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Terri, an associate producer for the WWF, does a pretty good job in front of the camera, on live tv as well. Lawler calls Terri over and you hear the audience rumble with excitement. They clearly wanted their King to verbally tee off on her. She says she's surprised that the audience is all wearing shoes and the director takes a shot of the audience's feet, in a humorous touch.
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Yes, the fireball was completely botched. Stasiak meant to throw it at Stacy. They retried this in an interview after the commercial break. This time the fireball was better but the camera angle ruins it this time, as the fireball doesn't reach Stacy but she sells it anyway. For then, anyway. We never see her, ever, with even so much as a Band-Aid on her cheek.
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I was watching a Rifftrax movie (Cyborg Cop 2) and who should show up? This here Commandant fellow. He's on-screen for about a minute, gets to call our villain a "dickhead" and a "bald fuck" and then has his stunt double blown up. He was billed under the name Robin Smith.
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I like how El-P remembered IcoPro. Did anyone here every try that? I did and man, was it terrible. At least Met-Rx tasted good.
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I think it was the Peggy & Tommy parody the week prior that really set Doug off. Doug hated Lawler, left a message on his machine threatening to kill him, and had been waiting to tee off on the Lawlers on live tv. Poor Dave was just mortified during this whole thing. I felt so sorry for him. As history tells, Lawler went berserk at the TV station to the point they threatened him with arrest and banishment from the station. It wasn't about a month later, Lawler would be on the rival KAW (now-renamed MCW) TV, with Lance Russell and the WWF developmental guys in tow. Also, Peggy Gilbert was furious over the whole thing as well, especially the infidelity accusations. I guess Randy, stupidly, forgot to clear the whole thing by them. Lawler contemplated suing but decided against it since Doug had nothing to sue for.
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Well, here goes: Brian made a surprise return the week prior. He was Jim Cornette's special referee for the grudge match between Corny and Randy Hales. During Brian's return promo, he bellyached about how nobody involved in PPW sent him any condolences on his recent knee injury and surgery. During the Hales-Cornette match, Brian popped Cornette in the match, and this is the Saturday after that.
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The Cannonball in question is "Chris 'The Dragon' Cannonball" otherwise known as Pierre/Jean Pierre Lafitte/Pierre Oulette doing a firebreathing gimmick and hailing from Miami. His promos were brutal.
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Count me as one of the many that thought that Steve Bradley was dynamite. Around this time, I went to a WWF house show in Evansville with a buddy and Bradley was on the card. Since he wasn't on tv or had a stupid catchphrase or fat fake titties, most of the crowd shit on the match. I don't know why he never got that break in WWF/E. When they cut him, I was hoping that he was going to pop up on the thriving indy scene of the day (the ROHs, IWAMSs, PWGs and the like) but he never did. I was also hoping Flash Flannigan would become a fixture on those circuits as well but he exiled himself to Puerto Rico.
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First off, I'm on the side of anyone who beats the hell out of Brandon Baxter. WHY IN THE HELL IS HE A WRESTLER HERE? Plus, he's one of the more obnoxious little twerps to ever be as miscast as a babyface ever (Kid Wikkid here in PPW has the same problem, but they had the sense to turn him and it really didn't help. He just should not speak). $5000 to beat the hell out of Brandon Baxter? Looks like easy money. Baxter's bald head looks like a light bulb. Cornette's line about "Im a genius and they wouldn't listen to me" is gold. I can relate. In fact, that might just be my epitaph.
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After reading the write-ups for these segments, I purposely traded for some PPW. There was no way I could handle all the bullshit sports entertainment of the whole terrible year of 1999. I guess that's why I've forgotten them. I think its called "repression". Anyway, this is some seriously good, compelling stuff.
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I'd go with Brian Christopher
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The problem with many of these WWF vignettes of this era, for me anyway, where all these POV shots were coming from. This one was rather Plan 9-esque. You'll notice when Warrior collapses the door that none of the dozen snakes in this shack come slithering out. Nor are they moving or can be seen for that matter. The neon cowboy boots with shorts look deserves some sort of punishment. Snake bites may be a little excessive for that one, but hey, I wont argue it.
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The reason "Wrestling Eye" gets brought up is that The Creator was, in fact, Hubie Marx, the editor of same.