PeteF3
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Modern WWE could take lessons from KAW in how to book its babyfaces as total ineffective geeks. All the swearing in every promo, even from masters of the mic like Dundee, comes off as really try-hard.
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I wish a guy as sound as Rogers who so loudly preaches fundamentals would have bothered to take the belt with him after using it, instead of leaving it on the apron in plain sight of the referee. The Blonds use "Low" by Cracker as their entrance music which is...interesting. -
Okay action but very, very rushed. Some of that may be due to clipping but these guys really didn't let anything breathe.
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Angle hasn't been all that over in PPW so far but the crowd pops big for his title win. A pretty darn good TV studio main event with some really well-done near-falls, and it's interesting to see Angle wrestle in a different style than we're used to. The pop-up belly-to-belly superplex finish is of course pure Kurt but he does some stuff like bulldogs and DDTs here that you won't see after this run.
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Basically as I understand it, Suzuki wanted to work shootstyle and Apollo wanted to work wrasslin'-style and never the twain shall meet. Eventually Sugawara just gave up and left the ring.
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The one with the Flair-Sting unification match. Explained away by "Flair playing mind games."
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So was Ezekiel Elliott.
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There's a handheld card with a Dyet tag on it somewhere, too. Those might be his only two matches on tape. (For those who don't know Dyet was a Colorado football player who became a protege of Steve Williams--he worked a tour or two for AJPW and then quit the business. I remember on BTS they talked about somebody working with Doc on Sportatorium cards who also fit that description.)
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This picks up a lot in the middle portion and the parking lot brawl is pretty great. We get a requisite Memphis run-in but also a clean finish, as Doug counters the interference of Glenn Kulka and pins Grimes after a DDT onto a chair. Doug seems to have eclipsed Lawler as the company's top babyface.
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Angle is still wooden on the mic--that will change, but maybe not until late in the year. Smooth is much better and looks cool as fuck. Also seem to be sowing seeds for an Angle/Steve Bradley feud.
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Fun and enjoyable, but no, I didn't see this as all that special either. Yakushiji is as good as ever and Togo is great, but his partners weren't all that impressive and this felt like an extended studio match--possibly because of the setting--more than a 6-man lucharesu showcase. I liked 5/4 better if only because it seemed fresher. The stupid Ministry of Darkness postmatch angle isn't worthy of any further comment.
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I get the point about Smith almost flashing *too much* offense, but man did it look good. With these guys and No Fear getting a big push, the AJPW mid-card does seem to be solidfying.
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Another rambling mess of a promo by Savage, as he challenges Rodman and also makes threats to Nash even though he's a heel now and that program seems to be over.
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First Daughter to her boyfriend(?): "Don't you know who I am? My dad's the President of the United States." There's a nominee for Worst Exposition in a Motion Picture. DDP's character isn't much of a shot for what I assume is a trained sniper.
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Slightly more dignified than the Bat-Credit-Card.
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How the fuck did Sid not see Lenny and Lodi "hiding" right next to him? Oh well, as long as the viewing audience eventually gets their jollies when they see two queers getting smeared.
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In one promo Curt refers to his group as the West Texas Outlaws, calls out Gene and his 1-800 number, can't decide if the band that just played was Megadeth or Megacrap, and goes back and forth in calling his opponent Goldberg and "Goldturd" (muted). Not a good night for Curt.
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Not a big Megadeth fan but even by their standards this isn't much of a song.
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**** is about right. I actually was kind of eager to watch this because it was the first Misawa/Kawada match in a long while where I didn't know the result going in, so that boosted it for me personally. They have some cool strike exchanges and it doesn't wear out its welcome. Maybe not anything new under the sun but an enjoyable 22 minutes. Misawa has shown some of his own touches as the man in charge of AJPW but the Observers are pointing out that he was poor at long-term planning, which may be an indication of why they want back to this as a TC match. On the other hand, from a kayfabe perspective Kawada has probably earned a chance to get back the title he never really lost.
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I *still* don't like these Kanemoto-gets-repeatedly-killed-and-hits-one-move-to-beat-Wagner endings, but everything else was fine to really good. I loved the spots where a guy was camel clutch'd and a partner would bounce off both sets of ropes 5 or 6 times before hitting them with a dropkick. Wagner's offense is really great and crunchy and the lesser workers are used well in their own right.
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There have been better go-home angles on Raw in the Attitude Era but this isn't bad. I don't get why HHH and Undertaker were wrestling either and even the TV reports don't make a lot of sense of it--Russo, baby. I can't say that I care all that much about going and watching myself.
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The people of Rockford are very easily entertained, it seems. As CRZ so astutely pointed out at the time, the biggest of the many problems with "Crush 'Em" as a theme is that YOU CAN'T DO A GOLDBERG CHANT TO IT.
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Good enough segment to set up a new stable, but they'd quickly be shunted back into the mid-card so that they knew their place and the addition of Douglas' promo skills would be for naught. "THERE IS A CANCER IN WCW, and I am the--uh, what cures cancer?" --Shane Douglas as Chief Wiggum.
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Arliss--ARLISS--not Robert Wuhl, makes a PPV match between Savage and Rodman while clumsily plugging his horrible TV show. Wuhl is as much of a starfucking ninny as Eric Bischoff on his worst day. Talk about a company with a finger nowhere near the pulse.
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Crowd heat helps this, but this is pretty much more of the same over the past two months. Or in the case of Sting and Flair specifically, the past 11 years. Bischoff's role continues to make no sense and I honestly am not sure why Sid would be so concerned about the result of this match. Feels like very 1986 "all the heels and babyfaces are friends" booking. Flair could use the time off for sure.