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  1. PhilTLL
    I think r/SC's demographic leans heavily towards people who came of age and became wrestling fans during Crime Time's heyday. Plus that story is just extremely sad.
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    I'm only familiar with 2 wrestling podcast hosts, and Brian Last obliterates Conrad Thompson. Literally the sound of Conrad's voice is annoying, especially if most of your wrestling podcast consumption is on YouTube and he tags every single video of any length with himself blathering about mortgages. He's terrible at driving conversations and expanding on points. I would love for Brian to work with Tony Schiavone. Brian has a lot more knowledge than Conrad and his sense of humor is very close to Tony's.
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    What a crowd-killing mess. The Renegade nonsense and general lack of coordination throughout the match resulted in a completely heatless Hulk Up, which is still rare at this point in WCW.
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    Here's the finish. Actually this looks like the entire Japanese 1 hour show, with an intro and everything. (Seems to be a no embedding allowed, though.) https://youtu.be/iwz-fRdrV1k
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    Slamboree opener. Knobbs was injured by the Blue Bloods on the live Main Event, finally diverting the Nasties away from the endless Harlem Heat series. At least temporarily. Regal and Eaton were incensed at not being considered for title shots, so they did it the old-fashioned way and laid out one of the champs during an interview. Double suplex, multiple chair shots, stiff soccer kicks to the ribs, the whole nine yards. God save the Queen. In a pretape, Stevie Ray notes that some people "wanna lay their hands on this good old gold." Also dig Cappetta, normally a rather rhotic speaker, saying "Sista Sherri." Sags, living up to his reputation as the superior working Nasty, is pretty fired up for his solo shine. He hits a really snug axe bomber, a double DDT, his trademark pump handle slam, and some trademark Nasty ball shots. Of historical interest, Booker hits one of the first spinaroonis into a move, basically using it as a kip-up into a sidekick. Of humorous interest, Stevie Ray's first rope leg drop, the only time I've ever seen that. I think he probably just forgot to climb up to the second rope. But the director cuts at just the right time, so we barely see him falling 6 inches onto his feet and doing a regular leg drop. Sags takes quite a shit kicking, including a Harlem Hangover and a piledriver, but the old overconfidence gets in the way, allowing miracle kick-outs and Knobbs' return. Holy shit, that is an amazing bump by Sherri! I think this is actually the best match of the series so far. *** The Blue Bloods come out wearing designer suits and scowls. The Nasties immediately challenge them.
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    This one actually aired second, the night before Slamboree. The soft guitar/"art institute" one aired the week before. "Therefore! Ergo! Any language you want to put it, they have a devilish plan!"
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    I haven't watched it literally since it happened, but how about RVD/Cena?
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    It makes Bray, the writers, and all of us look like complete dorks too. Speaking of dorks, I probably should have realized that last night, they were fighting up on the black (non-glassed) part on top of the top floor, where the logo is. But I didn't know that was habitable space until this show.
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    I was genuinely curious so I looked up the math on this, and the calculator I found says that a 25-meter (85-foot) fall takes 2.26 seconds. They would reach 79 km/h (49 mph). https://www.angio.net/personal/climb/speed.html The sound effects were more like 1.2 seconds. Maybe they were just the actual crashpad sound. Although wouldn't that be over 40 feet? Hmm. Maybe this is the new form of meta-working the marks. Instead of the booking decisions, get us thinking about the editing decisions.
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    So what am I supposed to believe they fell into? A cherry picker that Stone Cold Steve Austin had driven up to the side? A fire department trampoline that The Gobbledy Gooker was holding? Surely there's some casual fans out there (not just nitpicking cranks like me) who know what Titan Towers looks like and that all the ways to fall off the roof look fatal. They could have at least had Michael Cole freak out, considering he screams his way through random matches every night anyway. In 1995 the announcers shit their pants when the Giant went off the building, even if he didn't miss a single night. If you don't want the audience to think twice about a guy taking a fall off of a building, and you'd rather just say "good night folks thanks for joining us on this unique night" instead of "oh my God somebody fell off a building," you don't have to do the spot.
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    Did they not even talk about how Rey and Aleister went 85 feet off the side of a building?! They didn't show like a tiered garden they fell into, right? The swimming pool on the 6th floor? Nothing?
