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    Is *that* what this is all leading to? I guess Christopher touched Doug in a real place with some of these remarks, but it seems like standard Memphis heeling to me. This is even better than last week's skit, and who knew the freaking Spellbinder would be so good at parody? Or that Tommy Gilbert defeated Moses? There's a program and proof and everything. Dave is great here, to the point where I wonder if he's at Scott Bowden levels of being legitimately pissed, and his set-up (fully on board that the real Tommy and Peggy are coming) is perfect.
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    If it were "just" a house show then I doubt HHH would be wrestling on it (in a 25-minute match).
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    Better than the tag match we just saw, maybe the #2 AJPW match of the year behind the March tag. Just a war--there's a slow feeling-out process that lasts for about 15 seconds until Vader pops Misawa right in the fucking face and then this is basically a 12-minute closing stretch. Usually if someone says "this match went 12 minutes but felt a lot longer" it's not a compliment...but this felt longer than 12 minutes in a way that's actually a positive, and I'm not sure if I can think of another match that fits that description. These two brutalized each other and the way it goes, you can't really envision this lasting any longer than it did.
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    This match was set up by an actual angle, where No Fear laid out Burning after a 6-man tag match the night after their tag title win, leading to this non-title match being turned into a title match. Hard to remember the last time AJPW had one of its major belts defended in such a quick turnaround like this. Anyway, this leads to a pissed off Kobashi, and it leads to, yes, a better match than the tag title change. This was heated and hateful and suspenseful and dickish and all kinds of things that made this match, like its setup, different from a typical AJPW title match. Business had been tanking under Misawa's booking but even if they didn't draw, his handling and push of No Fear has been a high watermark for him. One of the better AJPW matches of the year.
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    This angle has officially gotten more airplay on this Yearbook than Tony Atlas vs. Vic Steamboat did on ICW television. For the love of God, make this stop. Watching all this in a tiny screen-within-a-screen so we can show spiraling barbed wire in back of the "EXTREME REPLAY" graphic is pretty annoying when the recap goes for minutes on end. The sleazy Tammy Sytch interview had led to ECW's highest ratings on TNN with the initial plan of blending storylines with long matches and all-clean finishes a proven failure, so now the T&A is getting ramped up as we see here. Mercifully back to live action. Raven sits there cutting a promo on Dreamer while Tommy just stands there like an idiot, then lets Raven hit him with the microphone like a bigger idiot. Styles and Gertner remark on the oddity of the World Tag champions doing this to each other as if ECW hadn't run this angle repeatedly before. More Raven, doing what he should have done for his first promo, cut it as a pre-tape away from the ring. Raven has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the entire Yearbook project for me based on the hatred he got from previous viewers (except for El-P) but yes, this feud is played. They had a chance to freshen Raven up upon his return but they've gone with the same old same old.
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    I could have gone my whole life without seeing this. WMOTY contender simply on principle.
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    Telling stories, baby. Springing a bear trap on Road Dogg is somewhat fitting for Austin's character, at least. Boss Man and Albert stupidly decide to hide in a car even though they have a numbers advantage over Al Snow--for no reason other than to set up Big Show trapping them inside with a fork lift. This goes from contrived-but-reasonable to pretty stupid pretty quickly when Show drops a Dumpster on the car. Billy Gunn has fallen for the Bart Simpson floor-pie trap. Then a ceiling falls in on X-Pac with Austin's phone conversation conveniently getting played over the microphone for us to hear. The big net was kind of eye-rolling but the parade of run-ins is pretty fun, and you'd think you could put together a pretty hot 6-man tag out of this for a TV main event.
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    Supercop Dick Justice investigates a refrigerator box, a completely natural segue into shilling for wwf.com.
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    More masturbatory (in more ways than one?) bullshit but...if it gets over, it gets over, and this did. Nash and Hall know how to work a crowd even for something like this. That said, this is a postmodern bullshit segment that would have Jim Cornette seeing red and I probably would have to agree with him. At least this ended with a payoff with Goldberg getting some revenge for last night.
