El-P

WEEK 109 (February 05 to 07, 2001) New title holder and swerve turn of the week : Rick Steiner (Nitro) So he beats Douglas as a babyface (in the most watchable single match he had in years, probably since he faced Benoit), then later in the show he betrays Kevin nash who asked him to be his partner to face Scott in a handicap match for the title. Mind you, Rick even waits for Kevin to apply the jacknife on his brother before he drops a single elbow which apparently is enough to pin Nash. So, this is pretty much depressing. How many times has Rick turned ny now ? New heel faction of the week : The Magnificient Seven (Thunder). Magnificient indeed, with Buff Bagwell, Lex Luger, Road Warrior Animal and Rick Steiner being a part of it. The whole Steiner being involved with heel CEO Flair really diluted his character. Classic angle of the week : Rey Mysterio Jr. as El Nino defeats Chavo Guerrero Jr. in a non-title match (Nitro). You know the drill. Works every time when it's executed well, which was the case here, although it would have been fun to see El Nino do the Bronco Buster during the match, which would have been a cool give away. The match promises to be the best match on WCW PPV in ages. Departures of the week : Most of the valets are gone (Nitro/thunder). Leia Meow, Major Gunns, Tygress and Paisley are history. It's kinda odd when all of a sudden all of them just aren't around anymore at the same time, it really shows. Paisley is sorely missing around Kwee-Wee (whose entire act was that he's an effeminate guy with a hot girl), and Leia Meow had a distinctive look which made the Dragons a cool outifit, but the other two really didn't bring much (except that really awkard double Bronco Buster spot Tygress used to do, which always made me think she was rubbing her pussy on he opponent's face while Rey was fucking her ass. Ok, I said it). I could do without Midajah who really has no character and doesn't look that good (way to much surgery), but I'm sure glad they kept Miss Jones around. Comeback of the week : Kanyon, jumping on DDP in the crowd (Nitro). Too bad this angle couldn't have happened during the ridiculously fun Positively Kanyon gimmick time, although Russo would have fucke dit up, but it would have been much better when Kim was still around as a heel and Kanyon was fucking aroud DDP. It's nice to see him pop back on TV so we get some sort of continuity. Match should be fun too. Dustin Rhodes apparently isn't part of WCW so this time he was escorted out of the building by security. So basically they have him the same kinda outsider/loner gimmick he was doing the first time he showed up. They indeed haven't much idea what to do with Dustin after all. The Bill Demott push seems to be history, as his feud with The Wall really takes a backseat to most other undercard feuds. Shane Douglas was talking about using the US title as a stepping stone to the WCW title, and they even had him do a sit down interview with Tenay some time ago, so I guess the idea was to push him up the card at some point, but after losing the US title in a matter of a few weeks to Rick, he's pretty much done. He has been misused up until the very end. The build to Superbrawl is pretty bad on top, but the undercard is shaping to be pretty decent with stuff like Rey vs Chavo, DDP vs Kanyon, Storm vs Cat already.

