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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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)
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    Oh yes you can. (I'll admit though, the answer to the Meltzer ratings question was pretty damn funny)
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    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).
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    I don't care for this feud, but Landell was quite funny and had some great insults.
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    Good serious promo here. Funk could do it all.
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    Terry Funk is out of his fucking mind ! The classical music puts this one over the top ! Awesome. I never get tired of Funk.
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    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).
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    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.
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    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).
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    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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    I don't care for the Landell vs Blaze program as to me it made the title look unimportant, but this vignette is excellent.
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    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.
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