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    From a pragmatic standpoint, I agree. My qualms about Foley being better at dramatic monologues than selling tickets is borne out where he outright says that he isn't going ot exact revenge on Tommy in front of ECW fans, he'll do it behind closed doors. That's cool and threatening at all, but...well, it's nitpicking, because this is still an awesome, legendary promo. "Is that all I stand for, Tommy? To sit in an arena where JT Smith lands headfirst on the concrete, and hears the fans say, 'You fucked up'? WELL, FUCK YOU. WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" Amen, Cactus. Nobody else in wrestling had his finger on the pulse of what was happening in wrestling, both corporate and independent, better than Mick at this time.
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    Austin is out and instantly makes friends with the ECW crowd: "This place is a complete shithole ... World Championship Wrestling wouldn't take a shit in this building, much less book a goddamned wrestling match here." Austin speaks of whipping somebody's ass for perhaps the first but certainly not the last time. He does wish Sandman and Mikey well, since they got here by kicking ass instead of being a corporate buttkisser. He then delivers a patronizing greeting to Mikey in lieu of shaking hands. Highlights of the match follow of some pretty crazy spots involving a giant ladder. Sandman does a legdrop from the literal rafters of the arena, and both guys take some pretty ridiculous shots with the ladder. Mikey is about to put Sandman away but Woman sneaks in a shot with the cane, sending Mikey plummeting off the turnbuckle into the ladder and leading to another fluke Sandman pin. Mikey gets some revenge afterward. This nicely sets up a ladder match at the next ECW Arena show.
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    Bischoff is acting like Hogan will die if he wrestles the Giant in his condition. Hogan doesn't see the Giant out, so as he heads to the back to find him, WHAM! Powder to the eyes from an old lady in the front row. The Taskmaster beats the shit out of Hogan and Hart with the cane and the Giant is out. Sullivan SHAVES OFF THE MOUSTACHE in a crazy scene. Then Zodiac whips out a pair of scissors(!) in a cute nod to history, but just stands over him like an idiot instead of actually following through. Angles like this are why I give credence to Sullivan's explanation of using the Dungeon of Doom as a way to appeal to Hulk before unleashing crazier follow-up angles. It's hard to imagine the Hogan of 1994 through summer of '95 agreeing to this.
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    "Of course, this is just a television poll which is not legally binding. Unless Proposition 304 passes, and we all pray it will." --Kent Brockman
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    Weird to watch this right after watching Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville from the last NXT show, as the stories and even the finish were sort of similar. I always thought the constant restarts were pretty nonsensical--since when can a wrestler have a match continue after he loses just because he asks? But Kid takes some requisite loony bumps and all the finishes are really good. Pity the best one--Kid trying a somersault off the top and Razor catching him with a power bomb(!)--was during the commercial break.
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    Good Lord, it's here that you realize just how huge DDP is. Badd isn't that small and Page towers over him. Like 3/4 of the episodes of Seinfeld, this angle couldn't be re-run in a world full of cell phones. Weird timing as this goes off the air right as Badd unloads on DDP.
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    There are a few clips of the Malenkos' NWA tag title tournament matches in here as well. Just a few months ago this would have seemed woefully out of place, but now WCW is going all-out to bring in some rather exciting young talent (Dean's not that young, but work with me here), and making room to have the Pure Sports Build stuff stand alongside the cartoony stuff in the main event. That wall of separation would continue long past the point of necessity, but right now it's working.
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    Take the lyrics away and this is a legally actionable ripoff of "You Really Got Me."
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    Good continuity with Pillman out to question Badd having the "physical wherewithal" to take his title shot.
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    Not too eager for this after hearing the intros--I guess they've totally junked the "Armstrong can't have anything to do with Cornette anymore" stip, and it's ridiculous to give this match away on television. Way more desperate than re-running the Four Faces of Fear. We can criticize Cornette for too much offense--personally I don't think he should be getting his ass kicked either, not after running such a hot angle with Landell earlier. Cornette is also so woefully out of shape at this point that it's distracting and a hindrance, even for a non-wrestler. It's a far cry from the Cornette who went 20 minutes with Mark Curtis as Kowabunga the Turtle. Pretty standard Militia beatdown on Bob and this feud is really out of steam.
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    Landell is incredible. He really deserved a steady run in the Big Two at this point, even if it was just working undercard bouts on Worldwide (or WWF Mania).
