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  1. PeteF3
    In a shocking twist, Cole declares, "Vince is gonna taste Dr. Scholl's again!" and it actually happens. Just a few instances of announcers being right instead of telegraphing that the opposite will happen is all I ask for.
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    I found Cole more bearable here than he's been in any other segment tonight, but yeah, Ross' absence is palpable. At least Cole is attempting to respond in the proper way to get this over, whereas earlier he was guffawing indiscriminately (even at the Rock) or missing key details while Lawler had to fill in. This was another fun and to-the-point segment.
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    Michaels hits Billy Gunn with the nightstick, knocking him out and leading to a ref stoppage as Shamrock anklelocks him. The Corporation now controls everything except the Women's and European titles.
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    Henry and D'Lo are now hanging out with PMS, for some reason. Henry isn't out here to wrestle even though he's scheduled, because wrestling doesn't matter. Cole doesn't know how to respond to anything anyone says besides, "Aw, MAN!"
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    Man, I was stunned at how bad I thought this was. There's Cole's stupid laugh, and almost the entire parody is just stuff about asses and sphincters. Jason Sensation referring to "HBGay" isn't something that's going to get replayed a lot now, either. I'm sure Vince was giggling up a storm backstage, though. DX or Russo or whoever put this together are so creatively bankrupt that X-Pac has to repeat his line about sphincters putting him in the zone, verbatim, for no particular reason. Shawn is mercifully out to save this segment, which isn't something I say very often. I don't generally care for Michaels' above-it-all act but it's never been more appropriate than it is here.
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    This is infuriating, because IT WAS A PLAN ALL ALONG and phony apologies have been so played out in 1998, and most of the crowd (not all, but most) just isn't buying Bischoff's sincerity. We've all felt that the Bischoff/Flair feud needed to be kicked into another gear after a few weeks of repetitive interview segments but boy was this not the way to go about it.
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    The NWO Black & White is pretty much nonexistent now, as Bret and Giant aren't even bothering to wear the colors (not that Bret ever did). DDP takes a devastating choke slam off the WCW sign into some...cardboard, or something. There's a limit to how many devastating injury angles you can book on one program, even a 3-hour one.
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    Jericho recaps how that Baby Huey-lookalike Konnan assassinated his TV title reign from a grassy knoll--"he put the brass knucks on his stubby little fingers...", then beats the impostor up for good measure to show what he'll do to Konnan at Starrcade. Maybe one of the last really good WCW Jericho segments
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    Any chance of having people believe in the heart attack was killed with the rather hokey transition to Bigelow, Hall, and Nash, with Schiavone going right back into Wrestling Announcer Voice when Bigelow attacks Hall. I still can't decide if this is as bad, not as bad, or worse than the Hawk TitanTron angle, but it's definitely comparable.
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    Good promo from Kanyon. The Raven character is about to take a left turn, it looks like.
  11. PeteF3
    When specifically was this? Meltzer makes no attempt in his recap of the Pillman-Sullivan match to pass it off as a shoot. He even includes the amusing story that the entire locker room was worked with the exception of Disco Inferno, the only guy to declare that they were working the boys. None of this speculation means anything without some hard examples. As in cited quotes from the newsletter itself. I'm not asking you to cut and paste entire newsletters but if this is that prevalent it shouldn't be too difficult to find a specific example.
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    Good Lord, this is awful. No heat for the match, lots of grab-me-and-you'll-walk-with-me, and a stupid finish that the crowd has no patience for as a backhoe very, VERY ineffectively buries the Undertaker. They have the sense not to show any shots of Undertaker in the grave after a bit after it's apparent that there's no way they're actually going to be able to bury him. This might have a new record for most ridiculous announcer exaggerations: a "six foot" grave that goes up to Austin's waist, and repeated references to the "hundreds of pounds of dirt" that barely cover Undertaker's bottom half.
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    Sue me, I thought this was the most enjoyable WWF segment in weeks. The pre-match stuff about Rock forfeiting the title that doesn't go anywhere is a little backward since Rock is a heel, but it served a larger purpose in setting up the I Quit Match at the Rumble, and in that sense with all the emphasis on Mankind not being able to say "I quit," it was very well-done and shows that someone is still thinking long-term amidst all the Russoficiation of the product. I got into the action down the stretch too, and so did the crowd. The finish is a screwjob but an effective and sensible one, since so much emphasis was placed before the match on having to say "I quit" to win the title. This definitely would have been more effective with Ross or another announcer who knew how to get this aspect over, as opposed to Cole who can't talk about anything other than Mankind's lifelong dream. Even then, bits like Finkle about to announce the new champion only to have the mic snatched out of his hand by Vince is one of those little touches that separate the WWF from what WCW is doing. Compare and contrast this with how ham-fisted the Hogan-Flair first-blood match was, or really any other attempt at doing a complicated screw finish in the late '90s. You could argue that this should have all been on Raw, rather than a pay-per-view, but in my mind this kicked the Mankind-Rock feud into another gear.
