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No, Loss, I understand what you are saying , but most good workers, even in bad circumstances, can come up with something worthwhile. Sting always succumbs to the suck surounding him and he should be taken to task for that. The bad that Sting is involved in is usually worse than the nad others are a part of.

Man, I thought this was another idea for the wrestling folders... seeing if the wrestler of our choice could run the gauntlet of being the best guy out of whoever was picked.

Exactly!! Eddie may never be champion again but the possibility exists and they haven't buried him completely. We don;t know if Cena will be champion for a month or a year but we also don;t know who will take it from him. This is why I am also starting to support the SD! brand again. Cruisers getting more time, better wrestling matches as of late, and a little more intrigue. THat is all I ask.

You know for generally being regarded as a decent wrker, Sting sure has been part of some really bad matches. I might have to reconsidermy position on his actual wrestling abilities. The negatives in his career far outweigh the shine. The Vampiro jokes will reinforce that.

Well, I guess this is the biggest problem facing the WWE right now... there is absolutely no suspense. None, zilch, zero. There is no anything-can-happen attitude or even logical booking patterns. Predictable. I think that is the worse thing a wrestling company can be.

Do you mean Christian's rap?

OK, I agree with that. I thought the no-selling was coming off basic offense at a stage when Flair had no business being control.

Wow. Now, you are forcing me to watch a match I remember being completely bored with back in the day. I don't know if my opinion will change but at least it gives me a purpose.

I am bumping this because I hope to God no one missed this the first time around like I did. I was talking to Loss and asked him why he didn't review the Eddy-Malenko match. His reply, "I did!" This review also ties in nicely with the discussion of crowds currently going on in the Brawls thread.

See, looking at Flair and Luger, Luger should no-sell and dominate. At least intially. I am going purely on your match description but I think the size difference was enough back then between the two, that the only way Flair should be able to get any kind of advantage is to cheat or for Luger to somehow mess up his leg so Flair can build toward the figure-four. Until these two things happen, Luger should give Flair nothing.

Oh, I agree 100%. I knew what happened to him but you would think that he would have some pride... ok.. scratch that. This is a 60 year-old man who had his face shoved in Vinnie MAc's crack and just bladed last week on TV.

Just to clarify, this isn't the Uncensored match, is it?

I can fix that... or if Ginnetty has them in perfect VQ, that will change.

I am only guessing here but probably because his feud with Dean Malenko would start to take shape soon after. He would beat Dean at Uncensored the next month when Malenko goes "home". Then, two months later, the famous cruiser battle royale would take place with the peak of Jericho's charisma shining through. When I think of Jericho in '98, I think of the cruiser battle royale and Dean Malenko... not the cruisers he dropped on his way to feuding with Malenko. I am not saying this is right, just giving a possible explanation. Now, that I have the VHS-to-DVD capability, I may have to compile all of the 1998 PPV matches worth mentioning onto a few comps.

I don't disagree with your assessment of this match at all. However, I noticed you covered this match and the Cruiser match. I there a reason you didn't cover Disco-La Parka and the Booker T matches from the same show? I don' remember La Parka-Disco so I would like to revisit it. As for the Booker matches, I remember that being his coming out party and being very impressed with him at the time.

I was really underwhelmed by the PPV match, not as much as the Vader match, but enough to be disappointed that Mick called it his favorite match ever until the HBK match. I'll have to watch this back-to-back with the Beach blast PPV one to see how they compare .

I agree with Some Guy. This was an entertaining match to watch... but for all the wrong reasons. It is like someone said...we haven't given the public enough reasons to think wrestling is fake. Let's give them no doubt. Could you imagine if they tried to put Abby on that thing?

Raven mentions this in his Secrets of the Ring interview. There is the basic match structure of Putting on the shine (Babyface strong in the beginning), heel control, comeback, finishing sequence. If you are presed for time, Raven feels that the first portion is the leas important and should be the portion that is cut first. What were some of the angles that you liked from this time period? This describes almost every Randy Savage match in WCW. All of that work that I praised from WWF is missing in Ted Turner's macho Man.

You know, I was actually looking forward to this match when it first came on. I had head so many things about the first two (which I had not seen at this point) that I thought at least it would be bloody fun. You nailed it right in the head. Boring and absurd. Now, you must do Taker v. Shamrock from Backlash, I believe.

Which Clash was that?