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  1. El-P
    From the few matches I've seen from the NJ vs WAR feud, it was just a heat pit. Just a classic interpromotional feud. If you go into it not expecting AJ classics, and if you like NJ heavy style match, this is pure gold. Koki Kitahara is one of the lost wrestler of the 90's, he was so much fun. Brings me back to the very early DVDVR reviews by Dean.
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    Good question. Watching in context, it feels a bit rushed, like they wanted to end the feud and go onto things. They could have done Flair vs Muta and Sting vs Funk at Clash, leading to the final Flair vs Funk I Quit match and Sting finally beating Muta clean at Starrcade for the TV title. Promoting Starrcade during the Clash made it obvious Funk wasn't gonna be around much. They went into Flair vs Luget vs Sting, with Muta being jobbed out on his way out. Was there a change of booking commitee at this time ? Was Ole replacing Flair ?
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    Steiner Brothers vs Fabulous Freebirds- WCW 11.18.1989 Notable match because it's the first time the Steiner Brothers win the tag team title. A few things : _the post match celebration with the Dudes, Tom Zenk and Brian Pilman in street clothes circa 1989 looks geeky as hell. _the match itself is pretty bad, and although the Feebirds have been involved in pretty good matches with the Dudes and the MX, this was a borefest with long control segment form Hayes and Garvin consisting of poor punches and kicks and restholds. You don't buy for a second the Steiners can be hurt by these two guys. It's like the Birds just didn't want to work hard because they were doing the job, really, and it makes for a very underwhelming event. _what an awful production WCW already was : there was NO BELTS around. What the fuck ? The team you build for 6 months finally wins the title, it's supposed to be a big deal, the Steiners will obviously be big stars of the company in the years to come, and there are no belts to be given to them. Just retarded.
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    Hum.. that jobber Lou Tafaloni looks an awful like Louie Spicolli. He must have been 17 years old back then, he looks like a kid. The build to Starrcade was a bit counterproductive because it made it obvious before Clash 9 that Flair would beat Funk and Luger would beat Pillman. The iron man tournament was just not a very good idea for the major PPV of the year, and I guess it's the debut of Starrcade being ampered by being a gimmick show.
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    Wasn't a fan of them chanting "AR RI GA TO" either or them anouncing him as "Kobashi Kenta". Little too over the top "look at us trying to be hip and act all Japanese when we're not" for me, though i'll fully admit the latter of those 2 things is more just me being nit picky. I felt the same way about the ring announcer weeabooing it up. It seemed less a gesture of respect than him cosplaying announcing a GHC match at the Budokan. Like I said before, the entire match felt like total cosplay to me.
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    In retrospect, this looks like some 1998 Nitro main event.
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    Never seen it, but what you mention about Savage is interesting. In a matter of few weeks, Savage would go on as becoming a RAW color guy with the occasionnal feature match on TV and guet spot on PPV. Pretty stupid, as he was obviously the biggest star on the roster at this point, and could still have contributed a lot. Savage being "too old" is the only reason I ever heard. Savage's career in WCW proved Vince wrong.
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    You can't script shit like this. "Cause I feel like GOOOOOOOOOOOOD !" Psycho Backlund was great. He was legit scary.
  9. El-P
    The Backlund heel turn was one of the best angle of the decade, and Backlund was amazing. The post-match promo at Survivor Series is jaw dropping. Just a terrific angle from start to bottom. Too bad it fizzled out after Backlund jobbed to Diesel, and the poor match with Bret Hart at WM11. But from the heel turn to Survivor Series, it was amazing.
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    I for one loved Gary Hart's, although I pretty much knew nothing about the territories he talked about (never saw much of World Class). Really very interesting, and Hart is a pleasure to listen too. Ditto Jerry Jarrett's. In the same serious vein, Austin Idol's was pretty interesting too. I thought Rick Martel's was very interesting as well, this guy truly went in a lot of different places, and the guy comes off as quite humble. Mike Awesome was very good too if you're an FMW fan. In the "surprisingly good", Ranger Ross is very interesting, and he's another guy who comes off looking like an humble and nice guy. As far as "dirt stuff goes", you don't get much better than Jannetty's, Raven/Sandman duo and Brickhouse Brown. Raven's single shoots really balances between the very interesting booking/working stuff and the fun dirt. Dustin's shoots are pretty much terrible and downright hard to watch when he cracks up and cry about not being able to see his daughter. Seriously, this is stuff we don't need to see...
