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  1. dawho5
    This was an impressive match for both. Shawn takes a horrendous beating and doesn't give up. Diesel looks like a bad motherfucker and incredibly cool at the same time dishing that beating out. Maybe he looks a little stupid for not collecting Shawn right after the table powerbomb and finishing him off, but that is a minor gripe. If this is Nash's favorite match I completely understand it. Excellent stuff from both guys.
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    Austin was already feuding with Vega. I think Loss nailed it with his thoughts. Except they never had Savio win the title, they just held it up due to a BS TV finish. Honestly, if they wanted to hotshot a rating they could have just skipped last week's match and done this exact thingin it's place. Then in ONE match that accomplished something for the Austin/Vega program. Then have some kind of Goldust match this week against a half decent opponent where Warrior comes out and calls Goldust on his BS cheating finish attempt after the match to lead into their match on Sunday.
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    Hot coffee was used twice on that 4/1 Nitro IIRC. I kind of like how the Giant is booked against everyone but Hogan during this period. He actually feels like a huge threat to everyone else due to his size instead of an oversized midcarder. I will agree Flair has been on autopilot for a while. Almost every match involves 4-6 overhead press slams by his opponents. Fun stuff around the finish though. I would guess that the direction WCW is taking (Hulk kills everyone) at the time is the reason for that. Past that the 2 main storylines are women's shoes/hot coffee supporting a tenuous and confusing alliance between Sullivan and the Horsemen and the Lex/Sting thing. They tried to put the Road Warriors and Steiners into something maybe, not sure they ever had any kind of direction there. PE/Nasties is sort of happening, but that is off and on. You have to figure Flair can see the direction this is going and how little what he is doing matters here.
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    I'd agree with Soup on this one. This is just as bad as the Billionaire Ted skits. Concentrate on making your show better and not trying to trash the opposition with dumb jokes.
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    The best heels have at least a kernel of truth behind all of their claims to being wronged. Just so happens that all of Bret's complaints are 100% verifiable. It makes a real solid base for his upcoming heel turn for sure. Bret may not be the flashiest talker, but I'll fourth (or whatever) the argument that he is very effective.
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    For this whole match I was thinking Stone Cold (who is feuding with Savio) was going to be involved in Goldust retaining the belt. It even fits with the way they ahd bookied that feud leading in. Instead we get...this. This is more the kind of stupid booking that WCW has been historically accused (and guilty) of. Neither of these guys has had anything to do with each other and also has something going on separately. Why?
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    I'll agree, Sunny over Sable any day of the week. Either way, I can draw you a line between the way Sunny has been presented since January and the reappearance of Kimberly and Liz on WCW TV. And how they are used and shot. I can say that the opening two matches of this Raw have more good wrestling in them than the last 2 episodes of Nitro to balance out the complete fluff nature of this segment. Odd to think it since I was always a WCW guy for the in-ring aspects of what they did in 97.
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    Fun promo by Corny with a fired up Vader to boot. I kind of wish WWF could have stuck with Vader for longer as he fits in well.
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    Diesel looks like a beast post-match with the aforementioned return to the desk for his watch and shades. So he wasn't given this kind of stuff until he was going to WCW?
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    The visual of Yoko being forklifted out was something to see. He should have been used much better though.
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    What an odd choice for Warrior's first feud. Somehow his promo has improved a little by being gone.
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    Super fun enhancement match. Lawler is incredible.
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    Good debut for Bradshaw and Taker puts Mankind over huge. Technically Mankind had beaten Bob Holly convincingly earlier in the show as his debut. I wouldn't say that had the kind of impact this did though.
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    I thought when he got fired up about Diesel at the end it worked. Up until then I wasn't buying anything he was selling.
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    Crazy brawl for the time. Some of those shots Piper gave Goldust during the backlot portion were absolutely vicious. The in-ring portion was definitely more of Goldust bringing a completely new take on how wrestling worked into being. Innovative and lots of fun.
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    So the idea that Wrestlemania is the place where finishers go to die came before the self-aggrandizing epics of later Manias. Interesting. Kind of a nothing deal, not bad, not good.
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    I honestly did not expect this at all with the push Hunter had been getting. Also had never seen Sable's debut. I preferred Hunter's valet from the previous Raw if I'm honest. Also, the entrances were longer than the match. Waste of however long it was of PPV time.
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    Certainly more supportive of Bret than most of his dialogue over the past few weeks.
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    Bret's heeling does seem to be on purpose. Not that he probably had to reach real far for any of it, but I can't imagine he was unaware of it. Fun match with a lot of seemingly out of place offense for 1996 WWF. I did like Leif's change in attitude during the match from dorky Shawn fan to actual heel by the end.
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    This segment in particular really puts the Giant over. Imagine if WCW had run mostly stuff like this involving a 7"+, 400lb. monster. Can't imagine that would have gone well...
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    Very fun match and I also liked Lex a ton here. Seems like a lot of the crowd really want to buy into babyface Lex as well the last few weeks. Why isn't more character work like this done in wrestling?
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    I'll agree that the promo being mostly about Luger was a little strange when he is facing the Giant. Pre-NWO WCW booking had some flaws.
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    Savage working this match as banged up as he was is pretty good to begin with. Would have loved to see a somewhat healthy Savage feuding with Finlay.
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    This was not great. Sting taking a long walk to find...2 brooms? Again we have Sting being duped by the heels for the finish, which seems to be the story of WCW. This went on far too long for what it was. Possibly they had to add the time in to make up for shortening the Finlay/Regal match and this one suffered a little for it?
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    Two things: 1. The merger in fact killed any power Ted had. 2. Didn't Vince just become a prophet of his own future, but as his hated rival?
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