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  1. El-P
    For all the talk about Morton not being an attractive guy, I sure know why the girls loved him (I mean, apart of him being Ricky Morton), the guy has really beautiful eyes. It's kidna fascinating as you can build a SMW history as "Fucking up Ricky Morton". He cuts a good promo, although I think he's not putting over his injury enough here. Al Snow is good again, but my god this is the least intense assult *ever* from this girl.
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    Well at this point I'm not trusting Cornette anymore, he seems too confident and amicable. Good stuff.
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    Al Snow's promo was good, but putting Gibson in this cheap-ass looking coffin didn't work for me. Come on, they didn't hammer it shot at all, Al barely put a nail in it and Gibson could have busted out at any moment. He looked like a goof playing "out of breath" like he'd been buried alove or something.
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    Watching his match at Slamboree 1995 against Wahoo, the first thing that came to mind was that he looked better than anyone from the two previous matches on the PPV (granted, these were Harlem Heat vs Nasty Boys and Sullivan vs no-name-Beefcake). Then I thought : "Why the hell isn't he employed when they have a guy like Dick Slater on the roster ?". And then : "Why the fuck didn't HE feud with Dustin Rhodes in 1994 instead of that dullhead Jimmy Golden ???". I would have loved a year long Murdock vs Rhodes feud, and the story would have been that much compelling culminating with Murdoch vs Dusty during the WarGames.
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    You're doing a great job with the subforums. Really cool.
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    Agreed with pretty much anything already said here. The match itself is a bit of a mess, and Hogan really suck here, working extra loose, showing bad timing and being all over the place. Savage actually took Vader's moonsault, which looked to be really brutal, but they didn't do anything with it. Stupid. Flair taking the fall was yet another disgraceful Hogan shithead idea I guess. Post-match beating puts at least some heat back on the heels, but Flair's punched don't look that great (but hey, he was taking care of Poffo). And yes, Bischoff really sucked donkey ass at this point as an announcer, the whole PPV was a chore to sit through. This match is also notable for the very first time Paul Wight was showed on TV, as a gigantic man watching the match from the entrance way.
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    I'm not familiar with the Clash match, but this one is good, the best of Alex Wright thus far. He's still really green, but Arn did a great job setting spots for him. The DDT was so brutal that Arn got a huge face pop from it.
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    Yeah, this was pretty out of place at this point in WCW. Terry Funk's speech for pretty cool though. I think the deliberate tone was a way to make it seem more serious. Hey, Dusty says hello to his grand daughter Dakota, but no word for the mother, eh eh.
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    What an ugly match. Knobbs comes out late in the match for the hot tag as he was supposed to be injured, and Saggs worked 90% of it alone. At one point Stevie Ray fucks up a legdrop from the first or second rope in the most glorious way. Sherri takes the biggest bumps in the match. She's got guts and she's the reason the whole thing was watchable. The Nasties are tag champs again. Yawn. They suck.
  10. El-P
    No it doesn't.
  11. El-P
    Those will probably interest me as well. I remember not being that big of a fan of the Regal vs Sting PPV match in 1996, as to me it was a case of Sting shrugging off Regal's entire stretch of offense in 2 sec from nowhere and taking the match home.
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    At this point I'm used to Tony & Bobby, sadly. I'm glad to have Tony/Dusty on Prime. I'm not saying the bump in the barricade would have changed much, but two years prior Sting would have probably launched himself into it with enthousiasm. Orndorff worked obviously harder when he had opponents at the same level on the totem pole, and by 1995 he wasn't as good as he was in 92/93. Here he knows he won't get a strong match and doesn't go the extra mile at all, indeed, but he's still the one putting the match together. Sting just was cruising. I don't know if the fact Hogan showed up and basically relegated him to be "the most popular WCW wrestler" as said by the announcers had a role in it. The timeframe of his demotivation seems to match pretty well (although his matches with Flair in 1994 before Hogan showed up already showed signed of decline in term of work, but maybe it was just the fact of working with Flair that turned back the clock to 1990).
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    Another interesting contrast is the Sting vs Paul Orndorff match on 05/20. Orndorff is obviously much lower on the totem pole, and it shows in Sting's work, as he doesn't try to have a strong match at all. Orndorff carries the match and brings the structure and transitions, complete with stalling at the beginning Larry Z. style (in a good way, Orndorff is a master at getting heat for doing nothing, although he doesn't get that much here since it's obvious he has no chance against Sting). As a sign that Sting wasn't working that hard anymore, there's an interesting spot in which Orndorff is trying to launch Sting into the steel barricades at ringside, and Sting won't have none of it, refusing to go for it, and Orndorff basically takes Sting back inside the ring. Orndorff, 46 at the time, worked harder than Sting, who really didn't do much to make the match good.
