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    Tony Skeeavone stands by with Chris Jericho, who makes an amusing reference to the fan run-in on Raven. Jericho is incensed that the fat and out-of-shape Prince Nakamaki is getting a Cruiserweight title shot despite weighing more than Jericho's slim, trim 224 3/4 pounds. Iaukea weighs in at 218 pounds, but Jericho determines that the scale wasn't calibrated properly, and does so over Nakamaki's head.
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    This was actually shaping up to be an effective promo but that fan run-in killed everything. We get a surreal promo afterward with Kidman scratching and complaining his way through a plug for Movies for Guys Who Like Movies.
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    DOA still has a bit of a ways to go, and I think Skull & 8-Ball lasted longer than Chainz because they had the whole LOD feud with Ellering as their manager. In any event, HHH pins Chainz and Gunn drops him with a piledriver onto a chair after the match. Chainz gets handcuffed to the ropes like Funk the previous week, but LOD 2000 make the save. Sunny finally is managing again but doesn't have much more to do now than she was doing commercials.
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    I think the big appeal of Val was how it encouraged people on places like RSPW (where he was over huge) to come up with their own double-entendres, fake movie titles, and fake team names.
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    In addition to everything else I loved how Austin took the time to snap another picture of Vince bent over in pain. Another simple but classic segment in a long-running series.
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    Really good promo that harkens back to his best ECW work, though the fans don't have much patience for it because he's not regurgitating catchphrases. One other neat bit of detail was how they made sure to explain and show, in the recap video, the fans chanting for Austin after hearing that he was out of jail, giving some context to Cactus' comments that we didn't get on the show last week. JR plays this 100% straight, which is the right move--Cactus legitimately appears to be gone for good.
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    Kind of a retrogression from what we got last week when this group looked like reborn killers.
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    Austin has learned his lesson, and he learned it the hard way. I believe him! I do like this slow build to McMahon finally losing it several weeks into this program, going from doing what he thinks is right for the company to being a complete megalomaniac. He's not quite there yet, but he's inching closer.
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    People still aren't clear about the rules of the power bomb, as Nash gets disqualified right after he was going to get disqualified anyway. That aside, as uninspiring as WCW's main event scene has been, they've got a genuinely intriguing subtext to the upcoming Bat Match with Hogan and Nash having to team up despite being at odds. I was starting to watch less and less of Nitro in 1998 and gave up on it entirely after the Fingerpoke of Doom so some of this is either new or just forgotten, so they actually have me curious as to where this goes even though it will be an inevitable disappointment.
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    More goodness from Jericho, who's in a thankless role of having to get Prince Nakamaki over as a legitimate title contender.
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    Maybe Savage had a shared checking account and paid for this time himself.
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    They tease that Savage was either hit by a Dodge Viper or thrown out of it. The Disciple gloats because God forbid we go one segment without him. Hogan brags about running over a speedbump on the way in. This NWO looks considerably less intimidating without Nash or Hall or Savage or Bischoff. I'm also amused by Hogan clearly not knowing the name of the next PPV, referring to it solely as "the pay-per-view." Oh, Loss already pointed that out.
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    Quick video recapping the important talking points in the NWO split with random dictionary definitions on the screen.
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    "This is the last thing in the world we expected!" Isn't this the 3rd or 4th time they've done this exact angle with Savage?
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    Yes, very good match--easily RVD's best to date, thanks to Bigelow reigning him in and making his high-flying look like the only strategic weapon available to him rather than just being masturbatory. There's also good build to simpler spots like RVD hitting the huracanrana at a pivotal moment after Bigelow blocked it the first time. I didn't care for the ref bump and I don't quite get why Sabu was even helping out if he didn't want RVD to win the title, but whatever--the work was outstanding.
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    Muhammad Ali is brought out to recreate his moment with the Olympic torch which is a *tad* overwrought, but would you expect anything less for Inoki? Frye is fun with his heeling--there'd be many more good Inoki matches if they had spots where his opponent breaks the choke sleeper by raking his eyes--and this is nice and brisk and intense while it lasts. To Inoki's credit, when he said this was it, this was it.
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    Monster pop for the title change even if Fujinami doesn't really have much anymore. Fujinami's IWGP title win in '94 raised an eyebrow with me--and now he's champion again 4 years later. Here they were trying to recreate the magic of Choshu's final chase for the belt in '96 and '97, plus I think the Sasaki push simply wasn't working. Hopefully--and I don't know the lineage at this point--this is just a transitional thing so we can get the title back to Hashimoto where it belongs.
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    We've already seen its better days, but after that roller coaster Raw, ECW suddenly feels very old-hat. RVD and Sabu discuss upcoming TV title shots at Bam Bam Bigelow, with RVD constantly leaving Sabu hanging on high-five attempts. Meanie and Nova are lost without Raven & Stevie. Tommy Rich and his jorts are with the FBI as they prognosticate on the Bam Bam/Sabu/Rob Van Ham series. Rich delivers strong words for Gordon Solie and Buzz Sawyer in a hilarious moment. Guido and Smothers try to chase Rich down when he announces he's going to get a tattoo like Bam Bam. Man, the WWF even beat the Meanie to making South Park references. Candido & Shane make threats toward Lance Storm. Sandman doesn't need the TV title if he has his cane, cigarette, and beer. The heads ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY DO NOT BOTHER SHANE DOUGLAS, as Shane draws a parallel between Al Snow's struggles to make it in the business and his own.
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    "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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