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    THESE TENNESSEE HILLBILLIES DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A GRANDMA IS. I don't know what that means, but it's great.
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    Big build for a big card in Jonesboro tonight, with Brandon Baxter being attacked on the air at a radio station. Tonight, Baldo's Power Pro title, Hales' control of MPPW, the career of Boy Tony, and Hales' hair are all on the line.
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    Mauro and JBL

    PeteF3 replied to sek69's topic in WWE

    Wait, what? "Real journalists" don't use unnamed sources? What alternate universe am I living in?
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    Much better match on 3/6, with all four guys trying to be as giant of dicks as possible with big games of one-upsmanship all throughout. I don't really see it as a MOTYC because the issues I had with the '98 BOSJ finals cropped up again--Wagner throws bomb after bomb without selling much of anything, then goes down to a pretty perfunctory and unearned Kanemoto comeback after killing him dead. It didn't bother me nearly as much this time, but it did a little bit, so this is just really good instead of Great. Wagner has tons of offense and is charismatic and engaging but I really want to see him work for underneath just once instead of acting as a junior heavyweight Bruiser Brody.
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    I don't think the Rock 'n Rolls got there until '83, but Rude was around as a job guy before that.
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    Piper's motorcycle wreck was a work to cover for his first hip surgery.
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    I don't buy the idea that the story of WM3 was Steamboat's "righteous vengeance coming for his pound of flesh." That was the story told in the house show matches like Toronto leading up to WM...matches that Steamboat lost. Here, he was out to get the title, period.
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    Fun little sprint with Liger having way too much fun, including a Popeye-esque wind-up leading to an eyepoke, and celebrating a palm strike in the corner like he just won the Slam Dunk Contest. Kind of ends just as it looks like it's going to enter a big finishing stretch. Aaaand we've got the wrong match on the disk. Well, that will have to come at a later time.
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    Of historical significance if nothing else, as Vader wins the vacant Triple Crown. Not bad action at all, with the highlights being Vader doing a splash off the apron to the floor and taking a cool bump off the second turnbuckle and eating a Taue boot. Still, hard to follow that whirlwind of a tag match.
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    I agree that this slowed somewhat in the middle. But my goodness, what a beautiful opening period of wrestling and a true holy-shit finishing stretch that had me practically bouncing in my chair, not knowing what the result was going to be. It's been a long time since I watched a match that provoked a reaction like that in me. This is an AJPW match where anyone could conceivably have pinned anyone else the way these guys worked and the way the story was told--Ogawa was overmatched, but he's so darn SMART that he holds his own and actually gets an awesome credible near-fall on Kobashi. The trading of holds to open was great and so was the way he leveraged his way to an advantage--drop-toe-holding Akiyama onto the ropes, knocking Akiyama into Kobashi on the apron, do-se-do'ing with Misawa on the outside as a countermove, and of course all those awesome roll-ups. Then he gets put into holds for awhile in a FIP segment that's not quite as compelling as it should have been as Burning sort of does their MVC impersonation--part of that is the holds aren't worked that great and part of it is that holds and submissions have taken such a backseat in AJPW in the latter half of the decade. That's a minor nitpick though, the kind that separates MOTYCs from MOTDCs. This was as great as anything in 1999 and on a level just below the all-time great '90s All-Japan tags. It really started in '98, but Ogawa is practically a lock for my Most Improved in the year-end awards.
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    It was suspected that Jumbo was only staying in the company at all out of loyalty to Baba. Now Baba's gone, and so is Jumbo, off to an education career in the U.S. for the last year of his life.
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    Hogan calls out Flair for blowing off the David turn on Nitro. He...has a point, actually. Ric didn't address that or his supposed "retirement" on Nitro. This would be a great "heel who thinks he's a babyface" promo, if it wasn't leading to a genuine face turn.
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    Duggan cuts a pretty genuine promo, using his normal speaking voice. And of course, he still draws a "U-S-A" chant, this time without even trying.
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    Wild scene as Onita crashes an introduction from Chono, and is just pelted with crap from the audience. Chono comes out in his George Costanza Gore-tex coat and is attacked. NWO Sting and the other folks supposedly having Chono's back kind of look like morons here. The language barrier is there, but it seems pretty clear that Onita is issuing a challenge.
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    Since we can't have two Rocks in one company, the skinnier member of PE is now just Flyboy Rocco. This isn't *bad*, and it's short, but they're horribly out of place in the WWF and this would have come off better as a quick vignette like they would have gotten in ECW rather than being done in front of a crowd.
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    Once again, Flair is a flower springing out of a jar of dirt. Flair invokes every legend in the history of University of North Carolina sports and lays out the stipulations for Uncensored. Thank God this master of crowd control and beloved legend who's had his son turn on him will be turning heel soon for no reason. Flair and Gene do the best they can to say that there will be blood, without actually being able to do so.
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    Is the original MK movie still the best one based on a video game? It's not good, but compared to some of the other game-based dreck unleashed on cinemas...if this were the 2010's, there'd probably be money in wrestler-based DLC for a Mortal Kombat game. Also, TNT and original cable programming in general have come a long, long way.
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    Well, that's the end of the Bam Bam push. Rey turned down an offer to join the Wolfpac and pays for it. We all love Mean Gene but even at his peak, I can generally do without his overacting when he actually has to be in the middle of an angle.
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    It's useless to even talk about this because the conceit is what it is at this point, but thank God Stevie's not watching the show.
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    I wouldn't disapprove of a one-hour live feed of Torrie sitting in a limo. David claims his mother told him that Ric's going to retire.
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    Stephanie makes her Yearbook debut! (Unless she showed up in some merchandise ad somewhere else). Vince's claim that "60% of his audience is over 21" is a howler. So, in other words, 40% of his audience isn't. This does a good job at first, then goes off the rails when it tries to portray Bret's anti-American heel turn as some horrific scandal on the level of the Sgt. Slaughter Iraqi angle.
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    Move, move, move, back and forth, until somebody wins. Bradley, I guess.
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    More telegraphing stuff from Styles. Callis HAS to be Storm's new manager, so of course he isn't. Beulah is BACK, so of course she isn't. Callis is a VIRUS--can't wait for that one to get beaten into our heads over the coming months. This gets better once Dreamer's in the ring and Styles shuts his yap. I hated last week's angle with Douglas but I have to admit they're at least attempting to freshen him up, which is something he needed.
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    Corey Macklin & Mae Young should have been the broadcast team for every television show in every promotion in history. In 9 years of Yearbooks she's the first person to have some honest-to-God chemistry with the man.
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    Mae agrees with Sean that Stacy is not trailer park trash...because that would be an insult to trailer park trash. Then she goes off on Lawler, on Tennessee, and on Dave and Corey. Yes, I could get used to more of this.
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