El-P
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Bullet Bob was 54 at the time, and he looked in great shape. Stong promo.
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Finally a long, exciting match on TV. Man, Barry was great. Blowing his knee really ended his awesome run of nearly three years of constant post-prime excellence. It's funny how they just don't involve Roma at all. Poor guy. Flair alreally had turned into Tenryu at this point, which really at 44 I'm totally fine with (although Tenryu at the same age was way way better than Flair). Bye bye great Barry Windham, it has been awesome. -
You can see in this one that Dustin has the ability to turn any stupid shit into something. Really one of the best at escaping the whirlwind of suck of bad writing, as he would show later during the Goldbooker era. So yeah, this is actually pretty funny thanks to Dustin kinda getting caught up into being called a good country singer. Foley and Dustin could have done so much more together in WWF when they got paired up for a while.
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Well, at least Foley makes this one better than the previous ones. Which isn't hard.
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The Assassin looks like a bloated SM fetichist. I couldn't care less about Dusty vs Assassin. Ole, we're in 1993.
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There it is, I'm at the point where watching WCW gives me headaches. For the first time since I began my WCW project with 1989, I'm finding the product so bad it's embarrassing. And it's not because of a lack of talent in the roster. In term of matches, Clash 23 was actually very good, with the great Scorp vs Windham match, a cool 6-man which had Dustin Rhodes really shine against Rude/Vader and Sid (who did look useless compared to the other two of course), and the fun Hollywwod Blonds vs Arn/Flair (fun because of the work, not the bad booking). Plus Lord Steven debuts around this time, so there is some good stuff. But the TV is just marred with god awful segments, highlighted by the rotten triumvirat of suck that are Cheatum the Evil Midget/Searching for Cactus Jack/Flair for the Gold. There is not much left in term of good match on TV despite the quality workers. Babyface Horsemen with Roma just don't work, Roma's implication makes the thing awkward as hell. As heels maybe it wouldn't have been so bad, but Roma as a face working along Arn and Flair is pretty eye gouging. I'm not particulary fond of Flair's comeback either, as it sets the time machine back 3 years, and it didn't mean anything at the box office. I'm already dreading Flair vs Rude feud, as I remember the matches being quite boring. As it wasn't enough, you get the Assassin calling Dusty Rhodes every week on TV. Thrilling. This is clearly the lowest point ever hit by WCW thus far, as even the boring Summer of 1990, the months of Black Scorpion and the beginning of Bill Watts were far from being just this shitty.
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There's so much horrible things in this. Amazingly horrible. This may be the apex of pre-Russo Wrestlecrap material. Even "there are no Hulkamaniacs here" doesn't approach this masterpiece of suck. The incredibly bad acting (Harley Race is so godamn awful in these segments, bless him). The ridiculousness of the whole thing. The insistance of having that EVIL MIDGET showing up. The kids. The fact Sid and Vader are dressed up in their wrestling gear. Davey Boy saving Sting from a terrorist bombing. And the worst of it all : Sid Vicious in FLIP FLOPS ! Who is the genius who came up with this stuff anyway ?
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Col. Parker is a rather annoying character, but Fuller is a trooper I must say. This segment didn't had anything to it, it was just bad, but also felt rushed, like they knew the whole deal sucked and just wanted to get through with it at this point.
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You don't say. On the same show, you had this shit, another useless Flair for the Gold, Assassin calling for Dusty Rhodes, Roma as a Horseman, Cheatum the Evil Midget and an aborted match between Orndorff and Steamboat, because god knows we don't want any good wrestling on our wrestling show.
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Roma just doesn't fit at all. His presence next to Arn & Flair is just WTF material.
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The Austin does the camera into Arn's DDT is an amazingly quick and crisp sequence. Awesome job by both. I wouldn't say Flair looked old either, as a matter of fact I thought he was a lot of fun here. But he was without a doubt the lesser worker of the three, as Austin and Pillman were on fire, and Arn not too far behind. That being said, I thought the booking sucked and the writing was on the wall, as the Blonds couldn't get a fall on Arn. I mean come on, it's not like Arn doesn't do jobs, so why can't the world champ get one pinfall in a 2/3 ? Especially since the end result is a little dubious to me, the Blonds losing the fall via DQ should make Flair & Arn the champs. Anywway, to me it showed that Ole and Dusty just weren't focused on the future on the company, and that Flair coming back wasn't good for guys like Austin/Pillman/Dustin who should have been the future. Flair was 44, and he already was nostalgia at this point, especially as a face. I didn't know this Clash spunned the break up of the Blonds. It's a shame, they were so much fun together and built momentum, personnality and star power together. Poor Pillman, the guy worked his ass off for years, finally gets a break as a heel and still doesn't get his dues. The whole evolution of his character is understandable, he worked so hard to get so little every time around, no wonder the guy finally became a bit cuckoo. On a funny notes, gotta love the absolute lack of reaction for Roma's save at the end. It's a super pro-Horsemen crowd, and Roma gets crickets when he makes his run-in.
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Scorp brings the offense, but Barry is the one putting it together. He's been consistently excellent to great as soon as he turned heel, and it's not like he was any worse than very good as a face before. MOTYC, probably Barry's swan song. Windham has probably been the best worker in WCW in the span of the three years since he came back in 1990.
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It all began in 1990 for me. WWF Superstars on Canal +, Saturday from 5 to 6 pm. And here I am 22 years later.
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Trip wants a payday? John Paul wants his win back.
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Nope. Dutch is so great in SMW, what a gigantic waste the way WCW and WWF used him.
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WCW is hitting quite a bit of lows during this era, and it all comes down to stupid non-wrestling segments. Poor Foley, he busted himslef to get over a great realistic angle with Vader, and was repayed with this shit. Awful stuff. Not even funny.
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Finally. White meat british babyface Steve Regal wasn't exactly exciting. "Marcus Bagwell ? It's sounds like a sickness !". Ah ! Dundee is great. Talk about getting a gimmick and being at home with it right away.
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WTF were they thinking. The big brass band, the working class applauding for Vader & Sid. My head hurts, this is not funny enough to be so bad it's good like The White Castle of Fear.
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France had wrestling on TV in the 50's and 60's I think, and that's pretty much it. I do think it was pretty big back then, but it didn't last into the 70's I believe, and it has been pretty much dead since then. Germany sure had a much stronger wrestling "culture" with Otto Wanz promotion I'd guess. But I don't see how either can measure up to British wrestling.
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Still funny though, but not hilarious or anything. You can see how Austin oozes "money" here already. Dumb WCW.
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The first true Ric Flair promo since he came back. Way too late though, to me watching in context the damage had been done, and the exctiement of Flair coming back has been reduced a lot by months of nothingness and awful Flair for the Gold segments.
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I didn't know until now that Flair was actually dead as early as mid 1993. God awful segment. Flair & Arn look like sad jokes.
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The worst of the bunch. Builds exactly nothing. Sting doesn't look that pissed at Flair. Hey, remember the Black Scorpion ? I guess times heals all wounds. You gotta love Sting getting to do aerobic with the kids while you can guess what Flair would do to the moms...
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After going through WCW TV from 1989 to mid 1993, Ole Anderson gets the award of shittiest WCW booker of the early 90's, hands down.
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I thought it was really good. The power moves from Davey are insane, especially the delayed suplex and the piggybackdrop. I can understand the DQ as it was the first match in the programm, but coming off such a disaster of a show, yeah it can seem like the rotten cherry on the shitty cake.