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No, but I have heard good things about it. I would be interested in seeing other clean, straightforward matches like this, even ones that aren't as good as this one. I know the '94 match has been praised, but I would imagine there are some other good matches like this on week-to-week TV, right? They don't just do mat-based matches every couple of years like this, do they?

Someone recommended it, but I have no idea who. I have no concept of the history of Pancrase or anything because it just never interested me, but I never would have talked about it in those terms had I known it was a shoot. Good question. Is any Pancrase worked?

The reason I say that is because the wrestling was pretty basic for the most part, but looked really good and seemed like the pinnacle of the style. All the two counts were my favorite part of the match (not nearfalls necessarily, but just attempts at wrestling the other guy to the mat for a pinfall and getting a normal two count). That's how Flair and Steamboat typically work their matches. What other Dandy matches from this time period are this mat-based, because I want to see them all?

I want to watch this again just so I can point out specifically all the offense Rey does get in. The match felt pretty typical in layout to me: early standoffs, followed by Dragon in control, followed by both guys trading moves and attempting pins, with Dragon finally winning it.

Rankings revised to include November. This has been the toughest month yet because there are so many top-tier great matches: #1 - El Dandy vs Black Warrior (CMLL 11/02/96) #2 - Megumi Kudo vs Combat Toyota (FMW 05/05/96) #3 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW 11/29/96) #4 - El Hijo del Santo & Bestia Salvaje & Scorpio Jr vs El Dandy & Negro Casas & Hector Garza (CMLL 11/29/96) #5 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW 07/09/96) #6 - El Hijo del Santo & Atlantis & El Dandy & Lizmark vs Blue Panther & Felino & Dr Wagner Jr & Negro Casas (CMLL 03/15/96) #7 - Shinjiro Otani vs El Samurai (NJPW 01/21/96) #8 - Wild Pegasus vs Black Tiger (NJPW 06/11/96) #9 - Volk Han vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (RINGS 08/24/96) #10 - Ultimo Dragon vs Shinjiro Otani (NJPW J*Crown 08/05/96) #11 - Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 10/18/96) #12 - Shawn Michaels vs Mankind (WWF Mind Games 09/22/96) #13 - Gran Hamada & Super Delfin & Tiger Mask IV & Gran Naniwa & Masato Yakushiji vs Dick Togo & Mens Teoh & Shiryu & Taka Michinoku & Shoichi Funaki (Michinoku Pro 10/10/96) #14 - Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 09/05/96) #15 - El Hijo del Santo & Bestia Salvaje & Scorpio Jr vs Negro Casas & El Dandy & Hector Garza (CMLL 11/22/96) #16 - Bret Hart vs Steve Austin (WWF Survivor Series 11/17/96) #17 - Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue (AJPW 07/24/96) #18 - Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (AJPW 11/22/96) #19 - Aja Kong vs Kyoko Inoue (AJW 08/30/96) #20 - Rey Misterio Jr & Ultimo Dragon vs Heavy Metal & Psicosis (World Wrestling Peace Festival 06/01/96) #21 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (AJPW 09/05/96) #22 - Dynamite Kansai & Kanako Motoya vs Mayumi Ozaki & Reiko Amano (JWP 06/16/96) #23 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (AJPW 06/07/96) #24 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Ultimo Dragon (WCW World War 3 11/24/96) #25 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (AJPW 