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I thought the really telling thing with them was watching how the Commonwealth angle in Southwest played out. There was a short run in there where Luke was on his own, and he's actual a really exciting, violent brawler. And then Butch shows up...and he's not. At all. And they start teaming, and Luke starts working down to Butch's level. Really weird thing to find out about two guys I used to not be able to tell apart at all. As to the topic at hand..."really dislike" is probably too strong a term, but I was always very "meh" towards Bull Nakano. I honestly can't put my finger on why that is, but her work leaves me cold in ways that, say, Aja Kong's doesn't. You have to see the Sheepherders in Memphis. They were at their best there with Johnathan Boyd being really great. But wasn't that a completely different team? It wasn't Luke Williams and Butch Miller, it was Jonathan Boyd and Rip Morgan (and later Bigfoot ... I've seen some listings saying Bigfoot *was* Rip Morgan, but I distinctly remember Boyd saying he was a replacement for Rip. Can anyone get a definitive word on this?)
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In my view the objective standards best set was All Japan, but my favorite was Memphis. Maybe what put Memphis over Mid South for me was that I was expecting Mid South to be great, but for some reason I wasn't expecting as much from Memphis so it was more of a pleasant surprise.
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Re Murdoch's punches One thing to remember is not just that Murdoch had great punches but he had great worked punches. Funk would straight out pop people in the forehead. I remember JJ Dillon talking on a Bix podcast where he said something to the effect that he was always terrified watching those punches come in but they always had light contact. He knew just how to pull them and still make them look great.
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goodhelmet's Four Horsemen set was a great source for me for filling in a lot of the cracks in the storylines from having previously just seen the commercial tape. Granted, it is pretty huge. Was there any particular storyline reason for the Barry Windham vs. Rick Steiner match?
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I don't remember it as a heel run as such ... there was something that happened in a lumberjack match between Ted Dibiase and Hulk Hogan, right after the twin ref angle (although the commentary didn't reflect that). The Killer Bees were wearing their masks as lumberjacks and kept attacking Hogan, and I think the commentary team speculated if DiBiase had paid them off. It was never confirmed that it was actually the Killer Bees, and I figured at the time it would be revealed DiBiase hired two masked guys to impersonate the Bees, but nothing ever came of it afterwards.
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Why was that? Did PPV make it redundant?
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The Ninja had been introduced by Steamboat a few weeks earlier ("This man in black ... this man of the martial arts ... this NINJA!") to watch Steamboat's back. My favorite part of the big " reveal" was Missy Hyatt's statement of the bloody obvious : "That was Paul E. Dangerously and he was wearing a ninja outfit!" Thanks, Missy, for narrating the scene for the benefit of the viewing impaired.
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Fair enough, I guess it just shows how times have changed, that was a lot for the time but a few people have topped that since then.
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I remember when Paul Orndorff was the gold standard for number of turns, but in retrospect it wasn't that many. Heel for much of his early career. Came into WWF as a heel. Turned babyface after WM1. Turned heel on Hogan some time after WM2. Turned back babyface between WM3 and Survivor Series. Stayed babyface up until he left WWF and his first retirement. Was pretty much a babyface from his comeback through his first WCW run. (Don't really count acting heelish during that one off match with Kerry Von Erich). Turned heel shortly after his arrival in SMW. Stayed heel for his SMW and second WCW runs up until his career ending injury. Don't really count appearances after that. Am I missing something? That's only 4 turns in his active career.
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The Demos were more beefy than fat.
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Anybody know what happened to "Hurricane" Robbie Walker, who was originally supposed to be Simmons' partner for this match? It's been commonly said that he was later "Hard Work" Bobby Walker in WCW, but I refuse to believe that. Robbie Walker was taller, leaner, had a longer neck, and quite frankly wasn't nearly as clumsy as Bobby Walker.
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I am a huge fan of their 3 match series with the Brain Busters, particularly the story was told both within the individual matches and across the series. Granted, it has been quite some time since I have watched all of them.
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