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  1. El-P
    Really well done, serious and "real", but Flair as a family man is a hoot. Gene, as annoying as he could be sometime with the hotline, really added to the flair, no pun intended, of the WCW product. Made it feel more big time, and working with Flair just felt so right.
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    Great job by WCW production. Excellent video opening.
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    Watching Jesse Ventura's shoot interview, I'm amazed at how good Jesse comes off. Well, not that amazed, but he comes off a lot more humble and down to earth than I would have ever thought. Sure he puts himself over quite a bit, but never in an obnoxious way, and really comes of more like a very smart guy, much smarter than pretty much anyone else (which kinda explain why he did so good with himself too). I loved the part where he explains that he wouldn't hang out much with other wrestlers and stay in his room a lot, and the end result is that he's been married with the same wife, his first, for the last 37 years. Of course he's as articulate as ever so he's a great story teller. Only wish it wouldn't be RF in front of him asking questions, as he's as inept as ever (a few times during the interview Jesse talks about stuff that happened during his WWE HoF induction, and of course toward the end of the interview RF asks him : "Would you like to go to the WWE HoF ?". What a cretin.)
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    Say it again. Macho King was the epithome of awesome. And Queen Sherri... Should have got the belt back on him with this gimmick at some point.
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    I like those snowy vignettes.
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    I recon it's odd to see a Harris boy selling blunder shots from Cornette the same way they do from the Moondogs. Well, you can argue they suck at their job, which they do, but it's also the booking and Cornette pushing himself too much here. Anyway, I couldn't care less about those two teams. (at time SMW really looks like a proto-ECW in many ways)
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    Too bad it was basically a Nitro match, but a fun one. I always wished Del Ray had been pushed in single at one point, too bad he didn't last in WCW.
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    That is the best part of this segment. These tapes from Murdoch are so low-tech, there's something a bit seedy here...
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    Murdoch is insane. Not a big fan of the whole Bullet deal though, but I'm enjoying the heels he get thrown against, Funk, Sullivan, now Murdoch.
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    Well, I don't argue against the first part of the sentence. And he was a precursor to the HOF candidate, the infamous WCW Yetay... Wasn't that a Rick Rubin idea BTW ?
  11. El-P
    Prince Kharis : wrestling the way it used to be, and the way you like.... wait ! What ???
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    Substantial matches on TV is the only thing that lacks in SMW. This one is pretty cool, but it's only a backdrop for the major feuds involving, yikes, the Bruises and the Moondogs. Put those two teams together and have them crap the ring in a lame brawl and let the Bodies and R'n'R work a thousand matches together. Anyway, good match and the post-match angle with Tracey and DWB is great. That's the big positive of Cornette's booking, and that's pretty rare in wrestling sadly.
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    Flair is great is this setting. I love these kind of interviews because it feels legit and real. The build to Flair vs Vader was simple and excellent.
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    Didn't realize Bischoff already had such powers in 1993. I thought he got in charge only in 1994.
  15. El-P
    So, 100 million $ down the drain. Jeez, could I have just one, I promise I'll do a much better use than this.
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    What happened with Davey Boy anyway ?
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    Ah, Vader being Vader was great. He really had *it*, he was special.
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    Red hot debut for Ray Trailor. What was the situation with Davey ? Was he fired for any specific reasons ? He sure didn't last very long despite having good matches with Vader. Anyway, the whole gimmick infringement is so blatant here, what were they thinking ? Of course coming back as Big Bubba would probably wouldn't have got a superstar reaction like it did here. Bubba was off AJPW, so it's not exactly a jump from WWF to WCW, still just a few months after Gene Okerlund it's indeed quite interesting to see Bossman in WCW as a sign of things to come. The difference being that Trailor was still in his prime, as showed by this spectacular performance, an excellent TV sprint that put a fire under Rude's ass. Best Rude match of the year ? I would say so.
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    What the fuck ? I thought this segment was pretty disapointing. They could have edited a cool and epic video for Flair. Instead you got Gene talking about WWF and a basketball coach. What ? Not good.
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    I've yet to see one Bruises match I enjoy in SMW (I love Rage in the Cage but it's a multi-man match so...), and I don't think I have enjoyed any in ECW. They had a few decent ones in WWF from what I remember and none in WCW (and they had that horrible corporate gimmcik there which made things even worse). One thing I'll give Ron, or Don, whoever was the one who talked, is that he wasn't a bad promo. I'm loving every minute of this too.
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    I'm loving the DWB turn, it's done so smoothly and organically, with actual logic in how the character interact together (Tracey Smothers not helping DWB against Brian Lee). DWG showing up spices up things too. Tony Anthony is probably my biggest revelation on SMW TV. I'm not enjoying the tag team scene though, Bruises Brothers suck and the Moondogs aren't much better or interesting. Too much boring brawling matches with bad workers here, it really ruins the potential of the R'n'R and the Bodies. I'm not fond of the Bullet either, as Bob Armstrong was fine for a while, but he really can't do much in the ring, and the gimmick really feels dated. Cornette vs Bob Armstrong was pretty cool, and I don't understand why the Armstrongs were put on hold while the Bodies feud with the Bruise Brothers. Anyway, the TV is still really fun overall, but not as much as it was at the middle of the year. It's really carried by Candido on the undercard and Lee vs DWB which is a great program as far as angles go. Tracey Smothers badly need something to do.
  22. El-P
    Barely decent, but that is to be expected with the Bruises. Man, this guys had a good look but they were so uninteresting in any other way. A bunch of big boots are their only semi-decent looking offense. The Bodies bump a bit but there is just nothing to bump of really. Cornette's intervention is goofy but why not ? I don't care for this program, just like I don't care for the Moondogs showing up. This is right with the other terrible teams that ended up in ECW later. No interest in that kind of lame brawling.
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    This is embarassing.
  24. El-P
    Awesome, and well done indeed. Great line.
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    I love that Tracey is not helping DWB and that they don't ignore their past like they would in any other promotion with cheesy face and heel turns. Really well done indeed, and Tracey was really good on commentary
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