dawho5
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Luger's counter to the chokeslam to the table and ensuing promo really work for me. He just came off of a few months of going from full-on heel to is-he-or-isn't he? to now a babyface who just isn't going to put up with being tossed around by the giant when he has a way out. How else do you fight back against a guy almost twice your size? Also, he's not that far removed from doing that stuff, so it fits. Good stuff. Also, if you watch the full Nitros, they have started havign little 5-15 second bumpers when they go to commercial that tell you who you will see next. Seems like a solid idea to me.
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I'll agree with there is a sense that something big is happening. Really well-done across the board.
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I agree that Mankind is a great foil for Taker. He's big enough (in a different way) and crazy enough to pose a real threat.
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Funny with how much we know about Vince after 2022 that he was on TV scolding Goldust for creatively using mouth to mouth on another wrestler. I do love how Goldust leans all the way into the character though.
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Fun babyface vs. babyface match, but it falls short due to crowd heat and Scott's need to play fair during what would have been the heat. Which probably hurt the crowd reaction. Fun fact: Regal had just cut a promo challenging Sting right before this match. There's a what if for you. The Hall promo was perfection itself. Best ending to Nitro since I started watching in January.
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Excellent start to the NWO angle! The match was not great and I think everyone watching was actually relieved to see it stop. Why did Hall not take out both wrestlers in the ring though?
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The full match was pretty good. I get that Vader is a great bumping big man, but he really should have been used differently. More homophobia from Vince (and add Ahmed Johnson into that once he comes to) when Goldust administers admittedly creepy and probably unnecessary mouth to mouth.
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So the newspaper headline had the word "wrasslin" in it, which tickles the Hell out of me. Sunny is now a twice turncoat with the tag champs (where are Skip and Zip now anyway?). Austin did react to Ted saying he would be done. You could see he was interested in that.
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Better than 95% of the WWF fare at the time, so I was happy even if it's not the best strap match ever. I'll also agree it's the first time Austin got to really even come close to letting loose. Very good match even with the cliched strap match finish and extra time.
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I thought Shawn worked harder in the early going, he actually tried to put some kind of struggle in on his end while in holds. Davey seemed really disinterested while he was in a hold by Shawn. Was that ridiculous bump to the floor by Shawn something where Davey sidestepped a crossbody? Looked really weird. Finish was less than ideal, I'm assuming that the second ref was Corny's bombshell? Either way there was some entertaining stuff here, but didn't seem like a WWF PPV main event for a lot of it.
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I have to ask the question. Phineas seems athletic enough for a guy his size. Are the Godwinns really as bad a team as they wrestle, or are they out there underperforming on purpose? Seems to me they could probably do more, but are shackled by the "clueless hillbilly" gimmick.
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WCW executive committee with yet another ridiculous, horrible decision. Either way, it's good to see DDP and he is coming off of a pretty good match against Brad Armstrong. I NEED more Brad Armstrong in my life.
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Faces of Fear have been one of my favorite teams since I was watching in real time in 97. Love to see them get a solid title shot on Nitro. Did anyone else notice that Savage is wearing a completely different outfit from earlier in the show when he couldn't get in during the following segment? Would WCW really have filmed 2 segments outside of two buildings without noticing that Savage wasn't wearing the same thing?
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Both Flair and Heenan put Eddy over in a huge way here. That tornado DDT was super smooth. The match before was Fire & Ice (a sleeper favorite of mine due to Scott Norton) vs. the Steiners in another super-fun TV match for completely different reasons. Think late 80s AJPW. Great start to Nitro!
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Is this the genesis of the hard-working, never say die DDP with an uber finisher in the Diamond Cutter? If so, totally worth a ridiculous set-up tournament and dead crowd. There have to be easier ways though.
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This whole concept is beyond bad. They did what they could with it for a few minutes then went to the obvious "swerve" of the Horsemen working together. Fun, and with the way the feud had been built it works. Would have liked to see a bit better booking though. -
Full match was great with Luger really putting the Giant over as a beast. The chokeslam through the table was a great setup of the Giant as a wild, untamed force of nature. More booking like this please?
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Was not a huge fan of this. Probably due to Hunter not really being good enough to carry a match like this and being given a lot of it (very generously) by his friend Shawn. The nose stuff was amusing.
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This type of segment is crazy to me. Davey Boy throws Shawn around in the ocean for a minute or so and then runs off. What was that meant to accomplish unless you were going to go way outside of wrestling and have Davey attempt to actually try to drown Shawn? Which, as we know from certain WCW segments in the desert, is incredibly stupid. End of the day, it was kind of porn-lite for the ladies like the Sunny segments are for the guys.
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I'll give Dustin tons of credit for his commitment to the character. It does seem like a replay of the last 3 major stories he was in though, as mentioned above. All of it is tremendously well-done, bur we do need to see more of who Goldust is besides coming onto the manly man across from him to mess with them.
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Very 80s woman for sure and I got Liz vibes. Either way this was silly and poorly thought out. Especially the parts praising Shawn. Pick a tone, people.
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If I didn't already know they would be going to commercial and having some other more important thing happening just based on the workers involved I would have been irritated. Luckily I've seen a few Nitros in my time and enjoyed the match for what it was. A good sprint between two guys who can really go. Wish Liger had been more involved on Nitro over time, but I get they probably needed him in NJPW.
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Sullivan has said that he booked himself as Hogan's rival to make Hogan comfortable with him as a booker. Go back to the formula of a guy sending monsters after yeellow & red Hogan so that Hogan would trust him and allow him to make the plan. I wish I could say I thought it was entertaining, but I don't. This match was okay. The earlier one with Flair cheating in more varied and well thought-out ways was better. Even so, Giant has been booked really well when Hogan isn't involved. He looks really dominant and unstoppable for the most part. I'll agree he bumps too much and somebody should have smartened him up about not killing his own mystique.
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[1996-04-29-WCW-Nitro] Steven Regal vs Fit Finlay (Parking Lot Brawl)
dawho5 replied to Loss's topic in April 1996
I think this is better than the WWF version of it now that I have watched both in such close proximity. Goldust and Piper brought it back to the ring inexplicably where these guys kept it in the parking lot and actually built a match out of it. Great stuff and I honestly with these guys had feuded for a few years in WCW. -
[1996-04-29-WWF-Raw] Shawn Michaels, Jim Cornette and Davey Boy & Diana Smith
dawho5 replied to Loss's topic in April 1996
I liked Shawn's promo here as well. Of course Corny tops it. This is an odd way to set up Bulldog as a challenger, but it seems effective.