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Are we hearing the producers talking to the announcers in the background? It sounds like Bischoff and it's distracting. Oh, WCW. Anyway, Sting has words for Hogan, as they are scheduled to have a match tonight. Lex Luger returns for the third time since his injury, but this time he actually sticks around. He and Luger hug it out and Lex gets a big "Luger!" chant. January is but a memory. He says he's ready to come back pretty soon, and he doesn't want to lecture Sting, but he just wants to tell him he doesn't think he should trust Hogan. Yeah, they weren't aligned as heels when Luger was last on TV or anything.
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Last few minutes. So I guess they couldn't do Austin vs HHH because Austin was banged up and couldn't do the type of match needed to put HHH over. And/or he refused to put HHH over. And/or Jesse Ventura couldn't raise a heel's hand at the end of the show. I've heard all three versions at some point. Either way, this was a flat main event. Mankind wins the WWF title. I hate to give sympathy to HHH over his push, but getting the win here right out of the gate of his main event push may have meant a lot more. He takes his frustrations out on Austin in the post-match over not winning the title.
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Last few minutes. "That large woman" is at ringside. Lawler makes lots of fat girl jokes that are pretty cruel and unfunny, which seems to be what this match was designed to do more than anything else. Jim Ross has his infamous horrible line and Rock gets the win to end the Billy Gunn experiment for good. Pretty bad in every way.
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I really, really hate Shane McMahon matches because they present Shane as a non-wrestler, then he comes in and goes toe-to-toe with a guy that they were grooming for a top position at the time. So it makes wrestling look like something anyone off the street can do. I prefer the Austin-Vince method where they didn't let Vince get any offense on Austin at all and maybe the match wasn't technically as good, but it made a lot more sense. This is one of those times where I think doing a worse match would have accomplished a lot more in getting Test over, unless the goal was more to get Shane over, which is entirely possible. I do love Patterson and Brisco as babyfaces though.
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Road Dogg is upset that he's been figured out of the Hardcore title match and wants a shot at the winner tomorrow night on RAW. That's all it takes to get a Chris Jericho interruption. Jericho rips on how horrible the show has been and how Road Dogg is the worst guy in the company. He rips on Road Dogg's hairstyle and spelling abilities, telling him he has a Stevie Wonder hairdo, DX sucks and even questions his spelling skills in a funny line. Road Dogg tells him to shut up, bitch in a pretty bad comeback before telling him to suck it.
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Last few minutes. I've talked about the WCW aesthetic before and this definitely looks like a WCW Worldwide taping from years earlier. This is worked similarly to Luna vs Stevie Richards a few years earlier. Francine runs in and does some damage to Corino and we get studio Bronco busters on him and Jack Victory. Tajiri shows up post-match to attack Dreamer and mist the women. Taz comes out just as the show goes off the air.
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Finish of a house show match. Morton and Gibson still look pretty good. They win the tag titles, despite Jason Lee trying to use a chain. However, Lee puts the chain in Morton's tights and the ref reverses the decision when he finds it there. You can see Cornette's fingerprints all over this episode of TV. Back at the studio, the Suicide Blonds come out for an interview. They want stiffer competition since they beat the Rock & Rolls so handily.
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Flash Flanagan is tired of being denied opportunities while goofs like Rico get all the hype and attention. It looks like Flash is turning heel, as he blasts Constantino and Cornette, who is conducting the interview, even takes a bump. Trailer Park Trash gets attacked too. Crowd seems to be on Flash's side. I always liked the guy and it's a shame he never really made it.
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I love seeing Cornette take on two roles concurrently in this format. Last few minutes of Conway vs Damaja from a house show. Second torture rack finish teased in August, neither of which involved Lex Luger. Cornette and Kenny Bolin end up getting into it when Bolin tries to interfere. Deanna Kane (do we know her better by a different name?) sprays Damaja in the eyes with hairspray and Rob Conway wins the OVW title and ends Damaja's undefeated streak. Rob Conway comes in the ring to "Iron Man" to cut a promo. Bolin has his in as an OVW manager. Dmaaja comes out to clean house and is about to get his eyes on Bolin. Deanna Kane ends up taking a bump and Bolin takes a few punches too. Bull Buchanan finally attacks him from behind and the heels work over Damaja. Various wrestlers try to make the save but are unsuccessful.