No, there was no EMT involved in this angle. WEEK 108 (January 29 to 31, 2001) Angle of the week : Ric Flair vs the Rhodes family (Nitro). Ric Flair brings back Dustin Rhodes as the new big star of his WCW, but Dustin tells him to basically shove it. After a short beatdown by Flair & Animal, Dusty shows up to a huge pop, then the usual bionic elbow spot follows. Dusty cuts a promo and there we have something fresh on TV. Dustin was sure paid for a long time to sit at home, he hasn't been seen since the heatless Terry Funk feud. In a way it's a bit sad that he's saddled with only old workers as Dusty Rhodes Jr. at this point of his career, but he's a welcomed addition to a roster that badly needs it, especially on the babyface side. Match of the week : Mamalukes vs Sean O'Haire & Chuck Palumbo (Thunder). Good little match that shows the improvements of the NBT team once again. It seems like they're going toward a babyface turn, as they are challenged by Stasiak & Jindrak in a pretty bad promo segment followed by a really badly timed "jump from behind" attack. I'm curious to see if these four will be able to have a good match together. Usually greenhorns are better off working with veterans. Honorable mention of the week : Kidman vs Shane Helms (Thunder). A little shaky at times, as always with Kidman, but they took the time to sell and didn't do a complete spotfest, which was enjoyable. I like Helms more and more in single, whereas Shannon Moore looks a lot greener and spotty. Funny insult of the week : Konnan calling Reno "Reno Riggins" (Thunder). I chuckled. I always think about Riggins at some point whenever I watch Reno. Awful worker of the week : Rick Steiner (Nitro/Thunder). Man, he looks really awful, and that's against über solid worker Shane Douglas and Jeff Jarrett who's no slouch either. Sloppy, stumbling around, bad timing. And he's getting the US belt the following week. And he's still spitting out his boring catchphrase every time. I don't see any redeeming quality to this guy at this point, and it's been that way since 1999. Stupid angle of the week : DDP gets arrested for "assault" on a fan at a book signing (Nitro). Of course this was a Jeff Jarrett ploy, and it's as stupid as it sounds, with another fake fan falling down "hurt" after DDP barely touched him by accident at the book signing. And when Flair & co went to "visit" DDP in jail on Thunder, he was already out and they got put in his cell. Just idiotic stuff reminiscent of Nash's booking. TV was a bit better this week thanks to a few decent matches and the big Rhodes angle, but there's still way to much terrible shit to call this a real improvement. Rick Steiner getting a push is depressing. Animal worked a tag match with Chavo against Rey & Kidman, and if anything it was fun to see his big power moves applied on the Filthy Animals who made it look like it was 1986 again. Team Canada seems to have no feud right now, which is really a waste since Awesome makes them much better. The top of the card is really marred by Totally Buffed and Kronik, and the Steiner vs Nash feud is flat as hell. They are still talking about Goldberg quite a bit on TV. The good thing I forgot to mention since the last PPV is that Madden seems to be gone for good. That makes the announcing just so much easier to listen to, although Stevie Ray is sorely missed.

No.

That's just perfect.

Well, she does have a large smile on her face.

WEEK 107 (January 23 to 24, 2001) Big news of the week : WCW is being sold by Time Warner (Nitro). This is the first thing they talked baout on the show. I guess they were all thinking Bischoff was coming to save the day, as they talked about it like it was another "angle" of sort, with them being in a transitionnal period again. How to not introduce new talent match of the week : Michael Modest vs Christopher Daniels (Nitro). Daniels had only been on the C-shows thus far. This is the infamous match were Daniels fucks up a few spots, nearly breaks his neck and doesn't leave a good impression. Modest on the other hand looks like he could be marketed as Kevin Sullivan's son, and he works like a much better version of Taz. None of this matters anyway since the match is interrupted by Scott Steiner who kills both of them. Nice way to present new talent. WCW : never learn. Split of the week : MIA are no more (Nitro) Finally, the last reminder of Russo's idiotic gimmicks is gone. Demott gets back to his roots which means he'll abandon his awful gimmick and name for a less but still bad and second rate gimmick and name that he previously had. I don't give a shit about this former MIA members feud with The Wall. WTF angle of the week : Kwee-Wee attacks guys from the security and fans in the crowd (Nitro/Thunder). He's pissed because Flair didn't asked him to be part of his new team. He's got a split personnality, and he's all man since he's got Paisley. I have no idea whatsoever on where this is going. Gawwwwd Noooooo push of the week : Rick Steiner (Nitro). This is it, they're going to push Rick into a feud against Shane Douglas for the US title. Ok, I surrender. White flag. Idiotic "comedic" angle of the week : Glacier comes back but doesn't save Norman's ass (Thunder). All of this is so stupid and reeks of awful modern WWF style comedy. I just won't go into details, it's garbage, and more ways to waste Norman. How to get pinned in 90 seconds match of the week : Cruiserweight Contender Countdown match (Thunder). You know the kind of match where every guys has to eat a pinfall in less than two minutes because it's a giant gauntlet which lasts until one guy pins all the up-coming opponents. Rey wins, which means he'll get Chavo at the PPV. That's the only good news of this week. Seriously, thus far WCW in 2001 has been *bad*. No good wrestling on TV (the highlight of the week must have been a three minutes sprint between Lance Storm & Konnan), tons of shitty bakstage segments, bad comedy, Rick Steiner getting pushed, the Harris brothers getting pushed in single (where one is supposedly hurt and they do the old switcheroo at the end of the match), Animal working tag main events against Kronik. Wow. This is seriously 1999 again, without all the good stuff. It's like Kevin Nash is booking again. I can't wait to be done, really, the product has been better for like three weeks in November before crashing down hard again.

Well, I wasn't going into it expecting anything, really. I've just gone through 24 months of the worst WCW TV since February, so it would take a lot more than a few post to get expectations from me. At this point it can only get better, unless it gets really awful again. Two months to go and I'm outta there.

