Loss
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Actually, Obama is Bill Watts in 1992 WCW. Had some ideas for turning things around and making his organization/country a leader. But the ideas never had the chance to fail or succeed on their own merits because everyone around him was more focused on cutting spending and their own personal gain. Both also escalated the drug war and gave famous speeches on race. -
Big Show is someone I would argue should be nowhere near a Hall of Fame. He's become good with time, and I think a lot of it can be attributed to him being brought into wrestling in such a weird way and being booked inconsistently, but he's the definition of underachiever for me. Had he reached his potential, he'd be a top guy and major draw, and the most feared guy in wrestling.
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I seem to remember them being concerned that was going to get him booed at Mania, since they were in SoCal.
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I think the point is that if Honky wants to work every night, he can still make decent money. He would also be giving up his rights to the gimmick through the deal. I know he can still work indies, but I'm guessing that means WWE would get a cut of any profits he makes from appearing anywhere as Honky Tonk Man? Not sure. I think I read once that the Legends contracts typically pay a really, really low amount -- something like $15,000 a year. I'm sure your Flair and Hogan types could get a sweeter deal than that of course.
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Ted DiBiase and Brother Love discuss Xanta Claus' appearance on the previous night's In Your House and DiBiase announces that he has joined the Million Dollar Corporation. XANTA CLAUS. I guess this was dropped as soon as it started. He teases a new acquisition without saying who, so I guess they had signed Austin by this point.
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So the first half of this is ... *runs and hides* ... really boring. When Bret starts bleeding, the match gets really interesting, because it goes from Bret-by-the-numbers to Bret fighting for his life. He feels like a huge underdog at that point and has a pretty dramatic comeback. I love La Magistral, and I'm happy to see it as a finish. Don't get me wrong -- this was a really good match -- but maybe it looks better without seeing everything else going on in the world at this point.
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Scott Bowden interrupts the announcers to talk about Lawler overdosing on pain pills just to be able to walk out on crutches and impress everyone by how tough he is. Lawler comes out in THE MOST RIDICULOUS SWEATER OF ALL TIME (I can't put it into words). It's an actual quilt sweater, I kid you not, and has about 10 colors in it, all making the letter V in various sizes, except for the neck, which is yellow with red trim. He makes some super lame nerd jokes toward Bowden, and Bowden ends up sneak attacking him with a crutch and taking off.
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Bob Armstrong calls in to talk about how angry he is at the courts ruling in favor of the USWA. This is accompanied by an AMAZING serious business Bob Armstrong graphic on screen with an American flag in the background. He says he has fired all of his lawyers and will replace them with Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey. He says if he was there, he would "choke [Randy Hales]' britches full of Scandanavian snake feces and beat his brains out"! I would fully support any wrestling show that had Bob Armstrong as commissioner and top heel, doing two babyface promos per show and three heel promos. He tries to bribe Lance Russell into helping him out and Lance responds by saying, "Stop cryin' Bob. The law has come down! I'm hanging up! I have better things to do than listen to your complaining and griping." This is wrestling.
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This is glorious, and for whatever reason, I have always LOVED one line from Davey Boy. Vince interviews Davey Boy and Diana in their home, and the smiles they have on their face while casually discussing their hatred of Bret is just ... AWESOME. Vince: What is that gift under the tree? Davey Boy: It's from Bret. It's a box of broken dreams and shattered promises! Diana has some amazingly vapid lines like "If Davey wins the WWF title, he will be the World Wrestling Federation champion" and "If Davey beat Bret, he would be better than the best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be." Add in Vince's IN YOUR HOUSE puns and Davey's Summerslam '92 t-shirt and it doesn't get much better than this.
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It was good, but I was hoping for a hidden gem, thinking this may be some lost classic on par with the PPV match. It wasn't to be, but I still liked this quite a bit. Pretty high end for a house show match, but would be pretty disappointing on a big show. Bret going through the motions could still be fun.
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Sid was great until the bell rung. At that point, he no longer seemed all that scary. I'd say the same for Nash at his worst actually (He has periods where he was fine.) They don't need to be superworkers at that size, but being able to portray themselves as a threat through their matches in the same way they did leading up to them would have helped both guys out. But in Sid's case, he was so clumsy and couldn't even throw a forearm without botching it, and any feeling of this guy being a threat that was there before was suddenly gone. That's what people are getting at when they call him a bad worker -- not that he should have been able to do moonsaults and a bunch of suplexes, but that he should have been able to execute a few basic wrestling moves in decent fashion.
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To their credit, they have gone silent at times during big angles the last few years, which I think has been a welcome change.