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  1. dawho5
    This match highlighted for me the great things about Michaels and why I don't like him at all at the exact same time. He takes 2 ridiculously overdone bumps. And, if I'm being 100% fair, they fit in the WWF wrestling style. I still fucking hate them. As much as I hate Kidman's powerbomb counter thingy or anytime anybody does the backflip lariat bump. It exposes the business. And often enough it ends up not really helping the guy on offense. Edit: Right before this I watched the main event tag match for Nitro and called Luger piledriving Hawk to no effect a minute before it happened. Yet another one of these. Since when did Luger consistently do a piledriver, much less as his second move in a match? The Yoko floor bump after the superkick I could make an argument for as a positive use of the same thing, as it makes the superkick look absolutely massive. Overall a fun tag that ties together a few weeks of (mostly bleh) stories well enough. I'm not super down on Diesel, it seems like he is motivated and lays his stuff in. Davey by this point doesn't do much for me and Yoko is mostly a one-note gimmick. Not his fault, as he seems like a guy who could go. Just he wasn't expected to do much beyond be big at this point.
  2. dawho5
    Very cool Raw match that was completely unexpected. I tend to agree that this match has better structure than most WCW cruiserweight matches. In1997/98 I would not have cared.
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    Okay, so Savage has been wrestling every week with a messed up arm and nobody has taken advantage. Not even the dirtiest player in the game last week or Benoit, a supposed technician, this week. Kinda bad match layout if you ask me. That bump by Benoit on the missed tope was pretty tremendous/scary. Why is he getting so much of this match? Even if Savage likes the guy, there are better ways of making him look strong. Post-match stuff was pretty great. Something I have not thought about the Hogan/Flair stuff in the past 3 weeks. One question though. With Sullivan turning on Arn last week, how are his guys still cool with Flair? Or is that what the unicorn guy was trying to tell the Giant?
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    High heeled shoe for the finish, reversing the "women are Flair's weakness" play. Beyond that this is Hogan/Flair by the numbers and not particularly inspiring. Also, first match? Since when was Hogan not main event regardless of titles? I guess he was feeling a little guilty here.
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    Excited for Foley to join the Raw crew. Too much of what they have been airing the last few weeks is not that great. Or even good.
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    While I am with Loss that many of the lines were indeed spot on, this is just petty, whiny bullshit. On top of that, it's petty, whiny bullshit about the same thing the WWF was known for. If WCW has gone on air bitching about how WWF was doing stuff that wasn't good for family TV in 1999/2000, it would pretty much be the same thing.
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    I actually enjoyed this match as a respectful cruiserweight babyface match. They did flippy stuff, but did it in a way that didn't make it seem dumb or like that was why they were doing it. They teased a lot of spots (some that never came) with a few of them not coming for multiple teases. The post-match angle was...okay, I get it. You just had two guys put on a really good show with a pretty style, so have some thuggish looking dudes come in and brawl ugly, bring in a big guy to do a big guy thing and look brutish. Now your two small, athletic guys have to use technique, speed and guile to overcome great odds. But still, if that's where you go right away I am a little suspect of your storytelling chops until some other ways of getting the main story across come into play.
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    So answer me a question. Was it that fans really liked the idea of complete asshole babyfaces in 1996? Or was it that the people that WCW and WWF were pushing were complete assholes? Shawn is so heelish here it makes absolutely no sense how over he is. Corny turning things around on him towards the end kind of made it worth it, but why come out without Owen or somebody to back him up?
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    I'm trying to figure out between Hogan on Nitro and these whether Hogan or Vince is the more juvenile , sad human being who can't accept even the smallest thing not going their way.
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    Great debut for Vader. At first I was wondering if he should have gone over the top to the floor like he did, but what came after made it perfectly fine. The post-match stuff was good with the crazy stiff powerbomb to a ref and trying to murder Gorilla. In my mind I heard Gorilla on commentary criticizing Vader's technique while putting himself over and it made the beating he got seem deserved.
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    Stevie Ray, for all of his real life badassery, didn't ever figure out how to be exciting in the ring. And him taking most of the offense is not great. I will echo praise for the Booker axe kick and the Sting/Luger stuff up to that point. The Sting/Booker double crossbody was also pretty good. Can someone explain to me how Nick Patrick didn't see all of those coins rolling around the ring?
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    I didn't love the confusion of the bell before Savage even dropped the elbow, but it was a fun Flair/Savage match. The hotshotting is kinda ridiculous at this point with Savage having wrestled Luger 4 times recently now this? Post-match I did love Savage making sure to kill every attempt by Hogan to usurp his moment.
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    The previous interview with Vince and Goldust was pretty...interesting as well. How much did Vince actually need to act when Dustin (who really did go way into character it seems) was standing next to him I wonder. Lawler laughing at Vince was a definite trip. Fun little brawl they should have kept in the building with all that snow.
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    Not funny, but we did get a Vince Russo cameo.
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    Sting had a really nice no-sell to start his comeback. 4 press slams seemed like a bit much without hitting his high risk stuff.
