soup23
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Would be interested to to hear if anyone could craft some better shows than these. Pretty rough pickings for these months in WWF/E land.
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Warrior vs. Goldust was a weird program to go into. Warrior still isn't doing it for me at all with this comeback so far.
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Vader kills Yoko who is so fat he needs a forklift. Yeah, this is pretty much the end of Yoko being anything in WWF.
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Awesome stuff as old vs. new plays heavily. I liked the way Otani worked as a team leader here helping out when need be and directing traffic. I am all in on him for 1996 and hope/expect him to keep this level up. Liger looks strong here and Samurai showed good fire but I agree Hamada was lacking in building the hate to make this an exceptional six man. Still the NJ junior crew is rocking right now for me and helped save the first quarter of 1996. *** 3/4
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Mankind makes an impressive debut here attacking Taker and putting a beating on him. I thought Lawler and Vince did a good job on commentary getting over the viciousness of the attack.
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I was glad to hear on the latest History of Wrestling Podcast, Scott Hudson say at the time, Hennan made three times more than him and he was doing triple the commentary before the Nitro days.
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Yeah, this wasn't good as the first promo after the title win. I was pumped too as Shawn came out and the girls were going crazy in the ring. Then he starts talking and sounds so phony and all of that goodwill leaves.
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I have always been blah overall to this match but it really stepped up when I watched it this time. I thought everything was clinched with an extra bit of effort that saw both guys really working to make a great match in spite of being unhappy with the other person in the ring. The mat work wasn't WOS level but was effective and basic in telling the overall story. The match also had enough high spots with near falls (Superkick to time keeper, piledriver, big crossbody, Flair bump to outside) to keep me engaged without needing the trading of falls. I have become I guess a defender of long matches. Going longer isn't always better but between this, Valentine/Backlund, Flair/Bret, and Curt/Bock, I have watched quite a few hour long draws the past couple of years that I consider great matches overall. This is now included in that list. ****1/4
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I had no idea what to rate this thing but it was an enjoyable spectacle with many facets and some stiff brawling mixed in with getting over the bizarre persona of Goldust. I still love the crowd reaction when Piper strips him. Was that Cole narrating? Seems too early but it sounded like him to me.
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Agree that this has a now what vibe and may not have been the best match to deliver for the biggest show of the year, but this was a really good match that still rang like the AJW glory days of the early 90's for portions of it. Amazing that we go from this to 2 years from now and 1 AJW match on the whole yearbook. Kyoko always gives great effort and it showed here. Toyota was less reckless than usual at times too. ***1/2
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I am one of the few that really like 10/95 so I am not sure if that or this match is the best Misawa vs. Kobashi match to date but after some good but ho hum stuff early in the decade, from this point forward, they pretty much have a great match every time they faced each other. This was worked as tag partners that respected each other but Kobashi was getting brave and drifting further away rapidly wanting to branch out. The mirror spots were done well. This provides a nice contrast to the 3/93 Misawa vs. Kawada Carnival match. ****
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It isn't as drastic for me watching three yearbooks at once, but it is amazing that here we are on the last day of March and this is the first complete All Japan match included. I didn't think this was quite as good as the matches these two have had with each other in the past, but it was damn good with an excellent beginning and finish. They lost me a bit in a middle after they tussled on the outside. The draw felt predictably around 25 minutes in after the kickouts of the powerbomb but it was still on the table before then. ***3/4
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Woman and Liz both look good tonight. I have no idea how Giant vs. Flair resulted from last night but damn if Ric doesn't sell it well. I still think this is one of the more perplexing runs of Ric's career as the mic work is still there and he seems motivated, but the in ring work has been pushed back a step or two.
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Maybe a step up from some of the Savage we have seen, I still thought this could have been a lot more. Savage increasingly around this time was forceful in getting his stuff in when he was with an underneath guy. That led to the abrupt elbow here and all of Finlay's groundwork going to waste. **
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Loved the video and this was a great way of making Bret seem bigger as a mainstream star than he really was.
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Agree that Bret heeling it up was intentional and while he did revert back to some of his broader opinions that I didn't like from a few weeks ago, he was a little more reigned in by talking about the flashiness of the offense Shawn was using. This was a really good tv match and the finish was cool with Marty trying to help Leif and Bret interjecting himself into the match. I am on board with the build of the Mania 12 main event.
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Now, I'm not going to call this a masterpiece by any means, but I do think the hate goes a little too far. It isn't like Hogan ran through all of the heels and pinned them one by one. It took the frying pan for him to Macho to gain the advantage. The finish was fine with Flair taking a knockout shot and it set up some interesting stuff that could have happened down the road with Luger. Also, the crowd heat was here with the fans still chanting loudly for Hogan. Is this good, not really, but I don't think it is anywhere close to the worst wrestling main event of all time.