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  1. El-P
    Awesome match in term of pure fun and aura. I always loved The Great Muta gimmick, I guess I have terrible taste in wrestling. But yeah, it worked so well because it was only in small dose.
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    No idea. I'm glad I didn't hear that.
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    Jarrett didn't stay a face for long though, as he quickly transitionned into the sneaky 5th member of the 4 Horsemen, trying to take Mongo's spot and wife, which was a fun program. But yeah, Jarrett first coming up as a *face* after years of chickenshit heel in WWF and playing the "I'm wrestling tradition" card was a bomb.
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    I have never heard anyone call Aja a Dump clone either.
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    These two together were always brillant. Wrestling as art.
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    They missed a huge opportunity with Sunny vs Cornette. It could have been a golden feud with awesome promos and angles. I was baffled they decided to do nothing with Sunny at this point. What a wasted potential.
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    Lothario was an albatros for Shawn. I wasn't a fan of this incarnation of babyface champ Shawn Michaels anyway, but having this old guy nobody knew (in the WWF audience) by his side made him even more uncool. Vader was doomed by the shitty SummerSlam booking.
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    This is WWF getting desperate while WCW was just kicking their asses with the angle of the decade. How could they thought it would get over ? I did like Ross pseudo heel turn though. Heel Ross would have been a blast. I'm very critical of what Ross became later, but I really loved his work during this time preceding the Attitude Era.
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    This was so stupid. Meanwhile, Jeff Jarrett was having the best run of his life in WCW having great matchex with Benoit and Malenko, and tons of fun interaction with the Horsemen. Yeah, I was a fan of the Jarrett/Mongo/Debra triangle.
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    It's one of the rare Gangstas segment I actualy enjoyed. Probably beacause more than half the participants were the FBI.
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    Hikari Fukuoka still had the best finisher ever. Moonsault footstomp. Just amazingly brutal. Manami Toyota was never even the best wrestler in her own company. And I like Manami.
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    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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