dawho5
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Garbage. Not the idea that a guy in a wheelchair can still have fire and do well for himself. The fact that we are associating this with Warrior.
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Diana is better looking than Sable. I will stand by that. That whole ref thing was just ridiculous. Why even do the whole bit with Perfect in the first place? Not only that, it sets up Shawn (who I openly dislike) to look weaker as the champ and lead babyface of the vaunted new generation. If he's your guy, MAKE him your guy. Removing obstacles instead of having him go through them doesn't do that. Sure Perfect is a shady ref, but there are ways of working around that. Ways that don't involve giving the heels the ability to point and say, "You cheated." The match itself was pretty good. Shawn did carry it with Davey at points being great and other times seeming a little lost. That Liger bomb was all kinds of awesome, as was the dropkick and the finisher tease about 2/3 through the match. The overbooked ending was too over the top. Set up the next PPV on Raw, here it seemed really awkward.
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Jake did great selling the injured ribs and Austin looked like a million bucks. Then he cut a promo that pretty much helped to start the biggest wrestling boom of the 90s. Seems like a good night for the guy.
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Really fun WCW style match. Mero is much better than he gets credit for, but there are too many things working against him in the WWF. I think he kind of abandoned the whole "make crazy eyes" thing and just came out and wrestled instead, which worked much better than him trying to figure out the character work while the match was going.
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Even with an off promo, Pillman is out to kill Mero's push even more. If Mero is a wildman, what are Foley and Pillman? How does his gimmick stand out at all with these 2 around?
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Goldust throws the match away to stay in character, which I am all for. Not sure I love Ahmed getting this push as he doesn't seem like a guy I want in the main event scene. Either way, he fixes that for himself before long.
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Mankind getting a clean win over Taker is huge. For all his faults, Vince was absolutely right in pushing Mankind as hard as he did.
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Pretty restrained for a Pillman segment, but I'm sure there is craziness to come.
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I'll agree Mero's WWF work is off. Also, the crowd could care less about him since he debuted. The only reason WWF crowds care about Mero is Sable, which is unfortunate as he does show some promise. Essentially his gimmick is...crazy eyes? That's gonna work when Foley is on the same show as Mankind. If you look at the graphic they use for him and Sable, he is staring sideways at Sable while she looks at the camera. Possibly all of this is not an accident. Decent enough match with Owen trying to get the crowd into it to no avail.
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The boos for Hogan were indeed great (and deserved). He really had been the worst part of the show while he was there. And he was dragging a lot of people down with him. Good segment, but I'll agree it was not as strong as every NWO segment that came before it.
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Super fun brawl. I definitely liked it more than the more routine stuff they had been doing a month or two prior, with the exception of one really good Nitro match. I don't know that they were ending anything just yet as it seemed more of a build to Savage eventually getting one over on Flair than the end.
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Everything NWO-related so far has been knocked out of the park. As much as Hogan's turn did cement it, nobody can deny how amazing the build to that has been so far.
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I liked this a fair bit more than most. I am also a fan of mat wrestling, especially Regal's mat wrestling. I'll agree not an all-time classic, but more than enough to put Regal over for what WCW thought they had in mind for him.
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Dusty's reaction to the lady in the men's room was indeed amazing. And the moment Arn punted Sullivan after pulling Benoit off was absolutely gold. The match itself was a better version of an ECW arena brawl where they actually work to some of the spots instead of just doing them. Super fun and I love it, but objectively not a great match. -
Rey's selling is off the charts here. As is Malenko's work on the arm and as a a base late-match. The way he worked later on in the match also suggests a heel turn, which I believe is coming up soon. That first dive by Rey in his comeback seems absolutely massive after he had his arm taken apart for so long.
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Lawler's drawing is great. Warrior's con artist lien is..actually pretty great. I kind of thought Warrior would take the picture and bust it over Lawler's head at first, so I guess I was half right?
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Nash cut one Hell of a promo here. As much as Vince tried to cut this off at the knees on the previous week's Raw, this worked 1000%.
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I liked this match, but not as much as the RnRs match from the week before. The Giant again looks like a million bucks against 3 guys. The way he was booked when Hogan wasn't around was pretty damn great. My main complaint is too many press slams, something Flair is guilty of a lot with Luger and Sting.
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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.