Great picture ! How young was he then ? He looks just fantastic.

WCW Jan - March 2001 could be argued to be on par with any other period from any other US promotion in terms of in ring and being entertaining. (Obviously this is totally subjective). That's quite a statement and I'm intrigued to see what El-P says as he goes through it. Sorry to say, but thus far, it's not even *good*.

I did't know it was Goldberg's last appearance. It's even worse than I thought then. And yes, Micheal Buffer was still employed on PPV. WEEK 106 (January 15 to 17, 2001) "It was me all along" angle of the week : Ric Flair was the mastermind behind Goldberg's downfall (Nitro). Okay. It makes no sense whatsoever ocnsidering how Flair acted the last two months. Especially when it comes to Mike Sanders whom he forced into a Commisionner match against the Cat. Anyway, so know we have evil Flair + Scott Steiner + Luger + Bagwell + Jarrett as a super heel unit. Needless to say it totally dilutes Steiner's appeal, which was to be a psycho lone wolf of a man. Luger and Bagwell have nothing left I'm sad to say. And on a the babyface side we have now Nash + DDP + the Cat + .... Rick Steiner ? Awww gawwwwd.... And Kronik ? Fuck me. This is what was supposed to be *good* ? Seriously ? Ironic angle of the week : Goldberg's burial (Nitro). Yeah, really ironic considering they really have been burying the guy for two years now, and finally it's down, he's nowhere around. Good job people. You've pissed away the only legit star you created. Clap clap clap. Match of the week : DDP vs Jeff Jarrett (Thunder). Worked in a way where they got the most out of simple stuff, like doing an efficient sleeper spot with a final reversal from DDP into some sort of sleeper Diamond Cutter or something. Both looked good despite clearly not overextending themselves (although DDP always works pretty hard, even at this point). I could live with a single feud between those two. Cosmetic change of the week : Mike Awesome got a haircut courtesy of Konnan (Nitro) I liked the long hair better, added more visual effect to teh big power moves of Awesome. The match against Konnan was pretty decent all things considered, as Konnan isn't afraid to take Awesome's offense. On Thunder Awesome had a good match against Kidman, whom he was supposed to face on Nitro in a hair vs hair match. Team Canada is still the best heel faction on TV and they look good by winning matches without too much bullshit around. Whatever turn of the week : A-Wall turns on Rection. Cool, so these two will feud together and they will not drag good workers down anymore. I'm so tired of this stupid MIA gimmick. Rection is slowly snapping so a Hugh Morrus comeback is looming. Next opponent for Steiner will probably be Nash. They have no one else and at least Nash can have a good match with Steiner, as showed by the short sprint they had on Nitro. It's not fresh, but it's a good way to keep Steiner occupied before Goldberg comes ba... Ok, sorry. Rick Steiner coming back as a babyface makes no sense and since he was easily one of the worst performer of 1999 and 2000, it can only be bad news. Just pair him with Animal. Kronik are faces once again. Damn the babyface side looks bad. The Cat now can make matches as he wishes, despite the fact Flair was fucking around all the time with Sanders when he was commish, more logic hole than in swiss cheese in this Flair turn. A few good matches involving Chavo (against Crowbar on Nitro), DDP and Team Canada made the TV watchable, but really, this isn't good overall, and Goldberg leaving is just a huge blow to a company in life support.

Agreed.

Well, I wish Larry Z. would be somewhere on my TV screen actually, in any capacity. PPV 25 : Sin 2001 Death of WCW match of the night : Goldberg & Sarge vs Buff Bagwell & Lex Luger. I won't even mention that Goldie should squash these two by himself in about five minutes, hell he did squash freaking Kronik in about five minutes, and he was alone. I won't even mention the torture of going through a Buddy Lee Parker face in peril segment in 2001 in a semi-main event especially with the heat put on by way past their primes Bagwell & Luger. I will mention the fact that Goldberg got blinded by a fan whom he sign an autograph backstage earlier in the show and that he got pinned by Luger effectively "ending his WCW career". Wow. Just wow. Shitty match, shitty feud and now they actually kill Goldberg with a fake fan at ringside who swerved Goldie ? Of course the crowd died. It didn't get heat, they just died. And they were hot for most of the show before that point. Taylor, Ace & Ferrara (of course) were as much dumb fucks as the previous ones. This is garbage. And speaking of garbage... Worst surprise ever since Savio Vega match of the night : Jeff Jarrett vs Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious. The mystery man will only show up when it's time, or so says Flair. Jarrett & Steiner basically work two on one on Sid. Match is awful and totally heatless. Not that the previous Sid main event got any reaction, but here the crowd has been killed and buried by what they saw before, they couldn't give a shit about this bad match. Sid breaking his leg in the most grotesque fashion would almost make it a perfect disaster, then Flair throws the mystery man into the mix. A few people bark, expecting Rick Steiner, which would be horrible in itself, but it's Road Warrior Animal ! Wow. Crowd would die again if they weren't dead already. In the words of Tony Schiavone, cutting his best line in years : "Road Warrior Animal, are you kidding me ?" Nonsensical match of the night : Shane Douglas vs Gen. Rection. I'm a Douglas fan, but this was really stupid. First Blood match with a chain suspended above the ring. Referee checks Douglas and finds a hidden chain in his tights. Rection uses some armdrags and the announcers are trying their best to explain why he would do so in a first blood match. Shane Douglas works the knee and the announcers are trying their best to explain why he would do so in a first blood match. Rection doesn't sell the knee. Rection gets a ladder, but doesn't use it as a weapon to bust out Douglas, you see, a chain suspended above the ring is a much safer choice. Dougas makes Rection fall from the ladder, but he doesn't take the chain that Rection had grabbed, he uses another chain he had hidden in his boots, hits Rection with it, then takes the official chain and shows to the ref that Rection is bleeding. My brain my bleeding too. Garbage match of the night : Terry Funk & Crowbar vs Meng. I take back what I said about Meng, they really work hard to make this look more brutal and special than most hardcore matches in eons. Good for what it was, with Terry going berzerk in the bathroom, Crowbar jumping from a balcony (not too high thankfully) through a table (which in total WCW fashion they missed), Meng taking trash can shots in the face and goofy stuff like this. Grudge match of the night : Big Vito vs Reno. Not much in term of selling, but they really pulled it off on the intensity aspect by beating each other up pretty nicely. I never cared ofr this feud, but this match got me into it thanks to the pacing and execution. Surprisingly good. Shitty run-in match of the night : Insiders vs Chuck Palumbo & Sean O'Haire. Replacing Stasiak by O'Haire makes the match that much better. Still the same formula though, with DDP playing Ricky Morton and Nash coming up to clean the place. It was a decent match until the stupid run in by Luger and Bagwell (wearing a stupid wig) who cost the Insiders the title. What was the point of this ? The NTB look like geeks when they are six and they still need two other guys to defeat the Insiders. Anyway... Fun match of the night : The Cat vs Mike Sanders. You know the drill, Sanders and Cat are funny, Miss Jones is hot and throws a mean high kick. The most fun part is Kronik (yeah, the only time they have been fun thus far) running in to save The Cat, who paid them more than Sanders. They shove Sanders money into his mouth so it flies around when The cat kicks him in the head, making for a great visual. Fun, quick, with a good ending. This also got tons of heat. Good work/stupid gimmick match of the night : Team Canada vs Filthy Animals. Like I feared, the penalty box stip hurt the flow and the pacing of the match, and distracted the director to boot. Plus the reasons why people would be thrown into the boxes weren't always very clear. The work was mostly very good though, so it was enjoyable nonetheless, but it probably would have been the match of the night if not for the gimmick. Hot opener of the night : Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs Shane Helms. Better than I thought it would be, Chavo hold it together and Shane Helms showed his potential. This was a nice throwback to the days of good cruiserweight matches on PPV and launched the night on a very positive vibe. Match of the night : Jung Dragons vs Evan Karagias & Jamie Knoble. Not even announced and yet it ends up being the best match of the night. Rather on the short side, but sweet all action match. It's obvious the Jung Dragons three man team was much better than three count, and it shows here as basically it's them + Evan, who looks pretty good in this setting too. He actually did a 450 splash, which they called a Firebird (a geeky tribute to Hayabusa from Scott Hudson ?). Yang fucked up the finish though, but apart from that, it was all good. Well, I really believed this PPV was gonna be really good after the first few matches. And he was mostly really good for the first half. But with the run in at the end of the tag titles match, things quickly took a nosedive so finally hit the pits of booking and work hell with the three last match. The Goldberg stuff is just mind blowingly retarded, and the final match... what to say ? Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to build to the unveiling of Road Warrior Animal ? Apart from his brother who's booking this shit I mean. And the whole "It was me all along" shit we're gonna get from Flair on Nitro the next night will only make things worse to me. This was a swerve as stupid as anything Russo did, and Animal showing up in the main event is just the rotten cherry on the shitty cake. Sid breaking his leg made the whole thing even more a trainwreck and in a way diverted from the booking atrocity that was the last two matches, but man, they killed their live audience with this shit. So, a really good first half and a really godawful last third. Vintage WCW.

You realize I've been told "It gets pretty good after..." since about the point of August of 00 ?

Yep, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Meng tagging with Barbie was super cool. Meng doing Da Monsta gimmick usually means really shitty match. WEEK 105 (January 8 to 10) Match of the week : Rey Mysterio Jr. & Kidman vs Lance Storm & Elix Skipper (Thunder). Give me Storm vs Rey in a 15 mn match already. Toward the end of the match, they fuked up a spot, and corrected it. Then, Kidman & Skipper fucked up a whole sequence and looked like goofballs. Kidman really hasn't improved one bit, he actually isn't as good as he used to, but he can still fire up a babyface comeback. The match at Sin will have a penalty box gimmick and Jim Duggan as a special referee. Great, more impairing stips. And I thought I would get a good match... Promos exchange of the week : The Cat & Mike Sanders (Thunder). Man, I hate the modern format of one guy in the ring arguing with one guy on the ramp. Anyway, The Cat is pretty funny antogonizing a fat and ugly fan sitting on the front row. Mike Sanders said Miss Jones was hired to be the Commish's assistant so she has to work for him. Okay, he's been commisionner for months and he only mentions it one week before the PPV so we get a "Miss Jones on the line" stipulation ? Rather lame. Miss Jones & The Cat dancing never gets old. Honorable mention of the week : Jeff Jarrett vs Scott Steiner (Nitro) Flair is forcing them on having a match for the WCW title. Pretty decent stuff, although by that point Steiner works the exact same TV match all the time and it begins to show. Sid jumps in for no reason, then we get the "mystery man" who's obviously Rick Steiner here by the way he throws punches, even the audience is doing the requisite dog face gremlin bark. This whole mystery man angle has been awful. Now the PPV match is supposed to be a 4-way. Nothing much to say really, things are really not exciting and the top of the card, with Sid and the mystery man angle on one hand and Goldberg being saddled in that awful Totally Buffed feud with fucking Power Plant midget on the other, is pretty rotten. They are running Reno vs Vito again, like this hasn't been dead since the start. I'm so tired of the Rection push too, and his feud with Douglas is going nowhere so they added a "first blood match" stipulation to put some heat on it. The Team Canada vs Filthy Animals feud is now overscripted with gimmicks. Cat vs Sanders is a rehash, like Insiders vs NBT. Chavo vs Shane Helms could be good, but both are heels. Just dumb booking when you're doing nothing with babyfaces Jamie Knoble & Jung Dragons. The TV was a bit better this week, and Madden was replaced by Disco, but the PPV doesn't look good.

December 00 has been pretty damn bad, and the build to Sin thus far is just as tepid.

It's pretty much the exact same path I followed at the time.

Owen dropping dead. And that was because it was pro wrestling, not some wrestler dying outside of the ring via overdose or years of the hard life like Macho. Even Misawa dying in the ring felt like something that had been inevitable... that it would happen to someone, and he was as likely as anyone given his prominent role in dangerous stuff. Owen... that was different. It was also real. Same thing for me. The only time was Owen dying.

For the Vader match in 1996 alone, you can't hate Inoki. And really, one of the most charismatic wrestler ever, and a complete lunatic. Can't help but love Inoki san.

WEEK 104 (January 3, 2001) Let's kill Goldberg even more angle of the week : Goldberg in a box (Thunder). Kronik attacks Goldberg backstage while Sarge is being dismantled by Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger in the ring, and they put him in a box. Or a crate. Or something. This is garbage. And yes, this feud is Goldie & Sarge vs Luger & Bagwell. Meanwhile, Sid Vicous & Jeff Jarrett are in the main event at the PPV. And Goldberg is in teh box. This company deserved to die. Jim Duggan beatdown of the week : Mike Awesome vs Jim Duggan (Thunder). Ok, enough already with Duggan. He had his moments, it worked for a while, but we really don't need more Jim Duggan matches in 2001. This doesn't look any good obviously. The good news is that the feud is moving toward the Filthy Animals, which on paper looks pretty good. With Nitro preampted for the second week in a row, they only got Thunder this week to build to the PPV, and it doesn't look good. The build to the three-way on top is garbage with the stupid "mystery man" gimmick, and unless something really freaky occurs (uh uh), this looks like a dead issue. What Goldberg is put into is just depressing. The Cat is feuding with Mike Sanders again despite having settled this feud just a few months ago. Douglas vs Rection is as dead as ever. Really, it's striking how thin the roster is at this point in term of talent, and the bookers are using some really bad guys again like Sarge, Sid or Meng (who is funny for two minutes every three months or so). No good solid match on TV, nothing remotely exciting or interesting for weeks now. WCW looks totally dead, really.

Holy shit. Mankind was already over like a mother when he was main eventing against Michaels in 96 and during his feud with Taker. Helped *each other* get over, for fuck sake.

"You're next !" was very efficient though. And the two minutes matches got boring to me very quickly unless the jobber was a special guy who could make it fun. After a while, you want more. It doesn't mean Goldie should have been beaten of course, but as he was getting more comfortable in competitive matches, it was fun to see him with more difficult opponents. Going back to the streak and two minutes jobs in 2000 did nothing for him, it was too late. More than killing everyone in two minutes, the appeal of Goldie is that he never lost. Like, Hulk Hogan or something. Damn, that was hard to figure out for those genius in WCW, who *never* put the belt back on him after Nash got his jerk-off streal killing win. It's amazing to see how they continuously fucked things up with him for two years after Starrcade 98. Amazing.

Come on, this shampoo feud had everything going for money promos...

Having two catchphrases doesn'te mean you're a good promo though. Booker was a decent promo with two catchphrases. And a rather mediocre (if not poor) worker most of the time.

WEEK 103 (December 18 to 22, 2000) Match of the week : Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Lance Storm (Nitro) They could have one hell of a match probably, but this was a short sprint. Rey was selling his injured ribs and Lance worked a bit on it. Just foreshadowing what match they could have more than anything else. Honorable mention of the week : Lance Storm vs Jeff Jarrett (Nitro). This was the same deal, pretty much, these two could have a really good match but his was too short and rushed to amount to anything. Lance outworked Jarrett here, who really doesn't do that much in this setting. Cool spot when the two heels trying to sucker punch each other at the same time as the ref was trying to break them up in the corner. Jarrett wins the match clean with the best looking Stroke ever (I credit Storm for the setup and the bump) and is thrown into the main event three-way match at the next PPV. Of course he pretends he's out there to look out for Steiner and watch his back. The third guy is not known yet but he's been seen backstage then on Thunder with a straight jacket and a goofy hockey mask. Man... Turn of the week : Mike Awesome joins Team Canada (Thunder). Good for Awesome that is getting rid of the 70's gimmick, but he was much needed on the babyface front which is more and more depleted by the weeks. They made a good use of Duggan again, as he apologized for his mistake at the beginning of the show and said his goodbyes, before getting suckered by Awesome into staying around until the end of the show. Then he got lured back in the ring by Storm (who can't get enough of making fun of the parody of democracy that was the presidential election in 2000) and betrayed by Awesome. Let's never get Goldberg back on top feud of the week : Goldberg & Buddy Lee Parker vs Lex Luger & Buff Bagwell (Nitro). Shit. Are they really going to take that road ? The Luger feud flopped, didn't get any heat, and now we're throwing Bagwell in this ? I'm dreading a PPV match between those four, this booking team learned nothing of the mistakes of their predecessors. Goldberg is so dead, and re-working a stupid "streak" gimmick isn't gonna help him when he's saddled with fucking State Patrol/Power Plant jacked up midget Sarge and feuding with Luger whom he squashed twice already and Bagwell who's a low undercarder at this point. Badly exposing match of the week : Shane Helms vs Shannon Moore (Nitro). I have enjoyed their multi-man matches quite a bit, but one against the other, these two are badly exposed for what they are : greenhorns doing sloppy spot-wrestling with counters and counter-counters for no rhyme or reasons. They need to be in the ring with some veterans or solid worker, they can't work a good match together. I realized Torrie Wilson is gone for good. Just as she was getting fun on the mic and as a character. Damn, her pairing with Douglas was perfect. They are running a bizarre angle with Blood Runs Cold...again vignettes being showed and Norman Smiley being all excited about it. With just a few weeks before the next PPV but only one Nitro left because of preamptions on Xmas and New Year's days, the build to Sin will be rushed as all hell. Not looking good.

I just listened to this for the first time, with Sean Waltman. This is fucking great. Austin is awesome.