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  1. Kronos
    I'm going to be honest and do some whining here: I can't watch this match because the vuvuzelas are making me nuts. I had a hard time even finishing the previous Psicosis/Rey tag for the same reason. Awhile back, I bought two matches from clickwrestle featuring Cheerleader Melissa. It was in Indy promo in northern Cali that apparently handed out free horns to the kids, who proceeded to blow them nonstop through each 20 min match. Despite the fact that I really enjoyed the wrestling, I developed such a distaste for the horns that I can't ignore them. I'll have to skip this one, sadly.
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    I have decided that the only manager schtick more annoying that Jimmy yelling into that megaphone is Fonzy's whistle. I sure could do without both of them. I like Sting's look here, and he starts off with three very cool kip ups that get the crowd hot. A fun match with some great segments, particularly the missed drop-kick into a figure 4 into a roll up pinfall attempt. The interviews after are just embarrassing. As usual, Sting is awful on the mic. Hogan is like a parody of himself. I felt like he and Savage were cutting a modern promo in an 80s style - and it hurts my ears bc it fails in both formats. I don't even really understand what they're arguing about. It doesn't help that I just watched that far superior Lawler + Gilbert segment.
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    Arn slapping Pillman beats all. Also laughing at AA's "let's not misconstrue". Big words used awkwardly is pro wrestling, motherfuckers! I have to say that for a long time after the tragedy, I was ambivalent about seeing Benoit on my screen. But lately, I find myself feeling ill when he appears. I know he's on the set a lot, and I'll deal. It's just something that recently occurred to me. I think it might be watching rumbles 04 and 05 recently, and seeing him set up as such a hero that made me tense.
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    Very heated brawl. Good stuff when this sort of thing still felt fresh. Compare to 1999 Nitro where they did the backstage stuff, and it comes across so much faker. Dustin delivers, as usual. Thx to Will for including a few seconds of Sunny in the bath. Never ever a bad thing.
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    I was mildly amused at Nacho correcting Ted, saying he'd been wrestling since the 70s. These are important, I suppose, but history has not been kind. They're very cruel.
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    Not much of a match. It's clearly an excuse to create two feuds, though - Lawler for the belt, and Lawler/Gilbert. In that sense, it works well enough. I wish the cameraman had actually filmed Doug's run-in, though. I do agree with Loss that his antics pre-match don't feel very heelish, though the prev week's show sure made him seem like a heel against PG13.
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    This is an absolutely amazing segment that feels so real. Lawler really is a master on the mic. I don't agree with shoe that Gilbert keeps up with him, though he does keep up emotionally. I don't know the history here, but it sure feels like they're using true events to develop the angle. Random: all those mullets remind me that I grew a mullet my freshman year of college in TX. 1993, baby, and I cut it off after about one year. We called it a Billy Ray Cyrus cut back then.
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    "I think you're talking out of your rear end because your head would know better!" - Lawler to Doug Gilbert, USWA 1996
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    Speaking of Mero and HHH: I am watching the HHH dvd set, and Hunter mentions that when people ask him who he learned from in the early days, he says he begrudgingly thanks Mero. "Because Mero taught me that I had to be a ring general." Well no wonder people think less of Mero if HHH has been talking shit about him for 15 years.
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    I have been watching shoots lately because they're good to have on as background noise when working. Yesterday was the recent Nash/Waltman shoot. I really like Nash. What was interesting was towards the end when talking about Kid's attempted suicide. Nash is trying to tell the story, and he breaks down. The guy is basically in tears for the last 15 min of the video, and you can tell he was genuinely uncomfortable about it. To the interviewer's credit, he wasn't going to ask them to talk about it. Waltman brought it up initially, and the interviewer said, "I thought that was too personal - I don't expect you guys to discuss it."
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    Wow. I had kinda grown to like that guy over the last couple of years, too. And while the story doesn't accuse Khali himself of doing or instigating the shooting, I doubt it will matter in the end.
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    Random, but I have seen Brave Combo live, back when I lived in Dallas (Fall 2003, I want to say it was). I didn't know the first thing about Polka, but it kicked all kinds of ass. They were fun, and we danced for hours.
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    I have narrowed it down to these out of some seasons to watch: 1981/82 Georgia Championship Wrestling 1985 World Wide TV 1986 AWA 1987 Memphis 1992 Saturday Night TV 2004 Smackdown These shows are all things I have tasted but never in full context. Much as I would like to get them all, I think finances will likely force me to pick three of them -- out of the six listed. Besides, with the 1996 set factored in, I figure I'd be hard pressed to watch more than three of these at one time anyway. For variety and just plain fun watching, what would you guys choose? Help me winnow it down, please. . .
