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  1. PeteF3
    This reads too much like that entire season of Dallas being a dream--"sorry folks, everything you watched for the past 3 years has been a lie!" it takes It Was a Plan All Along, which was being played to death in late '98 already--to a new level. Of course I realize the implication here is that Austin probably shouldn't have turned, period.
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    Sigh. Another match we need to see in full. What's seen looks really really good, though not highest-end Liger-Otani.
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    Ah, I've been waiting for it...the infamous "Bret Clark" intro by Buffer. Some conspiracy theorists have posited that this was deliberate sabotage on the part of Hogan or somebody. Bret shows that he can still bring the goods when he's pushed, and DDP is just the guy to do that. He takes some great bumps and unleashes some big offense like a killer superplex. Page wins the U.S. title, which surprises me.
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    Not much reaction for Warrior swearing. Goodbye and don't come back.
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    WCW is so creatively bankrupt--they don't seem to be capable of booking any angle besides the phony-apology swerve angle. I mean, we just saw it in back-to-back Yearbook segments!
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    Pretty easy to see where this is going, as Bischoff makes sure to emphasize that the fans on TV will see Flair wrestle.
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    All-action but kind of sloppy and not on the level these two could provide in a perfect world--even accounting for Austin's physical state. The finish would have come across better if it wasn't a re-do of the Dungeon Match. Still, JR did point out that the match could end if one person was incapacitated and Shamrock was certainly that, so it doesn't feel excessively cheap.
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    "You've taken this incompetent, somewhat underachieving kid and turned him into a MONSTER!" Good way to put some sympathy on Shane before his whiny monologue. I still don't get what this plan was all about--Shane re-hires Austin just to turn on him? Maybe we'll get an explanation that this re-hire and family drama was legitimate and then Vince and Shane reconciled.
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    Huge, huge heat for this--even by Vince's now-lofty standards. Vince is about to close out his monologue with a word of warning for Austin to take stock in something, but is interrupted by Steve on the TitanTron, who suggests Vince buy stock in Pamper's Diapers instead.
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    I don't get how Austin suddenly got stale in 8 months of being back on TV. And on top of trying to execute the turn in Texas, he turned at a time when there were no top babyfaces to oppose him. I daresay Kane and Undertaker as top challengers did almost as much damage to the WWF's bottom line, though in the end turning Austin was sort of like trying to turn Bruno in 1980. If you couldn't trust Bruno, what babyface *could* you trust?
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    WADA did such a bang-up job with the Russian track teams, they're definitely efficient and trustworthy to handle this fairly.
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    Just for the record, I looked in the OED and it doesn't have any listing of "abortion" in that specific context. It's been used since the mid-1500s to describe the deaths of pre-born children.
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    This is actually it for Cleveland. WCW made the decision to yank any remaining segments and just chalk it up in interviews as Cactus Jack faking the whole thing to "play mind games" (no wrestling storyline can ever not be explained away as mind games).
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    Just in the mag. This was one of many changes and magazine-only stories that Vince Russo was writing to amuse himself due to his disillusionment with the on-air product.
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    I think it's more his personality than anything. What set this thing off initially was someone rather innocently asking Dave if he still "marked out" on occasion. Dave's only response was a rather assholic reminder that "mark" is a stupid term used by people who looked down on fans. There's an *actual* parallel there between "mark" now being appropriated by wrestling fans and the other word being appropriated by the black community, but damned if I'm the one to talk at length about it and damned if this is the place.
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    If nothing else, Dave *cannot* be having conversations about issues this heavy in the world of Twitter. Any semblance of nuance goes out the window in this environment.
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    Hercules definitely did the Jobbers Tour. What's forgotten now is that the team with Roma started *before* they both turned heel. Then there's this result from the 6/17/90 Challenge: The Honkytonk Man & Greg Valentine (w/ Jimmy Hart) defeated Hillbilly Jim & Randy Fox at the 3-minute mark when Valentine pinned Fox following a double back suplex; during the bout, Rhythm & Blues and Jimmy Hart cut an insert promo on the Bushwhackers Jim's a surprising name to be doing that duty--he did plenty of jobs later in his WWF career but was still kind of a made man in the company. Some more stuff on the Tito/Virgil combination: - The Virgil/DiBiase thing continued into 1994 until Virgil was finally done with the company. His last program was a feud with Nikolai Volkoff, as he ran in to save the 1-2-3 Kid from a post-match attack by Volkoff and DiBiase and was out to try to "free" Nikolai from DiBiase's grasp. - I was not in Huntington that night, but I was at the Challenge taping in Columbus the night before. It had these feature bouts, many of which were repeated the next night: - Rick & Scott Steiner winning the WWF tag titles from Money Inc. (this was the opener--quite an improvement over King/Doll over Matador/Virgil) - Randy Savage over Doink by reverse decision (Coliseum Video) - Ted DiBiase over Bart Gunn (All-American exclusive) - Lex Luger over Owen Hart (Mania exclusive) - Undertaker over Giant Gonzalez by DQ - Yokozuna over Duggan - Bam Bam Bigelow & the Headshrinkers over Tatanka & the Smoking Gunns (Challenge) - Mr. Hughes over Marty Jannetty (Challenge) - Hogan & Beefcake over Money Inc. with Sgt. Slaughter as the guest referee - A Men on a Mission squash, which I believe was their in-ring debut--they were definitely brand-new ... - And the biggest dream match of them all, a match that only aired on TSN in Canada: Tito Santana DEFEATED Virgil. Both men worked babyface and shook hands afterward. Minds were blown on that night, I can assure you. By this point the WWF was actively sprinkling feature bouts in-between the endless parade of squashes at TV tapings, both for Coliseum Video and just for the live audience, to keep crowds active. In addition they were running more feature bouts than ever before for syndie TV, something that I believe may have been the work of Jim Ross (the 6-man I listed here actually got the "we're out of time!" treatment on TV and was continued the following week). Rex King & Steve Doll were very close to becoming Well Dunn at this point--their match the next night may have been either a tryout or them actively finalizing their gimmick, depending on when they actually signed. Still, losing to Well Dunn wasn't much an improvement, as they were probably sub-Bolsheviks on the all-time heel tag team totem pole.
