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I can see the complaints about how the towel tease was just shoehorned in and not at all believable as a finish, but the immediately following spot with Bates backstroking across the ring to make the tag was so awesome I'm willing to forgive that and the Burning Hammer kickout, the only two flaws of an otherwise excellent tag match. These two teams can do a fast paced workrate tag while still making the work actually feel meaningful like few others. It seems like this feud is over for now but I really hope they revisit it before too long.
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Has Dave never mentioned in passing how a male wrestler should lose weight, bulk up, work on his physique, etc.? I'm sure I've heard it but I couldn't point you to a date or timestamp on any of his podcasts, so maybe I'm just crazy and making it up in my head. This is pro wrestling, wrestlers' appearances are commented on all the time. Men have felt so much pressure about their appearances in pro wrestling that they took so many steroids tons of them have tied awfully early deaths. I'm utterly baffled that people are outraged about a comment made in passing about Royce's appearance, when wrestlers' appearances are talked about, mentioned, critiqued all the time. It's self-evident that if Dave mentioned in passing Kevin Owens would have a better look if he slimmed down, no one would have given a shit.
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Dave is just a regular person who covers wrestling and makes comments about what his thoughts and impressions are, and since he doesn't take particular effort to make sure every single one of his comments fit into the space of political acceptability defined particularly by the most neurotic people who are constantly itching to find something to express their outrage about, he now and then gives opportunities for those people to find something to express their outrage about. It's hilarious that someone as benign as Dave attracts these kind of "controversies" now and then.
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I only know of Kitano from his Yakuza films so it was a surprising comparison to me.
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I don't think they ever particularly led anyone to believe this match would be for the title in the build up, but when you have the world champion in the main event of the biggest show of the year, it's clear that a lot of people would assume it's for the title unless told otherwise. Other than whoever may have been disappointed about this not being a title change, I think this match succeeded about as well as it could have. This match was put together really well, never got boring and moved at a good pace. The crowd was really into it, it had the atmosphere of a big match, Piper unloading strikes on Hogan was awesome, and it had a nice chaotic ending with the babyface triumphing.
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I liked this match a lot; very well laid-out David vs. Goliath (even if David himself is pretty darn big) type match. Giant does a good job selling and Luger is good as the tough underdog. Well done cluster fuck ending with a great finish. Crowd erupts and the announcers really sell it like a big deal, and Luger is put over huge.
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The form of this match sure didn't help: the rounds, the ref getting involved, not really any sense of what was going on with whether the match was supposed to have ended or not. But when these two were mixing it up it was actually some damn good brawling; Finlay's big comeback with Lawler-style no selling and then unloading with punches was awesome. Could have been a damn good match in better circumstances.
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I haven't seen much WCW TV other than what I'm watching on this Yearbook, but if these things become overdone it hasn't gotten there yet; this was a great angle and really adds to the excitement of the WCW product. WCW TV from the Outsiders to the end of 96 has to be the most genuinely exciting and intriguing wrestling television ever.
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He's clearly a very intelligent person who knows what he's talking about. He plays fast and loose with the term "Marxism" and is clearly very stuck in the Cold War mindset where Western liberal capitalism is the great moral good of the world; but then there's no good term for the phenomenon that he describes as "cultural Marxism" and anyone who uses any term to try to describe it [cultural marxism, political correctness, sjw whatever] opens himself up to criticism. His "self help" content is probably the only useful and intelligent "self help" commentary ever offered. Like most intellectuals who try to describe why people "really" like pro wrestling, he's not really correct.
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Really run match and segment. Austin has so much energy on offense and looks awesome taking it to Vader. His Thesz Press looks especially good here. This definitely had a 1997 RAW feel with tons of grey shading with Bret and Austin truly feeling like one of the top stars of the company. WWF is starting to feel exciting.
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Yep, probably the best MPro match ever. Has everything you want from an MPro match and every MPro element is there to perfection. Especially great heel/face dynamic, insanely hot crowd reacting for everything, great spots, super fast pace with something cool happening all the time, more aggression between both teams than usual and an awesome home stretch with some great dives. Maybe the only thing this was missing was some really believable nearfalls.
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From what we see the match seemed like a mess, but I liked the angle. Shawn does come across as messed up but it works in the context of him coming unglued after losing his title, looking like he's going into a slow heel turn whether that's intentional or not. Good teaser for the Bret/Shawn match that didn't happen, at least when it was supposed to.
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Dumb gimmick, way too long entrance, but fun match. Leif does some cool stuff, especially his arm-trap headbutts followed by the suplex over the ropes, which Scorp takes a great bump on. Some of Scorpio's dancing offense is pretty neat. This does have an interesting feel of a match in the ring that should be on a WCW midcard, with a dumb WWF gimmick attached.
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1996 is packed with Japanese matches that have the real big match feel, and this is another. Crowd is going crazy the whole time and is super responsive to the big spots, and man were there awesome big spots. This has to be one of Takada's best performances, he's really unloading with those kicks. This was a war and both guys lit each other up. That strike exchange at the end has to be one of the best strike exchanges of all time, super stiff and Takada is hitting awesome double-hand knife edge chops. And it ends with a beautifully violent looking lariat. Tenryu is great as he always is in his big matches. Perfectly worked to live up to the big fight feel. I agree the mat work (well, really, the leg lock, because the mat work was just a leg lock) wasn't the best but the crowd still popped big every time Takada really wrenched back on the hook.
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Fuck, America conducts much of its foreign policy at the behest of Saudi Arabia. If you're an America, billions of dollars of your tax money are going toward military operations and funding that serves no legitimate American interest, because Saudi Arabia desires it. And several hundred thousands of Middle Easterners in places like Yemen and Syria are murdered in the process. So all in all, I think WWE putting on a wrestling show there shouldn't produce too much outrage in comparison.