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  1. PeteF3
    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.
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    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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    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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