tim
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I think this went way too long. They didn't have the structure or build you need to make a match this long interesting and they just kept running through spots without varying them enough. I was ready for it to be over long before it was. That said, there was definitely some great stuff here. The opening work was great, especially whenever Virus was involved. The guy in red on the opposite team was also great. A couple really good big spots too. Ultimo also hit a great version of his top rope reverse suplex.
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This is my first real memory of wrestling on TV. I was at a neighbor's house and we were flipping through channels and we got to the replay of this on one of the weekend recap shows, probably on a local channel. It somewhat interested me and I had always had vague interest in wrestling and would flip through wrestling magazines in the grocery store etc, but it would still be a couple more months before I actually started watching RAW, mainly because I had no real idea what the shows were or when they were on. Still, this is again just too silly.
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That entire last segment was just incredible, I can't say enough good things about it. Great match, emotional babyface ending, a LEGITIMATELY emotionally invested crowd and a hot angle. And angry Regal.
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I hope none of the women on NXT ever get called up.
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Bray is by FAR the Wyatt I like/care about the least.
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This was a very basic match worked well to a hot crowd with the blood being some nice icing on the cake. Flair's dirtiest player in the game face comeback is awesome as it often is. The ending angle is just dumb. This is wrestling not knowing when enough is enough. You have two big names, gave them a compelling reason to fight (Flair's promo about Hogan's fame vs. his reputation), built some heat so you know they don't like each other, made the stakes feel important (top heel champion vs. face President of company) and let them have at it. The show did a huge buyrate. THAT WAS ENOUGH. Give them a solid finish and don't make it too complicated and screwy. But of course we had to have a SWERVE ending which my mind says has zero chance of not turning out terribly.
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Well to start with the good, Rey and Konan's comeback here is pretty great. Good offense from Rey and Nash and Hall bump and sell for him. Rey gets a visual pinfall and the Razor's Edge on Rey looks brutal. But then you get one of the absolutely stupidest things in wrestling history. It's hard to even imagine anyone could believe that taking Rey's mask off is a good move. In fact, I CAN'T believe that anyone could think taking Rey's mask off is a good move, surely this was an attempt to cut him down to size or something?
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Really good match. I like how little the cage was used throughout the match, just sitting there to serve its gimmick purpose of supposedly preventing interference while they work a regular tag match inside it. Benoit's FIP was really good and he worked in some nice comeback teases, like the backslide and firing off with one chop but being too exhausted to capitalize on it. It's cool how he finally makes his comeback by making use of the tag and Dean and Benoit's double team comeback was good. I was kind of groaning about the interference predictably happening anyway but it was used well to set up the big finish spot with Benoit ending up on the top of the cage just in time to come off with a huge headbutt for the win. Really good tag match that uses the cage sparingly but in some minor (and one big) ways that inhance the match.
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This was a really great match. I liked how it starts off right away with Yoshida hitting the air raid crash, Yagi coming back with a German suplex and then transitioning into the match. The interspersed enough pro stuff with the mat work that the mat work didn't really feel like, well, mat work -- it just felt like regular offense that happened to be worked on the mat. Different from a shoot style match and also somewhat different from the way Battlearts does it too. The work was good and there was a lot of cool stuff there. Yoshida gets it trouble for a while with a hurt elbow and Yagi constantly looking for an armbar, and her comeback is well done. I especially like one spot where the goes to pick Yogi up but suddenly switches and pushes her to the mat in a quick pin attempt. This was a great match but somehow personally grabbed me less than some of the other matches on the set. I should probably rewatch it before ranking it on my MOTY list.
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This is really fucking stupid. Maybe it would be less stupid if it weren't so long. But it's really long. First of all what's up with the camera work lately? Those cuts to close ups of Bischoff's and Flair's faces during the limo segment. Then elsewhere you have those weirdly produced Torrie Wilson vignettes, Raven smirking into the camera during that Kanyon segment, other weird camera stuff going on. Give it a rest. The beat down was really lame. Why is there a helicopter involved? Trying to turn pro wrestling into a TV show with a fourth wall just doesn't work. You can't do that where on the same program you have an announce team welcoming you to the beginning of the program, showing you the live audience during the entirety of the program, telling you when they're cutting to commercial, etc.
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I loved this match. I think the time was perfect, they threw out everything, didn't take any time to get to the big offense and didn't draw it out or go too long. This felt like a really unique match, wasn't a normal ECW match, didn't look much like a juniors match, didn't look like a lot of workrate sprints do. They both have unique offense and they used it in interesting ways to create a match that you really feel like you couldn't see anywhere else between anyone else. Incredibly fun stuff.
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Wow, this much exceeded my expectations. This is really a great juniors match. Opening mat stuff was good. Nothing to blow you away but definitely a step or two above the obligatory mat work you often get in the opening of juniors matches. Then we had a quick transition with a big dope from Magnum followed by a huge asai moonsault. Then a series of really great looking and unique table spots. Then they finished it up with an awesome home stretch full of big bombs. Never got ridiculous, just really good big spots. Ending was cool with Magnum connecting with a shooting star but selling he landed badly and hurt his back, so Sasuke followed it up with a senton to the back and a powerbomb for the win. Not many better juniors singles matches have happened since.
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Nothing too exceptional really, it was just really boring and dumb. Started off with lame Anonymous GM stuff, segued into lame John Cena stuff and then Rollins lame out for a looong and boring Rollins/Cena promo.
