PeteF3
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Pinfall attempts in BattlArts--wow. Yeah, this sort of feels like a UWFI vs. NJPW match, with juniors. Mochizuki throws some awesome kicks but it's almost like his wrasslin'-style attacks like springboards and moves off the turnbuckles really keep Tanaka off-balance. Tanaka eventually weathers the storm and puts Mochizuki away the way he knows how. Not a transcendent match but a lot of fun and leaves you wanting to see more of both guys, both in this setting and elsewhere.
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It was definitely Ric Flair with that comment towards Cactus Jack about being in a wheelchair. He spells it out in Have a Nice Day. That Hansen/Misawa title change...Loss and Will didn't seem to think much of the match in full because they only put the finish on the '95 Yearbook. The closing stretch is pretty hot but the finish is really weak, somewhat in concept but mostly in execution. -
The Alaskan Hunters couldn't be the State Patrol, could they? I've never seen them and only ask because that was the State Patrol's finish. Edit: I was half-right. Dale Veasey/James Earl Wright/Wrestling Bear Icon was one of them. The other guy was a dude named Bob Brown who was not the Bulldog.
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Yeah, we established last week that Austin shouldn't be able to overcome Dude + All the Stooges, so I can see the quibbling in having him lay everyone out this week. That said, we do establish that Austin can have someone in his corner and we establish that Undertaker has a reason for being there. And this was another HOT segment that left you not giving a fuck about not getting a big-time main event on TV, because it gave notice to two top angles and had a number of twists and turns with every moment still being allowed to breathe. Crash TV at its best.
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I actually liked the action here better than anyone else, though maybe it's just because my standards are so low for what constitutes a good match in 1998-99. The near-fall off the belt shot was nice and these two are developing some good chemistry. We go to a rather lame DCOR but there's no point in having either guy job to the other yet, either. Faarooq's piledriver was definitely the best part of this, that was sick.
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*sniff* It's getting dusty in here again. Again, we get a self-deprecating side of the WWF that's pretty much impossible to see now unless they're engaging in a political hit on somebody.
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I'm guessing that skywriting wasn't legit. This was amusing enough and certainly not as overwrought and overdone and ego-stroking as the Bischoff crap.
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Another glorious promo from Vince, going from humbled to megalomaniacal all over again as he lays out his plan for revenge on Austin.
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I always kind of liked the Jackyl for reasons that never really made sense even to me--I guess because I was always fascinated by David Koresh and he's a pretty transparent Koresh clone. Problem was that story was 4 years out of date and it was too high-concept for the Attitude Era anyway. Earthquake goes from being touted as a potential opponent for Austin to...this.
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I think another thing working against these is that Edge just looks too pretty and too dolled-up to really pass for a tortured soul from the streets. You can't accuse Raven of not looking the part.
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"AUSTIN IS DOING WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COULD NOT DO!" Well, no, the legal ramifications of this don't really make any more sense than WCW's stupidity regarding restraining orders, or the power bomb. But when you're hot, these things tend to matter less and less--and from a wrestling psychology standpoint if not a legal accuracy standpoint, Vince's arrest after both his gloating promo and all the times he's had Austin taken to jail works brilliantly. This is the type of segment that embodies people's thoughts about how the worker vs. his boss angle struck an escapist chord with so many people and why the Authority simply doesn't work the same way.
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"Winning and losing is not even in the quotation, it's all about what's going to happen." A year and a half before Russo's arrival in the company, Tony Schiavone officially informs us that wins and losses no longer matter and that this is a sports-centered version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Sting puts down the bogus Sting with little effort and we go off the air with Sting contemplating an offer from the Wolfpack. The crowd and Tony are losing their minds and I have to admit, through all the muddled booking there was a light at the end of the tunnel here. Book some personal issues between members of the two factions and build up to a big WarGames and you'd be able to draw some serious money and possibly even fend off the WWF. But the political bullshit was always going to win the day, the WCW brand was already harmed possibly past the point of repair, and things would soon get a lot worse.
