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  1. PeteF3
    Yeah, this was something I could have viewed in full. That said I don't think the ending worked at all, as Samurai's attempt at a Hulk-Up just looked goofy, and it seemed to lose the crowd as well who either didn't buy it or didn't get it what they were going for.
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    Fun action here and I dig the contrasts in styles and how each wrestler has to change their approach depending on whom they're in the ring with. This was probably all the best stuff in the match. Everyone looked pretty good but no one looked great.
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    A match for historical purposes to be sure, as Kobashi debuts the Burning Hammer, and boy does that closing bump not age well. I will give AJPW and NOAH credit for protecting the move and making sure it was only unleashed (at least after this) in major situations and sold accordingly. Is this the first time *on tape* that we've seen Kobashi pin Misawa? It happened before this in a CC but it went untelevised and unrecorded as far as we know.
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    Oh, good, I thought I'd had a stroke or something wondering how I missed a fall. This was really good and maybe that missing fall could qualify for status in the "Holy Grail" thread among a million other lucha matches, since there didn't seem to be anything perfunctory about this--the two falls we got were both really long with a lot of near-falls, which isn't always the case in lucha. A really good classic lucha title match between two guys I don't really know.
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    Now I kind of want Bischoff to say something else about Arn's family, just to see what the reaction would be. I don't think it goes anywhere, though.
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    Just a match. Nothing bad, but absolutely nothing you haven't already seen. Kyoko does throw some wicked lariats, if nothing else.
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    Dave reported Catherine White as being a Gagne and then a few weeks later corrected himself and said she was somebody else (but he didn't have a name or identity). So the mystery remains unsolved unless the correction was itself wrong.
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    Pretty sure the latter part was exactly it. The all-time worst example of this kind of reaction is the infamous Kidman-Malenko match at Souled Out '00, where Dean forgets the rules and bails out of the ring, costing himself the match. Kidman's visible reaction is one of annoyance and frustration--hello, you won and the announcers are trying to put over how you caught a huge fucking break. ACT like it.
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    I admit that lucha news often causes my eyes to glaze over--not just listening to it here, but reading it in Observers myself, just because seemingly every week the story was "These 37 guys all jumped from CMLL to AAA," then another 20 guys are thinking of jumping back but might not, and then it repeats the opposite direction the next week.
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    Yeah, this feels more like a '99 Raw segment than '98. The talk about how Vince "won't feel a thing" is some more foreshadowing, but a few bits of cleverness isn't enough to make up for just how weird and "off" this whole show feels.
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    Boy was that underwhelming. Crowd doesn't care about this anymore and we get a casket match with no winner because wins and losses don't matter. Except to Vince, of course--since Kane didn't win, Vince loses.
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    We hear Austin's voice over the phone...yeah, exposition about the camera aside, we're full into Russo's "making movies and telling stories" approach. These two have good chemistry, of course, but it comes off way too much like a torture-porn horror movie with Austin as the antagonist. This just gets weirder and weirder and creepier and creepier when Vince is forced to squeal like a pig and Austin threatens to recreate the hobbling scene from Misery. Yeah, a certain somebody is drawing on his video-store past. Eventually some actual goddamn DEVELOPMENT happens as Austin agrees to let Vince go if Kane beats the Undertaker tonight.
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    Godfather comes out to collect his payment from a former ho, because as we all know, hos pay pimps for life. Your babyface, ladies and gentlemen! Singh is incensed as he wanted an amateur for this deep-throat stunt, not a professional. "If I were Tiger Ali Singh, I'd hop back in my taxi and get outta here!" Your babyface announcer, ladies and gentlemen!
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    The Stooges all simultaneously decide to go get coffee together, leaving Vince alone--until Mankind shows up as security, along with Sheriff Socko (complete with badge). Socko is already the second most-over babyface on the roster behind Stone Cold. Mankind's attempts to bond with Vince over a game of Twister don't go well.
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    Neat segue from the Chyna arrest. Austin points out that his sidearm is a "little toy"--foreshadowing! This is the friendliest we've ever seen Austin. Vince freaks out at this.
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    This is storyline is still fun mid-card fodder. For now.
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    I seem to recall Motley Crue having a vaguely successful comeback on the heels of the Tommy Lee-Pamela Anderson marriage, but even that was like 5 years before this. While the other 3 members are happy to be on the bus, HHH is somewhere pondering if partnering with Lemmy would be more fruitful for him.
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    Vince has the Boss Man get his family out of the luxury boxes and to the airport, then asks for the camera to stay with him to document everything. Magic omnipresent backstage cameras are still a year or more away, IIRC.
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    I don't mind the roster being here, since Vince's tournament announcement pertained to a healthy chunk of them. Austin 3:16 is now a collector's item: the new expression to sweep the globe is McMahon 3:16--I've Got the Brass to Fire Your Ass! We cut to commercial on a cliffhanger as Austin is suddenly seen live outside the arena, in the hunting gear he talked about the previous night. This is the start to one truly bizarre Raw, one of the most Russoriffic to this point, but even with this goofy set-up, shit's still building logically on things that happened before and it's clear that there's some semblance of long-term planning in the main events.
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    They brought Buffer out for this. Seriously. Hogan threatens Buffer to get his "Beverly Hills crew cut out of my world." Hogan reveals that Horace is his nephew and I'm completely lost as to what the point of this is. The fans, who have been feisty and impatient all night, are not having any of this. Hogan blithers some more and man, has this guy's coolness factor evaporated over the past year or what. I've talked of ECW having fallen behind the times--Hogan is completely off in his own world as much as the Warrior is. Warrior appears and fails to rescue this segment or win over the crowd. Warrior gets spraypainted and legdropped--nice throwback to the days of '96, and yeah, why didn't they just do this and skip the Horace crap?
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    Sayles Belton turns the crowd around with Puckett and Randle, then clinches it by unveiling Ric Flair back in his original hometown. Knowing what we know about Kirby now I shudder to think what kind of trouble he and Ric got into on the town on this night. The police officer is pretty funny here, too: "You're from around here, and you know what our jails are like!"
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    This was good and solid and Kidman continues to surprise me by how fundamentally sound he is...but if you're one to place emphasis on crowd reactions, and I am one of those people, then it's hard to call this match anything but a failure.
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    Good overall segment, minus the commentary doing anything except talk about the match. If this were the WWF, the incessant talk about how this "could" be the end of Goldberg's streak and that a loss is inevitable would be taken as a sign that the company is ready to end the megapush--in WCW, it may just be the announcers winging it. The action in the match is good and Jericho gets in a good run of offense, and even gets a win when Goldberg runs in and spears him. Good post-match pull-apart too--from reading recaps I think the build to this match was better than the Yearbook gives it credit for. Of course, there are only so many segments from any given 3-hour Nitro that you can include.
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    Oh, that's what the UNICEF reference was about--Goldberg was doing something with them. Jericho takes this opportunity to issue another challenge--"I will knock the hair right off your head, jerky!" He then gets offended that DDP wants to challenge for Goldberg's title and not Jericho's Unified World TV title. DDP responds with words for "Jerkicho." I'm on board with this as a match, no question.
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    Whisper is here, but no Skye yet. Bret Hart has issued a challenge for Sting--wow, what a creative followup to the challenges issued toward each other last week and the week before that. And now, a look at UNICEF (??!).
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