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    I'm again not as high on this, but only in the sense that I don't really see it doing any better than "on the list" as far as MOTYCs rather than an unquestioned 1 or 2. The drama was certainly high down the stretch--Santo leveling Casas with the tope was a great way to create sudden doubt when the technicos had to be seen as heavy favorites based on both their reputations and how the match had been going. Its setup, with Santo taking time to kick one rudo before attemping the tope, was just as good. Casas continues to be the stiffest worker in lucha, and it's glorious to watch. I could watch him clothesline motherfuckers all day.
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    Way better than the match before and I was losing faith in FMW long before I lost mine in Kanemoto. This was laid out beautifully, with good solid fundamental wrestling building to some good solid fundamental crazy-ass high-flying, and a guess-what-can-happen-next type closing stretch where it seemed like anyone could pin anyone else at any time. I could see this making the MOTYC list, certainly.
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    Not as into this as everyone else--I'm about over Koji Kanemoto entirely because I go into all these heavily pimped matches of his and he keeps letting me down. He's shown to me between the Wagner match and here that he's a fucking shitty comeback, so the drama doesn't build and the wins don't feel earned. And I found the dueling shoteis to be eye-rolling instead of climactic. Let me know when the title's back on Otani.
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    In a vacuum I might have liked this more, but Chad summed up my feelings quite well already. The pall of the nonsensical booking hangs over this no matter how good the action or the star power is. It can't be un-noticed that the first Hogan-Goldberg confrontation doesn't get much heat--not a whiff of what Rey and Kidman were getting a few segments ago. The crowd is hot by the end but clearly they don't really know who, besides Goldberg, is supposed to be getting cheered. And I didn't like the fade-out at all, reeking way too much of Raw's "we don't have the attention span to write an ending, just go home" finish. From what we saw, a much better Nitro than usual, but with the exception of the upcoming Spring Stampede "better than usual" appears to be the new upside for WCW.
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    A Short Attention Span special--the action is good but they seem desperate to get to the finishing stretch right from the beginning and I didn't feel that it was totally earned...at first. Two things got me to forget about that. One--and this is not something that was said often about WCW--I *loved* the direction when Kidman attempts the first SSP, as the camera follows him up to the top turnbuckle and Rey goes out of frame. Kidman flies off, and we don't find out until he hits the mat that Rey has moved. Then Rey hits the springboard rana for a HOT 2-count that had me totally biting. I was with them from then on, and the finish is great, creative, and suitably match-ending no matter how many minutes it's gone. The point about the big reset button being hit on Rey's push is well-taken, and Zbyszko's comment at the very end, "You can call him the Cruiserweight Killer now," is definitely the most unintentionally revealing of the night.
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    Miss Robinson is not hotter than Torrie Wilson. A bold proclamation, but I stand by it. So that's yet another thing wrong with this segment. How is seducing David Flair supposed to be a "man's job"? Even while trying to discuss this, neither Nash *nor* Torrie can refrain from giggling and joking, so if they don't care about this, why should we?
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    Segment of the Year. Maybe Segment of the Decade. Honestly I don't know if it's the highlight of Disco's career, because he's done a lot of funny stuff, but it's up there.
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    One justification for the WW(W)F paying managers is that they were at least partially credited with drawing the houses. Even if they weren't at ringside, they were the ones selling the matches through promos in the weeks leading up to the show. That may have continued in '88. Also, Jimmy Hart was quickly made an exception to this rule because of one of those great bits of wrestling logic: Honky Tonk Man had to defend the IC title with Jimmy "banned from ringside," which naturally meant that Hart had to be there (disguised as Peggy Sue holding a bandana in front of his face).
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    I'm about 90% sure that Gorilla also never bothered to learn which Nasty Boy was which. Every time he referred to one of them by name he seemed to be following the lead of Heenan.
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    I know they've bought content from tape collectors for stuff they don't have in their vault for DVD sets (like Bret vs. Andre), but have they ever put a handheld bootleg on an official release? Maybe the curtain call? There's no reason to believe any of the ironman matches were professionally shot, is there? If there's an ironman match that's going to be unearthed, I'm not sure I'd not rather see Rockers vs. Rougeaus from the Boston Garden (just a month or two after they stopped airing on NESN), just because it was the first of its kind to my knowledge.
