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This feud used to be a favourite of mine, and creepiness aside, still is. Tremendous match and a fitting way to end this great feud. They found ways to not repeat their match from one year ago yet not lose one bit of intensity. Them destroying the beach set-up never gets old, and it doesn't get cartoony either. Sullivan almost gets himself a last fiery babyface segment that the crowds eats up before putting Benoit over clean and put an end to his in-ring career. Jacky bashing Sullivan with teh chair didn't came from nowhere, as there had been issues between the two, and earlier in the match Sullivan used Jacky as a projectile to throw on Benoit, which she didn't enjoy. Her leopard outfit was something else too. On a side note, I have to reiterate the paranoia that was rampant in early 00 when Sullivan was put back into power, as he did nothing but push Eddie, Dean & Chris during his stint as a booker, and went to great lenghts himself to put over Benoit as a major ass-kicker in the most heated undercard feud of the year despite their personnal issues. So yeah, maybe everything would have turn out different (and maybe not) had they not leave WCW at this time.

Really good action which worked the best as the spots accumulated, but there were a few rough set ups, particulary with Garza, Lizmark & Psychosis. The crowds doesn't get into it as much as the previous Nitro crowds, and I also felt it wasn't as good as those ones. But yeah, lucha trios matches should have became a staple of WCW cards.

Yeah, Gene could be great still. "Alan Poe gibberish" indeed. Raven backslaps poor Stevie. Raven was the greatest passive-agressive character ever.

Can't add much to what has been said already. Hot opener with nice double team wrestling, which is refreshing considering the division was dead at this point. I also like the Blood Runs Cold division once it got off the ground. Also, WCW's production also gets trashed for good reasons, but they came out with really good themes and entrance for Mortis & Wrath, I wonder why they didn't always put that kind of effort, it would have changed a lot for perceptions of a number of guys. Too bad Wrath didn't keep that look, it was much better than reverting back to Adam Bomb-like singlet and colors in 1999.

Now, that's better. And now pro-wrestling lost all credibility it previously gained from the "What did you learn watching wrestling" thread.

Yeah. Bombay, Michigan should be on the map.

It reminded me of this, dating from 1991 (no need to understand French to understand the joke) : http://youtu.be/ydHUjIB9ETk?t=21s

Uganda as the only identifiable African country kinda cracks me up. As does the oversized Japan. I guess France deserves its spot thanks to Carpentier & Andre. You forgot Iran though. Jabronie.

Damn, they are showered in drinks here, and it's getting ridiculous to the point it's not about heat anymore but about being douche since Luger and Giant got doused too. The promo wasn't much and it's obvious it was going nowhere, but Giant chokeslamming jabronies while Bischoff was getting broke in half in the rack was a cool visual.

Classic angle. Hall trolling Larry Z. was priceless, it's amazing they were already teasing a feud between the two. (Heenan looked legit pissed when Tony told him to stand up for a while).

Raven looks totally wasted, which he probably was (he said it himself, the Nitro years were a pretty big blur). Stevie Richards in WCW for a few years was something I would have loved to watch. He already got bitchslapped here. Poor thing.

I'm actually kinda shocked they didn't play on the old Flair vs Hennig feud from WWF right away. Hennig looks kinda fat. He doesn't get a superstar reaction but it's still better than Jarrett's debut. I'm mentionning Jarrett because it's kinda like the same angle in reverse, with Hennig denying the place Flair offers him in the Horsemen.

You're not alone. She was quite good at WM doing her best Woman impersonation at ringside with HHH, but since then her promos and acting have been pretty cringeworthy to me. Well, the awful angles sure didn't help.

Agreed. I guess they were teasing either two could be DDP's partner, but still. Hennig coming out was a pretty big surprise, but coming just after Sting cleaned up the ring, he didn't get much reaction. And really, Hennig's star power had been overrated. Plus his entire character, story and demeanor screams nWo from the start. The fake Sting stuff was useless. Yeah, signs of tiredness in the booking. Good thing is, one of my favourite workers finally debuts.

Nash gave Rey a lot more during their 1999 feud. This was a senseless burial. And Konnan's involvment only made it worse, as he was embarrassing here, much like he was earlier on working against Jarrett (fucking up spots left and right, falling on his ass and making Jarrett look like one in the process). You can see the booking is getting weaker in spots in the undercard, and a bit redondant on top too.

Bischoff was getting way ahead of himself with this intro. You can feel this stuff is getting to his head, and he's believing his own press way too much already. Hogan's intro with Hendrix was always great, but he doesn't have much to say here.

An Internet only title change. WCW really was ahead of the curve. Or maybe it's a case of the Wolfpack not wanting to do a job for a title on TV. Jericho was a very odd choice though. There wasn't any issue at the time with Syxx, and he actually did a clean job to him on Saturday night in like five minutes a few weeks before. Syxx's title reign should have ended with a big match against Rey on PPV.

Seven years already. Times flies. I can still remember the hours spent on my laptot following the developments in disbelief. And yeah, the "likely" is sounds awkward to say the least.

If Sting would have been the mystery partner, this would be pretty damn good. In retrospect, it can only lead to disapointment. They were clearly overrating Hennig just because he was a former WWF guy, but he hasn't been wrestling since late 1993 so he's not exactly a hot topic anymore.

Great story. The Sullivan show 2 was even better than the first, if that's possible.

Ernest Miller only became a fun character in 99 when he Jamesbrowned his intro and told people to call their mama and that he was gonna woop the entire arena.

Not since 2003.

Insane heat, wild closing scene. WCW was printing money with stuff like this, and Rodman was a good investment, again one year before WWF got Tyson.

Rey really gets buried here. I'm surprised it led nowhere, as most of the booking was pretty well planned still at this time. Love Liz's outfit here. Just so classy. DDP saying "everyone knows who he is" totally implies it has to be Sting, I just don't see who else, so was it a screw up from DDP who adlibed or did the plan changed ? I think that Sting only had a limited numbers of dates a year in his contract so maybe they realized they should not use him so soon.

The way they book Madusa was so bizarre because she really never won the WOmen's belt from Hokuto, then they had her retire after working somewhat of a knee injury angle during the match. It makes me think she did get some injury that would put her out at this point, because she wasn't back before 1999 with Team Madness. And yeah, those boobs were out of control. Bumping with these was kinda painfull I guess.