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  1. PeteF3
    Just when I was starting to tire of Hayes' rap, as well-delivered as it is, he cuts a hell of an honest-to-God wrestling promo hyping a match between him and Baxter against Hales and Baldo. He closes with an ominous threat--is he live, or is he Memorex?
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    This is another lucha match that would have been better at one fall, since the first two were pointless with bad sloppy work by the rudos. It's redeemed by a hugely dramatic third fall with some incredible technico comebacks and the rudos cheating to win. Great heat for that, and the rudos' win feels undeserved in both a mark and smark fan sense, so I guess it succeeded. This went on a while with two LONG pre- and post-match segments (as if U.S. wrestling isn't already talk-heavy enough), but the goal is to hype a big apuestas rematch and on that front it succeeded. Alfonso Morales sort of Lance Russells the rudos through a post-match interview and even talks to ringside fans to confirm that the match was won on a foul, in a clever touch. Great finish and angle to cover for a match that was 1/3 awesome and 2/3 mediocre.
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    I can't believe I remember this, but the Mystery Jjammess Song was "Something Gone Wrong."
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    I think if you prune the post-Virus-elimination stuff down you'd have a legit MOTYC. As it is, they sort of lose the plot and Guerrero is down 1-vs.-2 just a little bit too long for a guy who's supposed to be the rudo. But the double-octopus finish was spectacular. Virus was incredible as well, and I could watch him take people down and slap on holds all day.
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    This was amusing, and Torrie looks better than ever. In spite of myself, I LOL'd at Hogan blowing his nose in his "Armani Gucci Poochie shirt." But, as Loss mentioned, it doesn't really add anything to the program or go anywhere. The whole set-up, including Disco and the production guy to the end, is basically a bunch of guys jerking off on-camera.
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    As much as I criticized the last angle with them that we saw, I was kind of hoping we'd get an angle with Big Poppa Pump showing up and wreaking havoc.
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    This really should have been what happened at SuperBrawl. Either pay a king's ransom to Liz or Luger or somebody to undergo a head-shaving--it's not like they weren't wasting money in a million other areas--or just find a way to welch on the stip if no amount will get the job done. Rey could have been a made man. Instead, even though this is a really fun match and segment and a rare instance of the heel Wolfpac getting shown up, for Rey it's about 50 steps back and then a few steps forward.
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    This was, like, half of a good match. I know they were pacing themselves but the first half of this is full House Show Bret Mode, and his control segment on Booker where he's just clubbering isn't interesting at all. Once he goes after the knee this match finally gets a hook to it, and Booker is of course really great at comebacks, so this really gets the crowd going by match's end. Booker wins in a big upset, but it feels hollow because of all the old veterans in WCW it has to be *Bret* putting over a young up-and-comer.
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    It is kind of weirdly fascinating to see Big Poppa Pump not acting psychotic. There's a kernel of a low-level sitcom between these two. The record scratch sound effect as they enter the gay bar is too fucking much, though.
  10. PeteF3
    Telling stories, baby. Certainly odd and overly student-film-ish for a wrestling match, but as far as the Ministry goes this is one of the less offensive segments, and one of the less offensive Kane/Undertaker matches.
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    Hogan and Flair have the power to compel everyone in the arena to hang onto their every move, but you can't help but notice that the match is laid out really oddly, even before Torrie shows up. Hogan continues to cut the babyface off and guzzle them all throughout the match, and parts of this seem designed to turn Hulk babyface. If that were a good longterm plan, I could go along with that, but to even attempt such a move is utterly preposterous and has no chance of succeeding. Still, it's enough to draw you into the match but, as tim says, we get a SWERVE finish instead. David is already showing flashes of his non-charisma as he, a heterosexual male, manages to look bored with getting to make out with Torrie Wilson. Is there EVER going to be a single show where the Wolfpac are beaten? This era feels even more one-sided than 1996, but at least 1996 was fresh.
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    They couldn't come up with a more creative finish than *that*? What a pathetic effort on all parts. No heat for any of this farce except for Nash's run-ins.
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    Lex Luger is at ringside dressed as Nailz. They have to tease us one last time with this great Misterio hot tag. The hilarious thing about this is that I'm *sure* Nash & Hall thought they were doing Rey a gigantic favor by doing this and that this was really a good move for him. I believe they were totally sincere--they wouldn't have bumped around for him like that otherwise. That just makes this decision even worse. Heenan choosing to make jokes about Rey's looks doesn't do him any favors, either. Hard for us to take the NWO seriously as a threat if the announcers don't.
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    A clever and well-done finish in a vacuum, but the result was so disheartening (at the time) that that aspect is hard to ignore. Not that this was a secret chance to save the company or anything, but putting the titles on Hennig & Windham in 1999 did absolutely no good. Benoit & Malenko *may* have been able to create another point of difference from the WWF and its de-emphasis on tag teams.
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    Not really much of a match, as Maeda basically just goes into a shell. Karelin attempts his famed Karelin Lift but can't quite execute it. Eventually the match just sort of stops with Karelin being given the victory. Great heat, though, and as I already posted, getting Karelin to work a match was a major coup. The highlight video is the best part of this.
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    Horrible, horrible, horrible. As bad as the worst WCW segments we've seen in '99. I'm not getting where any of this "sincerity" comes from, because Francine's acting in this is awful and we've gotten so much "shoot" bullshit from Shane (oh, I'm sorry, I mean TROY MARTIN) that it's impossible to buy this as such whether it is or not. There's no quicker way for me to NOT buy something as a shoot than to say that it is one. I'm also really fucking sick of Shane taking continued cheap shots at Big Two guys suffering legitimate injuries--here, he compares how he handled his elbow injury to how Ultimo Dragon handled his. Just when I think this segment couldn't be any more interminable, Justin Credible has to be the person to interrupt Shane. Congratulations Paul E., you found the one person on the roster to make me wish we could just have more of Shane talking by himself. Credible rants a bunch, Douglas and Francine and Dreamer get laid out, and now after years of being the most despicable heels imaginable we're supposed to feel sympathy for Shane and Francine. Well, call me cold and callous if you must, but I don't.
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    PE are buried and turfed from ECW, as they didn't want to go along with Paul E.'s plan to drop two straight matches to the Dudleys instead of going 1-1. The Dudleys proclaim the best tag team of the past, present, and future, which draws out New Jack. Mustafa's with him, but he immediately turns on Jack and we get yet another long Dudley beatdown. Second verse, same as the first. Mustafa is a "mysterious benefactor," which is a role for him that defies credibility. Before the reveal I had to laugh at Joey Styles wondering just WHO WOULD HAVE PAID OFF MUSTAFA? Like it would have taken a seven-figure payout and not a $50 check guaranteed not to bounce. I can think of about 9 million matches I'd want to see before getting to New Jack vs. Mustafa.
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    For some reason Dandy's right hand is put over huge, to an almost Bob Cook-esque degree. Oh well, he does unleash some awesome punches here. This is almost exactly what you'd want out of a throwaway TV match between these two. There should always be room for these.
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    Stacy has been hanging up posters offering her valet services to anyone besides Jerry Lawler or Sean Stasiak. We see in a bumper that she also has turned down Randy Hales and Brian Christopher. On the interview set, Stacy declares Terri a "slut" and says she can do just as much as Sable, to the intensely uncomfortable reactions of Dave Brown. Lawler really comes off as whiny in all this. Stacy screws with both wrestlers, as advertisement for her ringside services. Neat idea, but YOU CAN'T HAVE ROPE BREAKS IN FALLS-COUNT-ANYWHERE MATCHES. Or in an "Explosive Match," as they call this. Match ends way too quickly, with an unintentional assist from Stacy.
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    This is all pretty scuzzy, as the power of Jerry Lawler's kiss has apparently won over Terri Stasiak. SHE LIKES IT, TONY! Unless of course this is all a setup for a swerve. 26 seconds seems like a hell of a long time to me.
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    This match looked like it lived up to its promise--certainly it pleased the crowd. Ugly Ed the DJ frees Michael Hayes from a cuffing and he and Baxter come back to get the pin.
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    Calista Flockhart is about the size of one of Goldberg's arms. Bill demonstrates why he deserved so, so much better.
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    Really good heat for this considering what charismatic black holes the NWO B-teamers are. Unless he had some miracle in FMW, which is quite possible with the right opponents, this has to be Horace's career highlight. Vince comes out to make this look like yet another instance of Vanilla Midgets getting fucked over, but Benoit and Malenko pull through with guts and smarts--a good way to put the team over on the way to presumably bigger and better things. *snorts derisively*
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    Wait a second...Vince comes out the night after a PPV in a neckbrace selling the previous night's match, Mankind comes out limping selling the previous night's match, and now Ric Flair is out selling the previous show's beatdown. Don't these idiots know that if you sell a match for any length of time *after* the match, you'll ruin your star power? Good thing today's modern WWE performers don't have that problem. Flair outs the NWO and Hogan as not being "cool" after all and points out that Hogan needs celebrities, props, and the belt handed to him in order to be World Heavyweight champion. Ric effectively downplays Monday night's disaster and cuts his usual awesome promo hyping SuperBrawl as a match, with high emotions and high stakes but no other outside overthought bullshit. This is great, as usual, but I'm getting tired of this months-long pattern of WCW force-feeding us a crap angle where Flair gets destroyed and Ric attempting to save it after the fact. Sadly, the pattern isn't done.
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    There was an off-camera angle on Nitro involving Luger supposedly jumping Rey backstage, so Rey gets some revenge by attacking Luger in his limo. Too bad--Lex in his natural role as a big stooging meatheaded jock idiot would have been a good first heavyweight feud for Misterio. At least if there was any chance of Lex putting him over decisively without a post-match beatdown--knowing Lex and his surprising bouts of unselfishness in the late '90s, that was a legitimate possibility.
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