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  1. dawho5
    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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    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.
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    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.
  7. dawho5
    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.
  10. dawho5
    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.
  11. dawho5
    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.
  15. dawho5
    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.
  18. dawho5
    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.
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    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.
  21. dawho5
    What was this meant to accomplish? And I say that for the entirety of this Raw. Not only did they do very little of substance that helped their image (the IC match was the only good thing about this), but they muddied the waters in every match with a guest commentator who had nothing to do with it advancing some other storyline.
  22. dawho5
    It makes sense that commentary doesn't care about the match. I remember hearing somebody (a former wrestler) talk about how Hall told them it was a complement that the announcers can out over other stuff during their match. It means they don't need the commentary to explain a lot, their work speaks for itself. I'm not sure I 100% buy that, but at the same time if you are a reliable worker who can be counted on to put on good matches it does make sense they would schedule this stuff while you are out there. And it seems to happen a lot. Fun TV match. I wish the WWE had kept going with Mero as he is a little sloppy, but there are a ton of good matchups with current guys and folks who come in a little bit later. It also brings a different vibe to the show with matches like these. Say what you will about Bischoff, but he got the variety show element right in WCW. You had the cruiserweights, the hard-hitting midcard guys, the occasional martial arts guy that could work (not looking at you, Glacier), the tag team division and the main event stuff. You may not love one or two of those elements, but the stuff you do is well-represented enough to keep you coming back. WWE very often is a one-trick pony.
  23. dawho5
    Syxx was a really good addition. In theory the Giant was. Until the thought occurs that everybody here is meant to be cannon fodder for Hogan at the end of the day. The Giant as cannon fodder seems silly.
  24. dawho5
    Turning his back to the hard camera was a great choice by somebody. Another great addition to the early nWo story.
  25. dawho5
    I actually enjoyed this as what it was. A perfectly fine match with a big angle attached to it. The Arn vs. Hall stuff was a fun brawl. But it wasn't built as that. It was built as a huge end-of-days thing for somebody. Only problem is not everyone worked like that's what it was. The sting stuff was really good and totally deserved on WCW's part. Very easy to tell it wasn't Sting. On the other hand, if the nWo is going to flourish you kind of need something like this. Maybe you have the Horsemen tone down their promos going in though. Which goes to the argument that maybe War Games as a thing we have to do is less than ideal if you aren't going to do it justice or it doesn't play to the workers' strengths.
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