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Watched about 10 minutes of this earlier when I was tired and liked it but was something was off. Turns out it was me because I took a nap, went to the gym, and then fired this up and this is just Fantastic. Pace doesn't let up and the work on Kobashi is nasty as hell with Fuchi especially doing little dubious things to fuck with it. I think the 5/26 6-man was full of energy and exuberance from the Misawa side but here combined sharper execution and everyone on Misawa's team feeling like they belong. Taue also continued his rise. MOTYC. -
Wanted to give this thread a little love to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed the SWS stuff so far. It has a different feel to it and they are trying some unique stuff. Tenryu kind of has an under the radar 1990 to me overall as I had pictured him going in as someone that was just bidding his time in All Japan before bolting. I didn't like his All Japan stuff that much but his matches vs. Savage, Takano, and the 9/9 SWS tag will all fare well on my top 100 list.
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I would like to ask someone who has watched Crockett TV more comprehensibly is if we saw glimpses of Bossman's potential in his run there. What he did on the supershows was not inspiring at all and certainly didn't lead me to believe he would have good to great matches with Hogan within a year time frame.
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To me this argument is under contention. I would classify 1994 Terry Funk as fun. He was popping up all over the place. In my top 100 matches of the year he had two matches which placed for me ( vs. Sabu) and Wargames. He was amazing in both of those matches. That match vs. Sabu is the best Sabu match I have seen off memory. However, nothing else he did sniffed my top 100. I liked his WCW run a good deal. His SMW work was fair and his ECW stuff hit or miss. Flair by comparison had both matches with Steamboat and the Hogan BATB match that ranked. I really liked all of those performances by Flair and would peg BATB as him taken a Hogan formula match and mixing in his stuff to making it great. I also didn't rank the Marquis of Queensbury stuff with Regal but it was fabulous and if it was one match together would have been in my top 50. He had plenty of other stuff that I think is comparable to Funks WCW stuff like the WCWSN tag on 7/28 w/ Austin vs. Sting/Steamboat. Even the retirement cage match vs. Hogan I thought was good. He really only had one dogshit performance and that was Suberbrawl from what we saw on the yearbook. I know you watched that to Childs so it is probably just a difference of match preferences but I honestly don't know if I would say 1994 Terry Funk was better than 1994 Ric Flair. Realize I am probably in the minority on that but since I have recently watched the stuff, I feel pretty justified in that opinion.
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Yeah I liked the Wild Kingdom stuff a lot but this was better. Gene saying that about the Genius was so wrong on so many levels but I did laugh. Genius making a poem in the middle of the contest was awesome. Bret in this environment is awesome. Neidhart had the time of his life between the contest and the danceoff with Slick.
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Couple of notes in this match. We see Dustin in the crowd. Also, the Hulk Hogan look like fan at one point takes a picture of Warrior and rips it in half like Sinead O Connor on SNL. Match was pretty bad.
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This match was a blast. My favorite spot was actually the sequence were bobby and rick are on their knees and Bobby extends his hand. Instead of Rick being a dope he fakes shaking the hand then clothesline Bobby out of the ring. The FIP on Rick was short but really effective and nasty. This might sneak into my top 100.
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Dr. Death is someone whose name didn't pop up once in the top 10 US all time thread. I can see him being a viable candidate for top 25 based on his 1992-1994 output and think he was one of the 10 best wrestlers in the world in 1994. I have also enjoyed his slugfests in 1990 with the likes of Hansen. His Crockett run from what I have seen has been pretty unspectacular but as the Windham thread reveals, maybe there are bigger fans of that stuff than myself. I did really like his performance in the Starrcade 88 opener. So where would people rat Doc overall? Good, great, top 25 US contender or not?
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Just rewatched the Sheeps vs. Doc/Nikita match and still not a fan. I will say on the onset that I'm not usually a fan of extended shine sequences. The first five minutes is just that. It is cool that Dr. Death and Nikita are so powerful but after a while, why don't the Sheepherders try a different strategy. They take the advantage by Death ramming himself in the post and immediately we go to commercial. Terrible timing on commercial because when we come back Doc is hulking up and sticking out his tongue. He tags in Nikita who has a quick sequence but quickly gets caught. He then gets fired into the guardrail rib first. How do the Sheepherders capitalize on this, by attacking his head and back. Huh. I also sensed no "wolves" mentality from them as it seemed like pretty generic double teaming and they were stooging a good bit in between pinfalls. I can sort of forgive Doc for going after Morgan but it was stupid nonetheless. Nikita makes hot tag and Doc fires off a decent sequence but then gets caught with double teaming. Rip Morgan is inside the ring in plain sight of Tommy Young. Doc is able to tag Nikita who fires off a fluke sickle for the pin in a spot I actually liked. I would at best call this match decent and saw some significant flaws structure wise and strategy wise on the behalf of the Sheepherders.
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I enjoy at least one of the Savage-Dibiase cage matches a good bit but the WrestleMania match was an occurrence last time I watched it. It happened and was okay really only because of the moment. However, saying those matches are better than Barry-Luger at Chi-Town 89 is something I can't see at all. Barry's selling of the hand in that match is really excellent and one of my favorite Barry performances in a singles match. I really am surprised at the amount of love for Luger/Barry at chi-town. Good match with great selling by Barry but abrupt finish which made the story incomplete. Savage vs. Dibiase cage match at MSG was also under 15 minutes but told a comprehensive story and mixed in great desperation from both men and some unique cage spots. I would rank it easily above Luger/Windham from Chi-Town.
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Does this match have a reputation of being good? I thought it was slow and plodding. Parv absolutely hated it.