dawho5
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Great comeuppance for Sunny after stinging Phineas along for as long as she did. Godwinns get Davey and Vader next week, so Vince mus be about done with them.
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AS TV matches go this was great. Marty is, in his own way, more a perfect foil for Shawn than Taker ever was. The counter spots were really good and I really wish Marty hadn't been such a wreck in his personal life. Think of how many great matches we didn't see!
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Excellent segment leading to the Bash at the Beach. The NWO really was a thing of beauty even before it fully formed.
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That top rope belly to belly was really awesome, as was the Barbie powerbomb. I also caught Zbysko doing his best Gorilla Monsoon impression after the win. I won't hold it against him too much as I very much enjoy Larry Z.
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Great angle, but I thought the title switch was a really cheap way of getting the belts off of Sting/Luger. That being said, how else do you do it? Can't really have Booker or Stevie Ray or one of the Steiners go over either Sting or Luger. I would go with the mistake being that the tag titles are on those two guys when they don't really have anyone ready to take them from either.
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[1999-05-16-ECW-Hardcore Heaven] Rob Van Dam vs Jerry Lynn
dawho5 replied to Superstar Sleeze's topic in May 1999
Too much time setting up and in between a lot of the spots. Some of the "I've seen this before" sequences are pretty good. It really drags a lot as the match goes on though. Probably because after that opening sequence of basic holds they go right into huge highspots that you have to sell big. -
Luger's gaffe was pretty spectacular. The Steiners and the Heat come in and say some inane stuff about the main event to make it seem like a triple threat just had to happen. I did like the matching face paint. Did I misinterpret or did Savage mention Flair in a positive way only three weeks or so after wanting to get in the building so he could kill him?
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Garbage. Not the idea that a guy in a wheelchair can still have fire and do well for himself. The fact that we are associating this with Warrior.
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Diana is better looking than Sable. I will stand by that. That whole ref thing was just ridiculous. Why even do the whole bit with Perfect in the first place? Not only that, it sets up Shawn (who I openly dislike) to look weaker as the champ and lead babyface of the vaunted new generation. If he's your guy, MAKE him your guy. Removing obstacles instead of having him go through them doesn't do that. Sure Perfect is a shady ref, but there are ways of working around that. Ways that don't involve giving the heels the ability to point and say, "You cheated." The match itself was pretty good. Shawn did carry it with Davey at points being great and other times seeming a little lost. That Liger bomb was all kinds of awesome, as was the dropkick and the finisher tease about 2/3 through the match. The overbooked ending was too over the top. Set up the next PPV on Raw, here it seemed really awkward.
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Jake did great selling the injured ribs and Austin looked like a million bucks. Then he cut a promo that pretty much helped to start the biggest wrestling boom of the 90s. Seems like a good night for the guy.
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Really fun WCW style match. Mero is much better than he gets credit for, but there are too many things working against him in the WWF. I think he kind of abandoned the whole "make crazy eyes" thing and just came out and wrestled instead, which worked much better than him trying to figure out the character work while the match was going.
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Even with an off promo, Pillman is out to kill Mero's push even more. If Mero is a wildman, what are Foley and Pillman? How does his gimmick stand out at all with these 2 around?
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Goldust throws the match away to stay in character, which I am all for. Not sure I love Ahmed getting this push as he doesn't seem like a guy I want in the main event scene. Either way, he fixes that for himself before long.
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Mankind getting a clean win over Taker is huge. For all his faults, Vince was absolutely right in pushing Mankind as hard as he did.
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Pretty restrained for a Pillman segment, but I'm sure there is craziness to come.
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I'll agree Mero's WWF work is off. Also, the crowd could care less about him since he debuted. The only reason WWF crowds care about Mero is Sable, which is unfortunate as he does show some promise. Essentially his gimmick is...crazy eyes? That's gonna work when Foley is on the same show as Mankind. If you look at the graphic they use for him and Sable, he is staring sideways at Sable while she looks at the camera. Possibly all of this is not an accident. Decent enough match with Owen trying to get the crowd into it to no avail.
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The boos for Hogan were indeed great (and deserved). He really had been the worst part of the show while he was there. And he was dragging a lot of people down with him. Good segment, but I'll agree it was not as strong as every NWO segment that came before it.
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Super fun brawl. I definitely liked it more than the more routine stuff they had been doing a month or two prior, with the exception of one really good Nitro match. I don't know that they were ending anything just yet as it seemed more of a build to Savage eventually getting one over on Flair than the end.
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Everything NWO-related so far has been knocked out of the park. As much as Hogan's turn did cement it, nobody can deny how amazing the build to that has been so far.
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I liked this a fair bit more than most. I am also a fan of mat wrestling, especially Regal's mat wrestling. I'll agree not an all-time classic, but more than enough to put Regal over for what WCW thought they had in mind for him.
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Dusty's reaction to the lady in the men's room was indeed amazing. And the moment Arn punted Sullivan after pulling Benoit off was absolutely gold. The match itself was a better version of an ECW arena brawl where they actually work to some of the spots instead of just doing them. Super fun and I love it, but objectively not a great match.
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Rey's selling is off the charts here. As is Malenko's work on the arm and as a a base late-match. The way he worked later on in the match also suggests a heel turn, which I believe is coming up soon. That first dive by Rey in his comeback seems absolutely massive after he had his arm taken apart for so long.
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Lawler's drawing is great. Warrior's con artist lien is..actually pretty great. I kind of thought Warrior would take the picture and bust it over Lawler's head at first, so I guess I was half right?
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Nash cut one Hell of a promo here. As much as Vince tried to cut this off at the knees on the previous week's Raw, this worked 1000%.
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I liked this match, but not as much as the RnRs match from the week before. The Giant again looks like a million bucks against 3 guys. The way he was booked when Hogan wasn't around was pretty damn great. My main complaint is too many press slams, something Flair is guilty of a lot with Luger and Sting.