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    Man, DDP almost ran over Bischoff here ! This s legit funny, and Kimberly is very good again. Maxx pulverizing the ball, DDP's outfit, Kim carrying the clubs. Good stuff.
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    I thought these two would be Steamboat and Douglas. It's kinda amazing how in those body suits you actually don't recognize the body shape of Hogan and Savage. That is, until they start moving of course. In term of Hogan angle in 95, it's actually pretty decent indeed.
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    Why didn't they just put Austin with them and reform the 4 Horsemen at this point ? It would have ruled too much I guess.
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    Yeah, what the fuck was that acoustic guitar tune for ? This is where they should have introduced Lanny instead of that awful Renegade gimmick. Randy and him really have the same exact way to say "okay".
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    This is basically what I think too. I have trouble finding entertainment in characters/angle/promos when I absolutely know beforehand I won't be able to enjoy the match that will derive from them, or if I'm positive nothing in term of actual pro-wrestling match will derive from them. That's why for instance I don't care about some legit funny promos and vignettes by Public Enemy or good intense promos by New Jack in ECW. because I know I won't get my good wrestling out of that eventually. On the other hand, me liking DDP as a worker makes me enjoy his funny little nouveau riche vignettes probbaly more than I should. Like I enjoyed Raven's goofy "rich kid" vignettes because I also enjoy Raven as an in-ring worker. That's also why in the end, as much as I enjoyed SMW TV, I have a little frustration about it because of teh lack of actual good competitive wrestling match on it, especially from 94 and on, and the fact it's such a promo and angle driven promotion without always being able to watch the actual matches (or watch them in poor conditions). I love promos and angles, but I don't love them as much when they are disconnected from the matches, and I feel a disapointment when the match don't resonnate as well as the promos that have been building it (for instance, the Jake vs DWB matches in SMW have been really disapointing to me, even more considering the awesome mic work those two delivered at the time).
  19. El-P
    Doesn't matter. It all appears the same on Kindles.
  20. El-P
    Agreed. As great as he used to do in Memphis, his entire post-Memphis career is irrelevant at best and really bad and annoying at worst. Hart was basically a stooge in both WWF and WCW.
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    And there is the very first appearance of Kevin Nash in WCW. Little did they know. They were pretty awful too, in every aspect.
  22. El-P
    Yeah. Great great match.
  23. El-P
    I love me some Prime. Dusty's announcing is really funny, laid back and busting out Rhodism left and right. Regularly one or two nice little competitive matches on the show, Schiavone obviously having fun doing it. Yep, This C show works for me. Thus far, and with the benefit of B and C shows (I don't have Main Event for 95 though), WCW TV is better in 1995 that it's been for the last half of 1994, thanks to a more dynamic undercard and random matches far from the awful main event scene (which also had its peak in the first Hogan vs Vader). I actually enjoy Harlem Heat quite a bit as they have improved and having Sherri makes them better (great timing and ridiculous bumps), Booker T works super hard and Stevie Ray is... well, he's still mostly really terrible but at times comically bad which always beats boring and dull with me (I'm looking at you Jimmy Golden). They had a nice little chemistry with Stars & Stripes surprisingly. Arn Anderson as a TV champ as delivered the goods (if you except that stupid boxer vs wrestler match), Johnny B. Badd, Pillman and Alex Wright (although still really green) make a nice little undercard babyface bunch, I enjoy Brad Armstrong & Tim Horner a whole lot whenever they're given a little bit of time and offense. Those DDP and Bluebloods vignettes are pretty entertaining. John Tenta and Big Bubba have been good too, especially Tenta. Butcher is pretty much isolated from the rest of the card, as seems to be Duggan at this point (for now at least). Steve Austin is having good matches on TV too (although it's obvious he would never amount to anything with Hogan in place). Really, I've been able to get quite a bit from WCW TV. Of course Hogan has mostly been a complete disgrace, but Savage was pretty motivated as showed by his matches with Tenta and Arn Anderson. Super low expectation probably helps a bit, but still, not as terrible as I thought it would be, hell I might even say it's actually better than the awfuly boring and bad stretch in mid 93.
  24. El-P
    Another pretty funny vignette from DDP. I did think about Landell when they showed that Mercedes.
  25. El-P
    Very well put, totally agree. (I'm so lazy)
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