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Sherri gets all up in Piper’s face, allowing Savage to come off the top to start. It doesn’t help a whole lot as Piper goes right after him. Piper takes Savage’s head to the turnbuckle and an atomic drop, followed by a clothesline for two. Sherri interferes and it backfires once again. Piper gets in a sunset flip for two, but Savage comes back with an elbow. Piper comes back with a small package for two. Savage bails and Piper beats on him back to the ring. Sherri distracts Piper again and Savage regains control. Savage connects with a double-axe handle from the top for two. Top-rope neck snap and a knee to the back sends Piper flying out to the floor, and then follows him out with a double axe-handle on the floor. Back in the ring and Savage chokes on him for a couple of pinfall attempts. Piper fights up with elbows and a clothesline, then he boxes him in the corner and bites. Savage flips in the corner and hangs in the Tree of Woe, allowing Piper the chance to kick on him REAL good. Piper goes OLD SKOOL with the airplane spin and drops him down. Piper regroups and covers for 1, 2, NO! However, Piper is still pretty dizzy and falls back on a slam, giving Savage a near-fall. Savage does his own airplane spin! This one is even faster and twice as long. He goes to the top to finish, but he’s SO DIZZY and just falls off to the floor! Piper goes out with Savage to beat on him some more for the double-countout. (9:30) It was classic Macho Man material, but I just hate Post-match, Piper puts Savage in the SLEEPER! Then he turns around and gives one to Sherri! Savage breaks it up, but then gets beat down again. Piper goes out and grabs a leather belt from somewhere and chases the King and Queen away! **
Immediately, Warrior delivers a powerslam! He tries to go up top, but Earthquake is there to pull him down and cause him to give chase while Bravo does a sneak attack. Back in, Warrior gets a hiptoss and takes Bravo’s head to the buckle. Warrior tries to come off the ropes, but Earthquake is there to yank his boot. Dino comes up from behind and knocks Warrior out to the floor. As Dino plays to the crowd, Warrior crawls underneath the ring and grabs Jimmy Hart by the leg. Somehow, his pants come off and he gets pressed into Earthquake’s arms. Warrior tries to get back in, but gets kneed back out by Bravo. Warrior yanks Bravo out with him and chops away. Back in, Bravo ducks low off a whip and takes a suplex. Warrior goes for the GUERILLA SPLASH, but Bravo brings up his knees. They do a test-of-strength, but Warrior kicks out. Bravo avoids a corner charge and delivers a back suplex. It’s bearhug time! Wow, Bravo HUMPS the guy when he locks on his bearhug. Warrior punches out and applies a bearhug of his own, but then gets poked in the eye. Dino delivers an inverted atomic drop, but misses a leg drop. Warrior slams Bravo but then sells a back injury, allowing Bravo to knee him in the back to send him to the floor. Bravo keeps the ref busy while Earthquake slams Warrior out on the floor. Back in, Bravo hits the SIDE SUPLEX! He covers for 1, 2, NO! Warrior gets up and shakes the ropes, hits three clotheslines, the flying shoulder block and then the GUERILLA SPLASH as Earthquake comes in to break up the pin to give Warrior the DQ win. Post-match, Earthquake DESTROYS Warrior with a pair of elbows and then drags him over to a corner to splash him as Hogan comes down to save the Warrior! This was actually a fairly match. *½ They do a little funny promo on Mr. Fuji who explains how DEVIOUS he is. HE IS EVIL INDEED!
Good gosh, Hillbilly Jim does color commentary with Monsoon here and he sounds more redneck than all the Blue Collar Comedy Tour guys combined could EVER hope to be. These two guys must get paid BIG bucks to waste time because they are doing everything but wrestle in the first two or three minutes as they argue over who has the better body. Seriously though, WHO CARES! Beefcake goes for the SLEEPER immediately, which causes Martel to bail and waste more time. Martel gets back in for some more stalling where he does the “shake my hand” bit and gets kicked in the gut for it. Beefcake does the ten-count corner punch and then goes to headlock. Martel shoves him off and tries a monkey flip, but Beefcake puts on the brakes and stomps him in the face. Martel counters out of another ten-count punch for an inverted atomic drop. A whole lot of stomping by Martel preludes a chinlock. FINALLY, Brutus fights up but goes down after taking a knee to the gut. A Martel knee drop gets two. Beefcake gets in an inside cradle for two. Ha, someone in the front row has a Four Horsemen t-shirt! Martel gets crotched up top and falls to the canvas after some shots from Beefcake. A pair of atomic drops and a clothesline sends Martel out to the floor. Beefcake goes out and throws Martel back in and then tries a sunset flip, but Martel holds on to the top rope for the cheap win. (12:30) That was a chore to sit through. After match, Beefcake gives Martel the SLEEPER and tries to cut his hair, but Martel escapes just in time. * We get a word from the Hart Foundation who is PISSED OFF that they don’t have the tag titles. Well, they didn’t say pissed off, but they weren’t happy about it.
