PeteF3
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Two minutes of material from him and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WILL JASON HERVEY CHOKE ON HIS OWN VOMIT AND DIE ALREADY. Savage is still in his own world--Road Wild and the end of Savage's meaningful career really can't come soon enough and it pains me to say that, but it's excruciating to watch Savage like this. Savage hunting for Rodman is better since it allows Savage to just do what he does best and that's go nuts. Savage makes a play to get into Rodman's trailer and Scott Hudson cuts Jason Hervey off and shuts him down as he's about to make another smartass remark, possibly clinching Announcer of the Year in the process.
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If WCW was looking for someone to make me pine for Arli$$ to return, then by God, mission accomplished.
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Jesus fuck, Sting just won the presidency like two weeks ago and I had already forgotten it happened. Oh well, the crowd's into things.
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Yeah, this is pretty underwhelming build to a potential match that would have been red-hot 8, 10, or 18 months prior. We got a bizarre three-man heel tandem of Nash, Sid, and Rick Steiner. Clearly this "each of us pick a partner" challenge was a rather desperate and transparent attempt into getting people to think Scott Hall was coming back. Hogan is still in black and white but is otherwise back to his 1996 babyface self. Sting makes the save--in another world, coming down to the ceiling would have been a more effective visual, but, well...you know. Sting and Hogan stare at each other as Nash basically dares them to team up. Things are left ambiguous. I'm with Loss--this is not a great segment but it's 1984 Mid-South compared to some of the other angle and match set-ups we've seen on this show in 1999.
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Someone must have reigned Russo in. There are run-ins, but they at least make sense, and it's hard to really build up to a dramatic finish in a first-blood match. All in all an effective "ending" to this feud. Triple H cuts a video-exclusive promo that's far more of a traditional wrestling promo than the one on Heat--he even puts Austin over.
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The Acolytes haven't found themselves yet and won't for a few more months. It's good to see the Hardyz in a prominent spot now even if they do the job here, but it might take the Dudleys to really re-ignite the tag division. -
Weird if they were setting up Jarrett vs. Austin when they so clearly telegraphed HHH as the next big heel. But that's Russo's ADHD for you. "Undertaker, listen up, you BIG DEAD SON OF A BITCH."
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Not-bad closing stretch. Edge no-sells an attempted bloodbath, but Gangrel recovers to cost him the title anyway.
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Ignorance is bliss for Janeane, I guess, but I stand by my earlier question. If she thought SNL was a boys' club...
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HHH begins to set up his new character. "You want me to shoot with this interview? I'm gonna [bleep]in' shoot with it." Yeah, Russoriffic all right. He refers to himself as "The Game" for perhaps the first time. "My time" is also said.
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Rusev asking for their release appears to be completely made up by Bill Bhatti of Sportskeedia, who's spread fake news before.
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Unless the ranking is for a different Boot Camp Match, the MSG match aired on MSG Network complete.
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Yeah, it didn't quite require putting 2 and 2 together to figure out where this was going. *Everyone* knew Jericho was jumping--even the copy-and-paste Internet newz sites couldn't get this one wrong.
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Interesting semi-pro-shot footage of a Toronto house show where Edge is given an Intercontinental title win. Edge pretty much dominates the whole way. Initially Jarrett was going to retain the title due to the late substitution but Jack Lanza makes an impromptu overruling of an impromptu match to give Edge the title for real. "Championship opportunity" is said multiple times.
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I could have done without the shooty-shoot "I ain't workin'" stuff but otherwise this is a chilling, standout promo.
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This is AWFUL. "Cockpit" jokes? Really? Shit that was eye-rolling when it was said in the movie Airport '79? Cribbing lines from George Kennedy isn't going to make you look very anti-establishment, guys. Joel can't even be bothered to memorize his hack jokes so he has to read them off a clipboard. Either Gertner is a horrible comedian with no timing, or he's *pretending* to be a horrible comedian with no timing to draw heat--problem is, the only heat it draws is put on ECW itself for making us watch this.
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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.
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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.