soup23
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A couple of awkward spots that childs mentioned, but still a load of fun. The mix of lucha and the brit mat work of Regal meld beautifully. Regal has a clever finish when his title feels in jeopardy as he gets himself DQ'd. He then gives a good promo to Lee Marshall saying that he would be the icon instead of Hogan and Piper if he was around in 1983 but instead he was beating people up at the Carnival. Dusty is glorious especially swooning over Robin, the ring attendant.
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Did the rare back to back watch on this as the first time I was distracted. I was glad I did as a lot of the subtlety and tightness of the matwork came across with paying close attention. I agree with Loss minor criticisms of the match and feel it didn't reach an absolute elite level, but it was still a great match. The finish in the second caida of the rolling surfboard specifically impressed.
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Catch up on what happened last week at Place to Be Nation! With new material every day you may have missed something along the way. Here’s a recap of the last week at the only Place to Be in your Pop Culture World. Our Comics coverage had a banner week analyzing the events at Comic Con, Having a Discussion on Wolverine, A Discussion on minorities in Comics, and the Latest Weber Has Issues Looking at Deadpool. Andrew Riche Contributed a Comic Con Movie Roundup and an article on famous trios in wrestling history. Our Desert Island Tournament for Pop Culture Supremacy Rages on. Thomas Pondick made his column debut looking at the UFC on Fox Card. Bob Colling Looked at Mankind vs. The Undertaker. Marc Clair looked at the TNA licensing fiasco in Missouri. Jen Engle celebrated the Royal Baby’s arrival. Andrew Duvall wrote a tribute to Dennis Farina and discussed Deliverance. We had new podcasts this week from: Place To Be Podcast, GrappleTalk, Off the Top Rope, We Found New Music, Answering the 10 Count, Kings Of Sport, and The Fans. We also had our weekly wrestling tv recap coverage of Raw, Smackdown, and NXT.
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I was in the same boat as you forever Pete. In the past two years, I have watched a good bit of wrestling though and do find that star ratings do provide a tidy area to locate the tiers of matches you have watched and what you instantly thought of it on last watch. It is not a perfect system by any means and I am actually tinkering towards more of a grading system myself, but it is one of the best systems for categorizing the matches I think.
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The biggest components of the NWO are great in this (Hogan, Nash, Bisch). However, not seeing the 96 yearbook, I was shocked at how diluted the NWO roster was already as there was 10-15 guys in the group currently including such luminaries as Vincent, VK Wallstreet, and Vicious and Delicious. They can make good fodder for the Giant and thankfully stayed outside during the main promo to keep emphasis on the key players. I liked the tease they did with Sting and the Giant looked really strong here to.
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Everything here felt out of place except the action between Vader and Bret which looked pretty good. The commentary was off and Micheals seemed disinterested. Austin came out of no where and it took Vince forever to recognize that, and the powerbomb to Pete felt forced and didn't really connect with the viewer. Was cool to see vader get a pin on Bret though.
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Sid gives a pretty awful promo hyping the match. He is getting some cheers here and Vince even mentions how MSG went wild for him. As bad as Cena gets skewered in modern times, I cant imagine the reaction to this babyface Michaels act if the internet was more prevalent .
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Decent garbage style brawl but it did look unfavorable in the context of the yearbook coming after Kudo/Kandori and there was a lot of "let me grab you and we will meander around" going on in this match. Still some nutty spots especially the superpowerbomb from the scaffold at the finish. Not the worst intro to Big Japan for the yearbooks.
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Glad to see some more Sunday's love Loss, I started to listen to them as a result of the disc music on 1990.
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Let me introduce you to the Pearl. You will take back this sentence.
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The Rock is hanging out at the MVP area. Backlund is again outraged with the cleavage that Marlena is showing. The shades on Bob in the pitch dark bar is awesome. Sunny sounds pissed that vince thinks Marlena looks mighty fine.
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Brother Love is back and has two new charges with the Sisters of Love. We get some interesting innuendos from Love on how the Sisters keep up with the Nun creed.
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The parental advisory graphic is awesome. Backlund starts us off with Shotgun Saturday Night and he is disgraced by the actions of the show. NYC should be Banned! This has such a different feel to anything else going on and feels like a different world from just 5.5 years earlier with where I am at in 1991. It even feels different from the 1994 yearbook stuff. Vince and Sunny run down the card. Sunny looks great here and this looks like a Evolve show in the bar. The nuns are in the ring which is weird.
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I was thinking to myself that I bet they got all types of looks doing this but then I remembered it was Times Square. Fun segment.
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I really loved this match and it felt like the perfect Dome show main event. The most striking thing to me watching this match was just how good Riki Choshu had to be with his timing and charisma. I had always known this but it was most apparent here. Look at Choshu, he looks like the starting point if you did a CAW in a video game. Black trunks, white boots, no knee pads or elbow pads. He is stocky but not too big to make that a part of his gimmick. His offense is good but there is not a wide variety of stuff he is throwing out. He may be the most generic wrestler of all time on the surface. Yet he is a fantastic wrestler because of how well he builds his matches and times his offense. He also carries this with his amazing facials. I tried to find an apt comparison and the closest I was able to come to was the piano bar player on my cruise last week. This guy was a 20 year old classically piano player that would play in a side of the bar for 3-4 hours every night and was awesome. It was just hard to take notice of him with the big productions and other showy stuff going on at the same time. The fact that Choshu was able to make people take notice of him and people realized how great he was is a true testament. In regards to this match, nothing was again conceded. The opening lock up felt like two rams butting heads and no one willing to give in an inch. This flowed beautifully into the first strike exchange and the ongoing story of the match. Finish felt climatic without overkill and Hashimoto (who was also really really good here) picks up a definitive victory and looks more like the man. The long lasting shot of Choshu going to the back and waving to the crowd gives a sense of his realization that finally he gave his all and it just wasn't good enough. This was art personified and a splendid match.
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Liger immediately makes Jericho look worse with a swank entrance with streamers and a creepy mask. Ultimo one ups him by having 8 women in one pieces bring out a belt each. I feel like this could have been in full on a lesser year. Clips we got looked pretty good even if again the crowd was tepid. Finisher Liger uses here is pretty sweet with a screwdriver type suplex. Liger winning the J Crown feels right.
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Never really thought much about this because Arn's in ring work was for the most part so solid that it gets a pass, but this is completely spot on.
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