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    Keith's version of history is slowly starting to fix itself, I think, with his recent penchant for recapping old Observers on his site. He's still useful for little tidbits now and again, like these two recent ones: - The first Clash show drew 521 responses for the thumbs-up/thumbs-down poll, and Keith expressed amazement that Dave's subscriber count would be so low, as if 100% of his readership not only watched the show but called or mailed in an opinion. - Dr. James Andrews was given the nickname "Tape it up and play through it," when any sports fan knows that name is synonymous with "season-ending surgery."
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    KOTR '96 had a strong main event and a memorable UT-Mankind match--not as memorable as future matches perhaps, but something that stood out as different for the time with a holy-shit finish. It was a perfectly acceptable show at worst, and Mero-Austin stood out as high-quality in that context. The blame for any "disappointment" in character isn't entirely off of Mero, who had been so openly adamant about dropping the Badd gimmick and preferring to wrestle under his real name.
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    Right after I piss and moan about both of the Big Two not treating matches like matches, we get this--a satisfying World title match with a good layout, hard work, and a clean finish. DDP does some work over Goldberg's head, which nicely sets up both spots where Goldberg hurts himself attempting the spear and then not being able to execute the Jackhammer at first. Yes, this is probably Goldberg's best match--the Sting match was on its way to getting there before the dumb finish, while this was satisfying all the way through.
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    Yeah, both promotions but especially WCW are starting to fail at the most basic level of selling pro wrestling: What would happen if Wrestler X faced Wrestler Y and who would win? That shit's just completely academic at this point as the thought of booking a big match without a shit-ton of ref bumps and run-ins and angles and swerves is almost completely out the window. This was bad, but fireball disaster aside, I was honestly expecting worse. That could be because I took the opportunity to watch some MNF in the background even though I don't give a shit about the Eagles or the Bears. No one in the crowd gives a fuck about Horace's swerve, that's for sure.
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    Billy Silverman takes the most ill-positioned ref bump in the history of wrestling, sprawled out in the dead middle of the ring and constantly getting away of almost every spot the two guys try. Doing that superplex across his legs was just batshit crazy. Bret wins and now has new music which through some miracle is actually worse than his old theme. I had no recollection of this happening or Sting's disappearance at all, which shows just how effective WCW was at putting this angle over.
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    Having this ultra-serious video package end with TBS Guy saying, "At Snicker's Halloween Havoc..." kind of undermines their point. As does Nash *so* not treating this like a battle between two former friends. I have no idea what the ending was supposed to be about. The announcers gamely attempt to sell Nash barely able to get Hall up for the Jackknife without keeling over as a great feat of strength.
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    Rick PINS THE GIANT down 2-on-1 in a handicap match so Giant is officially counting the days until he's gone, I guess. Rick is now the WCW Tag Team Champions, by himself. This whole set-up is goofy and nonsensical, but damned if the crowd isn't into it. This is the most over Rick has been since he was facing off against the Varsity Club. Both Steiners were fucked by injuries at this point so I get overbooking this and loading it up with gaga, and I admit I found it fun to see Scott going up for and taking all of Rick's trademark offense. And I say that as someone with no interest in this feud or seeing these two wrestle each other. Of course there's some Oh, WCW moments like the bell ringing when Bagwell interferes, and it's kind of hilarious that Bagwell, while manipulating the referee, still has the integrity to honor Rick's kickouts. This all definitely falls under the label of "entertaining crap."
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    Decent studio action with a distraction-rollup finish. The angle afterward is cool, with Baxter taking advantage of Randy Hales guaranteeing he'd put Stacy in a Dumpster all throughout the show, by going out to hide in the Dumpster himself to make the save. Everyone heads out to the parking lot for a brawl, and we get an accidental punch from Lawler delivered to Dundee, triggering a separate confrontation. Brandon Baxter promises to confront Randy Hales at the house show tonight.
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