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  1. El-P
    Excellent match. Lost a bit of steam by the end as Austin does still rely on chinlocks a bit too much at times. Not as good as the Superbrawl match, and it really seems like the DA is quickly fading out at this time, which sucks. Windham has gained quite a bit of weight in a year, but he's still fantastic there. Austin has improved a lot since his debut, it's nice to see him evolve. Madusa's legs are killers. Where the fuck was Paul E. ?
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    Best match involving Nikita since he came back. I was really down on him, and I still think he sucks on offense, but I admit he was pretty decent here working against smaller guys, and actually good working outside the ring cheerleading Steamboat and putting over what was happening inside. You can feel Pillman is frustrated at this point and works really hard to show up Watts, including going to the tope rope often. Liger ruled, although was a bit off in spots, but you can blame unfamiliarity. Yes, kinda disjointed, but overall a cool match. (loved Ventura dropping Eddie Carpentier's name)
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    You can feel Douglas' frustration during the whole tenure. Yet he was a trooper and sported the baby blue with... well, somewhat pride.
  4. El-P
    I loved those vignettes. Loved Goldust from day one. Immediately one of my all-time favourite gimmick, just like it happened with Taker.
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    Watching in context, it's amazing how quickly Watts made WCW TV boring after the great first 6 months of 1992.
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    Yeah, Cornette was awesome. Great promo, great color guy. Doesn't belong here.
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    Ted DiBiase was pretty boring and uneffective as a color guy.
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    Yep, I always found Piper pretty unbearable for this reason.
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    Ii would be remiss on my part if I didn't mention Guy Hauray who at times was fabulous.
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    "He's going to the pay window, baby, on da mothership."
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    I've only seen 1992, and I agree. Dutch was fantastic. He was funny, he was smart and articulate, he was getting the storylines over while being a total sleazy chickenshit heel. Tremendous.
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    I hate "Jimmy Hart the Hogan cheerleader" so much. Had his head so far up Hogan's ass it was unbearable.
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    That doesn't make it the "worst major show ever". The "most inconvenient one" if you want to. That being said, I have no idea how the audience would not be totally drained. Must have been a cool experience nonetheless to be there.
  14. El-P
    They could at least gave him the awesome Furman gimmick...
  15. El-P
    Fuck. Alex Wright was a much better worker and had tons more potential that Leveque. Who would have thought back then that this guy would inherit the WWF ?
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    Pretty much the last time you'd see the "good" Hacksaw Duggan in the ring. And his best match since his Mid-South days. I remember really enjoying Sting vs Tenta too.
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    Better than the Beach Blast match for obvious reasons, they didn't had to kill time. Excellent match, but Doc & Gordy have had better ones in AJ. As far as the Steiner goes though, it's easily one of their best match ever, again for obvious reasons, Doc & Gordy were a fantastic team and provided the structure that normal Steiner matches lack. Nifty amateur influenced work at the beginning, stiffness, great suplexes which actually meant something for once, great work by Doc & Gordy who just won't be intimidated by the Steiners, which makes the whole match more fresh and more intense than ever. You get the feeling Doc & Gordy could have done more and that they were not going full bore (they didn't do that much in term of big moves), keeping stuff aside for matches to come. Loved it.
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    I remember Wellington killing jobbers in MPro in the late 90's. Very much a spot-a-thon, but a fun one. Odd to think Benoit & Pillman would be Horsemen 3 years later.
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    Agreed. I never got the appeal of the E/C vs Hardys vs Duds matches outside of them being spectacular but carefuly choreographed stuntfests. And when I mean stuntfest, it's to underline the fact that these were not even spotfest in a wrestling sense, these were all about a bunch of guys doing stunts with props and falling from high places. If anything, it makes the WM X match even more relevant now because compared to those matches, it looks even more like a wrestling match which happened to have a prop to get to the belt, as opposed to "hey, look at me while I'm crashing down through a bunch of tables." Maybe the Benoit vs Jericho ladder match makes Shawn vs Razor dated, but I'm not sure.
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    Agreed about the booking making no sense with non-titles matches and two 30 minutes matches on the same show, which drained the audience, especially when Doc & Gordy weren't over much. Anyway, I hadn't seen this in ages, and it's way better than I remembered it to be. What's cool is that there's no way the Steiners were gonna bully Doc & Gordy around. Doc & Gordy really give the entire match its structure, so I like it much better than all those vaunted Steiners spotfest. Cool amateur stuff early on. Doc had really progressed working all this time in AJ and it shows. Gordy is great. The Steiners are kinda shitty face in peril, and although they work obviously toward a long match (meaning : slow pace), they do get some got heat at the end. Gotta love Gordy keeping an hear on teh final countdown, and as idiot Steiner is doing hand gesture to the public while only a few seconds left, Gordy immediately gets up to feed him for the frankensteiner before it's too late. Gordy was great. Anyway, I liked this quite a bit.
  21. El-P
    Agreed. Great work, great selling, but the way the match was laid out with too many pins hurt the match a bit to me. I can't stand pinfalls that would just never happen in any other match happening in Iron Man or 2/3 falls. There's no way Steamboat gets pinned with the first and third falls in any kind of match, just no way, so it hurts the perception of the match to me. Especially since they got back at 3-3 anyway to work a great final stretch. Rude's selling is one of the best ever in a US match. The way they worked the sleeprhold and how it cost Rude the final fall is awesome, just like the way Rude goes into panic mode to get even when there's only 30 seconds left. Had this gone to 1-2 or even 2-3 with more credible pinfalls, this would be the MOTY without a doubt. As it is, nope. I'd have a hard time not considering it a great match though, but on the lesser side of great. MOTYC still, of course, who am I kidding, the work and the last ten minutes are just too good. (the tope rope dq rule is complete retardation, especially when a top rope superplex is allowed. Watts was ridiculous with this).
  22. El-P
    This has aged super well. Everything flows naturally. Foley's bumps and spots still look brutal today, and Sting takes his share of abuse too. Some nifty wrestling spots on the concrete too, and a very good use of the guardrails and ramp. I agree Fonzie did a great job, he was really a top notch referee. Funny how safe the chair shots look, and still, it projects the aura of violence instead of stupidly stiffing the fuck out of someone's back like people would in the late 90's. Sting really hit his stride in 1992, he's finally become a cool worker to watch in big matches. Like this a lot.
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    The Mike McGuirk one is actually really interesting.
  24. El-P
    Carlos Colon's shoot interview is the lastest in a long series of worthless shoot interviews. No stories, everyone is "good guy, did good business". Of course he says nothing about Brody getting stabbed, he knows nothing about it. Load of bullshit. Feinstein is really bad as always although he kinda tries to ask tough questions at times.
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    The only real douchebag and criminal Dick Togo is paying hommage to would be, well, General Togo I'd guess.
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