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This is AWESOME. Loved it. That this is one of the top 5 most rated wrestling segments ever is just fine with me. The ambush, Brisco briefly fighting back before getting dominated and then Pat's comeback and the victory were all wonderfully done. Insanely fun segment and honestly damn well worked as a match for what they're doing. Brisco knocking both of the Posse down with punches and shortly after trying to fight back with a fireman's carry were great moments. Most match is awesome too. This ruled.
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Hahahaha, you're not kidding about that video package. Maybe the worst ever.
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With as much as WCW is doing wrong right now, Bret/Goldberg and a real Hogan/Nash match are two things on top that have potential to be strong matches.
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All of this is very dumb.
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This feud produced some damn good traditional tags but this isn't at the established level at all. We just see the end but the work he see isn't great. Raven's DDT on Kidman was cool though.
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JR Smooth is one awful name. This was a simple, well done studio match with a silly ending as someone interferes and we're then told it's a Badstreet rules, nonsactioned match, except that it's sanctioned to be a title match.
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Taz looks great here. Good overall segment with a feeling of excitement.
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This looked a lot better than it ended up being for me. There was some cool stuff here but I don't think they had consistently very good stretched of work for any real period of time, just some cool moments in between decent but not exceptional work. The final section with the last two was very good though. The over the top rope spots were definitely the best part of this.
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Great match, my favorite out of all the MPro/Toryumon/Osaka matches so far. Really liked the layout of this match, big dive spot to start, brawling on the outside, back and forth action in the ring, great FIP on Seno including Togo dragging him around the arena to beat him up and draw blood, then a great comeback and a home stretch. Last few minutes are great, I totally bought the pedigree-senton to Seno as the finish and was so glad when Yakushiji broke it up. Ending was great too. The American elements really gave this a distinct feel while still bringing the MPro-style goods.
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Man, Vince/Shane was a pretty awesome short match. Simple but effective and super hot. Shane ambushes Vince pre-match and then beats him down before Vince ducks a clothesline and hits a nice one of his own for the comeback. Like an Attitude Era rendition of the first fall of the MS1/Chicana hair match! I like the idea of Vince using the Stunner because it's the move he'd be most familiar with having taken it so many times.
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I'm surprised WWF didn't piss more people off by hyping these big time matches and never delivering. Then again, this was a really well done clusterfuck ending. They're really telegraphing the Triple H push.
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Neville SHOULD have a lot to offer the promotion, even if not as a main event or even a very strong upper midcarder, but considering the fact that in WWE right now you're either a main eventer or nothing at all of consequence, I don't see bright things for Neville. In a well booked promotion he should be able to have a solid spot in a competitive midcard -- or a Neville/Kofi tag team could work very well. But yeah he'll probably end up the couple-times-a-year-big-spot-in-a-gimmick-match guy like Kofi.
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Fun wild brawl, lots of chair shots and fighting on the floor. At the end they start brawling around the arena, someone gets strung up by the feet and someone comes through with a stick of fire, taking drinks of alcohol to blow fireballs from it. Cool stuff.
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How in the hell did Flair go from where he was in the beginning of the year to this? Flair is still makes this some of this amusing (Arn: He'll kill him!, Ric: Well, he'll hurt him) but when Piper is beating down Flair while the mental patients go nuts around the room, it's just surreal that what Flair was doing and the control of WCW angle ends up ... there.
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Great match, the kind of match that gets better and better as it goes on. Tenryu is mostly in control in this match and the openings Mutoh gets are when he goes after the leg. Mutoh's kicks to the leg look great and Tenryu does a good job selling the knee. Tenryu's hurricanrana spot really is great. Ending is awesome as Mutoh had been taking a lot of punishment but by going after the leg was able to open up enough room for him to hit one big, match-ending shot: a nasty moonsault where he lands knee first on Tenryu. Great crowd heat too that really makes this feel like a big deal.
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Definitely the best AJPW Vader match so far. Great, hard-hitting stuff that actually has the dynamic you want from a Vader match. In the beginning Vader just has too much size and firepower for Misawa, but he soon fights back and lands a succession of huge bombs of his own. Misawa is still fighting from underneath for a lot of the match but slowly starts hitting bigger and bigger moves to get firmly in control, and once in control he just keeps hitting bigger and bigger shots until Vader's out. The last blitzkrieg from Misawa is great, Vader gets a brief comeback but it's too late, Miswaw kicks out quickly and gets right on top of Vader and hammers down elbows. Vader tries to exchange some strikes but he's too out of it, Misawa keeps ducking and landing his own elbows before hitting a big one for the win. The kind of hard-hitting affair you want out of this match up.
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Updated for April.
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[1999-04-30-ECW-Fort Lauderdale, FL] Yoshihiro Taijiri vs Little Guido
tim replied to Loss's topic in April 1999
Awesome match, really unique like the Tajiri/Crazy match was but in a totally different way. They work in a lot of submissions, mat work and strikes but stay within the confines of a pro wrestling style. Just a really well worked match that feels like something different you couldn't see from two other guys. -
Rock's face turn. I like how they telegraph the face turn on commentary, Rock gives time for the pro-Rock chants to register, and he looks like he's going to really hammer home the face turn by complimenting Austin ... but then says never mind and insults him anyway, instead hammering his turn home by calling out Shane. Good stuff.
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[1999-04-26-WCW-Nitro] Kevin Nash vs DDP vs Goldberg vs Sting
tim replied to Loss's topic in April 1999
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I had never heard this match talked about before but god damn is it great. The ending stretch is like a workrate heavy contemporary WWE main event but with finishers protected, a bigger feel and a much, much better crowd. But that stuff is even built up to well -- most of the match isn't really in that vein so it feels like an even bigger deal when they get to the end. This is great from the beginning, the opening feeling out stuff is great and sets a great tone for the match. DDP is great in control, getting big heat and keeping things interesting and getting lots of sympath for Sting. DDP is also great at milking kick outs here, shooting his shoulder up at the last moment and not telegraphing it. Perfectly worked and layed out, BIG time heat, super big match feel, an awesome ending that feels like a real big moment. On the level of the great US main events from the 90s to now.
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Flair is entertaining in the mental institution scene but yeah it is very late 90s wrestling levels of tasteless and silly. The Charles Robinson stuff was AWESOME. I've always liked him a lot and had no idea he took part in a major angle like this at one time.
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Oh man, this match is GREAT. They really push this match toward the pro-style spectrum of the Battlearts style and end up with something really unique even for the promotion. This is great from the very beginning where Otsuka busts Ikeda open with big headbutts and Ikeda's comeback is awesome, especially the spot where he knocks Otsuka over the ropes. Awesome things are happening in this match every minute. Toward the end they really start throwing bombs and Ikeda comes back from taking huge damage with a big kick followed by a brainbuster setting up a reverse choke. One of the best matches of the year so far.
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Again this works thanks to lots of bells and whistles which isn't a complaint. I actually liked this a good bit more than the Wrestlemania match. Rock's bumping on the outside was really great. The outside brawling was better than at Wrestlemania and this never got boring. Had a strong ending too.
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I liked Rock here and didn't mind this at all in general. Rock and Austin just feel like a cut above anything on WCW.