PeteF3
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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. -
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.
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Yeah, this was a fun angle, and low-key emasculated Vince was terrific. Even his celebration after signing the contract isn't over-the-top like you'd might expect. Even though nobody buys that either of these stipulations will last, the idea of taking Vince off TV was a bold move and a good way for the company to keep moving forward. Or so it seems at this time.
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Terrible match to end what has to be the least consequential Big Two PPV of the Yearbook era so far--I think only Wrestlepalooza '98 had less actual content make the cut. Okay, the beating-up-women thing has officially gotten ridiculous, as now even Sting is laying out the female members of Team Madness. I have no recollection that Savage actually won the title at this stage in the game. Crowd chants for Goldberg just to show you over these four guys are.
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All four of these guys throw themselves into this, God bless 'em, but Hennig stands out.
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Not as good as the Mankind spot, either.
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"El green card-o, no la Migra." JESUS. That took a left turn, didn't it?
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A good promo by Taz and I kind of really hope we get a strong angle with Corino getting some heat on him, because this comes off as a very one-sided feud so far.