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    And my point which was seemingly skipped over is that TMZ has scooped major conglomerate-backed media on bigger stories than this before. I'm not sure why everyone's dander is up over an ex-TMZ guy knowing how to break stories. And I'm not even a big Satin fan, but his track record is pretty darn good.
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    TMZ broke the Donald Sterling incident, the Tiger Woods car crash and the story behind it, the Ray Rice video, Jameis Winston being investigated for sexual assault by the Tallahassee police, and--biggest of all--Michael Jackson's death. They're trashy and shameless but I'll believe them over a lot of other news outlets. Edit: For whatever it's worth Meltzer is denying that their behavior has anything to do with Jimmy Jacobs or Neville. When asked about the possibility of being released: "It's all up to Vince. He's he guy who suspended Titus for 90 days for nothing. Trying to predict his reactions are a waste of time because they are often contradictory and make no sense. Neither is looking to leave."
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    I don't trust SI at all on these matters--if they did that, then the promo would have been edited. Cena's sudden return would make a little more sense if Owens was originally supposed to be on Team Smackdown.
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    Owens and Zayn have both been sent home from the European tour. No further real details.
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    I vaguely remember the show but have no clue who these two people are. Droz makes his farewell to WWF television as only he can do.
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    Austin has now suddenly "not yet been cleared" to wrestle, so it's like we hit a reset button on the Austin injury angle from SummerSlam. HHH does a good job of disingenuously apologizing and inviting Ross into the ring. Good segment that nicely descends into chaos with HHH being a supreme dick but not a totally masturbatory one.
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    Or it would have been a funny post-hoc explanation for why Stephanie turned on her family--the trash can made her insane. Not much else to say here, this is just by-design wheel-spinning while the new creative cooks up a new climax.
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    A little over a year after Flair's return, *this* is probably the last great WCW moment. I don't know if I'd call this a MOTYC--it's more just a good fundamentally solid bout than an epic, but at the time this really felt like a farewell to wrestling as an art form in and of itself. In-ring performance seemed to matter less than ever in the U.S., and we didn't know the changes that would come to the WWF in 2000--just that Russo was likely to send WCW in a similar direction to the Attitude Era. For one last night, so we thought, we got a hard-hitting 20-minute match with a clean finish on free TV. Heenan really came off as a jackass at times and I wonder what the hell he was thinking or what direction he was given, but I liked the total silence from all the announcers after the finish.
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    Sort of an attempt to recreate the original invasion, but now Hall and Nash are treated by announcers and fans alike as returning conquering heros. Hall: "He works a retirement angle and he's nagging *me* to come back?" Then Hall makes a crack about the state of the locker room. Nothing like two of your guys shitting on your company on live TV. Nash is hugging a black companion to prove how cool he is.
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    Well, it's been 3 weeks or so, time to turn Davey Boy heel. But as an ad hoc angle this serves its purpose.
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    I don't quite mean this as an insult but Awesome is definitely a guy well-suited to music videos.
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    Brian is suddenly a lot more cheerful than he was at WMC.
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    Everything Chad said. I think Doug's original return is still PPW's high point but this might be #2. Gilbert's interview is incredible and I really want to make room for him in the list of Best Interviews at year's end. I just spoke about "twists and turns" in the Dreamer/Tajiri match thread but this takes it to a new level--every time you think this segment is ready to die down, something happens (something that *makes sense*, mind) to ramp the intensity back up again. More false finishes than an ROH main event.
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    Wolfie D explains to Kurt Angle what Attitude is: rated PG-13. Why, yes, I do want to see this match. He also teases a return, without saying his name, of JC Ice.
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    I suspect that is not actually Boca Raton. Would have to see the whole show but just from this promo, it could be an authentic Baxter heel turn or Cornette either lying or being mistaken and it's a setup for him to be swerved.
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    Tajiri is great, but Dreamer to his credit did seem motivated to put on an actual good match knowing who his opponent was, and he did a good job of mocking Tajiri's mannerisms and his offense. This match had a few twists and turns that'll keep you guessing and I don't mind the story of Raven tormenting Dreamer as his tag partner. It's at least a bit of a spin on the otherwise played-out bickering-tag-champs angles of the late '90s.
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    Well, Raw obviously didn't spark much interest here, but I think Smackdown will:
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    Heated match, a typical Raw main event, with a super-lame ending that just kills the crowd. I guess they had to justify their unbelievably cynical and crass signing of Davey Boy, but he had no business being pushed this high on the card.
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    I have to admit, as this segment stretched past the 15-minute mark when I watched it live, I started fantasy booking one last "gift," which was Mankind playing a montage of the 1999 Rumble finish, and leaving Rock in a pool of his own blood. That would have launched this into all-time "Where were you when..." territory, at least as I see it. That said, one obviously can't judge a segment based on what you wanted it to be, only on what it is. *That* being said, even if you aren't going to launch a major angle with this segment, it needed a better ending than the total anticlimax we got, as funny as most of this was. It also says something that the bulk of this consisted of Mankind telling the actors backstage, "You'll come out and give your line, then I'll say something, then Rock'll say something, then we'll move on." Somehow even Russo knew that overscripting and overthinking was death to a wrestling promo. Maybe that was because, as the lack of real ending indicates, Russo's total lack of attention span. But it still works.
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    Dissension in the Posse. As enthralling as it sounds.
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    Mankind is amused at Stevie Richards wanting to be Dude Love, as the point of the gimmick seems to fly over Stevie's head. I honestly have almost no recollection of Stevie doing anything in the WWF between the ill-fated Blonde Bytch Project and the rise of RTC, which isn't until next June.
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    I like Juvie's Johnny Depp look. I don't get why this is a program befitting of a mask vs. hair stip, nor do I get why Chavo, Psicosis, and Juventud are now an alliance. And I don't get the point of unmasking a JTTS, either. And judging by the reactions, neither does this crowd, though they come alive for Kidman's big kickout after the Chavo interference.
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