Loss
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Wrestling announcers and real sports announcers aren't really doing the same thing. Baseball announcers aren't expected to get certain people over so they can fill up stadiums. I think it's possible for announcers to sell us that everything we're seeing is good without coming across as phony.
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Shorter and faster-paced than most FMW singles matches so far. A few sloppy moments, but a good match overall. Kuroda makes a good showing, but Tanaka finishes him off decisively with the elbow.
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Highlights of what looks to be a wild match, won by the Dudleys and Jack Victory. -
Hard to follow what's going on, but Taz and Bigelow are brawling, and Sabu and RVD are somehow involved too, putting Candido through a table.
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JYD has just passed away. They show a clip of him at Wrestlepalooza a month earlier.
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This is a pretty big TV main event. WCW continues to have no idea how to film a cage match. Roddy Piper is the referee. Go away, Roddy. Savage is pretty heavily favoring his leg, which I think is partially storyline and partially legit - he had been working on a bad wheel for months and this would be his last appearance for a long time and served as a way to write him out to have surgery. Piper gets in Savage's face and ends up eating a piledriver. No heat for all of this, as fans chant for Goldberg and ECW the entire time. Piper ends up fighting DDP as well. This is a trainwreck. The cage raises (I suspect foul play by Ole Anderson) just enough for the NWO black-and-white to enter the ring and attack Savage. Lots of guys try climbing the cage to make the save and can't. It's cool that they are trying to copy old Omni angles, but no. Anyway, the big story here is that Savage is done. Nash finds the cage controls and is able to raise the cage. The heels bail and they go off the air.
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The Giant is out doing his short-lived cigarette smoking gimmick. I'm not sure what the point of this was.
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JJ somberly tells us that because Jericho won the match by DQ at the Great American Bash, he is now the cruiserweight champion. Jericho comes out to gloat. Dillon is told he has to defend the title within 30 days to Dean Malenko. Jericho cites the rulebook again, pointing out that he is NOT obligated to give Dean a title shot. He has the right of refusal. Malenko attacks Jericho from behind and end up brawling everywhere again. This feud is very good. Jericho ends up disappearing into the Nassau Coliseum parking lot.
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Match never takes place, continuing the WWF's bait-and-switch habits. Austin ends up having a great brawl with both Kane and Mankind while Undertaker comes from under the ring to attack Paul Bearer while the cell is locked. Hot stuff.
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He can be a terrible wrestling announcer and good at other things, and that's great. People always defend him as an announcer though, not as a television personality. I just think it's worth distinguishing. To say he's a bad announcer doesn't mean he was worthless or anything like that.
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Michael Cole, fake and douchey as ever, is hosting Livewire when DX show up with the Super Soakers. Well, if you want DX to be babyfaces ...
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Al Snow is not really getting over in the WWF after all, but he's also doing interviews using insider terms, so no wonder. Lawler and Snow get in a fight in a flat segment.
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Not much of a match. No heat, and it's all a Rock-Owen ploy, as Rock distracts HHH with a promo from the crowd while Owen comes from behind to crotch Pac on the guardrail, giving HHH a countout win.
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This is all to hype a match between HHH and X-Pac later tonight.
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Last few minutes. Since each guy is now on opposite sides but they are tag team champions, the winner gets to claim the titles with the partner of his choice. The WCW lifestyle seems to have taken something out of Giant. He beats the guy with three scorpion deathdrops.
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Last few minutes. Piper is face in peril. Hogan keeps distracting the referee every time Savage tags in. Cool spot with Bret doing his typical headbutt to the lower abdomen and Savage putting a chair there. Savage does a relatively clean job to Bret, so give him credit for doing that on his way out. This immediately leads to Savage vs Piper, which I guess I should watch even though I'm not exactly excited. Savage punches Charles Robinson, who takes a great bump, for no apparent reason. Piper wins with a figure four. Glad that was short. You can tell Savage is about to take time off based on how he's used here.
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Wrestling announcers are not paid to tell the truth. They are supposed to make you think everything and everyone you are watching is great.
