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  1. El-P
    A match when Yoshida and Shimoda, and Ito was your favourite ? Blasphemy ! This is a footstomp fetish I guess. Anyway, Ito was quite the worker, but it's been so long since I've watched joshi. The only match involving her that jumps to my mind is the infamous LCO vs Ito & Watanabe cage match from 97, which is just awesome. I guess FLIK would have fresher references that I do at this point, but Ito was one hell of a worker. She was on the undercard during the interpromotionnal era, and really got her push to the main event in the early 00 (maybe even late 90's). Her footstomps looked brutal though, especially when she gained weigh.
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    This is a match I'm pretty sure I would love.
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    From the Raven/Axl Rotten shoot interview. Axl talks about why his WCW stint was cut short : Raven : So, what happened in WCW ? Axl : Grizzly Smith was not a fan of me, at all. Raven : You weren't a 12 year old girl. Axl : Yeah... And really, he fucked me, man... Raven : So, you were a 12 year old girl.
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    Rapid forearm trading that is overdone and never sold just completely kills it for me. Well, *that* was driving me kinda crazy too to be honest. Hopefully it will go away.
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    I love how these days enjoying japanese wrestling has become the nadir of wrestling fandom. How times change. I haven't seen anything in about two years, but last time I checked, it was perfectly fine and good for 00's wrestling.
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    All this mixing of UFC and pro-wrestling makes me crazy. I can't wait until the presidential course here in 2012, because we'll get some awesome pro-wrestling promos. Jean-Luc Mélanchon is alreay aiming at best heel...
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    Funny, that never bothered me. I always thought it was a nice idiosyncrasy of Chono's work. Although there are other wrestlers who have a noticeable breathing. Haku is the first one who comes to mind.
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    It's not going to end well, and that's really sad to watch.
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    Is Kane even worthy of being *rated* to begin with ? It's amazing that this guy is still around. I was dead tired of him and his shitty work by late 98. I heard he worked a lot this year with Edge. Oh, the horror...
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    When I watched Superstars in the early 90's, Hogan was never a part of it. I was hearing about him, but never got to watch him in action. So whenever I got to see him, it felt like big-time event. It also fet like a disapointment because I soon realized I didn't like this guy at all and thought his wrestling sucked compared to my favourites, but that's another story. But yeah, Hogan showing up on TV was felt as something big to me.
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    The beginning of "whiny Bret" that would turn Austin face. The thing is, Bret was actually right about everything he said. But yeah, it came off as whiny. Still, a wrestling interview that sound real, that makes sense and that build a wrestling rivalry based on wrestling. Hey, might be a good idea...
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    My interest in the Dudleys dropped to zero with the arrival of D-Von, and really, the only thing they got me interested again is Bubba turning heel. D-Von had the same three catchphrases, which was good for what it was I guess, but Bubba and Gertner carried the Dudz on the mic too. Usually my favourite part of a Dudley Boys match was Gertner's intro. D-Von is probably the guy whose stock dropped the most (along with Lance Storm, but he went from "really good" to "decent at the very best" in my mind while D-Von went from "decent" to "useless").
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    Well, I don't know what the truth is, but the facts are that Rey got his world title push after Eddie death, and his entire push was centered on Eddie's death, complete with amazingly shameless promos from Orton. I guess it kinda oppened Vince's eyes a bit since Rey got another Wolrd Title reign, and Rey probably means lot of marketing for kids, but I haven't followed this one at all, I don't know how long and how it went. They also pushed Jeff Hardy so I guess they are slowly learning that size isn't everything (although I never bought Jeff Hardy as a main eventer myself).
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    The big difference being, Onita never cared about what would happen with FMW after he would leave. He made money, made himself a star, and was ready to leave FMW in the dirt, which is basically what he did by putting himself over Hayabusa in his retirement match. It still gave Hayabusa a high profile, but there was no ace in FMW after this, and there was an effective restart in the Summer of 1995. And yeah, the product from this time to the end of 98 when Fuyuki took over was probably the best FMW delivered. Hayabusa eventually became the star of the promotion, but I'm not sure at what point exactly. Some would argue what kept FMW alive at first was Megumi Kudo, who became the female Onita, suddenly having bloody deathmatches with Shark and her minions. The 96 Kawasaki Dome Show had Funk & Pogo vs the two young future stars Hayabusa & Tanaka in the Main, but I would be willing to say that Kudo vs Combat in the first ever women exploding deathmatch was the main draw for this show. Then of course Onita came back right for Kudo's retirement show, and even wanted to go last if I recall. Not only Onita didn't help at all, but he effectively did damage to the perception that Hayabusa was the new ace by coming-back, drawing less than before and still not putting the new ace over. Hayabusa really got to the ace status from 98 and on. Misawa was one of the most selfless booker out there. And reading this stuff about Choshu's booking in the 90's reminds me how cool NJ was at this point with all the outsiders coming in.
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    I haven't seen one D-Von vs Bubba match I would call watchable. And you know what I think about Spike. I'm not a Dudley fan at all, Bubba is by far the best of them all, excellent bumper, excellent promo, both funny and serious, pretty good offense. But I have a hard time finding a whole lot of *good* matches involving the Dudz (talking about ECW).
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    Konnan is seriously one of the worst worker I've ever seen. Down there with the Harris Brothers and Crusher Maedomari. Flair had no chance in hell of saving this, and it's not like he had anything else to propose but an abridged version of his formula at this point. Him winning the US belt felt wrong too. Below his level, come on.
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    So we replace an unreliable goofball who never drew shit by.... another unreliable goofball who never drew shit. I wasn't happy to see Sid come back, as I was bored to tears by his 1995 stint. Memories of those godawful matches with Diesel coming back... Yet, he prooved me wrong and delivered the most entertaining stint of his entire career, complete with his best matches ever. Well, thanks to Bret and Shawn, but still.
  18. El-P
    D-Von really sucked actually. I liked the Dudleys until he showed up, and then the fun was ruined. Shitty matches against Bubba, shitty gimmick which consisted of smashing people's head with a chair, we know how good that is. And really, D-Von is a guy who dropped dramatically down during my ECW watching. Jeez, this guys brought nothing. He did get better toward the end, and probably in WWF, but for the most part, he really sucked.
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    Not a good representation of either man's talent. They basically did a sick spot exhibition, which probably looked much more impressive then than it is now. Good garbage match, but they didn't click that well. I'm not sure what the deal was, but wasn't Quinones working with WWF a bit in 1996 ? He brought them the HeadHunters for the Rumble and a few house show (there's a really good Head Hunter vs Leif cassidy & Aldo Montoya match somewhere). Cactus already had the Mankind outfit (at least the boots and pants) and haircut at this point.
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    This was awesome. Yeah, there was clearly a schyzophrenic nature in the product going on in 1996. It's a fascinating year for US wrestling because of how everything evolved so quickly.
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    Why does Davey Boy Smith always end up in stupid videos on beaches ?
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    What was the point of this anyway ? A waste of everyone involved.
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    Makes no sense whatsoever, but the final line is so ridiculously great, it doesn't matter.
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    Sullivan did an amazing job putting Benoit over as a killer, no pun intended. Funny how revisionnist history would tell that WCW never pushed Benoit yaddi yaddi yadda. The greatest thing about this match is obviously, Dusty's call of the woman in the bathroom. Just classic. Just thinking about it puts a smile on my face.
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    Owen on commentary was gold. The match is really good, but not as good as it could have been. And Shawn the face champion with Jose Lothario at his side was just... uncool in every way imaginable.
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