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    The crowd reaction and Pillman's reaction to the slap were absolutely amazing. Really fun little angle. Bischoff as a play-by-play man is not very good, from the very beginning of the show.
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    Owen did one where he got the arm bar, turned it into a kind of hammerlock and used the leg to secure that one before going at the other arm like that. Perhaps a variation on the original?
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    Really fun match that has a lot of comedy early on. I kind of get the idea of each man going for pinfalls in the final round, as they are both well aware that they don't have much time to put the match away. That arm trap abdominal stretch variation says to me Owen spent some time in Mexico before this as that seemed like a very lucha flavored submission.
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    This is actually the most technical I've ever seen a Moondog. Certainly a fun match, but I wasn't a huge fan of the transition to Moondog control. What was Wright thinking going for a victory roll with the ropes right there? Also, for a guy like Wright these are the kinds of matches that would make him a little easier to get behind in a "big guy" promotion. He's a smallish technician, and if he only ever beats the guys his size who fight similarly he won't get near as much respect. If he can translate his technical skill into a way to beat a big bruiser despite getting beat up, he is at least a threat to everyone he may face.
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    I always enjoyed that aspect of British wrestling. Just the idea that the punch was a HUGE weapon makes so much sense and the heels absolutely should have to hide it when they do it. It goes back to that thing I heard Al Snow talk about when he was instructing young wrestlers. "What is one of the few things you do those people know anything about?" It just makes sense that if a big dude punches somebody at the bar and can knock him out, how are these guys taking so many? As far as Faulkner goes, I think it's kinda cool that he was as good at comedy as he was despite being a serious technician is what I'm trying to say. He could have easily been a comedy wrestler with his skill, but was able to be a triple threat at any point in a match. I also think the idea of the "super serious technician" gimmick kind of ruined the idea that wrestlers are people. Yes, there are some super-serious wrestlers who were technicians. Not everyone has to fit into that box though. I want to think that at some point people decided technical wrestling was boring and that somehow played into the way that whole thing worked out and killed the idea that you could have a guy who was a serious technician, but liked to have fun with it and hated the idea of the heel cheating excessively all at the same time. Would have made the dean Malenkos of the world a lot more fun as a wrestling character and allowed them more freedom.
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    Oh, I appreciate Faulkner both for the humor and the great technique. He's an incredible worker in that he can mix both without skipping a beat, plus go completely red-faced and believably go off and throw a punch at a guy. Being able to have all three of those is not something the majority of workers in the history of the business can claim.
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    I just watched 2 Jim Breaks vs . Vic Faulkner matches that pre-date the one I was aware of. The drive I have has no dates attached to any of the matches for the Faulker stuff, so I can't say when they happened. The first seemed to be the initial meeting of a feud, with Faulkner doing his funny guy stuff and pissing Breaks off immensely. Breaks gets a quick fall by tying Faulkner's arm up in the ropes and putting on the Special, then Faulkner quickly pulls a trick on Breaks to even things up. Faulkner is a little more heated, but still very much the prankster. Breaks eventually gets caught throwing a punch (many were thrown before) by the ref, who seemed pretty lenient throughout, and the ref promptly DQs Breaks. The second match opens in round 3 with Breaks really trying to go to town on the arm and Faulkner finding ways to slow his momentum. There was a great sequence in there with breaks actively working against a rope break while Faulkner is tangled up, all the while screaming at the referees to get Faulkner out of the ropes. Not long after Breaks gets his feet tangled in the cloth drop hanging just off the ring apron and does a great comedy spot trying to untangle his feet. Faulkner gets one of his trickster/funny falls, Breaks gets a sneak attack fall and we go to a draw. They two actually both punch each other after the match and Faulkner gets really angry during. The previous match I'd seen there was a story going in of Faulkner losign a match by DQ for punching Breaks. My hope is the next one I come across is that one, so I get to see the whole evolving story of Breaks getting pissed at Faulkner, Faulkner getting pissed at Breaks because of that and then the fallout.
  23. dawho5
    I thought this was really good. I really liked the struggle throughout as even when somebody was taking offense, they were grabbing for a handful of hair or whatever they could get between the other's offense. Very fun stuff. I still struggle to accept the need for 5 straight backdrops, but that's a regular joshi thing.
  24. dawho5
    Really great 10-man that hits all the right highspots without going too far. I will say that Shiryu is consistently missing cues and sloppy as Hell around this time period, and this is no exception. He does hit a nice corner lariat tho. Double dive by Yakushiji & Hoshikawa was legitimately one of the most ridiculous things you've ever seen in wrestling with the timing they had to have at that speed.
  25. dawho5
    Ikeda and Ono as bully shit-kicking (literally kicking here) heels are amazing. I really dug that first bit with Otsuka proving he could neutralize everything Ono threw at him right away. Before Ikeda gets involved anyway. And that pre-match is amazing. If you know anything about the 3 famous Bat Bat guys, you know Yoneyama is in for the beating of a lifetime. He clearly is in over his head, but in no way backs down. The perfect Japanese underdog against a horrifically overpowered heel team. Not the brutality you would get 9 years later in FUTEN, but still all kinds of fun. If not "years off of your career" dangerous for the participants.
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