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  1. El-P
    Argumenting by Alvy : "Listen :" + talk very loud to underline his point
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    Z-Man & Pillman vs MX was a really good little feud. Southern Boys vs MX had amazing matches. Yes, when it came down to the Patriots, that sucked, but they didn't get the belts very long, and at that time I agree the titles were beginning to not mean that much. Quicky title switch from the Young Pistols (who were an excellent team as the Southern Boys, only got killed by the gimmick change and heel turn) to Ron Simmons & Big Josh, which is pretty random, but hey, stupid gimmick aside, any title on Matt Borne I'm fine with. Then onto Greg Valentine & Terry Taylor which is pretty neat. Like I said there wasn't that many tag teams anymore, so the titles had to go away, and they did. But back in 89/90, the number of tag teams was huge, so it had a justification then.
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    At one time there were so many teams around that they could really bring something to the undercards. Kinda like the All Asia Tag Team Titles in AJ. The US tag team titles matches were mostly quite fun until the end, which is coming very soon.
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    He was. Changed his name after he left the York Foundation (which ended the gimmick, damn, no more Terri Runnels badly dressed as a secretary). There was really not gimmick to it to be fair. Terry Taylor was always an arrogant asshole to begin with, so naming himself the Taylor Made Man was a cute name without any repercussion on his work or character. Hell, at least he got pushed a bit and got a belt as opposed to the York Foundation days (which I enjoyed a lot because it garanteed a good match on every TV show, unless Tommy Rich was working single of course). I love Valentine, and he's one of those guys who can age and deliver the same offense than 15 years prior really. Just an old grumpy stiff fuck. I wish he had more of a role during the decade infact. I was glad to see him work a few matches during the Nitro era too.
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    The first few months of 1992 are pretty great as far as TV matches go. The Dangerous Alliance really was the über workrate heel group. Madusa had the oddest fashion sense ever however. I know it fot her character as being a bit of a loon, but some of those outfit just hurt the eyes. I'm loving Greg Valentine teaming with Terry Taylor. Taylor has been one of the most consistent worker on TV since he turned heel, and Valentine just doesn't age. Good stuff with the US belts, although I'm fearing the matches with the Freebirds, who just reached a new point of unwatchability with their new theme song and look. Fun to witness the humble beginnings of Marcus Bagwell. Strange to think they waited so long before turning him heel, because you already wants to slap the fuck out of his pretty boy mouth. JYD and Nikita Koloff coming back isn't good. The Light heavyweight division is sad, but it's pretty funny to hear JR blabber the same crap he used to do in WWF in 97/98 about a light heavyweight division that should get more and more exciting names and should grow in the very near future. Yeah, when you get Johnny B. Badd and Brad Armstrong as "light heavyweight", you feel the difference with a usual match. It's pretty shocking to see Scott Levy so young and healthy looking. He was already a fun promo though.
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    Agreed. Does nothing for me. Beyond forced facials. Mechanically fine > see also / Orton, Randy
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    After finishing 1992, I can safely say I was really pleasantly surprised after a rather cold first few weeks. I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I did. There's not much in term of really great match, but there's a shitload of excellent promos every week, and I enjoy the veterans like Garvin and Orndorff a lot. The Heavenly Bodies are the clear highlight in term of work. Rock'n Roll Express reunited set a new fire under Ricky Morton after a last few disapointing months in WCW as a heel light heavyweight. I don't mind the Horner push, he's a terrible promo but there's something charming about his out of date bland southern babyface character, and DWB is excellent. Didn't care at all about Brian Lee though. The only time he was useful to me was when he was stabbed to near death by Sullivan in a great angle. Killer Kyle is also a FF element to me. Too bad Bob Holly left so soon, as I'd liked for him to have competetive matches in this setting.
  8. El-P
    IT'S NOT HOT ! is the greatest Hogan line ever.
  9. El-P
    Don't ask me why, but I really enjoyed those vignettes. Always was a fan of Fatu, and I was glad he was coming back as a single wrestler and not playing a savage.
  10. El-P
    Yes, he did teach when he wasn't wrestling. He was thinking going back into teaching full-time after leaving WCW in 93.
  11. El-P
    I have, and it didn't strike me at the time. Odd.
  12. El-P
    One UWF-I match I've always wanted to watch back in the days.
  13. El-P
    Yeah, Mr. T in 1994. Hogan is so pop culture aware.
  14. El-P
    In what ways ? Certainly not in his work. I haven't seen any Portland, so maybe I'm missing something, but I never thought about Piper hearing one of Bourne's promos like I did with Dr. Tom.
  15. El-P
    Silent. It's a /ɛ/ sound in French. Now a funny fact : Levesque comes from L'évèque. Which means "the bishop". Now how do you say "bishop" in German ? Yeah, you guessed it... bischoff. I told you, WCW is coming.
  16. El-P
    Well, that's his name, and as he's slowly getting more and more of an office figure, I guess at some point he'll be more refered under his real name. I always thought it was funny how he kept the acronym of an old gimmick that was passé by late 1997 when he became a star. I mean, "Triple H" just doesn't evoque anything concrete now, as when it does, it's basically the old Blue Blood gimmick from WCW...
  17. El-P
    "Mick Foley who competed here under the name of Cactus Jack won their version of the world title. Yeah, that will put asses in the seats..." WWE under Levesque = WCW
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    Ross could be quite annoying at this point, but I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary here. At least he wasn't shilling his hotline every two minutes. Anyway, this is just not a good match, and the perfect illustration of why the LH championship was a failure. Boring limb work that doesn't mean anything, Pillman brushes off all the eg work in one split second to do a sloppy headscissor, and wins with a very sloppy bridge. Morton was boring at this time, seriously going through the motions. It took him going to SMW and reuniting with Gibson to rule again. His matches with Brad Armstrong were just as boring and uninspired (and Armstrong never helps in those cases as he's solid as hell but not very exciting). (on the same TV show, Austin had a pretty good TV title match against Scott Steiner, in which Scott was surprisingly under control, and Madusa quite fun)
  19. El-P
    Great angle. Woman is awesome in every way. ECW at its best.
  20. El-P
    Another great angle for Mr. Psycho Backlund.
  21. El-P
    The fact that they do nothing with Foley despite having him under contract just because Trip doesn't like the talking point of Foley making him a star back in the days is pretty telling.
  22. El-P
    Really well done angle. Rude is great, Sting is all serious, feels "real". I have no time for Nikita after his horribly boring heel stint in 91.
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    Luger was pretty much WBF bound at this time. Which is hilarious when you think WWF was deep into the steroid deal... But hey, I enjoyed Luger quite a bit from 1989 to mid 91, and his stock went way up with me.
  24. El-P
    Mine would be either the Royal Rumble 92 or Flair vs Savage from WM8.
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    They couldn't follow the three previous matches obviously, but it'd still a good match. It's also very interesting to me, after watching WCW from 89 to then, it's clear that after 2 and a half years of Luger being the superior worker, they reached the point where Luger finally doesn't care that much anymore and doens't work half as hard as he used to, while Sting finally got it and became a good worker. The heel turn after Flair left in 91 really killed Luger's spirit it seems. And he's roided out of his mind here, gasping for air after a few minutes. I actually like this match better than the GAB 90.
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