PeteF3
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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. -
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.
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JJ: "You think I live in a closet or something?" Oh, that brilliant subtle WCW writing again. I don't get how they "didn't sign their contracts in the proper way."
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I liked this better than the Dudleys match but agree on the bells and whistles not being necessary, even if Jack Victory eating a wheelchair to the face was a well-done spot. Tajiri got in more offense than I might have expected and carried himself well as a top challenger. I have no idea why the finish was put over as so heinous if all he did was strangle him with barbed wire. I mean, a non-fan might read that sentence and be horrified, but we've seen plenty worse--as has Joey Styles.
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I'm going to say the worst thing possible about this segment: this was SO BORING. The Dudleys' long yammering promo was boring and comes off like the South Park kids who've just learned new swear words from the Terrance & Philip movie. Gertner's intro was clever, but killed by his slow delivery. The match is boring. The brawl is boring. The use of the cheese grater is boring. The near-falls are boring. The finish is well-done and the right booking move. The post-match beatdown is boring and predictable as all hell and partially blown at that. The Dudleys get all their heat back, what a shock. New Jack shows up long after the barn door is closed and the horses have left. Cyrus is a godawful heel color man who offers nothing in the way of insight--nothing more than Terry Garvin with a better voice. There was almost nothing redeeming or entertaining about this.
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Yeah, we go straight to bombs here, but it makes sense within the context of the card. These guys can only be asked to do so much in one night. The officiating down the stretch here is a little wonky as though they're going to tease a match stoppage and Dr. Morales is getting all hot and bothered, then Shocker just wins anyway. Oh, I see--in the post-match there's contention that Shocker's DVD was actually (or should have been treated) as a piledriver. That was teased nicely in the tag match where Shocker almost piledrove Panther.
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This was a lot of fun with a terrific ending, something that harkens back to the elaborate endings of peak Antonio Pena. Actually all the finishes were great, from Bucanero aping Takaiwa's power bomb-lift spot to Panther slapping on a wakigatame out of nowhere when it looks like the tecnico cause is lost.
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Surprised no one mentioned among the other guys who'd change names, that Mr. Aguila was the future Essa Rios. He looks better here than he did in the WWF--not great, exactly, but he did hit two killer spots in the shooting star and the over-the-post plancha, the latter of which he'd be allowed to keep in the future. This was terrific, one of the better lucha matches of the year, with good time to showcase everybody, and everyone acquits themselves well, though Virus is the standout. You kind of wish there'd have been a bigger build to the finish, but in a way it was kind of refreshing to see the rudos just swarm a guy when they have him 2-on-1 and suffocate him before he can come back.
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The parallels between TNA/GFW and the 1980's Cleveland Indians are many and run deeper than many people here would realize.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSeven8888/videos This is basically a fanboy channel for Mil Mascaras and Dos Caras but he has a LOT of stuff I've never, ever seen before, like AJPW TV from 1979. Long matches involving Dr. Wagner, which are in short supply. Plus stuff that's a curiosity if nothing else like Jumbo & Dos going 15 minutes with the Valiant Brothers. Very rare very cool stuff that I hope stays preserved (Our Friend in Japan disappeared again, seemingly voluntarily this time).
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PARV!!! Holy shit, I thought Will's return was big news.