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A+ Match of the Day

By Corey
Ric Flair vs. The Undertaker in 1992 sounded like a good fun, short match for this Tuesday. Flair is the WWF Champion at this point and the Undertaker is a freshly turned face. The extent that Perfect and Flair cheat in order to win has to be seen to be appreciated. Enjoy this one.

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  1. OfficerFarvaNovember 19, 2013 at 6:34 PM

    Womens haircuts in the early 90s are just nuts. Look at it...terrible. Always reminds me of "the delicate genius" Seinfeld lady

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  2. justicegrayNovember 19, 2013 at 6:39 PM

    Interesting that 4 minutes in Gorilla talks about how shrewd Bobby Heenan was in making Mr. Perfect Flair's consultant..."that way Flair never has to face Perfect".

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  3. YJ2310November 19, 2013 at 6:49 PM

    I always thought Jim Ross debuted at WM 9 which of course had to occur after this match as Flair was gone by then...

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  4. y2j420November 19, 2013 at 6:51 PM

    This is a redub of commentary done in 1993 by Jim Ross and Gorilla Monsoon...

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  5. YJ2310November 19, 2013 at 6:52 PM

    Well that makes perfect sense.

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  6. Porn-Peddling Jef VinsonNovember 19, 2013 at 7:05 PM

    The announcer was terrible.

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  7. Steve StennickNovember 19, 2013 at 7:45 PM

    Why did they re dub this in 1993? What was the purpose in that? Also strange to hear Ross doing WCW things like referring to wrestlers as "athletes" and acknowledging past connections with wrestlers and talking about things like pain threshholds.

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  8. nwa88November 19, 2013 at 8:02 PM

    Wow, which VHS tape was this from? I don't remember this one.

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  9. WaylonMercy2K13November 19, 2013 at 8:08 PM

    Here's something I found that took place right around the same time period as this match. It's Ric Flair plugging a Washington, DC house show match against The Undertaker, conducted by the late, great George Michael (the legendary host of the Sports Machine) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y21g2gnbEO4
    Pretty amazing to see a wrestler cut a better promo on a 5:00 newscast than most guys can cut on an episode of RAW today.

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  10. mikeNovember 19, 2013 at 8:09 PM

    OH man, I love the bit where Perfect pulls the ref out of the ring. You can't see Perfect on the left hand side of the screen, so it just looks like the ref flew away.


    I've watched that part 4 times and it keeps getting funnier.

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  11. cultstatusNovember 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM

    Matches like these are the ones that should be on DVDs.

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  12. Louis IzzoNovember 19, 2013 at 8:41 PM

    It's from the 1993 version of "Grudge Matches." (they recycled that one a few times)

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  13. chicagodem79November 19, 2013 at 9:03 PM

    Cool match!


    I always sign when I come across stuff like this, I know they're telling stories today, but you either don't, or rarely hear about wrestling match strategies, or taking the "winner's share of the purse" or stuff like that anymore. It's bits like that which make nothing, throw away matches interesting....oh well.

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  14. Lenny VowelsNovember 19, 2013 at 9:13 PM

    I see what you did there.

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  15. Lenny VowelsNovember 19, 2013 at 9:15 PM

    Very fun match, aside from the blah ending. Taker was definitely in the proverbial "broomstick" phase at this point (more because of the gimmick rather than talent, I'd say), so Flair was good enough to bring him up to a *** level or so.

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  16. Eric GriffithNovember 20, 2013 at 12:29 AM

    Would you stop.

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  17. Eric GriffithNovember 20, 2013 at 12:29 AM

    They may not have had any play by play when it was filmed. The redub could have been with the intention of making it useable on VHS.

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  18. Eric GriffithNovember 20, 2013 at 12:30 AM

    haha. I missed that; great inside joke by Heenan. He's the best.

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  19. Eric GriffithNovember 20, 2013 at 12:31 AM

    It's interesting, certain fashions look objectively terrible, even at the time. Yet people still buy into them. I don't get it.

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  20. Eric GriffithNovember 20, 2013 at 12:32 AM

    I'm not up on my early '90s WWF - who was that ring announcer???

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  21. Your_Favourite_LoserNovember 20, 2013 at 1:12 AM

    'a good fun, short match for this Tuesday.'


    ...in texas?

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  22. White ThunderNovember 20, 2013 at 4:34 AM

    This must be one of the only Flair matches from his second title reign. If anyone knows of any others please speak up.

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  23. Michael KehmNovember 20, 2013 at 4:41 AM

    Hmm, Taker was face at Wrestlemania VIII, so "freshly" turned is a little bit exaggerated.

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  24. y2j420November 20, 2013 at 5:45 AM

    Mike McGuirk...her first name is really Michelle...she was ring announcer around that time while Finkel handled major shows and PPVs...


    She was the ring announcer in WWF Wrestlefest for the arcade...


    I believe she also accused Vince of sexually harassing her...

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  25. Knuckleberry PinnNovember 20, 2013 at 6:15 AM

    Though there likely are some house show defences, it's very likely that this is the only televised defence from his second reign. I remember seeing Flair appear on a news affiliate to promote this on youtube.

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  26. Knuckleberry PinnNovember 20, 2013 at 6:19 AM

    I always found dubbed commentary to be unnecessarily lacking. It really shines through in the commentators tones, due to lack of excitement, that it's after the fact in a studio somewhere.


