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    I admit to liking Rock's gimmick at this time of not knowing who any of the opponents are that Mick signs him to wrestle. "Who in the hell is Val Venis?!" Rock takes the book once he confirms that he's in it, but turns down Mr. Rocko even after Foley gave him a rinse in the Super 8 sink last night.
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    A career-altering performance for Faarooq and Bradshaw, who are finally going to find themselves with this gimmick. Mankind is looking for The Rock as they apparently have a tag title defense tonight.
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    Dear God, make this stop.
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    God forbid we have a defined babyface or heel anywhere in this program. Booking Rey as a heel is a great use of his talents.
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    Karina Steen just Tweeted that she got hacked. Owens deleted his media accounts, according to her, so that he wouldn't get hacked also.
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    I will say that Brian has openly expressed that he's getting tired of the top 10 himself and was thinking of making it be more about topics (What If, Slaughtering a Sacred Cow) than characters. I hope he continues with that. A few recent episodes I think skipped the top 10 entirely.
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    PWInsider is reporting that FloSports has shuttered FloSlam and laid off its staff.
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    For someone who preaches about how wrestling is to be enjoyed and for fun, Johnnny sure doesn't seem to be having much fun talking about it with others. Unless this is his "Oh, you know I don't actually mean all this" shtick again.
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    These skits and threads are all over the place but here we've got more of the Lucha Outsiders and more of Nash being sick, which continues to go unexplained.
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    Buff turns on La Parka on Thunder (check out the BTS episode for that to learn about what a clusterfuck that Thunder was) leading to this epic encounter. This was one of several segments Russo devised that involved actively shitting on WCW, like Madusa hawking Nitro cologne and Heenan putting over how terrible it smelled. What it all was supposed to accomplish, I don't know, other than "shoots" are inherent ratings draws. The heat is so nonexistent that you can hear individual fans--it's like a baseball game after 4 hours of rain delays. Buff makes a pathetic "shoot" attempt to beat down La Parka and mockingly goes through his Buff Is the Stuff strut, "does the job," then pops back up right afterward. I agree that this is one of the worst segments of the year--not as actively bad on its own as some of the worst Nash/Savage stuff, but bad in how portentous and ominous it was for where WCW was going under Russo. Jeff Jarrett shows up the night after No Mercy, debuting in a segment that's a pretty far cry from Lex Luger in '95 or Rick Rude in '97. Still, clocking Buff with the guitar after the way he was behaving makes this the Greatest Jeff Jarrett Segment of All-Time.
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    A decent heated brawl turns out to basically be an excuse for stoner comedy. I have no idea what Kevin Nash's obsession is with acting like he's sick or why that's supposed to be interesting.
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    Luger stutters his way through a terrified promo--"I am a Total Package--r-right, Elizabeth?" This change in direction for Lex shows some promise. I'm all for a return to early 1996 form for Luger.
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    Sid looked better in his Horsemen tuxedo. Sid as a lawyering heel really only works in Memphis where he plays it more low-key instead of trying to act psycho. In addition to how low-rent, as Loss puts it, this all comes across, we get some glimpses of what Russo is like without the WWF's agenting, filters, and attention to detail. I can't imagine the WWF not making it very clear to the lawyer guy how to sell the spear and how long to sell it for, and if he did get up early like this guy does, they'd hide it with their camera direction. Or they'd have the sense to just hire a local indy guy to take the bump. Russo doesn't have the attention span for stuff like that on his own and he sure wasn't going to get any help from WCW brass who were disorganized even in the best of times with bookers who had strong long-term vision. The Goldberg-Outsiders confrontation is much better, but the long backstage ejection stuff is pretty interminable. Whiny Nash is possibly the most annoying Kevin Nash of all.
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    We're starting a...David Flair vs. DDP feud now? Telling stories, baby. The Filthy Animals celebrate, and now they have Stacy with them along with Torrie? Okay then. Konnan makes no attempt to actually answer Jimmy Hart's challenge, but Tenay acts as if he accepted anyway.
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    We've got guest commentators at ringside and shots of the First Family in the back to distract us from all this pesky wrestling going on. Kidman praises Booker for being a "great worker" and "great performer"--good Lord. Of course Billy would top himself in a few months in that catch-as-catch-can debacle when he reacted with disappointment upon Malenko giftwrapping a win for him in 2 minutes--how can a guy I've praised for his surprisingly solid fundamentals be so clueless about working? Eddy isn't too good either, shitting on Harlem Heat to the point where an Animals' win sounds pretty meaningless. The crowd, not weighed down with all this extracurricular bullshit, pops for the win.
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    This gimmick *might* have been salvageable in another environment but in 1999 WCW it wasn't going to be anything besides a failure regardless of who was in charge. Kevin Sullivan is probably the only guy who would have had a clue how to get it over.
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    I had no recollection of Chyna and HHH still being together at this point, but as we saw in the Good Housekeeping Match they haven't even given Chyna her own music yet. Anyway, Austin destroys HHH's knee with the chair just like HHH did to him at SummerSlam to a monster reaction, but HHH steals a win through botched Rock interference to set up the ill-fated triple threat match for next month. Like with Bret vs. Owen at WMX and Flair vs. Arn at Fall Brawl, there's really no other result you can book for this first meeting besides HHH winning, or else the whole exercise is all pointless.
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    Maybe not a MOTYC on a worldwide level but certainly the best WWF match, bad year or not. In addition to the crowd reaction getting louder and louder for every spot, I particularly liked the growing audience buzz in anticipation of some of the spots, like Christian hitting the inverted DDT off the ladder. Proof that this was at heart a wrestling crowd who knew what to "look for" in a wrestling match, even a stunt show like this, and not people just watching and reacting when someone got killed. Some really bold and innovative spots that are set up surprisingly organically, like the Jeff Hardy seesaw spot which sounds silly when described but is set up and executed perfectly. Same for Jeff leapfrogging the ladder into a legdrop, and even the neat finish with Jeff jumping from one ladder to the other. Suddenly, the WWF mid-card is getting some depth again. (And man oh man was Lawler terrible here. We get it, Terri looked nice going up the ladder earlier. By the end his horndogging had me wishing someone more pleasant like Mark Madden was commentating on this.)
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    I get the symmetry of having Jarrett live by the Dusty Finish the previous month and die by the Dusty Finish tonight, but they should have had Chioda or someone come out to inform Long of what happened instead of him arbitrarily changing his mind. That said, this is way better than it deserves to be with Jarrett going balls-to-the-wall to carry an admittedly game Chyna to the match of her life.
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    Well-done for the most part but also overdone, as I checked out about 3/4 of the way through after a few near-falls too many. Honma carries this as aside from his punches and a few bumps I wasn't impressed with WX at all and didn't really feel like he earned his win.
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