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The Rock makes Michael Cole wear a t-shirt over his head while he conducts the interview. Kind of an asshole thing to do. This is a funny promo talking about how he generates electricity through genetics. -
Last few minutes. The fake Sting comes out to attack Nash and align with Savage and Sid until the real Sting makes the save. Three years and they're still doing this Bogus Sting crap? Sting helps Nash up and Nash doesn't realize he was a fake (since you know, Nash was never in the NWO or anything where they concocted these plans) and powerbombs him. He tells Nash what's left of his old lady is in the dressing room. Savage follows after him and starts attacking her for some reason after slapping Torrie, which got WCW some bad publicity.
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Eddy claims stolen property and wants the masked luchadores lined up and unmasked so he can see who stole his wallet. All the luchadores line up in a room that just happens to have a place to measure height on the wall. Eddy makes jokes about how ugly they all are but I love the "I thought that was you!" with the hug. He goes through the entire lineup and hasn't found the culprit. I know some people loved this but I don't get the point of it.
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Because of real life circumstances, they've dropped the previous storyline with Bret and are now just turning him babyface and telling the truth. It's not a bad strategy. They talk about Owen's death in the video package preceding his interview, which is well done, although it feels like using Owen's death to turn a wrestler babyface is awfully exploitative. I'm not saying they shouldn't have, but there's something uncomfortable about it. Bret looks awfully despondent. What a horror his life has been since 1997. He doesn't seem like he is ready to do this promo, although I'm sure it was therapeutic in some ways. He doesn't know what his next steps should be. His family has lived for wrestling and they've died for wrestling. He talks about how Elway and Gretzsky would be so happy when they'd get to hang it up, but when he looks at himself, he wouldn't feel that way. It sucks. On one hand, it's not fair to end his career on a bad note but the truth is that he just doesn't know. He needs more time. If he never gets the chance to say it again, he wants to thank his fans everywhere. He also wants to thank everyone he ever worked with. And that's that. What a sad moment.
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They've taken Flair down so far that he doesn't even get a reaction in Atlanta. That takes effort. Ric announces that since Scott Steiner is not defending the U.S. title, he will be putting the belt on David. His logic is that since he beat Nash by countout the previous week, that makes him number one contender and thus U.S. champ. Charles Robinson comes out with Asya and a bevy of women. Flair explains that the women are for David so he can live the life of a champ. Ric says they're going downtown. This is embarrassing. Buff Bagwell interrupts, and Bagwell is now more over than Flair. Wow. Flair has to sell Bagwell's lame insults like they are really harsh. Bagwell wants David in a match for the U.S. title.
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Savage and Sid lay out Juventud Guerrera because why not. Sid gets on the mic and calls out Sting. Sid claims Nash has really messed with "this mind's man" before handing the mic over to Savage. Savage gets booed so loudly that he decides he has nothing to say and throws the mic down before Sid starts talking again. Nash interrupts via Turnertron with a happy Torrie Wilson by his side. THIS FEUD. Savage asks where George is and Nash tells him she's getting dressed. So glad this feud is almost over. It to this point is the single worst main event program of the decade, maybe in history.
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This was fun to watch but I don't feel comfortable rating it or anything. First all, there's debate over whether it's a work or shoot. I wanted to include it so people could decide for themselves what they think. I was expecting something that basically looked like RINGS, but this doesn't look like that really at all. So I enjoyed it enough that I might start going through MMA at some point in the future, but even if it is worked, while that would indeed make it pro wrestling, it's a pretty foreign and isolated style by that standard.
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Brutus Beefcake.
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I don't think it would have been doomsday. Owen Hart died in a fall and WWE didn't skip a beat in terms of popularity. They did get some media backlash, but it was short-lived because of the perception that because wrestling is fake, so are the people involved.
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I just watched the 6/99 match between Tamura and Yammamoto and I'd be surprised if that was a shoot. They showed such a flair for the dramatic and even seemed to be working the crowd so much that I can't see how it isn't. I too lean toward work. I'm curious what the argument is that it's a shoot. Tamura even slapped Yammamoto during handshakes.
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Kobashi is wearing a nose guard and Takayama immediately starts kicking him in the face. This starts as a wild brawl and they really do a number on Kobashi in the fracas. Kobashi’s selling is great, and No Fear keep going for the nose guard to try to rip it off, gouging his face every time he tries to string together any offense. When young Kentaro Shiga - who is in way over his head - attempts to rescue his tag team partner, Takayama not only takes him out, but starts drilling him with a chair. They continue working Kobashi’s nose over for a few minutes and this is just a slaughter. Shiga gets his first bit of offense in during the last couple of minutes of this which clears the way for Kobashi to make his own save. Shiga tags himself in and shines for about two minutes and you can guess what happens next. Really excellent 10-minute match.
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Very good match. This avoided the usual three-way pitfalls of having a guy who has to sell for unusually long periods of time while the other two go at it. They found creative ways around that. I also like that ECW 3-ways are elimination rules, because that makes far more sense to me than just one decision taking the match. Little Guido submits Super Crazy in the first decision, which I liked because I actually think Guido was Taijiri's best ECW opponent based on what I've seen so far, even though Super Crazy was his most known rival. Nothing that will change the world, but I liked that they took a match type I usually don't enjoy and made it work.
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Savage is nervously pacing and swearing, wanting Gorgeous George to call him. He gets a call from Kevin Nash and Savage wants to make a deal on where to meet him. Nash is getting a massage but we don't see who is giving it to him, so it could be Torrie Wilson or Gorgeous George. Both of them have separate cameras on them? Do I have to pull out the point of view argument AGAIN? I guess I do. We see Randy Savage in an alley by a payphone. Nash calls him and when Savage starts swearing, he actually says "Not nice to say those kinds of words on the air." On the air. WOW. POINT OF VIEW. Nash just keeps sending Savage everywhere while not leaving his hotel and has no desire to go anywhere. Later, Savage is outside a gas station when a limo shows up. This turn into an attack and Sting shows up out of nowhere in a quick cut - but is it the real one? - and blasts Nash with a baseball bat. Sid shows up and helps beat down Nash and they put a hooded girl in a hummer and drive off. They take her hood off and it's Torrie Wilson. This is the worst stuff I think I've ever seen.
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