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Bobby Eaton hasn't turned yet, but he is ostensibly the babyface. Solid match, but I was hoping for more. I thought Eaton sitting in the hammerlock went way too long. The match picked up when Arn caught Bobby with the spinebuster, and Bobby took his standard hiptoss on the arena floor, which frightens me every time I see it. Arn steals a win.

A solid match. Bobby working over Arn's arm was good, but the hammerlock got old. Finish was controversial to set up more rematches and I'm sure better bouts.

Solid yes, but a little disappointing because I was hoping for something on a level above the Arn/Taylor series and this wasn't quite it. Closing stretch was really hot, and while I wasn't a big fan of the slow start it did have me thinking "oh, time limit draw." Then they swerved me with an actual pinfall, screwy as it was.

Anderson pulls the hair to get the extra leverage on a overhand wrist lock. Bobby nods in approvement and then smacks Arn in the face with a back elbow. Ross mentions the troops in Persian Gulf. This stuff really dominated wrestling at this point. Jim also mentions how El Gigante has challenged Flair for the World Title. Love to see that one. Each guy tries to use the ropes for leverage with Arn getting the advantage. Nice little match but nothing special.

Good match but not a great one that you would hope for. I did like the Honor amongst thieves stuff they did throughout the match and this did show that Bobby was competent as a singles competitor.

They have a rematch on Worldwide 2/16 that is humming along better than this, mostly with Bobby shine, Arn's increasingly desperate viciousness, and some great strikes and selling of same, until it's cut off much too early with a clean/dirty leapfrog ballshot headbutt finish. Alas.

This one didn't impress me as much as I thought it would. There was too much ground-and-pound from Eaton, for one thing. I know he's supposed to be adopting a more technical style as a singles wrestler, but he was more slow than technical, although his work on Arn's arm was good. The pinfall was cheap, but they were trying to build Bobby as a TV title contender, so they wanted to keep his hopes alive. Paul even mentioned at the end that he was still hot on Zenk's trail even after losing this match.

 

I'm not sure, but I think Mexico didn't send troops to Iraq, which would explain Paul's crack about Mexicans right after JR issued WCW's statement supporting the troops in the Persian Gulf.

 

They stressed the "honor among thieves" stuff, but I didn't hear one mention of Arn and Bobby's real-life friendship, which played such a big part in the Horsemen/MX tag team series back in '88.

 

I'm pretty sure JR misspoke when he referred to the month as September, especially since they were still hyping WarGames. But I have to ask: Could this match have originally been taped in September of '90, which would explain JR's mistake? Remember, Corny didn't always accompany Bobby to the ring for singles bouts.

 

I'm surprised that they kept the MX theme music and the "From the Dark Side" billing for Bobby when they knew that Corny and Stan weren't coming back. Could Dusty have perhaps thought about forming a new MX with Bobby and another partner, then dropped the idea and gone with a singles push instead?

This is right in my wheelhouse so I was really looking forward to it. I was a little let down like the rest of you. Bobby was the defacto face but the dynamic wasn't quite clear enough for me, which may have contributed to any Bobby sat in that gold for so long.

Once I saw Eaton vs. Arn I was excited. Then about halfway through I started doing little stuff around the room while half paying attention. These guys have better in them.

This was technically decent, but they didn't do much else to hook me. They spent way too much time in holds. The lack of a clear face/heel dynamic also hurt this. 

★★¼