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  1. tim
    Not bad, nothing approaching good from what we see. Diesel wasting time before the pins just looks stupid.
  2. tim
    Good match that didn't really click with me. The case for a lot of Joshi matches of this and the 99 Yearbooks. Long-term I want to finish 97 and 98 and then work my way back up starting from 1990 -- if this ever gets accomplished, I wonder how I'll feel about seeing the whole of the 90s Joshi 'boom' in context. But this just wasn't my style, and though I can recognize it was a perfectly good match without too much excess, I didn't really enjoy it all that much.
  3. tim
    Great match. It's all action and they, especially Kobashi, bring the high end offense. Kobashi gets a long run in control where he lands some big shots on Misawa and seems to be getting closer and closer to victory, but Misawa makes a comeback, lands some bombs and puts him away. I liked the ending -- top rope neck breaker drop, an out of left field big move.
  4. tim
    Certainly a great match by any reasonable standard, but I feel like it had a relatively weak middle portion between the great opening stuff and great closing stuff when the powerbomb teases started getting paid off. Taue getting the best of Kawada at the beginning was great stuff, and the increase in intensity at the end ended the match on a high note, although the time limit draw wasn't exactly suspenseful.
  5. tim
    Woman and Liz throwing away Savage's alimony money as Flair struts down the ramp is front of them is a true work of art. Savage is so furious he has to be restrained on the ramp and Woman walks up and slaps him! Great stuff. This is building to what should be a super heated match between the two, it's too bad WCW has ran the match up so many times this year, hard to get excited for it again even though the feud is still so good. The match was a ton of fun with Giant being invulnerable so Flair's offense consisting entire of heel tricks. Giant takes two pretty eye-popping bumps as well. Screwy finish but at least the angle it leads to features some sweet chokeslams. Very good segment and this was a damn good episode of Nitro.
  6. tim
    I loved this. Using the *way* a match is worked for further a storyline just doesn't seem like something you see very often, and it was done really well here. Luger is a riot, switching from heel to face depending on if Sting is looking, and the way he snaps into heel mode throughout the match. Ending is pretty cool with a fast rope running sequence and Sting and Luger contrast strongly post-match. This is my favorite storyline of the year so far.
  7. tim
    Decent match. Reading the WON from this era, apparently Savage was meant to have a falls count anywhere match with Benoit at Uncensored. Wonder how that would have turned out.
  8. tim
    Really good TV segment. Good match with Leif busting out some big moves; great sit-out spinebuster, a sambo suplex and a botched fall away powerbomb thing that I guess was intended drop Michaels on the top rope. Bret does sound like an ass on commentary but I liked it for adding some heat to the Wrestlemania match. These last couple weeks they've really built it up to feel like a big deal.
  9. tim
    Horrible action, and from what we see it's clear the stipulation likely made no sense throughout the whole match.
  10. tim
    This match was a beauty. Man this ruled. I don't think the dead crowd hurt this one at all; I feel like there are two match types where a dead crowd really doesn't take away much of anything: very technical, mat-based matches and super stiff, snug fights like this; both styles are all about paying attention to the little things, each individual strike and how each hold is worked and struggled against. And every strike and hold in this match was awesome. Regal was the real star, with his fantastic palm strikes, great selling and how he worked to make every hold he grabbed as punishing as possible. Ending was very, very lame.
  11. tim
    Opening stuff is pretty unexceptional, but perfectly fine, and then they really turn it on when they start exchanging big moves. Benoit hits a really cool backbreaker from the back suplex position and follows it up with rolling Germans. Otani's selling is great from there on as Benoit gets some big offense in for the rest of the match with Otani trying to eek out some big moves here and there. After a run of big offense Otani finally finds himself in position to hit a big dropkick to the back of the head and finishes it with a beautiful springboard DDT. That ending looked like a real killer move, and I liked how Otani had to take some time to collect himself before being able to make the pin, but Benoit still being down for the count. Got that DDT over as a total KO move, which it looked like.
  12. tim
    Okay, I loved that they went out into the crowd to do a ROLLING CRADLE spot. Other than that, this match had some good stuff in it, but was too long and never really came together as a whole for me.
  13. tim
    Vince McMahon ends up becoming everything he parodies Turner as here.
  14. tim
    The build to Bret/Shawn has gotten good with these video package, and it's Bret carrying them.
  15. tim
    I thought this was a damn good match. This really feels like a huge match during the entrances. Shawn and Undertaker definitely get the biggest pops. Undertaker and Diesel brawl to the back right away, to a big crowd reaction, leaving Bret and Shawn in the ring. They work a solid technical match with Bret settling in in control. It's not all that exciting but in a way, the entire match in Shawn Michaels as a face in peril with the Undertaker occasionally functioning as Bret's partner, so to that extent Bret on top was perfectly effective. The couple times Shawn gets a comeback tease the crowd reaction big. Undertaker is in there with Shawn a little bit for one section, then later it's during an Undertaker/Shawn section that Shawn gets his real comeback and man, it's a totally awesome comeback. It's drawn out a little bit and culminates with Shawn hitting two huge flying forearms, Undertaker bouncing off the ropes for both to walk into the next move, followed by a big dropkick and he follows it up with some dives. Diesel comes back out with a chair, hits Bret and Undertaker for the DQ, then hits Shawn when he protests. The Bret/Shawn stuff I wouldn't consider much as a singles match, but it kind of wasn't a singles match and functioned well in the broader scheme of things with the Undertaker's role as Bret's partner not being at all insignificant to the match, though he's in there maybe 5% of the time. Very fun stuff. I've been reading to WONs of 1996 recently and apparently this was the first sold-out MSG in many, many years.