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Booker had an amazing night. This was another incredible match. Finlay beats the shit out of Booker in this one, working over his knee like clockwork and paving the way for Booker to win against all odds. Finlay's leg work is really brutal and unique. WCW had something special and it saddens me that his push ultimately went nowhere. This is great in a completely different way than the Benoit match was great, which makes both of them even more impressive.
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Last few minutes. Jericho has tights that say 1004! Crowd is VERY into this which is a testament to Jericho's heel work. Jericho says "You're nothing, just like your dead father" which causes Malenko to snap. He goes after Jericho with a chair and gets disqualified. They end up brawling into the backstage area and outside in traffic! Jericho finally hides in a building across the street. Fun!
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Match 8 of 7, since the series ended the way it did. I have to say that I really prefer Booker T clean cut in a suit taken seriously as a wrestler to what he ended up being. So much more sincere and I think he has more potential as a headliner in this persona too. This was a spectacular match. Benoit really made Booker look like a million bucks by framing a match around what Booker could do. This was really hard fought and it's been fun to track Booker's growth in 1998, especially in this series. Booker is a better seller than he is someone with a lot of offense, so Benoit took most of the match and put him in a position to sell. So when he won the match, he really accomplished something in doing so. Great match, easily the best thing in WCW all year.
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Lawler continues his feud with Hales, but I still think he's being a jerk for no real reason. Is he trying to copy Austin's edginess, thinking that's en vogue? They cut away to a promo with Kane and Paul Bearer. I like how they are tying in the private conversation gone wrong on RAW to this feud. Haha, Downtown Bruno is taking on the Patterson/Brisco role. When Lawler calls Hales out, Bruno comes out and says Hales is busy and doesn't have time to respond to all of these "Tom, Dick and Harry" requests, so Lawler gives him a piledriver in the ring. The poor man's Austin-McMahon indeed.
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As much as I loved Wagner-Kanemoto, this blows it away. I've missed these All Japan matches since Misawa-Kobashi. There are definite flaws here with the excessive headdropping, but I think what makes the match for me is the ability to really work basic moves for maximum importance. All of the struggle over the vertical suplex and Kobashi's deadlift attempts to avoid being powerbombed were great and were the highlight of the match for me. Kobashi has an almost Fuchi-like ability to work holds when he chooses to do it. Those moments tended to get pops on the same level as the big bumps, which makes me wish they had done more in that direction. I love the simplicity of the finish as a parallel of how Kobashi lost the TC the first time around - all it took was an elbow from Misawa to lose it, and in this case, he won it back with a simple lariat. He learned from his loss the previous year. Classic match, only a notch below the very best All Japan matches of all time.
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Saturn pins Glacier, then Raven gets on the mic and asks Kanyon to join the Flock. Raven and Saturn then beat up their own riot squad, but one of them is Kanyon. I have no idea why he was wearing the Mortis mask when he had already unmasked.
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Malenko is willing to surrender the belt if it means he can get Jericho back in the ring. He knows he can get it back on Sunday, so he's willing to give it up. Jericho comes out to celebrate, but Dillon cuts him short. Dillon tells Jericho they will have a match at the Great American Bash to decide the title but until then it's vacant. Jericho is livid. Ted Irvine, Jericho's dad, comes out to chastise him for complaining so much. He tells him to shut up and go earn the belt in the ring if he wants it so bad. This was good, but it would have been funnier if his dad was more like him with a strange hairstyle.
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Before the match starts, Bret Hart comes to recruit Chris Benoit into the NWO. Funny that no one has noticed that Bret still isn't in the group. That could have been the beginning of something cool to move Benoit up a notch if WCW wasn't WCW. Match 7 of 7. This picks up where Match 6 left off, with Benoit going after Booker's knee which was injured at the very end of the last match. It's interesting how they have worked these matches to babyface Booker, but Benoit has been the most over guy almost every time out. Benoit does an incredible Indian deathlock-cattle mutilation combo. This is just cranking up when they go to the crap finish. Bret comes out with a chair and waylays Booker. Benoit stops the countout and tells the ref that Bret hit Booker with the chair, so Booker wins by DQ. I realize they were just looking for a way to get one final big match between them at the Great American Bash, so I won't complain too much about that. I'm more distraught that the match was cut short when it was about to get great.