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  1. PeteF3
    Holy shit, I called Flair's return the Last Great Nitro Moment, but again, we have a sudden contender emerge as the year closes. So many twists and turns in this mini-angle, with Bischoff getting some measure of heat and to some degree the last laugh, as we head into Starrcade. Flair and the Horsemen get some revenge on Windham and some NWO B-teamers, while you really, really *really* want to see Flair and Eric finally mix it up. WCW is attempting to close out their television on a hell of a high note for '98.
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    With less than a week to spare, a late contender for Nitro Match of the Year. Misterio is such a great opponent for Eddy, as he's someone he can dominate and bully and really be a hurtful son of a bitch. Rey hits a lot of his usual great offense and somehow, whenever he comes back, it's hard to tell that he had knees of Silly Putty--it was true 20 years ago and it's true today.
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    Very well-put-together segment that just ramped up the drama and anticipation as it went along, and has you wanting to stick around to see what's going to happen next. Last week and the Thunder angle were desperation moves of the Hail Mary pass variety, but maybe it was an Aaron Rodgers pass that worked, because new life has been breathed into this feud.
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    Bam Bam distraction aside this build--or at least this part of it--feels like one refreshingly free of the usual WCW bullshit and gaga. Pity that they'll decide to make up for it with the booking of the match itself.
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    Was Lawler ruined for good after going 50/50 (with lots of bullshit) from Andy Kaufman?
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    Some people are calling the main event *****+ and others are calling it ***1/2-ish. I'm somewhere in the middle--on Twitter it was pointed out that it would live or die by its closing stretch and I think even the hardliners would have to agree that it lived. Still, the first 15 minutes--up until Okada ate the big dropkick or Omega went through the table--were mostly filler with work that was good and workmanlike but not overly interesting. It would fall around ****1/2 for me, again by virtue of the finish. Still think Tanahashi vs. Naito gets MOTN honors at around the same star rating. All in all, I pulled an unplanned all-nighter to watch this and don't regret the decision, so it's an easy thumbs-up show with mostly decent matches, some really good matches, and nothing particularly bad. I say this as someone who's mostly entirely indifferent to modern-day NJPW.
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    Yes, it's Mascarita Sagrada vs. Espectrito in a WWF ring. Of course these two know each other like the backs of their hands, so they cram a lot of intricate sequences in about 3 or 4 minutes. Maybe as good as any match to air on Raw in 1998 or '99.
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    No way was Memphis going to get through all this without some sort of angle, and they come through. Clearly they were taking every step to not actually damage anything of value in the house.
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    What Loss said, pretty much. The brawling and mask-ripping is all good, but I can't help but think these six could have torn the house down with just a straight-up match instead. As it is, the best moments of the match are at the very end with the Casas vs. III showdown.
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    Good match--maybe the best in a weak year for joshi. Way more enjoyable than the '80s UWF which was a similarly new promotion still getting its feet wet in a new style. I've only seen one full match of this new Yoshida but I'm pretty sure Yoshida vs. Kandori is my new joshi dream match that may or may not have ever happened.
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    This is awful. I mean, skeeviness aside, it's simply a bad angle badly executed. Bischoff rambles out an apology and NOBODY in the crowd is buying it--Eddie Gilbert's been dead for almost 4 years at this point and the phony-apology angle is so, so, SO played out. I've been quick to praise Eric Bischoff for when he's delivering the goods, but I'll be just as quick to call him out when he fails. I know he's probably *supposed* to sound somewhat insincere as a heel, but he doesn't even do a good job of attempting to play this straight at all.
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    Tough going for WCW referees at the moment, as Boone was basically hired to be Brian Hildebrand's replacement. As they said on Between the Sheets, Boone came along about ten years too soon.
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    I don't get who he would work with as a heel, either. Savage? Vince wasn't putting him back in A-show main events, period. Bret? Was being moved into a feud with Papa Shango before the sudden change in plans. Davey Boy? Seems too early to be running IC vs. WWF title matches. Undertaker? Honestly the best option, since it'd be an interesting reversal of their '91 feud, and he did get some shots at Flair, but Undertaker was settling into more of an Andre the Giant-type attraction at this point than a real title contender. And where does that leave Flair? Do they turn Perfect anyway?
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    What's the official source on the WWF wanting Warrior to turn heel? Because the only people I've heard tell that story are a.) Scott Keith, or b.) people who got it from Scott Keith either directly or from other people who got it from him. The concept makes no sense and I really won't believe it without some corroboration from somebody else. I read through each Observer as I finish each week of my '90s Yearbook watch and I don't remember Meltzer discussing the possibility at all. Edit: I don't see anything wrong with the date of the Jannetty debut. There was no Sherri at either SNME or Survivor Series, meaning the angle aired before either of them.
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    I don't think any of that is available besides what aired on Now It Can Be Told. I believe it's been determined that he did some Event Centers for the Springfield, MA market, and maybe a few others--but none of the places where most of the circulating footage seems to come from (Boston, NYC, and Nashville). It would be kind of a holy grail in a way, but if Bix hasn't found any (to my knowledge) then I doubt Parv can. Sorry, Parv.
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    That reminds me--I'd like to see a discussion of the transition between local promos and Event Centers, which happened I think with the first syndie shows to air after WM4. Along with the change in format (which had to have saved untold amounts of time for everyone), house shows began to get more uniform. Savage did have I think a handful of one-off defenses against Boss Man and King Haku, but otherwise you had a traveling troupe putting on the same show each night as opposed to things being booked for one particular city. Compare and contrast Hogan in the '80s to Hogan as champion in '89 and '91. You didn't see any Hogan-Mountie, or Hogan-Martel main events. The only "random" guy he faced in '91 was the Warlord for a few shows in the fall, after Slaughter was finished but when it was too early to have him facing Undertaker or Flair.
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    I know, knock me over with a feather. Since I don't have hard info on Norton, I'll provide this bit of Meltzer-ian humor from the WCW brass: the Prisoner was announced as being from Green Bay, Wisconsin, because that was the site of the TV taping where he attacked Vince McMahon.
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    Sorry folks--for once, I have no off-the-top-of-my-head information on what happened to Scott Norton here. I believe it was just usual bullshit over money, and/or not doing the job, with or without possible NJPW involvement. Norton *did* already lose the Dontaku match by blood stoppage, IIRC, so maybe he actually had a point.
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    Disc 22. Looks like they had the date wrong when they made the set. Edit: The Koslowski match opens 23.
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    Kaufman was Foley's first professional opponent, in fact.
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    I still say Watts' most progressive move ever was not pushing JYD or any other black star, it was making Ernie Ladd a booker.
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    Even though it originated as terminology referring to shootstyle, I personally see it as a marketing term for New Japan and nothing more. It's their "sports entertainment."
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    This is smoke-and-mirrorsy just like the title match last night, but there are some good moments that kept me guessing. Test makes his debut and uses the Meltdown to put Triple H away. I'm left scratching my head as to how the fuck we're going to get from here to Michaels turning babyface and making Vince #2 in the Rumble, as these storylines are starting to get foggier and foggier in my memory.
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