Posted September 28, 200718 yr comment_5422315 “Gentleman” Chris Adams & Terry Taylor vs. Ted DiBiase & Sam Houston (3/15/87) This should be a scientific match you would think and everyone shakes hands before the match. Damn there was some great fast paced wrestling going on here with all four men looking great and the crowd loving every minute of it. Adams nearly takes Houston’s head off with a clothesline and the champs go to work on Houston’s midsection but when Taylor goes for a piledriver he reverses and tags in DiBiase. DiBiase gets a nearfall on an elbow drop but misses a legdrop and Taylor would hit him for a suplex for another nearfall then followed up with another one. Taylor would miss a kneedrop and DiBiase went for the figure-four but Taylor kicked him off two times. Taylor would lock in DiBiase on an inside cradle for a nearfall and Taylor would reverse for a 2 count as the time limit ran out. Tremendous match and a definite nomination.
September 28, 200718 yr comment_5422316 I didn't care for this, Sam Houston looked good, but this really felt sort of meaningless, and the short time limit had a exhibition feel to it. I would entertain other thoughts, but I am going to vote no
September 28, 200718 yr Author comment_5422319 What I loved about this match is the story that it was telling. This was foreshadowing the beginning of a DiBiase heel turn that would never happen because he would leave for WWF, so they would switch the turn over to Taylor. Another thing I loved about this match was that it was just some great pure wrestling and I understand your exhibition point but at this time in UWF, a match like this was a different animal than what they were putting out there.
September 28, 200718 yr Author comment_5422322 BTW, I'm loving that we have started debating matches because this is what we haven't done yet in this project because the WWF was a debacle and we agreed on every match on the UWF set. This is great.
September 28, 200718 yr comment_5422323 Yeah let's see what Loss says but I wasn't big fan. This is what I wrote: This was scientific wrestling with lots of meaningless suplexes. Sam Houston was super spectacular here just flying around and eating everything as nastily as possible, plus some nice low end high flying offense. I could see this maing a Sam Houston comp but not a Mid South one. Possible that fans of Smackdown Six era will like this more than me, and I could actually see people voting this higher than matches that I think are alot better.
September 29, 200718 yr comment_5422356 It's an oddball match. I don't have it on DVD currently, but I've seen it many times in the past and I'm very familiar with it. One side of me says it isn't DVD worthy. The other side of me wants to put it on the set purely out of curiosity to see how high people vote it. Mid South is a promotion built on strong babyfaces and strong heels. I worry that a babyface match would stand out more than it deserves because it's unique when compared to everything else. Similar to how the Choshu/Tenryu match stood out big alongside UWF matches on the Other Japan set. But I'm also intrigued by whether or not it would stand out. So my argument for including it would basically only be to see how people responded to it and voted for it, not because I think it's a great match I would rank all that highly. I think the odd match out on every set will always rank a little higher than it should because people like variety instinctively.
September 30, 200718 yr comment_5422383 OK ,well, you are the tiebreaker so you have to make the call.
September 30, 200718 yr comment_5422384 Please re-read my post. My explanation is above. It really all depends on how people feel about putting matches on the set not because we think they deserve to be there, but because we want to see how people vote. I can't just say Yes or No to this match and leave it at that.
September 30, 200718 yr comment_5422385 I say we just table it for a while, lets see what the list looks like closer to the finish and decided then
September 30, 200718 yr comment_5422386 While "I don't knows" are fine and dandy in general discussion, for the purpose of this project, we need concrete decisions. In the meantime, we'll sit on it but it is your call on how we should proceed. I imagine this won't be the only match where someone feels uncomfortable making a call one way or another. I can send you the match if you want to rewatch it or we can give the tiebreaker to TomK or shoe or someone else. In fact, because of the "controversy" of this match, I would like to hear from all the guys... Dean, Lee, Tim, shoe. If anyone else needs me to send the disc, let me know.
September 30, 200718 yr comment_5422388 Please re-read my post. My explanation is above. It really all depends on how people feel about putting matches on the set not because we think they deserve to be there, but because we want to see how people vote. I can't just say Yes or No to this match and leave it at that. Please, please, please re-read that, because I don't think you get that still. That's an invitation for others to say "Yeah, I think that's okay" or "No, I don't think we should open that door". Whatever the consensus is on that, either way, I've said what I think we should do in either case. While "I don't knows" are fine and dandy in general discussion I imagine this won't be the only match where someone feels uncomfortable making a call one way or another. I'm not "uncomfortable". I just have a question and I'm waiting on an answer. Answer it.
September 30, 200718 yr comment_5422393 OK, the point of having you three choosing the matches is because your opinions are valued and your judgment can be trusted. Kris likes the match. Phil doesn't. Whatever decision you make will be valued by the other two. How you determine your decision is up to you. You can take the suggestions from the public forum into consideration. You can take someone's values from this forum into consideration. In another thread, Dean called a match his early #1. If I had a vote, I would definitely take that into consideration. When you vote yes or no for a match, you aren't saying how high it would be on your list but if it is worthy of including on the set. You don't need anyone else to answer the question for you because you have already been put in the position to make the determination for yourself. I personally avoid putting matches on the set because I think a wrestler should be represented. However, that has been something that Phil uses in making his judgments and we have to respect that even though we may disagree. There is no harm in putting a match on the set because you are curious to see how others would vote for it. If that is the criteria you use to vote on a match then we would respect your call even if we disagree. From your posts that I read very carefully, despite what your melodramatic use of the size button would imply, you don't like the match. However, that does not have to be the reason you choose to nominate it. For instance, I personally think the Dibiase-Flair match is a better angle than it is a match but I would vote to put it on the set in a heartbeat because of the notoriety it has received. You can do the same with this match and no one is going to call you on it.
October 1, 200718 yr comment_5422395 Ok then. YES, because I want to see how it will fare in overall voting.