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    It's not the first use of Jerichoholics but it may be the first time he declares himself our role model and a Paragon of Virtue ™. I wish Bo Dallas had this kind of an edge to him when he was running this gimmick. The fact that Jericho is legitimately dangerous on top of being delusional and funny is really what puts him over the top as a compelling character.
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    This is an honest-to-God wrestling promo from Raven and it's a good one, with the angsty poetry not overwhelming the storyline from getting across.
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    Jenna looks cuter here than in her normal *cough* workplace attire.
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    The Triple Threat now have all the gold in ECW. This is one of Shane's best promo efforts, gloating over the fallen Taz and then issuing a challenge to Al Snow, who ruined Living Dangerously for Douglas and who represents everything Douglas hates about wrestling and ECW.
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    A hotline plug...what year am I in? Heyman threatens to fire Candido or Storm if they turn on the other.
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    Gennifer Flowers is coming to WrestleMania! Her promo is better than Pete Rose's. Cheap bait and switch as Austin is jumped on the ramp and eats a Superkick, right before a pretty huge TV main event. After the break, we have our Main Event Interview. Kane retrieves the bell and destroys a fan in the process--he takes a wicked bump from a chokeslam on the floor. Marc Yeaton is forced into the ring and is ordered by Paul Bearer to perform a ten-bell salute for the Undertaker. Of course the whole gimmick is all about death but this feels just a little skeevy coming about 2 weeks after Louie Spicoli's death and Pillman's death four months ago. He's thanked with a chokeslam and tombstone. Bearer cuts a scorched-earth promo on everyone who didn't believe him and this crowd is getting HOT. Finally the lights go out and the *bongs* start, almost to the point of annoyance--but that's actually played up well, as Bearer screams for the music to stop and it just keeps going. Finally we get to brass tacks, as the Undertaker returns--he was absent not because of Kane and Bearer, but because he was explaining to his parents why he'd have to fight Kane. And then closes with a warning that unlike as children, there'll be no parents to save Kane at WrestleMania. Fuck...yeah, it's comic book wrestling at its comic bookiest, but I liked this more than any Warrior promo because everything Undertaker said served a purpose and got the angle and match over, and they never lost the crowd. Lord knows this angle will get worse but this was a well-done and effective segment. The WWF is just leaving WCW in the dust creatively and it's going to be pretty glorious to see it pay off financially.
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    It's a swerve, but man, if you're going to do it, do a SWERVE. Reports going in were all about how WM was going to be an attempt by Tyson to try to rehabilitate his image, and instead they go in the exact opposite direction. Just mindblowing stuff that made you want to see what was going to happen next, a time when the end of Raw was the worst time of the week because it was the longest possible time until the next show. Of course this ended as it was predicted to from the start, but at the time we had no idea how they were going to get there.
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    I knew someone was going to beat me to the Norm MacDonald reference, which is literally all this movie is known for. Sunny shows good technique with the figure four, and it wouldn't be an appearance by a celebrity non-wrestler without the requisite airplane spin.
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    They at least *try* to make it look like an actual attack by the Flock and a save by DDP, but yeah, that story doesn't exactly hold up. It's a unique way of kickstarting the DDP-Raven feud, I'll give them that. As far as Nitro-era music videos this ranks comfortably ahead of "I'm Your Man."
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    They clearly didn't have a clue where they were going with Savage when this was actually put together.
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    Disappointing considering the reputation this match has--there's just a lot of clubbering between the big spots and most of the big spots aren't overly impressive or are badly executed. The result is a lot of not very interesting action. The finish works, though I kind of wish they'd both come off the turnbuckle or something, and having Bam Bam tap but the referee miss it was a clever touch. The business about Sandman/Sabu being taped in advance and "banned", only for them to show the match while they repair the ring, is a little weird and I'm not sure how we'd be expected to buy that it was *that* violent. Though maybe after N2R the censors were simply out to protect us from bad wrestling.
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    Lame. They tease a Beulah heel turn so hard that you just know it's going to be a reverse-swerve. Mikey Whipwreck hops out with a crutch and leg brace to save Beulah from Nicole Bass, and he drops her with the Whippersnapper. OMG YOU GUYS THAT WAS JUST LIKE AUSTIN AND CHYNA! That proves...what, exactly? Dreamer wins. Credible is out of my good graces after that miracle performance against Sasuke--somehow after working a psychologically strong match where he more than carried his weight, Aldo looks like has the physical tools but no actual clue what to do in the ring and when. Look at his sell or lack thereof of the Spicoli Driver and you'll see what I mean. It's not that he didn't sell it, it's that he couldn't.
