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  1. PeteF3
    God bless Michael St. John for doing his googly-eyed wrasslin' shocked face while Jake stumbles around yammering at him. I'd never actually seen any of this mess before, but I think we got enough of a look at what a clusterfuck this show was.
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    George is wearing a nice shirt and leather jacket and sunglasses, which is a look that doesn't make sense. He gawks at Sherri's cleavage as they hit a hotel room together. Michael St. John, back from the dead, interviews Sherri who explains why she's using the Animal.
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    Jake sounds like Brian Pillman by this point. Roberts by numbers, but we ain't seen nothing yet.
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    Has Madusa *ever* completed a sentence successfully during a wrestling promo? This isn't just a return for Regal, it's a return for Finlay, coming off a horribly ghastly leg injury. Finlay explains that he didn't lose his leg or his career because he's not American, to some pretty ridiculous canned boos. The BlueBloods have words for Jim Duggan (makes sense) and Erik Watts (WHAT?!).
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    Flash has a pretty strong case, since HIAC isn't supposed to be about what's "fair." That said, his talk about how the most anarchic period in WWF history would have the WWF be "afraid" of Flash is pretty eye-rolling even by the standards of heel bravado. I can't get worked up over Flash Flanagan feuding with a referee.
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    There's one amusing moment where Sabre flashes a sex kit at the camera while Danica is looking at something else, but this is a useless video otherwise with an inexplicable choice of song. Scott Casey--and boy was I disappointed that this wasn't the '80s undercarder making a random-ass return to wrestling--laments that Danica is at the hands of a no-good sexual deviant. Wait, Sabre and Danica are the BABYFACES?? That just makes the use of "I Got You Babe" even worse. This is a very, very, very poor man's Edge vs. Matt Hardy.
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    Yeah, Dinsmore has it together mechanically but it might be telling that this Yearbook (or Cornette himself) is keeping us from seeing him work the mic and work angles. We'll see if he can do anything now that he's in the employ of BS.
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    Christopher's sob story is pretty funny, as is his insistence after the crazy traffic angle that his story was legit and he "recovered" when he saw Doug Gilbert. We've seen so many angles in that WMC parking lot that it's probably second-nature to the Union Avenue drivers as well, and may by this point be a part of Dave's Friday evening weather report ("Cloudy, high of 52, with a 70% chance that one or more Gilberts will attempt vehicular homicide, so you may want to take an alternate route.")
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    Another money promo from Gilbert. I hope some footage of these Gilbert-Christopher matches shows up at some point. Blade is jumped in the parking lot by Lance Jade, a Memphis-area indy worker who was doing an angle where he was buying tickets to Power Pro TV and making a nuisance of himself because Hales wouldn't book him. He's been at it for a month at this point so this is a pretty slow-burning angle by Memphis standards.
  10. PeteF3
    After that rash of segments, a good AJPW 6-man is like a nice warm shower. So is seeing Fuchi again, after another long absence. He fits in with No Fear in every way. I wouldn't call this a great match or anything as it's just sort of a meandering collection of guys tagging in and out, but it was fun and fundamentally solid--in 1999, that counts for a lot. Like a lesser version of the Bret-Benoit match we just saw. Finish isn't good and despite AJPW's best efforts no one is buying Takayama using a leg drop as a finisher, but it was good solid work up until then that I could have watched for longer.
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    Tammy looks and sounds terrible but is still trying to vaguely portray herself as a sex symbol. Not only is she slurring half her words, but her voice is shot. If I believed for two seconds that Heyman was actually trying to make a difference by airing this, I'd grudgingly credit him even though this isn't much easier to watch than the similarly-messaged Requiem for a Dream, one of the best movies no one will ever want to see twice. But we all know that Heyman's motives aren't nearly that pure. I don't know what purpose this serves, probably an attempted hamfisted recovery story, but I don't think it's about sending a message to his locker room. Dark horse Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic nominee, right here.
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    I get the point that this was supposed to be Jeff being a sexist creep, but yeah, I can't believe this made network TV in any form. Mud wrestling is the kind of low-rent smoky-bars wrasslin' stuff that you'd think Vince would consider himself above. Jarrett gets paid back but it's pretty underwhelming.
  13. PeteF3
    Uh, yeah, I'm guessing most sex therapists don't dress like that on the job. Mark reveals that he was molested by his sister at age 8, which should be building to...what, Mark vs. his sister in a match?
  14. PeteF3
    This definitely meant a lot to Vince as they constantly refer to him by his full real name. As a tribute video, this doesn't have to take a back seat to anybody in any way, shape, or form.
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    Sigh. Is there anything to the story that D'Lo slipped on a wet spot on the canvas after a cup got thrown into the ring?
  16. PeteF3
    "Off" describes this very well. Not all of it is Jericho's fault (like the lights), but some of it is. The first "uh-oh" sign for Jericho's early run came at Unforgiven when he wasn't given a pinfall win over X-Pac on his PPV debut. Now he does a more-or-less clean job to the Rock--not a career killer of course, but I agree there probably should have been a schmozz finish here instead. Bulldog's run-in afterward is pretty pathetic, and Rock doing these programs with Billy Gunn, Bulldog, and later Al Snow reeks of 1995 Bret Hart.
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    Mankind with strong words with Val Venis for grabbing him by the groin: "I didn't like it when I was an altar boy, and I DIDN'T LIKE IT THEN." I remember Foley's second book where he decried these segments as the worst stuff Russo had ever written--and he was always a Russo friend and defender--bringing up the marriage proposal specifically. And we get a big dropoff from JR to Cole, who has to giggle at everything either guy says which starts rubbing off Lawler. This is kind of all over the place, with some funny moments but is pretty much a pale imitation of last week. I liked Jericho's countdown not letting Rock finish his "stick it straight up your--" catchphrase. Jericho calls out Rock on his Freudian fixation on sticking inanimate objects up other people's anal cavities while also wishing Rock and Mankind well in their future relationship. How progressive for 1999! Jericho gets a main event slot against Rock. Mankind and Stevie Richards are jumped in the interview area by the Dudleys--I do vaguely remember this mini-feud, actually, including the Dudleys tearing up the Rock 'n Sock jackets on Smackdown. BB makes what I think is her second appearance (of about 7 total) as one of the paramedics tending to Foley.
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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."
  20. PeteF3
    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.
  21. PeteF3
    Owens and Zayn have both been sent home from the European tour. No further real details.
  22. PeteF3
    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.
  24. PeteF3
    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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