MJH
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It depends how you define "looking good". He shows up in 1995 (?) in a match with Dandy, I think Silver King, maybe El Texano? He looks incredible on the one hand, his execution was at its peak (pretty much as crisp as any wrestler has ever been), but it also looks completely out of place. I never got anything out of his matches with Villano, though. I'd have to revisit some 1991, early-92 stuff to see where he was then, but he's clearly there by the time his August match with Liger rolls around and he's dictating the whole thing and looking great in doing so. As for Santo vs. Casas; it's only notable when it doesn't look great, right? I don't think anyone has come close to making Santo look as good. Even when he had Panther and Eddy catching him, I always thought Casas was on another level.
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[Takes the bullet] HHH. I don't think HHH is anywhere near as good as he thinks he is, but (moreso as a heel), he's consistently good, and occasionally very good. I agree with Dylan's point on DVDVR that his 2000 run (well it's January-July, really) is overrated, in some quarters very much so, but for all the selfishness and the "he's an asshole!" stuff, I don't think his actual work ever dropped below solid. With Luger, I think the 1989 talk is over-compensation. By no means was he awful, and he was better than his original reputation, but I don't think I'd go beyond "good" at any point. His WWF run was completely uninspired, he had a comeback later in WCW but before long he was cashing a paycheck like everyone else.
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Haven't got much to add; great match. That said, I'd question the booking of Bull/Aja teaming before their blow off. Maybe they should've done the switch in April, Dream Rush always felt less of a moment to me than it should've been (though coming after Bison's retirement was strangely synchronistic[?]).
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I actually thought the one downside of Yoshida's matches with Toyota and Kyoko on this show was that you could see she wasn't quite on their level. Not far off, but not quite there. I don't really see the point of having one and not the other, but both were good, fun matches. That said, Aja winning the JGP is the important moment (not that it was in much doubt), and the best match on this show by far from my recollection is the Bull vs. LCO tag.
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Some people aren't going to like this, and whilst I'm not quite in the group of "this is technically better than the double hair match", they obviously learned the lessons from their 1/4 match. I've said before I prefer Toyota/Kyoko to Toyota/Yamada, but watching all those draws you mentioned gives this a really nice feeling of paying off. To be fair, there were signs in their 12/89 match (which was crazy booking in the first place), and I really liked the first half of their 1/4/92 match (I'm actually not as down on it as some because I think it works as an overall presentation), but this is the first time they hit a home run and Debbie being on commentary adds an interesting twist.
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I've always thought the tag matches were better in this feud. This is good, but (and I can see somewhat of an argument for the 11/90 cage match) you're waiting for them to really deliver in singles and I don't think they ever did. That look you referred to from Bull, though, is absolutely perfect; she's easilly one of the best actresses in Joshi and her celebration after the great 1/24/93 tag is another favourite of mine.
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Good match, but they'd do better later. That said, people should really watch this next to their JGP '91 match both to see how quickly they were developing their acts, and also because they work this match with the earlier one in mind (namely the rolling surfboard finish).
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I recall liking this a lot. This show needed a strong main event, Bull/Kyoko was disappointing to me and the "let's try lucha!" AJW Tag Title match was a disaster, and they delivered a worthy match for what was a pretty historic/important title change given the dominance Toyota/Yamada had over the next few years. Of course, they were still improving at this stage (and in that regard, I'd've put both Toyota/Yamada and Hokuto/Kyoko from the 1/4 show on the set to compare with their more deservedly lauded matches later in the year) but I'd have to watch the Moreno match from 4/91 back-to-back with this to see if they hadn't done better there.
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This is another very good six-man that just blurs into many others for me. The Fan Appreciation Show stands out for it's length and format, Misawa's injury stands out for, well, Misawa's injury, but the freshness was gone by this point; they're mostly kind of "there". Now, that's a remarkable "there", but "there" nontheless.
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No. I was actually surprised by Dave's reaction to it. It wasn't even a "Good Davey Richards" match like the spotFU with Shingo or something that they only blew near the end like the KENTA match. As far as those kind of matches go, from this year, I'd say Nakajima/Suzuki 5/3 was the best.
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Hasn't Punk been publically supportive of gay rights/the NY gay marriage bill recently? I don't see the big deal. It's a performance. The guy's saying it whilst dressed as Freddie Mercury, for god's sake.
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English speakers obviously aren't praising Fukuzawa for his insight/what he actually says. They/we can't understand him. Either way, it's irrelevent. In any language, the call at the end of Kobashi/Hansen is perfection.
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I actually felt that more about the second match (which I wouldn't call the best match, either). This is at least one-fall, I guess. The booking made it inevitable; Toyota/Yamada regain the straps to off-set Hokuto's loss and retirement. It's still great, even though that was one bad last minute or so for Toyota. That Reverse Ocean Cycle was a disaster waiting to happen, if it hits clean you're looking at concussion city.
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Possibly...? But, yeah, this stood out to me similarly. When I got this tape for the first time I knew of the top two matches, and certainly Aja/Kudo looked interesting/good on paper, but after seeing her other 1993 stuff I wasn't sure how good Kudo actually was in '93 (her sunset flip during the crowd brawl at Dream Slam might be the single worst move choice I've ever seen). That there're two matches better than this on this show speaks more for what AJW was doing in 1993 than anything else, and thank God for St. Final because Queendom would've made a very unsatisfying "last big show" for the year. Yet another match that would be a very strong MOTYC in 20-- but in 1993 is probably, what, not even Top 20?