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    Fun finishing stretch, as this felt like two guys frantically desperate to put each other away rather than two guys listlessly going through big moves, like how I've criticized the big Hayabusa matches on this set.
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    Sort of a lesser version of the Honaga vs. Liger series--Hayabusa's the big flashy star and Oya is barely an athlete, but he's tricky and crafty and knows enough to keep Hayabusa off balance and to stay in the match. I agree with Chad that they kept this from being overindulgent. I thought we were headed that way after Oya kicked out of the Firebird Splash, but they went to a flash pin--and a very cool one--right after that. I've been far more down on 1998 FMW in general and Hayabusa specifically than anyone else (I can't believe, at this point, that I put him in my GWE list) but this was fun.
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    I don't agree with the match going less than a minute, but I definitely agree that it was way overthought and overbooked. Sting starts out hot, give Hogan a few spots where it looks like he's going to steal a win, Bret leads the WCW locker room in fending off the NWO, Sting wins. Maybe have Bret do a faceoff with Sting afterward. No one really cares that Andre and Hogan had a pretty shitty match at WM3, because they executed what they set out to do successfully and the match was laid out effectively. Sting and Hogan was laid out absolutely horribly and the execution just as bad.
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    They seem to be teasing a split between Lawler and Stacy, as Stacy has now inadvertently cost Lawler two matches. I'm not optimistic about that one if that's what it comes to.
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    I...don't get this at all.
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    Bill Alfonso says that if RVD & Sabu don't come back from Japan with the tag titles, he'll split the team up. RVD muses on this in pretty amusing fashion, as he wonders what kind of family would take in a freak like Sabu. We get teased with a staggeringly unnecessary "serious" repackaging of Supernova. The Dudleys cut a promo on their tag title match as Buh Buh promises to win clean without Sign Guy, Gertner, or Big Dick. This goes on for about 47 minutes as Buh Buh could stand to take lessons in brevity from Shane Douglas. Danny Doring makes his Yearbook debut and he introduces us to Roadkill, who they seem to be paying lip service to getting over as a twisted heel, at least for now. Justin Credible yells at Tommy Dreamer and then abuses Chastity in a rather uncomfortable and desperate scene.
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    So, I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about Joey Styles, EVOLVE, Gabe Sapolsky, political correctness, where this country is headed in the wake of the '16 election and-- ... Anyway, this pretty much illustrates how creatively bankrupt ECW is at this point. They literally just re-do the previous week's angle, wholesale. Taz agrees to team with Shane for some stupid reason. Sabu pins Shane. The Dudleys pin Sabu. Taz hits Sabu with a Tazmissionplex and hospitalizes him. Every last bit, something we saw a week ago. Oh, but this time, the Dudleys beat up a Buffalo radio host.
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    Cole's voice is shot, forcing Lawler to carry this on commentary and reducing him to the empty corporate talking-point machine he is today ("Mankind, the most unpredictable superstar in the World Wrestling Federation..."). This match isn't really as heated as you might expect for something so star-studded, though it's not terrible or anything. Mankind gets handcuffed to the rope and beaten down by Rock, Shamrock, and Boss Man, and Austin gets crucified, which sparked a fairly big online controversy at the time. Yeah, this blows, and it's mind-numbing that Undertaker gets a free pass for so much bullshit through the years. Would something have been wrong with just shoving Austin in a body bag? I can't wait for this feud to be over.
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    I can reluctantly allow the repeat of the soon-to-be-tired "take the chair from a supposed partner, then turn on them" spot on the basis that it was a deliberate callback to Shawn turning on X-Pac. Otherwise, yawn. They've teased way too many DX splits that weren't for this to have much meaning, even though it pops the crowd good. Uh...and didn't Shawn say this match was supposed to be anything-goes and that the Outlaws would be allowed to get involved? Why the DQ?
  23. PeteF3
    "IT'S BETTER THAN SEX!!" I enjoyed D'Lo's attempts to justify why he's still the European champion.
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    I think this is a pretty obvious swerve that we're in for--nobody actually announces anything in the Attitude Era. If the NAO were going to turn, they'd have done it in a match. There are some good personal below-the-belt shots here between HBK and HHH but neither one actually wants to sell for the other (or just about anybody else) in a mic-spot, so it all ends up falling kinda flat.
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    Come January, this will make two consecutive Dome shows where WCW will make every effort to kill the town. I'd just like to mention for about the 37th time that when the WWF baits-and-switches us, 99% of the time, they manage to make us forget about what we originally thought we were going to see. This is just a pathetic mess.
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