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  1. PeteF3
    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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    Good highlight package showing us the Y2J-Shamrock feud so far, including the amusing sight of Harold Finkle in a long blond wig and Jericho's outfit, suckering Shamrock into a parking lot attack. Jericho fulfills his promise to meet Shamrock face-to-face, but does so from the confines of a shark cage. Harold fails to raise the cage because he's in an argument with Lillian Garcia, and Shamrock does a RoboCop and bends the bars and gets into the cage. This was fun--God help me for saying this, and I'll make this trade-off every time, but Russo was one of Jericho's most powerful allies and I think he understood how to use him better than anyone else in charge in the WWF. He's pushed as a bigger deal but still has his goofy WCW charm.
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    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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