El-P

No, everything doesn't come down to subjective opinions. Bret Hart is objectively a better wrestler than Sid. But one can still be more entertained by Sid than by Bret Hart, for various subjective reasons. I know Eric Rohmer is probably a great and important director, but he's not for me and it doesn't interest me much, and I'd rather watch a minor comedy by some minor director simply because I enjoy it more. That won't change the fact that yes, Eric Rohmer is a great director. Just not for me.

Better than it looks on paper. Flamingo's offense is really weak looking at this point, but his best asset is bumping, showing ass and doing some comedic stuff too like the classic spot of him getting hung by the feet on the tope rope and taking an upside down bump to the floor. First fall looks weak and fake, from a simple headlock reversal while holding the tights, but the second one is pretty good, Badd's sunset flip out of the third rope always looked great. Levy does a nice job selling for Badd's punches during the third fall. Kinda sloppy finish though. Decent match, which I didn't except from those two at this stage, and here the 2/3 falls kinda worked well enough to me.

Poor Shane.

And what exactly is "French technology"? Minitel. (sorry, only French people could understand this one, but I garantee you it's funny.) That Canada joke is indeed quite funny by the way. Never heard it before, but it's a nice one.

I didn't even knew there was some footage of this around. I wonder if there's some footage of Candido passing the belt to Severn.

Listening to the Chris Kanyon shoot interview. Really sad, he seemed like a really nice guy. And it's eerie to hear explain precisely why bi-polar people can easily commit suicide, knowing that's eventually what did him.

Windham was great, Austin was good but lacked some offense to sustain such a long match, and it showed on the last fall. Good match but could have been better without the 2/3 falls stipulation probably.

Good match, but it's hampered by two things : the 2/3 falls gimmick that split the match in three parts, two of which are a bit short, the last fall falling a bit flat; Steve Austin is not one guy that can go too long on single and resorts to restholds a little too much. They did work their share of headlock spot in the first fall, but they did work the holds and always were moving and struggling with them, so it wasn't restholds per say. Actually they did a good job making the atch look like a struggle. Windham's selling and facials are great. Too bad the last fall felt a bit anticlimatic. All in all, I think a regular 20 minutes match would have been better, as they could have saved a few spots for good nearfalls.

He wasn't even the best guy in the company. Austin, Foley, Vader (and Bret if he had stayed all year long) were better than him. If you add people from ECW like Douglas, Scorp, Whipreck, people from WCW like Rey, Benoit, Eddie, Juvy, Psic, Regal, I doubt Shawn would even make my top 10 US workers this year to be honest.

Considering I'd have no problem finding at least 25 american wrestlers, 25 japanese wrestlers and 25 woman wrestler better than Shawn, and considering I have no doubt there are easily 25 mexican wrestler better than him, Shawn probably wouldn't make my top 100 at this point.

Because uncool as shit to the NY crowd who loved Sid.

I think Shawn's 96 is even more overrated than HHH's 00 and this is coming from someone who agrees that it was a good year for Shawn. Agreed.

Fun stuff. Rude talking about WWF on WCW TV. Shooty-shooty ! Then the parts with all the women pretending to have an affair with Ricky Steamboat is pretty funny and totally Springer-like, right to the obvious fakeness of the whole thing. Rude appologizing to Bonnie is the icing on the cake.

Shawn was placed in so many more spots to have great matches than Owen ever did. Really, the best Owen stuff is better than Shawn's best stuff. Owen vs Liger comes to mind.

Matt Hardy disagrees with you. Matt Hardy thinks Shawn was a much more smarter wrestler after he came back in 2002. Yep.... Well.....

Agree with this and what Dylan said. That's pretty much it.

In US only. Then you can add a good 250 in Mexico, a nice 250 in Japan, not counting women. At least.

The speech was all about Cena making light of everything and being a happy-go-lucky fucktard when he should have been carried on a stretcher.

I haven't seen that much early Regal stuff in WCW, but my recollection of the Zbyszko match is that it was excellent.

I never heard of this match before. I don't see what's any special about it. Well, yes, there's something special about it actually since it's the first time Koloff looks decent since he came back after some putrid matches. His offense still suck, so he seems better at selling, and since Hughes is bigger than him, it kinda works. Nothing more than a decent short TV big man match though.

Well, there is that too. The Flair matches are awesome. I'd argue that in 1988, Windham was better than Flair in their matches.

I'm talking about 1992, and thus far, he's just fine with stamina. Windham was a machine and the most graceful wrestler I've ever seen this side of Misawa and Shinzaki. No matter if he put on a little weight, he was amazing to watch. From memory 1993 is the beginning of him sliding down indeed, although fat Windham is still really good.

Because apart from Steamboat, he's the most experienced at working long matches, and he was probably still one of the 2 or 3 best workers in the company at this time.

Heenan was pretty heartbreaking to watch there.

These are the ones I've seen thus far : Felt a bit rushed, but not bad, as Zenk is usually pretty dependable as the undercard competitive JTTS. Austin is slowly going into his groove, although depending too much on restholds at times during control segments... Bad match. I like Taylor and Valentine a lot, but the Freebirds are useless at this point. They probably could have worked a decent 10 minutes go-go match but you don't want to give the Birds any time to kill. Taylor has been one of the best worker on TV since he turned heel in late 90, but there is no hope with going this long with the Birds. God awful. Zbyszko is a guy whose stock went up since he showed up in WCW, being quite the workhorse actually in tag matches and delivering quite a bit of offense and fun badmouthing. Going single against Nikita for 25 minutes, forget it. He stalls efficiently at first but then he has to do something with Koloff, and there's nothing to get out of him. Koloff's offense consist of 90% of restholds, and he proceeds to blow stuff up still. Eye gougingly boring match. Hey, this one actually had potential to develop into something as Windham is one of those guy who can go long. Of course, after giving Nikita and the Birds 25 minutes, Windham and Austin get 5. Fuck you Dusty. Good for what it is. I like Arn a lot. I like Bourne quite a bit, and he usually worked around the ridiculous Big Josh gimmick efficiently enough, but they just can't go 35 minutes. A very good 15 minutes match is buried into overlong work the limb sequences. Arn wins the first fall while holding the ropes. Josh wins the second one while holding the tighs (which evil midget Jason Hervey proceed to notice, playing heel after sucking up to the faces during the show) and Arn wins the third fall with the spinbuster. Much ado about nothing.