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  1. PeteF3
    "The Kid" whacks Cactus with a chair and a subsequent spike piledriver on the chair nets the NAO their tag belts back and cements what seemed like a formality by joining DX. I was hoping Clarence Mason would be the lawyer who got the titles held up.
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    Bop It! The fun-talking reflext game from Parker Brothers! ATTITUDE! That Sable/Mero vs. Luna/Goldust match was something else, though, and it may have been Sable at her most over. Patterson or whoever laid that match out should have gotten a bonus because that crowd was *stoked* for the big spots in that one. Val Venis Is Coming.
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    Yeah, HHH is instantly stronger and more credible than he ever was as Shawn's lapdog, as this is a really good and to-the-point promo with no jokes. All the hype about a "possible rift" in DX would lead you to think it was another swerve based on recent history, but HHH effectively kicks Shawn to the curb and brings out the biggest WCW-to-WWF jump of the Wars to date, and the first "cool" wrestler to jump ship thanks to a major miscalculation by Eric Bischoff. Not-Yet-X-Pac cuts a scorched earth promo on Hogan and Bischoff both and Hollywood's cool factor continues to wane with every passing week. Now his former on-air buddies are even calling him out on *both* shows. DX pretty much babyface themselves through the segment, but I honestly don't know if you could play it any other way.
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    "Take that back to Haiti where you came from!" Another big development, that was well-built-to, in a monumental episode of Raw. With more to come. I didn't think about this for the Squared Circle Gazette podcast about best wrestling TV episodes, but yeah, this is definitely a contender for one of the better Raws in history to this point.
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    There's that whiplash feeling again...
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    Vince is so, so awesome here. The promo, the microphone flip, and even the little spring in his step as he exits the ring. In the span of an hour he's become a better heel than anyone in the NWO, or for that matter DX.
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    A super-hot segment, hotter than anything on Nitro, natch. This crowd is so loud that Vince can't even hear himself over the mic. He gives Austin a chance to work within the system and adapt, as he must do in business and in life, and Austin doesn't want to hear it. Austin does come off as a bit of a prick with a persecution complex, but McMahon is such a disingenuous jerk here--"I am INCAPABLE of hate"--that it's hard not to see why this would piss him off, too. Vince offers Austin the chance of doing things the easy way or the hard way--a theme that would recur in a couple of weeks in a major way. Austin thinks it over and responds with a Stunner. And once again, nothing will ever be the same.
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    The FUCKING DISCIPLE again. Good fuckity God. My Most Overrated Award is a stone cold (no pun intended) clinch. He can't even perform his run-in properly, diving in the ring in plain sight of Billy Silverman and then almost forgetting to put Nash on top. Nash is in full Big Lazy mode here.
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    Larry Z, incredulously: "In an MMMBop, it's gone??!" Nothing match and Jannetty looks pretty stiff and toasty, but that isn't the story. Jericho reveals that Dean Malenko only knows about 60 holds (he counted), and decides to rattle off all 1,004 holds that he knows. ARMBAR! Prince Nakamaki comes out to spoil all the fun, and reveals that he was trained by Boris Malenko as well, and refuses to let Jericho continue to dishonor his memory. Jericho throws a fit and now has a stopover program while we wait for Deano to return. TL;DR: Segment of the Year.
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    Hyping up *that* main event--between two guys who belonged in that Attitude montage with Blassie and Ladd et al--was NOT the way to respond to WrestleMania, nuh-uh. More face time for the Disciple. Nash finally saves the segment--"Savage said there may be one or there may be many behind you, waiting to stick a knife in your back. You don't gotta worry about me: I'll shoot you right between the eyes!" Big Sexy's actually been on a roll this past week since he's got a brand new fresh storyline to push. Hogan won't let Nash use any NWO members as a partner tonight, but Nash says he already has a partner. Clearly they're trying to tease that it's Scott Hall.
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    Tyson confirms that he and Austin were in cahoots from the beginning, to close that little unanswered chapter.
