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  1. PeteF3
    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.
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    Okay, lawsuit's over, time for this one to go away.
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    What is with the Rock shitting on Mankind and Cole? Jesus, what a prick. HHH wins the title in what has to be the most momentous wrestling event (pro or amateur) in the history of Ames, Iowa. I forgot how awful Lillian Garcia was at first (this was her debut). Multiple screw-ups on the night and her voice just doesn't sound good at this point. She'll come a long way.
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    Finkle is good as the starry-eyed cultist and he's shown over the course of these years that in an alternate universe he could have been an effective heel manager. Harold tells Road Dogg to stop picking his nose in the back and come out to confront him. "Joking? Road Dogg, YOU'RE a joke." Jericho sneaks into the ring while the lights are out during his entrance in a clever subversion of usual WWF entrance tropes. I really don't like the obvious "grab onto the wrists" portion of the double power bomb move so I'm not sorry to see it disappear. Takaiwa occasionally can pull it off straight-up, but Jericho can't.
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    We get the back of some big guy in a red singlet that you would swear was Gary Albright, because he'd be a good fit for this promotion.
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    Jericho has words for Harold Finkle. He encourages him to be a WARRIOR for Y2J. The beginnings of Edward Finkle as an ersatz Ralphus, which was a cute idea but didn't really work with the WWF audience of the time.
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    This is definitely the start of a disturbing trend. Stephanie's wailing promo is horrible, but this angle is hot, no question. Shane is better, especially his subtle smirk at Stephanie's non-answer.
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    The whole point of the settlement was that neither Sable nor the WWF could disparage each other publicly. I have no earthly idea how the WWF thought they could get away with this.
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    I like Triple H better as a guy fighting for a spot rather than Lord and Master of All. Good segment and good angle, though the arm break sound effect is way worse than I remember it being.
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    Someone on VH1's old show Rock of Ages described Kiss as "They took professional wrestling, and put it on stage"--so in some ways this is a better fit than Master P. Now, I hate Kiss, both then and now. But as a high school senior in '99 I thought the Smashing Pumpkins were the peak of musical and poetic excellence...and I wouldn't have wanted to see them on Nitro or Raw, either. And putting it in the main event slot seems particularly galling.
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