PeteF3
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Once again, Flair is a flower springing out of a jar of dirt. Flair invokes every legend in the history of University of North Carolina sports and lays out the stipulations for Uncensored. Thank God this master of crowd control and beloved legend who's had his son turn on him will be turning heel soon for no reason. Flair and Gene do the best they can to say that there will be blood, without actually being able to do so. -
Is the original MK movie still the best one based on a video game? It's not good, but compared to some of the other game-based dreck unleashed on cinemas...if this were the 2010's, there'd probably be money in wrestler-based DLC for a Mortal Kombat game. Also, TNT and original cable programming in general have come a long, long way.
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Stephanie makes her Yearbook debut! (Unless she showed up in some merchandise ad somewhere else). Vince's claim that "60% of his audience is over 21" is a howler. So, in other words, 40% of his audience isn't. This does a good job at first, then goes off the rails when it tries to portray Bret's anti-American heel turn as some horrific scandal on the level of the Sgt. Slaughter Iraqi angle.
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More telegraphing stuff from Styles. Callis HAS to be Storm's new manager, so of course he isn't. Beulah is BACK, so of course she isn't. Callis is a VIRUS--can't wait for that one to get beaten into our heads over the coming months. This gets better once Dreamer's in the ring and Styles shuts his yap. I hated last week's angle with Douglas but I have to admit they're at least attempting to freshen him up, which is something he needed.
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This is another lucha match that would have been better at one fall, since the first two were pointless with bad sloppy work by the rudos. It's redeemed by a hugely dramatic third fall with some incredible technico comebacks and the rudos cheating to win. Great heat for that, and the rudos' win feels undeserved in both a mark and smark fan sense, so I guess it succeeded. This went on a while with two LONG pre- and post-match segments (as if U.S. wrestling isn't already talk-heavy enough), but the goal is to hype a big apuestas rematch and on that front it succeeded. Alfonso Morales sort of Lance Russells the rudos through a post-match interview and even talks to ringside fans to confirm that the match was won on a foul, in a clever touch. Great finish and angle to cover for a match that was 1/3 awesome and 2/3 mediocre.
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I can't believe I remember this, but the Mystery Jjammess Song was "Something Gone Wrong."
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I think if you prune the post-Virus-elimination stuff down you'd have a legit MOTYC. As it is, they sort of lose the plot and Guerrero is down 1-vs.-2 just a little bit too long for a guy who's supposed to be the rudo. But the double-octopus finish was spectacular. Virus was incredible as well, and I could watch him take people down and slap on holds all day.
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This was amusing, and Torrie looks better than ever. In spite of myself, I LOL'd at Hogan blowing his nose in his "Armani Gucci Poochie shirt." But, as Loss mentioned, it doesn't really add anything to the program or go anywhere. The whole set-up, including Disco and the production guy to the end, is basically a bunch of guys jerking off on-camera.
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This really should have been what happened at SuperBrawl. Either pay a king's ransom to Liz or Luger or somebody to undergo a head-shaving--it's not like they weren't wasting money in a million other areas--or just find a way to welch on the stip if no amount will get the job done. Rey could have been a made man. Instead, even though this is a really fun match and segment and a rare instance of the heel Wolfpac getting shown up, for Rey it's about 50 steps back and then a few steps forward.
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This was, like, half of a good match. I know they were pacing themselves but the first half of this is full House Show Bret Mode, and his control segment on Booker where he's just clubbering isn't interesting at all. Once he goes after the knee this match finally gets a hook to it, and Booker is of course really great at comebacks, so this really gets the crowd going by match's end. Booker wins in a big upset, but it feels hollow because of all the old veterans in WCW it has to be *Bret* putting over a young up-and-comer.
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Hogan and Flair have the power to compel everyone in the arena to hang onto their every move, but you can't help but notice that the match is laid out really oddly, even before Torrie shows up. Hogan continues to cut the babyface off and guzzle them all throughout the match, and parts of this seem designed to turn Hulk babyface. If that were a good longterm plan, I could go along with that, but to even attempt such a move is utterly preposterous and has no chance of succeeding. Still, it's enough to draw you into the match but, as tim says, we get a SWERVE finish instead. David is already showing flashes of his non-charisma as he, a heterosexual male, manages to look bored with getting to make out with Torrie Wilson. Is there EVER going to be a single show where the Wolfpac are beaten? This era feels even more one-sided than 1996, but at least 1996 was fresh.
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Lex Luger is at ringside dressed as Nailz. They have to tease us one last time with this great Misterio hot tag. The hilarious thing about this is that I'm *sure* Nash & Hall thought they were doing Rey a gigantic favor by doing this and that this was really a good move for him. I believe they were totally sincere--they wouldn't have bumped around for him like that otherwise. That just makes this decision even worse. Heenan choosing to make jokes about Rey's looks doesn't do him any favors, either. Hard for us to take the NWO seriously as a threat if the announcers don't.
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A clever and well-done finish in a vacuum, but the result was so disheartening (at the time) that that aspect is hard to ignore. Not that this was a secret chance to save the company or anything, but putting the titles on Hennig & Windham in 1999 did absolutely no good. Benoit & Malenko *may* have been able to create another point of difference from the WWF and its de-emphasis on tag teams.
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Not really much of a match, as Maeda basically just goes into a shell. Karelin attempts his famed Karelin Lift but can't quite execute it. Eventually the match just sort of stops with Karelin being given the victory. Great heat, though, and as I already posted, getting Karelin to work a match was a major coup. The highlight video is the best part of this.