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    Hahahahaha. Jannetty of course hasn't updated his ring gear in 10 years and wouldn't for another 10 after this, and it's never looked more out-of-place than it does here. Douglas works SOO loose and moves so stiffly, it's a stark contrast to his WCW work and in contrast to the rest of ECW. I'm not asking for the guy to be Stan Hansen, but there's no snap or impact to any of his strikes, moves, or bumps. It's hard not to notice regardless of how good the match is. All that aside, this turns into a hell of a match. They throw in a few token brawling spots but they fit well into the match, as opposed to doing crowd brawling and chair spots for the sake of doing them. Jannetty works that stuff into his signature style very effectively. Ultimately it's Marty holding this together, as seemed to happen with him so, so often. He didn't have Shawn's star power but ultimately I think he had a better grasp of psychology and had better ways than Shawn of covering up a lack of offense. Marty gets a few hot near-falls and Douglas has to pull out a power bomb counter and tights grab to retain the title by the skin of his teeth. Now I want to see Jannetty team up with Snow in this setting because they both looked surprisingly good.
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    I didn't dislike this as much as you guys but it did go too long. Raven says nothing much of note and the Broad Street Bullies are pretty underwhelming, though I think partly by design since they were brought in by Richards. What's with all the 1993-era Philly indy guys showing up tonight? Stevie trying to superkick the stop sign and doing a bunny hop to sell it was the highlight of this. The Bullies looked awful and the brawl was rather tepid.
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    The match is horrible of course, but it's ancient history as soon as it's over. Clever reveal as Funk comes out of a box dressed in a sheet and also dressed as Sandman. Good beatdown but as per ECW custom it goes on too long. Tommy Dreamer attempts a save after the jobber brigade is dispatched, but can't bring himself to cane Funk and gets taken out as a result. Then Shane Douglas is in and Woman makes him an offer to unify the Triple Threat with her group. Douglas teases it for a bit and then saves Cactus! I didn't remember that part. This was still too long but the closing angle with Woman and Douglas wrapped this up nicely.
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    Good, chaotic pull-apart segment. Hogan has a strap with him so you know where this is going. Bockwinkel ejects both men from the building. Amazingly he doesn't grant Hogan an interview while fining Vader and Flair $50,000 for antagonizing him. Check out the not-at-all intrusive shot of five Turner interns and secretaries devoted members of the WCW female fanbase chanting for Hogan.
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    Stock New Jack promo with a few good lines as mentioned above. I'm not digging where this Black Culture vs. Confederate Flag-Waving Babyface is going, though.
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    Landell cuts the promo of his life, with profanity and everything. Landell can make the biggest issues out of the most inconsequential situations. Lawler cuts the best of his SMW promos. He doesn't soil his hands on filth like us! White Boy responds in kind.
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    Really good match, I daresay the #2 domestic MOTY after Bret-Diesel. Dundee unleashes some new offense, and the transition to Lawler's piledriver coming out of the leg clips was pretty masterful. Dundee is a master of working tweener and getting wins that aren't quite on the level but don't have a solid thing to point to to make it a screwjob either. Lawler goads Dundee into a rematch even though Bill wants to enjoy 30 days as World Champion. Some fat biker guy who looks like the Motor City Madman if he let himself go wants a shot, too. Bill says Lawler gets the first shot. Wrestlingdata says this guy is Lanny "Moondog Cujo/Cousin Junior" Kean. Cyrus and Crusher Bones beat down Dundee until Lawler makes the save. Pretty underwhelming on the heel challenger side.
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    Really well-done stuff from Lance and Dave, going over the specifics of their relationship with Gilbert and touching on what made him a success. A good music video follows, with some of Eddie's earliest Memphis clips leading to a bell salute.
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    Gilbert worked one SMW taping before bailing, as he always did. He really looked like hell.
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    Dreamer's still trying to figure out his hardcore look in a post-suspenders world. I actually liked what we saw of the match, though Dreamer dropping a frying pan on Richards' groin while a few seconds later Richards is getting a count from the referee for using a chokehold is absurd. Raven, either through a ninja stealth technique or a slick editing job, magically appears behind Dreamer in the ring and holds him for a Stevie Kick. Richards goes for another one but Dreamer drops down, uppercuts Richards in the groin, and sunset flips him for the pin. Cute, well-done finish. Raven is "held back" by Richards and the referee afterward, like a baseball player who really wants to look like he's going to charge the mound without actually doing it. Four touchdowns in a game = four tables broken in the Brian Lee match?
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    I'm surprised they showed Diesel standing next to the obviously taller David Robinson.
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    Bret Hart owes the Japanese people an apology for the "slanted" remarks he's been making. Intentional or not? Not one of Shawn's better promos, as there's just some token remarks about the WM11 title match and Shawn gets worse on the stick the less focus that he has. Sid's promo is actually better. I know the story is they didn't decide to turn Shawn babyface until after the WM11 match, but...Sid's got his own entrance music already? Hmm.