11/16/96) #26 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Genichiro Tenryu (UWFI 09/11/96) #27 - Mayumi Ozaki vs Takako Inoue (JWP 05/18/96) #28 - Steve Williams vs Akira Taue (AJPW 04/20/96) #29 - Manami Toyota & Mima Shimoda vs Mariko Yoshida & Kaoru Ito (AJW 09/28/96) #30 - Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka vs Daisuke Ikeda & Takeshi Ono (BattlARTS 10/30/96) #31 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW 05/23/96) #32 - Genichiro Tenryu vs Yoji Anjo (WAR 07/21/96) #33 - Toshiaki Kawada vs Akira Taue (AJPW 03/31/96) #34 - Nobuhiko Takada & Masahito Kakihara vs Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (UWFI 06/26/96) #35 - El Hijo del Santo & El Dandy & Dos Caras vs Blue Panther & Apolo Dantes & Emilio Charles Jr (CMLL 02/16/96) #37 - Volk Han vs Kiyoshi Tamura (RINGS 09/25/96) #38 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada & Johnny Ace & Gary Albright (AJPW 04/20/96) #39 - Keiji Muto vs Shiro Koshinaka (NJPW G-1 Climax 08/05/96) #40 - Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka vs Terry Funk & Gladiator (FMW 09/24/96) #41 - Chris Benoit vs Dean Malenko (WCW Hog Wild 08/10/96) #42 - Masa Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs Kazuo Yamazaki & Takashi Iizuka (NJPW 09/23/96) #43 - Genichiro Tenryu vs Great Muta (WAR 10/11/96) #44 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 03/31/96) #45 - Great Sasuke & Tiger Mask IV & Shiryu vs Taka Michinoku & Super Delphin & Gran Naniwa (Michinoku Pro 03/16/96) #46 - Shinya Hashimoto vs Shiro Koshinaka (NJPW 09/23/96) #47 - Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 05/24/96) #48 - Ultimo Dragon vs Great Sasuke (WAR 10/11/96) #49 - Dynamite Kansai & Takako Inoue vs Mayumi Ozaki & Kyoko Inoue (JWP 04/20/96) #50 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Dean Malenko (WCW Great American Bash 06/16/96) #51 - Ultimo Dragon vs Great Sasuke (NJPW J*Crown 08/05/96) #52 - Black Tiger & El Samurai & Gran Hamada vs Shinjiro Otani & Koji Kanemoto & Dean Malenko (NJPW 02/25/96) #53 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Juventud Guerrera (AAA 07/15/96) #54 - Billy Scott vs Kenichi Yammamoto (UWFI 10/23/96) #55 - Masato Tanaka vs W*ING Kanemura (FMW 08/01/96) #56 - Shane Douglas vs 2 Cold Scorpio (ECW Matter of Respect 05/11/96) #57 - Steven Regal vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 09/21/96) #58 - Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs Buzariashville Ramazi (RINGS 05/25/96) #59 - Devil Masami & Kyoko Inoue vs Dynamite Kansai & Aja Kong (JWP 10/13/96) #60 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Psicosis (WCW Bash at the Beach 07/07/96) #61 - Manami Toyota vs Sakie Hasegawa (AJW 03/20/96) #62 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Shiro Koshinaka (NJPW 03/01/96) #63 - Psicosis vs Ultraman (AAA 03/16/96) #64 - Jushin Liger, Gran Naniwa & Gran Hamada vs Dick Togo & Taka Michinoku & Shoichi Funaki (Michinoku Pro 08/18/96) #65 - Riki Choshu vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW G-1 Climax 08/02/96) #66 - Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels (WWF Wrestlemania XII 03/31/96) #67 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Kenta Kobashi & The Patriot (AJPW 11/22/96) #68 - Masahito Kakihara vs Yoshihiro Takayama (UWFI 09/30/96) #69 - Jushin Liger vs Shinjiro Otani (NJPW 03/17/96) #70 - Vader, Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith vs Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson & Sid (WWF