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  1. PeteF3
    Pat and Gerald as Test's best men is hilarious and doesn't speak much for Test's social or family circle. I too have no memory of Terri with the Posse, though presumably she dumped Meat after last week. Shane seemingly turns babyface. I'm for it--Shane's been good this year but I don't think he has the chops to be a lead heel authority figure by himself.
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    I wonder who put this together--David or Jackie Crockett, maybe. Hard to imagine now, but this type of thing couldn't have been all that easy back when you didn't have Google (as it is now, at least), cagematch, or Graham Cawthon to go to as a timeline reference. We had to make do with the PWI Almanac, consarn it.
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    Surprisingly fun and vicious, despite Lawler's attempts to ruin things--as the brawl went on, though, he got a little more into it as a serious fight. Raw was in a bit of a holding pattern, with 8/30 and this week airing at 11pm due to the US Open, so we get some mid-card focus while the heavy hitters work Smackdown.
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    Only the most degenerate wrestling nerds like us watching in the Attitude Era would have any memory of Avatar and we have no actual reason to care about this, either. Al responds to this traumatic episode by coming out and doing lame faux-superhero shtick and the crowd rightfully boos. You wish you were the Hurricane, buddy. He takes the mask off and does a really terrible job of acting shocked. We continue to get matches set up for Smackdown, as Rock & Mankind answer a challenge for a Buried Alive Match against Undertaker & Show. So they're still together? Rock's caveman-esque Show impersonation will never cease being funny. He's a douche, but he's making himself into a man who can and will carry the company on his own, before our eyes. Mankind cuts a refreshingly serious promo on Undertaker.
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    Bubba Ray and D-Von have pioneered the WWE directive of not under any circumstances looking at the camera. D-Von doesn't get to finish his catchphrase before the Acolytes lay them out.
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    Quite a comedown program for Show after teaming with Undertaker.
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    Eat your heart out, DDP Yoga. This is just earnest--no pun intended--enough to qualify as being almost indistinguishable from real-life infomercials of this (or any other) era. The 800 number on this ad supposedly led to a WCW voice mailbox and could connect you to Bischoff's office if you punched his name in on the dialpad.
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    It looks less like the lights went out and more like someone stuck a cap back on the camera lens.
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    WCW, everybody!
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    WCW as usual was waffling on whether to pull the trigger on this match, because with Hogan wrestling Sting at Fall Brawl, they didn't want Hogan facing two babyfaces in a row. Yeah, I know, God forbid Hogan get booed, right? This is a good to-the-point promo that gets over big. Under the worst circumstances possible, the reset button has been hit and conditions are actually right to run this match and have it mean something. As usual, though, WCW will fumble the ball when it's handed to them.
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    I admit to laughing at Tajiri obliviously nodding along as Corino cuts a promo on him. Corino accuses Tajiri's kind of fulfilling every possible Asian stereotype besides the Japanese ones. This would be an effective swerve, but Joey TELEGRAPHS IT by talking about how Tajiri and Crazy are going to kick Corino's ass. We get a decent match that gets a lot better as it goes along, but is a step behind their previous matches.
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    Lawler can't appear on Power Pro TV (he was still wrestling live, however, with Stacy doing his promos and angles if necessary). So he settles for the next best thing by showing up in OVW. He's upset that Kenny Bolin is now walking around with a crown on his head.
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    Is that Dino or Eeyore? I think it's Eeyore. I'm all for more of Kevin Christian: Slimy Executive.
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    Two years later but IMO there's no way this works at all without the threat of the Dudleys taking the tag titles to the WWF. Too drawn-out, as I see it, but maybe my attention span is being ruined not just by Crash TV but by the nature of the Yearbooks. But Raven showing up fresh off being in WCW during a time of a slower news cycle was quite the shock, with storyline implications to keep you wanting to watch next week to see where this goes. Is Raven making up with Dreamer or is he doing what Styles implied, which is "forcing" Dreamer to share his first World title with him?
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    Impossible to evaluate since the commercial break takes out seemingly a key transition. Say what you will about "...as Raw rolls on!", at least we don't miss shit under the standard WWE house style. Thank God this is the last match in this feud--and once again, the Dudleys don't go through a gimmicked table.
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    This ring announcer needs a sedative. Okay competitive squash though Tajiri does come off as a bit of an ineffective ninny. The goal at this point was to quickly build Taz as a mountain for RVD to climb before he was off to the WWF, but obviously...you know, plans changed. As someone who's shat on Joey more than anyone else on this board I'll say this was one of his less offensive performances.
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    Al calls Boss Man "Ray" because an angle like this needs shoot termz. Boss Man is committed to being a scumbag but this is revolting.
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    Yeah, those are some pretty terrible likenesses. I was done collecting action figures after the LJN and Hasbro sets, but if I'd been of age I would have been all over these for sure (it's not like there weren't bad figures in the first two lines).
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    Rock and Mankind win the tag titles to a monster pop after Show is left to rot by Undertaker--no idea where that was leading to but I have a feeling it won't be relevant as Undertaker isn't much longer for the company until Judgment Day next year. Rock allows Mankind to perform his move in the end, but seems reluctant to share the belts as we go off the air. Show did look better here than he usually has in the WWF and I agree that this has been his best role so far.
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    No time for actual wrestling tonight, it seems. At least it sets up a match on Smackdown, but as I recall that one doesn't actually take place either. Backstage, Mankind suggests doing a move that bears a strong resemblance to something Golden Tate did to a football on Sunday. Or possibly one of Rock's moves, I'm not sure.
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    Rock is moving on quickly from Triple H. He's one of the few people who can get away with openly trash-talking Undertaker, amusingly talking about his "Mickey Mouse tattoos," which gets a long sustained reaction. Mankind, who was also assaulted by UT & Show, is out to respond. A love-hate partnership is born. Crash TV strikes again, as we go from a semi-main event angle to a low man on the totem pole. Weird to see Rock doing this. GTV shows Meat making out with somebody who we have to assume is Marianna based on nothing but the word of the announcers. God knows how we're supposed to care about this feud but the crowd gives a mild pop for the catfight.
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    Crash TV baby. Why put over one angle that no one cares about when you can put over two?
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    It's not a DQ, the match layout or direction was so incompetent that it pretty much completely missed Hogan pinning Bigelow. Randy Savage--is he still with the promotion??--is in Hogan's locker room, and we get a convenient camera angle from inside to show Sting's puzzled and disappointed reaction.
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    Well, at least this went farther than Larry Zbyszko and Baby Doll's pictures of Dusty Rhodes, but the reveal is somewhat underwhelming. I guess that's by design, but the Hummer angle has been pushed and then dropped and then pushed again so many times, with Nash having turned and Savage gone in the meantime, that the mystery is pretty dead. DDP rounds out the cast.
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    Way to make Harlem Heat look like dumbasses. What a regression for Booker T, who should be in major title contention and is instead having to carry his brother in a feud with a bunch of guys whose best days are long behind them.
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