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Mankind has great news for The Rock - they get to defend the tag titles tonight. Rock says his focus is on the WWF title, not the tag titles. Mankind wants to carry the team for a change tonight. He gives Rock a copy of Have A Nice Day and gives him Mr. Rocko to use as a bookmark. Rock tells him he can keep it. -
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How the mighty have fallen. Flair is upset with the Filthy Animals for attacking his son. Flair cuts a pretty ok promo, but something is off. I think it's that he's a babyface cutting a heel promo in a segment where he's being booked as a babyface. Flair singles out Eddy, telling him he outdrunk his brothers in every bar from here to Philly. We should have gotten a Flair-Eddy program. He wants the Filthy Animals to come out. They end up gang attacking him as the Filthy Animals push continues. They end up mugging Flair, taking his watch, his cash and Kidman even puts on Flair's jacket. To close out the segment, we see Luger finding Liz laid out with a broken guitar next to her.
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Such a weird angle. Bagwell did an interview earlier in the night where he was excited to be in favor with the new writers, then came back out later with his "I'm jobbing" face and lays down for La Parka before grabbing the mic and complaining about it. Purposely bad match from an apathetic Bagwell, which is always a great idea in a ratings war. Bagwell tells La Parka to give him his finish, lays down and eats a pin, then acts annoyed. All the wrestlers in the back are laughing about it while Bagwell asks Russo if he did a "good job". Meta crap. Then Jeff Jarrett shows up out of nowhere - the night after a WWF pay-per-view match - and breaks a guitar over Bagwell's head.
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Luger has a match tonight with Goldberg and begins his Russo transition to a total chickenshit heel, which was one of the few bright spots of Russo's WCW run. Here, he's acting terrified of Goldberg, who he is facing in the main event, and is pretty nervous. Funny stuff, even if it a total 180.
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Sid is out in a suit and wants the Halloween Havoc match called off since Goldberg attacked him the week before. He has a team of lawyers with him. Goldberg finally comes out and one of the lawyers eats a spear before Sid attacks him from behind. He gives Goldberg a powerbomb and then shoves a torn up contract down his throat. Scott Hall and Kevin Nash are at ringside making fun of Goldberg when he gets his bearings and one thing leads to another before there's a shoving match and security intervenes and throws Hall and Nash out of the building. This wasn't a bad segment, but this Crash TV stuff looks so low-rent without WWF production. They're trying to be hip, but they still have Tony and Bobby doing their square commentary and nothing about the look and feel of the show has changed. I realize it's only Week 1, but it just stands out how amateur hour this all looks.
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Kimberly tries to put the moves on David, saying he's had some woman troubles lately and it's probably because he's barking up the wrong tree. DDP is out of town and she is lonely, so she gives David her hotel room key. Then we cut to a celebratory promo with Rey and Konnan celebrating their title win. Jimmy Hart and the First Family interrupt. Brian Knobs is such a washed up geek.
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Last few minutes. Kidman and Eddy are on commentary. Eddy isn't cut out for commentary. Kidman calling Booker T a "great worker" ... come on. Konnan is FIP and they are building to a Rey hot tag, but this has no heat at all. The commentary isn't helping get this match over outside the arena either. Booker T ends up brawling with Eddy and Kidman and Rey and Konnan pin Harlem Heat in the ring to win the tag titles. Fans popped for the finish, and Russo did push this group hard at first.
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Last few minutes. Austin destroys HHH with a chair. Rock shows up with the sledgehammer to exact revenge on HHH, but ends up accidentally hitting Austin. HHH pedigrees Rock then pins Austin. Talk about a decisive finish to get HHH over as a mega heel. While it's HHH and we know how things ended up over time, I do admire the WWF's unwavering commitment to getting over a new hot heel at the same level as their two mega-babyfaces. HHH never hit that level, but he was successful, and trying and failing is better than not trying at all. I like seeing guys pushed hard. HHH and Austin end up brawling to the back where Chyna has a limo waiting for HHH and they drive off. The HHH-Chyna babyface-heel thing was pretty messed up.
