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Undertaker attacks Lawler at the broadcast booth for what he said last week before giving him a chokeslam in the ring. He's about to tombstone him when Kane and Paul Bearer show up. After Paul Bearer has a few words, Lawler tries to bail but ends up getting that tombstone after all.
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Mero puts Sable in the TKO position to scare her, then takes her down and says they can drop this if she will apologize for trying to ruin his WWF career. Sable responds to that by kicking him in the nuts and giving him a very, very opponent-assisted Sablebomb. Good segment.
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Austin wants Vince out to tell him who his tag team partner and opponents are tonight. Vince, Patterson and Brisco interrupt by Titantron and refuse to do so. More good stuff.
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Jack and Jerry Brisco - the tag team champions of auto repair! Everyone involved is having the time of their lives and I love it.
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Very, very late 90s in its aesthetics, but pretty cutting edge for the time period.
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Kevin Kelly gets Austin's reaction. Austin is pissed off and searches for Vince.
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Kevin Kelly is on the search for Steve Austin to get his reaction but instead finds Al Snow trying to get into the building and arguing with Head.
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Vince brings out Dude Love, clean shaven, hair combed, with a suit (well ...) and tie, and his teeth in. He's even holding the Wall Street Journal and wearing reading glasses, even giving us a completely different cadence in his interviews. Vince announces that Gerald Brisco will be the timekeeper at Over The Edge and Pat Patterson will be the ring announcer. Vince announces a special guest referee with amazing platitudes. No one comes out, so Vince goes to the back to get the guy while everyone just stands in the ring. Patterson finally announces the special referee. They briefly tease Bret Hart before Vince comes back out in a ref's shirt and mocks Austin's intro. Awesome stuff.
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Last few minutes. Hogan misses a legdrop, which brings Disciple out to distract the referee while Bret Hart hits Savage from behind with the belt, giving Hogan the win. Nash runs out (on an obviously bad knee) and chases Hogan and friends away. Piper also comes in the ring out of nowhere and reverses the decision - Savage wins by DQ! Piper still has authority even though JJ Dillon is back? Piper cuts a promo on both Bret and Savage and how much he hates them both before announcing that he will be the special referee for their match at Slamboree. Nash has to stand there like an idiot while all of this is going on. Giant comes out while Piper is cutting his neverending promo and he and Nash are about to fight. What a poorly produced mess with so much stuff happening overlapping other stuff. Finally, we see Sting in the rafters silent again, because he hasn't been talking and acting normal for months now. What the hell is wrong with WCW?
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Jericho is wearing Iaukea's skirt and has an easel with him. He calls himself the "Ayatollah of Rock & Rollah" for the first time and they are pointing out that Jericho has gone through everyone in the division and there are no other challengers on the horizon. He promises to retire the cruiserweight title soon since no one can beat him. JJ Dillon is out to tell Jericho that the Executive Championship Executive Executive Championship Committee has decided there will be a 15-man battle royal and the winner will challenge Jericho at Slamboree the same night. Jericho is upset at first until he realizes his odds are good. He ends up revealing a defaced Dena Malenko poster and pretends to be upset. JOE MALENKO comes out and looks like a total badass. Jericho cracks me up ("I've got no problems with you, shooter") before Joe gives him a dad lecture. Jericho points out that this has all been misconstrued and he has total respect for the Malenko family. Jericho ends up sneak attacking Joe with the "leg of Rey Misterio" and they've done a great job putting heat on Jericho going into Slamboree.
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Hogan promotes his new Three Ninjas movie and Assault On Devil's Island, which makes him look silly while in his Hollywood gimmick. Hogan takes exception to Nash's account of how Hogan rode the gravy train earlier in the show. Hogan responds that they needed his rub because they couldn't cut it on their own. These guys are definitely shooting on each other, but it all works in the context of the feud. Hogan accepts Savage's challenge and will dedicate his victory to his assistants on his movie set. Hogan tells Nash to get his gray hair and skinny legs out there. Nash starts off by telling Hogan to take his wife's sunglasses off. Hogan tries to one-up Nash and Nash's comebacks are so sharp and this is really fascinating to watch. These two definitely have heat. Hogan demands that Nash apologize and grovel to get back on his good side. Nash says he ain't apologizing for nothin' and says he can go through everyone in the ring to get to him without a problem. Giant ends up coming out in an NWO shirt and attacking Nash from behind. What a completely illogical and hotshot turn. He spraypaints Nash with the NWO letters before Konnan ... and Dusty ... and Savage ... make the save. I can't get over the dissonance in personalities in the Wolfpac.
