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    Jesse puts himself over as only he can do. Triple H comes out and has a pretty hot confrontation, since Jesse isn't a guy who's going to be phased by any promo tricks Triple H tries to play on him and won't meekly back down from him. Then Shawn has to show up, though he doesn't bring the segment down too much and the crowd is hot to see him and HHH go at it. HBK instead makes a triple threat between HHH, Undertaker, and Austin, which makes enough sense after what happened last week.
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    Almost there...
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    It's hard *not* to get into this because the Boise crowd is so electric. I agree that Sid coming in against Goldberg with it not meaning much of anything was curious, but for a few minutes WCW looked like a major league company again. And a clean (sort of) finish to boot. WCW's problems are just as pervasive as ever but at least the past few weeks, ever since Flair was ousted from the Presidency, have shown *some* sense of direction, even if it's a less than ideal one at times.
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    It made no sense for the David Flair-as-US-Champion angle to be going on this long, with Flair out of power. Benoit gives it a mercy-killing (ooohh...) and sets up a no-DQ match with DDP at Road Wild.
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    Adding the retirement stip to Road Wild with 5 days to spare is a little much. As a workmanlike segment to set up a TV main event this is fine, but seeing Rick Steiner in this spot makes me break out in hives.
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    Everything's been summed up here--the match and post-match were both good, with Guido and Tajiri really beating the piss out of each other but keeping a strong psychological thread. Corino continues to be the best thing about ECW and continues to be booked as an actual threat, which is good. I wish they'd pulled the trigger and put the title on him, at least for a little bit.
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    They turned on him over the JFK, Jr. segment, so I guess that had some relevance after all.
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    Do the heels *ever* lose anything in KAW? Brickhouse looks terrible, covering himself up in a giant white t-shirt and looking like when your SO wears one of your shirts. None of Brickhouse's vulgar race-baiting gets any kind of reaction from this bar crowd. Neither does Danny B's big SWERVE.
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    Christian is interesting as a different kind of Memphis heel. Another really good segment as Doug continues to be on fire, throwing out some eyebrow-raising comments just as I was wondering if Christian was ever acknowledged, either officially or tacitly, as related to either Lawler or Christopher. Yes, I do approve of Doug Gilbert vs. Tracy Smothers at the New Daisy.
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    So many great lines from Cornette that they can't be recited--this is a must-see Cornette promo and that's no small praise. Clearly he was itching to finally cut loose on somebody--anybody. Hales vs. Cornette in a verbal duel is something that could be a total disaster, but Hales holds his own with some personal shots of his own at Cornette's professional and business ventures in recent years. Hales declares that Cornette will get 50% or 100% of PPW over his dead body. Cornette, ominously: "That's very agreeable to me." Incredibly, this low-rent USWA knockoff promotion has turned into maybe the most compelling wrestling company in the U.S. if not all of North America. Just an unbelievable hot streak of arresting television.
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    Cool to see all these run-ins with nary an entrance theme. Even Kane runs out with no pyro. Fun way to end the show as Austin drops Gunn with the Stunner at the same time HHH drops Road Dogg with the Pedigree, and they both get up at the same time and...and...
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    Test borrows a tack from the Big Boss Man's dealings with the Heenan Family. First he broke Pete Gas' ribs, then he absolutely brutalizes Rodney and destroys his arm every way he knows how. A stunningly fun squash match that does everything it needs to do. One of 1999's most coherent storylines continues.
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    God, what a fucking ugly ashtray shithole Three Rivers was. Three Rivers to PNC has to be the greatest stadium upgrade in the history of sports. Oh, and The Rock was there.
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    D'Lo becomes the Euro-Continental champion, but "of course that he doesn't count" (--Kurt Angle). Jeff asks Debra why the hell she brought the belts in the ring, which considering what happened seems like a reasonable line of questioning.
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    Hogan takes a pretty nice bump, all things considered. WCW in their infinite knowledge of how to pop a crowd, books the tag match to end with no hot tag to Goldberg and the babyface World champion causing the good guys to be disqualified.
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    Well, angry and annoyed Bischoff is better than laughing hyena Bischoff, I'll say that. I wasn't as wild about this segment either as everyone else, but it's 1984 Mid-South compared to the Nash feud, so I guess we'll take what we can get.
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    Kiss was sort of going through a revival at this point, but yeah. They were a hell of a lot less relevant in '99 than Master P and we all saw how that worked out.
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    Sorry, but I have no idea what this was doing on the set. This was 1960's midget wrestling shtick and not even particularly well-executed shtick at that. Tirantes was kind of funny when he fell to the floor and got whipped, but otherwise this was another match where, when it's not about shtick, it's all about him.
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    Can't wait for the epic blowoff to this one.
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    Cornette and Bolin have naturally good chemistry trading barbs, as you might think--not like two guys who'd have a lifelong friendship fall apart over some podcast drama.
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    Watching Rico leave the actual American Gladiators in the dust, you'd think he *might* have been of some use besides being a wrestling hairdresser.
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    Not much pretty about this, at least until the end--just a gloriously down-and-dirty fight. They blend shoot-style fighting with a few pure wrasslin' spots and as usual, they make it all work, with shoot-style winning in the end. Maybe a "small" match in the grand scheme of things but one of my favorite BattlArts efforts so far.
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    It seems like Anthem was sold a bill of expectations that the company was just THAT close to a big cable deal again, and when the news of a re-up with PopTV came down, everything went to hell. The too-hilarious aspect of this story is that the GFW trademark paperwork hasn't been finalized yet, meaning the trademark and assets still lie with Jarrett. So if he's out and the company is bailed out again, that means the 3rd or 4th rebranding in 6 months.
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    Jason Campbell's site says The Starchaser was Paul Diamond, doing double-duty. Now I wonder if he wore the Max Moon gear. The Hornet in this case was a big musclehead named Ron Oakes. This was one of the more brazen USWA ripoffs as they had a segment with Lawler bringing up Sting directly when talking about how facepaint helped him. As for the Russian Unified Team...I searched around on WrestlingClassics and somebody else asking about their identities was...Tony Myers. Well, if Tony of all people doesn't know, I don't know if there's an answer to be had online.
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    It's discussed earlier in this thread that people are actively *wanting* to give ROH money for their back catalogue and ROH is like, "Nah, we're good." The second-hand market is about the only way to go if you're talking 2004.
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