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    Yeah, another tremendous angle and amazing Hogan promo. Bischoff is pretty great as a sidekick too. I find it argue not to agree with Hogan when he says Piper knew what he was doing by bringing the kid out there. But whatever, Piper finally cracking up and beating the shit out of both of them really made the segment pretty much perfect, although a redux of Starrcade already begins to point out the flaws of the booking on top, with too much reliance on old stars. I don't remember how was the Superbrawl match, but one big Hogan vs Piper match was enough for me, especially when it worked so well.
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    Nothing happens. Status quo. Just a way to put some pressure on DDP.
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    Current WWE

    El-P replied to Smack2k's topic in WWE

    Ok thanks. So they were playing off homophobic overractions by having a guy kissing a girl. Okayyyy. Not sure if I see the relevance in all of this. Oh, anyway, Fandango is irrelavant anyway, as it seems this plants the seed for a feud between his two girls.
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    Current WWE

    El-P replied to Smack2k's topic in WWE

    Michael Sam. Which explains why JBL was going nuts on commentary during it. I have no idea what you are referring to.
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    Current WWE

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    Gotta love Hacksaw Duggan. He's such a neanderthal man. Confronted by Lana's arguments that China had now conquered the world economy, poor Hacksaw could only reply as he always did, by spelling his country's name, and thankfully it is only three letters. And poor Rusev, now he's lost his first name too. Hum.. Big E Langston. After Kofi and R-Truth… Do I see a pattern here ? Anyway, Lana is obviously the star of this outfit (pun intended). Adam Rose's act already looks like a novelty entrance. Reminds me of Al Snow's head gimmick, which "worked" in the small ECW environment but totally failed in the WWF. WTF was that Fandango angle about ? Now thet Bryan is out (poor guy, he can't get a break), The Shield are totally carrying this promotion.
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    Well, Rey and Ultimo worked the same non-wrestling-fan/non-paying customers/"racist" crowd at the same Hogg Wild 96 and they got their match over. Granted, it was much shorter and flashy spots oriented than the Malenko/Benoit "technical clinic" but they were still two japanese and mexican short guys in bright colorful attires. Not the stuff the biker crowd would easily eat up. Oh God I rewatched this a few weeks ago. They just killed the audience dead. Typical Malenko at his worst. Like I said, he's probably the greatest most tone deaf worker ever.
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    Since one of them is dating John Cena ?
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    Ok, third match in a row = overkill.
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    Funny bits with Hogan talking about olympic wrestling move. Savage & Sting showing up kept the interest up, as those Hogan promos, as fun as they were at this point, had a tendency to go nowhere if nothing happened otherwise.
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    Really good for what is was, but kinda rushed to amount to anything. I agree Psychosis looked more interesting against Regal than against most of the luchadors. With his frame he should have worked more with the guys like Regal, Finlay and Benoit for the TV title instead of playing perenial JTTS oversized cruiserweight. (ditto La Parka).
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    Okay, another match at the end of Januray tagging with McMicheal vs the Amazing French Canadian. I'm stopping right there, but Arn was still working early in 97. I don't know how all those matches eluded you.
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    Great Bischoff bullying segment. Just a classic stuff, much like the following week angle. The Outsiders laughing is just awesomely cruel. Anderson plays his role well here, just a referee doing his job and not used to deal with the bullshit and the powerdrunk assholes.
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    True. But it was very striking with the Outlaws because they had the über catchy entrance.
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    Not nearly as fun as the Robin Hood match. Nick Patrick was probably tired after working the entire PPV by himself. Giant kicking out of the legdrop was poetic justice. This beatdown foreshadows what would pretty soon be an issue with the nWo angle. What was fresh and shocking is slowly becoming predictable.
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    Bollin as a co-host ? Ok, I'm passing this one. Bollin usually overstays his welcome after 5 minutes.