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A lot of chinlock-centric offense from Benoit, which was disappointing and dragged this down a bit. But the *long* finishing sequence with all the countermoves was pretty choice and they had me guessing as to the result on a number of different occasions. Not an outstanding match but a darn auspicious start for this series.
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Yeah, I feel skeevy harping on it knowing what we know now, but that lisp combined with the almost-comical Noo Yawk accent just kills him, even though his Innovator of Offense gimmick sort of got him over. Kanyon talks about the rather pale attempt at re-creating the Chairshot Heard 'Round the World the previous night.
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Jericho raises a point, but who's to say Malenko wasn't Ciclope the entire time? Jericho goes from insulting to shamelessly kissing up to JJ to back to being insulting to groveling and begging all in the span of two minutes.
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Giant cuts a darn good promo where he gets to show off some of his comedic chops. Luger and Konnan make the save for Nash and this segment is hot, no question about that. The announcers don't really know how to sell this--Schiavone is excited but neutral, while Larry treats this like a betrayal. Crowd loves it, though. I think the big thing about this is that it re-inforces, as though the past year and a half hadn't made it pretty obvious, that WCW has been a secondary brand and is now a tertiary brand. They've made it clear that there's not much point in caring about anyone who's not either Ex-WWF or aligned with Ex-WWF.
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Baxter's lost a ton of weight and looks like a much skinnier Justin Credible. This is sort of an abbreviated version of Bobby Heenan at Survivor Series, as Baxter runs for his life any time Lawler approaches the apron and only tags in when Lawler's in trouble. He quickly finds himself at the mercy of Stacy, who eventually gets in a testicular claw and is about to pin him when Tony Falk breaks the count. Yes, those Falk tights are horrendous--far worse than Quack's and worse than Lawler's "Dreamwear" polka dot look. The locker room empties and we go off the air with the studio in chaos. PPW is definitely a much more TV-centered product than the USWA was, as at this point they were only running sold casino shows and not the MSC or Flea Market or Pipkin Building yet.
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Lawler's attitude toward Hales seems more playful than malicious, but yeah, I'm confused as to what he's going for here.
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The flying ref redeemed this segment, as Taz spent most of the rest of it acting too much like an entitled heel instead of a tough guy.
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Most unjustified examples of WrestleCrap type of stuff
PeteF3 replied to SteveJRogers's topic in Pro Wrestling
I don't think that was the case. It was Ed Ferrara's baby and he was supposedly livid when the character was killed. -
Another disappointing FMW title match, this one even moreso because I had far more faith in Tanaka than just about anyone else on the roster. This just went way past the point of tedium with all the near-fall, counter, near-fall, repeat sequences at the end. To the point where I totally forgot about the blown-off limb work until Childs mentioned it. I'm about totally over Hayabusa unless he's in with a master-class worker like a Four Pillar.
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Most unjustified examples of WrestleCrap type of stuff
PeteF3 replied to SteveJRogers's topic in Pro Wrestling
I think Beaver Cleavage is pretty justifiably shat-upon. Whether it lasted long or not, it seemed emblematic of the change in WWF writing philosophy from 1998 to '99. -
Well, they *are* tag champions now, so maybe the NWO felt they had a bargaining chip. This was a big nothing of a segment even if they attempt to add intrigue by having Nash actively help Sting. We don't even get an explanatory promo from Hall, because that might take heat away from Hogan and God knows we can't have that.
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A good, effective segment that gets the situation over perfectly: Austin cannot overcome McMahon, Brisco, Patterson, and the Dude (and Slaughter) all as a team. Amazing how they were able to credibly give Brisco and Patterson (and Slaughter) some heat before the big guns even came out.
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Yep, more logical booking building and building upon itself. I was all set to nitpick about how Lawler shouldn't have been knocked around two weeks in a row, but I decided against it and am glad I did, since there was a larger purpose in doing that.