International Incident 07/21/96) #71 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Dean Malenko (WCW Monday Nitro 07/08/96) #72 - Shinya Hashimoto & Junji Hirata vs Kazuo Yamazaki & Takashi Iizuka (NJPW 06/12/96) #73 - Bas Rutten vs Masakatsu Funaki (Pancrase 09/07/96) #74 - Taka Michinoku vs Super Delphin (NJPW Skydiving J 06/17/96) #75 - Shiro Koshinaka vs Satoshi Kojima (NJPW G-1 Climax 08/06/96) #76 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Akira Taue (AJPW 05/24/96) #77 - Shinya Hashimoto & Junji Hirata vs Yoshihiro Takayama & Yoji Anjo (NJPW 02/25/96) #78 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Juventud Guerrera (AAA 03/16/96) #79 - Shawn Michaels vs Owen Hart (WWF In Your House VI 02/18/96) #80 - Sabu & Rob Van Dam vs The Eliminators (ECW November To Remember 11/16/96) #81 - Vader vs Antonio Inoki (NJPW 01/04/96) #82 - Chris Jericho vs 2 Cold Scorpio (ECW Doctor Is In 08/03/96) #83 - Jushin Liger & Black Tiger vs Shinjiro Otani & Koji Kanemoto (NJPW 02/15/96) #84 - Shawn Michaels vs Diesel (WWF Good Friends Better Enemies 04/28/96) #85 - Masa Chono vs Keiji Muto (NJPW G-1 Climax 08/06/96) #86 - Steven Regal vs Fit Finlay (WCW Uncensored 03/24/96) #87 - Rey Misterio Jr & Konnan vs Juventud Guerrera & Jerry Estrada (AAA 08/19/96) #88 - PG-13 vs Tracy Smothers & Jesse James Armstrong (USWA TV 02/17/96) #89 - Jushin Liger vs Dick Togo (NJPW Skydiving J 06/17/96) #90 - El Dandy & El Hijo del Santo & Silver King vs Negro Casas & Apolo Dantes & El Satanico (CMLL 02/10/96) #91 - Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka & Koji Nakagawa vs W*ING Kanemura & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Hidoh (FMW 01/10/96) #92 - Steve Austin vs Marc Mero (WWF King of the Ring 06/23/96) #93 - Shawn Michaels vs Owen Hart (WWF Monday Night RAW 08/12/96) #94 - Hulk Hogan & Scott Hall & Kevin Nash & NWO Sting vs Ric Flair & Arn Anderson & Lex Luger & Sting (WCW Fall Brawl 09/15/96) #95 - Jushin Liger vs Great Sasuke (World Wrestling Peace Festival 06/01/96) #96 - Jerry Lawler vs Jeff Jarrett (USWA TV 04/20/96) #97 - Volk Han vs Masayuki Naruse (RINGS 10/25/96) #98 - Undertaker vs Mankind (WWF Summerslam 08/18/96) #99 - Great Sasuke & Tiger Mask IV & Hikari Fukuoka & Hiromi Yagi vs Super Delphin & Gran Naniwa & Candy Okutsu & Commando Bolshoi (JWP 10/13/96) #100 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Juventud Guerrera (ECW Big Ass Extreme Bash 03/09/96) #101 - Ric Flair vs Eddy Guerrero (WCW Monday Nitro 05/20/96) #102 - Cactus Jack vs Mikey Whipwreck (ECW Big Ass Extreme Bash 03/09/96) #103 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Psicosis (WAR 10/11/96) #104 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama & Satoru Asako vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW 09/28/96) #105 - Sabu vs 2 Cold Scorpio (ECW 04/19/96) #106 - Mayumi Ozaki vs Dynamite Kansai (JWP 08/10/96) #107 - Jushin Liger & El Samurai vs Shinjiro Otani & Yuji Nagata (NJPW 10/25/96) #108 - Shawn Michaels vs Davey Boy Smith (WWF King of the Ring 06/23/96) #109 - Manami Toyota vs Yumiko Hotta (AJW 01/22/96) #110 - Black Tiger vs Shinjiro Otani (NJPW 06/05/96) #111 - Manami Toyota vs Kyoko Inoue (AJW 03/31/96) #112 - Psicosis vs Ultraman (AAA 01/18/96) #113 - Sting, Lex Luger & Randy Savage vs Ric Flair, Chris Benoit & Steve McMichael (WCW Monday Nitro 07/29/96) #114 - 2 Cold Scorpio vs Sabu (ECW Cyberslam 02/17/96) #115 - Genichiro Tenryu vs Naoki Sano (UWFI 08/17/96) #116 - Rey Misterio Jr & Perro Aguayo vs La Parka & Ultimo Dragon vs Cibernetico & Pierroth Jr vs Heavy Metal & Psicosis (AAA 06/02/96) #117 - Jushin Liger vs Koji Kanemoto (NJPW 01/04/96) #118 - PG-13 vs Tracy Smothers & Jesse James Armstrong (USWA TV 01/20/96) #119 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Dean Malenko (WCW Halloween Havoc 10/27/96) #120 - Shawn Michaels vs Vader (WWF Summerslam 08/18/96) #121 - Manami Toyota & Mariko Yoshida & Kaoru Ito & Yumi Fukawa vs Takako Inoue & Kyoko Inoue & Chapparita Asari & Tomoko Watanabe (AJW 02/12/96) #122 - 1-2-3 Kid vs Hakushi (WWF Monday Night RAW 02/05/96) #123 - Dick Togo & Mens Teoh & Shiryu vs Great Sasuke & Gran Hamada & Masato Yakushiji (Michinoku Pro 10/19/96) #124 - Steve Austin vs Mankind (WWF Monday Night RAW 11/18/96) #125 - El Dandy & Silver King & Lizmark vs Negro Casas & El Felino & El Satanico (CMLL 06/28/96) #126 - Steve Austin vs Hunter Hearst Helmsley (WWF Buried Alive 10/20/96) #127 - Jushin Liger vs El Samurai (NJPW 06/11/96) #128 - Genichiro Tenryu vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW Battle Formation 04/29/96) #129 - Jushin Liger & El Samurai & Gran Hamada vs Shinjiro Otani & Koji Kanemoto & Taka Michinoku (NJPW 04/05/96) #130 - Undertaker vs Mankind (WWF Buried Alive 10/20/96) #131 - Shawn Michaels vs Marty Jannetty (WWF Monday Night RAW 07/01/96) #132 - Dean Malenko vs Steven Regal (WCW Monday Nitro 08/19/96) #133 - Steve Austin vs Savio Vega (WWF Beware of Dog 05/28/96) #134 - Rey Misterio Jr vs Juventud Guerrera (AAA 01/31/96) #135 - Wild Pegasus vs Shinjiro Otani (NJPW 03/20/96) #136 - Chris Jericho vs Pit Bull #2 (ECW Hardcore Heaven 06/22/96) #137 - Shinya Hashimoto vs Kazuo Yamazaki (NJPW 01/04/96) #138 - Shawn Michaels vs Davey Boy Smith (WWF Beware of Dog 05/26/96) #139 - El Dandy & Atlantis & Hector Garza vs Apolo Dantes & Dr Wagner Jr & El Felino (CMLL June 1996) #140 - Ric Flair vs The Giant (WCW Monday Nitro 03/25/96) #141 - Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Dick Murdoch (PWFG 05/23/96) #142 - Keiji Muto & Rick Steiner vs Manabu Nakanishi & Satoshi Kojima (NJPW 10/25/96) #143 - Ric Flair vs Randy Savage (WCW SuperBrawl VI 02/11/96) #144 - Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & W*ING Kanemura & Hido vs Masato Tanaka & Ricky Fuji & Tetsuhiro Kuroda (FMW 02/23/96) #145 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW Battle Formation 04/29/96) #146 - Aja Kong vs Combat Toyota (FMW 01/10/96) #147 - Rob Van Dam vs Doug Furnas (ECW Natural Born Killaz 08/24/96) #148 - Shawn Michaels vs 1-2-3 Kid (WWF Monday Night RAW 03/04/96) #149 - Manami Toyota vs Aja Kong (AJW 10/06/96) #150 - Shawn Michaels vs Steve Austin (WWF Monday Night RAW 10/14/96) #151 - Steven Regal vs Fit Finlay (WCW Saturday Night 04/27/96) #152 - Shane Douglas vs Mikey Whipwreck (ECW 10/18/96) #153 - Atlantis & Lizmark & El Hijo del Santo vs El Felino & Bestia Salvaje & El Satanico (CMLL 40th Anniversary Show 04/19/96) #154 - Jushin Liger vs Black Tiger (NJPW 02/03/96) #155 - Shawn Michaels vs Hunter Hearst Helmsley (WWF Monday Night RAW 05/13/96) #156 - Road Warriors vs Rick & Scott Steiner (WCW Monday Nitro 03/11/96) #157 - Juventud Guerrera & Psicosis vs Volador & El Mexicano (AAA 01/12/96) #158 - Jushin Liger vs Dean Malenko (WCW Monday Nitro 05/06/96) #159 - Shawn Michaels vs Leif Cassidy (WWF Monday Night RAW 03/25/96) #160 - Dean Malenko vs Disco Inferno (WCW Bash at the Beach 07/07/96) #161 - Ric Flair vs Randy Savage (WCW Monday Nitro 02/19/96) #162 - Sting vs Scott Steiner (WCW Monday Nitro 05/27/96)

