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    I used to think that, but thinking about it more--after already punching the fans in the gut by having Warrior lose to the evil Iraqi sympathizer, I don't see any way you can further have Hogan eliminated from the Rumble. Even if Slaughter interferes or something to set up WM7. Andre winning wouldn't have made up for that--you needed the best feelgood ending possible. I suspect Andre and Undertaker would have had their big face-off with Andre putting over the new monster by being eliminated by him. That's almost exactly what they did down to the letter in 1993 when Earthquake faced off with Yokozuna.
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    Billy Robinson in Memphis. The Rock 'n Roll Express in 1998 WWF. The Freebirds in the AWA. He was over and it worked, but Bobby Heenan always seemed out of place in Georgia. A guy who was a Northerner/Midwesterner all the way in a southern-fried wrasslin' promotion that wasn't really a managers' territory.
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    Not great, but not bad, with some effective little set pieces interspersed throughout the match. They gave us what they hyped, you have to give them that much.
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    Austin Idol no-shows, the sun rises in the East, and it's a day ending in a Y. The "final confrontation" last week of course turns out to be not-so-final. It's Memphis-by-numbers but of course Lawler and Dundee could fall out of bed and put on a compelling segment.
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    Jesus, this just kept going. Former undercarder and New Kid Tony Williams is now Kyd Wykkid or something-or-other, and we can tell how serious he is because he crams every shoot term he can think of into this promo. Shane Douglas would find this guy long-winded. There aren't many promos that have false finishes in them, but we have one here.
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    I wish I could give this MOTY consideration, but only the first two falls meet that standard. In the third, Casas eats a cannonball off the top from Black Warrior and sells it like death, to the point where you suspect it's a legit injury or at least a Japanese-style shoot angle. But it's just some very long and drawn-out selling and it sort of kills the flow of the match. The finish didn't bother me, but this didn't quite build to an incredible climax teased by the first two caidas. Too bad because those falls are indeed spectacular--I'm hard-pressed to think of a lucha trios match on these Yearbooks with a better combination of star power and working ability than this. Three major programs are put over and all three rivalries are worked differently--hate between Casas and Santo, beautiful technical exchanges between Atlantis and Panther, and sort of a combination of everything from Warrior and Niebla. Hopefully there's more lucha goodness to come.
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    Another war, with a few nice wrasslin' spots to break up the matwork. This was STIFF matwork too, vicious and fluid at the same time. Definitely a low-level MOTYC and one of the best of the year so far. Ishikawa with another victory that really feels earned as Greco was tying him in knots for a big chunk of this.
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    Are there more examples of Norton the big bump machine? I've never seen him this active before. The match isn't bad nor is it good but of course none of this is really the story here. Bagwell's head collides with Rick's back in a pretty horrific scene and Thunder is held up for close to a half hour so Bagwell can be immobilized and removed from the ring. Schiavone does an excellent job during this, bringing to mind Michael Cole after Jerry Lawler went into cardiac arrest on Raw. I'm also somewhat relieved that the South Carolina crowd remained rather well-behaved during this delay--some other crowds might not have been so patient.
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    This is an okay-ish promo that gets completely derailed by a pathetic attempt to make this look like a shoot with Paul E. trying to get Taz's mic cut and Taz explaining that "this ain't like the McMahon-Austin angle." Oh, fuck off, all of you. Styles behaves a like a complete tool and really sort of asks for the treatment he's getting. Please don't ever make me watch Styles attempting to act, because nothing will kill a "shoot" vibe quicker.
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    Definitely the best use of Radiohead to score a wrestling promo that I've seen today. Gertner sometimes threatens to veer into James Mitchell trying-too-hard-to-be-shocking territory and sometimes he leaps right into it, but he successfully skirts the line here with some outrageous but amusing remarks while also giving proper hype to Wrestlepalooza.
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    Fun action, but we don't get enough to see if any one guy stands out. Definitely another match you'd hope to see in full--this closing stretch wasn't quite as transcendent as the Liger/Otani match and the finish feels a bit more sudden by comparison.
