drew wardlaw
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Bobby Eaton vs. Ric Flair at Clash XV getting cut short due to poor scheduling of the undercard including Dan Spivy and Oz matches. Bobby had been training really hard and really taking his title shot seriously. The match only went 15 minutes, and while it's still a great match, it had the potential to be an all time classic given how good that first fall was. That was Bobby's one and only big headline title shot I believe. Not necessarily a huge debacle on a large scale, but a big bummer.
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Third Piper segment of the show and I would have watched a fourth. Piper has been red hot and when this first aired I was losing my mind during the whole feud. "After the show exclusive" footage on the Network shows Arn and Mongo coming out to help fight off the NWO while the crowd goes crazy. Piper and Arn hug at the end in a great moment and for the first time WCW fights back.
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Nash is quoting 2001?! What a world... All the wwe documentaries and all the articles and everything always talk about how influential the NWO were when they first started and blah blah blah but man it's so true, and the booking is really impressive. Things make sense, they pay off angles, what a run. I love watching DDP grow every week, it's a great ride watching his rise.
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I watched the full match, which obviously is a mess, but as soon as the smoke clears and its WCW vs NWO, it's a great moment. I forgot who won this, and I was expecting Luger, so I was thinking he was going to somehow pull out an upset, but him losing was way smarter and he looked like a valiant babyface fighting until the end. The subtlety of DDP and the NWO not really interacting was done really well. Great touch. WW3 was a good show.
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I could have sworn I posted a review/thoughts about this match, but I guess not? Huh, I have a terrible memory but I really think I've written about this before. Oh well, I love The Z Man. Whether it's irony or ignorance I don't know, but I could watch him work a boring headlock forever. This might be better than the Pillman match because it doesn't have the confusing heel/face dynamics that match does. One of my great wrestling 'what if's' is a Zenk heel turn. Thomas Zenk in the York Foundation perhaps. Flair makes Zenk look so great here, but Zenk works really hard and has some good moments here (some of the face slaps and Flair trying to run the ropes to get out of the side headlock only for Zenk to drag him down).
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I watched this right before the Sano match, and boy what a stark contrast. Really shows Liger's versatility and how good of a mat wrestler he is, but this had no juice, literally or figuratively. Owen's highspots are really gnarly, slamming onto the floor after the drop kick and into the guardrail after the dive.
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What impressed me the most about the match was how cinematic the story of the mask ripping was. It played out like a horror movie to me. Or like a Hitchcock thriller or something. Liger does a great job hiding his face and the camera work to not show it is spot on, and the first time you really glimpse his full face he looks dead. It's an unbelievable moment. There's also a great shot right after Liger's dive over the top (where you hear girls screaming) when he lands on the announce table and you see this older woman's face and she looks shocked.
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I've said this before, but it really speaks to the marketing and production of WWF that every show feels so instantly warm and welcoming and nostalgic, even to someone like me who has seen very little of this era. Their aesthetic has always been so strong. Vince does gutteral hype vocals better than any frontman I've ever seen.
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The Midnights and the Rock n' Rolls had such a great 1990, this match included. Freebirds coming out to some kind of remix version of the worst song of all time (Free Bird) gets a lot of heat from me. I really liked the Eaton/Douglas segment with the two high flyers squaring off. And right after that all the babyfaces getting in the ring after Douglas cleans house is great. The NWA does chaos so well, and I can't articulate why. It could be a southern thing, where the crowds are really hot and borderline out of control and that atmosphere spills over into the match itself. I just watched this and I can't remember ever seeing Johnny Ace once. Did he ever get tagged in or anything? I don't understand the finish. The camera misses the count and there's no bell I don't think and I mustve missed who was being pinned or who botched or what. I don't know.
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I've never seen Sting with face paint all the way around his face like a beard before. The fact that the title match was just hinted at but the conversation getting interrupted is a great subtly. Meanwhile in the midst of all the partying, Arn cuts a dead serious promo, that's the best part of this thing. Sting's sexuality is the equivalent of a pre-teen child with poor parental supervision.
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Col. Parker has a good voice. I don't have much to say about these segments. They are my favorite things on the yearbook so far. Like I've said before, it's a mixture of surrealist improvisational comedy, avant garde performance art, and low brow melodrama. With the solid anchor Dave Brown in the middle of it all.
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Travis sporting regular trunks is pretty disappointing. He can't bust out the halfsie tights only to take them away again. Who's the commentator? Mark something? Him no selling Lawler and just staring straight forward, then talking about about Billy Travis was my favorite part of the whole segment. Also, Jarrett getting the guitar but getting stopped before getting to use it was SO great. Oh man did I want to see Slapnuts Billy Joe get whacked. Brutal guitar shots too, looks like it wasn't gimmicked.
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