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  1. Superstar Sleeze
    Awesome segment. Love when they weave an overarching story throughout an episode of RAW. You have Bret quitting at the outset and Austin berating him. Now Gorilla says his hands are tied, but he is going to force Austin to defend his No. 1 Contendership against the three men he wronged (Vader, Taker & Bret Hart). Austing gets in a greta line about Gorilla hee-hawing like a jackass. Bret Hart returns. EXPLOSION! Everyone hates everyone! Leads right into a hot Steve Austin vs Undertaker main event.
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    Watched every RAW since beginning of November of 97, I agree with EL-P this feels like the turning point. They put a lot of good pieces together in late 96 especially following the Nitro 95 paradigm of everyone out for themselves. I think they put Bret, Shawn & Sid in a great place with Taker, Vader & Austin on the periphery. Everybody hates everybody and they are all unique characters. This is nonlinear booking is very un-WWF-like but makes for much better TV in my opinion. I will say WWF is still not as great at it as Dusty was in 86 Crockett or Mid-South in the 80s. But at least they are trying. Bret's promo is great here. Just spewing fire about how he keeps getting screwed by everyone. The Royal Rumble 97 finish was really brilliant stuff. Austin sounds and acts like the most dangerous man in wrestling this side of '97 Macho Man Randy Savage. Guess what folks they did all this in TEN MINUTES!!! TEN MINUTES!!! Please, please end 15-20 minute promo. Especially the ones where they talk back and forth, those are terrible! Great stuff here.
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    Bret vs Vader could have been so much more just as Bret vs SID but Bret is incorrigible and won't let anybody shine. This match is clearly better because Vader is as good if not better wrestler than Bret. Bret's shine is pretty boring. Much more interesting when Vader is on offense. Great second rope splash that I was planning on him missing. Bret just goes through the motions which Shawn calls him out on. It is bullshit that Bret is calling these spots against Vader. Austin clips Bret's knee and Vaderbombs wins the match. Yay! SID Powerbombs Jose Lothario's kid AWESOME! SID! SID! SID! This booking and Shawns attitude are killing Shawn. Either the booking needs to conform to his attitude or his attitude needs to conform to the booking.
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    I'm surprised the Bret/Austin program has not been hotter post-Survivor Series Lots of Austin sneak attacks the biggest being at Its Time. Bret got his receipt by Sharpshootering Austin during Vader match. Last week we saw Bret bail out Road Dogg when Austin clipped him. Bulldog has been anti-Austin since the attempted Pillmamizing in late November. He cost Austin a handicap match to two jabronis. Austin attacked Bret during Superstars the day before and Pillmanized Bret's leg. I guess what's weird is that Bret is obsessed with Shawn and then with the Championship so by proxy SID so it makes Austin seem like nuisance and 3rd on pecking order. Plus Austin hasn't gotten promo time in over a month. It makes sense given the booking of Austin/Bulldog which at best would probably be the 3rd or 4th biggest program had plans gone appropriately. Austin attacks Bulldog but Bret can't help because Owen is blocking his path but because Owens back is turned he doesn't know what happened. Bret & Owen give chase. It is funny that by accident the Hart Foundation vs Austin story is coming together.
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    When SID was born, HE WAS BORN THE MAN!!! SID has been the best character in WWF. Total proto-Stone Cold while Stone Cold is right there. Shawn dancing on table is the bullshit that Shawn haters hate the most But all those people have huge sticks up theirs asses. Shawn was out to prove he didn't give a fuck but in doing so he clearly did give a fuck. So did Bret. The problem isn't that they were so different it is that they are both really similar in that are very sensitive men. Shawn was being a try hard. SID doesn't give a fuck and HE IS THE MASTER & THE RULER OF THE WORLD!!!
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    Watched this again. Still hilarious! Probably my favorite wrestling vignette of all time. Sunny is just out of this world hot. I watched this episode of Shotgun Saturday Night. Vince shilling Sunny home sex video in his usual babyface announcer voice like Koko Ware vs Ron Bass was next up made this all the funnier. Incredible stuff!
