PeteF3
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I had no recollection of Chyna and HHH still being together at this point, but as we saw in the Good Housekeeping Match they haven't even given Chyna her own music yet. Anyway, Austin destroys HHH's knee with the chair just like HHH did to him at SummerSlam to a monster reaction, but HHH steals a win through botched Rock interference to set up the ill-fated triple threat match for next month. Like with Bret vs. Owen at WMX and Flair vs. Arn at Fall Brawl, there's really no other result you can book for this first meeting besides HHH winning, or else the whole exercise is all pointless. -
Maybe not a MOTYC on a worldwide level but certainly the best WWF match, bad year or not. In addition to the crowd reaction getting louder and louder for every spot, I particularly liked the growing audience buzz in anticipation of some of the spots, like Christian hitting the inverted DDT off the ladder. Proof that this was at heart a wrestling crowd who knew what to "look for" in a wrestling match, even a stunt show like this, and not people just watching and reacting when someone got killed. Some really bold and innovative spots that are set up surprisingly organically, like the Jeff Hardy seesaw spot which sounds silly when described but is set up and executed perfectly. Same for Jeff leapfrogging the ladder into a legdrop, and even the neat finish with Jeff jumping from one ladder to the other. Suddenly, the WWF mid-card is getting some depth again. (And man oh man was Lawler terrible here. We get it, Terri looked nice going up the ladder earlier. By the end his horndogging had me wishing someone more pleasant like Mark Madden was commentating on this.)
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I get the symmetry of having Jarrett live by the Dusty Finish the previous month and die by the Dusty Finish tonight, but they should have had Chioda or someone come out to inform Long of what happened instead of him arbitrarily changing his mind. That said, this is way better than it deserves to be with Jarrett going balls-to-the-wall to carry an admittedly game Chyna to the match of her life.
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The other thing about Race is that he, along with Savage, was Hogan's next house show challenger after Mania. There was going to have to be "life after Andre," so it makes further sense to put Race over.
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So, Dave Prazak just posted on a Facebook group that Mel Phillips has been dead since 2012. I pressed him to make sure that it was the same guy and that was his real name, and he was pretty adamant that WhitePages and other places confirmed the address and that it was the same guy.
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Lance gets in some pretty vicious low blows at Candido and Sytch, asking Tammy what it's like to be washed-up at age 26 and telling Candido to do what he's been doing, and "go take a powder." The ECW Security Brigade never ceases to be eye-rolling in its inconsistency. Yeah, New Jack can run to the ring with a shopping cart full of weapons but Candido and Storm can't be allowed to get into a fistfight.
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Oddly the climax of all this (as well as the follow-up with Show's mother) was one of my Dad's all-time favorite angles--as a retired police officer and fan of the heels, he was a huge Boss Man fan. Now having gone through a time earlier this summer where my Dad went from vaguely ill to dead from pancreatic cancer in the span of a few weeks this is...well, odd to look back on. I'm not going to pretend I'm suddenly offended now, nor will I ever defend this as good booking. This interview specifically is a particularly low point of this whole feud.
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It's a lame-duck show under a lame-duck booking committee, so Nash is out to entertain himself, logic and storytelling be damned. "A lot of changes going on in WCW!" Oh, Tenay's SHOOTING! A comical-looking Rey Misterio Jr. hawks his jersey while we see in-ring action of him in his Nailz outfit. TBS Voiceover Guy shows up to tell us how to order. Highlights of Torrie Wilson flirting with Kidman and blowing off David Flair. Curt "Harvey Weinstein" Hennig offers Torrie a CD deal in exchange for something or other. Kevin Nash narrates a video of the Goldberg-Sid feud, apparently doing a John Facenda NFL Films voice but sounds more British than Facenda's New England accent. "A MAN WHO CANNOT TOUCH THE OTHER MAN! ... I LAUGH AT YOU! ... How'm I doin' so far, Mike?" Nash shows how far-reaching of a visionary he really was as he praises Goldberg's ability to milk the hard camera. Larry: "Would you pass me Kevin's water?" Tenay: "It certainly isn't water..." This definitely falls under the purview of entertaining crap. Nash hypes a revamp of the Saturday Night program, whatever that was supposed to be about. Nash actually stops to put Meng over a bit as he squashes Luther Biggs. Okay, an infamous moment in Thunder history. Some funny bits but as usual, but Nash is like the Stanford Marching Band--they're both about a quarter as clever as they obviously think they are.
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I'd add Fujinami vs. Tony Rocco as well--they have matches in '79 and '80 as I recall.