soup23
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If they would have had the show in the CNN Center it would have been a shit show. Good match but a little muddled at times. I also had no problems with the main event as a set up for Wargames. They gave away something satisfying here on tv without taking away too much from the PPV coming up. -
I liked the thermometer reading on each of the wrestling shows during the week. I still stand by the fact that an all fluff show leading into the Rumble for Main Event was not terrible from a promotional standpoint but made for a terrible show. The show Wed night leading into Chamber was much better.
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I was apprehensive about watching and listening to these matches in a group setting but listening in live, this show was awesome from that aspect because you got little touches that carried over to multiple matches.
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Ill second the 7/27/78 one hour draw vs. Backlund
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This Rumble was always one of my favorites. Piper cheers Hogan as he eliminates Tugboat. I also liked Earthquake walking over Perfect at one point. Model was really protected from Summer 1990 on as he was also never pinned in the Survivor Series finale. Him vs. Hogan in a post Mania program would have been nice instead of the rehash of the Slaughter stuff. Hogan picks up the win and the crowd pops like it did all night.
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Hansen vs. Kobashi 7/29/93
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Agree with all the comments here. Really unique match for All Japan in the 90's and more of a blow off brawl. 12 minutes of going to down. Kawada has fully transformed into the prick we know him as.
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60. Steve Austin vs. Chris Adams (USWA TX 8/3/90) The best singles match from this feud. The gimmick of the football and karate outfits is hokey on the surface but the wrestlers made it work and actually provided a smart psychology laden match around it. This to me felt like the blowoff of the feud. 59. Yoshinari Asai vs. Negro Casas (Hamada's UWF 6/7/90) Casas best singles effort of 1990. Taking a young Ultimo and leading him to the match of his life up to that point and one of the better Ultimo matches I have ever seen. Casas had a knack of being able to reign in Asai and just allow him to display his strengths. 58. Stan Hansen vs. Steve Williams (AJPW 6/5/90) Another match with not a lot going on but just two guys wailing on each other. I had been pretty down on Williams NWA stuff up until this point and didn’t know if he really developed into anything good until 1992, but he was a monster here. This was also one of my favorite Hansen performances of the year and showed Williams was primed for one of the top foreign spots in the promotion. 57. Vader vs. Riki Choshu (NJPW 8/19/90) I loved this match. Short, violent, and featuring Choshu working in his comeback. This is yet again a match with a simple storyline but it was played out well. That is more of a reoccurring theme in 1990 than I remembered until I started counting down this list. I think 1994 had more psych heavy matches but 1990 was just straightforward wrestling stories done well. 56. Manami Toyota vs. Bull Nakano (AJW 7/21/90) Short but great in the time given. Toyota had a vastly different demeanor in how she performed in 1990 to what I was accustomed to in her later work. Bull looked like the true ace of the promotion in this match. 55. Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Isao Takagi (SWS 9/9/90) Great debut match for the promotion. This did have an overreaching finish of the beatdown on Takagi eventually causing the match to be stopped. Both Ishikawa and Tenryu were vicious in their attack and Yatsu showed more fire than at any other point in the year. 54. Fantastics vs. Joe Malenko & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (AJPW 9/1/90) Vicious stuff form the Fantastics. They were relentless in attacking Kikuchi and mixed in brawling techniques with high spots. This match sustained a breakneck pace and told a great story. Malenko was used as the glue to hold everything together. Perfect undercard match on this show. 53. Mr. Perfect vs. Tito Santana (SNME 7/28/90) The best match on SNME in 1990. Tito is someone I hated as a kid but have came around in a big way. He timed the highspots and nearfalls so well in this match that he had me believing even though I knew the finish. Perfect toned down some of his huge bumps for this match and concentrated on making a better match overall instead of a one man show performance. 52. Midnight Express vs. Brian Pillman & Tom Zenk (Capital Combat 5/19/90) #52 is the worst MX match on PPV in 1990. Truly amazing stuff. The gimmick worked well with Cornette being in the cage and the MX worked this match so smartly being disorganized before rallying together to pick up the win. I think this is the best Pillman looked in a match in 1990. 51. Midnight Express vs. Ricky Morton & Tommy Rich (Havoc 10/27/90) This match and #50 are right on the breaking point for what I would call great matches but are probably the two matches I had the most fun with throughout the year. This is the ode to my favorite tag team of all time and they go out doing what they do best and whipping Ricky Mortons ass. Eaton was insane in this match taking huge bumps to the ramp and busting out different stuff. This match has a finality aspect to it that is not often duplicated in wrestling.
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The Rosemont makes sense. That is a beautiful looking venue on camera.
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I thought this was really good and gritty in the beginning and they got sort of lost their way by the end. However, while watching this match it made me realize how stringent I am on wrestlers of this caliber. I agree with Loss that if Dibiase and Boss Man worked essentially this same match, it would be heralded. Hell this match probably is not to far off from the Barb/Boss Man match that gets talked up. Jumbo smiling while lifting the triple crown trophy at the end was a satisfying moment.
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I agree that the match quality so far has really taken me by surprise and I think 1991 is off to the best start of any yearbook. This match was tremendous. The struggle for everything was well done and I got more a sense of peril for Santo in this match than I did in the When Worlds Collide tag. The third fall especially had some nice reversals out of the santo clutch and nearfalls that I thought might be the finish. May sound like a broken record but another MOTYC and I have it just below the Dandy/Satanico matches.
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This may just be a Memphis thing but can we please have at least a week to pass where Jerry is laid out for the attack before he comes charging out. This is not as bad as him getting run over and vowing revenge 10 minutes later, but it is pretty close with him taking a banned move on the concrete floor. People criticize WWE for not having the balls to leave Cena off tv but this is a more egregious example in my eyes. Promo was good but way too soon .
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