Alright! This one has Tony Schiavone in it! Barbarian and Anvil start and trade some shoulderblocks. After a little miscommunication from the heels, Anvil gets a quick rollup on Barbarian for two. Bret comes in to take on the Barbarian. Bret sneaks in a blind tag to Anvil and that causes a double-team attack to occur for two. The Harts trade some tags and work on Barbarian’s arm. He fights out and tags in Warlord, who immediately misses an elbow drop. Anvil tags in and starts working on the Warlord’s arm. They give the Warlord the same treatment by tagging in and out while working the arm. Warlord finally breaks free with a backbreaker and tags in Barbarian. Now the PoP tag in and out while working on Bret’s back. Bret finally makes the hot tag to Anvil and takes out both men. Fuji trips up Anvil and that causes him to go out after him, which brings everybody out to the floor. Warlord holds Neidhart for Fuji to whack him with his cane, but Anvil moves and slides back in the ring to cause the PoP to lose by countout. (10:37) This was kinda boring to be honest. After match comes the most exciting part where Bret destroys the PoP with Fuji’s cane! Shortly after this, they split up the PoP for good and put Barbarian with Heenan and Warlord with Slick as mid-card singles guys. ½*
Bravo gets a stiff shoulderblock out of a headlock to start, but then turns around into a small package from Bret to start. Bravo kicks Bret down but then takes a shot in the back from Anvil and then a high crossbody from Bret for two. A Thesz Press (!) from Bret gets a near-fall. HTM tags in and immediately gets nailed by the Hitman. Anvil tags in and together, he and Bret give Honky Tonk a wishbone split! After delivering some shoulderblocks in the corner, Anvil lifts Honky up for a bearhug. Honky gets out with an eyepoke and tags in Bravo. They trade blows and then Anvil gets caught with an inverted atomic drop. Bravo goes over and nails Bret to bring him in to cause a double-team stomping on Anvil. They keep Anvil in their corner and beat on Anvil real good for a while. Honky misses a fist drop as Anvil makes the hot tag to Bret. He gets a rollup off the ropes on HTM for two. Bret hits the middle-rope elbow as Bravo comes in to break up the pin. Everything begins to breakdown as all fours guys are in the ring. The Harts do the double cross-corner collision, but Bravo reverses Bret into Honky. While the ref is trying to get Anvil out of the ring, Jimmy Hart tosses his megaphone in the ring for Bravo. As he leans over to pick it up, Bret surprises Bravo with a sunset flip but Bravo isn’t the legal man so it doesn’t matter. I guess Bret wasn’t ALWAYS the smartest wrestler ever. Anvil comes back in and nails both Honky and Bravo with the megaphone, causing them to lose by DQ. (8:57) That’s matches down and zero clean wins. *
This just might be the highlight of the tape right here. I’ve still got my fingers crossed for Hogan/Perfect. Bret and Marty start. Jannetty gets a crossbody for two and then applies an armbar. Shawn tags in and comes off the top with an axe handle to Bret’s arm. Michaels continues to work on the arm and then whips Bret in the ropes. Shawn leapfrogs over Bret a couple times and gets caught with an inverted atomic drop. Neidhart tags in and dominates Shawn with some power moves. Bret turns heel for a second and nails Shawn in the head from the apron off a whip, then comes in to deliver a nice back breaker. Neidhart tags in and places a knee to Shawn’s neck to rest. So wait, are the Harts heels at this point or not? Shawn fights out but then runs into a bearhug. Bret tags in and hammers Shawn in the corner. Then, Bret tries a backbreaker off a whip but Shawn flips out and slams Bret, only to be hit with an elbow to the head to stop a tag. Neidhart tags in again and delivers a standing dropkick (!) for two. A HUGE backdrop from Anvil gets two. Bret tags in and comes at Shawn with elbows to the head. The Harts try a double-team catapult splash from the apron, but Shawn rolls out of the way. After Bret tags in, Shawn reverses a cross-corner whip but then runs into a boot. Bret comes off the second rope for an elbow drop, but it misses. HOT TAG TO JANNETTY! Marty delivers a flying back elbow, dropkick, and a powerslam on Bret for 1, 2, NO! They clothesline each other out of the corner, which Bret seemed to have gotten the worst of, as Jannetty covers 1, 2, NO! Jannetty gets a knee-lift for two! Shawn tags in for a double superkick for one as Anvil makes the save. Snap suplex from Shawn gets two. Shawn jumps over Bret out of a cross-corner whip reversal, but then gets caught with a sick clothesline. Bret makes the tag to Anvil, who comes in and shoulderblocks Shawn to the other side of the ring. Anvil whips Shawn into Bret, sending Bret diving into the railing. Anvil goes out to check on Bret as the Rougeau Brothers come down to beat up the Rockers to cause a DQ in favor of the Rockers. The Harts make the save for the Rockers and help chase the Rougeaus back to the dressing room. (11:30) Good match, but I’ve never felt like the matches ever got the chance it deserved. **¾ They show a little vignette on how the WWF moving crew rolls.