Another super-heated brawl, as they continue to build to the triangle match. Another MOTYC-level match. November was an incredibly loaded month. They focus primarily on Dandy and Santo here, and while Santo is still the aggressor, Dandy hangs with him way more this time than before. Casas kinda picks his spots and comes in at select times, and I'm sure there's a story there that I'm just not getting. Anyway, they do get a measure of revenge here. That said, can someone explain to me why Dandy and Casas were in a triangle match? I understand they both had issues with Santo, but what issue did they have with each other to necessitate that? Why didn't they just build to two singles matches?

Amazing that these guys can have a match this great the week before the tag league final, and still not be out of new stuff to do when they get there. I knew I'd like this match, as I have liked all the matches between these teams. I didn't expect for this to be one of best matches of the year in its own right. This is more visceral and all-action than the other matches between these teams earlier in the year, which is really saying something. And I know the tag league final will take the top spot, but other than that, this is my favorite match between the teams.

It took Bischoff a little while to become a strong TV performer, but he's pretty decent at first. He says everyone in WCW has 30 days to convert their contracts to NWO contracts. The American Males come down to the ring. Bagwell takes Bischoff's offer and they beat up Scotty Riggs. Say it ain't so!

Shawn does an incredibly obnoxious, whiny promo, screaming way too much, which he obviously isn't comfortable with. Wow, between Bret and Shawn, the WWF's top babyfaces were a real drag around this time. No wonder Austin got as over as he did.

We get the last few minutes. It's Rey, Regal, Jarrett, DDP, Eddy and Luger versus the NWO and it's really, really good. Regal actually has an awesome babyface moment going to town on the NWO. Then, it's Luger versus the NWO and Luger overcomes the odds briefly before The Giant finally eliminates him. They did a great job on so many things around this time. Piper was Hogan's immediate opponent. But Luger was someone they wanted as a Hogan challenger the next year, so they were building him up. And Giant was eventually going to leave the NWO and challenge Hogan, so they were setting that up too. The whole story of Luger as an unlikely hero was one of my favorite things about this time. He lost his best friend because of a mistake he made, and he had to step up and lead, and he did. He crashed immediately after the five-day title run the next year, but this was a good time period for him.

Hogan should be studied here. He was amazing. This was also really well laid out, with nice little touches like no one in the NWO laying any blows in on Piper except Hogan. Everyone laid out Savage all the time, so that was a nice way to make him seem like a tougher challenger. Then, Piper occasionally breaks free of the NWO restraining him to attack Hogan. Another nice touch. They really did a good job hyping the Hogan/Piper match, and Hogan was doing the best interviews of his career at this point.

Ok, this match is still awesome. I don't understand the "it's too one-sided" complaints, because I thought it was laid out really well. This really shows the potential of the cruiserweight division. I know this was jdw's favorite WCW match of the 90s, but it seems like quite a few people have been down on it in recent years for being an extended squash. Watching it again, I don't get that at all. My final verdict: Rey matches during this time period that aren't against Psicosis or Juventud have criticisms that I don't agree with at all.

Really, really boring match. Has its moments, but overall, there's a lot of laying on the mat and almost a total lack of heat for most of it.

Agreed. Even if some of these matches don't hold up in full, it opens up the floor for an interesting discussion about whether JIP skewed how good matches seemed to be.

Blame Vince. Michael Cole's job isn't to make original observations.