  16. tim
    This is one of those matches that keeps getting better and better as it goes on; around the middle I wasn't willing to call it a great match, by the end I was. It's very much in the classic 90s NJPW juniors mold and does that style very, very well, with better than average selling and considerably better than average matwork. The crowd gets super into this match, more and more into it as it goes along, and the action gets more and more intense as it goes along. Otani comes off the top rope with a big dropkick to the back of the head, hits the dragon suplex flush -- maybe he has it won, but he has to pick Liger back up for another one, but lands it close to the ropes and Liger gets a rope break. Back up Liger is able to score the KO shotei for the win. Gotta love a match that constantly gets better and better as it goes along, and ends at its peak.
  17. tim
    Wikipedia says Vince's idea for the name was Mason the Mutilator but Foley wanted Mankind, so I guess this is a halfway point right now. Good promo and good reaction from Lance and Dave.
  18. tim
    The third fall here was a pretty awesome, violent fight until the interference. Agreed that the camera angle helped the atmosphere of this match a lot, especially the dives which go right toward the camera. But then the interference came and it was just long and totally uninteresting. At least the interference in their first match added to the chaotic ridiculousness of the thing. Post-interference, if you can just pretend it never happened, the match goes back to being good with Ultraman surviving a couple huge moves and the crowd rallying behind him. They do the double low blow spot twice, for some reason, with the second one resulting in victory for Psicosis -- delayed DQ? If the interference never happened and they just kept on with the third fall, and maybe the ending made more sense, this would have been my pick for best AAA match including the ECW ones on the set.
  19. tim
    I still go with the first ECW match on the set as their best. This might have topped it until the very tiresome and long interference stuff. Up until then this felt like much more of a real competitive match than their other matches so far. You still had a lot of no selling, one guy getting up from a big move or a series of big moves and them just working evenly after it, or both of them just getting up after a big move to hit their own big move, but it still had more of a sense of progression as a match. And the moves, spots and dives were still well-executed. Interferences really tarnished the third fall.
  20. tim
    March is on fire right now. First real MPro match in a year that's pretty big for them. This match was awesome, great action that built up to an especially hot ending. There's two particularly big dive sections, one in the middle of the match and the other setting up the ending. There's a really great Shiryu/Delfin exchange toward the end where Shiryu keeps countering Delfin's big moves. The ending is a crazy run of believable nearfalls and big moves. Huge dive train from the faces leads to Tiger Mask getting the pin with the Tiger suplex, which had nicely been teased earlier in the match. Everyone looked good in this match and it ended on a real high note.
  21. tim
    Super fun all action match, elimination style. The first 'fall' is just non stop action, acrobatic rope running exchanges and a bunch of great dives. Casas is eliminated first and I really like his elimination; he had just taken a suplerplex from Santo and went to work some brief exchanges with I believe Lizmark and then El Dandy, he tried to keep up with them but they got the best of him at every turn as he was a little wobbly, leading to El Dandy putting him away. After that point the match moves more into trading big moves as the eliminations come pretty quickly. Felino gets himself DQed with a foule to Santo, but Wagner capitalizes on it immediately, eliminating Santo with a powerbomb. A couple more nice dives toward the end, and finally Atlantis wins it with a great looking small package counter to an apron suplex. This match flew by.
  22. tim
    Steiners show up unannounced riding motorcycles to the ring and they look pretty badass doing it. Then the Road Warriors come down and it really feels like a big match. First couple minutes are totally awesome, Steiners are hitting great suplexes and Rick's two hard clotheslines followed by the big German was an awesome spot. It starts to drag a little later into the match as the Road Warriors just don't have anything to keep up with the Steiners. But there's a chaotic free for all at the end that brings the match back around for the ending. Overall a good match.
  23. tim
    No tough Mexican wrestlers! I thought the build for this match has been lame so far but this was a really effective package. Bret's assessment of his and Shawn's respective styles, the toughness line notwithstanding, is cool in the context of the 'sports' build-up.
  24. tim
    This was a good segment all around. Goldust's mannerisms, Roddy's ridiculous promo, Vince's "sexual proclivity" line and King was good on commentary. Piper is a good foil for Goldust. Effective segment to hype the match.
  25. tim
    Well I guess I'm the high vote here. I thought this was damn great; it's my second favorite match of the year, and decidedly so. It's definitely an ECW match with weapons, crazy bumps and lots of time spent outside, but it's every bit of a competitive wrestling match with a real storyline and clearly worked roles. Cactus is great working on top, all of his stuff looks about as good as it ever had. Great double arm DDT, great piledriver, great elbow to the outside. Mikey is great as the underdog and whenever he finds an opening for some offense he makes the most of it. I love his dives -- not fancy or 'impressive' at all, just a guy who doesn't have many attributes other than his courage and resilience doing anything he can to take it to a much more formidable opponent. Man, Cactus takes two crazy looking bumps against the guardrail. I found every bit of this match compelling. This would be pretty damn high on my list of best ECW matches. Post-match is awesome. Crowd is super-appreciative and the whole thing is really well done. A Philly crowd chanting "New York sucks" is gonna do a lot for me too!
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