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    Yeah, this was just total spot-fu, as is Grimes' wont, I suppose. The run-ins were sort of nicely chaotic but didn't really add anything since Bradley just pulled out a chain anyway. Despite the match not being much, I was pretty pissed when they went off the air in the middle of the match until I found they aired the finish the next week.
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    I knew that TV was going to get smashed as soon as it was unveiled, but I liked Christopher's slow burn and his psychotic promo after whacking Hales with the light tube. "I'M WORTH MORE THAN A TV!!!"
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    Heel play-by-play is usually death, but damned if Gertner isn't better at this than Styles. Guido remains an unsung hero of late-'90s wrestling and probably came along about 6 or 7 years too early, though he had a good career after this, too. A really fun TV match with a little bit of everything--mat wrestling, high-flying, death-defying spots into the crowd, and wrasslin' bullshit.
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    I'm really not sure it's a given that Jericho got "permission" to do this. For one, it's easier to get forgiveness, especially from Vince. Second, it seems that negotiations began in earnest after an unsuccessful attempt to partner with NXT for his cruise.
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    PhotoShopped, apparently.
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    Jericho's in an interesting spot right now--he made himself big through mid-card comedy, but he was signed with the expectation that he would be the next Shawn Michaels. Shawn could do comedy too, but not stuff that made himself the butt of the joke as Jericho often was. Chris, despite this attempt, still needed work on coming across as a true main event threat. But, he gets the on-screen credit for Ken Shamrock getting written off TV.
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    Thank you for not bothering with the interminable "HHH runs the Gauntlet" series. Crowd goes nuts for the NAO reunion, and they're still babyfaces at this point. The Billy Gunn singles push is over, so I approve of that.
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    I actually think Robinson was being Sid's lackey and a straight-up referee at the same time, to show you just how adrift this company was. The sound was too quiet for me to pick up on much of what Sid said and I couldn't be bothered to change volumes, but he makes threats towards both Goldberg and Booker T.
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    Yeah, why wouldn't Test be in the Six-Pack Match? How do you end this Raw with anything besides all 6 guys in the Unforgiven main event brawling with each other? Going from there, why not end the show with the tag title change which has 4 of the 6 guys there already with another doing a run-in?
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    Ross: "THAT WOMAN'S NAKED!" D'Lo flies off the strip club stage out of nowhere in a cool visual.
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    Pepper gets a burial outside a cemetery since they won't let Al Snow in. Snow vainly attempts to cut a vicious promo on the Boss Man in this context, which is just absurd. We get a still shot of Boss Man relieving himself on the grave afterward just to class this show up a bit more.
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    On top of everything else that's horrifically wrong with this...as a relatively minor issue...if you ARE compelled for God knows what reason to run this angle, HOW CAN YOU RUN IT AT THE SAME TIME AS THE JARRETT-CHYNA FEUD? Where the fuck were the cops when Jarrett was assaulting Debra or the makeup lady?
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    Yeah, I don't know if the Kane stuff is necessary since there's no prospect of Undertaker wrestling anytime soon, and it's not like jabrones like Mideon and Viscera needed a bunch of protection. But hey, this isn't boring or anything and the crowd loves it. The tag titles change hands yet again.
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    Honestly I think Stephanie is really wasted having her first official match in this capacity. It was inevitable that she was going to get in the ring at some point, but it needed to be in a higher-profile program than this. Of course, with Sable gone there's no actual women on the McMahons' level, either. Maybe all the more reason to wait. Jarrett gets the biggest heel reaction of his life for attacking Debra afterward. It's cheap, but I have to give the devil his due: if the woman-beating gimmick works, it works.
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    "Rock, can I keep this shirt?" Not sure if we're getting Rock vs. Undertaker or a Rock 'n Sock tag, but some sort of match is happening tonight. Or at Unforgiven. Or sometime in-between.
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    I appreciated the multiple fakeouts like Rock asking Louise her name and telling her what to do with the bottle of Maalox. Rock needed more of these segments where he comes off as likable.
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    Fun segment that mercifully ends the Vince title reign before it really begins. A lot of moving parts but everything gets put over properly, since we have a large array of performers on the same page who all know how to get Russo's bullshit over. Vince getting reinstated came a little too easily and the "Only the person you're facing can reinstate you" clause is a crutch they'd lean on again in years to come, but the crowd was clearly happy to have him back.
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    Lio was probably going to be pigeonholed into 205 Live even if he was a model citizen. At the very least, Regal is publicly taking up for him, so that's not a bad ally to have.
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    Assuming it's not a weird coincidence, I never thought I'd see the day a tag team, referring to the High Fivin' White Boyz, would be named after a sketch from the nationally-forgotten Seattle-based sketch comedy show Almost Live!.
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    WWE releases

    PeteF3 posted a topic in WWE

    Maybe should have its own thread. Emma, Summer Rae, and Darren Young are all gone. When Emma was released there was talk that more would follow. Don't know if that just means the next two or if there will still be more.
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    I'm not really sure we should be so quick to accept WWE just granting Nia Jax time off because she "asked for it" given how this company feels about vacations and personal time. No matter who her relatives are.
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    I'd probably watch this again before watching Sting/Benoit in all honesty. Short and punchy (literally) with both guys staying true to their style. Hogan gets kneecapped with the bat after a bunch of run-ins to try to put some semblance of doubt into Halloween Havoc.
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    I thought this was fine but nothing better than that--just a good solid TV match. Sorry, but Sting's refusal/inability to heel is an outright distraction, and him taking time to howl at the crowd after sending Benoit to the floor is something we'd all be crucifying Kevin Nash over. Benoit is put over well during the match but not so much during the post-match.
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    Paul E. loved to book his champion to be the first one eliminated in any kind of multi-way match. It's a good idea here since Taz is on the way out. We get Tanaka-Awesome by numbers after that, but there's nothing really wrong with that besides the brain-scrambling chair shots that Tanaka no-sells, but hey--that's what they're going to do, you know that coming in. Taz comes out to hand the belt over to Awesome and the trained seals who were chanting obscenities at them all applaud.
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    These are literally just colored bears with WWF names slapped on the front. 30-day money back guaranty! I can't believe these are officially licensed.
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