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  1. Tim Cooke
    Goldberg is over huge, Rocco is willing to bump huge for him, and the spear through the table gets over bigger than most table spots I’ve seen in ECW throughout these yearbooks.
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    Rinse, wash, and repeat from everything that has been said about the earlier matches. Big time feel. This was a little sloppier in parts but it’s roughness gave it more of a shooty edge, which kind of works since both Goldberg and Saturn had expressed interest in participating in Shooto. Oh, and Kidman is great in his role as a sleazebag and is a very competent “manager” in this and the Raven match.
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    Goldberg wins the US Title. I believe that Goldberg vs. Steve Austin at Summerslam 1998 would have been the best selling PPV of all time. Obviously never could happen in the US landscape but if WCW and WWF were more like the big Japan companies in the 90’s and 00’s, it would have been a closer possibility. Goldberg having Raven’s flock to toss around and bump for him just helped even more. Besides Benoit, I don’t think I have seen anyone take the drop toe hold on the chair safer (but with a forceful looking impact).
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    In one RAW, the WWF builds up a match as well as anything they have ever promoted. The opening interview drags a little bit but the playing off of the “easy” and “hard” ways and the conclusion they reach makes up for it. Then, throughout the night, they have Shane, Patterson, and Brisco talking to Vince backstage. My favorite part of this was Brisco showing Vince he to defend the kick to the gut so he can avoid the stunner. Vince slaps Austin as they are about to get underway. The match is about to happen and Vince, using the language aspect of the feud, reminds Austin that he said he could beat him with one hand tied behind his back. Foley coming out isn’t the most logical way to go, but it kind of works with his Dude Love character. An outstanding job, even without the payoff.
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    BattlArts tags can be hit or miss for me. At their best, they are worked in the traditional Japanese tag match style, which is a version of the US southern tag style with their moves, submissions, etc. At their worst, they can meander and feel like any other below average match. This goes about 17:00 and I could have cut off 2-3 minutes to really tighten it up, but that’s nitpicky. You get your Ikeda/Ishikawa section, Carl Malenko’s excellent mat work, and Otsuka’s incredible versatility (work the mat, hit big suplexes, hit a tope). I watched this in conjunction with Timothy Thatcher vs. Drew Gulak and Timothy Thatcher vs. Biff Busik from the EVOLVE shows this weekend (August 8-9, 2014). Both matches, specifically the Busik match, were good and the main reason was the quality mat work. But then you compare it to this BattlArts match, which isn’t in any of the four participants top 20 matches and you see how far away the modern day guys are away from producing really amazing mixed pro wrestling/shoot style matches.
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    It's not a surprise the April 6 RAW beat Nitro with how stacked the previous RAW was with Austin getting arrested, XPac debuting, and New Age Outlaws joining DX.
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    It’s becoming a regular occurrence that I am more excited about the weekly back issue than I am the current issue. Dave’s complete lack of understanding the UStream situation (and to be fair to Dave, 90% of the stuff I have read online about it from other fans who should be well versed in these things is wrong as well) along with his insistence that other streaming services don’t see people cancel before their subscription is up was weird and poor reporting. If you cancel your WWE Network subscription prior to the six months, you don’t get any money back. So anyone doing that is not very bright. Does it hurt the WWE because they are losing a re-up? Of course, but they are still getting every penny of the first six month commitment. Netflix and Hulu don’t have commitment periods and if you cancel during a month, unless you pitch a fit, there is no refund and you keep your service until the month is over. The cancellation only makes sure you aren’t charged for the next month. This seems to really be something that Dave hasn’t grasped at all. It also makes me wonder about streaming issues that he (or people who write him) talk about. There are times when there is a streaming problem and it is system wide. But in my limited experience with streaming different models of content, 95% of the time, if there is an issue, it is usually my piss poor internet connection.
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    Beyond Dave using an excessive amount of hyperbole (because let’s face it, we all do it to some extent), it’s a no win situation in even trying to argue the merits of other tournaments because Dave is throwing out star ratings like they are going to be extinct at years end. Even in looking back at the match ratings for other excellent tournaments (1991 G-1, 1993 Champions Carnival, 1996 G-1, 1996 J-Crown), they just aren’t going to add up to pure amount of ****1/4+ matches that he has handed out in 2013 and 2014. That’s not even getting into the argument that he won’t look back and at the very *least* compare and contrast past great tournament matches with today’s matches.
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  10. Tim Cooke
    Childs - you will love the Death and Destruction vs. Mike Maverick and Shane Helms from May 1998. The best US Indy tag I have ever seen.
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    I'm starting to think Shining Wiz is maybe someone who has been banned in the past
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    Malenko has been an overrated candidate for a long time. JDW has been writing since 1996 about the failures of Dean's matches with Rey Jr. in WCW
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    MX/Cornette are a good pick, especially once the competition dies almost completely after the Freebirds. I would need to go through the MX scrapbook to see all the matches, but considering he had at least five or six that made TV off the top of my head, their could be a lot of house show matches in both Mid South and Crockett. He also has a few SMW one's as well. Cornette isn't under rated as an actual wrestler but he is really good at eating his spots and bumping. His fist drop was very solid.
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    from the 5/12/97 WON: Caught the 4/22 RINGS show from Osaka and it was a great show. Only Tony Halme vs. Dick Vrij and Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han were obvious works. It was pretty clear most of the other bouts were shoots. I'd suspect Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kousaka wasn't a shoot, although you couldn't tell from watching it as they worked the match not to have the dramatic spots that they do in their worked shoot matches nor the near submissions and near knockout spots. Just another example of just how good Tamura really is.
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    My view of a control segment is that it is just a part of the match where one wrestler/tag team takes over on his/their opponent. Never equated it to a face. Bryan Danielson works over Homicide in their April 2004 ROH match, where Danielson is a tweeter and Homicide is a heel. It wasn't a 'shine' segment (which I agree with OJ and StompersPC is a poor term), it was just one wrestler being in control of the match until a bigger transition spot occurred.
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    MX had: - James Gang dragging Cornette with truck at WWW taping - Cornette works out, which leads to Baby Doll suplexing him - Bubba and Dusty chair on WWW - MX birthday party (Mid South and NWA) - Fantastics straight jacket in NWA - Fantastics brawl to set up Clash I - Cornette throws fire at Ron Garvin
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    SUWA vs KENTA 9/18/05 NOAH
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    Watched some early 1990's WCW today and Arn's great performance in the 1/26 Flair/AA/Sting vs Sawyer/Muta/Dragon Master and the 2/18 Flair/AA vs RnR had me thinking about the definitive Arn match. For tags, a top candidate is the 11/19/91 Arn/Larry vs. Steamboat/Rhodes from the Clash. But what about singles? Tully had the Magnum I Quit and Garvin WWW matches. Flair has the Steamboat, Windham, etc. to choose from. Windham had the Too Cold Scorpio Clash match. But did Arn have that one really great singles match?
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    American Classics #6 has the Fantastics vs Gino/Adams match
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