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  1. PeteF3
    I love Berlyn's look and--lighting aside--the presentation, with his entire entourage, and his gimmick of knowing how to speak English but refusing. I also cracked up at Mean Gene getting a patdown (Bobby: "They should have done this years ago!" Tony: "This has never happened to Okerlund...in the ring"). I like the idea of the translator but she doesn't really do as good of a job as Lana of coming off as foreign. It's easy heat, but it's effective on this night. Still, Buff Bagwell is an underwhelming first choice of a feud considering the amount of effort they put into this. I didn't remember the ridiculous lighting but it's as bad on the Network as it is on the Yearbook, so it was some sort of conscious choice.
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    Balls and Spike get a final win over the Dudleys, but I agree that it's pretty bullshit that after all this time on their way out the door, the Dudleys can't be bothered to take the flaming table bump themselves. Very Kevin Nash-esque on their part.
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    It was good and all, and way better than the previous minis match, but I confess to being completely lost as to the Negro-Psicosis split post-match. I was distracted and I must have missed something.
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    Recency bias notwithstanding this has been my favorite BattlArts war of 1999...probably. Just an unbelievably brutal fight with stiff strikes and some wrasslin'-style bombs that all make sense and all fight into a shoot context, even the match-clinching DVD at the end by Ikeda.
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    WWE TV Oct 9-15

    PeteF3 replied to sek69's topic in WWE

    Rumors flying that Neville walked out before Raw started and asked for his release. Dave doesn't know if the story is true but did confirm that it was supposed to be him vs. Enzo last night and not Kalisto.
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    More like a month later when Stephanie turned. That's when I rationalized it at the time. I didn't think she was actually drugged. And it's sports entertainment, baby.
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    That was my rationalization as well--the drugging was fake and part of the longer-term cover-up.
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    I agree--Corino's heat would be so much greater if he were booked as just a *bit* more potent in the ring. Like 1988 Ric Flair as opposed to the Honky Tonk Man.
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    Doring claims that Miss Congeniality is the "heir to Diana's throne" which makes no sense even in a heel-exaggeration context. Her introductory promo is interrupted by the stink of Roadkill. Yeah, this is *so* not playing to Lita's strengths, is it?
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    Derivative, yes, but in the midst of the Attitude Era and whatever NJPW is trying to reinvent themselves as, derivative doesn't sound too bad right at the moment.
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    Yeah, I'm not going to fire this full thing up but the clips we see didn't really compel me to care about either guy. Apparently the new-millennium NJPW business model revolves 100% around shooters or freak shows.
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    Good Lord, Nakanishi almost broke his neck doing that double-spear. Nakanishi flaps his arms a lot like a less muscular and less talented Lex Luger, but the crowd is admittedly into him and into this match even if the work is mediocre. For a big stadium show this does not feel like a "casual" audience.
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    This is total supposition, not based on fact or inside knowledge, but I smell the stinking finger of Antonio Inoki here. I'm not even the biggest Kanemoto fan but he deserved better than to be treated as a total afterthought .5 seconds after losing here.
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    Supposedly Paul E. actually had big plans for Uganda, but he was in an out quickly. Taz does a good job of explaining the point of difference between him and the rest of ECW. He doesn't need weapons, because his hands are his weapons. We get handy visual aids showing all the Big Two guys that Taz has choked out.
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    I know it's the premier episode but it's pretty creatively bankrupt to have guys literally introduce themselves on camera. Cyrus does some sub-Al Snow-level insidery bullshit while Dawn Marie entertains in her desperation to be on-camera. Aldo talks to us in a SCARY WRESTLING VOICE. One of many, many things that are going to sink the Impact Players as top heels is that they don't have Dawn's willingness or ability to look foolish. That's a compliment to Dawn.
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    I was a 16-bit guy so this one escaped my notice.
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    Aldo Montoya is just a few months away from accomplishing what Mick Foley and Steve Austin never could. Does that say more about Foley and Austin or more about ECW in general and at this point in particular?
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    Well put-together package. This intro is probably over 90 seconds long--an eternity by modern TV standards and even TV of the day was shifting away from that, but for an introductory episode it works well.
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    That outfit is very befitting of a commissioner, Shawn. I literally don't remember Shawn even appearing for a followup to this on Raw. He's literally gone until Judgment Day, where he's a babyface again.
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    Oh, I guess that's why they didn't have Stephanie answer on Raw--they needed to give us a hook for Smackdown. Test gets laid out by the MSP and of course the stipulation of SummerSlam doesn't really mean anything. Mankind makes the save, I guess out of solidarity with his old Union buddy? Or revenge on Shane for costing him the title. We sort of convolutedly get into a Shane-Mankind match and this whole thing sort of shows why Russo would have felt the addition of Smackdown would have overworked him to death. Not to get too into Cornette-land here, but...maybe if you just booked a *wrestling* show, Vince, you'd have less to actually write.
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    Finally an FMW match that lives up to the hype. Hayabusa is still like the greatest possible Johnny B. Badd in that he'll seemingly always need a fundamentally strong opponent to really have a classic, but Gannosuke comes through with a really great combination of pacing, matwork, and gradual build to the big bombs. The post-match angle is great just because of how long they milk it--like a reverse of the Mark Henry retirement fakeout. Hayabusa gets a ten-bell salute for the retirement of the name, a tear-filled speech, *then* the big attack.
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    Next to Frankie Lindor's grand slam this is the second-best thing that has happened to me today. The antics of Front Row Section D (which included Scott Hudson and other newsletter types of the time) I think are well-documented in the Observers of this time. They latched onto Tex Slazenger as some sort of cult hero. But as Hudson pointed out in a letter to Dave, they didn't break kayfabe, they didn't chant guys' real names or past identities, and they weren't derogatory. They were enthusiastic but not cheering who WCW wanted people to cheer for, so they were threatened with ejection.
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    This was really enjoyable--in particular I liked how much urgency No Fear showed whenever Misawa was in. It was basically a handicap match whenever he was legal. Misawa was being criticized at this time for putting together good main events but not being a good "big picture" booker...but the rise of No Fear seems pretty well-put-together to me. Omori is pretty far ahead of Takayama as an all-around performer at this point and looks really good and valiant in defeat.
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    This piece was pretty out-of-date by the time it aired.
  25. PeteF3
    Okay, lawsuit's over, time for this one to go away.
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