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    AC Jazz stands up for Nitro Girl purity. "The last time I saw so many little arnimores(??) it was at the household department at K-Mart (?!)." HOW 'BOUT IT? Spice stands up for the prospects. Jazz and Spice talk at each other a lot but don't really do anything. Fans don't really seem to appreciate the other Nitro Girls breaking this up, as terrible as this looks.
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    Good Lord, I cannot describe how BORED this made me. The flaming balcony senton was a holy-shit moment, the rest of this was four anonymous guys managing to make action involving light tubes and barbed wire boards as dull as humanly possible. The pre-match "straight" tag stuff is work not worthy of opening-match work on a rinky-dink '90s Midwestern indy, much less a rinky-dink Japanese indy. Honma was supposedly the darling of the early-'00s deathmatch scene but he's rapidly running out of chances to impress me at all.
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    The usual stunt show between these two--I can't say if it's really better or worse than their other matches, but still...the stunts are always done really, really, well. And Awesome cutting off Tanaka's attempted Hulk-Up was a really good way to set up the finish.
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    All the major matches for November 2 Remember get attention, bookended by Sandman's departure from ECW and his return. Well-done as usual, the perfect sort of go-home hype video.
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    Mr. Golden doesn't show himself to be much of a brawler here.
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    I don't know the time frame of when this was filmed re: the Gilbert incident, but Lawler is namedropped so many times here you'd swear he was on his way in...
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    Wait, is Damaja wrestling Buchanan or Dinsmore? Buchanan alludes to having been in prison, I believe. I do like that they acknowledge that there's a camera filming this.
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    To the point and effective enough--better than some other OVW videos, at least. In addition to the Coal Miner's Glove Match, Dinsmore will have to face Damaja at the Gardens. If Dinsmore loses, Damaja gets 5 minutes with Bolin and Dinsmore will be in "breach of contract" with BS.
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    This has all been recapped in this thread, and seeing this all for the first time...wow. Unbelievable. I've been waiting and wondering for weeks now, "Is this the segment where Doug goes off? Or this? Or this one?" Incredibly, this is one of the very best segments of the '99 Yearbook before Doug shows up. That Doug goes off after all we've already seen is like icing on the cake. I've been deliberately avoiding reading up on this incident in detail because I wanted to see it first, and now I can't wait to get into the follow-up from this. This has more layers to it than the most complicated wrestling storyline, proving that truth is stranger than fiction, even in wrestling--just so many aspects to talk about that I can't do it justice. But some as they come to me: - All the shootish comments throughout the year about what a loose cannon Doug is bear fruit in the worst possible way from a PPW standpoint. - All the low blows Christopher and Spellbinder were laying on the Gilberts and Rich...if that wasn't cleared, then Randy Hales is a dumbass. I laughed at a lot of these lines but like the Arn Anderson parody I felt guilty about doing so, not knowing how they were being perceived in real life. Looking back, knowing that they weren't bothering to go over this with Doug anyway, I'm honestly half-surprised they didn't try to evoke Eddie for some more cheap heat. - Just how much of a plan did Doug go into this with? Did he know upon coming back (he'd been touring for IWA in Japan which was why he'd been absent for a few weeks) that he was going to cut loose? Did he cut a traditional wrestling promo to start with (complete with "Tonight in the New Daisy..." hype) just to lull everybody, or did he, in the middle of the promo, decide "fuck it"? - I also wonder if the first bristling by Dave was something that Gilbert took as a bit of a challenge--that he saw how he was able to get a rise out of Dave by outing Lawler as Christopher's dad, and decided to see how much he'd get away with. - Where is Lawler, anyway? He had to leave television due to his mayoral run lest WMC run afoul of equal-time laws, but the election was in early October. It's not a case of Yearbook selection bias, because Observer recaps of these shows don't mention him, either. Why wouldn't he at least be showing up every so often in an emeritus/part-time role, at the very least? - What did Tommy Rich think of all this? Was he complicit? Did he feel double-crossed? Did he stand by Doug? His is much closer to a wrestling promo but he still works in a personal shot at Spellbinder ("If it wasn't for steroids, you wouldn't weigh but 110 pounds!" Dave seemed to like that line.) Just an amazing piece of television, sometimes even for the right reasons. With the Jerry Jarrett/Memphis PERSONAL ISSUES DRAW MONEY philosophy (printed and hanging on Jerry's office wall), the line between shoot and work is sometimes blurred more effectively than Vince Russo or Eric Bischoff or even Brian Pillman could ever dream of. We saw it blur more and more over the course of these segments until finally coalesced into one giant, glorious explosion. #2 Memphis segment of the decade, right behind the Snowman debut.
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    A feud about who's more "entertaining" or a better worker--sigh. Simon Diamond makes what may be his Yearbook debut. He shows off his big Dick. No idea who that is. (Heidenreich? Really??!) Danny Doring cries over the apparent loss of his mother--he gets over it quickly. Bill Alfonso has threats for Chris Candido on behalf of Sabu. Simon's bringing his big Dick to Buffalo--Hertz is apparently supposed to be doing a dumb meathead gimmick but his delivery is bad even by that standard. Jerry Lynn is going to kick Tajiri's ass, and kick it REAL GOOD. The Baldies are here for New Jack. PN News shows off his Gilbert Gottfried impression. Simon Diamond can't say the word "stiff" without it being bleeped. Corino, Jack Victory, and Rhino in an unflattering pink and black singlet stand by. Raven is less than thrilled about Sandman joining forces with him and Dreamer, but would rather condemn his soul than not to have a soul by losing to Justin Credible.