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    This isn't so much a flipped opinion, but I was watching the 2002 Rumble match the other day on justin.tv. I couldn't believe how hard Haitch was working in that match. He and Austin were going a mile a minute, showing as much energy as I recall seeing out of him. It does make me want to go back and re-look at his 02-03 stuff (some of which I have seen, but it's been awhile). I watched the first half of the Nash HIAC match recently, too, and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it considering all the crap it gets.
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    The quick answer is cause Jesse and Vince had the falling out over the Union issue. Jesse had already become mayor of some small town, and took the offer for the money and probably to stick it to Vince by showing him that he can do what he wants. Now that IS interesting. Thanks for the detail.
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    I know Styles was desperately trying to put over the fact that this match will elevate Stevie's toughness. I just didn't see it. I saw Stevie getting his ass kicked over and over and eventually having to be carried out by Meanie. When a football player gets injured, the crowd cheers and respects him when he stands up and limps off the field, even if someone helps. They don't usually cheer when he gets carried off. If that's the point of the match, let him show his exhaustion a bit more. "I'm tough, so I will be destroyed even in the face of this crazy offense." I didn't see it during the match, which was partly my point about the missing sense of story. I did mention the superkick, as it's the only real bit of the match that shows a sense of the dramatic. This is a forgettable match to me. Hell, I might even now be misremembering the ending, less than 24 hours later. But that's the point. It did not make an impact.
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    Still not like "they" stopped her push in mid-stream or anything. Laughable. Whatever the reason for her push, he's wrong about her being able to talk. I will agree she can wrestle, but so could lots of guys. If you can't talk, you're missing the point. Especially with deevers, who only get a few minutes of screentime to get themselves and their whole division over.
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    Watching Dutch Mantell Guest Booker shoot. One of the best things he says is that he would have debuted Hardy and RVD on sep shows, because "you don't play two running backs at the same time". I was amused as he says something earlier in the shoot about how RAW is so boring that the only reason it has ratings is because people fall asleep and forget to turn it off. Then later he talks about how RAW's ratings increase in the second hour because Vince knows how to build throughout the show, so people stay around to watch what happens.
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    I just don't understand that position. Even if it's not any kind of official agreement, surely they have pushed her to the moon in order to keep him happy? She's a decent hand in the ring, especially when working with someone else who has talent (granted, that's basically Nattie and Beth only). She can't cut a genuine sounding promo, even when she's being the bitch I think she probably is. She has never been over with fans, as best I can tell from crowd response. LayCool is mildly amusing, but it's not grabbed the fans the way the original Beautiful People did -- the same angle, but one which dominated TNA's ratings for months. It is what it is. Just thought I would mention my thoughts.
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    Not gonna rate them all the way Loss did, but I will say that upon finishing D1: Favorites: Mega-Powers vs Horsemen (1/8) and Hash/Yamazaki (1/4), with Vader/Inoki a close third. Least Fav: Sabu v Stevie Revelation: The USWA stuff. I have small experience with Memphis, and I found this stuff to be corny but completely engaging. I find myself wanting to see more of this stuff on the next disc.
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    Only seen a few no rope barbed wire matches I liked. This one is pretty good, with some decent suspense spots. Too many guys in the ring makes me less enthused.
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    Aja's "bitch, I will end you" attitude never gets old, and I love when she nonchalantly uses her trashcan to block Combat's suicide dive. Good stuff, which should not be a shock. These two know how to bring it when motivated. Incidentally, Combat doesn't seem nearly as big against Aja as she does against Kudome.
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    Count me as another fan of this match. Savage as FIP really worked well. I like how he teases a comeback with the sleeper, only to be shut down. Arn and Flair get felled by their overconfidence in the face of the hulk up, which was done beautifully for laughs. How long has it been since Hogan moved that fast? All four guys look to be having a lot of fun, and it makes the match that much more fun.
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    "Ted's rasslin is not believable!" Even more meanspirited than last week, though I kind of liked it better. The stuff about slogans needing to be untrue makes me smile a bit.
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    How generic is Austin's gimmick here? And the crowd goes...to sleep. The best thing to come out of this clip is the interview with Heb, who said he kept asking Bret to say his name. I was picturing him going, "Say my name, bitch!"
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