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    I watched this as a youngster (with no internet/dirt sheets) so I didn't think of it this way at the time (I was pretty convinced Taker would win here) but if you watch this with knowledge of the way wrestling (though not always WWE so maybe that's the point) works, you would assume Vader would win this. The winner faces a babyface Sid so right there you are to assume one of the heels would win. And not Austin because he has a hotter feud with Bret to deal with and the belt will come eventually regardless, you just sense that. Then the way they're working, Vader is working his ass off even after a pretty nasty injury and (as pointed out before) Bret just seems pretty blase about it all. This whole period really was booked in the most complicated way possible but I guess Shawn leaving kinda screwed them so they at least have SOME excuse. The amazing thing is that they gave him the belt again when he came back. Oy.
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    Especially when Vince says "This Monday on Raw it will be Sid versus Bret Hart!........................or the Undertaker...or Steve Austin...or Vader"
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    I would have been 13 at this time. I didn't have a computer and had never heard of Dave Meltzer. But I had a memory and could put 2 and 2 together. It made Shawn look like such a "wuss" (I probably used another word at the time). And Lawler, Ross, even McMahon fellating him during all this nonsense made them look so disingenuous as well. I haaaaaated Shawn in 96, the "edgy" thing was actually kind of making me like him somewhat but after this he never could've won me over. I can appreciate that he can put on a good match and that he has changed and that's all great, but stuff like this ruled me out of ever being a Shawn "fan".
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    This is pretty bad. I assume that's his real family and that makes it even weirder. I was there and you could neither hear nor see a thing so it was like an intermission.
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    Ah, my first Monday night show. I was so excited (no competing Raw to miss!) even though I could touch the ceiling. Worst seats I ever had despite buying them the day they went on sale. Jacksonville is always hype for WCW and this was no exception. This just felt so cool at the time, and it does hold up even after all these years.
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    He actually says "In San Francisco, watch my fists go" which makes somewhat more sense.
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    Man, Ross is belittling Hogan/WCW as Michaels comes out and says "HE'S NOT BALDING! HE'S NOT MAKING PROMISES HE CAN'T KEEP! SHAWN MICHAELS PROMISES ON THURSDAY RAW THURSDAY HE'S GONNA COME OUT HERE AND PUT IT ALL ON THE LINE AGAINST SID!!!" Yeesh, almost as if he knew and was just being sarcastic.
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    I wonder who had their finger on that button?
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    Yeah, I think hosting this in a more "rowdy" wrestling city would've been a better idea. Philly could've backfired on them because ECW had a cult fanbase there, but maybe somewhere like Chicago (where they ran a red hot Nitro the week before) or even Nassau Coliseum (I think they started running shows there around this time) would've helped their cause with trying this "different" PPV.
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    Three months later and Schiavone still has to say "Slim Jim's Halloween Havoc" instead of just "Halloween Havoc". Slim Jim really had an ironclad clause in that contract. Anyways, yeah I remember this crystal clear. I think I remember it even more because I went to my first televised show a few weeks later when Page did a similar thing (which may or may not be on the yearbook).
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    Yeah, Vince didn't look too impressed when they cut to him.
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    For whatever reason (maybe because it's sandwiched between 2 "hot" areas for wrestling - Atlanta and Tampa) north Florida never has lasting indies. When I was a teen (96-98ish) I'd go watch some really awful stuff at a sports bar that was a promotion I don't even remember the name of. The only one I remember lasting several years was the TWF, Thunder Wrestling Federation. I'd say they ran from 95/96 through the early 2000s at least. They were targeted to a black audience (the owner was black and a lot of the wrestlers were obviously just his buddies that he trained). 'Black Nature Boy' Scoot Andrews is without question the only "name" guy that ever had a run there. He was usually the champion. Sometimes they'd have a former star roll through. Barbarian did a few shows per year. Greg Valentine too. And this was in like 2001 so not glory days obviously. The biggest thing to happen on a Jacksonville indie was New Jack stabbing that guy during a match and getting arrested, which I guess sums up my story.
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    Big Smiths fan... The Smiths Best of Davey Boy Smith, DH Smith, Bison Smith, JT Smith Meat Is Murder Compilation of Shawn "Meat" Stasiak Strangeways, Here We Come Compilation of some of the strangest gimmicks Hatful of Hollow The greatest hats in wrestling history Louder Than Bombs Compilation of guys loudly calling spots The Queen Is Dead Deceased women wrestlers comp and Morrissey Kill Uncle Uncles vs Nephews Viva Hate Best of Mexican feuds Ringleader of the Tormentors Clique-era Shawn Michaels comp Southpaw Grammar The best left-handed wrestlers
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    I just watched the DDP Youshoot. It was ok, not sure what I was expecting from a Page shoot. Nothing great in it and because it was filmed longer ago than I realised there's not even any good Jake stories. It seemed to be very, very early in that and Hall hadn't come along yet at all. No way for the company to know it but KC would've been so much better to do this shoot about 6 months later in that regards. He does talk about wifeswapping but it was never as if he was gonna say "YEP THAT'S TRUE!"
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    Ricky Santana Here's the entire bracket for anyone interested: http://prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/...html#worldtag92
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    He was already hurt, he broke it in several places in a jobber match so they did this to cover it up. I think in the KC Timeline he said they gimmicked the door somehow with a 2x4 to make it look real. They later showed the jobber match because they're WCW and they do stupid shit like that and dubbed commentary like "Oh he's really messing up his injured hand"
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    Ok, I'll say it, "He's gonna...he's gonna.....HE'S GONNA PUUUUKE"
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    Was this around the time Disney supposedly offered him a deal to make a few movies? Or was that later (or earlier)?
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    I used to stare at those pictures for hours like it was one of those "spot the difference" games. I figured they just took the pictures twice. Even photoshop in 2013 can't look that good. I remember the WWF magazine that came out afterwards EXPOSING Flair as a liar. I'd love to find it and scan it because even as a 9 year old I found their explanations laughable. "See the R on the towel that Ric says stands for RIC....well guess what? It stands for RANDY!!" like...yeah but it could also be R for Ric. There was also some breakdown of the videos on the shelf that conclusively proved it was taken in Savage's house, I believe something like "Look World Tour 91 is on the shelf...Ric claims Liz was his BEFORE Savage, yet that's a new tape available now on Coliseum home video wherever fine videos are sold!"
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    I don't think that started until maybe January/February.
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    He still worked on WWF house shows in Canada as Jacques Reageau but would still do the whole "I'm the mountie!" schtick during matches which is pretty cool.
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    They had to have hurt more, they only changed it because it worked better for TV. And it does. It doesn't bother me the way it does most people.
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    This was like right at the exact moment I became a big mark and unfortunately I couldn't talk my parents into renting it (my neighbour rented all the WWF PPVs this year) so I remember dying of curiosity to find out if Sting won. Kids nowadays probably just stream it if their parents won't rent it. Lucky bastards. I didn't even get to actually watch this until 5 or 6 years ago because no stores around here had it. But oh boy did I have it played out in my mind from the pictures in WCW magazine.
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    They played on the same team (Tampa) in the USFL as well. When my dad was moving out of the house he lived in for 30 years he found a USFL program that listed Larry Pfohl on the Memphis Showboats. What a great team name!
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    Glad I wasn't alone on having a morbid fascination with seeing Dragon Master work.
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