Gregor
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I'm not a big fan of the spot or anything, but I can understand how it works for Flair's character. He likes to show off, and he's full of himself; I can see him deciding to give the people a show by going to the air, all the while thinking that there's no way they'll throw him off THIS time.
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Not really worth watching for any good reasons, but the famous Alex Wright-Paul Roma match from SuperBrawl is one of the most brazen demonstrations of one wrestler sabotaging another.
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The most memorable part of this match for me was that the finish was Michaels hitting the superkick with his pants pulled down. It's easy to see why he was getting huge boos three months later.
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I love that interview. "I never been sixth in anything in my life! I wasn't sixth to my wife..."
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How about a thread for heels and the things that they do? So for some reason I recently watched Marc Mero vs. Sable. It's like a five-minute segment, about six seconds of which are wrestling, and it's great. Marc Mero leaves himself with no redeemable qualities. Random observations: - Mero seems like he was born to be a heel. His voice is just so grating and suited to the role. - What a touching speech! He even mentions something from two years before, which, considering that 1998 is an era of no long-term memory, must be what convinces her that he is for real. - There was a thread here about stupidest things done by faces. No matter how touching Mero's speech is, Sable contributes to that list here because anyone could see this coming from a mile away. - I love that little jig he does after the match. It goes really well with his music for some reason. - I said that he leaves himself with no redeemable qualities, and I meant it, as he even finds a way to work some singing into this thing and convince everyone that he's a brutal singer. - Then he shadowboxes! I guess that match really got his adrenaline going. - Among wrestlers, wasn't the book on Mero that he had to be walked through stuff, that he didn't really get wrestling? He looks like he totally gets it in this bit, although there's not much actual wrestling going on. - I don't know about 1998, but, at least in 2000, this would have been WAAAY more heelish than actually wrestling Sable.
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Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9xs60_ww...rt-bret-h_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb3voi_ww...t-face-to_sport Before each of their PPV matches in 1995, Diesel and Bret Hart were simultaneously interviewed about their upcoming match. Both interviews have a very "legitimate athletic contest" feel to them, although the fact that it's face vs. face probably helps. I mentioned Michaels' collapse earlier because it feels like one of the WWF's first forays into Attitude Era-type stuff and the beginning of the end of the WWF's in-between period.
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Yeah, the two were college freshmen in the same year (there were actually two seasons in which they were both active - oops). Magic's pro career started and ended early, and Nash got a late start in pro wrestling, so Nash debuted in WCW only a little bit before Magic's first retirement. Edit: It might be a reference to high school, too. Both guys went to high school in Michigan, and they were both named to the All-State team.
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Their college basketball tenures do overlap for one season (1978-79). Dunno if Michigan State played Tennessee that season.
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Have you seen Sting vs. DDP from April 1999? At the time, a lot of people were really surprised by how good it was.
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Even then, I'm not sure that either of these matches (especially the one with Michaels) did much to help Diesel get over. Was the Shawn Michaels fainting thing the first time that the WWF tried to make something look like a shoot? I mean in the 2000 WCW sense, in which one element of the show is presented as the more real than the rest of it.
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Benoit and Flair, from WCW to the WWF. Meng did it, too, but he was only Hardcore champ when he jumped.
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I think that the only period during which he consistently gave good promos was between SummerSlam 1997 and the founding of DX. This segment made me realize that I cannot stand Sid's promos. He takes forever to finish sentences, and he's just screaming most of the time. He also whispers in all caps, which is moderately impressive but not really something that salvages his mic work.
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You might be right. I don't know what the SMW lady looked like, but that Nitro did take place in Knoxville, TN.
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"You worship a queen!" and playing the asshole American is good stuff. Calling a woman an old bitch and making her daughter cry is too much for me, though. You can make people mad without actually giving them an unpleasant experience. Scott Steiner attempts to steal some guy's girlfriend. At first the guy is smiling, but eventually he gets pretty pissed and tries to defend himself. Guy: I go home with her. You don't go home with her! Steiner: But she's thinkin' 'bout me!
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No, that absolutely sounds funny in print. This one's been on YouTube for a while, so it might be pretty famous, but whatever - Hollywood Hogan vs. old lady. She threatens to claw his eyes out even though he's wearing sunglasses. Hogan is amazing here.
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. Tokyo Magnum tries to impress Disco Inferno and Alex Wright, beginning his tutelage under the masters of dance. Two months later, Wright suggests that Magnum kill himself.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUy6p-Bv3o After watching a couple of Coliseum Video matches between Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon, I'm left thinking that Michaels had better chemistry with the 1-2-3 Kid than he did with Razor. Michaels and the Kid never had more than ten minutes to wrestle, so they don't have any singles matches as famous as Michaels' three main ones with Razor, but they make for a good matchup. This one is a non-title match from Superstars in April 1996. It's not as good as either of the RAW matches between these two, but it's still good. There's nothing really noteworthy about it until Michaels makes his comeback, at which point they try to get over that Michaels has a mean streak. It starts with a scary piledriver that affords the Kid absolutely no protection. Then Michaels press slams the Kid to the floor. Out there, the Kid takes a flipping bump that looks nasty. Michaels puts him out of his misery with maybe his best superkick of the year. I have no idea what the story was with the dangerous-looking piledriver. I don't know if that was Michaels being reckless or the Kid volunteering for something reckless, but either way it looked like it hurt.
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I've missed these.