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    I wasn't enthralled by the whole Bischoff interview. Although hearing him share a beer with Austin makes the 90's scene seem like an eternity ago.
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    To me the standards for ladder matches are all screwed up when idiotic stuntfests are considered great matches. This was a very nice match to me, worked the old-school way, much like the early Bret vs Micheals match from 92, with lot of wrestling and a few ladder spots. There was enough big spots throughout to make the gimmick relevant, and they didn't do a lot of awkward überslow climbs. Waltman seemed more at ease with the ladder than Eddie was, but to say that he totally outworks Eddie here is a stretch. Underrated match.
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    On the contrary, to me the Steiners were perfect opponents for the Outsiders. They were the biggest team of the 90's, and they were truly WCW fixtures of the early 90's, like Sting and Lex Luger. Historical figures of the company. Their WWF stint had been an afterthought. As far as styles went, it also works for me since the Outsiders were big and physical enough to have the Steiner sell for them. This was a pretty decent match, carried by the Outsiders. Kinda slow and plodding at times when Nash was in, but Hall once again was the best of the four. Rick was already really sloppy at this point, and Scott couldn't be bothered to sell his previously injured back, but that's the Steiner for you. The finish was obviously not gonna stand, it's an nWo PPV and Randy Anderson isn't a nWo referee. But a good way to have a feel good moment on the PPV without having the Outsider losing their first match against the Steiners (which would end up being an issue when they would never really lose the belts).
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    The first hot segment of the PPV, following the first decent match too. The nWo B-team (I wouldn't call them C team already) look like idiots and DDP is slowly becoming the people's champion.
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    By mid 98's, yeah I agree, because the Outlaws were still fresh. Until SummerSlam 98, all was fine and dandy, mostly. But by late 98 when the Russoiffic product kicked in, the audience only cared about the entrances and cachphrases.
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    I think the more interesting question is this: Would have Billy Gunn gotten that pop? Nope. The NOA were an entrance. Their match often got crickets. And the entrance was Road Dogg spitting on the mic. There's a reason why every single Billy Gunn push has failed miserably. Road Dog was more charismatic, was a better worker and was a better talker. Billy Gunn had "Mr. Ass" written on his tights, was the "best pure athlete in WWF", had an awkward finish and said "suck it" a lot.
  22. El-P
    I love this angle. This sort of stuff is why I loved Sullivan's booking of Nitro before he got burned out.
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    Total bad-ass opening. On par with what ECW would do. I remember that on the German broadcast, they actually put Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall in the background, which made it even better. On the show itself, there was a lot of stuff that was WTF material (like the Miss nWo contest with zero hot girl or the annoying camera work), but yeah, it was so different and balsy that it gets a A for effort only from me as far as production goes. It could have been done better, and they should have tried to improve it the following year, but I guess the fact it bombed on PPV just killed the whole concept, which is too bad.
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    I had turned the corner a few years ago already on that match that I probbaly used to love in the late 90's, here's what I wrote about it when I rewatched some weeks ago : "I'd rather stare at Liz and Woman in mini-shorts doing nothing for 30 minutes. This is just a bombfest with zero dynamic (your turn/my turn for 30 minutes) and no effort to involve a dead crowd. Yeah, worked in a vaacum. Ultimo vs Rey craps on this match so hard it's not funny. And the timekeeper announcing that only 5 minutes were left as a total giveaway made it even more annoying. It's telling that Woman interfering got the most heat. I don't blame the crowd. Most overrated match of the year." Yeah, there are dead crowds that you can't get into anything. JWP crowds in the mid 90's were infamous for being silent while watching matches that would get tremendous reactions in front of your average Korakuen hardcores. But this wasn't one of them. Rey got them to cheer for him earlier on. Malenko is the picture perfect exemple of "working in a vaacum" most of the time, and that makes him amazingly frustrating to watch. Like Muraco is the greatest laziest wrestler ever (this side of Muto), Malenko is the greatest tone deaf wrestler ever.
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    This.
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