I could see Rock and HHH having one more money match, but that's a moot point, as HHH is about to finish up. Rock vs CM Punk would be fantastic, but I think they'd need to build Punk up for a year before that match, not doing any jobs at all and winning decisively, and getting a ton of promo time, and they don't seem willing to make that type of investment in anyone at all anymore, which is why they are in the shape they're in. Rock vs Orton might have meant something at one point, but Orton's stock has plummeted since he turned babyface.

There aren't very many guys Rock could work with because they don't have any genuine stars anymore. Rock vs Cena would be huge. I'm not sure what other matches they could build to that would be worth his time.

I'm assuming this is where Santo actually turned? He comes out incognito before revealing himself and joining Scorpio and Salvaje. This is a fantastic, super-heated match with lots of rudo aggression. Santo just steps into this role like he's been doing it all his life. He takes no offense at all from the technicos for the first two falls, which is a smart way to build heat for future matches. Casas is a bloody mess and his selling of this mass destruction is off the charts. When Dandy gets a bulldog on Santo in the third fall, the building explodes. These two have some great exchanges and we get the most awesome War Games-like babyface comeback toward the end, with Casas getting a second wind while Dandy tries to rip Santo's mask off. But Casas' comeback gets cut off, and I can just hear Jim Ross freaking out in the back of my head, as this has definite elements of old school NWA or Mid South. Santo does a hate-filled promo to cap things off holding Casas hostage and continuing to destroy him. MOTYC. The first time I've seen this. I've seen the rematch a week later before, and I'm excited to watch it again now having seen this.

Lots of bland matwork early on, and probably the least of the tag league matches so far. It gets really, really good in the final stretch, but there is too much time wasting at the beginning. This is a match that is meant to be seen JIP.

As good as the Doc/Ace vs Misawa/Akiyama match was a few days before this, this is much better. Kawada gets destroyed and sells it beautifully, as they completely decimate his knee. There is probably better Kawada having his knee destroyed, but that's always good. This match also built heat better. That match had a hotter crowd to begin with, whereas Kawada had to sell his ass off to wake the crowd up here, which they did. Everyone is good in this match, but this is the Kawada show.

Really good match, but I'd probably call this middle of the pack compared to most of the RINGS on the set. Great drama and some awesome mat exchanges, as usual.

It is. This working is really on John Cena. He may need to take more control if he's given bad material and go with his instincts. I do think Cena could keep up with Rock, but not the way he's currently portrayed.

The big angle. Eric Bischoff comes out and says they've been trying to reach Piper through all of his contacts and have had no luck, but they would keep trying. Piper comes out to set the record straight and calls Eric Bischoff a liar. He asks if the road going to his house was straight or winding, if he flew first class or coach, what airline he used. Good stuff. The NWO then comes out to restrain Piper and Hogan gives Bischoff a hug. Eric Bischoff has joined the NWO. Piper tries to lunge at Hogan while the ring is filled with the NWO guys and security, which is quite the visual. The show closes with Piper saying he'll be at World War 3. I guess you could call this the point when the NWO started getting a little big, even if in the short-term, it was a well put-together angle.

Hogan does an awesome promo making Bischoff look at the camera and say Hogan is a bigger icon and bigger star than Piper, and that he's afraid of Piper and that if they both stood on their bank accounts that Hogan would make Piper look like a midget. Then, DDP comes out for an interview and is quickly interrupted by Hall and Nash, this time with Syxx and Giant out too. Nash quotes 2001: A Space Odyssey as the NWO makes elusive comments about how Page obviously doesn't know what's about to happen tonight, which is an interesting setup for the big angle later in the show.

This starts with the aftermath of a High Voltage vs Public Enemy match. Hall and Nash had come in and laid everyone out. Nash then does a promo to scare the hell out of Tony Schiavone and call him for laughing the previous week, which I thought was a great bit of attention to detail. Believe it or not, Hall does a good heel promo talking about how he's always heard how tough the Faces of Fear are and that he and Nash want to see just how tough they are. A Hall and Nash promo putting over their opponents, imagine that? Then, the Outsiders and Faces of Fear brawl to the back.