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Last few minutes. The winner gets to be #30 at the Royal Rumble. Great heat for the HHH-Boss Man finale. Vince shows up and looks ridiculously jacked up. He ends up waiting for his opportunity to dump both guys and Vince is now #30 in the Rumble. He mocks Hogan celebrating his victory, which is hilarious. But then Chyna shows up and Vince sells it awesomely. Vince hasn't won the match yet! Chyna lays out the stooges and Austin (to another ridiculous pop) distracts Vince long enough for Chyna to eliminate Vince and win the Corporate Rumble. Looks like she'll be our #30. The reaction Austin gets is out of this world. -
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The Undertaker gets such a pass. Why is he so respected within wrestling when he's had so much shit like this? Dennis Knight gets placed on the Undertaker's "symbol" and Undertaker sits on his throne while Paul Bearer sports a knife and a pre-taped Undertaker promo plays over the loud speaker. He starts speaking in tongues and uses the knife to draw blood from his own wrist which he pours into a cup before forcing Knight to drink it. He then rechristens him as Mideon and uses the knife to put a Satanic symbol on his chest, drawing blood and everything. Good Lord. Welcome to 1999 in all its glory. This is incredibly produced and definitely pushes the envelope, but I can't believe they got away with this.
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Yes! Loved Tyson marking out for Arn Anderson, Ricky Steamboat and Michael Hayes.
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Luger gets in Rey's face about wearing the LWO shirt and demands he take it off. Rey won't oblige so Luger lays in a beating. Rey ends up making a comeback and holy cow this could have been an incredible feud. Luger sells his stuff as great as he possibly can in spite of the size difference and the crowd is HOT for it. Luger is putting the boots to Konnan and then racks him when Konnan shows up. Konnan wants to know what Lex is doing and cue Nash leading the rest of the new Wolfpac to the ring. Nash says LET ME SPEAK ON THIS and Luger attacks Konnan from behind. The rest of the NWO joins in the attack and he's out of the group. Hall goes after him with the taser. Luger is so much better as a heel even though I'm not sure pushing him in 1999 makes WCW seem all that cool. A loud "We Want Sting" chant breaks out. The pieces are here to build something special involving an interesting mix of guys, but they did nothing with it. Imagine a Sting and Rey Misterio Jr. tag team upon Sting's return. Or even finally making Konnan a breakout singles babyface. I like this segment but I don't like that it's a standalone thing.
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Chavo is out with Pepe to celebrate the hobby horse's first birthday! There's a cake and this is wrestling. He leads the crowd in singing Happy Birthday when Norman Smiley crashes the party. Chavo is basically treating Pepe like Al Snow treats Head now. Anyway, Chavo tells him he wasn't invited, then attacks Chavo and throwing him into the birthday cake and bodyslamming him on the table. He then takes Pepe to a woodchipper and destroys him! I still think they should have gone all the way with this and had Pepe's head on Norman's pillow one morning when he woke up.
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Vignettes of Eric Bischoff's day in Flair's office. Where WWE does vignettes better than WCW is that WCW vignettes are shot like commercials or something with no real point of view. Bischoff gets in a dig that Ric Flair and Jim Ross ran WCW in 1991 and couldn't put 400 people in a building. Yeah, Flair and Jim Ross were running WCW. Anyway, I love that Flair has his robe on the wall at Bischoff's office. Flair makes clear that he's going to make Bischoff's life as miserable as he possibly can for the next 90 days. His new job is to work on the ring crew. Flair says, "Go get 'em, Easy E. Isn't that what Nash calls you?" as he leaves. KLONDIKE BILL yells at Eric for a while, but Bischoff ends up gimmicking the ring without anyone noticing.
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Ric Flair has a little fun with the "Mean Gene" intro to start since he says Bischoff once told him to stop doing it. Flair says the bad news is that Hogan's the champ, but the good news is that he's under contract until 2001 so he's not going anywhere - no movies and no Presidential campaign. Flair then reinstates JJ Dillon as the chairman of the Executive Committee, whose first order of business is that Hogan has to defend the title at SuperBrawl against a WCW wrestler. Announcement of a specific wrestler to come. Next, they're making the main event for Souled Out Scott Hall vs Goldberg in a ladder match, which Gene accidentally spoils. Finally, Flair asks the LWO to come out. The storyline explanation is now that the NWO has injured Eddy Guerrero and sidelined him with a broken leg. Flair wants the LWO to disband. He wants them to take off their shirts and they'll get money, cars and women. Flair promises to take Juventud to Tijuana, which makes him "Whoooo" in a funny moment. But Rey doesn't want to take off his shirt, which makes no sense considering he was forced to join in the first place. Flair adds on more thing at the very end - he's wrestling Curt Hennig tonight. This closes out with a GREAT video - modern WWE quality - of NWA guys sprinkled in with Hogan and Nash images over Flair's promo from Thunder. This is the kind of thing we will just never see done properly by WWE because it's not their history.
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Last few minutes. This match finally happened! I thought it would be like Chinese Democracy or something. Fireworks start going off in the middle of the match, the arena darkens and Sabu returns from his injury. He still has a neckbrace but goes after both guys. They both end up going through tables. Shane tries to pin Taz after Sabu leaves but Taz kicks out. Shane signals for the Triple Threat, but Francine has no idea what he's doing since there is no more Triple Threat. Tammy Sytch shows up in street clothes to talk some sense into Shane, but ends up in a catfight with Francine for some reason. Francine comes dangerously close to falling completely out of her dress. Candido ends up punching Douglas and abandoning him. Taz locks on the Tazmission and gets the win. Overbooked to hell and there's no better way to kill a submission than waiting too long to submit to it.
