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The first sign that Kane may not have been burned as badly as everyone said. Our SummerSlam tag title match is set up. -
Austin's out of the main event, in all likelihood, and oh boy, it's the start of the most convoluted #1-contendership process in the history of wrestling booking. I'll miss Jesse's return to color commentary on this set but I won't miss the stuff involving Chyna being in line to get the title shot at SummerSlam or the repeated top-contender matches next week. Triple H shows up and plays dumb but in kind of a smug-bad-acting way which shows that he did it.
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Mark Henry has to #1 while running, and Double J takes the opportunity to ram D'Lo into a tree and then his car. Debra objects. All of this is less than enthralling.
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Jesse puts himself over as only he can do. Triple H comes out and has a pretty hot confrontation, since Jesse isn't a guy who's going to be phased by any promo tricks Triple H tries to play on him and won't meekly back down from him. Then Shawn has to show up, though he doesn't bring the segment down too much and the crowd is hot to see him and HHH go at it. HBK instead makes a triple threat between HHH, Undertaker, and Austin, which makes enough sense after what happened last week.
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Almost there...
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It's hard *not* to get into this because the Boise crowd is so electric. I agree that Sid coming in against Goldberg with it not meaning much of anything was curious, but for a few minutes WCW looked like a major league company again. And a clean (sort of) finish to boot. WCW's problems are just as pervasive as ever but at least the past few weeks, ever since Flair was ousted from the Presidency, have shown *some* sense of direction, even if it's a less than ideal one at times.
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Everything's been summed up here--the match and post-match were both good, with Guido and Tajiri really beating the piss out of each other but keeping a strong psychological thread. Corino continues to be the best thing about ECW and continues to be booked as an actual threat, which is good. I wish they'd pulled the trigger and put the title on him, at least for a little bit.
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Do the heels *ever* lose anything in KAW? Brickhouse looks terrible, covering himself up in a giant white t-shirt and looking like when your SO wears one of your shirts. None of Brickhouse's vulgar race-baiting gets any kind of reaction from this bar crowd. Neither does Danny B's big SWERVE.
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Christian is interesting as a different kind of Memphis heel. Another really good segment as Doug continues to be on fire, throwing out some eyebrow-raising comments just as I was wondering if Christian was ever acknowledged, either officially or tacitly, as related to either Lawler or Christopher. Yes, I do approve of Doug Gilbert vs. Tracy Smothers at the New Daisy.
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So many great lines from Cornette that they can't be recited--this is a must-see Cornette promo and that's no small praise. Clearly he was itching to finally cut loose on somebody--anybody. Hales vs. Cornette in a verbal duel is something that could be a total disaster, but Hales holds his own with some personal shots of his own at Cornette's professional and business ventures in recent years. Hales declares that Cornette will get 50% or 100% of PPW over his dead body. Cornette, ominously: "That's very agreeable to me." Incredibly, this low-rent USWA knockoff promotion has turned into maybe the most compelling wrestling company in the U.S. if not all of North America. Just an unbelievable hot streak of arresting television.
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Cool to see all these run-ins with nary an entrance theme. Even Kane runs out with no pyro. Fun way to end the show as Austin drops Gunn with the Stunner at the same time HHH drops Road Dogg with the Pedigree, and they both get up at the same time and...and...
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Test borrows a tack from the Big Boss Man's dealings with the Heenan Family. First he broke Pete Gas' ribs, then he absolutely brutalizes Rodney and destroys his arm every way he knows how. A stunningly fun squash match that does everything it needs to do. One of 1999's most coherent storylines continues.
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God, what a fucking ugly ashtray shithole Three Rivers was. Three Rivers to PNC has to be the greatest stadium upgrade in the history of sports. Oh, and The Rock was there.
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D'Lo becomes the Euro-Continental champion, but "of course that he doesn't count" (--Kurt Angle). Jeff asks Debra why the hell she brought the belts in the ring, which considering what happened seems like a reasonable line of questioning.
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Sorry, but I have no idea what this was doing on the set. This was 1960's midget wrestling shtick and not even particularly well-executed shtick at that. Tirantes was kind of funny when he fell to the floor and got whipped, but otherwise this was another match where, when it's not about shtick, it's all about him.
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Not much pretty about this, at least until the end--just a gloriously down-and-dirty fight. They blend shoot-style fighting with a few pure wrasslin' spots and as usual, they make it all work, with shoot-style winning in the end. Maybe a "small" match in the grand scheme of things but one of my favorite BattlArts efforts so far.