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  1. PeteF3
    Looks like the decision's been made for Savage to be the next NWO member, looking back on this segment now. Hogan and Bischoff talk up Hollywood's strong technical wrestling acumen, and then Bischoff plays Heenan to Hogan's Narcissist, as he fawns over Hogan's promised post-match posedown.
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    Randy Anderson has taken a personal gift for his help at Souled Out, so for this violation of company policy, Bischoff fires him. Eric is an awesome two-faced asshole pretending to follow HR policy while Hall and Nash guffaw. Bischoff then overturns the decision and demands the Steiners return the belts or be found in breach of contract.
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    Pretty good segment. I actually quite liked Shawn's promo here, as he actually puts his opponents over and puts the nature of the championship era. All the talk about "attitude" is pretty jarringly prescient, too. The only negative was Vince having to repeatedly jut in to put over the Shawn-Sid match on Thursday Raw.
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    "Sock" as in a sock to the jaw, I believe. One of Lothario's finishes was a Ronnie Garvin-style KO punch.
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    Buddy went to his grave convinced that Dusty at least TOLD him he was in line for the title. As time went by he seemed to be less sure that Dusty actually meant it. What's not in dispute are the plans of Buddy being put with Baby Doll--both Cornette and JJ Dillon have corroborated that, at the very least. Baby Doll was a major act for the company in 1985 so at minimum he lost out on a very sizable push, even if it wasn't World title level.
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    It's in Harley's book from '04. Could be something his ghostwriter completely made up, but I want it to be true.
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    Is there any truth to Harley Race's story about defending the title against Robot C-3 and then having to shoot on him?
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    Clarence Thomas' non sequitur discussion of "dignity" in his dissent brought to mind the pitiable wailing of Hollywood John Tatum.
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    Jado

    PeteF3 replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    His supposed best career match against Taka Michinoku was something I didn't care for in the slightest. No.
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    To me this begins and ends with a fairly obvious but unavoidable pick: WCW's #1 heel going from Ric Flair to Brother Bruti. So horrid on so many levels that it scarcely needs explaining. Beefcake was never a *great* worker but you can at least understand why he earned his babyface push in the late '80s. In 1994 he had nothing at all going for him other than being Hogan's pal.
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    But with Dory and PWO it's an awfully limited "collective." Ask the question again at Wrestling Classics and you're not going to get "no one else" believing he was great.
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    I think Dory is a great worker and part of a top-5 all-time tag team. I also despise Duran Duran, but I'm admittedly a dwindling minority on that.
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    But Hogan jobbed for Flair in January... WCWSN did a 3.2 on the 3/2 show where Loch Ness wrestled for the second straight week, which was phenomenal...but it was also a week where both Nitro *and* Main Event were pre-empted.
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    Gwyn Davies vs. Steve Veidor from 5/26 is one of my favorite matches ever, World of Sport or otherwise. Others, some of which are probably already known about: - Verne Gagne vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (3/10) - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Rusher Kimura (3/28) - Terry Funk vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (6/11) - Giant Baba vs. Billy Robinson (7/24) - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Jack Brisco (8/28) - Dick Murdoch vs. Killer Karl Kox (12/9)
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    Sort of the only finish you could really book--Giant has enough of Patrick not counting, so he drops him with a chokeslam, takes out the B-teamers again, then gets swarmed by the A-listers as Hogan clobbers him with a guitar.
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    This was okay, but for "ladder matches worked the old school way" Candido vs. Smothers smokes this to death. Hell, Razor-Shawn II had body part psychology and other smart work in between the stunts. This had a few nice moments and not much else, with some blown spots and an awkward anticlimactic finish. This wasn't offensive but I didn't much care for it, but IIRC this was still the match of the night. Fairly or not, when you promote a ladder match on PPV ESPECIALLY in 1997 you're more or less promising an epic, and this simply didn't deliver.
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    I'm with El-P here. If anything, the only thing holding back the Steiners as Outsider opponents was Scott's injury, which left them in an out-of-sight-out-of-mind spot for much of the latter part of '96. This may well be the first time I've ever seen a Steiners match where Rick works FIP. Rick low-bridges Kevin Nash as Patrick is trying to restrain Scott. Bischoff: "The Steiners are out of control...I understand frustration, but you have to show SOME level of professionalism and decorum." Eric is in an awkward spot of having to put the action and the wrestlers over while maintaining his heel character, but that lecture was pretty funny. And again after the decision: "THESE PEOPLE ARE LIVID!"
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    This worked with the crowd but was a pretty pale rehash of the Nitro angle. Buff sounds and talks eerily like Brian Christopher. Nick Patrick declares Scott Norton the winner by countout.
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    Bischoff and the Outsiders ride in on a dumptruck flanked by a police escort. So begins one of the most out-of-the-box PPV concepts in wrestling history, that sadly simply didn't work. We'll see if what we see holds up but this show was critically lambasted and called a Worst PPV Ever candidate as soon as it was over, even though the production and "look" was praised at the time. I also wonder if holding this event on a Saturday had anything to do with the lack of buys. I don't know if there was a legit reason for that or if it was different for difference's sake, but Sunday evening PPV had become an ingrained concept in wrestling by this point. Part of me is actually a bit surprised to hear Ted DiBiase shout, "WCW sucks!"
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    Meltzer said they were making a genuine attempt to conceal Rude's identity with this gimmick, but it clearly didn't work. Rude is way, way over, though, and he cuts an effective promo. It ends with Pitbull 1 making his return to the ring and destroying Shane.
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    Styles feebly attempts to get this show back on track after the attack on Dreamer. I remember really liking Taz's promos watching these shows at the time, and they're the one other ECW thing aside from the Douglas/Pitbull halo angle that I wish the '96 Yearbook had more of. Taz calls out the stupidity of ECW fans chanting for Sabu when he's in Japan, "cuz he's so loyal to you guys," then points out that RVD--"that little faggot with the long hair, kissing Baba's ass and all the Jap asses"--is over there, too. In almost anybody else's hands these slurs and swear words would come off as desperate, but Taz makes it work. He then goads the crowd into a "Fuck Sabu" chant then calls them out for doing it. Really good job by Taz of projecting the aura of a badass while in no way coming off to the ECW fanbase as somebody worth cheering.
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    This is sold way out of proportion to the brutality (or lack thereof) of a rather tepid sneak attack. After seeing Dreamer go off the Eagle's Nest through 4 tables, this doesn't really compare. Tommy Rich, God bless him, shows the Triple Threat how it's done in a second attack backstage.
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    Not sure why they felt the need to not have Flanagan cut this promo himself. PG-13 give this video the respect it deserves.
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    Fun little segment from the John Cena of his day.
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    Smothers wearing black gloves and giving the Black Power salute = only in Memphis, baby. This is sort of USWA-by-numbers, complete with the standard Memphis ref bump, but it's still fun and the boys are still working to build on your cliched Memphis finishes, at least. Downtown Bruno gets bumped and misses interference from Wolfie D, but not Brian Christopher's retaliation, so he overrules Bill Rush and gives the DQ win to Shaquille Ali. I'm fine with a Bruno turn and return to management, if that's where they're headed with this. He's not a great manager but he works well in Memphis and seems like he'd have more impact in that role than as an anonymous referee.
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