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    He comes from a place where you can't drink the water. He's not much taller than my two year old daughter. Hey! Masacrita! OMG dying laughing. Sunny was so ridiculously hot here doing the Macarena. Masacrita and Mini Vader have a blowaway great exhibition. Some of the best wrestling I've seen recently. There Cornetter gets humiliated when they pants him. Awesome pro wrestling segment. Sunny dancing on a table to close out! I need a time machine pronto
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    I guess Marlena exposing herself didn't make the set but yeah the precursor to Debra. Sunny being all jealous and catty was great. Sunny pointing out how she was surprised how well Sultan was faring even with his lack of experience goes to show that Sunny wasn't all gimmick and she could have been a phenomenal commentator. Sunny promises a hot, erotic home video in response to Marlena's reveal well just tickle me pink with excitement 😋
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    Sunny is the most underutilized talent in wrestling history. Backlund talking about banning Saturday night is funny. Vince is fucking hilarious in this setting. He is such an uncool dad but it works. His line about Mothet Smucker with a name like that she must be good referencing the food brand had me rolling.
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    WWF made two Christmas Carols centered about Sycho Sid powerbombing the shit out of people and they were GLORIOUS!!! FIND THEM AND REVEL IN THE GLORY OF SID!!!!
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    Anti-climatic. Shawn Michaels does his sarcastic fuck you shit which is fun and fine. Bret deserves it because he is a sanctimonious hypocrite. All the Bret bullshit that Shawn is a nancy boy and poses in Playgirl is so lame. I wanted Shawn to kick Bret's teeth down his throat for going on and on. SID! YES! YES! YES! POWERBOMB THESE TWO CRYBABIES TO HELL!!! Sid is by far the coolest muthafucka on RAW. Austin is a dangerous, sadistic prick. I cant get behind that. Sid is cool. Sid/Taker/Vader brawl. Good to see Vader in the mix.
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    I have been enjoying the Karate Fighters tournament. The best part was Sunny getting DQ'd for using bubble gum to her toy on this allowed Sable to make the finals. Lawler is facing Sable in the finals. Sable has her husband, the Wildman so Lawler brings out Triple H. Lawler throws fit after he loses to a woman. They beat up Mero. Goldust saves. Lawler is confused why Goldust would care if Triple H made a pass on Marlena if he is you know...Goldust says "what?" Lawler stammers you know and finally says Queer. Goldust says No and punches him. That is how you turn babyface by asserting your heterosexuality. Lame. Original Goldust gimmick was so fucking good. Babyface Goldust was so lame. Don't feel like making threads for the followup. Goldust keeps watching HHH's matches from the arena. Marlena is ridiculously hot. When you have Sunny, Marlena and Sable that is just an embarrassment of riches. HHH beats Mero after Mero misses the Merosault and hits the Pedigree. After being treated like shit, surprised to get HHH get the straight, clean win. Next week, HHH faces Flash Funk and again HHH has a forgettable but solid performance if it was not for connections I don't see why he got pushed. HHH clobbers Funk with the title to win but Funk still gets to hit the 450 splash. I am disappointed Lawler/Goldust only got like two minutes. Goldust/HHH brawl after HHH kidnaps Marlena caveman style. HHH throws Marlena to Mero, who is trying to stop him and Goldust runs over Marlena and Mero by accident. HHH kicks his ass hey HHH does get some heat on Goldust which he needed. It is weird but HHH has been the most prominent of these RAWs wrestling more frequently than the main eventers and having more storyline progression.
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    This thread was created solely to tell everyone to watch this match to see Sunny's entrance. Damn! I MEAN DOUBLE HOT DAMN! WOW! Sunny has had her eye on young Rocky. Lots of good innuendo. Sunny is really good on commentary. In the first Rocky/Sincere match about a month ago, Sincere kissed Rocky and she said "Now Im jealous" the way she said had me laughing out loud. These two have your basic, wrestling 101 match, but Sunny kills the game here.