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I liked this better than I expected to like it. Even though it was pretty much just a collection of highspots, that's what people want from these matches and they gave them that. I don't think this was one of the best matches in this genre, but I am still glad I saw it, and star-making matches always go a long way from me, which this is. Not one of the best matches of the year or anything like that, but I was pleasantly surprised.
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This is quite the sports entertainment match. They use all sorts of household cleaning items as weapons. Chyna makes a pretty decent effort here. Jarrett gets the win after hitting Chyna with the IC title, but the ref restarts the match because he used a championship belt, which is not a household item. Chyna catches Jarrett with a guitar shot when he's about to put the ref in a figure four and wins the IC title.
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This maximalist approach to death matches has played to mixed results for me thus far, but this I liked. I think I like Shadow WX almost as much as I like Honma or Yamakawa. He's not as good as they are, but he knows how to work these matches. What put this over the top was Honma's selling. This works better for me than Honma-Yamakawa because of the contrast in the styles. These two looks like they're in a war zone by the end of this, with all of the blood stains. Underneath all the flash, they're doing a pretty conventional babyface-heel formula match with Honma overcoming the odds and making a big comeback at the end but not quite getting the job done. The new death match style was what made this interesting, but that wrestling center is what makes this great. I don't know what it says that they are getting this stuff over as FMW scales back quite a bit, but it makes for an interesting narrative.
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This is an outlier in terms of the usual BattlARTS style, if only because these guys are much smoother than your Ishikawa-Ikeda types, for whom being rough around the edges is part of their appeal. So this is not at all something I'd put on a BattlARTS starter comp. But it's a great, great match otherwise. They decided to do a New Japan juniors match with a lot more matwork than your usual New Japan juniors match, and they rely on traditional pro wrestling staples to build drama in a more overt way than BattlARTS normally does. It reminds me of the Otani-Samurai matches, but even more in that direction. That's probably a part of why it got some play at the time. This was a late-entry MOTYC, which is a breath of fresh air in a time where the talking segments are getting out of control.
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Jerry Lynn is cutting a promo somewhere when Steve Corino interrupts him and tells him to stop his whining on his way somewhere else. Lynn thanks fans for their support but decides to go confront Corino, who has already left. Lynn ends up getting attacked by Tajiri in Corino's locker room.
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This is an awesome short match that I'd love to see get lots of time on TV. Great, intense brawling to start before Doug goes after Brian's knee. A fan club member comes in and attacks Doug ... it's The Spellbinder! They end up hanging Doug with a noose until Tommy Rich makes the save. Dave Brown tries to get a word with Tommy Rich, but Rich is trying to help Doug.
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Brian Christopher brings a van full of fans into the studio. Dave Brown gets in my head somehow when he asks if everyone actually got out of the same van, as there are at least 50 people entering the studio. I can't stop laughing. Brian says they are all in his fan club, which costs $99.95 to join. Those who join get all kinds of Brian Christopher merchandise. His fans cheer him on and this is hilarious. Finally, his fan club members get a lock of his hair! Tremendous, but no way could those follicles make it through a drug test. Brian Christopher presents "Mike" with a Fan of the Year award and gives him a Brian Christopher clock. A Brian Christopher clock! Doug Gilbert comes out to break up all the fun and they end up in a brawl with the famed Christopher Clock being broken over his head. Doug goes right after the knee and Brian bails. This feud is gold.
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Wolfie D is now hyping a feud with Steve Bradley in another feud I want to see. He reveals that he has a match against Jim Cornette today. It's a bait-and-switch with Kevin Christian quickly coming to Cornette's rescue and taking his place in the ring. Wolfie makes easy work of him, and then Cornette comes back in the ring. Some guy - not sure who - comes in to attack Wolfie on Cornette's behalf.