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    They had a match in Paris in April which was quite crazy for WWF at this time if I remember right, complete with breaking wooden chair.
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    Gay jokes

    El-P replied to Loss's topic in Megathread archive

    How cute...
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    Fascinating. Some people do live strange lives.
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    TNA is WCW circa 2000 going senile.
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    Amazing how things fell apart during the Summer of 98. They had a strong undercard until mid-spring, then they went overboard with Jericho getting his title back on technicality, although it still made for good promos and matches. But Booker T got injured and the TV title went into Stevie Ray for bullshit reasons. Benoit was nowhere to be seen, but Steve McMicheal came back. Disco Inferno & Alex Wright as the dancing fools were a funny act but they got stuck with Public Enemy. The crazy Chavo storyline went nowhere after the hair match. Really, the only strong undercard storyline left was Raven vs Saturn vs Kanyon. Bret Hart as a manipulative heel is much more fun that I remembered. He's giving Lex Luger his best match since probably the Arn Anderson one in 95. Bret was awesome at being a douchebag during this period. We get Hacksaw Duggan in a mini-feud with Barbarian, which I can always watch. Rey Mysterio is back, and it's a welcome addition. Funny, for all the talk of how Chris Jericho was held back, he sure was pushed hard during the whole year, as on the day after he loses the cruiserweight title for good to Juvi, he gets the TV title. Goldberg cutting promos, not a very good idea. Plus the guy mostly bores me unless it's a really important match. Can't wait to revisit the Warrior feud... trainwreck incoming...
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    Yeah, it's sad how WCW always seems to be refered to as this godawful retarded promotion. WCW was much better than WWF for a long long time.
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    I think it happened in 1999.
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    I officialy lost my mind. I thought the build to Hogan & Bischoff vs DDP & Leno was actually really efficient, with some terrific Hogan promos and Bischoff being amazingly annoying. And I thought the match worked to boot... Like I said, I may have lost my mind, but there it is...
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    Man... Can Dixie borrow a brain for a minute or two, just the time to send Russo his release ? It's amazing that when you think they can't sink lower, they actually do. At this point they're digging the Earth's core. WCW 1999/2000 only scratched the surface in comparison.
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    I guess you can argue Dyno was one of Foley's main influence as far as the ridiculous bumping came from.
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    When was The Rise part again ?
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    I disagree. After my ECW watch last year, Sabu is a guy that not only hold up very well, but actually got up in my totem pole. Sabu matches aren't great in a "oh, look at that cool spot" kinda way, but in what Sabu portrayed and conveyed through those insane spots, a complete lunatic that would do insane shit to himself to hurt his opponent. Sure, they were some poor setup at times, but Sabu brought so much shit, never got complacent and always mixed up things by modifying one of his usual spot, brought new teases, that the positives to me squashed the negatives. And his matches didn't look like controlled chaos not overscripted "insane" match like we saw in WWE in the last decade, it looked like real chaos, and the occasionnal sloppyness actually added to that. Wrestling has become way too clean, and rewatching Sabu's matches today (or Sandman's), makes them look actually better and deeper than just "look at the insane spots". To me Sabu got better with time because the times have gone so far toward overproducing and overscripting that this guy's work looks much more fresh and organic in comparison. And there's that fascinating stuff about never knowing if he was actually hurt or just selling, which infact kinda made him the most realistic "seller" I've seen. Anyway, I'm ranting, and it has really nothing to do with Tiger, whose work doesn't hold up that well with the times for other reasons.
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    Funny that a Hebner ref is involved in a "Jeff screwed Jeff" situation. Of sorts. Sting looks visibly pissed off from the get go.
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    Good read. Man, TNA sure is the most ridiculous national wrestling promotion ever.
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    No idea, but retrospectively it made no sense the WWF would even want these guys. Kroffat & Furnas feuding with the Steiners would have been so much fun. And I don't know why this match got so much vote in the SC ECW poll. Yeah, it's fun to see Furnas throw RVD around, but it's nothing that special. For an RVD match, it's still quite good though.
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    I don't think Toyota would have detracted anything, although as it is the teams were just perfectly fit. Just glad Yumiko Hotta wasn't around to fuck something up. Oh, that's right, she was on the undercard fucking up Plum Mariko's brain with a fucking near criminal kick on the blind side of Plum's head.
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    Wait a minute, now that I think of it, the match I'm refering too involves Fukuoka I think, and that's the one which Hotta really came close to ruining because she treated Fukuoka like a jobber. I guess Hotta had to be more cooperative here, I don't remember the specifics though. Still, that doesn't change one bit of what I said about Hotta.
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    Many years ? Isn't Rey Rey really banged up at this point ? Aren't his knees shot ?
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    Johnny Cash didn't write and recorded songs to be judged by French guys in 2011 listening to it on an iPod while cycling through Paris. Yet, Johnny Cash's songs still sound awesome.
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    I remember this like it was yesterday. Just a great angle to put over Yoko as an indestructible monster and a blood thirsty beast to boot. Simple, super well executed. Wrestling isn't that hard to book.
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    This is clearly 1994 when they launched the "New Generation" stuff.
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    Just what a Dome Show match is supposed to be. Two guys beating the hell out of each other, nothing fancy, but damn it works. (Fun facts : Tenryu screwed up way more things in that match that Ultimo did earlier in the night, and while Ultimo actually did way more impressive stuff afterward and totally got back into the mood (and along with Liger got the crowd into a frenzy), Tenryu's screwing up over and over ended up totally deflating the crowd at points, especially with that awful powerbomb spot which they had to re-do as it was the finish. It sure looks as if they weren't on the same page at all at times, but Tenryu looked pretty *bad* at points here while Choshu was the one bringing it. Yep, not a strong showing for Tenryu at all and certainly both Ultimo vs Liger & Muta vs Chono were much better matches, hell I enjoyed Hellraisers vs Steiners a lot more too)
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    Or, how to make Jim Ross look like an idiot on his first day. Savage's entrance was awesome though, and he had a great outfit. It's too bad Savage was stuck to be in the booth at this time.
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    I can only imagine how people who never saw that one before will react.
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    There's not many joshi worker I actively can't stand, but Hotta sure became one of this very restricted club when I watched shiloads of early 90's joshi some time ago. I was never a big fan, but man this girl took a nosedive on my scale. My recollection of this match is "Thank god for Inoue, and thank god for Oz & Dyno, they are so good they can't get dragged down by Hotta who I thought sucked ass here". Hotta kicks hard, and usually with no notion of protecting her opponent, and that's about it. She's a terrible mat worker, she's mediocre at everything else, she's sloppy and dangerous, she's selfish, she acts like she's a big star and doesn't give shit to whomever she works with to protect her gimmick. I can't stand her. She was involved in a number of great matches because she was surrounded by the best of the best in a era where the level of work was ridiculously high, but that's about it. I'd be happy to never have to watch anything involving Hotta ever again, really.
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