    I mean, the whole god damn business is a work, can't the commentators just kayfabe that they're there live?

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  27. Lenny VowelsNovember 20, 2013 at 7:09 AM

    Well, considering the wrestler in question is Flair, it really shouldn't be THAT surprising, should it?

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  28. angrybitterfatguyNovember 20, 2013 at 7:12 AM

    Unrelated post:

    Kitten = parallax

    Potato = married trim

    https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7905555712/h61A5A256/



    (Jef safe)

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  29. angrybitterfatguyNovember 20, 2013 at 7:15 AM

    That is pretty funny.

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  30. Patrick BurkeNovember 20, 2013 at 7:34 AM

    Love me some big hair.

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  31. nwa88November 20, 2013 at 7:49 AM

    I think the reason they went that route is that they saw the tapes as the 'in between PPV releases' and wanted them to feel like their own special event sort of thing. So when you had a change in title holders between the time a match happened and the tape was released, they were sort of stuck with acknowledging that it wasn't a recent match. There was certainly some inconsistency about it though.



    That reminds me on that "Best of WrestleMania I to IX tape" they make a TON of mistakes. The big one that stands out is Gorilla and Vince mistakenly referring to the Warrior/Savage match as being a WWF title match with the Warrior as WWF champion. How that slipped past, I'll never know.

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  32. AverageJoeEverymanNovember 20, 2013 at 7:49 AM

    I subliminally added that to the sentence the first time I read it and thought, wait Taker was fighting Hogan at that show.

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  33. nwa88November 20, 2013 at 7:52 AM

    Exactly, these things often had no commentary, although occasionally if they aired on PTW first, they'd already have commentary recorded. Often times though,they'd go ahead and redub THAT too anyway, sometimes with Mooney/Hayes in the studio dubbing over Mooney/Hayes PTW commentary lol.

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  34. jobber123November 20, 2013 at 8:37 AM

    That's fantastic

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  35. jobber123November 20, 2013 at 8:39 AM

    Lol I did the exact same thing

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  36. Porn-Peddling Jef VinsonNovember 20, 2013 at 9:21 AM

    Jef approved.

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  37. angrybitterfatguyNovember 20, 2013 at 9:26 AM

    Yeah, I can't look at that without smiling.

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  38. Tom DawkingsNovember 20, 2013 at 9:58 AM

    While it's a cool rare match, I didn't really enjoy it. Undertaker's zombie gimmick at the time made it almost impossible to have a good match with. Another thing that bothered me was that Flair was world champion and Undertaker treated him as a midcarder.

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  39. dynamic_daveNovember 20, 2013 at 10:16 AM

    He didn't shake Taker's hand correctly.

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  40. Your_Favourite_LoserNovember 20, 2013 at 10:29 AM

    i can count to potato

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  41. Steven FerrariNovember 20, 2013 at 11:11 AM

    If this match really is from November, though, wasn't that AFTER Flair dropped the belt to Bret? They didn't keep that a secret for very long after it happened.

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  42. Graeme sNovember 20, 2013 at 11:12 AM

    This is quite an awesome find. I like that the same chokeslam from a figure four spot was used so many years later in their Wrestlemania match.

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  43. Matt HaydenNovember 20, 2013 at 1:52 PM

    Yeah, I know, zombie gimmick and all, but it was crazy how little Taker gave Flair there. Just ate him alive.

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  44. WaylonMercy2K13November 20, 2013 at 2:00 PM

    It's not surprising it's from Flair but it is a surprise that he would put that much effort into a newscast appearence that most wrestlers and pretty much all celebrities in general take for granted, pretty much everyone else who makes those appearences look and act like they would rather be at the dentist getting a root canal whereas Flair and George were both going all out to try to convince you that an ordinary, run of the mill house show was a must-see event.

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  45. Patrick DaileyNovember 20, 2013 at 4:33 PM

    WWF @ Landover, MD - Capital Centre - September 2, 1992 (8,000; papered)
    WWF Superstars (French & Italian versions): The Undertaker (w/ Paul Bearer) defeated WWF World Champion Ric Flair (w/ Mr. Perfect) via disqualification at 7:36 when Perfect pulled the referee out of the ring and hit the challenger with a chair; after the match, the Undertaker hit the tombstone on Flair (WWF Wrestling Grudge Matches 93, The Undertaker: His Gravest Matches)

    I'm pretty sure this match is one youtube from his second title reign:
    WAR / WWF @ Yokohama, Japan - September 15, 1992 (12,000)
    WWF World Champion Ric Flair fought Genichiro Tenryu to a draw in a Best 2 out of 3 falls match at 38:35; fall #1: Tenryu pinned Flair with a powerbomb at 13:03; fall #2: Flair defeated Tenryu with the figure-4 at 11:01; fall #3: both men were counted-out at 13:46

    Dark matches at a TV tapings, might have been recorded:
    WWF @ Winnipeg, Manitoba - Arena - September 21, 1992 (6,000)
    The Ultimate Warrior defeated WWF World Champion Ric Flair via disqualification
    WWF @ Brandon, Manitoba - Keystone Centre - September 22, 1992 (6,000)
    The Ultimate Warrior defeated WWF World Champion Ric Flair via count-out

    They may have taped some of the WWF's European tour events in September with Flair defending against (mostly) Savage. First ever WWF event in Berlin.

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