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    He was awful. Decent as Malice in TNA though. Yeah, I watched the first few PPV, and he seemed to have improved quite a bit since the Wall days. Well, he could only improve.
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    That would have been pretty awesome, but I doubt Hogan and his crew would have him let get the heat.
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    Well, I'm sure he wouldn't be more embarrasing than say, Flair's last ten years. In Japan in a retro promotion like Muga when it existed, yeah, I guess. Elsewhere, I highly doubt it.
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    Oh, god yeah. And do some actual editing. And have a proper sound.
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    Yep. That's why the best ones really are when a guy tells tons of stories. I'm currently listening to Tracey Smother's (from 2003 I think), and it's really fun. But it's 90% a monologue. The guy from KC seems like he would be a better interviewer than anyone from RF, Highspots, but the formats he work with doens't allow real in depth interviews.
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    Man, The Wall was awful...
  17. El-P
    I remember those clips. This was indeed so odd, because it made Backlund look like a relic from some ancient time, when he was the same age as Ric Flair (43), and Savage was already 41.
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    How far behind pop culture wrestling is ? I mean, this was right out of the mid-80's. Even in 1998, Hammer still sucked in the ring, this guy never amounted to anything, amazing he was kept around for so long.
  19. El-P
    Seems like garbage wankery to me, but I don't have a problem with it since it is clearly portrayed as a "wrestling match" and not mindless man on woman violence. Plus like MJH said, Necro seems to put the girl over pretty big, so in the end I have no problem with this. A babyface bullying a woman to the applauds of the crowd, I do have a problem with.
  20. El-P
    Thanks for the clarification. Always thought the term popped up from the first one, but now that I think of it, it makes sense it would be after the second.
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    I enjoyed Bradshaw way before it was fashionable to enjoy him. Back from the Justin "Hawk" days. I enjoyed the New Blackjacks. I enjoyed his first mini-push against Jarrett in 98. I thought he was decent as a third rate Stan Hansen, and stiff work was a breath of fresh air in the WWF at that time. But his work as JBL in big matches, nah, never saw anything that good in this. His matches with Eddie were some of the best matches I've seen from the modern WWE style, but that was basically 90% Eddie making them good. So, basically, I enjoyed Bradshaw when nobody cared and when he was a non-factor, and thought he was overrated as all hell when he was pushed to the moon, and just wasn't that good of a worker in that setting. The fact he finally got a push to the top just because he was basically an office stooge doesn't play in his favor either. It's not like he got super over either. On a side note, I miss true wrestling cowboys, it was a tradition. They all wore those same cowboy-like boots too.
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    Just watched the Chris Candido Shoot Interview, and it's one of the funniest and most candid (no pun intended) ones I've seen. It's also pretty heartbreaking that this guy had to die at 33 (and to think I am two years older than the age he died at). Really comes off as a super nice and honest guy. He also paints a pretty cool picture of Sabu as a really nice and generous guy.
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    From my recollection it's a terrific match. The Muta scale actually comes from the 1990.09.14 match, which wasn't as great in term of work, but even more gory. I also think it was one of Muta's first match, if not the first, on Japanese TV.
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    Simmons was a much better heel anyway I always thought. The Faarooq character had so much potential in WWF in 97, I would have loved to see him get a run with the belt at that time.
  25. El-P
    Yeah, Luger gets a bad rep because he wasn't the best worker (although much better than given credit for at one point), and most of all he wasn't a wrestling fan to begin with. He treated this strictly as a business. Add to that the fact that he was pushed to the moon very early on because of his body, and you get an unmissable mix for "bad rep". His fate is pretty tragic when you think about it.
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