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    Vader with a shoutout to his kid in his pre-match promo. Flair gets a hero's welcome for his interview, while there are audible boos when he name-drops Hogan. Pretty much a pure babyface promo from Ric. Hogan mis-uses the word "understatement" for the third straight interview. Hulk has been attempting to pay lip service to the idea that Vader can seriously hurt him, but despite the fact that this show sold well (as I said, the match sells itself) you'd like to think Hogan could have raised his game a bit, the way he did with Earthquake. Instead, Hulk's talk about this being the Most Important Night of His Life just rings hollow. Hogan makes threats to Ric Flair, and I hope this interview didn't play on the video monitor, because that isn't going to endear himself with this audience. SHOOT, VADER, SHOOT was a rallying cry for us smarks on RSPW, and it even became my Prodigy screen name for awhile. Anti-Hulk Hysteria was at a fever pitch, maybe to an even greater degree than it would be at Uncensored '96. So this is a match I could not possibly have objectively evaluated until now, almost literally decades after the fact. As it is...it's pretty damned good. Vader doesn't really seem to work any lighter than usual, despite the supposed signed document preventing him from stiffing Hogan. After so much Hogan-By-Numbers in the buildup, Hulk does do a pretty effective job of selling frustration and even fear when his opening attacks have no effect on Vader. So Hulk tries going to mat wrestling, which is a development that's very well-called and explained by Bobby & Tony. He finally takes over when Vader makes a mistake on the floor, but can never really sustain anything. Hulk takes one of the more brutal bumps I've ever seen him take on a Vader chokeslam. Vader brushes off the big boot and legdrop, and even gets a visual pin on the Hulkster with Randy Anderson knocked out. Eventually Flair comes in, Anderson recovers, and it's a DQ, but it's a DQ leaving you wanting to see another match. Hogan sort of bitches Flair out afterward, but it is put over that Vader & Flair were going to double-team him into oblivion if not for Savage & Sting. In the end, Hogan stepped up his game after all, as seemingly all of Vader's opponents have had to do.
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    A segment I found laughable in 1995 that hasn't gotten any better. "Some athletes still care about THEIR fans." You hear that, Roger Clemens--oh, I guess I just used that one.
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    Meet your athletic potential WITHOUT performance-enhancing drugs. You hear that, Roger Clemens? Lots of love here for HealthSouth CEO and future white-collar prison inmate Richard Scrushy.
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    Hogan by numbers. I've seen worse from him, but I've also seen a lot better. Like I said, this match sells itself, so these promos aren't actively hurting anything. The idea of Jimmy Hart "counteracting" Ric Flair is too ludicrous for words.
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    Hogan/Vader is a match that sort of sells itself, but Flair's promise to be at ringside is pretty much a clincher. Ric is immediately a shot in the arm for WCW programming.
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    I think I remember reading that Grillo *was* going to be Malenko, before someone decided that was too obvious and they stuck the outfit on the real Ciclope.
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    Back in time a bit to an earlier segment on the show. The Gangstas have tried to take over SMW, but the only things they've succeeded in doing is pissing (exact unbleeped words) Cornette & the Heavenly Bodies off. Oh, and New Jack looks like Aunt Jemima--WOW. One step forward, two steps back. Cornette reveals his surprise: Bob Armstrong is the guest referee for Sunday Bloody Sunday. Hell has indeed frozen over.
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    The Infernos are introduced from the "Gates of Hell," which is a touch melodramatic for a generic masked jobber team. Ross: "My ex-wife was from near that area." Okay, that makes it worth it. Ross also takes a shot at WCW, so he's either extra-frisky or just slaphappy. This is a set-up for a Gangstas attack and save by Bob Armstrong and Cornette, with the payoff being a handshake between the two lifelong enemies.
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    The "most expensive suit Buddy Landell owns" looks like something gotten off the discount rack at Jos. A. Bank, which is spectacular and oh so fitting. A great video recap of Landell's recent victories accompanies this promo. Ross tries to confront him over his use of a chain, but Landell's the type of guy who reads the ending of a book to see what happens, and the record books show victories for the Nature Boy. He then rattles off too many horrible but fantastic lines about the Dirty White Girl to count, bringing out DWB to tear up his priceless suit. Great segment. It's the promotion's final year but SMW has shown no signs of slowing down yet. Also loved Landell's near-psychotic insistence that DWB was riding a MULE earlier on.
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    Every time SMW takes a step forward in moving past blatant race-baiting, they take two steps back. Here, D'Lo is holding up the black X flag, New Jack's got a t-shirt with a picture of Malcolm X on it, and he's holding a noose (!!) New Jack is incensed that Cornette and Armstrong suddenly seem to be buddies and that there's a guest referee at Sunday Bloody Sunday. HUGE heat for New Jack talking shit about the Rebel flag and pointing to the X flag as the one that's going to be flying. WOW.
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    An uncrecognizable black-clad DWB cuts a low-key promo from a ranch. White Boy wants his title back from Lawler and his pride back from Buddy Landell.
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    I think we all know where this is headed. One of the two gimmick matches at the Double Header is a loser-eats-dog-food match, which seems rather rinky-dink even for Cornette. Candido wants to let us know that "I may as well leave Smoky Mountain" was just a figure of speech, and I think we know who was behind that Bret Hart-won't-wrestle-in-the-US-again stip.
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    It's a stretcher match this Monday night between PG-13 and Rich/Gilbert. And then a 16-man "Super Brawl." Oh, that's too close to be coincidence. JC Ice wants Lawler's belt!
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