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A lot of really cool spots in this match. I liked the viciousness of the very beginning. I feel like it could've ended a couple minutes earlier and there were some kind of head scratching moments but it's worth it for the best stuff in this match. Not really any kind of MOTYC for me but a really fun watch.
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Didn't watch Satomura/Nagashima yet. I watched Gannosuke/Oya but didn't really love it. Didn't have much to say other than it was fun with a nice homestretch but didn't really grab me in anyway that'll make me remember it.
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Will update ongoing, probably after each month, just adding matches that struck me as particular MOTYCs. Year completed: Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Yoshihisa Yammamoto (RINGS 6/24/99) El Samurai vs. Shinjiro Otani (NJPW 6/3/99) El Hijo del Santo & Negro Casas vs. Bestia Salvaje & Scorpio Jr. (Hair vs. Mask) (CMLL 3/19/99) Jushin Liger & Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Shinjiro Otani & Koji Kanemoto (NJPW 3/6/99) Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida (AJPW 1/16/99) Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Stan Hansen & Akira Taue (AJPW 12/03/99) Daisuke Ikeda & Mohammed Yone vs. Alexander Otsuka & Yuki Ishikawa (BattlARTS 1/12/99) Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda vs AKINO & Ayako Hamada (ARSION 12/11/99) Yuki Ishikawa vs Daisuke Ikeda (BattlARTS 08/29/99) Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka (NJPW 10/11/99) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 1/22/99) Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Yoshihisa Yammamoto (RINGS 5/22/99) Sting vs. Diamond Dallas Page (Nitro 4/26/99) Alexander Otsuka vs Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (BattlARTS 11/09/99) Atlantis, Emilio Charles Jr & Felino vs. Black Warrior, Blue Panther & Dr. Wagner Jr. (CMLL 1/22/99) Daisuke Ikeda vs. Alexander Otsuka (BattlARTS 4/26/99) Taka Michinoku vs Minoru Tanaka (BattlARTS 10/17/99) Hardy Boyz vs. Serial Thrillaz (OMEGA 1/29/99) Atsushi Onita, Shigeo Okamura, Sambo Asako & Mitsunobo Kikuzawa vs. Tenryu, Shoji Nakamaki, Ichiro Yaguchi & Hiroshi Ono (No Rope Barbed Wire Street Fight Double Hell Death Match) (Onita Pro 6/27/99) Yuki Ishikawa & Mohammed Yone vs Daisuke Ikeda & Kazunari Murakami (BattlARTS 11/09/99) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 7/22/99) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 6/11/99) Mariko Yoshida vs. Hiromi Yagi (ARSION 2/18/99) Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Masahito Kakihara (AJPW 1/15/99) Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Omori (AJPW 10/30/99) Aja Kong vs Meiko Satomura (GAEA 09/15/99) Katsumi Usuda & Carl Malenko vs Yuki Ishikawa & Masaaki Mochizuki (BattlARTS 12/05/99) Vader vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 10/30/99) Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (AJPW 3/6/99) Jerry Lynn vs Yoshihiro Taijiri (ECW TV 10/30/99) Mitsuharu Misawa & Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 6/4/99) Alexander Otsuka & Mohammed Yone vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Carl Greco (BattlARTS 3/12/99) Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley vs. Balls Mahoney & Spike Dudley (ECW 6/17/99) Yuki Ishikawa & Daisuke Ikeda vs. Joe Malenko & Carl Malenko (BattlARTS 6/9/99) Yoshihiro Tajiri vs. Little Guido (Hardcore Heaven 5/16/99) Genichiro Tenryu, Nobutaka Araya & Shoji Nakamaki vs. Atsushi Onita, Sambo Asako & Shigeo Okamura (Street Fight Tornado Death Match) (WAR 6/20/99) Genichiro Tenryu vs. Keiji Muto (NJPW 5/3/99) Super Delphin, Masaru Seno & Masato Yakushiji vs. Violencia, Black Buffalo & Dick Togo (Osaka Pro 5/4/99) Meiko Satomura & Sonoko Kato vs. Aja Kong & Mayumi Ozaki (GAEA 4/4/99) Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Mr. Gannosuke, Yukihiro Kanemura & Hido (FMW 6/15/99) Great Sasuke vs Magnum Tokyo (Toryumon 2/7/99) Tomoaki Honma & Ryuji Yamakwa vs Shadow WX & The Winger (BJPW 11/08/99) Satanico, Zumbido, Valentin Mayo, Virus & Rencor Latino vs. Starman, Astro Rey Jr., El Oriental, Tigre Blanco & Mr. Aguila (CMLL 7/18/99) Jushin Liger, Dr. Wagner Jr. & El Samurai vs. Shinjiro Otani, Koji Kanemoto & Kendo Ka Shin (NJPW 7/20/99) Vader vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 5/2/99) Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW 4/4/99) Yuki Ishikawa vs. Daisuke Ikeda (BattlARTS 7/29/99) Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda (FMW 3/19/99) Ryuji Yamakawa vs. Tomoaki Honma (Death Match) (BJPW 6/20/99) Mike Awesome vs Masato Tanaka (ECW on TNN 12/31/99) El Hijo Del Santo & Negro Casas vs. Bestia Salvaje & Scorpio Jr. (CMLL 2/26/99)