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I love Wolfie D promos. I wish this guy had gotten more of a shot, but at the same time, I realize he's a guy who just came along in the wrong generation. Doug sends well wishes to Randy Hales in spite of their problems and cuts a hell of a promo in his own right, this one directed at Jim Cornette. Both of these guys are great talkers.
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They show something happening last week after Power Pro went off the air where Jim Cornette and Steve Bradley injured Randy Hales to the point that an ambulance had to be called. Dave Brown and Cory Maclin open the show taking on a completely different tone than usual, really putting over the idea that the attack went far beyond the pale. The announcers want Cornette to come out and explain himself, but he's too busy celebrating with all the heels. Corny throws the cameraman out and says they'll talk later when they are ready.
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Kodo Fuyuki is special referee. Mr. Gannosuke might just end up my favorite wrestler in the world in 1999. He has this awesome and methodical mat-based, stiff style, almost like he’s the Japanese Greg Valentine. Here, he takes advantage of Tanaka’s frustration with Fuyuki to attack his arm with some great, vicious-looking stuff. Awesome spot when Gannosuke brings a chair into the ring and Tanaka starts to mount a comeback. He swings for the fences and Gannosuke casually holds up the chair and he ends up punching the shit out of the chair and further injuring his arm. Brilliant selling of that too. The arm/elbow is already taped up, so I presume this was part of a larger arc involving Tanaka working through an injury anyway. They keep teasing a Tanaka comeback and he’ll be successful for a move or two, then the injury will come back into play because he makes a critical mistake, usually hurting his arm even more. Great finishing stretch at the end that had everyone losing their shit, and they kept the selling up throughout it all too. I like that they laid the groundwork early for this by giving Tanaka short comebacks all throughout the match. It made the trading nearfalls at the end not seem so tacked on, but rather consistent with what the match had been to that point. Gannosuke gets on the Nirvana Strangle as everyone at ringside screams for Tanaka to reach the ropes. They do a little pop-up selling of suplexes at the end which I never care for, but that’s not really enough to take this down. They also do some stuff with both guys accidentally hitting Fuyuki, but it just makes the match hotter when a second referee comes in to start counting falls. This was wonderful.
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Last few minutes. Lane wins the cruiserweight title in what was probably a good decision, considering that Rey hadn't really treated the belt as anything important for months. Pretty decent action, but it wasn't anything special when I watched it in full.
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Glacier repackaged in a new gimmick that didn't last long. This is very early 90s WWF, just like most other things in WCW at the time.
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Billy Gunn is out to cut a promo about the allergic reaction he had to his herbal ass treatment. Yes. The Rock quickly and mercifully interrupts. He's hoarse on this particular evening, but still finds multiple ways to make fun of Billy Gunn. He reveals that he was behind the herbal ass treatment Gunn got, and that it was actually poison ivy. Billy Gunn wasn't going to work as a top guy, but this is what they came up with in an attempt to get him there? They end up in a brawl in a bad segment, and Gunn ends up attacking Rock with a kendo stick.
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Undertaker, who was a real crowd killer at this point, does an awful promo that I always assumed had to be purposely bad because of Chris Jericho's interruption pointing it out, but it apparently wasn't. Jericho apparently once again hit a little too close to home by calling Undertaker and Show boring and talking about the two of them getting way too much TV time, and got himself some heat in the process. Poor guy.
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Last few minutes. Great heat, bad wrestling. Hogan doing the Hulk Up when he hasn't broken a sweat yet always looks bad. Rick Steiner runs in just as Hogan has Sid pinned, showing himself to be a better interferer than Papa Shango. Fans pelt the ring with garbage and Sting shows up. Rick Steiner eats a big boot and leg drop and Steiner gets pinned and the ref counts it for no apparent reason. They subtly tease a Hogan-Sting match coming soon in the post-match.
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Last few minutes. Kidman gets a big upset. WCW is awful for always having the established guy lay out the guy who got the upset right after, negating the impact of the job. I do like the angle here in spite of that. DDP ties Kidman upside down to the ringpost and whips him with a belt. Kimberly shows up to calm him down.
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