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  1. PeteF3
    Another fitting tribute to the man.
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    Um...well, I knew Candido wasn't hurt *that* bad, but the ripping-the-halo-off got me. *shrug* I think it was because ECW had been recycling angles all year and I thought they'd try another re-do of the Douglas/Pitbull halo angle. Everyone works the mic well here and Corino acquits himself in one of his first big spots, getting in some eye-opener lines but being a much more natural smug heel and far less tryhard than Justin Credible. Candido making sure to do a diving headbutt just to show off his neck was a nice dickish exclamation point on all this.
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    There's one more key piece of music from that SNME that needs to be seen in its original format: the Roddy Piper "My Way" video.
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    Great house show opener, worked almost ungodly stiff at times. This starts off as a quasi-shoot-style match before segueing into more standard wrasslin' spots, and done so very well.
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    Good pick for a pilot TV show main event. Yeah, HHH is out of place, but there's a dearth of top heels outside of the Undertaker and he's a better pick than anyone else. The match itself is sort of a typical Monday night TV main event but the post-match is super-hot, with a bunch of moving parts that never feels overwhelming.
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    Yeah, this is actually all pretty well-booked. Bullshit with the Ministry aside, we set up the Undertaker as an evil fuck who makes even Vince seem sympathetic, we get Vince helping Austin, and now with Rock turning babyface as he should, we have a readymade heel for Austin to fight next--and it's a fresh new role as it's not someone Vince wants as champion either. Of course I'm discussing this booking in isolation, conveniently ignoring the Higher Power payoff that renders most of this talk irrelevant. It's good big-picture booking for now and a good segment layout here, with a gradual build until Austin is finally the one to break through and make the save. Even the close-up visual of Stephanie freaking out while the glass breaks in the background is great. Jim Cornette doing commentary in this environment is WEIRD. He doesn't do a *bad* job at all, but it's weird. I'm sure when I get to the Observer back issue in question it will explain where Lawler was but I have no memory of Cornette being on TV this late.
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    Yeah, this was a less-than-ideal way to utilize Stasiak, who was never great and maybe never even good but probably could have filled a longer-term role than this.
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    Good face turn, though once Shane comes out Loss' comments about Rock being too reliant on his catchphrases ring true here. He's reciting rote lines and Shane is actually cutting a promo on him. Oh well, minor complaint, because this segment accomplished what it set out to do and provides some intrigue for later tonight.
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    What a way to piss on the great moment from earlier in the night. Oh, and Sting vs. Goldberg for the title at Slamboree seems like it might attract some PPV buyers, so we definitely don't want that to come off.
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    Random as fuck because I'm pretty sure Hall is a ways off from returning.
  11. PeteF3
    How does being part of the Slam Society get you an audience with Goldberg?
  12. PeteF3
    Not a bad segment in isolation, but of course we're not in isolation. Babyface Hogan and Bischoff simply, isn't, going, to work. Hogan entertaining the surgeons and nurses by cutting a promo on DDP right before being put under was amusing.
  13. PeteF3
    But see, ASYA is BIGGER than Chyna! Get it? Get it??! Asya might be the most Russoriffic gimmick in history that wasn't actually conceived by him.
  14. PeteF3
    This was good, but they've had better, and it feels like another retread for Misterio. Psicosis felt fresh in the role as champion and now that's by the wayside. Finish is somewhat anticlimactic as well.
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    Could be Garvin vs. Tully from Worldwide--that also has a roll of coins playing into the finish.
  16. PeteF3
    Piper vs. Jack Brisco from the WPCQ studio has a roll-of-coins finish and I'm pretty sure a David Crockett freakout.
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    Just for the record, Cornette probably deserves a lot of credit for Kane becoming as big as he did. The Halloween influence, the ripping off of the cage door, the very idea of Hell in a Cell itself...that all came from Cornette, though as Loss alluded to, all of those elements were lifted from elsewhere which Cornette doesn't deny (the cage door rip came from how Doug Furnas debuted in Continental, Hell in a Cell came from the Last Battle of Atlanta). And more importantly than all of that, it was Cornette who kept Kane and Undertaker apart and developed the idea of Kane trying to get at Undertaker by destroying other people. Russo wanted Undertaker to come right back and drive Kane through a table or something like a week after Badd Blood. It's easy to shit on Kane and how stale he got and how stupid some of his angles were later, but a gimmick that initially looked like Black Scorpion Redux became a more-than-useful member of the roster for almost 20 years, thanks a lot to Jacobs' execution but also thanks a lot to Cornette's vision.