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    I think Kawada & Taue were already the champions. I'm not one to get hung up on match times but 11:10 seems awfully short for a tag title match and it's not like this was worked as a sprint, either. I wouldn't blame Budokan fans for feeling ripped off. Pretty uninspiring, paint-by-numbers action that we see. I'd like to challenge the workers of Japan across all promotions to work an entire tag match without a single Irish whip into the guardrail. Just to see if it can be done.
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    Have to agree that Sting did himself few favors with this run. The work has been uninspiring and he hasn't been able to translate his new character to the ring or even an extended segment. There's no oomph to him simply walking to the ring (without the title?? WTF?). This whole segment is kind of a mess and the storyline that should be being pushed to the hilt--Sting vs. Hall with Hogan wanting Hall to hand over the title and the question of whether Hall will go along with that--is ignored. With Savage as a guy being blackballed this feels like a big reset button has been hit and we're back to early 1996. And still no one gives a shit if Luger and Savage are together or not.
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    Jericho is out in Air Quasi's mask, presumably also out to retrieve his Loverboy tape from opponent Lenny Lane. We're 83% of the way toward a name change from Monday Nitro to Monday Jericho!
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    Pete Rose, an even bigger attention whore than Goldust, is coming to WrestleMania! Yes, on some level you have to respect the WWF for going all-in on the sleaze, knowing they weren't going to get positive coverage no matter what. It's really refreshing in the face of what they've been for the past 8-9 years. A pretty epic video recapping Austin's WWF career follows, including clips from Off the Record and acknowledgment of the neck injury. In terms of build to a big match this actually comes across as a better job than Sting-Hogan, which had length on its side but really not a lot else.
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    I wonder if the WWF was even aware that Dusty had turned. Maybe, maybe not. There are definitely some odd things about the presentation that have already been mentioned, and JR and especially Lawler are a little too giggly for my tastes. Bradshaw no-sells all of Dusty's trademark offense and squashes Dustin with a Lariat. Goldust decides to hang up the Stardust gear afterward.
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    Cole is such a tool here, though that was practically becoming his gimmick as an interviewer at this point. Road Dogg stumbles through his promo and right when I wonder what he's on he declares, "Hell, I'm already half-drunk!" Sounds like he was shooting. As they're driving away they're accosted by Jack & Charlie. Good chaotic scene, though yes, driving a car with a cracked windshield at full speed with a Dumpster, Jack, Charlie, and multiple crew members around is pretty crazy.
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    Chyna talked on a few rare occasions in '97. DX isn't at Raw tonight but they'll be there next week with Austin, Owen, and Tyson all scheduled. Triple H gives WM14 its subtitle, "X-Raided."
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    I'm no soccer expert, but for the other Americans here wondering just how big a deal this is: picture UAB, who are restarting their football program in 2017, going undefeated and rolling through the college football playoff. And the other playoff teams are, like, Northwestern, Cal, and NC State. While Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, and USC all finish with 6 wins or less. That's the closest equivalent I can come up with for an American parallel, because there's nothing in real life that compares. Coming with even a hypothetical pro equivalent is impossible because the EPL has no draft, no salary cap, and with the Champions League berths at the top and relegation at the bottom is practically designed to keep the haves and have-nots separated. The Browns or 76ers or Padres are orders of magnitude closer to a title than Leicester City was at the start of the season. The Saskatchewan Roughriders would have to enter the NFL and then go 14-2 and bulldoze through everyone on their way to the Super Bowl.
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    Your ballots

    PeteF3 replied to Grimmas's topic in 2016

    I would expand on the list more, but I did a LOT of extrapolation and reputation voting, maybe more than I should have. I think I was "safe" for every pick, especially the Golden Age guys, but if I had to rattle off a bunch of matches to support my position as the podcasters did I'd have been toast. I'm satisfied with my list overall, though.
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    A third straight underwhelming match in the series again catered entirely to make Hogan look good. You can fault Sting for not putting his foot down or being able to translate his innate Crow charisma into working, but this whole premise stinks. Savage costs Hogan the title instead of Sting winning it and there's no particularly major celebration other than a bit with the spraypaint.
