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Wached this. It's 2015. RF still does the same old "Memories of X" stupid "interview". RF still doesn't edit when Rey check his phone for 30 seconds. It's amazing that anyone would buy his stuff at this point. Being the first in the game surely helped him the most. I wish Rey would work with KC instead. Total nice guy. He even says good things about JBL. Nothing earth shattering in terms of knowing how things work in WWE though, nor really good stories.

Really good Nitro match. It's always odd to see Asai without the mask, as he's clearly one guy who didn't need one (although the Dragon one remains one of my all-time favourite), good looking guy and all. He really gets the star treatment from SWS, who badly needed one other than Tenryu. The announcer actually call him the Ultimo Dragon, so I guess that was his nickname even before he put on the mask. Not familiar with Salvaje, but he looked like a really good worker too.

Hum… I wonder what picture you looked at. Check it on Youtube. Only Jason Sensation (obviously, and he was the only amusing part of the whole deal) and Chyna weren't blackfaces. Looking at this today, it's downright appaling. And Triple H was so not good at comedy.

Triple H doing a blackface. Hilarious. DX probably invented wrestling parodies BTW. That nWo Horsemen deal never happened. Neither did Stevie & Meanie doing stuff on ECW TV. DX invented everything great about the Attitude Era.

He's actually one of the worst (as in useless and boring) wrestler I can think of. Sucked in any incarnation (okay, Repo Man was funny, but it was all gimmick, it's not like he had any good matches), didn't bring anything to the tag teams he was a part of (except shouting "shut your stinking mouth" and stuff like this), could bring down any good worker (Dustin in WCW comes to mind, the Blacktop Bully matches sucked). At least Jim Neidhart played his limited part well. In the third version of Demolition, Crush was the "workhorse", for god's sake.

The South ? (and I say this only half-jockingly, I wonder if the RnR would have been just as over in New York)

A bunch of surly old guys beating the shit out of each other, with younger butterface underdog Nakano and savage King Haku in workrate mode thrown in for good measure. This is about as good as SWS could get.

This wasn't any good. No energy displayed by the Warriors, who were cruising sloppily, especially Animal. Tenryu & Hara had a very fun match earlier in the card against Haku & Yatsu though.

Indeed. Not to mention, having Jay-Z settle with him over the use of the Diamond Cutter hand gesture.

It's volontarily taking the shittiest bump for Diesel's powerbomb at Mania 11 to make him look bad. Yeah. Even to his best pal he was an asshole at points.

From where they started to their journey as Kodo Fuyuki's croonies to where they ended up, Jado & Gedo had one hell of a career arc.

Actually understanding that one makes me feel like a complete geek...

The two things Martel had over Steamboat to me, which are more Steamboat criticims than anything else : _although Steamboat is obviously an all-time great, at times, his über-registration of shots could get a little bit goofy if you're not in the right mood _those kinda shitty looking open hands "karate" chops are the kind of things you end up accepting because they're just part of Steamboat (like you accept Tenryu's enzuigiris), but if you're truly objective, they don't look very convincing at all, nor even good, actually Martel over Steamboat doesn't shock me at all at this point, unless you'e going for the… *gasp*.. Great Mat… ok, see where I'l going.

And the answers to the question are : Ricky Morton & Chigusa Nagayo.

Again, Rick Martel has said himself that his heart wasn't into it. That sounds like a pretty reasonnable reason to me. Actually that's why he came back in the late 90's, to end his career on a high note as he was motivated again by then.

Solid undercard SWS worker. Super solid upper midcard FMW worker. Has a few really really good singles match (against Hayabusa in 95). Totally underrated. Would be remembered much more fondly if he had worked in New Japan (or maybe not). But not really a top 100 contender.

Actually, Martel said before that his heart wasn't totally into wrestling anymore at this point, as he was going into real estate and making good money at it, which is why Vince never pushed the Model gimmick really hard. So, shitty booking I wouldn't say so. FWIW, I loved Martel as the Model. No great matches, but the gimmick was gold and Martel was excellent at it.

Not really surprising. History is written by winners. The Kliq won. But yeah, looking at his title history is pretty damn hilarious. _wins the IC title from Bulldog in late 92. Apart from the rapid switch with Jannetty, doesn't lose the belt, gets suspended or something and puts his pal Razor over at Mania X in the title match. _wins the tag titles with his pal Diesel. Doesn't lose the belts, which get vacated after Survivor Series 94 and the split between the two. _wins the IC title from Jarrett. Doesn't lose the belt because of "injury", belts goes to Douglas who gets jobbed out on the same show to his pal Razor. _wins the WWF title. switch with Kliq's friend Sid, then doesn't lose the belt because he "lost his smile". _wins the tag title with Austin. Doesn't lose the belt because of whatever reason I don't even remember, Foley takes Shawn's place. _wins the WWF title via Montreal screwjob, throws a fit before losing the belt to Austin, with Taker waiting backstage in case of bullshit.

And right I was. Decent interview, a lot more based on production and operations than wrestling, of course. Not a lot of good stories though, and a lot of "I don't remember the details" indeed.

Easily the best worker in GAEA, she was incredible to watch. One of best wrestler of post-boom joshi sounds perfectly right to me. Her vs Yumi Fukawa was the dream match that never happened.

And you made mine. Didn't know France housed vampires. Damnit ! And I for one always tell my students to never use litteral translations. (so, you really can't use "you made my night" like you would with "you made my day" in English ?) (then again, I never enjoyed the sunrise)

I'm not sure Billy Gunn was actually ever over by himself. The only thing he did that ever got a reaction was say "suck it !". When he became "The One" and didn't have Road Dogg to do the intro routine anymore, he got about the same reaction as Rockabilly.

You made my night, ah ah ah !

Well, Chyna actually helped HHH get over. Like DX did. And Foley. And Stephy….

God awful worker in WWECW. Truly god awful. And although he showed potential as a green guy in WCW, he gained weight and was already pretty bad when he showed up in WWF in 99 (god, those Kane matches…). I always thought the name was lame as hell too. The Big Show ? Really ? Nah. From what I've seen and considering the opportunities he got, the biggest underachievers of superheavies. Sure, the WWE booking never did him any favours, but still. Overrated guys like Bam Bam run circles around the big oaf.