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    They're bringing back the Four Faces of Fear between Rich and Landell--a Tennessee chain match, a falls-count-anywhere match, a first-blood match, and a barbed wire match. It doesn't seem quite as desperate to me as it did to the others, since as El-P mentioned they ran this series once before. But the Rock 'n Rolls and Heavenly Bodies was a much longer-established rivalry, whereas here Landell has just turned babyface. Cornette takes a shot at religion in the process of running down Landell, much to Chip Kessler's disgust. He then offers up a bottle of booze so Landell can muster up the courage to face Rich! Yep, it's Lawler vs. Jake a year early, but Cornette's cutting this promo with a lot more venom and hatred than Lawler ever was in that program. That draws Landell out, but he's quickly overwhelmed by the Militia, and Cornette tops this off by pouring the beer down his throat.
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    Santo has jumped back to CMLL, which seems like a badly needed shot in the arm for that promotion. They waste no time with matching him against his old rival. Santo keeps Casas off balance with his tricky headscissor takedowns, and this is being wrestled clean until Casas levels Santo in the face with several punches and stomps. Santo pays him back, but Casas sneaks in a power bomb into a scorpion deathlock to take the first fall. Then it breaks down when Casas tears at Santo's mask. Both guys go nuts on each other and an errant Casas elbow knocks out the referee. A new ref comes in right as Santo executes a sunset flip power bomb to the floor...and the ref rules that that's a martinete and disqualifies Santo. Santo ain't having that and gets in some more licks on Casas afterward--Negro doesn't much look like a winner. Hard to compare this to the other matches in the rivalry, as this is clearly Step 1 of a story. It's a teaser to make you want to see more, not a great match in and of itself, and on that front it succeeded.
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    She's married to Sinn Bodhi, aka Kizarny. Not that that name likely means much to you, but he was in the WWE for about 7 seconds in 2009 and wrestles for Chikara now.
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    Lance Wright hypes a tag title rematch--Raven & Richards against the Pitbulls, with Bill Alfonso and Tod Gordon as dual guest referees. Gordon is interviewed and quickly confronted by Alfonso, who plans to sue everyone in sight once he gets his big, fat Jewish lawyer out of Scarsdale.
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    Good promos from both guys, as Pillman slowly starts morphing into the Loose Cannon, though he's not there yet. This is the type of angle they needed to run in 1990 rather than another tired Horsemen retread, but it's good to see here even if it's a few years late.
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    Luger is so much more motivated in this environment it's absurd. Way more star power between these two than in the war of words the previous week between the IYH main eventers.
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    Hogan issues the MONSTER TRUCK MATCH challenge. This is a flashback to 1989-ville at a time when that was the last thing Nitro needed.
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    They really should have pulled the trigger here and given Davey Boy the victory, even a victory with interference. Undertaker gets laid out afterward, with no sitting up, at least. But that did more for King Mabel than for the Bulldog.
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    Good action when Owen is in, but Yokozuna slows this to a crawl with a looong nerve hold. He's still good at missing big squashing moves but he's been pretty much finished for this entire run. Another monster pop as the Gunns regain the tag titles.
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    Jannetty gets a big reaction and chants the instant he comes out. This was a super-hot crowd the whole show, IIRC. Pretty non-stop action with some classic clowning by Candido, and some more advanced offense than you're used to seeing in the WWF. One of the better TV matches of the year, in fact.
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    I don't know what the hell Hirata did to earn a title shot, but it's nice to see some fresh blood in the mix. Hirata slows the match down because kayfabe-wise it's his only chance of keeping up with Mutoh, but he brings the goods when the pace picks up as well. Good matwork building organically to some hot near-falls. Hirata didn't feel like he had a real chance until he hit that power bomb for a 2.9--that got the crowd going and they popped for the tease of him hitting his Devil Windmill suplex. But Mutoh escapes that and soon has an answer for everything else he tries. Not "special," no, but perfectly fun and a good glimpse at a longtime NJPW midcarder.
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    Weird finish that certainly didn't do Owen any favors. But the action before that was really good--Davey Boy getting whipped into Yokozuna and then getting crushed was a fun spot, as was Shawn using the flying elbow to make a save for Diesel. Shawn & Diesel win the tag titles, which of course isn't going to last.
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    Isamu Teranishi

    PeteF3 replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    Don't think he was as consistently good as Kantaro Hoshino, or Hamada, or even Kobayashi. Been a while since I watched his IWE stuff but I remember him being technically sound but not afraid to grind a match to a halt, either. That said, the Fujinami match was a revelation. I can't really see voting him ahead of the other early-'80s juniors, though.
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    Ricky Santana

    PeteF3 replied to Dylan Waco's topic in Nominees

    Iceman/Akitoshi Saito vs. TNT/Mr. Pogo in the cage is a really good match from W*ING (9/12/91). Probably the best Pogo match ever.
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