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    Even if the Steiners were past it, and there's no question that they were, this turn deserved more than a standard "swerve" type turn with a few token weeks of build-up. Plus, that build to the turn had really nothing to do with the NWO at all, just Scott being a glory hound. Meltzer is correct that brother vs. brother feuds generally don't work--Bret vs. Owen was an exception because so much thought was put into making that storyline as believable as possible. This is just generic, though it certainly would end up being a boon to Scott's career.
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    Man...while watching I thought, "DDP is carrying this!", but maybe it was in fact a case of Benoit dumbing things down. He does provide a lot of chinlockery and stalling here, which you don't normally expect and which even Schiavone sort of calls him out on. In any event, DDP comes out of this looking better from both a storyline and a workrate-centric standpoint. Whether it's laid out to his particular tastes or not, Page works his ass off going along with Benoit's suplexes, providing a few nice ones of his own, and providing a terrifically well-timed kickout on the rolling Germans. His punches looked great, too. At the moment this may be the #2 American MOTY behind the Casket Match. Also, they're starting to hammer the "best wrestler not to have a title" talking point for Benoit. I can just see some WCW brass and even modern-day WWE brass seeing that as a great way to get somebody over and thinking that putting a title on him would "hurt" that.
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    Your ballots

    PeteF3 replied to Grimmas's topic in 2016

    1.) Terry Funk 2.) Jumbo Tsuruta 3.) Jushin Liger 4.) Stan Hansen 5.) Toshiaki Kawada 6.) Mitsuharu Misawa 7.) Ric Flair 8.) El Dandy 9.) Tatsumi Fujinami 10.) El Hijo del Santo 11.) Billy Robinson 12.) Genichiro Tenryu 13.) Kenta Kobashi 14.) Shinya Hashimoto 15.) Nick Bockwinkel 16.) Jerry Lawler 17.) Daniel Bryan 18.) Vader 19.) Rey Mysterio Jr. 20.) Bull Nakano 21.) Jack Brisco 22.) The Destroyer 23.) Steve Austin 24.) Riki Choshu 25.) Bret Hart 26.) Eddie Guerrero 27.) Verne Gagne 28.) Buddy Rose 29.) Jaguar Yokota 30.) Yoshiaki Fujiwara 31.) Aja Kong 32.) Harley Race 33.) Pat O’Connor 34.) Randy Savage 35.) Dynamite Kansai 36.) Giant Baba 37.) Negro Casas 38.) Ricky Morton 39.) Ricky Steamboat 40.) Chris Benoit 41.) Chavo Guerrero Sr. 42.) Mayumi Ozaki 43.) Kiyoshi Tamura 44.) Mick Foley 45.) Barry Windham 46.) Jim Breaks 47.) Manami Toyota 48.) William Regal 49.) Johnny Saint 50.) Shinjiro Otani 51.) Tully Blanchard 52.) John Cena 53.) Lou Thesz 54.) Clive Myers 55.) Volk Han 56.) Wahoo McDaniel 57.) Hiroshi Hase 58.) El Satanico 59.) Shinobu Kandori 60.) Steve Grey 61.) Brock Lesnar 62.) Psicosis 63.) Bobby Eaton 64.) Akira Hokuto 65.) Arn Anderson 66.) Greg Valentine 67.) Dick Murdoch 68.) Dory Funk, Jr. 69.) Shawn Michaels 70.) Hayabusa 71.) Bob Backlund 72.) Ivan Koloff 73.) Jun Akiyama 74.) El Samurai 75.) Marty Jones 76.) Cesaro 77.) Masato Tanaka 78.) Nobuhiko Takada 79.) Pat Patterson 80.) Ron Garvin 81.) Rick Martel 82.) CM Punk 83.) Solar 84.) Dan Kroffat 85.) Tommy Rogers 86.) Tracy Smothers 87.) Naoki Sano 88.) Kurt Angle 89.) Steve Veidor 90.) TAKA Michinoku 91.) 2 Cold Scorpio 92.) Dustin Rhodes 93.) Dos Caras 94.) Masanobu Fuchi 95.) Samoa Joe 96.) Fit Finlay 97.) Brian Pillman 98.) Butch Reed 99.) Bill Dundee 100.) Gran Hamada
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