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  1. PeteF3
    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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    Yeah, there's some neat stuff here in isolation but this is total throw-shit-at-the-wall stuff as a whole. Rock and Show are now fighting each other. Mankind wants a piece of Show. Austin plants the seed that he and Show are in cahoots, which is actually a neat bit of psychology because it plays off both the St. Valentine's Day Massacre finish *and* the previous year's WrestleMania, but I'm guessing that aspect is forgotten as soon as this show's over. Show tries to tear apart the ring and that's about 1/10 as memorable as the time he and Lesnar broke the ring a few years later. It's already clear that Russo doesn't know what he has in Paul Wight.
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    Just to clear this up for everyone: Meltzer spelled out both in the Observers of the time, and a Lapsed Fan appearance later, that this was booked with the real expectation that Gunn could win.
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    I hardly know who any of these people are, besides Steven Dunn and one of the crooked referees who appears to be Louis CK affecting a southern accent. This is so skeevy that it makes IWA-MS look like Wrestling at the Chase.
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    Baldo attempts a splash to break up a pin attempt, but ends up splashing Randy Hales, and Hayes and Baxter dogpile for the win. Hales gets his head shaved and if I understood Between the Sheets' coverage of next month correctly, there's a babyface turn for Baldo in the very near future.
  12. PeteF3
    Fun match--Crazy Max's reach exceeded their grasp a few times. Obviously these guys aren't as familiar with each other as the 1996 Michinoku Pro troupe was so there are more awkward spots, and some of the CMax's guys' offense is a little too Teddy Hart-esque for my tastes in how overelaborate and innovative-for-innovation's-sake the new moves are. But the closing stretch is fun as hell with the veterans finally figuring out how to outwit the cheating heels and leaving Suwa for dead as Sasuke and TAKA take out CMax and Taru on the floor. And yes, this is very American--mostly due to Taka bringing over a bunch of Attitude Era moves and mannerisms with him.
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    Dave has spent the last 30 years not touching *anything* untoward. Doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do anything. Of course this isn't provable which means people can just make these "I'm not saying, just saying" passive-aggressive accusations without fear of being definitively contradicted anyway.
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    This idea of Dave being on the juice has been suggested multiple times before and been pretty thoroughly debunked (by jdw, who was once one of Dave's closest friends). Dave gave up even taking OTC supplements long ago.
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    Kind of odd booking here, as it seems the apuestas match is already signed from the pre-match talk. This is another brawl carried almost entirely by the tecnicos, with Santo going to town on Salvaje with a big red spot on the front of his mask being the most arresting visual. The rudos are disqualified in both falls and the tecnicos are left laying, to build more heat on this program.
  16. PeteF3
    Yes, this was terrific and Otsuka was the man of a match in a tag with 4 pretty great performances. The wrasslin' fan in me would have liked a few traditional 2-counts amidst all the other pro-style graps, but in any case, I could watch Otsuka throw people around and do double-teams and double-submissions all day.
  17. PeteF3
    Less offensively dumb than some other Ministry angles, but who could be compelled to care about a Boss Man-Undertaker program or match? Why couldn't they find indie workers with short hair to play the cops? And will I get through one of these Monday night segments without asking rhetorical questions?
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    This is even eerier to watch for me--my first real exposure to JR since his wife's passing. So that just exacerbates the attempts here to somehow equate the death of his mother with the knocking out of Steve Williams in the BFA as even more crass. Ross unveils the planned Kabuki-type gimmick for Dr. Death and draws applause for calling it the biggest pile of horsecrap he's ever seen--yep, hard to argue with that statement or the fans. JR boots Cole in the groin, making this the greatest WWE segment of the year and drawing an even bigger ovation. It's inconceivable how this was supposed to turn Ross heel, as everyone's said already. Having Mr. McMahon be the one to send Terry Taylor out to boot JR from the desk is another ass-backwards addition to this storyline and even greater incentive for the fans to take Ross' side. Oh, and what I wouldn't give for Doc to spike Terry Taylor's head into the floor.
  19. PeteF3
    A fun match in front of a hot crowd that's pretty much everything you'd ever want out of these two. Too bad the whole atmosphere had to be ruined by Hogan and Nash and the all-around presentation in putting this on with less than 2 hours' notice. Why are they half-assing this Hogan turn if they want to turn him? Why am I *still* dissecting 1999 WCW?
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    Sorry, but this was just dumb--a way to undermine both Flair and Goldberg at the same time. Goldberg blathers about "respect" but then turns on Ric in an instant. And RIC is supposed to be in the wrong here?? He just undermined everything Hogan and Nash were saying about him by coming to David's aid! Flair's "I *AM* THE LINE" line and pantomime is the only good thing about this.
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    Boy, have the NWO vignettes lost a lot going from the cool monotone voiceover to Kevin Nash being a goofball. I have to admit--I shouldn't have, but I laughed at "...and that blond's name is BUDDY LANDELL!" Hogan: "Or Buddy Rose..." This, like the other Hogan sitdown interview, seemed to be all about trying to embarrass and undermine Flair. But what else is new? The 1960's Batman transitions for Buff and Big Poppa Pump are too much. So are the oh-so-current references to pre-Ben Stiller Starsky & Hutch. This is over before it even has a chance to be amusing. The WWE production staff might have put together a compelling video package for Nash vs. Rey, but this effort wasn't it. Weird faux-dramatic music for scenes like Nash making faces. Ooh, CONTINUITY! Hogan and Nash follow up on their promise/threat to talk with Torrie Wilson. Oh, wait, nothing actually happens here...oh wait, now we're actually at dinner. Denise is *not* a 12 compared to Torrie. I don't get what this plan is--what is seducing David again going to accomplish? Didn't we already establish that Flair "doesn't care" about his family? Why am I trying to dissect 1999 WCW again? There was really nothing offensively bad here in isolation, but an entire hour of this had to be mind-numbing, and the "Miss Robinson" stuff that I of course have no knowledge of is apparently a big fat waste of time.
  22. PeteF3
    "From the continent of Asia..." Oh, thanks for narrowing it down, guys. This entire segment may as well be in a different universe, on several different levels.
  23. PeteF3
    That didn't seem like 16 minutes to me either but I had a long break and don't feel like going back to check. In any case I didn't think this was as good as the early-'90s brawls involving this troupe, even though I love Tanaka. But it was certainly action-packed and never boring...it just didn't really have the highs and lows and ebbs and flows that the best of these type matches offer amidst all the chaos. Tanaka's final comeback is very well-done, though. I would have paid money to see Tanaka and Hiroshi Hase just countering each other with rolling elbows and uranages for 20 minutes.
  24. PeteF3
    The wraparounds were worth it for Owen approaching kids at the guardrail to hand them over, then snatching them away and tearing them up.
  25. PeteF3
    UT playing mind games was the whole story of the first casket match, and he lost. I actually think Undertaker and the Warrior were *more* interesting when they were vulnerable. You couldn't get away with using Chuck as a badass after UFC really took off (unless you wait until 2005-06 when the Chuck Norris Facts really exploded), but in 1994 it was still semi-believable. The Texas connection helped, too.
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