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  1. El-P
    I would love a good Cornette vs DWB feud, but you have to plug some serious worker with him instead of the worthless, heatless, talentless Johnny K-9. Cornette is gonna have matches with Ron Wright now ? I don't want to sound mean, but this is seriously looking like a retirement home promotion now, after all those Bob Armstrong matches...
  2. El-P
    Morton's great promo is almost enough to make me care about that feud. Almost. Gibson is a zombi.
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    I'm bored to death by Cornette vs Bob at this point. No matter how good of a promo they are, this feud has jumped the shark months ago, and we're still taking about Bob leaving for ever and never be Commisionner, and we're still talking about stipulations and kissing feet. Nope. Kill this already, this is as fresh as a dead fish. Plus we never get any actula good wrestling out of it. The Wargames match was the perfect ending to this feud. Pretty cool to see Cactus in SMW.
  4. El-P
    My issue with the Gangstas video, which is fun nonetheless : it makes all black people heels. Seriously, that was bad heat at this point.
  5. El-P
    Ole is still an excellent promo and is good in his role here, introducing his son. Good no nonsense vignette.
  6. El-P
    With the bizarre ring with no skirt, the outdoor setting with no crowd on the floor, this looks like some Puerto Rico match. At this point the Rock'n Roll do look older and dated, I have to admit. Gibson barely does anything and Morton is an auto-pilot. It's enough to have a semi-decent match with the Gangstas, but the restart/immediate finish I always hated. The best thing about this match is to watch the two black kids in the front row, in the middle of an ocean of white rednecks, chearing for the Gangstas. Fight the power and bring the noise kids ! (Armstrong assuming the role of commisionner again despite not actually being the commissionner is annoying)
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    Thus far they are quite boring on control. Not bad, but rather really green. And no intensity, which really negates the gimmick. And they had way more tools in ECW. Actual tools I mean.
  8. El-P
    September of 1994 just isn't very good at all. I almost wrote "goof", and that's because the goofy stuff with Candido, Tammy & Boo Bradley is the only thing I enjoy at this point (and that's despite basically feuding with Lance Storm...). The Gangstas are all about New Jack cutting racist promos, because in the ring they just don't deliver shit. And I'm tired of Ricky Morton getting beat up at this point. The other thing I'm really, and I mean really getting tired of is Cornette vs Bob Armstrong. That was fun for a while, but at this point this is FF material for me, it has overstayed its welcome to a ridiculous degree. Plus the main-event scene is cluttered with Killer Kyle (seriously ?) and Bruiser Bedlam, who sucks even worse. A huge waste of DWB and Smothers. Yep, the promotion seems really tired at this point.
  9. El-P
    Morton cuts a good promo, but this feud just isn't working for me.
  10. El-P
    Oh no ! Candido is the only fun part of SMW left at this point.
  11. El-P
    Yep, another great offensive promo from New Jack. But after the first few matches between the two teams, I have to say I already don't care anymore about that feud. Gangstas aren't good in the ring, and it ends up being another feud that doesn't deliver as far as matches go.
  12. El-P
    Interesting point. And really, since the beginning of SMW, Robert Gibson does look like he's around for the ride. Decent little brawl, but the Gangstas just don't do it for me in SMW either after all. Still fun promos from New Jack.
  13. El-P
    And there you go. New Jack cuts a great promo, but in the ring the Gangstas are pretty much greenhorns with no much talent to showcase. Nothing match, boring beatdown. I feel I won't enjoy the SMW Gangstas much more than I did the ECW ones.
  14. El-P
    That's pretty glorious.
  15. El-P
    Funny you should drop Brad's name here, as to me he's the perfect exemple of underwhelming as all hell. He's got more babyface fire and charisma than Taylor, but his matches often (I'd say 90% of the time, and I watch shitloads of Brad Armstrong lately) are quite bland because his work never gets past a rather pedestrian babyface formula. The Vader squash is the best thing I've seen Arsmtrong involved in because Vader and the very short time prevented him from working that way, but usually Brad is always a disapointment to me to the point I don't subscribe to the "underrated" or "underpushed" talking point anymore. What has been said at the time of his death explains a lot though, he just didn't care about performing at a higher level because he was happy just doing his work. Taylor was a total natural heel, and he has said in interviews he loved working as a heel and not much as a face, which is telling also. I can't figure who's worse between Knobbs and Vampiro. What I've seen from Knobbs lately has been both embarrassingly bad and pretty dangerous. Vampiro was just embarrassingly bad so I would go for Vamp ahead of Knobbs. Both are at the very bottom of the barrel anyway.
  16. El-P
    Ok, I didn't say anything. Inoki's just batshit insane.
  17. El-P
    Agreed. The York Foundation was my favourite part of WCW all year long.
  18. El-P
    Well, before the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein was a "good guy". Inoki's totally insane anyway.
  19. El-P
    I'll never get the Terry Taylor hate. Yes, he's rather dull as a babyface, but he's solid as hell nonetheless. And he's tons of fun as a heel. I like Jarrett quite a bit too, although obviously once he was pushed to main event by Russo with a horrible gimmick and a horrible finisher, things got awry. Jarrett as a Memphis style heel like he worked with Michaels in 1995 would have been the best way to go. Wait, this is a negativity thread. Can't think of anyone right now. I've became too much a positive wrestling fan I guess.......
  20. El-P
    Horribly boring match. The Birds were pretty awful at this point.
  21. El-P

    Longevity

    El-P replied to Dylan Waco's topic in Pro Wrestling

    Man I think that Eddie match is overrated as fuck. I'm not saying it's a bad match, but it sort of reminds me of the Bret match from Souled Out 98 in that it's two guys who are all time greats and it goes pretty long so you expect it to be something special and while it's not bad it's just really there. Maybe I should watch it again Having watched the Bret match a few years back, this is a something I find perfectly good. But I didn't expect anything special at this point from Flair either, so maybe that's why I'm happy with the match as it is. On the Eddie match, it's a totally different story, to me it looked like a style clash and big time generation gap between two workers who just can't work well together. Flair is doing old man Flair stuff (meaning : same Flair spots he was always doing, only in a slower, less athletical way) while Eddie was drenched into his own Japanese/Lucha-infused cruiserweight style, and it just didn't click at all. I guess both would be to blame here, although it's obvious at this point Eddie was a pretty terrfic worker while Flair was simply a "fun veteran". And they didn't find a way to make it work together. I would guess Eddie later in his career would have found a way. I think anyone expecting automatic great matches from Flair after 1993/4 just because he's Flair is fooling himself. I remember mostly really enjoying Flair in 1996, but by no mean he was a great worker anymore at this point. I'm eager to revisit that period for many different reasons, but I would be surprised if my opinion on Flair would change much.
  22. El-P
    Edge says hello.
  23. El-P
    That reminds me the Shining Wizard craze in the early 00's. That move was all over the place, a sign of Mutoh's incredible popularity at this point when he reinvented himself.
  24. El-P
    Yeah, but I love Dick Murdoch.
  25. El-P

    Longevity

    El-P replied to Dylan Waco's topic in Pro Wrestling

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