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    Maybe she took that fucking million dollars and went to the hospital for a subdural hematoma check. People die from falls like that, you know. Well that was a junky finish. It was entertaining enough until then, and like everyone is saying, I have no idea why it was that short.
  13. PhilTLL
    Why does Corbin care if Asuka grabs a briefcase? Why didn't he just say like, hey leave me alone while I take the other one? The whole thing died for about 2 minutes before she won, but good for Asuka, easily one of the top talents and entertainers in the company. Is there still a million dollars in a fucking lucite briefcase just sitting in that conference room? Somebody should just go find that and go home with it.
  14. PhilTLL
    If the briefcases not being clearly marked doesn't lead to opposite genders grabbing them, I'll be disappointed.
  15. PhilTLL
    Oh my God, the corpse formerly known as Vince McMahon. This "everybody's afraid of the boss" shit is more embarrassing than ever.
  16. PhilTLL
    The music is totally unnecessary. It's like watching Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. I'm very glad somebody used those ropes for an actual rope spot. Why did Carmela leave that fucking briefcase full of cash there? Does that belong to Dana Brooke by contract now? Was that in the build-up?
  17. PhilTLL
    What froze up Corbin, thinking about how that was coming out of his paycheck?
  18. PhilTLL
    It's a rooftop patio type thing. ASUKA!!!!
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    Surely, or at least I'm hoping, that means he showed them how it was safe to do the fall into/from the cherry-picker basket that was only a few feet below the roof/above the ground. Nobody needs to do an 85-foot bump. Hell, I'm hoping Vince didn't do a bump onto the concrete, no matter how far. (Nobody needs to do bumps on concrete period, but that's another story.)
  20. PhilTLL
    Yeah I would think of (certain aspects of) Marilyn Monroe's persona as cheekily sexy/slutty, "sex kitten" as they said back then, etc.
  21. PhilTLL
    A bordello is a whorehouse. Scarlet Chateau would be an obvious whore reference. But not Bordeaux. Now that I check out her gimmick and look, it seems like the name might supposed to be a bit cheeky and slutty (does she do a terrible accent?), but certainly not an explicit whore thing. I couldn't really establish a shared etymology between bordello and Bordeaux, either.
  22. PhilTLL
    I really enjoyed this. Pretty much everything you want in a Saturday Night main event: two familiar foes doing strong, varied work with a good familiar structure, but plenty of twists and turns, and lots of body part focus leading to a good submission finish. This is probably too good of a match and too good of a matchup for the first round of this tournament. And I mean in kayfabe terms too: Sting was the nominal #1 seed, which makes Arn the #16, while he's also the TV champ. ***1/2
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    "Life is such a pleasure." "It used to be the Duke of York would have ten thousand men, now it's the Duchess." ... "Excuse me, you impudent little wretch, your opinion means nothing to me whatsoever."
  24. PhilTLL
    Perhaps contributing to the lawsuit was that WCW used practically the same thudding sound for "Avalanche's" theme music as WWF had for "Earthquake's." Savage's introduction is a bit strange, as Cappetta reads the (very corny and unnecessary) lines "One of the most captivating stars in WCW history! Get ready for Macho Madness!" in the same tone as he does "weighing 240 pounds, from Sarasota Florida". The crowd pops big-time anyway. Savage was a nice grab no matter how much WCW tried to fuck him up. I love the four guys in the front row who immediately know the "woman" is Flair and call him out/worship him for it, which he jaws back with them on. Then somebody in the second row holds up a sign that says "It's the best thing going today! Wooooooo!" Great stuff. I'm too lazy to post a topic for it, but in the other half of this tag team rematch from SuperBrawl, Big Bubba gets a clean pinfall win over Sting, very surprising even with an "injury" to Sting's knee. They were scrambling to get back poor Bubba's heat after killing it in the past few months since Fall Brawl.
  25. PhilTLL
    Everything from here through Arn's intro is fantastic. "REPRESENTING THE SPORT OF WRESTLING..." As is Heenan calling out the Burgess Meredith routine. All downhill from there. Actually, no, this is about as smartly worked as you could expect from this sort of match. Unfortunately the crowd is terribly bored for most of it. When Johnny's manager tells him after round 3, "You got to get this thing over!" it has multiple meanings.
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