dawho5
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There are certain types of promos Bret is great at, and this is one of them. He's never been a great "hype" guy, but give him a few topics with some meat he can really bite into and he will give you a really sincere promo it's hard not to believe. Working in the shots at Shawn to show that he's not over that bitterness from WM is a great touch too. I kinda thought he was veering into the cheesy side of things before he mentioned the kid he was talking about was his nephew. One of Bret's best promos I've seen. -
The body of the match was really good. I agree that Sid's selling here is surprisingly good. I didn't love the finish with Bulldog blatantly interfering on Owen's behalf for the DQ, but is is what it its. We get more of the "are Shawn and Sid still friends?" thing post-match, which is fine I guess. And probably the point of the whole thing.
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I caught all of the detail in the storyline watching the Nitros involving Liz. It seemed pretty cut and dried. Nasties as a babyface tag team opposing Hall & Nash would have worked for a while, they were really over. I just don't see it lasting the two or three years they would have needed to make it work given the timeline. Really good angle, maybe a step down from the preceding nWo stuff, but still really good to great.
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It was actually really good. They kept it really simple, Valentine is working over Luger's injured back, can he put the torture rack on? And Valentine is a good choice of a guy to do that with as he's a meat-and-potatoes wrestler. Nitro so far this week has been really good for fun matches between guys you may not expect them from. Eddie Guerrero vs. The Cheetah Kid was a little wonky, but oh well.
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Again, this is the best story in the company right now. 'Taker, Paul Bearer and Mankind are all great in these vignettes and it says something that they don't even need to be on TV in person for this to be my most anticipated match they are building to.
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Good video that reminds me that the WWF is actually good at producing this stuff when it isn't a horrible, shitty idea behind it.
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So a career pro wrestler was in fact NOT a professional singer???? I am shocked, shocked and appalled. Mostly at the complete lack of any sense in continuing to air this garbage.
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Again I am starting to like Mero. He is a dollar store version of WCW cruiserweights, but it works because the rest of the WWF is pretty vanilla. Admittedly he is super sloppy and doesn't quite hit anything right. But at the very least he gets to show some athleticism beyond one signature spot. I don't recall anything about Perfect involving Mero, but it's pretty clear Perfect is setting him up for something. Mero is also a not great promo, which has to work against him in the land of Sports Entertainment. Also, the crowd booed when Sunny was thrown out. I wonder who is really over between Mero and Sable when the Sunny/Sable confrontation got the biggest pop of the match. As an aside, making sure that they got 3 long-ish plugs in for the Mankind/Undertaker match at the next PPV on this Raw is smart. They clearly knew that they weren't going to push Mero too far by this point and nothing else on this show was worth watching.
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