El-P
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Since someone brought up Jake Roberts, there's the most perfect exemple why "psychology" is overrated to some extent. Jake Roberts is supposed to bring this great psychology to his matches. Except, like Dan said in the Tito thread, most Jake matches end up being disapointing. Because Jake just wasn't that good of a worker after all. So, psychology only goes so far, if you don't bring it with some actual work too(and don't give me the argument that psychology = work), matches won't be that good after all. They will surely make sense, but... Anyway, you get the point.
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Paul was 46 at the time, so it's not like he had much more years to give. Plus the injuries would force him to retire. I don't know where the "poor career" comes from, he got a good stint in WCW after his last comeback I thought, when he was already 43. Pretty Wonderful was an underrated tag team (can't wait to revisit them). His new music theme was glorious though.
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I guess so too. mid 95 to mid 96 was probably when the Clique was at its worst. Derailing guys like Bam Bam, Candido, Douglas (oh, see the link for what's to come in 98 ?), Shawn not doing job for the IC title while groomed for the WWF title... I didn't think the Bulldog clicked that well as heel back then, and certainly not as a top spot heel.
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WCW just kicked Vince's ass badly all of a sudden. It made RAW look like totally second rate. Amazing that it took a good year and a half before WWF ackwnoledged this and changed the set up for RAW. Sad thing when you think RAW basically looks the same as it did in 2001 now, which is all an evolution of the RAW IS WAR set of 1997. But anyway, in 1995, Nitro made things move.
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At one point, Mr. Gannosuke was easily a top 10 worker in the world to me. Just a great worker. FMW remains one of my favourite promotion ever. From the fascinating Onita years, to the goofball Fuyuki stuff which still delieverd lots of good matches (because they had a good crop of workers), and the peak in between when they had to redefine their product after Onita left, FMW was all over the map of wrestling style, always with a little garbage flavor to it, but not as much as some would think. Hayabusa at his peak was an amazing worker. Ohya & Kanemura were excellent. Kudo was a top 10 worker at her peak. Masato Tanaka, although damaged by his ECW stint for a while, was a superb worker. Shoichi Arai was at one time the best ring announcer. Just a unique promotion with a terribly sad ending.
Really ? Holy shit, Luger was so right to jump back to his home promotion. As soon as he was back on Nitro, he was a main-event star, and he stayed over like crazy until the end.
I always had a soft spot for Matador vs Michaels from WM 8. Good match, my very first WM, I was a fan of both, I was really excited about Michaels turning heel, I loved Sherri. I also remember a good Matador vs Luger match from 1993, before WM 9, but I haven't seen it since, so my memories might be tainted at this point.
I thought the match was a step up from the three previous PPV involving Sid. The Sid feud was so godawful... This match was as good as it could humanly be for involving Mabel and Kevin Nash. Last appearance ever of Luger in the WWF, who would have guessed ? It was brillant because as Luger just makes a comeback in the main event scene after months of purgatory, he shows up on Nitro to challenge Hogan the next day. Good days...
ZZZZzzzzzzzzz....... I'm sorry to not enjoy this as much as I want too. EIther it's my taste which have evolved far from this sort of stuff, either it's not really that good of a match and feels like an exhibition. Dean is way overrated anyway. Great mechanic, but works in a vacuum. I don't know what to think about this anymore. Maybe I should give it a last chance.
Great fucking match.