soup23
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Holding professionalism against Michaels seems kind of odd to me in voting for a wife beater. I am plowing through 96 Michaels in yearbook form. KOTR 96 offers a good comparison to the two that year to me. Both Shawn and Austin are in matches with limited and points but capable workers (Mero/Davey). I came away from those matches thinking the DBS/HBK match was better and really enjoyed Michaels performance in that one bumping huge to put Davey over who was insistent on working chinlocks and other uninteresting things on top. Austin for his part also gave a gutty, rugged performance in the Mero match being focused on the back and getting busted open and soldiering through but I also didn't think he took Mero's high impact offense particularly well and he could be blamed for some of the positioning issues. In watching Michaels in 96, he has really delivered on every PPV so far in my eyes with the exception of the Beware of Dog match. This is against a variety of opponents and style of matches. I look forward to watching the Vader, Mankind and Sid matches to see if this perception changes. To me this simply comes down to the fact that 86-91 Michaels is better than 90-96 Austin in my eyes rather easily. Shawn from 92-99 seems to play well in my eyes to Austin from 96-03. That leaves Shawn with an advantage in two portions of his career. Post-Comeback Shawn to me has the most holes to poke in performances but he still has the Jericho feud and Taker matches that I still really enjoyed. Austin by that point has Broken Skull Ranch.
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Will and Shoe are getting dangerously close to old married couple territory. I love the arguing between them. Will's disgust over Elgin in G-1 was great as well.
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May throw him a bone in my low 90s. Every time he has been in a singles match on the 90s years, he has impressed and worked effectively as a heel or face mixing in wrestling, comedy, and high flying
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Another great show full of great stories. Dixie and Insane Dragon were criminally underrated and I am glad that them and all of JAPW got a ton of love on this show.
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I only watched the first match but was higher than OJ. I didn't think it was super and agree with his thoughts that it has three separate issues being played out instead of one cohesive trios but I dug the bleachers shots and throws that Casas/Fiera did and the beatdown on Vampiro wasn't near as bad as I imagined.
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The best vs those three opponents although the kobashi match may be the best match of Hansen I've ever seen. It is probably either that or the Andre match. Date vs misawa is 5-21-93
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This looked awesome. Sasuke looked better here than I have ever seen and the heat was nuclear. Shame we don't have this in full as the finishing stretch was really heated and it looked MOTYC level at a minimum. Come on NJ World.
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May come off as bitter but once again it feels foolish to have this big WCW restart show in Jacksonville when they were in Atlanta the week before in front of 25,000 fans. Again that was a 15,000 drop from 7 months before but still feels like an appropriate setting. Macho does a pretty bad promo and I really havent enjoyed any of this 1999 run of his which is sad to see. It is honestly as bad as Hogan in 95 to me and anything Flair did including TNA. Goldberg chants start up and we get the return of Hogan. Hogan still feels lost in the shuffle as he has his new age NWO gear still. We get a title match for the end of the show.
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Have to say even though this stuff could feel played out, they still have great heat as an off PPV before SummerSlam, an end of an era type match between Austin and Taker isn't a bad idea. This was a fun set up with Vince having a wheelchair again and signing the contract with Austin's blood.
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SO Fucking bad. I was actually bored and couldn't sleep the other night and tried to watch the entire 1999 Bash at the Beach PPV. I made 20 minutes in. Anyway, George despite being beat up is loyal to Macho and low blows Nash setting up the Savage elbow and the winning of the title. George was woefully out of position and Nash was unsure if he should sell her first feeble attempt or not. Tony sounds so sad saying this was the blow heard around the wrestling world.
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I enjoyed this promo. He has an intensity and stays focus on going against Corino. Taz is interesting watching the yearbooks as he still feels like small potatoes all around compared to the big two (yes even WCW) but he was solid in a lot of his promo work.
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Agree on the men attacking women thing. This was standard stuff and a trope with ECW with them seemingly again being slightly confused on who is supposed to go up against the Impact Players at this point.
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