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  1. PeteF3
    This entire gimmick and push is a complete loser. Rock should be so above this, and a more paranoid viewer may see this as a #politicalhit on the part of either HHH or Austin. At least there's an explanation for how a kendo stick got there (Shane used it on Test earlier).
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    'Taker's promo is almost legendary in its WTF so-bad-it's-goodness, talking about meeting up with Hell's Angels and stranding Big Show in the middle of Death Valley with a non-working motorcycle. The only way I can see this being improved upon would be a series of Russo-scripted on-location vignettes. Jericho saves us all and pretty much turns himself babyface in the process. Jericho is hilarious, but at the same time I can see why he'd draw heat for this--you really probably shouldn't be shitting on the monster heels' gimmick and dismissing how scary they are, no matter how bad the promo was that you interrupted. Still, it was a bad promo indeed.
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    Good heat but yawn-worthy action, and Rick Steiner's presence anywhere near the main event scene is starting to make the bile rise in my throat. Also we're nearing 1995 Cheating Coward Sid here which is so not the way to use him outside of Memphis.
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    One of those patented Scott Hall-jobbing-to-Hector-Garza jobs that does nothing for the babyface, since he gets squashed the whole match, wins on a fluke, then gets destroyed afterward.
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    Sid beats up Silver King and La Parka with a deadly cardboard box and power bombs Parka onto a bag of popcorn. Then he cuts a promo on Hogan and is seemingly trying not to laugh.
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    Wright looks cool but the promo itself is just kind of thrown together by people fiddling with various buttons on their editing machines, like most WCW video packages. With a few quick shots of the Berlin Wall coming down in an attempt to tie this all together.
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    The Japanese are marks for Olympic credentials just like old-timey wrasslers and WON HOF voters. The result is an eyebrow-raiser but I can't say that I'm all that inspired by this booking move.
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    Sad sight to see Hogan back in the yellow and red doing his Hulk-Up routine to NO reaction. Hogan wins with the most cliched finish imaginable as Schiavone breathlessly talks about how no one can beat him. This fucking company.
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    I knew this match had a rep from way back when but even with those raised expectations this surprised me in how enjoyable it was. It's methodical, but when they're actually working with each other they're really laying the moves in, and a lot of this has the feel of an honest-to-God fight. Rodman takes some pretty crazy bumps for a non-wrestler as well. Savage can't do much but he does give us one more back-body-drop-to-the-floor bump, perhaps for the last time. After a horrible year, Savage manages to go out on more or less a high note. Fun match.
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    This is okay and inoffensive enough. Sting not only goes down clean but he doesn't even do it to the power bomb, as Sid choke slams him out of a Stinger Splash attempt for the pin.
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    What a ridiculous step back for Booker T. At least Harlem Heat gets a warmer reception than usual in Sturgis this time around.
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    Taz describes in vivid, Ole-esque detail why he did what he did to Tajiri, and the similar plans he has for Corino.
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    What is with Candido's hair? He looks a bit like 1993-era Steve Austin. An out-of-it Tammy supplies some rather poor innuendo to close things out.
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    Mick Tierney feels like a guy who should have made it farther than he did, based on what we've seen of him. Wolfie is down 3-on-1 in an elimination cage match and almost manages to pull out a victory, but Tierney gets him to pass out in a cobra clutch for the win.
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    He was "The Hater" in Minnesota indies, a name I remember from the Apter mags. Must have been an Eddie Sharkey trainee.
  17. PeteF3
    Bradley seems like the ultimate '90s-'00s case of what might have been, because he's farther along at this point than Angle is, at least as a personality.
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    Angle suffers his first loss in Power Pro at the hands of a well-timed racket shot from Jim Cornette.
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    I liked the Tenzan match the best but maybe that was based on expectations. Here the bum knee of Hash finally comes back to haunt him, as Chono methodically executes his strategy in setting up for the STF. This was as slow-paced as the Muto-Nagata match but the stakes felt higher because it always felt like the holds were going somewhere and serving a purpose.
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    The first part of this was a total bore, I got into the closing stretch, and then the finish soured me all over again. I credit these two for not working your typical fill-the-time holds (chinlock, armbar, etc.) and basing the opening matwork around more complex holds, but that still didn't mean the holds were worked in any kind of compelling manner. Nagata's submissions from out of nowhere were pretty good and there were some pretty nice exchanges, but I resented how Muto fought his way for minutes on end through all of Nagata's big submission spots and then gets the tapout immediately after applying a cross armbreaker. I get the cross armbreaker is a death hold, but come on--a finish like that undermines most of what Nagata worked for, in contrast to the Tenzan/Hash match we just saw where Tenzan does the job but is elevated in the process.
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    The G-1 setting and the story of Hash's bad knee set me up for a bit of a double-swerve, as it looked to me like a prime set-up for Tenzan to get an upset win, but Hash makes a stirring comeback to take the victory by the skin of his teeth. I'm not really quite sold on Tenzan as a true top singles star yet because Hash is so masterful, but this was a terrific war of attrition.
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    Jeez, no comments about the iconic GTV segment that seems to imply Billy Gunn getting some sort of rash-causing agent spread on his ass? Jericho is immediately made into a bigger deal than he ever was in WCW, making one of the best entrances ever and being matched up with the #1a babyface in the company. I can't imagine how much of a...(sigh) "snowflake" you'd have to be in the back to get offended by Jericho's promo because he's clearly still playing his WCW buffoon character and saying so many ridiculous falsehoods about TV ratings, buy rates, and crowd reactions that it's impossible to take seriously. It won't be all moonlight and roses in the coming months for Jericho but for one segment he and the WWF knocked it out of the park.
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    The first sign that Kane may not have been burned as badly as everyone said. Our SummerSlam tag title match is set up.
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    Austin's out of the main event, in all likelihood, and oh boy, it's the start of the most convoluted #1-contendership process in the history of wrestling booking. I'll miss Jesse's return to color commentary on this set but I won't miss the stuff involving Chyna being in line to get the title shot at SummerSlam or the repeated top-contender matches next week. Triple H shows up and plays dumb but in kind of a smug-bad-acting way which shows that he did it.
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    Mark Henry has to #1 while running, and Double J takes the opportunity to ram D'Lo into a tree and then his car. Debra objects. All of this is less than enthralling.
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