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It's hilarious on so many level since the Outlaws were just way more over than Triple H during the entire second DX stint, as was X-Pac from that matter, coming off the infamous shoot-on-Bischoff comeback promo.

Awful pro-wrestler. I did enjoy some RVD, especially from the early years. But he's part of the "I'd be happy never to see another match of his" club. No. He's a guy that offers a ton of potentiality to do cool things. He just needs the right opponents to be able to have a nice dance. He's also very singular, there really isn't anyone working like RVD.

Hulk Hogan was a jingoistic flag waving asshole who talked about God, acted like a dick toward his friends, used dirty underhanded tactics while pretending "fighting for what is right", which infact was only his own best interests, and was a total whining bitch when he didn't get his way. So yeah, no wonder he connected wonderfully during the Reagan era. Basically.

Those shows look truly awful. It's sad that WWE's ownership of what was US pro-wrestling has turned into this.

RAW upload during the build for WM 13. Amazing to think we're 17 years later and the presentation basically hasn't evolved.

Oh God yes. Thanks for reminding me how much I loved Victor Zangiev.

Is Dolph Ziggler the guy who patterned himself after… Billy Gunn on crack ?

That it was a great 7 minutes match.

Don't you know that Ric Flair at one point worked 90 minutes matches every day against Steamboat, and twice on Sunday ? And they were different matches all the time too since back in the days bla bla bla… They sold out everywhere too.

This reminds me of an Ozaki vs Chiggy match on a big GAEA card in 99. It lasted about 5 or 6 minutes, and Oz was smart as hell during this and made it as good as it could. Yet, I would never call it a great match, although Oz was definitely having a great performance for what it was. On the other hand, Yoshida vs Fukawa going 10 minutes in the first round of the ARS Tournament that same year (how do I even remember this stuff when I didn't watch it in more than ten years ?) was the closest thing to a legit great fucking match I've ever seen. Yeah, I would call this one legit great. But a bit too short. Damn.

One of the most fascinating wrestler I've ever seen. By the end of my ECW watch, I was still as happy to watch yet another Sabu match as I was at the very beginning.

Then it's even sadder than I thought.

It's telling that pro-wrestling has become a joke, more or less, really. Stuff like Mr. Socko already annoyed me to no end back 15 years ago. These kind of ridiculous comedy spots get over not because fans can be educated but because they are ridiculous comedy spots.

Do people get a cookie when they say something bad about Raven around here ? Anyway, it's funny because Raven vs Saturn from Fall Brawll (or WWIII, I don't remember) 98 is the perfect exemple of a match playing out to a dead crowd and getting them hot as hell toward the finish. But Raven never got the chance to get himself over in WWF ("who the fuck hired Raven" anyone ?), and Saturn was a Velocity worker at this point. So yeah. Dead crowd I guess. Anyway. Matwork spotfest totally screams Dean Malenko to me. And not even very good ones, as Malenko had this annoying habit (that several cruiserweight got) of kicking out of his own pinfall attempts to get into the next position. Spotfests can be fun when they present something dynamic, extremely well executed and not too contrived. Not exactly what I'm looking for at this point.

The Cornette hate is getting ridiculous. Cornette didn't say much apart from the fact he really doesn't understand doing such a thing basically, and even referred to himself as "an asshole" after Alice put things in perspective. Anyway. The Street interview is excellent and quite funny.

There's a reason why the name "Nitro match" existed and why no great match is attached to it. Between 15 and 25, depending on the workers and style involved, is ideal. You can have a great 10 minutes match, but it will still be a great 10 minutes match, if you know what I mean. Lesser than that, yeah, it will be some great action of great angle driven stuff for a few minutes.

Ah ! His burying of Tim Horner was damn funny. And finally we know the reason behind that damn Horner singing a country song video.

About the Radicalz, it's kinda creepy to think about what became to three of them : dead by overdose, dead by suicide after double murder, homeless junkie for a while. And yeah, the idea Malenko or Saturn weren't pushed enough in WCW is comical.

Really, "What ?" is the most annoying chant ever at this point. Not the stupidest one (plenty have been mentionned already, "We want tables" during the Attitude era was also unbearably stupid), but the most annoying.

You got a legit laugh out of me.

And as expected, Martel's Timeline is the best in eons. Martel is just so charming and tells some funny stories. And for a 58 year old guy, he looks fantastic too. You can see he took care of himself really well.

I thought I had imagined this, too. Then I Googled it and once I saw the pics it all came rushing back to me. One of two post 99 WCW ppvs I watched live. That and the Bash at the Beach 2000. All were shitty. The Bagwell on the pole wasn't even the most offensive thing on the show. That show including the Goldberg/Nash/Steiner 3-Way match where Goldberg was unprofessional because he didn't go up for the jackknife (announcers words) and Steiner & Nash were great because they had to improvise the rest of the match. That is by far the worst booking I have ever seen in my life. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/19237-wcws-highway-to-hell/page-29&do=findComment&comment=5561658 (not that I would want to pimp myself, but there you go)

Not high enough to me, probably. Oh, anyway...

Martel isn't English Speaking. And yeah, he was great. The more I watch him, the more I think of him. His comeback in 98 was pretty terrific as he looked like one of the best guys in WCW almost immediately, and it took those sloppy-ass Harlem Heat to cut his career short. Not that he would have hang on for too long though, he was making money in real-estate for a decade already. To be fair it was Perry Saturn throwing him over the top rope that wrecked his knee and ended his career. Well, yeah, but if I'm not mistaken, he also got a concussion later on from Booker T. Then fucked his knee again because of Booker's ineptitude. Then as soon as he came back after surgery, was thrown into the hands of Stevie Ray, and as he was trying to protect his newly repaired knee from further damage while having to take the always horribly applied slapjack, he ended up with a neck injury. That makes three injuries on the hand of Booker & Stevie, following the first one on the hand of Saturn. No wonder he quit after that.

Martel isn't English Speaking. And yeah, he was great. The more I watch him, the more I think of him. His comeback in 98 was pretty terrific as he looked like one of the best guys in WCW almost immediately, and it took those sloppy-ass Harlem Heat to cut his career short. Not that he would have hang on for too long though, he was making money in real-estate for a decade already.