dawho5
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There are certain types of promos Bret is great at, and this is one of them. He's never been a great "hype" guy, but give him a few topics with some meat he can really bite into and he will give you a really sincere promo it's hard not to believe. Working in the shots at Shawn to show that he's not over that bitterness from WM is a great touch too. I kinda thought he was veering into the cheesy side of things before he mentioned the kid he was talking about was his nephew. One of Bret's best promos I've seen.
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The body of the match was really good. I agree that Sid's selling here is surprisingly good. I didn't love the finish with Bulldog blatantly interfering on Owen's behalf for the DQ, but is is what it its. We get more of the "are Shawn and Sid still friends?" thing post-match, which is fine I guess. And probably the point of the whole thing.
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One of my favorite Shawn matches of 96 before the run-ins. Well-worked by both and I want to see Shawn work SCSA a lot more.
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Taker kills it here in the go-home segment for this feud going into the PPV. Easily the best built match for Buried Alive.
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Excellent atmosphere for this promo. I really hope Foley washed that finger cover thingy before sticking it in anybody's mouth after this. This is still easily the best build for Buried Alive. Everything else seems like it just doesn't matter.
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I caught all of the detail in the storyline watching the Nitros involving Liz. It seemed pretty cut and dried. Nasties as a babyface tag team opposing Hall & Nash would have worked for a while, they were really over. I just don't see it lasting the two or three years they would have needed to make it work given the timeline. Really good angle, maybe a step down from the preceding nWo stuff, but still really good to great.
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What a great promo by Liz. I don't think I've ever seen her talk as convincingly on camera. I'm kinda with Brain and Tenay from the following segment though. Ambushing a guy on his way to the ring for a match with this kinda thing is kind of a dick move.
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[1996-10-14-WCW-Nitro] Lex Luger vs Greg Valentine
dawho5 replied to Superstar Sleeze's topic in October 1996
It was actually really good. They kept it really simple, Valentine is working over Luger's injured back, can he put the torture rack on? And Valentine is a good choice of a guy to do that with as he's a meat-and-potatoes wrestler. Nitro so far this week has been really good for fun matches between guys you may not expect them from. Eddie Guerrero vs. The Cheetah Kid was a little wonky, but oh well. -
The promo was definitely on par with the really fun Memphis-style match with Bubba. It didn't seem near babyface enough for how he had wrestled. Super fun match that the crowd ate up.
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Great angle, Hogan is especially great taunting Liz and really pissing the crowd off. I'll agree Savage had an entire year of taking beatings. I'm wondering who actually believed Savage would beat Hogan at HH at this point. The whole nWo/WCW vehicle thing is getting a little old.
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I don't remember Booker being so boring in between the highspots as a wrestler. Is that part of the whole heel tag team thing? Foreshadowing where we are goingwith the tag titles here with the nWo continuing to take over.
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Again, this is the best story in the company right now. 'Taker, Paul Bearer and Mankind are all great in these vignettes and it says something that they don't even need to be on TV in person for this to be my most anticipated match they are building to.
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Good video that reminds me that the WWF is actually good at producing this stuff when it isn't a horrible, shitty idea behind it.
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So a career pro wrestler was in fact NOT a professional singer???? I am shocked, shocked and appalled. Mostly at the complete lack of any sense in continuing to air this garbage.
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[1996-09-30-WWF-Raw] Vader & Jim Cornette vs Shawn Michaels & Jose Lothario
dawho5 replied to Loss's topic in September 1996
Vader getting the clean win over Shawn was good. Should have happened in the first PPV match to put Vader over as a huge threat, but that's not what we got. Even Vince made more than a few bad booking decisions. -
Love seeing some of the Buried Alive match build represented. It's easily the best thing the WWF has going right now. The match was really good, but ultimately doesn't do much for Austin.
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They did this for the lawsuit? You'd think Vince might have some other priorities right about now.
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Good thing Vince was on point and trying to do stuff that might, you know, get better ratings than WCW was.
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Before the nWo ran out of steam it was really, really good. They are pushing it a little bit here, but the end result is still great. Still not a fan of Vincent joining, but he is mercifully not present.
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Good promo for Bischoff. Not good that he went missing late in the broadcast.
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That whole hour of TV is must-see. It's incredibly bold and visionary. Its also a bit of a train wreck. By this point had they come upon the idea that the nWo would get it's own show? It kind of seems like it. I really wish they had skipped Vincent BTW.
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Macho pulls this off really well. Not that it does him any good later in the show.
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[1996-09-23-WCW-Nitro] Chris Jericho vs Mike Enos
dawho5 replied to Superstar Sleeze's topic in September 1996
Super fun midcard match ion Nitro for sure. Jericho s the "take a licking and keep on ticking" babyface is fine. But it definitely does not stand out on Nitro. -
Again I am starting to like Mero. He is a dollar store version of WCW cruiserweights, but it works because the rest of the WWF is pretty vanilla. Admittedly he is super sloppy and doesn't quite hit anything right. But at the very least he gets to show some athleticism beyond one signature spot. I don't recall anything about Perfect involving Mero, but it's pretty clear Perfect is setting him up for something. Mero is also a not great promo, which has to work against him in the land of Sports Entertainment. Also, the crowd booed when Sunny was thrown out. I wonder who is really over between Mero and Sable when the Sunny/Sable confrontation got the biggest pop of the match. As an aside, making sure that they got 3 long-ish plugs in for the Mankind/Undertaker match at the next PPV on this Raw is smart. They clearly knew that they weren't going to push Mero too far by this point and nothing else on this show was worth watching.
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Incredible promo. JR could have been a great manager and a great PBP guy. I think I like him more as PBP though.