PeteF3
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Everyone has said it, and I said it in the last post, but...Kevin Nash vs. David Flair. Your main event. WCW really has thrown in the towel. We don't know if David actually accepts this challenge but everyone just assumes that he will.
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Lenny is one terrible actor.
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Flair cuts a promo on Michael Jordan and we get another good performance out of the United Center executive guy, who we last saw during the Bischoff feud. Pity this is wasted on an apparent main event between David Flair and Kevin Nash.
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The video package is a gallant effort at making sense out of this whole convoluted mess. Yeah, I think this was supposed to be the "fired" Boss Man raising the briefcase, but we were left to fill in our own blanks on that one. The McMahons win and it seems like we've hit another reset button on this feud, though Austin obviously couldn't stay as CEO for long. -
The big Billy Gunn heel push that dies in about a month. It didn't last quite as long as Val Venis but I think a guy obsessed with asses might actually be an even worse character than the guy whose entire gimmick is being well-endowed.
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Horrific, ghastly violence in every frame. Deathmatch wrestling in its purest form. The non-captains are all fairly anonymous but that's okay, since they all bleed and die for our pleasure. I don't know if I can really call this a MOTYC but it was never boring and lasted just as long as it needed to.
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Ohara and Goto are getting so thoroughly destroyed that you just *know* this is setting up the upset. This was almost so unpredictable it became predictable, though that's partially selection bias because why else would the finish of this be on the set? Weak-sauce finish but it's not like I like the champs, either. Crowd goes nuts for it.
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KAW's stupid and this is mostly eye-rolling, though generally JC Ice's patter is never not entertaining to some degree. And that's some bullshit to say "Golden can't swim!" and then *not* toss him over the bridge.
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Same here. I learn all kinds of things I didn't know or didn't consider when James is on a show. But then, for me, a little bit of Prazak or Tom Green goes a long way.
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Yeah, I know Scott Teal and Beau aren't going to be sending Christmas cards to each other anytime soon, but overall I don't really care about that other than as a curiosity. I honestly didn't know that was spit--I thought it was a water bottle. This despite the fact that I think Beau mentioned actively having chaw at some point.
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Your completely non-wrestling digression of the day, for Bix: what constitutes a "country" or even the name of a country isn't really as cut-and-dried as you might think. Is South Ossetia a country or not? Is Niue an independent country or not? Is the country in Southeast Asia that's run by a totalitarian military junta called Myanmar or Burma? It all sort of depends on what most other countries recognize as such, and it's not always unanimous. As for less controversial countries like Germany...the name "Germany" pre-dates the modern-day country by hundreds of years. First Germania was how Romans referred to a region of various aligned but independent kingdoms (Bavaria, Saxony, etc.) then to those various kingdoms aligned under the Holy Roman Empire. The modern-day country didn't solidify until 1871--by then, no matter what they called themselves, "Germany" was long established in English-speaking countries and elsewhere. That's not even getting into non-Roman/Germanic languages where a literal translation of a country name (China) isn't really possible. Basically: languages tend to last longer than countries. Oh, uh, pro wrestling only. wrestlingdata confirms it was Hara as "???" beating Karl Von Steiger.
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In any case, besides Dynamite working the majority of the match, the other reason I don't really buy that the 6-man was a late audible is because by that point, seeing Davis have to get in the ring was a greater selling point than a title match would have been. As for the thing with the IC title change...I wonder if that was a happy coincidence or it was a case of "rainy day booking." We know how far in advance things were planned and it'd be odd for one ref to do double-duty for no particular reason when the Mr. X role could have been filled by anybody. I don't know if it's too much of a stretch to make sure the road agent assigns Davis to that particular match.
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And yet Dynamite had more ring time, playing Face in Peril, in that match than either Santana or DBS.
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I'm new to this but I say keep it up. I only listened to about 30 or 40 WTBBP episodes that pre-dated the WWE Network, so footage isn't a pre-requisite. On Between the Sheets they sometimes fall into a trap of assuming we the listener can see the clip that they're playing, so if you just minimize the "Look at [x]" without explaining it stuff, I'm fine whether the card is online or not.
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Dave said that if Vince was that against scripted promos, he would have axed it completely instead of this somewhat half-assed measure they're going with.
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Rich looks in better shape than he did at almost any other time in the USWA. There's a restraining order on Doug Gilbert for the studio, but not for the New Daisy Theater and Rich promises that he and Gilbert will be there, even if Hales won't sanction a match. Rich tries to force Hales' hand by staging a sitdown strike and lays out Downtown Bruno as well as a security guard, but Peggy convinces him to leave eventually. These segments are better when Doug is involved just because he creates so much chaos just by being there, but this did a good job of advancing the story.
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This isn't really Vince's environment, but he's more relaxed here than in a lot of other talk show appearances. Of course--and I love Conan--this isn't exactly like getting grilled by Mike Wallace.
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About on par with the Nitro match but with a better crowd. Eddie hasn't missed a beat.
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No, I wouldn't call it the greatest match ever or a candidate or anything, but it's certainly a top-5 MOTYC for '99 and one of the best RINGS matches ever. The last flurry is jaw-dropping and the time limit comes completely out of nowhere--doubly amazing for me as shootstyle time limit draws tend to see me looking toward the clock as the match goes on. This time the finish was a disappointment in the best possible way because I wanted this to go on, and on, and on. Tamura's stand-up is incredible as are his body punches when he has Yamamoto down, and Yoshihisa turns in one of the performances of his career as well.
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AJ Styles just won the US title at the MSG house show.
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Intruder was a shorter and very pudgy guy, with a bit of a different mask design though it was also black and red.
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What'd Bruce say about dealing with the 10,000 to 80,000 refunds that would inevitably have to be given out since they moved into a venue with so many fewer seats?
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They may have had a shred of intrigue for this match had Tank not challenged David Arquette for the WCW title and lost.