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He won every major championship he played in 1953, and every official tournament he entered except for the Seminole Pro-Am Invitational, where he tied for second. Then again, Hogan only played six times that year because of battered legs from a bus accident. Tiger Woods will play no more than 17 events on the PGA Tour this year, so a 2-0 start might be a little early for anyone to get excited. Even so, expectations were as high as the desert sun at noon when Woods left Arizona with yet another victory. It was his fourth in a row on tour since early September, all done in record fashion. He set a 72-hole scoring record at Cog Hill outside Chicago and won by eight shots at the Tour Championship and theBuick Invitational, both record margins. On Sunday, he smoked Stewart Cink 8 and 7 in the Match Play Championship, the biggest blowout in the finals in 10 years of a tournament that Woods considers the toughest to win this side of a major. I think this certainly is the best stretch I’ve ever played, Woods said. Strong words—downright scary—considering that Woods won nine times, including three straight majors, in 2000 and that he won six consecutive PGA Tour events at the end of 2006, a streak that reached seven until losing in Match Play the following year. Woods, who also won in Dubai earlier this month, has never before started a season with three straight victories, and it is hard not to speculate how long he can keep winning given his history at some of the tournaments coming up. Next is the Arnold Palmer Invitational March 13-16 at Bay Hill, where Woods won four straight times from 2000 to 2003. The week after that is the CA Championship at Doral, where he has won the last three years. Then the Masters April 10-13. He just morphs his game into the courses, Cink said. So I don’t think there’s a course that’s going to present him with a real obstacle as far as him not being a favorite. Woods did little to squash the notion of a perfect season when someone asked him if winning them all was within reason. That’s my intent. That’s why you play, Woods said after collecting his 63rd career tour victory and his 15th title in the World Golf Championships. If you don’t believe you can win an event, don’t show up. But it also is his intent to make every putt and hit every shot just how he wants. No one does that, of course. No one wins every tournament. Byron Nelson holds the record with 11 straight victories during a year in which he won 18 times in 30 events. That means he lost 12 times that year. A perfect season in golf? I do find that laughable, Hal Sutton said Monday. Anybody who knows golf knows that ain’t going to happen. You can only own this game for a certain period of time. Even if your name is Tiger Woods, you don’t own it forever. Sutton was among those who beat Woods during a time when the world’s No. 1 player looked unbeatable, going head-to-head with him at The Players Championship in 2000 and winning by one shot. He watched part of the match Sunday until I got bored. Tiger is definitely more dominating, Sutton said. Curtis Strange is among those who played in the prime years of Woods and Jack Nicklaus, and he said it is pointless to compare generations. But he also found speculation of a perfect season to be a little over the top. He is by far and away the best player, Strange said. We’ve never had a player this much better than the second-best player. He’s unbelievable, really. But he’s not unbeatable. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves just because he beat Stewart Cink 8 and 7. As usual, the best comparisons are to Woods himself. Most consider his best golf to be from late 1999 through the 2001 Masters, when he won 16 of 32 times on the PGA Tour and four consecutive majors. Dating to the 2006 British Open, Woods has won 15 of his last 24 events, a 63 percent clip. He just has this strong sense of belief in himself that he’s just never out of it, Cink said. He’s never going to mess up. He’s just always in control. He never loses his composure. The more he talked, the more Cink made Woods out to be a machine. I think maybe we ought to slice him open to see what’s inside there, Cink said. Maybe nuts and bolts. Not many thought Woods could ever produce better results than 2000, the benchmark of greatness in his era. Woods, however, has been saying all along that his plan was to get better. And with each victory, what seemed impossible is not unthinkable. Woods knows he was fortunate to win Match Play. In the first round, he rallied from 3 down with five holes to play against J.B. Holmes by winning four straight holes with three birdies and a 35-foot eagle. In the third round, Aaron Baddeley twice stood over putts inside 12 feet to win match before Woods prevailed on the 20th hole. I played 117 holes this week, Woods said. I could have easily played 16 and then been home. That’s the fickleness match play. And such is the fickle nature of golf. Odds are, Woods won’t win them all. But if he were to even win three of his next six on the PGA Tour, that would give him 18 wins in his last 30 starts, matching Nelson’s golden year in 1945. And even that might not be enough to satisfy him. You can always get better, Woods said. You can always keep improving.
