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Kimberly taking the George Steele role when they redo the Wrestlemania III ring bell spot is pretty funny.

If aliens ever saw this they would assume that Dundee and Jacobs are part of different species.

The floatover DDT that the Rock used here would have been such a cool move, if only he would have hit it halfway decent more than one in five times...

Oh yeah, an Bret talking about family values is pretty funny in hindsight.

I like Quack a decent amount, but I'm not sure I agree with this part. Who has he trained that really "made it" (in any sense of the term, indies or WWE)? Does Claudio count? Or Kingston? Claudio was already wrestling for a few years and was showing promise before he met Quack for the first time.

Mankind being the number 1 contender coming out of Wrestlemania is really strange considering he hardly did anything of note since Survivor Series.

This was a typical case of Lawler not being told what was about to happen as he basically tried to sell Bulldog as the the face (by running him down and at the same time trying to be sympatetic towards Owen).

The inconsistent censoring was a bit strange (at least to a European). "asskicking" is okay but "kiss my ass" is not?

"He pointed at me." They basically already sold the Starrcade main event with that segment, 9 months before the event. Maybe this feud peeked too early.

The way Gertner announces the Dudleys as "tag team champions of the world" sounds almost exactly as Road Dogg doing so for the NAO. Probably a coincidence, but still funny.

When Wrestlemania XIII aired on German TV they cut out the finish of this match. When Bret was applying the Sharpshooter they went immediately to Shamrock pulling Bret off of Austin. After the German TV regulation board almost kicked off WWF from TV for good (it eventually was pushed into a late night spot after they tried airing it on Sunday afternoon for two or three weeks) in late 95 I guess WWF (I think they edited the footage themselves) was extra careful what to show and what not.

I've never noticed how often Lucha announcers say the names of the other announcers (every other sentence seemed to end with "Dr.", "Dr. Alfonso Morales", "Leo" or "Leo Magadan"; I didn't get the name of the third guy). Of course I might just imagining that as I don't understand much Spanish.

Shamrock stumbles over some lines but this is worlds better than his first few lines on the ECW invasion show. Clearly someone has coaching him (and feeding him lines) after he died that horrible death with Lawler.

This was almost hard to watch due to how low this gets. Heyman was at least to some degree playing a chracter while Lawler, I think, just did a 95% shoot promo about his feelings regarding ECW and Vince giving them time on Raw to promote themselves.

I think this segment might have actually worked if they used the right guys. If they replaced the horrible kickboxer for example by Meng (not that he was doing much with the Faces of Fear at that point) and used some known face instead of the boxer (is that Brady Boone?), Hacksaw might have worked (though I really would have loved to see Fujiwara in this trying to get over in that 3-5 minutes he would have gotten), I think. Of course with the plan being that the guys were to be replaced anyway it made no sense to use non-jobbers for this.

The ref here counts pin-attempts much more like a US or Japanese ref than the usual Lucha refs do and therefore (I guess) I was pretty into the final fall here.

Did they have the crowd on the side the hard-camera was posted?

Hard to understand what Foley is trying to say. I think it went something like this: "Sid, you are looking for the Undertaker, but tonight here in Germany you have to find me first. I am not human, I am a ghost and tonight the belt is mine, all mine. Have a nice day." I think the reason for this promo being in German is that the whole show (incl. the Shotgun undercard aired as a whole in Germany (I don't think it was live, but it aired before Monday) and I guess they were too lazy to do some editing.

Pretty bad finish as there was no way that Mark Curtis could have missed the (accidental, I guess) belt shot the way this was set up.

I also loved:Vince: "Stevie Ray" Paul E: "His name is Big Stevie Cool. Vince, you are a great announcer, if this WWF thing is not working out there may be a place for you in ECW."

Shamrock was really horrible here "I don't know you." "Who are you?" (repeat 5 times)

Amazingly that was not the biggest lie of this promo (see soup23).

The CM Punk version of this promo six years later was so much better than this.

That sounds pretty scary.

Kanemaru is not a guy that is very popular in the "IWC", to say the least.