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Last few minutes. Credible casually getting into position for the "Dreamer Cutter" without even trying to hide it was something else. Funk shows up and costs Dreamer the match, continuing this nauseating Justin Credible push and not letting go of the impossible task of making Funk an effective heel in ECW. Funk being so mad at Dreamer still makes no sense. He just is.
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The Dudleys beat down New Jack and Spike Dudley in their post-match while D-Von cuts a promo on them. Bubba Ray talks next and still has sprinkles of the Southern accent, but he's slowly getting away from it. After a few minutes of boasting, they finally get to the point - they are challenging Public Enemy to a match at ECW Arena on January 16. Using a nationally broadcast pay-per-view to broadcast a Philly house show seems more than a little behind the times.
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Well, this was awesome. It's really amazing how much Crazy Max has progressed as all around workers in such a short period of time. This isn't quite at the level of the best KDX stuff, but it's a great match with lots of American style heeling and a nice pace. I feel like this match would have gotten over much better in WCW than the undercard matches did that were actually happening in WCW at the time. I dug the action, but I also dug the psychology. The string of finish teases and kickouts is very reminiscent of modern WWE matches, but faster paced and better executed. Where this excels is in finding a way to sneak in a low blow to turn the tide in the middle of a highspot war. I also like that while the aggression was there right away, they didn't bust out the big guns immediately. I only wish the crowd wasn't so low in volume with the announcers dubbed over them because it hurt the atmosphere some, but as far as how the match was worked, I have no complaints at all. Tremendous work.
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Yeah, this was awesome. Finlay and Taylor beat the crap out of these poor guys, who are great at feeding spots by the way. Finlay steps on Mean Mike’s chest to hold him in place before doing the Vader splash in the corner. It’s the little things. Plus, the announcers are hilarious making fun of Kevin Nash starting a website at kevinbigsexynash.com. Is this a GOAT squash match contender?
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Stasiak destroys all the would-be prizes Lawler offered to give away before the match starts. Lawler and Dundee come out to attack them, so the match starts off as a brawl. Match doesn't last long as Baldo (Albert) and Vic Grimes (Mick Foley wannabe) run in. They end up locking Lawler in a cage then taunting him after the commercial break over it. They tease that since Stacy is home alone, they are going to go give her a visit. Later in the show, Buddy Wayne shows up trying to break the lock. No one being able to do it for the entire show does advance the angle, but it also makes Power Pro look bush league. Meanwhile, a cameraman is in the car with Stasiak driving to Lawler's house where Stasiak pulls out a pair of scissors and wonders how attractive Stacy will be without long, blond hair. Stasiak shows up at Lawler's house but she refuses to let him in, but in a rare moment for wrestling, Stacy is smart enough to watch the show she's on and saw the scissors. Stasiak threatens keying her car until she opens the door. Cops show up immediately and he takes off, jumping over a nearby fence. Lawler finally gets out of the cage and goes after Christopher, who takes a few bumps before bailing. He tells Stasiak he's going to pay with his life. This is a little too fancy and overdone for what's supposed to be territory throwback wrasslin'.
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Lawler says he's not going to bring Stacy to the ring because he wants to keep her out of the line of fire. Lawler points out that he got the same gift multiple times this year - three Sony walkmans and two Sony watchmans. So he brought them with him today for giveaways. I like how Lawler and Dundee are portrayed at this point as reluctant teammates. Their rivalry will never end, but they also sort of need each other. They bicker more than they fight.
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This was really, really awesome. They stayed on the mat for pretty much all of this, but cut a crazy pace anyway, really bringing the intensity and focus. They were almost ten minutes into this before they went vertical for any length of time, and when they do, this is still a really aggressive match without any of the Toyota-style go-go-go excess. Nagashima is incredible, wrapping her leg around Satomura’s neck and catching her in some insane submission when she charges for her at the turnbuckle. She then takes her to the mat immediately. There is a hot finishing stretch, but it’s something very different than what anyone would expect it to be. I’m not quite sure how to describe it. Nagashima does a series of Germans on the floor which I wasn’t crazy about since Satomura didn’t really sell them long term, but that’s really the only blemish on an otherwise amazing match, and I don’t want to write off 17 minutes of outstanding work because they got a little carried away for three spots. They quickly got back into the groove and the setup to Nagashima’s cross armbreaker was tremendous. Satomura pulls a comeback out of who knows where and really comes across like she earned the win.
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More whiny and meandering vignettes of Raven and Kanyon at Raven's house. Chastity shows up on WCW TV for the first time looking completely different than she did in ECW. Everyone talks at the same time and this is poorly produced. It would also help with some type of announcer present to say they dispatched a camera to Raven's house. Raven's friend James (The Sandman) also makes his WCW debut, dressed in actual clean clothes, and pushes Kanyon into the pool after Kanyon sasses him.
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The NWO shows up, all in Wolfpac t-shirts, to lay out all of the LWO guys. No one touches Rey as Nash corners him and tells him to take a hike. Psicosis takes the brunt of the beating. The LWO is history. Of course Nash has to do a promo still playing to the crowd like he's a babyface. Nash and Hogan can't believe Flair would criticize their match of the century on Monday night. Hogan says he was lucky to win and it could have gone either way. Hogan seems like he's had the wind taken out of his sails, like he doesn't even like the angle at all, but he had to play nice with Nash and go along to get back in on top. The remaining black and white guys are out to confront them on what happened Monday night, and of course WCW was too chickenshit to do a big beatdown on all of them and kick them out of the group. Instead, they just floundered in black and white shirts for months and months. The Giant speaks for the group and accuses Hogan and friends of leaving the rest of them hanging. Hogan responds that it's Giant's fault that Flair is President for 90 days. He also says there's only room for one giant in the NWO, and it's Kevin Nash. Nash vs Giant is made for Monday night. Giant is preparing to do job duty on his way out the door.