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    Brock is back

    El-P replied to Bix's topic in Pro Wrestling

    I FF through Raw (I still can't handle most of what constitute the product). Man, Heyman never looked young anyway (I'm gong through WCW 91, and to think he was 26 then is head scratching), but he looks old, much older than his actual age. He can still cut a damn good promo and sounds better and more natural and anyone on the roster. Heyman back on TV is good. Some continuity from WWE, it's rare enough.
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    Made an appearance ? Where ? I was a huge Bloody fan. One of my all time favourite worker. I really enjoyed Kusogi too, she really could have become something special as a worker I think if she didn't retired so soon. Loved Yabushita & Sakai too, especially Yabushita. Jd' is the great lost promotion. What Dan said. Kazama just wasn't a big star at the level of Hokuto or Kandori. She pushed herself a bit too much at times because she was Da Mistress of LLPW. The fact that Hokuto carried her to her best match ever says a lot about Hokuto at that point, because Kuzama wasn't a very good worker.
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    From Halloween Havoc/ Clash 17, WCW quickly gets really good, with the implement of Rick Rude and Steamboat adding workrate + star power. But if there's one stain on the product at this point, it's the Patriots vs Young Pistols feud. Bad matches every week on TV. And it's not like it's all Patriots sucking, which they do, it's also the Young Pistols not being very good in this role. Smothers was always better than Armstrong and he shows that he can be a good heel there, but from the awesome Southern Boys matches in late 1990 to this, it's a huge drop in the work of both guys. Obviously opposing a good team it wouldn't be so flagrant, but still, they stall way too much and don't deliver half as fun offense as they did as faces. Really, Larry Zbyszko in the Enforcers stalls less and brings work stuff to the table in terms of movez. Sometime Smothers bothered me with the stalling in ECW too (although the FBI gimmick made it a lot more tolerable as he was funny), and here it's getting really annoying against uninteresting faces like the Patriots. Loosing the Southern Boy identity already hurt them quite a bit, but the heel turn really killed them dead.
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    Too bad it led nowhere. Backlund could still work a good program or two.
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    In the immortal words of Daniel Bryan : YES ! YES ! YES !!!!!!!!!!
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    If we only knew back then...
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    One of the best ECW video ever produced.
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    Try calling it "the WWE" like everyone else does, that might help. The WCW. The SummerSlam. Bret Hart's spirit lives.
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    I'm going through WCW TV 91, and actually, on his very first TV match, Page is referred to by Jim Ross as DDP once, probably because Page was wearing a belt with "DDP" on it. Funny fact, he was teaming with Scott Hall as the Diamond Exchange, and one of the jobber (with offense) they faced was Brian Lee.
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    Oh yeah, that is one of the impossible dream match too. Plum would have been been awesome in ARSION. Great match. I loved this one so much. That's the one I was referring too. I knew you would know about it.
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    And it still doesn't sound right.
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    Indeed, Plum was the polar opposite of Toyota, but she could work go-go-go too if needed. But her main style was matwork and submission. My memory is fuzzy, but I'm sure FLIK can direct to some good mat oriented matches with Plum. I think there's a cool Plum vs Bolshoi match somewhere.
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    They're hardcore ! They're hardcore ! Theyr're hardcore ! Ok, this is getting *really* pathetic guys. This has the infamous "Heroes of wrestling" PPV vibes.
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    The Main Event :
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    Nope. It's the big money comeback, as Sarkozy already beat Ségolène Royal 5 years ago, and Ségolène is François Hollande's ex wife. Yeah, it's Kevin Sullivan like booking here ! Of course it would have been even better if Ségo made a heel turn and joined Hollande, but instead they turned some mid-carders like Eric Besson (who turned into a fantastic racist heel), former humanitarian Bernard Kouchner and even Frédéric Mitterand (the nephew of former socialist president François Mitterand), which gained tons of support heat for Sarko, who didn't need it anyway. We got through a 5 year heat sequence, and only now Hollande will hulk up and will probably (please please please!) make a clean swipe and kick the asses of the evil cohorts of Sarko next Sunday !
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    Brock is back