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So I joined eHarmony at the start of the year. The year being 2008. I must have somehow clicked the “not-interested” setting somewhere because all the the matches that i’ve gotten were people that i’m not attracted to or interesting. Until that is that eHarmony matched me with Julie. The official eHarmony time was January 25, 2008, 06:26PM PST. That was the beginning of what I hope to be the start of a great relationship.Immediately, I thought Julie was beautiful. She had a great look about her. So I think it took me all but 0.08 seconds to click on the “Start Communication” button to send her my first questions. To my surprise she wrote did respond with answers. So then we continued to the next stage of our communication. I thought things were progressing well until we shared of “Must Haves” and “Can’t Stands”. Then tragedy….. She closed me. I was really disappointed. My first really great matched closed me. Did I smell bad? Her excuse was the out “Must Haves” and “Can’t Stands” wasn’t a match for her. Oh well. Life does go on. What was it? A week later or so, I see her back in my matches section. I wasn’t sure at the time why she was back in. It was because she had reopened up communication. This was awesome. It was like winning the eHarmony lottery or something. I was pretty excited the she reopened communication. So we finished out the “Guided Communication” stage and went into open conversation with just emails through eHarmony. What was her first question to me you might ask? Well it was “So how long have you been on eHarmony”. Nice huh? We shared information back and forth and we were writing a good amount of info back and forth. We eventually started emailing with our personal email accounts instead of using eHarmony. Then on February 17, 2008 at precisely 9:48 PM PST I get what i’ve been waiting for. What is it? HER NUMBER. WOO HOO. So I make the call the next day on Feb 18 at 9:49 PM PST. The conversation went so smoothly that its hard to remember what we talked about. We talked about everything. There wasn’t any awkward silent moments to warrant, the “well its getting late” comment. When the conversation finally ended it was 3 hours and 4 minutes later. Subsequent conversations tallied 106 minutes and 146 minutes. I find it really easy to talk to her. I like making her laugh and she has a great laugh to listen to. So after the third long conversation, I pop the question. Not that one, but the one about if she’s ready to meet in person. She agrees to meet.We decide to meet on a Sunday but she got hit with a bug thats been going around. She was sick for most of friday and saturday. It was really sweet that she called to reschedule the meeting to Monday in Ktown since she was gonna be there to meet a friend later in the evening. So i’d have to wait one more day. I was only a day later so not too bad. She had mentioned that she likes strawberries so I thought i’d getting strawberries to go along with the rose that I was already gonna get her. We decided to meet at Cafe Mak in Ktown before she was to meet her friend. I got there a little early and she had gotten there early as well. So then there she was, at about 8:15 on a Monday, February 25, my eyes see her and I think my mouth hit the floor. She was so pretty in person.I approached her and it was kinda awkward because she held out her hand as I was about to hug her. Was I too forward to go for the hug instead of the hang shake? Hmm…. we’d have to see. I was pretty much speechless after I saw her, so I just used the time to gather words by opening up the strawberries and putting the flowers in a Dasani water bottler (smart). Again we had a great conversation, I had asked the waiters if I could wash the strawberries in their sink and we ate strawberries and this sweet potato cake. Which is interesting because it wasn’t very sweet and it didn’t taste like potato. We spent the next hour or so to talk about things. Get the nerves out and chat. I was really nervous and I was trying to find the right words to say. I hope that I can become more comfortable so that I can be myself and open up. I guess i’m just really excited about this new potential relationship. So we went our separate ways after she got a call from her friend to meet up. So I walk her out and we wait for the valet to bring her car and then she gives me a hug goodbye. I almost held out my hand but she gave me a hug. So I guess it wasn’t a mistake to hug her on our initial meeting. As I write this now, its been about a few hours after I called her to arrange another date. She agrees. I hope this is the beginning of something really really nice. I am attracted to her and I do like her. I hope she feels the same. So I guess the answer to the trivia question of when is your anniversary, is it yesterday or the upcoming date? Well I guess it’ll be February 25 at Cafe Mak. Tag: eharmony
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