Loss Posted December 6, 2010 Report Share Posted December 6, 2010 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted February 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2011 Savage comes out in solid black and sunglasses not dressed to wrestle. The match never takes place. Bischoff has a video for Savage to watch, and it's of Hogan, The Giant and Liz on the set of Hogan's movie. Hogan is ordering Liz to tell Savage she loves him and wants him back and to mess with his head. This is Savage's response: "It just occurred to me how fragile friendships and relationships can be. And you Eric Bischoff, you and I both know how fragile business can be. Even marriage is fragile. But Hulk Hogan, life is fragile." This is still a weird angle. At the time, it felt like they were implying Savage was going to kill himself because of Bischoff's overreacting "don't go there" response. Now when I rewatch it, I think they were implying Savage was going to go find Hogan and murder him, which isn't any less tasteless, even if it is fairly compelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 I immediately thought Savage was gonna kill Hogan. Not really "kill" him of course, and Bischoff does overreact. Schiavone would end up being better than Bischoff as the main Nitro announcer (for a while at least). I would guess they already planned the Bischoff turn at this point, which would make sense with him showing all these videos to fuck up Savage's mind. The whole Liz storyline was very ambiguous too, there's no way to really know what's happening in this nWo vignette. Really good stuff, and Liz is very solid again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 This is a well-done angle and you KNOW it's serious business when Savage is speaking low-key. That said, this is yet another "Savage walks off the set" ending when I really think this could have been improved if Savage had run to the ring and punked out Benoit. God knows the guy could have gone over *somebody* at some point between May and his title match, and it wouldn't have hurt for him to "send a message." Plus it would have been less over the top than Savage setting out to kill Hulk. The stuff with Hogan firing the 3 NInjas director and replacing him with the Giant is terrific, by the way. Who else noticed the shoot comment that Savage directed toward Bischoff? "We both know business is fragile"--Savage's contract was due to expire (and may well have expired, with Havoc being a final obligation) and was widely believed to have wanted out of the company while all this was going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted May 27, 2017 Report Share Posted May 27, 2017 Savage wearing the black attire was another great choice to add emphasis to this angle. The video stuff with Liz again was pretty high brow mixed with some soap opera drama but it landed for me based off the reaction of Savage and how he talks about how fragile life is. I have really enjoyed the build to this match and I thought they took a feud that could have felt really dated and added new life to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim Posted February 24, 2018 Report Share Posted February 24, 2018 Another really good angle for this story, and I loved Schiavone noting that Savage is in "street clothes" when he comes out in that ridiculous get-up. I also thought they might have been implying Savage was going to kill himself with Bischoff's over-reaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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