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Joined in progress. Dirty White Boy attempts to get involved and Scott Armstrong seems to restrain him. Later in the match, Landell tries to grab brass knucks to go after a bloodied Blaze, but DWB snags them out of his hand. This distracts Landell and leads to Blaze rolling him up for a pin. -
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Well, this just jumped right up and punched me in the face right out of nowhere. This is phenomenal. This is the main event on an episode of Mid South Wrestling happening in the WWF. The heat is unlike anything I've seen in all but a few WWF matches ever and Jim Ross is awesome on commentary. Between the heat, storyline and action all being so in sync, Jim Ross being in his element and the various grudges overlapping and playing themselves out, I think this has a case for being the best WWF tag match of all time. I do like the Clique tag from the year before and am happy to agree with anyone who pimps that match, but I think this is slightly better. It's that great. Bret plays FIP while Owen and Backlund work over his knee. The hot tag teases and cutoffs border on cruel to the audience because they're so into this, but it's superbly done. Most of all, it's given time to develop, but not too much time -- there's not really ever a moment where the pace slows or the rhythm gets stalled. Forget other WWF tags, this should be discussed alongside Austin/Zbyszko vs Windham/Rhodes, Benoit/Malenko vs Raven/Saturn and some of the other, more heralded tags of 90s WCW.
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This was a really good match. It would make a good side-by-side comparison to the Douglas/Scorpio match at Matter of Respect. I think that match is better, but this is really good in its own right, and I could see someone disagreeing with me. Jannetty, who had disappeared off the face of the planet for most of '94 and didn't resurface for months after this, gives a really inspired performance. I think Marty's style demonstrates something about breaking up what wrestlers do well into categories that are too specific -- it's not the best metric to figure out who's good. Marty really doesn't have much offense. His strength is in sequences and exchanges. He does those really well. He has tremendous ring timing. He's a great wrestler when he's at his best. "Jannetty lacks offense" is a legit point, but it shouldn't be used to disparage him. I could point to specific spots that are done well, but I think what impresses me most is that the crowd really isn't too thrilled about Marty being in ECW early on, even chanting "We Want Shawn" at him. But he wins them over with his work in the ring by the end.
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Flair and Sting had one of their better matches on Nitro the week after Havoc, but they were back to their normal routine by World War 3.
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I'm hardly the person they should market to, so take this with a grain of salt, but I would be way more excited about a network with ZERO original programming that would just play stuff from their library around the clock. It's probably a good idea for them to have original programming, so I'm not criticizing, just saying it would be far cooler to me if they would do a series where they would re-air an old PPV after airing all the TV that built up to it (in a smartly edited way).
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Raven does another boring promo. Tommy Dreamer pleads with him to shut up and it doesn't work. The crowd turns on it too. Eventually, Stevie announces that he has brought the Broad Street Bullies back to ECW to take out Tommy Dreamer. Blah Blah Blah, Generation X, Society, barf. Dreamer goes after Raven and Raven doesn't even fight back while the lackeys keep coming after him and he keeps singlehandedly fighting them off. They finally brawl and they start teasing that there's something between these two that we don't know about.
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Landell does a furious promo wearing just his necktie about the beatdown from Dirty White Boy last week. If he paid $15,000 for that suit, he overpaid about $14,985. This is fantastic -- he screams that he has no clothes and it's "eleven below zero" outside, then calls Dirty White Boy a diesel-driving, pickle-licking sack of shit! Next, we get Lawler hyping Sunday Bloody Sunday against Dirty White Boy with yet another tremendous promo. Too many great lines in these things to list them all. Finally, Jim Ross interviews Dirty White Boy at the ... what do I call it, studio? DWB does a great, pissed-off promo on both Lawler and Landell. Three tremendous talkers, three tremendous interviews.
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Well, this was a nice surprise -- a studio match between these two given some time. Both are babyfaces at this point, so they shake hands in advance. Nice match, which shouldn't surprise anyone. Even though they're both babyfaces, the match has Dundee being treated like a heel, even though Lawler is the one who cheats by piledriving Dundee after a ref bump. I really like Dundee's leg work -- the clips and the sitting spinning toehold are both excellent. Not only are the strikes great, but they're varied, and if either of them throws multiple punches in a corner, each one is sold individually, which is really cool. JC Ice pulls the ref out of the ring after Lawler's double secret piledriver to let him know it happened. Lawler is distracted by this, and Dundee rolls him up from behind to win the title. Lawler makes Dundee promise him the first shot after the match. At first, Dundee wants to wait 30 days so he can have some time with the belt, but Lawler won't have it. Dundee is funny walking away from that: "Why does he always do that to me? He does that to me all the time. Why did I do that?" I'm going to pretend the Danny Cyrus beatdown never happened. JC Ice is around to point out Lawler using a piledriver when the ref is down, but nowhere to be found when his dad is being doubleteamed later. Stupid. Lawler comes out and makes a save.
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Last few minutes of a Steve Richards/Tommy Dreamer match. Dreamer was wearing wrestling trunks at this point. Raven ends up coming into the match and he and Stevie doubleteam Dreamer. Dreamer ducks a superkick and gets a quick pin. Raven is being held back by Stevie and the ref, even though Dreamer challenges him to a fight. Post-match, Dreamer asks Raven to go back to the WWF and tell them to kiss ECW's ass. ECW is the Polk High School to Tommy Dreamer's Al Bundy.
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First things first, Lawler has to vent about Bret Hart's award. He says Bret Hart only won that award because all Japanese readers' votes were excluded, and Lawler is a racist that hates Japanese people. Now, time for Shawn to come out. I don't think Shawn ever said "WWF" a single time on TV. If he did, I never heard it. He probably says "World Wrestling Federation" a dozen times here. It should be a drinking game. I realize most wrestlers didn't use "WWF" as a default, but Shawn would do it no matter how awkwardly it flowed. Just curious: Does anyone think Shawn Michaels was a good promo? I don't see it. Anyway, Sid is Shawn's new bodyguard. He delivers a promo, and is an awfully talkative bodyguard. I think at this point -- maybe I'm wrong -- because he was so much bigger, the idea was to use Shawn to get Sid over, not the other way around.
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Flair's promo earlier in the show is interesting because the Baltimore crowd is extremely pro-Flair and extremely anti-Hogan. I know the reputation for this match, but I was still surprised by how good it was. Hogan brought his A-game to the match. Like Ditch said, it is a deviation from the formula, while still being a Hogan match. Nothing Hogan throws at Vader works early on, so then he tries actually wrestling him. The clotheslines and chairshots outside the ring that don't result in DQs make this feel more like a big New Japan match than a WCW main event to me. I should also add that Ric Flair worked his ASS off in that run-in. He must have been antsy to get back in the ring because he goes all out with the few minutes he has. I think with maybe 5 more minutes, this might have creeped up another level. It really was a surprisingly good match.
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