Bix
DVDVR 80s Project
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Jonathan Coachman vs Goldberg (Raw 1/26/04 - No DQ match that's effectively Henry vs Goldberg)
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I think it's fairly obvious they're hoping Viacom does what they did with Bellator and buys out the Carters. But with five and a half months of arena bookings they have to stick to while they're bleeding so much money? Eek.
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I have never, ever seen anything live at a WWE event like the Punk-Heyman/Lesnar segment before. Real, scornful heat for Heyman, ridiculously passionate cheers for Punk when Heyman pulled the "you don't have a family, you just have THESE PEOPLE" card to reassure him they loved him, and completely molten heat for the Punk-Brock brawl. I've been to some pretty big shows including all-time WWE highlight reel moments like the Rock-HHH ladder match and Taker-Punk at Mania this year, but I'd never experienced a "you can cut the tension with a knife" moment like that whole segment was tonight. It could not have gone any better and it was a spectacular start to the SummerSlam build.
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I expected to like this as a big Rockers and Barbarian mark but this was outstanding. Jannetty's high elevation bumps were completely psychotic. This reminded me just how well the Rockers' teamwork was put over; from a kayfabe perspective it seems ridiculous that they were so rarely in the title picture.
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No, it was a perception thing. At least in the more modern example with Joe it was common to hear NJPW felt NJPW had "the stench of Zero-One" or "the taint of Zero-One" or something like that. I talked to TJ Perkins about it a fair bit in the recent podcast we did. It definitely goes back to at least the beginning of the modern Indy era in Japan: As Pete alluded to, some of the USWA guys who toured with W*ING in '91 killed legit All Japan prospects that they had on the table. Obviously there are exceptions, like Gladiator (came in during AJPW/FMW relationship), Sabu (in demand cult star), Jericho (came to NJPW via WCW), but Lozansky isn't exactly the type of guy they'd make exceptions for.
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Lawler draws out the punchline so much I wonder how much was his stock jokes and how much was adlibbed.
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