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    Steiners vs. Money Inc., the first of the 3 title changes, would be a much bigger prize among Steiners matches. Maybe it wasn't a better match but it was at a Challenge taping and is completely unreleased. I'll take "less than HD VQ" over "no VQ" any day.
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    Sabu wanting the U.S. title is funny--you just know that Sabu wanted that title as tribute to his uncle, who was something like a 12-time "U.S." champion even though it was a completely different title.
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    Cat's act isn't together just yet. This is supposed to hype a Miller vs. Jerry Flynn feud??
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    This was pretty good, but hey, another segment with no ending. I wish they could have taken the time to just ring the damn bell since the match was a clear no-contest, but that's probably too wrasslin' for everyone. Okay, okay, I'll stop bitching--this was a fun tag match, especially the Rock-Austin interactions and counters to finishers. Show was well-protected with only a minimum of a physical altercation with Austin, keeping that match fresh for what's sure to be a big-money showdown when they finally face each other *cough*.
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    Triple H calls out KANE-UHH. Yeah, they fooled me on this one, too. We get a patented Vince Russo segment that he can't be bothered to write a real ending for.
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    A worried Lawler as a police officer examines the McMahon home: "There's *always* trouble going down on the mean streets of Greenwich!" Cue the Posse. On the short list of 1999's best gimmicks, not that there's a ton of competition.
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    This is about as good as I've seen Sable look, right here, but some of the other bunnies in the grotto looked just as nice.
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    Yawn. I contrasted Nash's complete lack of vision with the WWF's focus, a narrative that's been ongoing since late 1997. But focus doesn't help when it's this *boring.*
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    These two do the best they can to have a good match given the constraints. Thank God, we have shit involving the construction of an announcer's desk to distract us from all that pesky boring wrestling.
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    Get it? CLEAVAGE instead of CLEAVER? Get it yet? Anyone?
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    Lord Alfred Hayes and Mean Gene are presumably somewhere nearby.
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    A complete mess indeed. Hogan and Flair *do* get the crowd reacting the way they want, to their sort-of credit. But everything else about this is awful. Nash has no idea as a booker how to commit to a premise, hence the build-up to a Hogan babyface turn involving him pulling off the most despicable heel acts imaginable and the entire layout of this match. He also has no idea how to properly prep announcers, resulting in the Treacherous Three basically making fools of themselves for the duration of the match. Schiavone tries to put over how the soon-to-be-heel Flair has "become a better man" as WCW President. No one has any idea if this is a First-Blood Match or not. No one's told them that Charles Robinson is supposed to be crooked. Nobody notices the fast count, or indeed that Flair won the first-blood match by pinfall. Schiavone cheers when Arn snap mares Torrie Wilson (whose jumping on Arn's back is a pure babyface spot). And while it's easy to blame everything on Nash, Bischoff, and Hogan, I think Flair's feet need to be held to the fire a bit here. He's essentially bookending the decade of the '90s with an insistence on going back heel when nobody wants to see him in that role. He wasn't forced into turning by any means. WCW died from many wounds, but Ric wasn't blameless either.
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    Was Mickey Jay supposed to get bumped off that missed Harlem Side Kick? I guess they cover for it okay but the resulting interference spots sure look like it. Booker pins Steiner in a result I have no memory of, so that was kind of feelgood. *Two* jump-up-and-cheer finishes on one WCW show? Will wonders never cease.
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    Windham still knows what he's doing in there, though he's lost a step or six at this point. Not bad action but pretty needlessly overbooked--these really aren't guys to be going out there and doing a lot of gaga. Oh well, we got the result we wanted at the time so it's hard to complain too much. This tag division appears that it may be a beacon of light in the sea of WCW crap.
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    The previous week's Observer is fascinating if depressing reading, as Dave declares an end to the Monday Night Wars and says that WCW will never right the ship again, comparing the morale of the 1999 locker room the morale of the locker room in the similarly decaying company of 1988, where the remaining roster was still motivated to go out and put on the best shows that they could, leading to the legendary year of 1989 after the company was saved. But this time there was no light at the end of the tunnel, from either a financial or artistic standpoint. The result of this match is further proof. Sorry to waste your time with the Rey push and hope of change, everyone. Everything's back to normal now and the last four weeks of TV were a waste of your time.
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