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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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    Roach is actually the only person besides Harrison Ford to be in the first 3 Indy movies, though I think his part in Last Crusade is mostly cut.
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    Someone on the F4W Board got a copy (some retailers are already selling it even though it's not out for a few more days) and posted some cool-to-know info: - No commentary on any of the matches. - At least one match (the tryout for "War Eagle" Chris Chavis) has the timecode still on the screen. - Carly Caruso and Sean Mooney are the hosts, with the idea being that they're going through boxes in the WWE vault and picking out what they find. At one point Mooney picks up a box labeled "T. MAGEE 1987-88" and goes "What's this? Oh, it's empty" and tosses it.
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    Anoaro Atisanoe is sort of a mystery to me, too--from what I can gather he was actually a New Japan dojo guy, their attempt to create another foreign monster from the ground up, though he usually wrestled with the natives. His brother is probably a lot more famous than he ever was.
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    It's about this:
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    Truth hurt? No opinion on JR's more recent performances, but how "recent" is Bix thinking Long Beach is? Because there's no way to interpret that tweet as anything other than Ross was drunk at that show. (Also, I don't care about hypotheticals. Talk to me about what was actually going on, not stuff we're making up or coyly pretending to make up.)
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    Stiller came to Cleveland to see some World Class Wrestling ™. Sorry Ben, no Von Erichs tonight and Michael Hayes was the night before. Stiller outclasses Hervey and Arli$$, not that that's all that impressive. As Ben rattles off his cast, I admit to laughing out loud when Lawler says, "Good to see Pee-Wee back in the theaters!" Ben makes the mistake of praising the puppies a little too much and gets his ass kicked. This segment does work, and really seems to piss off the crowd, leading to a big pop for D'Lo's save.
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    Rock not being a star to Michael Cole. It's almost like they killed off Cole's credibility instead of properly grooming him to be the next voice of the company. This is pretty much Rock-by-numbers but Triple H being a "one-trick pony in a cheap trick circus" is a nice little phrase to turn.
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    One touch that I'd forgotten about until just now is that Vince had "guaranteed" victory for the Undertaker. Every one of Vince's previous guarantees had come true--very cool, detail-oriented booking for that to come undone at this "end of an era." Vince tries to play the old villain "We're just alike, you and I" card and Austin isn't having it. Ah, definitive victories for WWE babyfaces, whatever happened to them?
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    WHO IS SHANE DOUGLAS? Whether it's Cactus Jack in ECW or the Revolution here, Douglas talking about friendship will never stop being gag-worthy. Once again Flair is fingered as the cause of all of WCW's ills. This was around the time Douglas offered to bet his entire year's salary that he and Flair working a sufficiently-built program together could put on a quarter hour that would beat Raw. He lucked out that nobody took him up on that wager.
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