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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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    This is going to be ugly...
  3. El-P
    Greatest match ever. Great work, great booking, great heat. Just perfect.
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    I'm not sure which vignette it is, but the King of Philly stuff is the best thing Eddie did in ECW (as opposed to his matches I mean). Really funny stuff.
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    Holy shit. WWF "New Generation" was the cheesiest era ever. Man, a nascar pilot, how cool. Well, not really.
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    It's also pretty *not very good*.
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    Yeah, bad finish for a good Rumble match. Backlund going the distance (before it became a total yearly gimmick which I hate) was great (and again, French announcer Guy Hauray gave probably his best performance ever making fun of him during the whole match, my father and I can still drop his favourite line from this match 18 years later), you got Flair and Perfect going at it, Lawler debuting, a rather great debut for Giant Gonzalez (well, ok, he sucked, but 15 year old me thought this was cool as hell), you got oddball guys like Tenryu and Carlos Colon. Really good Rumble match I thought.
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    Great debut, just amazing production to launch a guy in the promotion. The Narcissist, as goofy as he sounded, was the perfect gimmick for Luger because that's what he basically was. I was so disapointed when they turned him patriotic face later in the year, I thought Luger was destined to be a heel WWF champ. Ironically, WCW did a much better job with the Narcissist gimmick in late 99 and 2000, which made Luger fun again after years.
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    Really good match, but like Loss said, not their best. It is the sort of match that would have got over much better in the Ryogoku Kokugikan.
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    At the time Rougeau was also the announcer for French TV. Heel announcer Guy Hauray (who since then became some sort of coaching guru, I'm serious) was laughing his ass off at Raymond here. Good stuff.
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    Great angle. Of course it would have been better if that was not Crush we're talking of, because Brain Adams is seriously one of the worst worker I've ever seen, but it made Doink.
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    As I remember it, Hotta came close to ruining that one. The other three are so great she can't even do that, but still. Hotta sucked.
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    Choshu not only was a way bigger star than Bret as an active performer in the 80's both in NJ and AJ, but was also a great booker for NJ in the first half of the 90's and drew shitloads of money booking the rise of the 3 Musketeers and Tenryu vs NJ. He lost his touch with the UWF-i feud, and the Sasaki push, but Choshu really was magic for a good 10-15 years.
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    Am I the only one seeing the irony ? So do you think that ECW match were Benoit had the tantrum in was scripted or called in the ring? I have no idea what you're refering to, I never watched WWECW. I'm saying how ironic is this that Chris Benoit of all people was supposed to pre-planned his matches beforehand in WWE because WWE produced guys can't work a lick, and that his memory slipping means he actually had to work like he always did, on the fly. Benoit supposedly trashed the notes DDP brought him for their PPV match in WCW, and at this point of his career, he's working on the fly because *his memory slipped*... Man.
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    He got fired roughly at the same time Cornette and Mantell were. I think it was just after Bischoff and Hogan came in.
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    Am I the only one seeing the irony ?
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    I won't get dragged into an LCO debate in 2011, but back then, LCO were mostly *loved* and pimped as a great team. Then there was a backlash (although some people on the DVDVR side always hated them), and these days I think pimping LCO is a "dated opinion". I guess. LCO in ARSION weren't used to their best ability (plus they had already peaked), but they still had that awesome bloody match with AyaKINO in late 1999. I loved LCO more than most wrestlers, and I take some credit for popularizing the acronym (although I didn't used it first).
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    LCO.
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    Brian looks *old* these days. I mean, he's 41, and he looks a good 10 years older. Still, I would crack a smile for one last "Oh you didn't know ?".
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    Gay jokes

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

    I know. I was talking about "John Cena tm WWE Universe character", not John Cena the human being. That's how he comes off to me with promos like these. Either self-hating gay, either retarded. So far Rock just murdered him seven ways to Sunday. Of course, WWE writers suck.
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    Gay jokes

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

    John Cena *must be* an insecure self-hating gay. Or he's just retarded.
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    Of course. I doubt Woman will ever go in although she would deserve it on her career only, but that would open a can of worms the WWE won't touch with a ten foot pole. Chyna will never go in for obvious reasons although she was a hot act for a while. Sable, well, unless they work something out with brock at some point, I doubt it, but she could eventually. Liz and Luna, I doubt they ever will. Madusa has no shot. Trish really was more important than Sunny to the WWE I think. But hey, like Loss said, it's all about marketing. I wonder who can induct Sunny though...
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    Well, thanks for nothing then Tammy.
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    Possibly.
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    In a kayfaybe sense, Sunny is one hell of a weak inductee. She managed some weak tag team champs (Body Donnas - Godwinn - Smoking Gunns being arguably the "strongest" of the three") in an era where tag team belts meant pretty much zilch, and.... that's pretty much it. Sure, she was the "most downloaded personnality" on AOL for a cup of tea or two, but she really didn't draw anything for WWF, as Sable was really the first female who became a big star during the Attitude Era (although she did suck and was one of the thing I hated the most at that time). Really, what Sunny did in a kayfabe or even in a real sense to warrant that ? Well, you can answer me "Koko B. Ware", I know this HoF means jack shit, but still, when you think about it, Sunny was part of WWF for what, 3 years, was the manager of a JTTS for the first 6 months, then managed a few tag teams when nobody cared, and then was doing the Hotline and some non descript stuff on TV like referring lucha midget matches. And that über short and useless stint with LOD 2000. That's not exactly Sensationnal Sherri level here. When I think of Sunny, the first thing that comes to my mind is "wasted potential".
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