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    Kimberly ain't no Jim Cornette when it comes to personalized ring intros. Now it looks like DDP is being written off TV, though who knows if he'll be out for 3 months or back next week with some tape on his ribs. Hard not to say DDP didn't deserve this after last night, so I don't know why we're suddenly playing all this for sympathy.
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    Heenan sums it up by saying it looks like Elton John with a date. I had no idea Savage came back in '99 but he manages to cut his best promo of the year--not saying much, but it's pretty good. He promises to announce a new protege but we don't get any further details and it sounds like we won't ever. CRASH TV, baby, as we go to backstage for shenanigans .5 seconds after Savage's music kicks up.
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    I like the implication that Mike Graham is helping Hall hook up with rats. Mike Tenay's Serious Journalist approach is an unintentionally hilarious compared to the Outsiders' too-cool-for-school attitude. More of Hall and Nash jerking off on camera.
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    That's a pretty flimsy reason to vacate a World title, but on its own this is a great segment--probably the best Sting has been as a heel. Dillon takes his beating like a pro and the Goldberg save is great, too. One might almost think that Russo is about to put together a hot main event program.
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    The wrestling in the WWF is slowly starting to matter again. Not only is this a good TV main event with tremendous heat, but the finish took *me* in all over again--I'd been wondering for the past several weeks how we were going to get to DX getting back together because I had no recollection of how it happened. Well, here we are, as X-Pac runs in and gives Billy Gunn an upset pinfall over The Rock. A top tag team *should* probably beat two top singles guys, especially if the two singles guys are supposed to face each other in a triple threat in a few weeks.
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    Yeah, I don't get why we had to inject racial slurs into this--like the Acolytes would be above getting into a fight otherwise? Fun fight, though.
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    I wonder if Vince has actually read Foley's book, or any book in the past 35 years.
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    I liked the closing stretch of this but the sheer ridiculousness of the production and lack of communication casts a stink over this--which is frustrating because there's actually a kernel of a really good PPV here, fighting to break out from under Russo's bullshit and WCW's trademark communication breakdowns. Schiavone and Heenan are in open revolt before and after the match because nobody can be fucking bothered to clarify minor details like is this a title match or not? Not to mention how stupid they looked for remarking that there was no ref and that surely Charles Robinson wouldn't be available, two seconds before he charges into the ring fit as a fiddle. As it stands Goldberg is apparently the new WCW Champion and I have no idea how, but I'm pretty sure this doesn't last.
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    Hey Charles, you're a great ref, but come on: call it as a shoot. The Flairs are all over the place in a program with both DDP and the Filthy Animals. The work down the stretch is pretty vicious but sort of pales compared to the U.S. title match we just saw. The seriousness of the injury angle is pretty much undone by the Animals' ambulance hijacking.
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    Sting seems to be back as a babyface again, because reasons.
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    Looks like they're turning Sid face because reasons. That said, it's an effective and interesting way of doing it. I mean, yeah, it's basically Austin at WM13 all over again, but if you're going to steal, steal from the best, right? Plus the match is worked completely differently than you'd expect going in, while still making psychological sense. I don't know if this was the plan before Russo got there and he left it alone, or if he booked this himself, but it might be the high point of his WCW run and one of the performances of Sid's career.
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    Titles are just props so there's no actual need to get them over or put over the idea that a wrestler would want to win one. It's all about swerving the paying customer.
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    Heenan shits all over the WCW Cologne because...reasons. Madusa again can't complete a sentence without blowing a line or misusing a word. Here, Russo and Ferrera are the "two new echelons from New York."
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    I'm about over the "wrestler's partner picks up a weapon and self-consciously gets between both guys so he can turn around and whack his friend" spot, and Russo isn't anywhere close to beign done pounding it to death yet. The absurd Rick Steiner push continues.
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    Not a world-changing match but a fun one, with some pretty crazy dives by Spike and some big bumps taken by all 3. Big Sal is effective as usual--his spots tend to be samey, but they're reliable every time out, so where's the need to change things up?
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    Brickhouse appears to have turned babyface and KAW actually produces something genuinely cool.
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