    El-P replied to Bix's topic in Pro Wrestling

    That's not exactly a new thing with Lance. Wasn't he arguing a long time ago that Great Sasuke and Toshiaki Kawada weren't very good workers and that people who did the DVDVR 500 had no business talking about wrestling because they never got inside a ring ? Why is Lance Storm giving his opinion every two weeks on F4online anyway ? What has made him such a great wrestling analyst to begin with ? He sure wasn't a very good worker, he wasn't a good promo at all, he never drew shit, his biggest claim to fame is being carried by Justin Credible in ECW and be a multiple champion in Russo's WCW, helped by the presence of a pair of boobs at his side on both occurences (I guess to hide his total absence of charisma or personnality) . Never did much of anything that is particulary famous even on a cult level. I mean, Lance seems like a good guy, was probably very safe to work with, but I don't see exactly where he's coming from. But I'm narrow minded.
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    The François Hollande vs Nicolas Sarkozy debate was pretty awesome. 3 hour + of dogfighting. Sarko was a great heel, he showed quite a bit of ass and came off like an asshole. Did a few comedy spot a la Arn Anderson, tripping on the French language a few times. Cut some good promos with *lies*, which is what heel do. Hollande was a bit tiedous at first, but made some great fiery comeback and cut an awesome promo, overall he showed much more class and came off as the Man more than his opponent. I'd say Sarko did the job in the end.
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    Sounds awesome. Falir showing up and hooking up with Woman in ECW in 94 would have been gold.
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    I wish we would have had Steven Regal coming out to Oasis and play a regular beer drinking lad (which he is) loudly badmouthing everyone. That would have been awesome. I wish we would have had 2 Cold Scorpio coming out to Tricky's Black Steel and fuck people up while looking paranoid as hell.
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    It's scary how much we collectively know about pro-wrestling for 20 years ago. Talk about useless knowledge. In a way it's beautiful too.
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    That's a glorious one. The "You fucked up" chant should have been incented for this referee. That's a fun one. In retrospect knowing how great of a heel Koko was in Memphis, it's even cooler.
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    I guess it got really mainstream by then, with the post-grunge scene, but in the mid-90's britpop, electro (including the absurdly named "French Touch") and trip hop were becoming the taste of the moment. Why didn't we get some lounge wrestling character in 97/98 ? It also makes the idea that "ECW was the Nirvana of wrestling" quite ridiculous on every level (I don't think this idea came up before the ECW DVD anyway, so it's really revisionnist history anyway).
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    Hey, we got PN News in 91, and it was pretty much still the Golden Age of Hip-Hop. Ok, Neu wasn't exactly Rakim, but at least WCW registered than hip-hop was the new popular thing to come... Well, for a while. I don't think we got another MC in WCW before, gasp, Konnan. Then we got... Men on a Mission who didn't capitalize on G-Funk at all... Mabel should have been given a Biggie gimmick... Then we got Salt'n Pepa at WM 11. In 1995. Well, hip-hop and rasslin' don't mesh very mell (don't give me Cena, please). Was the rave scene really still strong in 95 ? I got a kick out of Wright because his music did sound very european techno, that was suprisingly in touch.
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    Pretty much. As soon as Lex gets the belt and turns heel, the first challenger is Simmons, fresh off.... doing nothing of note after the Doom split. As a kid I was super impressed he beat Oz so easily. They did a pretty strong job building Simmons though, and the 2/3 falls match at HH was way better than I remembered it to be. A good case of using the 2/3 falls to hide the weaknesses of the workers, as Simmons was good mostly in short explosive bursts, and Luger couldn't carry a match. Really, the idea that Luger was not any good after a great 1989 has been shattered going through WCW TV in context. Late 91, he's still delivering in a match against Simmons that just didn't look good on paper at all.
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