PeteF3
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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. -
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.
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"Oh, that's great Taz. Why don't you swear some more for your fans in dirty Queens?" "Okay then--[bLEEEEEEEEEEEEP]!" That was great. So was Jack Victory's "DO NOT TOUCH" shirt, which almost makes up for the ridiculous push he and his giant ass were getting before the broken leg. Taz offers to take on Corino and Rhino with Tajiri as his partner, which seems awfully presumptuous on his part--and Tajiri whacks him with a buzzsaw kick and lays him out! Corino pays Tajiri off and gloats after the damage is done. *This* was the Corino I was looking forward to seeing--the one who's overmatched physically but knows how to manipulate others and is legitimately dangerous as a result.
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Finally the Dudleys get laid out. This *may* be one of them there signs that that TNN deal isn't going to work, though it's a good angle in isolation and Bubba Ray sounds like he believes what he says, which tends to mitigate "cheap heat", whatever that term actually means.
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Nothing could possibly go wrong with this partnership, not at all. About a decade after turning down Jarrett & Lawler flat, when it was programming far more in line with their demographic, TNN is in the wrasslin' business.
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Baby steps for OVW, I suppose. I'm happy to report I've never listened to a word of Kenny Bolin's on his numerous podcast appearances and don't really know or care who he is other than he had a short-lived partnership with Brian Last. So I can view him objectively as a performer and so far...eh.
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Snow occasionally gets in some funny lines just through delivery (actually I remember my father and I both howling at the hardcore evening gown match he references here), but yeah, this gimmick even at its ECW peak wasn't quite as brilliant as ECW fans seemed to think it was.
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One of the best episodes of wrestling TV of the year. My only wish is that Michael Hayes could get involved with this somehow.
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Is Power Pro the best-booked promotion on the planet at this moment? Quite possibly. This is also the run of Doug Gilbert's career.
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Of course the thing about Memphis and these guys specifically is that you never know if any of them will suddenly bail for another local indie or shoot on live television. So I guess you have to make the matches when you can.
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I probably am the high vote on this--this was a good, enjoyable match. That said, it was a TOTAL TM4 carry job as Naniwa offered absolutely nothing until unleashing the big bombs at the end. Before that his offense looked loose, he didn't sell particularly well, and he brought nothing to the table other than being in place for TM4 to execute his spots. I still liked this but came out of it looking forward to more TM4 and with more support for my '90s-watch conclusion that Naniwa pretty much sucked.
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For a second I thought this was going to be THAT Doug Gilbert promo, which says something about how unhinged Doug comes across as. But he's still with the storyline at the moment, and Rich's timid "I let him borrow some money" explanation for how the bond got paid is amusing. These have been some well-built-to New Daisy main events and I wish we had more clips from there.
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We're in a different world for All-Japan, all right. This has similar elements to their other Yearbook singles match in that it doesn't look all that cooperative, but it's quicker-paced and more heated until the out-of-nowhere finish. Just like the match before I'll be interested to see what Dave has to say about this--the ending did look brutal but why would they carry Takayama out like that if he were knocked out as a shoot?
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Yes, this was a major coup for the WWF and a bit of good PR at a time when they badly needed it.
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New Japan fucks over the juniors on television, film at 11 (...no one says that anymore). As it is this comes off as the Japanese junior tag version of Hagler-Hearns, just a total balls-to-the-wall sprint from the word go. Sasuke busts out the reverse 450 here among other killer high-flying moves between him and Otani. And a memorable finish.
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Oh, so this is why I don't remember Savage as champion in '99. Nash interferes and Hogan wins the title, then Nash challenges him for the belt. Well, they had something hot going between these two in '98 and never did anything with it, so let's book the match after a whole 1 hour or so of build a year and a half later.
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About on the level of their previous segment--not great, but not terrible, which stands out as good in WCW at this time. Sting beats up his 4th woman in two days, and I guess the match for the Presidency is...on? They act that way at least, even though Sting should have been disqualified for assaulting a referee.
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Bischoff is godawful here--I get Flair is essentially being jobbed out but what good does it do to completely shit on him like this? Do they realize how insulting it is to try to portray Bischoff as a babyface after all of 1997 and '98? This isn't a good segment but it isn't terrible either, and god dammit, at least things seem to be *happening* on this show.
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Hennig with that giant glove on playing the guitar is tremendous. Somehow this is the best thing about WCW television right now.
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The NWO is just a mess at this point and I don't get why Hogan's still associating with it. Savage is horrible as he's been this entire run, and even though Hogan's return gets a pop it has to be a pretty major case of blue-balls to tease Savage vs. Goldberg (did that match ever even happen?) and give us this instead.
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Another segment that's even more heated than you might think--somehow Show's promo gets over. Unless they changed the segment after Austin turned down the program I have no idea how this is supposed to set up Jarrett vs. Austin as anything besides a throwaway TV bout, because Austin emasculates Jeff pretty effectively here.