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Best US main event type match of the year so far. This really had a great big match feel thanks in large part to the work. This was like an inferior version of their Havoc match which is no complaint. Very well worked with established roles and a good lay-out that kept things moving and included some interesting spots. DDP's spear dare was great. I don't know about Page going heel but I like how they did it. Was the crowd actually turning on him around this time? The ref bump off DDP's chair was great.
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This is one of the most hilarious wrestling segments ever. Just an absurd spectacle. Flair is out of his mind, which seems to be the angle!, and Piper gets big heat. I love Piper giving reasons why Flair must be insane and Arn responding with "yeah, it's just Ric." The best thing is that Flair really IS more crazy than usual but "it's just Ric" really is a reasonable explanation. Arn fainting when Nash/Flair is announced is great. Maybe this is a silly booking move for Flair but man is this segment something else.
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Rey losing the mask might have been done but it didn't kill his heat much, he is super over. This match went on way too long for me. There was some cool stuff and this must have been something to watch on TV in 1999 but I was beyond burned out by the end of it. As for Nitro matches I don't think this touches the Rey/Kidman cruiserweight title change a few weeks earlier.
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Really great match up to the DQ. I was hoping it would go a bit longer and end clean because this was shaping up to be maybe the best WCW match of the year so far. The FIP on Kidman was great and Rey's hot tag was incredible. Pretty basic stuff but executed incredibly well, with a couple more minutes on the home stretch this could've been MOTYC level. The three team brawl post match was great though. This tag feud really is awesome.
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They sure are hotshotting that belt around lately.
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Some good stuff here but not great. This match does sort of anticipate the Smackdown six stuff and the early 2000s indie workrate style by a couple years so I can see why it got a reputation, and also why it's the kind of match likely to diminish with time. I can sort of see the southern tag comment, you have some long FIPs with comeback teases and the face shine in the beginning. Fun match and some cool stuff but nothing that stands out in the year, at least looking back.
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That Show/Reigns match, while maybe not being too significant in the scheme of things, isn't the best indication for Reigns' push.
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I liked this a lot. Even the short opening matwork segment was pretty good. The highspots were great and the stuff in between the highspots were good too and overall this was a well worked and well put together match. The big spot where Juvi hits Blitzkreig with the dropkick on the floor was not only visually impressive but cleverly set up. The drop rope Juvi Driver looks insane.
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Aw man, the best part of this whole thing got left out! The entrances are really something else. The match itself, eh, it was bad. There were a couple moments where this worked as a spectacle but overall I didn't even enjoy watching this as a whole on those terms. The missed chair throw spot was pretty great though.
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Cool angle although the possible financial implications are hilariously oversold on commentary. It's just cheap projection screen!
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I LOVED the Kane and X-Pac team when I started watching. This is the kind of unexpected random title switch done right. I like Kane not really understanding how to be a tag parter, just standing there on the apron until Pac walks close enough to tag his hand and grabbing Pac to press slam him onto Jarrett.
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I really liked this match. Had a lot of energy, a good dynamic and some really cool moments doing stuff you don't see often and that made things exciting. Stuff like how they worked some irish whip exchanges, how they did some cut off spots, Satomura ducking about three of Ozaki's spinning chops but then getting backed up into the ropes and restrained by Aja, Ozaki moving away from the pin so Satomura hits Kato with the double stomp she was trying to use to break it up. Unique stuff that kept you on your toes for the match. The transition into Kato's FIP was really great and the segment itself was great, really liked Aja and Ozaki isolating her and cutting off all her tag attempts. Satomura gets a great hot tag and runs offense for a little while but then Aja and Ozaki get back in control for a bit before things get wild. Really love the extended comeback on Aja leading to the win, the choke was a really great spot that I actually bought as a potential end to the match thanks to Ozaki's and Kato's reaction to it. Ending itself was awesome with Satomura goading Ozaki into hitting Aja with some big strikes before finishing her off with two big DVDs. Some really great, seamless double team spots here. Although the blatant double no sell spot toward the middle of the match by Aja and Ozaki I thought was really lame.
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Great match. Akiyama really stood out to me here. I liked him getting the advantage early in the match with arm work and then later getting back on top with leg work. Kobashi's selling of both the arm and the leg are really good, I like how after the arm work he sort of tried to "walk it off" by using the arm a lot, selling a lot afterward, but selling a bit less after each strike. Akiyama's big run of offense toward the end was really awesome and the crowd was totally into it. Kobashi's late match spurt of offense was really good and also made Kobashi look a league above Akiyama.
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I think the main reason a lot of people don't think of it as that big a deal is that they view, in terms of Meltzer's job as a journalist, his WWE coverage as VASTLY more important than his NJPW coverage. Being "compromised" in his coverage of a Japanese promotion that he loves anyway and whose business/behind-the-scenes his readers generally don't have nearly as much interest in as that of WWE just doesn't strike a lot of people as a big hit to his credibility. Which is kind of how I feel about it as well. I mean, I'd have liked it to happen just because it would've been interesting.
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Bret was so great here. He's still the ultimate mega-face in Canada and he panders wonderfully. His line about Goldberg putting up money to fight Austin when he's beaten Austin every time he faced him was awesome. It's insane how little WCW did with Bret considering the potential and the fact that his going was such a huge deal.
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This was a cool classic tag match with the cruiserweight offense of Rey and Kidman mixed in. The opening stuff before Kidman's FIP is all really good and Kidman's comeback/hot tag to Rey was really good. Really cool move where Rey turns a flapjack into a guillotine on the ropes. Rey in general is great here and he and Kidman make a good team.
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Dave Meltzer and Jim Ross commentating on the NJPW January Dome show broadcast on PPV by Jeff Jarrett's nebulous vanity promotion? Yes I would have wanted that.