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The Cornette hate is getting ridiculous. Cornette didn't say much apart from the fact he really doesn't understand doing such a thing basically, and even referred to himself as "an asshole" after Alice put things in perspective. Anyway. The Street interview is excellent and quite funny.

There's a reason why the name "Nitro match" existed and why no great match is attached to it. Between 15 and 25, depending on the workers and style involved, is ideal. You can have a great 10 minutes match, but it will still be a great 10 minutes match, if you know what I mean. Lesser than that, yeah, it will be some great action of great angle driven stuff for a few minutes.

Ah ! His burying of Tim Horner was damn funny. And finally we know the reason behind that damn Horner singing a country song video.

About the Radicalz, it's kinda creepy to think about what became to three of them : dead by overdose, dead by suicide after double murder, homeless junkie for a while. And yeah, the idea Malenko or Saturn weren't pushed enough in WCW is comical.

Really, "What ?" is the most annoying chant ever at this point. Not the stupidest one (plenty have been mentionned already, "We want tables" during the Attitude era was also unbearably stupid), but the most annoying.

You got a legit laugh out of me.

And as expected, Martel's Timeline is the best in eons. Martel is just so charming and tells some funny stories. And for a 58 year old guy, he looks fantastic too. You can see he took care of himself really well.

I thought I had imagined this, too. Then I Googled it and once I saw the pics it all came rushing back to me. One of two post 99 WCW ppvs I watched live. That and the Bash at the Beach 2000. All were shitty. The Bagwell on the pole wasn't even the most offensive thing on the show. That show including the Goldberg/Nash/Steiner 3-Way match where Goldberg was unprofessional because he didn't go up for the jackknife (announcers words) and Steiner & Nash were great because they had to improvise the rest of the match. That is by far the worst booking I have ever seen in my life. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/19237-wcws-highway-to-hell/page-29&do=findComment&comment=5561658 (not that I would want to pimp myself, but there you go)

Not high enough to me, probably. Oh, anyway...

Martel isn't English Speaking. And yeah, he was great. The more I watch him, the more I think of him. His comeback in 98 was pretty terrific as he looked like one of the best guys in WCW almost immediately, and it took those sloppy-ass Harlem Heat to cut his career short. Not that he would have hang on for too long though, he was making money in real-estate for a decade already. To be fair it was Perry Saturn throwing him over the top rope that wrecked his knee and ended his career. Well, yeah, but if I'm not mistaken, he also got a concussion later on from Booker T. Then fucked his knee again because of Booker's ineptitude. Then as soon as he came back after surgery, was thrown into the hands of Stevie Ray, and as he was trying to protect his newly repaired knee from further damage while having to take the always horribly applied slapjack, he ended up with a neck injury. That makes three injuries on the hand of Booker & Stevie, following the first one on the hand of Saturn. No wonder he quit after that.

Martel isn't English Speaking. And yeah, he was great. The more I watch him, the more I think of him. His comeback in 98 was pretty terrific as he looked like one of the best guys in WCW almost immediately, and it took those sloppy-ass Harlem Heat to cut his career short. Not that he would have hang on for too long though, he was making money in real-estate for a decade already.

Bingo. I've seen too many supposedly "great" Cena match that were in the range of "good-very good" and way too many ones that were self-conscious über-rehearsed WWE Epics™ that were actively annoying so I just can't take him seriously as a great worker at all. He's been the perfect big match worker for modern WWE style, and that's coming from someone who hates the modern big match WWE style. He's been an absolutely unbearable character for his entire career and the one thing I really enjoyed about him was his way to troll his haters. All in all, year, pretty good worker with his ups and downs, capable to have some quite excellent match and also quite horrible ones. He's really not someone I would want to revisit for this poll. (actually, I do now)

Holy shit.

He actually got a good match out of RVD in 96 in ECW. Well, I guess his power spot style meshed well with the bullshit cool stuff of RVD (which wasn't nearly as annoying then as it became with the years), like Taz did too. Then again, Kroffat probably got RVD's *best match ever in All Japan* the year before.

He did get one of RVD's best match in 2000 when I was at the point in my ECW watch where watching RVD was plain torture. That's a major feather in his cap.

And I thought the Hayes stuff was embarrassing… Nice Paint atwork too.

Totally agree. Luger was also the saving grace on WCW TV a lot of times in late 99, early 00, simply because he put much more effort in his character than most of the guys at this time. His most shining moment during this time is the match during the Spring Break edition, ending in the sea, as he just goes way over the line to make it a ridiculously entertaining moment. He's almost Terry Funk-like godlike in this. No chance for the top 100 though.

(self-edit because it's Pro-wrestling only, but Hayes looks like your average hypocrite bigot here with his "I'm not preaching but this is for the kids, it will make them better" bullshit) And this is an atrocity musically speaking. Not the first one Hayes had commited though.

Bischoff said in a TV interview that Luger was the original plan, but then they felt that would be too predictable. Apparently up until a couple of days before the event, the plan was to have Sting as the third man. Hogan then read the tea leaves and inserted himself into the angle. Hum… Sullivan said many times that Hogan was the number one idea and Sting the back-up plan in case Hogan refused at the last time. Both he and Bischoff said it took a lot of work and persuasion to have Hogan agree to turn heel, as most of his entourage was getting in his ears saying it would be bad for his career. So I don't believe Hogan throwing himself in the angle at the last moment.

Not very much, calling him one-dimensional but giving him credit for being able to get a lot of heat for the product.

Who ? (yeah, I'm out of the loop. But seriously, never even heard of this WWE guy). It seems like Teddy Long is also doing a Youshoot. Good old Terry is going to the pay window, it seems.

The biggest match in the history of pro-wrestling. Again. Because we kinda fucked up the previous one. But no finish shown on TV. Sting looks like nothing special coming to the ring, just another guy. Yet this match is much better and more heated than the previous night in an otherwise underwhelming post Starrcade Nitro. The company was on fire at the beginning of the year, and now, they are clearly without a direction. It's been fun while it lasted.

Jericho could have broken his neck with this botch. Hennig has been pretty good as the US champ actually, but in 98 he would be mostly terrible. I think he got injured at some point. Or he just got super lazy. He only showed up again during the West Texas Redneck angle, which was clearly the best part of his WCW stint. In other news, Jericho becomes a futur star for the WWF : step 1.

Damn, that one totally eluded me ! Flair quoting Metlzer putting him over on Nitro ! Amazing ! Great little promo from Flair. An intricate booking like the one circa early 96 would have been awesome with Bret feuding both with the nWo and Flair at the same time, in a kinda tweener role. But it's 1998 coming up, sadly.

Good babyface promo (although a little bit vanilla considering the great promo work he used to do in WWF, but he was always a better heel on the mic anyway) building up to Bret vs Hogan. Of course. Makes sense. Oh, wait...