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    Another good TV bout--they run through 7 eliminations in about 10 minutes but they all work and make sense. Aside, yes, from Kane popping up from the Fameasser. Vince has now gifted HHH two consecutive wins through his own incompetence, but HHH going over both Rock and Austin is the real story here. Well, that and another one: it's hard not to notice how little Austin does here. He basically works one sequence to eliminate X-Pac and another at the end. No one knew it then but that seems like an ominous sign.
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    ANOTHER instance of DX recapping Raw? Jesus, how stuck for time WERE they? No wonder Loss and Will skipped most of that episode. Supposedly live, Vince first said, "I'd rather join the Ku Klux Klan than join DX!" That didn't get a good response, leading to the much better line we see here. Vince gives us a hell of a hook for the rest of the show. Oh, and no big deal for next Smackdown--just an appearance by Schwarzenegger. The WWF hasn't lost a beat from a business standpoint, but even if I'm not a big fan of the DX reunion, quality-wise they now seem to be turning a corner.
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    The Hollys are surprisingly effective at working basic heel tag formula stuff. Again, a match gets a little time to breathe with a focus on in-ring psychology. Surprisingly fun, and yeah, there's no doubt Snow winning a tag title was a direct reaction to the action figure stuff. Foley is pretty fun bouncing around strip joints and peep shows and porno stores looking for Val, especially when he tries to bribe a manager with a $1 bill (then yanks it back from a stripper when he decides to look elsewhere). But Val's been at the arena the whole time as Al Snow finds out. Incidentally this might be the only instance I can think of where Mick Foley's actually *wearing* a title belt.
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    We get a helpful recap of what sounds like an incredibly uneventful Raw judging by how little of it made the set. I agree that this is a step back for HHH's credibility.
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    Well, a window was open to actually do something with La Parka, but that's shot now.
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    They really push how Kurt Angle is a REAL athlete--yes, they know exactly where they're going with this, but they're not pounding it into our heads just yet.
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    If only we all could get entrance music playing after successfully popping the question.
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    Duggan SHOOTS on the spot monkeys while selling himself to the Powers To Be. Russo in his new role as Dr. Claw takes it under advisement. An overworked and underpaid censor attempts to mute the various sayings of the word "screwed" before apparently throwing in the towel. The Filthy Animals talk unintelligibly backstage. So does the Revolution. Goldberg attempts to cut a hate-filled money promo in the midst of this goofiness. Goldberg and the Outsiders are in different worlds right now. We're starting the big money-drawing feud between the Nitro Girls, and thank God for that.
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    Jarrett insists he didn't hit Liz with the guitar. I don't see what the big deal is, Liz seems pretty with-it this week, suffering no ill effects. Nash *sort of* has the Vince laugh down when we see him backstage on the cell phone, but the wig and make-up are terrible and he doesn't even try to do the power walk, despite Heenan claiming he recognizes it. Nash is no Brian Christopher, not even a Spellbinder. Remember those weird battery commercials from around this time with the bizarre uncanny valley-esque wind-up people? That's what Nash really looks like. Schiavone and Heenan giggle along with this because shades of gray. Nash pathetically attempts to respond to "Ass-hole!" chants that don't exist--the late-'90s version of yelling "Shut up!" at an audience that isn't saying anything. What is it about "trouser snake" that Russo goes to it *more than once* for comedy material? This might be the worst segment of multiple prior Yearbooks. In '99, this might not crack the Bottom 5. "You gotta love the Outsiders." --Heenan, selling his soul before our eyes.
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    Why play a video piece reciting all the Big Poppa Pump catchphrases to set up an interview like this? Scott looks and sounds like a particularly awkward Chris Pratt.
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    It doesn't get more "WCW, everybody!" than this. I'd heard about this, but I'm still gobsmacked--this wasn't just an extra "clear!" making it onto the broadcast, this thing ran for another 3-5 seconds!
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    There's some stuff that would be eye-rollingly contrived here (like Rhino and the Impact Players having to figure out how *not* to all clobber Sandman while he's on the apron with his back to them slamming a beer can against his head, and then their subsequent ninja movie-style one-at-a-time attack), but who can really care about any of that? It's weird, but even the sight of Sandman standing in a section of the ECW Arena that hasn't been fancied up yet is cool, like we all just stepped back into the 1995 Arena. And Joey shutting up and letting the action and the singing crowd tell the story was the perfect way to go. Even Raven has to give Sandman his props.
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    Good match. I'm not as enamored with it as everyone else, as it's more of a good TV main event than a GREAT MATCH, and boy did that fucking crowd chant sour me on the whole viewing experience. A few other of the ECW Arena mutants clearly tried to get them to shut up, but that was a lot of people.
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    Other than the look, Lou E.'s Paul impersonation isn't exactly spot-on. As soon as Lou talked about bringing back a former World Champion, I would have bet money that "Enter Sandman" was going to kick up just to troll the crowd, but they decide not to have the crowd shit on Mikey...why a heel gets on-air credit for all this, who knows.
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