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  1. El-P
    Amazing to watch Gordy looking like the old Gordy for a few minutes. Raven just get killed to put him over, and his formula works so well. Raven says Gordy showing up is the loudest pop ever in the ECW Arena, and quite frankly, I believe him, the crowd went totally nuts.
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    The introduction of the complete Goldust package, with Marlena, which was a brillant idea. The fact that this creepy guy with ambiguous sexual behaviour had a female "director" by his side who smoked the cigar and was sexy as hell was just perfect. I remember liking the match a whole lot, and Goldust really went far into the unconfortable "I like when you hit me" deal. I wasn't a big fan of the Kid being the sole reason Goldust won, but I popped big time to see him get the belt. I was a big fan of Goldust. It's too bad they sterilized the character in 97 with that ridiculous and awful "Oh, I'm not gay nor bisexual, I'm actually a gread dad and a family man playing a role" interview.
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    Again, Pillman's little stint in ECW amounted to nothing, and I don't think it aged that well. Sure, he was a very good promo, but the batshit insane character looked forced to me.
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    Really a nothing match with a rather idiotic shoot angle, which fascinated Vince Russo and we probably owe a good part of his absurd "swerve-shooty shooty" booking to this match. If at least it led to something. Pillman's Loose Cannon gimmick didn't age very well, it felt a bit forced.
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    I loved this match back then, I'm not sure how it's holding up after years of garbaging up and down the cards. The turn is very well done and was pretty shocking to me. Funny how WWF evolved in the course of 1996. This kind of garbage match would have been unthinkable the previous year.
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    Bret and Shawn aren't small. Shawn is 6'1. I've heard that Jerry Jarrett played a role in them getting pushed at the time. Savage sure wasn't a small guy. Eddie, Benoit and Rey were small. Rey was pushed because Eddie died. Both Rey and Benoit's title reign were nondescriot at best, and they got back to the midcard afterward. But really, it's an accepted fact that Vince doesn't like small guys.
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    The 96 Climax was so great.
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    Toyota and Inoue had the infamous überworkrate 60 minutes match in 1995. Amazing stuff. The Rock and HHH of all people had an excellent 60 minutes matches. Time doesn't matter. The way it's worked does. I have never seen Angle/brock going 60, but I don't want to see Angle going anywhere near 60 minutes.
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    Well, the only point of Rey winning the Rumble and the belt was make money out of Eddie's death. The constant references to Eddie during that time were just unbearable. Plus since Vince hates small guys, Rey was never treated as a real champ anyway.
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    It's the kind of match I would ave gone ga-ga over 12 years ago. Rewatching it a few years back, I thought it was actively boring. Just like the famous Dean vs Eddie matches from ECW rather bored me when I rewatched them last year. I was more interested by the Sandman's matches to be honest.
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    I remember that match, so much fun. Anjoh is such a dick, and Tenryu is grumpy as all hell. I loved WAR.
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    I blame the workers for doing a NJ Korakuen Hall match before this audience. Neither of them had any will to try to involve the crowd, they worked like they were in a vacuum.
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    I loved it back then, and rewatching it, it's truly an excellent match. Is there any proof out there than Mero was a good worker at this point ? I mean, it should be pretty obvious. Yeah, Mero was a missed opportunity. He should have been given a long IC title reign, and probably would have done much better if not for the severe knee injury. I don't think he could have been El Hijo del Macho Man, but he and Sable brought some glamour back to the product, something that had been absent since the early 90's.
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    I thought it was a bad feud for Vader at this point, but it's true that at least they could have made a big deal out of it.
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    Average match, really, one I have no desire to watch again. They really don't much much in term of build, waste a vast amount of time doing boring stuff, the matwork is pretty laughable coming from a guy who's supposed to be a "technician". And most of all, they really have zero clue how to work the last 15 minutes. It's obvious they weren't on the same page. Of course with these two you get a few really good moments, but it's few and far between. The booking I thought was cheap. The fact that HHH and The Rock had a much better match, granted, with the help of very creative booking, tells a lot about the failure these two had here at working a super long match. And the fact that Nash and Taker had a better match just before tells a lot too. I may be a bit severe, but this match doesn't hold a candle to what was done in other promotions in the same timeframe in term of super long matches, and gets worse with each viewing.
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    It was stupid and shameless.
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    I was so disapointed that Taker was back just the day after SummerSlam. I think I was getting tired of Taker by that point, and was looking forward to see Mankind get to new things after doing the unthinkable and defeating Taker. That angle told me it was business as always. Didn't like it at the time, don't think it was good now. Taker should have been gone until the build to Survivor Series.
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    Yeah, really good intro for DiBiase. The sad thing is that it's the best thing he did in his entire WCW stint. They had no idea what to do with him, especially after Bischoff took over as the evil boss leader.
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    I guess his weight issues were a problem, but still, Yoko's babyface turn was just a way to put him out. His only feud with Vader was a terrible idea for both men (putting monster Vader against a guy who made him look small), and they did nothing afterward. Going from WWF champion to tag champ to pretty much a JTTS is pretty sad for such a good worker. Yoko could have done so much more. Again, I guess his weight was becoming more and more uneathly, but I was surprised Hogan never tried to get him to WCW just to get his win back.
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    My recollection of this is that it was a terrible match. The post-match is good, but Hogan vs Giant never worked for me inside the ring, they had no chemistry. The shitty crowd didn't help either.
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    As a French, I never got the gimmick. Two guys from Quebec pretending to be French, who called themselves LaResistance and were anti-americans, was that the deal ? Because the French Resistance were the obvious allies of the American, English and Canadian troops. Makes no sense whatsoever. You want French heels, there's plenty of shit you can dig up. But La Resistance ? What ? I guess it was at the heighs of anti-french sentiment in the US so whatever approaching French = heel. You wanna make fun of French people, there's a thousands funnier ways to do it, that would make actual sense.
  22. El-P
    Holy shit indeed. Wasn't Khali involved with some guy's death in APW too ? Anyway, he's a goner.
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    1992 Saturday Nights. I miss WCW and there's a lot I haven't seen from it.
  24. El-P
    Amazing promo.
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    Prostituting himself ? What ? The Mero household made shitload of money being on the road and working *together*, and probably having a blast doing so. I don't see how he embarrassed himself, it was just business. I hated Sable as much as the next guy, but the Marvelous Marc interactions were actually fun. Yeah, I thought Mero vs. Sable was a fun storyline at the time too. I was just explaining the mentality of a lot of guys in the business towards Mero letting his wife kick his ass on national TV. Oh, sorry about that then. I'm slow sometimes...
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