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Crowd heat helps this, but this is pretty much more of the same over the past two months. Or in the case of Sting and Flair specifically, the past 11 years. Bischoff's role continues to make no sense and I honestly am not sure why Sid would be so concerned about the result of this match. Feels like very 1986 "all the heels and babyfaces are friends" booking. Flair could use the time off for sure.
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I liked this better than the Dudleys match but agree on the bells and whistles not being necessary, even if Jack Victory eating a wheelchair to the face was a well-done spot. Tajiri got in more offense than I might have expected and carried himself well as a top challenger. I have no idea why the finish was put over as so heinous if all he did was strangle him with barbed wire. I mean, a non-fan might read that sentence and be horrified, but we've seen plenty worse--as has Joey Styles.
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I'm going to say the worst thing possible about this segment: this was SO BORING. The Dudleys' long yammering promo was boring and comes off like the South Park kids who've just learned new swear words from the Terrance & Philip movie. Gertner's intro was clever, but killed by his slow delivery. The match is boring. The brawl is boring. The use of the cheese grater is boring. The near-falls are boring. The finish is well-done and the right booking move. The post-match beatdown is boring and predictable as all hell and partially blown at that. The Dudleys get all their heat back, what a shock. New Jack shows up long after the barn door is closed and the horses have left. Cyrus is a godawful heel color man who offers nothing in the way of insight--nothing more than Terry Garvin with a better voice. There was almost nothing redeeming or entertaining about this.
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Yeah, we go straight to bombs here, but it makes sense within the context of the card. These guys can only be asked to do so much in one night. The officiating down the stretch here is a little wonky as though they're going to tease a match stoppage and Dr. Morales is getting all hot and bothered, then Shocker just wins anyway. Oh, I see--in the post-match there's contention that Shocker's DVD was actually (or should have been treated) as a piledriver. That was teased nicely in the tag match where Shocker almost piledrove Panther.
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This was a lot of fun with a terrific ending, something that harkens back to the elaborate endings of peak Antonio Pena. Actually all the finishes were great, from Bucanero aping Takaiwa's power bomb-lift spot to Panther slapping on a wakigatame out of nowhere when it looks like the tecnico cause is lost.
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Surprised no one mentioned among the other guys who'd change names, that Mr. Aguila was the future Essa Rios. He looks better here than he did in the WWF--not great, exactly, but he did hit two killer spots in the shooting star and the over-the-post plancha, the latter of which he'd be allowed to keep in the future. This was terrific, one of the better lucha matches of the year, with good time to showcase everybody, and everyone acquits themselves well, though Virus is the standout. You kind of wish there'd have been a bigger build to the finish, but in a way it was kind of refreshing to see the rudos just swarm a guy when they have him 2-on-1 and suffocate him before he can come back.
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The parallels between TNA/GFW and the 1980's Cleveland Indians are many and run deeper than many people here would realize.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSeven8888/videos This is basically a fanboy channel for Mil Mascaras and Dos Caras but he has a LOT of stuff I've never, ever seen before, like AJPW TV from 1979. Long matches involving Dr. Wagner, which are in short supply. Plus stuff that's a curiosity if nothing else like Jumbo & Dos going 15 minutes with the Valiant Brothers. Very rare very cool stuff that I hope stays preserved (Our Friend in Japan disappeared again, seemingly voluntarily this time).
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PARV!!! Holy shit, I thought Will's return was big news.
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"Oh, that's great Taz. Why don't you swear some more for your fans in dirty Queens?" "Okay then--[bLEEEEEEEEEEEEP]!" That was great. So was Jack Victory's "DO NOT TOUCH" shirt, which almost makes up for the ridiculous push he and his giant ass were getting before the broken leg. Taz offers to take on Corino and Rhino with Tajiri as his partner, which seems awfully presumptuous on his part--and Tajiri whacks him with a buzzsaw kick and lays him out! Corino pays Tajiri off and gloats after the damage is done. *This* was the Corino I was looking forward to seeing--the one who's overmatched physically but knows how to manipulate others and is legitimately dangerous as a result.
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Baby steps for OVW, I suppose. I'm happy to report I've never listened to a word of Kenny Bolin's on his numerous podcast appearances and don't really know or care who he is other than he had a short-lived partnership with Brian Last. So I can view him objectively as a performer and so far...eh.
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Snow occasionally gets in some funny lines just through delivery (actually I remember my father and I both howling at the hardcore evening gown match he references here), but yeah, this gimmick even at its ECW peak wasn't quite as brilliant as ECW fans seemed to think it was.
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I probably am the high vote on this--this was a good, enjoyable match. That said, it was a TOTAL TM4 carry job as Naniwa offered absolutely nothing until unleashing the big bombs at the end. Before that his offense looked loose, he didn't sell particularly well, and he brought nothing to the table other than being in place for TM4 to execute his spots. I still liked this but came out of it looking forward to more TM4 and with more support for my '90s-watch conclusion that Naniwa pretty much sucked.
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For a second I thought this was going to be THAT Doug Gilbert promo, which says something about how unhinged Doug comes across as. But he's still with the storyline at the moment, and Rich's timid "I let him borrow some money" explanation for how the bond got paid is amusing. These have been some well-built-to New Daisy main events and I wish we had more clips from there.
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We're in a different world for All-Japan, all right. This has similar elements to their other Yearbook singles match in that it doesn't look all that cooperative, but it's quicker-paced and more heated until the out-of-nowhere finish. Just like the match before I'll be interested to see what Dave has to say about this--the ending did look brutal but why would they carry Takayama out like that if he were knocked out as a shoot?
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New Japan fucks over the juniors on television, film at 11 (...no one says that anymore). As it is this comes off as the Japanese junior tag version of Hagler-Hearns, just a total balls-to-the-wall sprint from the word go. Sasuke busts out the reverse 450 here among other killer high-flying moves between him and Otani. And a memorable finish.