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    This *did* drag quite a bit after the first power bomb, a phenomenally sick bump, so I can see how it can break one's concentration. But man, once Shinzaki starts his first comeback this gets pretty awesome. So many awesome counters and then counters to counters, plus payback spots, all with a psychological basis. Shinzaki really comes off as a gutsy bastard and I'd say this is the singles performance of his career, if not his best work period. After being jumped before the bell and being on the ropes for most of the match and having his moves and mannerisms constantly mocked, his victory really feels earned and is a feel-good moment.
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    Cornette tried that with Sunny on not one, not two, but three different occasions. Tony Atlas was originally supposed to be her first protege when she debuted and was looking for someone to manage, but that fell through. Then he wanted to put her with the Gangstas and she refused. It was like a mental block with him trying to ramrod this angle to its conclusion.
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    Total clusterfuck that gives us a shock finish but does nothing to bring focus to the main event scene at all--just the opposite. At least Bret has something to do now, I guess.
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    Raven's run continues. I would never put him on a GWE list but my thoughts on him are closer to El-P's now than they were before this set. He takes some great bumps to get Goldberg over and throws in just enough of his own stuff to keep him looking like a moderate threat. This crowd loses its shit at the first spear and then it just keeps on going as Goldberg destroys most of the Flock, en route to the U.S. title. This is the coolest thing WCW has pulled off in a long, long time.
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    Jericho continues to amass trophies, as he now has Prince Iaukea's sarong (or "mahi mahi," as Jericho calls it). We also see the first of Jericho's wacky hairdos.
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    Oh, hey, Eric Bischoff. Is he still with the promotion? Nash promises to repeat the GAB '96 incident if he gets involved in the Savage-Hogan title match tonight. Not a bad pair of promos here, though, full of fire and fury.
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    Our first recreation of the Montreal Screwjob, back when that idea was kind of cool. The build to Unforgiven has been pretty blah, though the really pushed main event was the Inferno Match anyhow, but I'll take something that's blah but at least focused over the chaos that's WCW's main event scene. There's something to be said for just sticking to the plan.
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    We get the soundbite that opened up Val's entrance.
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    Like the Dude segment, this Austin promo serves its purpose and advances the story, but does little more. Austin outs Vince and Dude as being co-conspirators. We have a hook for the underwhelming Dude-Blackman main event, as Austin promises to get his hands on both the Dude and Vince.
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    This isn't much better than WCW trying to leech onto Master P or Kiss. I guess a mid-card wrestler deserves a mid-card musical act.
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    Dude has new music for his new segment that's a bit more in line with his '60s persona than the BeeGees-esque theme he normally uses. McMahon quickly interrupts and laments that Dude Love cost him a chance to humiliate Steve Austin, and fines Dude $5000. I'm still not sure why they felt the need to tease dissension or animosity between the Dude and Vince, but that seems to be a recurring booking trope of this era--they did it with Shawn and Helmsley and then DX and the Outlaws, too, before they ultimately solidified as a team. Dude explains that when he and Austin were tag champs, they were followed by a bevy of pussy...cats. But Austin got the housewives with hair on their upper lip. The Dude will pull out of Unforgiven if Austin gets on his knees and apologizes.
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    More run-in-mania, with some nice moments getting completely overshadowed. Liz eating the Stinger Splash was a holy-shit moment that has to play second fiddle to Hogan and Nash interfering. And yes, Hogan's plan didn't really make any sense, as he shoves Savage off the turnbuckle and then leaves the scene like a 1960's Batman villain assuming his work is all done. That's the end of Sting as a superstar main eventer as we're about to hit a big ol' reset button as WCW tries to reclaim its 1996-97 glory.
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    Way too many heel miscommunication spots and low blows on this show. This is where, and why, a focused overall vision and agents who know what they're doing matter. The action in isolation is decent if overbooked. DDP fights off the whole Flock but a guy in a ring crew uniform knocks him out with the stop sign, leading to an Evenflow on the kitchen sink and the U.S. title for Raven. I had no idea who this was and neither do the announcers and needed this thread to fill me in. I'm underwhelmed. On the positive side Levy is probably in the workrate run of his career, as he's had a number of strong performances on these PPVs even if he crams too much in.
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    Hogan whacks Nash with a bat, once by accident and once on purpose, so at least something is moving forward here. I don't want to see Piper or the Disciple ever again, and the rest of this is overbooked and as Chad has mentioned, Hogan's feuds are so muddled at this point.
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