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I think what I liked about Solie so much is that his dry delivery allowed the matches to stand or fail on their own. He didn't hype stuff that didn't deserve it and didn;t put the words in your mouth when you saw something great. It was simply understood. In a clown's business, Solie gave it some believability. I concur that Ventura was ace in the booth. He did color but did it better than anyone. He was a heel and remained a heel but was able to point out the strengths of even those he despised. I love. Jesse. Also, revisiting old WCW, I agree with Tim that Ross was the man. God, what happened?

Sadly, and this is pointed out in the Honky Tonk Man shoot, Jarrett's entire gimmick from '94-'96 was based on the Honky Tonk Man. When Honky smashed guitars over your head, it was new. When Honky sang a stupid song, at least it was him. Jarrett, on the other hand, was really embarassing at this point in time.

It also depends on what you are going by... if you are talking about impact, yes, choose Piper. For in-ring work, Jericho would be killing this vote.

You gotta remember this time period also covers the British Bulldogs era.

The only problem though is that he was going to be giving jobs back to the Undertaker. That isn't good for business. He didn't refuse to job to Eddy or Angle. It was the Undertaker. I side with Lesnar on that one.

Well, I had no idea. I have never seen the MOTY then. For all of tis time, I thought people were idiots for thinking that first match was a MOTY contender.

That is why I am not concerned with Percy Pringle. I know he was handcuffed byu the Paul Bearer thing but the voice he uses is the worst, absolute worst sound in wrestling... EVER. Worse than a Lita interview.

I thought the Jannetty title win was he match voted on as MOTY... or was that the Observer MOTY?

I forgot about him to be honest... but Paul Bearer's voice... man, that voice. I would rather squeeze a ketchup bottle in my ears and wash it with gasoline than to have to listen to Bearer.

For every point I gave Jericho, I could give Piper so it came down to one thing... their best match in WWF. Jericho gets the nod. Jericho-Rock is greater than Bret-Piper.

Brock Lesnar This was a no-brainer to me. Lesnar had way more good-great matches. He was able to win over the crowd convincingly after being labelled a Goldberg rip-off early on. He didn't talk to his hands.

Man, I am all hyped up about TAKA in '97 right now but there is no way he had the impact or as many great matches as Davey If this matchup were Tajiri v. Taka, the decision would be tougher.

Loss and I were discussing this last night. Piper and Jericho have played very similar roles as the constant, smart-a$$ heel and face. If this were on ring work, Jericho would win hands down. For impact, I would go Piper.... I have to think about this some more.

This is really hard esp. since I have the blindfold match fresh in my mind. Ah, hell, who am I kidding, Martel would work circles around Either member of Demolition Martel

I'm going on match quality and charisma here... Tajiri

Mick Foley This was too easy.

If you watch the Honky Tokn Man shoot interview, you get a different perspective on Jeff Jarrett. It took a storage room full of plunder in order to get Jarrett over and I think he is horribly overrated. Then, we have JBL. I am going to go out on a limb here and vote for ... JBL ...simply because JBL-Eddie was NOT a one-man carry job and entertained me more than 50 Jarrett matches combined.

I have a feeling this will be a clean sweep Bret Hart,... but I think Bam Bam has the better tattoos.

I absolutely agree that Percy Pringle was better in World Class.

Anyway, Some Guy was entertaining the idea of making me a Kane-Undertaker comp with all of those classic promos and matches but he was going to charge me double for having to sit through all of those Paul Bearer interviews. This got me thinking... I personally think Paul Bearer is the worst manager of all-time. I am not talking about the mindless eye candy tha tcan pass themselves off as managers (Woman, Baby Doll, Elizabeth, etc.) but the men who rolled in the corner. Some managers have terrible gimmicks (Slick), some are perfect at what they do (Heenan, Cornette), some are just there (Lou Albano) but who was the worst?

I stand corrected.

Dude, I don;t know how much suckier it gets than Sting v. Vampirro. I watched that on PPV that has the great Nash-Jarrett classic w/ legendary Goldberg heel turn, and it may just be the worst match of all-time. It wasn't just a case of people missing their spots. They used a damn stuntman for chrissakes. To be fair, I never saw the graveyard match. That may be even suckier than suck.

I might break down and buy this or at least try and grab it off ebay. I am really interested in seeing the Benjamin-Jericho match and the BEnoit-Edge match. I think most smarks wuld use those as the determining factor anyway. But then we have the Batista-HHH stuff. I want to hear the crowd reaction and to see if H exposed Batista again or if they kept it to brawling. The Hogan tag doesn;t mean much to me but might fun for a look.

Instead of looking through the individual posts, here is the complete card courtesy of Meltz: