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  1. El-P
    To set up Armstrong and prove he was sincere, Cornette has garanteed he would refund everyone if Bob & Terry wouldn't win, and gave out a 50.000 $ check to Sandy Scott in advance in the case he would have to pay. Pretty clever.
  2. El-P
    The turn is well done, although obvious by this point. The announcer Chip Kessler repeating "What kind of a present is a fireball ?" again and again was quite amusing. Otherwise, he sucks. Hey, Buchanan ! I agree Cornette is looking too strong offensively, he should only get a few shots in. Cornette vs Bullet Bob *again*. It's obvious Cornette's booking was exhausted at this point, and the bad houses reflect it.
  3. El-P
    Vanilla Ice rejects indeed.
  4. El-P
    What showed of the match is pretty great. So much great shit from PJ-13, they were so underrated, and it's too bad they never got a better stint in either of the "big three" in the late 90's.
  5. El-P
    Chip Kessler is not only a creepy looking no blinking guy, he's also an annoying announcer. Yeah, it seems like a very good match, Morton just refuse to decline it seems. It's also funny to see how they didn't even try to pretend that this was about the Rock'n Roll Express anymore, it's alla bout Ricky Morton who just happen to have an ugly and mute partner. That finish makes me think Cornette booked that Diesel vs Bret Hart match in early 1996. Al Snow seemed to have peaked in SMW indeed.
  6. El-P
    The Thugs cut a intense promo, but I'm so not getting into the Gangstas at this point.
  7. El-P
    I didn't think he came off as boring and dry during that interview. To me he came off more like a guy with his feet on the ground, treating pro-wrestling for what it is, a way to make a living, and that's probably why he's one of those guys who didn't get into trouble, dind't do fucked up shit and does live a normal life afterward. This may not be the most exciting thing you'll heard, but it left me on a good and positive impression on the guy. He did state that I.R.S was his favourite gimmick. It sure ain't Tammy Sytch saying she loves anal and such...
  8. El-P
    Two really good promos doing a good job hyping teh dangerosity of ths scaffold match. I usually don't care for this kind of gimmick as he rarely delivers anything watchable, but these interviews made as good of a job possible to make me want to see the match. Dropping the watermelon gave a pretty gritty visual.
  9. El-P
    Memphis music videos are always great camp.
  10. El-P
    Ah ah ! Well done. I didn't see it coming.
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    Paul Orndorff

    El-P replied to Loss's topic in The Microscope

    Nope. I've been quite impressed with Orndorff in the 90's. Not impressed in a "he had great matches way", but impressed in how hard he worked most of the time, both in SMW and WCW. He was clearly the best worker in SMW during his tenure, and maintain that level of work in WCW for the 2/3rd of 1993 like Matt said. Then his work softened a little bit, but he still found ways to maintain a plateau level, adding some cool goofy maneurisms to his elbow drop for instance. It took some time for Pretty Wondeful to work as a unit, and it never went past the point of being a pretty good team, although toward the end Roma was more fun to watch thatn he's ever been. The problem is that they never quite got a chemistry with Stars & Stripes, and they worked against them a lot. By 1995 Orndorff was still mostly working hard and was showing no sign of "old guy wrestling" at all. Fine undercard veteran wrestler, fun interview. The guy's stock has gone way with me.
  12. El-P
    Although I've only seen it on edited form, the Rock'n Roll Express vs Al Snow and Unabomb match from April 1995 in SMW just may be the best Glen Jacobs match ever.
  13. El-P
    Muraco is the greateast laziest wrestler ever. Or the laziest greatest wrestler ever. Which makes him the most frustrating wrestler ever, because you know he could. But he rarely would.
  14. El-P
    You know who that applies to in me case, right ? Ok, I'll stop.
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    Sid

    El-P replied to MikeCampbell's topic in The Microscope

    No cultural issue at all. I suffered through the immense boredom of Jimmy Golden in SMW where he showed me nothing but dullness and mediocrity, the I just suffered through Jimmy Golden in WCW where he was even worse to me because he was featured more proeminently and dragged Dustin Rhodes down with him (oh yeah, they had one fun brawl in a 10 months feud). Jimmy Golden makes Mike Rotunda looks like Terry Funk. (meanwhile, I love Tony Anthony, Dick Murdoch, Tracey Smothers, Buddy Landell and shitloads of deeply southern wrestlers so I don't see the point of cultural issue here. Golden is just not very good and very very boring)
  16. El-P
    Oh yes you can. (I'll admit though, the answer to the Meltzer ratings question was pretty damn funny)
  17. El-P
    I hated Norman, like I hate most babyface "slow" character in wrestling. But damn, that trio was the most random thing ever in WCW. WAResque in its randomness. Captain Mike was really a stupid gimmick, but I heard Rotundo actually got a boat out of it !
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    Sid

    El-P replied to MikeCampbell's topic in The Microscope

    He's got half the brain you do (I know, I know, but this has to be my favourite fucked up promo ever). Sometime you watch a Sid sqaush match and you think he's a lot of fun. Sometime you watch a Sid promo you think think he's a lot of fun. Then you see an actual watch and you're reminded that he was inept at playing his role. He was a funny big man stupid bumped tough. But yeah, Sid sucked. He sure had the aura, until he started working. And then he looked like a gigantic tool. Revisiting Sid during my WCW watch hasn't changed my views on him one bit. He sucks. But he's fun at sucking indeed (which makes him way superior to Jimmy Golden, who is fun at nothing, for instance).
  19. El-P
    I don't care for this feud, but Landell was quite funny and had some great insults.
  20. El-P
    Good serious promo here. Funk could do it all.
  21. El-P
    Terry Funk is out of his fucking mind ! The classical music puts this one over the top ! Awesome. I never get tired of Funk.
  22. El-P
    I'm all about Varsity Club Rotundo too. Really good, solid worker either in tags or single, and the gimmick for perfect for him. He was never the same afterward (I do think he had some injury at some point too).
  23. El-P
    Really enjoyed his stuff in Mid-South with Jake Roberts for instance. One should really not judge him on his WCW stuff (yeah, the Hardliners and succh) as he was way past his prime then.
  24. El-P
    Another guy who probably peaked in mid-south. Really enjoyed him there. At times he really was too far on the Terry Funk clone side for me but overall he was a pretty solid kind of worker. He re-surfaced many times in WCW later on for short, nameless tag team stints (with Greg Valentine, Dick Murdoch, and.. gasp... Jimmy Golden too).
  25. El-P
    Why not. But the promotion is getting really flat to me at this point, as is the Gangstas' gimmick. Discrimination blah blah blah.
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