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    And I'll throw my hat into the ring as well. Best Nitro match ever and a U.S. MOTY and something I hope to place in the worldwide year-end list. Page being Page, is one of the only guys on the WCW roster still working with pride and he clearly set out to put on a great match on this night. That's not to knock Sting, who could have coasted on this, but Sting is more of a guy willing to go with the flow at this point than a guy who's going to push others to perform at a higher level. With a motivated DDP, though, he brings the goods, even busting out the old top-rope splash. There are some terrific near-falls out of the various piledrivers here, and even though the finish is recycled from their previous Nitro match, it's a great finish and built up to a lot better. Even Schiavone's enthusiasm sounds genuine for the first time in awhile, as he seems to be having flashbacks to classic NWA title matches of better times. Against all odds Nitro is putting together a bit of a hot streak.
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    These doctor and nurse actors are horrible. Ric Flair enters the rec room with his entrance music playing (???) eager to watch Nitro, but Nash has moved from The Graduate to an even hipper and more-with-the-times ripoff of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest as the nurse won't let them watch the show. Charles Robinson is in charge now. Apparently JJ is happy about this. Flair's on the phone with Robinson and he's pissed and being harrassed by the other inmates. The unnamed Asya makes her debut. Robinson is out with Gene and continues to be one of the better things about this era, at least outside the tag and cruiserweight divisions. He's not quite at the heights of Bill Alfonso in 1995 because he's working in a colder environment, but he's not far off and could have been an asset in another time and place.
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    In the Observer two weeks before this, Dave dropped a rather random-but-ominous note that WCW had brought in Ted DiBiase to co-host the last PPV in audio form for either the Internet or the hotline, because Rude had no-showed it. Unrelated deaths occurring on the same day are sort of a morbid curiosity of mine--this Monday, of course, was also the same day as the Columbine High massacre.
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    I daresay this is my #2 MOTY so far, behind the 3/6/99 AJPW tag. Is it telling that my two favorite BattlArts matches are ones that completely dump on the style? Ikeda is really good but Otsuka is just on another level here--he's seemingly capable of doing absolutely anything and executing it to perfection, whether it's shootstyle, high-flying, bomb-throwing...he could probably be a great shtick/comedy worker if he wanted to.
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    Stale, maybe, and it's going to get worse before it gets better. As a match in isolation, though, this was very enjoyable with quite a bit of thought clearly put into it for such a garbage brawl--every spot gets paid back somehow, from one guy to the other. And even now it sort of had me guessing as to exactly what the hell they were going to do to get past the Shane-as-ref stip. They came up with a pretty good finish under the circumstances, and Vince plays the finish and post-match really well and shockingly understated. He's just helped Austin and conceded the smoking skull belt to him, but was clearly conflicted and ambivalent about doing so. WHERE TO, STEPHANIE? Every passing segment gets us just a little bit closer to the end of the Ministry.
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    Good show-closing angle to kick this feud into another gear. We've had the dream match aspect, the soap opera aspect, and now it's all about people kicking each others' asses. Dundee promises a repeat of the famous concession stand brawls of yore, and points out that only he can do what the Fabs have just done to the King of Memphis.
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    Keirn really does sound pissed off and pushes the limits of what you normally say on Saturday morning local TV. And he takes a shot at Lawler and Dundee temporarily blanking on the team they beat last week to boot. The promise here--who knows if it will be fulfilled--is that the upcoming tag title match in Kennet, Missouri won't have any women or gimmicks involved, just four men.
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    Lawler and Dundee as constantly bickering buddies continues. Is this just the natural order of things, is it a red herring, or is it building to something? Maybe we'll find out in the next match with the Fabs.
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