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That WCW shows this clip of NWO fans so proudly just demonstrates how much of an institution the group became. The angle worked initially because the attention to detail was so masterful. They are losing their way.
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Clip of DDP and Raven brawling again on MTV.
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Larry Zbyszko points out that Dusty's so big he could be in both NWOs at the same time. Now I wish I had counted previous segments on this show, because Larry for some reason has been on quite the fat shaming kick all night. Dusty is upset with Bischoff for phasing out the Wolfpac, taking Scott Hall off of TV and firing Syxx. He defends Nash over Hogan but says that Savage needs to stop bitching. So he's criticizing both sides. I love Dusty and he has some great lines, but there is no real focus to this.
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Ultimo Dragon defeats Johnny Swinger. Chavo forms an alliance with Ultimo and Eddy hates this. Chavo stands up for himself, Ultimo puts a dragon sleeper on Eddy and Eddy blindsides Ultimo. LOUD "Eddy sucks!" chant. This guy rules.
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The Wolfpac really needs their new entrance music soon. Nash comes out with just Konnan, perhaps realizing how much Savage and Hennig cramp his style while Konnan makes him cool. I don't really understand who Nash is directing this promo toward ... Bischoff? Nash calls out Hogan for saying "4 Life" and "too sweet" all uncool-like. They get the Oscar play out of their music at that point, which cracks me up.
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The Nitro Girls are doing their thing when they are interrupted by the vastly superior Alex Wright, wearing bright red pants. Awesome. Security comes out to escort him away and he keeps dancing because he feels it!
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Bischoff calls out Vince McMahon for sending "his little wannabes" around. He accuses DX and Vince of pulling a stunt by showing up to his office when they knew he wouldn't be there. He calls Sean Waltman a little puppet and says there's no way he gives him an apology. Anyway, he ends up challenging Vince McMahon to a match at Slamboree. Reactionary garbage.
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Savage wants Hogan in the ring tonight. That was the match they ran the week after RAW broke their ratings streak and they drew an impressive 6.5 quarter off of the main event. So they went back to it and this time it didn't work. Even though WCW needed to push new stars, prostituting such a marquee match for ratings instead of saving it for something special is silly. They acted like the sky was falling because suddenly the WWF was competitive in the ratings instead of just re-thinking their approach and slowly moving in a new direction.
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WCW booking is such a mess now that a WCW guy is a heel against an NWO guy. Bret has such generic lines in his WCW promos but they get a great heel reaction. He seems really determined to make something out of his feud with Savage.
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This was really great. I've never seen Frank Parker or Roger Anderson work before, but I'm told they are North Carolina indy vets and they are really good at building heat. Helms is perfectly cast as a babyface because of his great high flying moves and this has all the things you want in tag team wrestling - hot start with the heels getting outsmarted and losing every exchange early, leading to one mistake where the heels take over and heat things up like crazy and finally a hot tag building to a finish. I loved this, and sadly, these matches are few and far between by 1998. This is on an indy show, but there's nothing minor league about this - the guys aren't stars, but this is the type of work that could get over in a larger building just as well. -
Austin does commentary and is fantastic in getting everything over - putting both guys over while also keeping himself over. This was a really wild TV main event that was chaotic and lots of fun. They brawled everywhere when that was still novel. Patterson ends up eating an accidental mandible claw and an on-purpose stunner post-match. Vince comes out to gloat about Dude's win after the match and does some OUT OF THIS WORLD dancing! Austin is doing his best not to laugh and I can understand him having trouble. Vince is absolutely incredible here. I think his post-match dancing is my single favorite moment of the year.
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Really well-done video to set up the evening's main event, even containing footage of their death matches in Japan. Looking back, video packages played a significant role in the WWF winning the ratings war, and I wish they did stuff like this more often now.
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This one has Jenna Jameson.
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One of the most memorable segments of this time period to me, as they act like this is a shoot at first, with the camera being set down and Lawler and Bearer not realizing they're on the air and Lawler making all sorts of crude euphemisms about having sex with the Undertaker's mom. This was clever, because it was set up like we were seeing something we weren't supposed to see before getting to something that was obviously angle. After the commercial, Lawler issues what is an obviously forced apology because he says he didn't realize was on the air. Clever.