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    I fast forwarded to the finish. Never heard of this and was totally surprised. Interesting. Billy takes a hot shot and sells it as a stinger, temporary paralysis. Wives rush the ring as does the medical team. This has Russo's fingerprints all over it. Novel idea to waste on a midcard match. Billy's selling was pretty good. Bart was atrocious. But by doing it on a midcard match makes it feel like it could happen anytime. I don't know. The follow up the following week was weak and to really sell it they should have had all the heavy hitters talking about it and make the repercussions felt in other storylines. That is the downfall of Russo booking, no follow-up.
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    Thus begins the Bret heel turn. I don't know if that was the intention, but that's how the promo feels. Bret is pissed at Austin & Shawn for fucking around in his match with Sid the previous night and costing him the belt. I agree with what Bret says in his book that the commentators were quasi-burying on RAW. He was wrestling fucking Fake Razor and Vince was all like I don't know if he will get another chance at the title. Austin/Vader was great in the same vein as Austin/Mankind not quite as good as that. Austin is so energetic at this point in his career. A bull in a China Shop. He is such a miserable son of a bitch too. Vader gets into it and starts clobbering him. Bret swears up and down he wont interfere, but he does. So much for being a role model, but that was the point. Bret gets a modicum of revenge by applying the Sharpshooter.
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    WWF World Heavyweight Champion Sycho Sid vs Bret Hart - WWF It's Time 1996 Shawn is definitely at a low point in his life, but goddamn if he doesn't come up with some real gems on commentary. Shawn mocking Bret as the Moral Judge of the Universe and calling Sid the biggest piece of luggage in history because he has to carry him everywhere is lol-worthy. Bret is not as good as carrying Sid to a great match because he forces Sid to wrestle his match. Bret is a grinder and he just grinds Sid into the ground forcing Sid to sell (yuck!) and work underneath. Stupid! Sid is a badass. Bret is a great seller! It could have been great. Just a dumb match from Bret that shows he didn't trust Sid at all. Lots of shades of grey booking in the main event. Sid seems to be straddling the line. Shawn is all over the place. Bret seems like a babyface, but wrestles this match as a heel, but Bret wrestles as a heel more often than not. The finish was great with Austin clipping the knee. Bulldog saves, but Owen is arguing. So that's interesting and definitely was Austin/Bulldog for Mania 13 before Shawn left. They take too long to get into finish losing some of the momentum. Shawn lets Bret have the chair. Sid decks Bret and is pissed at Shawn. Pie-faces him. Shawn takes exception to it. Gets on apron. Don't get on the apron in a Sid match! Sid throws Bret into Shawn and Sid powerbombs him for the win. The Master & Ruler of The World! ***** booking, pretty average match though. Bret by the numbers.
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    They call Hunter, Triple H in the video package. 1996 is such a cool year in the WWF. I feel like everyone had a distinct and interesting gimmick. The sadistic Greenwich snob that uses people vs the Macho Man/Liz reboot for the 90s is actually a good contrast. I think in terms of characters/gimmicks in WWF, 96-97 is the peak. This match unfortunately is not very good. They kinda skip the shine which is silly because Mero is over for two reasons: Sable and his moves. GIve the crowd something to invest in! HHH focuses this match on lots of cutoffs because he doesn't have any offense. There is not a whole lot of emotion in this match which is a problem with most HHH matches. I really liked the transition of HHH grabbing Sable using her as a human shield and then cheapshotting Mero. That's good heel work. But after that there is no gas. Mero does get to hit his cool moves. On commentary they informed us that Helmsley hit on Marlena. Thus beginning the babyface turn of Goldust, BOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Just as Goldust was healing up they cut his balls off by turning him. Goldust should have had a main event heel run. Sad! Goldust attacks both men with the title. Mero wins by countount and is pissed and hits the real Shooting Star Press (see JR that's a Shooting Star Press!). Nice they send the crowd home happy with that finish. HHH looks like a chump two weeks in a row squashed by Sid on RAW and then this. Internet fans would be so pissed nowadays lol. HHH does need to get some heat in this Goldust feud. Meh match.
