an alternate route.")
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Another money promo from Gilbert. I hope some footage of these Gilbert-Christopher matches shows up at some point. Blade is jumped in the parking lot by Lance Jade, a Memphis-area indy worker who was doing an angle where he was buying tickets to Power Pro TV and making a nuisance of himself because Hales wouldn't book him. He's been at it for a month at this point so this is a pretty slow-burning angle by Memphis standards.
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After that rash of segments, a good AJPW 6-man is like a nice warm shower. So is seeing Fuchi again, after another long absence. He fits in with No Fear in every way. I wouldn't call this a great match or anything as it's just sort of a meandering collection of guys tagging in and out, but it was fun and fundamentally solid--in 1999, that counts for a lot. Like a lesser version of the Bret-Benoit match we just saw. Finish isn't good and despite AJPW's best efforts no one is buying Takayama using a leg drop as a finisher, but it was good solid work up until then that I could have watched for longer.
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Tammy looks and sounds terrible but is still trying to vaguely portray herself as a sex symbol. Not only is she slurring half her words, but her voice is shot. If I believed for two seconds that Heyman was actually trying to make a difference by airing this, I'd grudgingly credit him even though this isn't much easier to watch than the similarly-messaged Requiem for a Dream, one of the best movies no one will ever want to see twice. But we all know that Heyman's motives aren't nearly that pure. I don't know what purpose this serves, probably an attempted hamfisted recovery story, but I don't think it's about sending a message to his locker room. Dark horse Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic nominee, right here.
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I get the point that this was supposed to be Jeff being a sexist creep, but yeah, I can't believe this made network TV in any form. Mud wrestling is the kind of low-rent smoky-bars wrasslin' stuff that you'd think Vince would consider himself above. Jarrett gets paid back but it's pretty underwhelming.
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Uh, yeah, I'm guessing most sex therapists don't dress like that on the job. Mark reveals that he was molested by his sister at age 8, which should be building to...what, Mark vs. his sister in a match?