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    ...which were US Open weeks, incidentally. Raw ran from 11-1, only going up against Nitro on the west coast.
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    Is "viral meningitis" eligible for Best Booker in WON award balloting?
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    I really don't get why DDP is aligned with Sting and Luger. This feels like one of the biggest tag matches that WCW can possibly put on, but the whole feels a lot less than the sum of its parts, especially after the hot opening segment.
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    Benoit "wins" the TV title even though Rick kicks out at 2.9 like a WWWF undercard heel, then gets his heat back afterward. This fucking company...one step forward, and a step back.
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    Goldberg needed to be put back in the World title picture sooner than later but there are worse uses of him that we've seen recently.
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    It wasn't going to turn WCW around, but this was still an awesome segment. Great heat for the cheapshot and beatdown on Flair, and damned if even with all the old guys in there, WCW somehow feels fresh again. I laughed out loud at Sting and Luger weaseling out of the match backstage, especially Sting breaking down the hypocrisy of Hogan's "say prayers and kick your ass" catchphrase.
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    Vince coming back makes total sense and doesn't feel cheap, then or now. Everyone is great here, including Ross who has one of his best calls of the year. Austin pisses away the WWF title but it's done in a way where you can't really blame him, as he pays back HHH for what he did to him at SummerSlam. I can get behind this HHH, a champion of ability and cunning but also one who stooges and sells for his babyface opponent as necessary.
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    Hughes looks a lot different having dropped 100 pounds or more. He had debuted as "Gotch Gracie" tonight, a supposed MMA master that Jericho defeated to prove he could take Shamrock.
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    Not a bad segment but not much that's original to it either.
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    I've never heard this Davey Boy theme before but it's horrible--worse than the other non-Rule Britannia music he was using in this run. Davey Boy, answering an open challenge to dog-lovers, had beaten Boss Man for the Hardcore title then just handed it to Al Snow. Vince Russo's attitude towards championships, ladies and gentlemen. This is a pretty cynical hire by the WWF, and Davey would soon be fighting with Rick Steiner among the world's worst workers at this point. A remarkably upbeat Al Snow, considering what happened to him a week ago, interrupts to set up Kennel from Hell.
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    Rock is confident while Mankind is slightly more defeatist about this upcoming clusterfuck of a match.
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    So appropriately enough just today I saw there's a new documentary coming to Netflix called Jim & Andy, which covers the filming of Man on the Moon concentrating on Jim's Daniel Day-Lewis-esque commitment to the role and the problems it created with others...I'm hoping for some Lawler footage.
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    I'm not sure how much more you can fuck fans in the ass like this with downer PPV endings that don't really answer anything--well, I speak in theory, because Sting draws a pretty big pop when he waffles Hogan with the bat. The idea of Sting turning heel is risky but not terrible in its own right, but since the real Sting would never actually want to commit to being a bad guy, it was never going to work.
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    I forget if it was here or at Havoc where Shane Douglas predicted a 4-0 sweep for the Revolution and instead they went 0-4, a surefire way to kill a promising babyface stable. No wonder they all wanted out in January.
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    Dreamer cuts a promo on TNN for not wanting to air TV from the ECW Arena--oh, yeah, this relationship seems nice and healthy already. No way it can go farther downhill from here. Corino is out to save the segment and gets the best line of this angle, referring to the fans: "You have two herniated discs because of these people, and you're going to trust *their* judgment?" Dreamer stupidly tries to DDT Corino and promptly gets laid out by Rhino. Jack Victory and his giant ass appear but eventually Raven makes the save and they...score a pin? Styles has the temerity to hype this as Raven & Dreamer's first successful tag title defense. ECW is creatively bankrupt.
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    Jesus Christ, I was ready to go to the next disc after this. Terry NEVER SHUTS UP, and then when the scuzzy interviewer finally tries to move him along and ask what he wants from Dundee..."I don't want to say right now." FUCK ME. There's a kernel of a compelling promo here but it needed to be about 1/3 the length. Shane Douglas would have been asking for Terry to wrap it up before this was over.
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    Buddy is fired up, so long as Kenny Bolin pays him in cash and not a check before their match. I hope to see more of Buddy and Bolin as uneasy allies playing off each other rather than using this just to set up a Buddy face turn.
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    I guess I don't get why we're supposed to care about Vic Grimes as a babyface, and his promo didn't help matters much either.
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    Hysterical Cornette is often the best Cornette. Here he channels what he was like during the Shawn-Diana angle, declaring Synn to be a tribute to American womanhood--"You can tell by the cut of her strong chin that she has never told a lie!" Vic Grimes is a charlatan, a bounder, a reprobate, and a deadbeat dad.
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    Like, unless RVD and Lynn were dead, why didn't the match continue? The Impact Players are generously credited with running Sid out of ECW in a montage that comes off as more desperation to get Lance and Credible over.
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    Bombs upon bombs upon bombs. Just guys killing each other all over the place. I could have watched this go 3 times as long, which may hold it back from true MOTY status, but it was great while it lasted. Casas is murdered by a Wagner Driver at the finish and shows what a true man he is by cutting a promo while being stretchered out.
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    One last far less memorable face turn of the era: Swede Hanson. That was sort of by accident if I have the story right--MSG crowds started to imitate the noise he'd make while pounding guys a la Hack Myers, and he developed a following that the WWF decided to go with.
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    Yeah, if Hogan vs. Flair for WM was ever the plan, that was changed far, far before Hogan was announced as #1 contender. The turnaround from Hogan vs. Flair being announced to the double main event was, like, a week or two. Probably the same taping cycle. The Hogan-Flair announcement in the spring was just a red herring/set-up for Sid.
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    Yes, but Austin's knees were shot, so they were in a holding pattern for the next PPV. So we get this clusterfuck--we open with Mankind taking a loony bump from the stage to the plot, but I didn't much care for this, between all the shit going on backstage and the constant run-ins during and after the match. The sledgehammer to the back of Big Show's head is just absurd, but he and Undertaker are champions again even though Undertaker can't wrestle, either. Austin's return is a nice holy-shit surprise, though, since he hadn't been seen on TV except for a taped sitdown interview since SummerSlam. This would have had so much more effect, though, if we'd just gone off the air with Austin kicking Triple H's ass instead of the big stunt show we actually closed with.
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    Desperation time when it comes to getting Jarrett over. Jeff cops some lines straight from Paul E. Dangerously, though without Paul E.'s commitment to being despicable, before calling in Moolah and Mae. It's a cheap desperate gimmick, but Jarrett beating up old women is fun in isolation.
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