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    Squash match! Helmsley gets no offense. Eats a POWERBOMB! He rolls out for a countout loss. Vince's bitching out of the IC Champion was happening as early as 1996. Did it happen earlier than that? I feel like the prestige dropped when Jarrett/Razor were feuding and when Shawn dropped it due to Syracuse was the last straw. Interesting match. Also the opener which continues the trend of WWF not starting with promos but with big names in big matches (Bret/Owen, Austin/Mankind and now the World Champ).
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    I wouldn't say it is specifically this match, but I think 1996 in general shows the shift in the WWF landscape. These type of matches used to be the domain of WCW. Two random good, hard working midcarders having a workrate match. Here it is on WWF TV with the announcers extolling it for just that. I actually enjoy the Flash Funk gimmick quite a bit. The jumpsuit was shit, but the coat, hat and dancing is fun. I think wrestling fans just don't like fun sometimes. The babyface shine in this sucked and Scorpio seemed off. Snow doing a bunch of cool moves is so 90s. Overhead belly to belly to the floor was an impressive bump by Scorpio. By the end Scorpio gets a bunch of cool moves in and they are great. His moonsault may be the best ever. Jim Ross blowing the call of the 450 Splash as the Shooting Star Press after being such a prick about Vince not being call moves is rich. It is too bad Vince didn't know to correct him because that would have been great. Fun match, more interesting as a paradigm shift in WWF booking more than anything else but nothing extraordinary and pales in comparison to Rey Jr, Eddy and Benoit at the same time.
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    Sunny, HOLY SHIT! Good God in Heaven! Skipped most of the match. Caught the end and there was a total holy shit bump. They were going for a superplex and both of these muthafuckas just tumbled from the top rope to the floor. It looked scary as fuck. Of course because there are two bad muthas they no sell it and do some lame finish I cant remember. I don't care if that was not planned, they should have sold the hell out of it. Ahmed Johnson is rover like over getting the crowd to chant thunderously "Youre going down" at Faarooq.
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    Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Mankind - WWF RAW 11/18/96 The beginning of this match is fucking awesome. This is how you do an organic, out of control, chaotic brawl! Nothing feels rehearsed and everything feels earned. They are great at looking uncooperative with one another. Austin is just a total unhinged, loose canon psychopath. He is madder than a fucking hornet and is a total bull in the china shop. Him cutting out all that passé technical bullshit was the best thing that ever happened to him because he is so much more interesting here. Mankind takes a bunch of nutty bumps. I love Austin just kicking a field goal in between Mankind's legs at one point to stop his momentum. The match does peter out once it becomes a more conventional heat segment with Mankind working on top and eventually the Executioner (Terry Gordy) comes out to run interference. Definitely watch the beginning because it is incredible and demonstrated proto-Stone Cold brawling. ***1/2 Interesting on how these RAWs they tend to run the main events as openers kinda like the SNME's front-loading the show. I wonder when that changes.
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    Dustin vs Windham in 96 is SAD! Really should have gotten a blowoff to the DUUUUUUUUUSSTIN heel turn by Barry in late 92 with a badass series of matches in early 93.
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    Same RAW as Austin/Pillman gun angle. Sid is way cooler than Shawn here. Sid has crazy charisma. He is hilarious as a bully picking on Michaels. if Donald Trump was a wrestler, he would be Sid. Tons of charisma, but no talent. Sid calling Shawn little man felt fucking hot as hell. I thought this was a great heated segment. We see these type of lame orchestrated confrontations all the time, but I thought they did a good job making this feel uncomfortable with the shots each one was taking at each other and actually leading to getting psychical in an organic way.
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    I feel like Vince was way too quick to jump down Shawn's throat. Shawn was trying to convey anger about the situation but was not exactly working and I feel like Vince should not have undercut him there.
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    Never seen this before but have heard about since almost Day One of being a fan. Melanie Pillman was quite distracting to me in this. ;) I thought Brian and Austin were good in this. Austin is such a great psycho. You really believe that he is completely unhinged and dangerous as fuck. The Gun thing was stupid. It was funny Vince calling this promotional stunt when he was the one orchestrating it. Great shoot comment that was supposed to be a shoot comment moment.
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