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    I think I have to end up closer to Loss on this spectrum. It doesn't quite transcend serious analysis on the level of Warrior vs. Savage at WM7 where the whole is so much greater than the X's and O's, but it's another match where in the end, the moment matters much more than the mechanics and the individual pros and cons of the quality of work. Whether the WWF knew in advance that Michaels was done or not (and it seems that they did), they couldn't have done a more effective job in getting him over beforehand as a guy who could play through pain and adversity...until he couldn't. Even someone like me, who's predisposed to hate him in general and as a DX member specifically, is having a hard time coming up with a gutsier HBK performance, even if it's far from his best overall. You can't accuse Michaels of not leaving it all in the ring here, and as a swan song it seems rather fitting.
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    One of the best WWF ads ever, and again, nothing WCW could have possibly executed (not that Bischoff would have run a spot like this in a million years). This has been a banner period for video packages for the company.
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    I remember this being okay-ish, maybe even surprisingly good considering who it was. This has to be the closest we ever got to the Streak being busted before it was the STREAK, right? I recall being surprised that Kane didn't go over here and in retrospect I kind of still am. They do go all-out to protect Kane as much as possible in a clean defeat--it takes three tombstones to (barely) put him down and he gets up and lays out Undertaker after the match with a tombstone of his own onto a chair.
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    Yeah, this is still as glorious as ever. Pete has heat even before he starts ragging on the Red Sox, and gets some pretty huge boos for that Buckner line. JR: "King, did you prep Pete Rose?"
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    That makes for two Dusty Finishes on one show, after Shamrock/Rock earlier, which is a tad excessive. This was pretty fun, with a few inventive spots. In addition to the falling ladder, Billy Gunn baseball-sliding his own partner out of the way so Jack collided with the Dumpster was pretty boss, as was the spike power bomb on Funk into the Dumpster. Memorable finish as Funk forklifts both Outlaws into a backstage Dumpster and traps the lid shut with the pallet. Owen-HHH notwithstanding, this seemed to be designed to be a feelgood, crowd-pleasing show, so I do get why they had the Hardcore Legends go over here since they pretty much had to. At the same time, the titles belong more with the NAO. I guess they just booked themselves into a corner, though I think they could have gotten by in having this simply be "non-sanctioned" and not have the belts at stake at all.
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    Of all the standout segments we've seen the Rock in since late '97, this might have gone the farthest in making him a star.
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    Yeah, I've complained about draws being telegraphed before, but this was one of the rare times when a draw is telegraphed almost a month before the match even starts. For goodness sake, these two are headlining the Tokyo Dome a few weeks from now, there's no fucking way that either guy is pinning the other here. This has a hot start and a hot close even if the finish is predictable, with a softer middle. Loss has it nailed--this is a big improvement over the '97 match but the rivalry still feels played out and Kawada's big meaningful singles win long overdue.
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    I liked the first match a bit better but yeah, Flynn is one of Goldberg's genuinely best opponents.
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    This is the freshest thing involving the NWO in months, and Nash bringing up Syxx's firing is a real "Oh, SHIT" moment.
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    Yes, the Akiyama stretch plum was the turning point, as this went from a fairly routine Carny match to something a little more special. I don't think it's any kind of high-end AJPW match but it was fun and it established Akiyama as a guy unafraid of the big guns even if he's not on their level in a singles environment yet.
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    Al rocks with Head while scrawling marker on a whiteboard behind him, as we get soundbites from various Shane Douglas promos. I do rather like the idea of the self-serious Franchise being forced almost against his will into defending his title against a weirdo like Snow.
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    Come out of the closet and be a WWF fan! Didn't Loss draw a comparison to being a public wrestling fan and being an out gay person some time ago?
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    Good promo with more editing so this very well could have been Shawn working more of his own angle here, as I thought the threats towards Vince were. Still a strong promo on Shawn's part. Triple H is there, and nothing has been done to put Owen over in this feud at all, either by promo or by a match result or angle--#politicalhit indeed.
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    They're still working hard to make this first meeting a big deal with it being brother vs. brother. It is overwrought and overdone and at times ridiculously silly, but at least there's some gravitas to the feud here. Compare and contrast with the who-cares Steiner split which has some lip service paid to the possible emotions involved, but is really Just Another Turn.
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