dawho5
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Good enough match, but I expected more from this matchup. It did seem like Kroffat and Frunas were struggling to adjust.
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The first caida had me really hopeful. The crowd was super into it and i was loving it. Didn't mind the second caida, but once Misterioso left it kinda became a one-sided mess that the crowd wasn't going to stand for. Seems like messy booking to me. -
I loved Casas' mat counters. Just amazing stuff. Using the sharpshooter to win the first caida after not letting Dandy get the same move earlier was a nice figurative slap in the face. The foul kick was such a brilliant move and used at the exact moment the referee wasn't looking. Loved Dandy's comeback and the roll-up to win caida 2. Dandy coming out with not one but two (take that Casas!) running dropkicks to start Caida 3 was awesome after the way Casas started Caida 2. Pierroth contributed to the match at ringside, bitching and moaning whenever Dandy kicked out. Dandy using the Casita on Casas was an amazing finish.
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This was all kinds of awesome. I look at it as two guys who are hard to get along with (and therefore heels) except for the fact that their personalities just happen to line up with each other. The way they did the characterization of Buddy as the womanizer and DWB as the headhunter in school worked really well for both characters. Super fun stuff even if it didn't (awww) go anywhere.
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Loved this promo, probably my favorite (and the best) Corny promo I've seen. Definitely a step in the right direction from continually making fun of the audience.
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Ronnie Garvin in SMW seems like a great fit. Kind of all over the place, but I know enough about Garvin to be excited to see him. Babyface side needs a heavy in SMW.
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Glad the Dogs are back from their vacation. Fargo brought everybody's mood up and he should. He's a legend and always plays well in Memphis. Looking forward to arena clips!
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Christopher is downright hateable here. I guess the upshot of him being a dick to eh homeless guy is that he is negating the whole reason for hiring somebody to do that stuff. He is still spending the same amount of time on cleaning as he would otherwise by being such a micromanager.
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So the goal of the WWF was to embarrass and bury every act they didn't come up with? They are doing one Hell of a great job with the LOD. But they came up with Crush, so what is the deal there?
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Razor promises to scar the souls of all the wrestlers he faces. A little goofy, but I thought he pulled off the general idea of the thing.
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I don't even know what to think about this. I certainly hope that this was green-screened. Otherwise the leaders of this reservation had a guy pass off a wrestling promo as wisdom to all the kids. And walk around half naked while they were dressed like normal people.
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This match is really, really sloppy and all over the place. There is a ton of action to be sure, but the multitude of blown spots killed me. That and the sheer non-sensical Hokuto kicking out of all those suplexes and the diving enzuigiri. And I am so sick of Toyota's dropkicks. Stop at two and they look impressive. Keep doing them over and over and it gets to be so overdone. Not saying it isn't impressive, just could do without 8 straight dropkicks from one wrestler.
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Didn't like Vader bumping that much either. I did enjoy the structure a lot and thought Scott did really well in peril for a while. The finish was out of nowhere for sure, which I suppose is good to keep the illusion that it can happen more often than it does. I think garretta hit on the reason Vader/Bam Bam never came to WCW as a team. Doc/Gordy were the headliners.
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I liked this a lot. Stiff, brutal, nothing close to pretty. Just Hase asserting his dominance and Sasaki doing everything he could think of to stop it from happening. I dislike this referee. He seems way too physically involved and takes attention away from the wrestlers unnecessarily.
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I tend to agree with Graham Crackers in that these matches hide a lot of the flaws of both the style and the workers. You just watch the crazy spots and as long as there is some vestige of a story towards the end and the right people double-cross each other it works. When you get to one-on-one or two-on-two things tend to not work as well.
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I liked this match better than the others. Liger's matwork all had purpose: to kill Samurai's arm. And it worked, right until Samurai rolled him up with his legs. Not only that, Samurai sold the arm really well all the way through. My favorite juniors matches are the ones that don't stick to the formula, and this one was really great besides that aspect so I loved it!
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I liked Fujiwara being one step ahead on the mat early. And the headbutt was sweet. I was surprised Vale didn't come in with kicks after that. The matwork went on a little long for me despite being good. If Vale wants to win he knows that's not going to do it. The finish was great. When Vale finally starts coming in with big kicks he gets a big advantage and the surprise KO. I just thought Vale should have switched tactics sooner given how much of a drubbing he was taking on the mat.
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The rolling cradle off the bat took me right out of the match. Had trouble getting into it after that and the stretch run kind of brought me back. Manami Toyota is not my favorite wrestler.
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Takako took a Hellacious beating and at the very least kept coming back. I wish she'd been more aggressive in trying her offense when Kyoko wasn't around though. Kyoko looks great trying to do the impossible here.
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I am with Pete in the sentiment that this is a welcome respite from the joshi need for highspots on top of highspots. I also agree that this was really disjointed and dragged a lot in spots. I liked it regardless and it is insane how hard these two tag partners go after each other.
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I think a lot of people miss the cheating by Rude on the roll-up. I swear he had a handful of tights. The selling by both is amazing, the way Rude uses the (wtf is your problem Bill Watts?) illegal top rope move as a gamble and it pays off is awesome. Steamer's comebacks are incredible, easily one of the best WCW matches ever.
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In regards to the complaints about this being last, I would say Watts put that angle in there so this match had to go last, the match was not put last because of the angle. Watts wants Doc & Gordy headlining, simple as that. The match was kinda puzzling in the way that garretta mentioned. The MVC can do crazy, hectic finishes really well too, so I don't get why it went the way it went.
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I question the need for all these bumps on the concrete. That kind of thing can shorten careers. Was this match at least partially booked to highlight just that? Jesse makes a completely valid point that Sting is an idiot for being in a match like this as champ. All my quibbles aside, fun proto-hardcore match with lots of actual logical transitions and counters.
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I liked Arn telling Dusty off as well. We had heard the rest before.
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Don't know that babyfaces bullying women (even heel women) is ever really okay. Good enough interview from Nikita that pretty much guarantees Steamer never gets the title off Rude. Hooray?