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Man. WCW's booking on top was litteraly falling apart. This served no purpose and looked like a kayfabe-killer shilling segment.

Truly awful way to even mention Bret on WCW TV when he was not "one of many" but very clearly the hottest news item in wrestling at the time. They totally fucked up from the very beginning. And it looked like a complete mockery, complete with butchering the canadian national anthem, how would anyone really believe Bret had joined the nWo ? This is 1998 already, indeed.

Maybe I don't remember the story well, but the end result is the same. Jericho got a surprise pin instead of getting nothing at all. Not a bad deal overall.

I don't get the criticism either. Jericho was no one on the totem pole. He had a bunch of cruiserweight title reigns that were totally forgetable and was relegated to an afterthought at this point. The story is that Hall was just supposed to beat Jericho in a competitive squash and that Hall himself proposed to let him at least get a surprise pinfall. No idea how true that is, but I don't see how Chris looks bad here. It got a huge pop, the announcers put it over big and it was a nice segway to the angle with Zbyszko as Hall looked even more like a big bully that had just been humiliated by losing to a smaller guy. Good stuff to me.

I'm a Raven fan, but this really goes nowhere. Plus it doesn't make a whole lotta sense to air vignettes like this once raven has already been involved in angles, Clash and matches on WCW TV. Just poor timing.

Either fucking embarrasing botch, either a fucking stupid idea (she's supposed to be Kamala's bride or something ?)

Not the epic press conference you'd want for the biggest match ever, but a decent job. Sting kinda looks like he's afraid indeed, backing away while holding a bat.

I really didn't know him, but this is a sad sad news. Yeah, feels eerie when he was posting just a few days ago.

Hogan works his ass off here. One of those "DDP puts together a match that has no business being as good as it should", especially coming off the awful Piper match on PPV. I know at this point WCW = Sting, but still, the Steiners who were scheduled later and Luger was wrestled earlier not even showing up to defend DDP makes them look like they couldn't care less about WCW at this point. That weak part aside, Sting going through the B players by himself makes him look like a superhero. Yeah. Vincent, that "WCW SN miracle worker". That was pretty pathetic.

Better than the Eddie match to me. Finlay looks awesome and crisp working with Benoit. He badly needed a haircut though, he had a terrible look. Great counters and stiff looking work, just a pleasure to watch.

Crowd isn't that much into it at first, but they build the anticipation right down to the point of getting big time "Larry !" chants. They were all really effective. Gene almost cracking up when Hall asks him "down where ?" when he wasn't expecting it was funny.

No picture nor short video. But better this than nothing.

Awful match. Stupid booking. More fake Stings. Piper and Hogan going out of the cage together via the door 2 seconds after Tony said "If Hogan does out he wins this match !". Piper winning two months before the biggest match ever. No heat. This is right out of 98, hell, even 99. Yep. The honeymoon was over. The writing was on the wall. The fact Savage fucked up his knee which basically would end up killing his career for nothing in a godawful match is really sad too. Age in the Cage. Yeah. The WWF via Cornette really could have a laugh at this one, when they had Steve Austin on the verge of megastardom and a young hot prospect named The Rock. WCW had finally lost the plot after one year of greatness.

Totally forgot about how good this one was. Dusty marking out when they thow each other into styrofoam tombstones is awesome too. I always love Liz getting physical, no matter how awkward she can look at times, plus Kimberly dragging her by her hair was much better and more realistic than a shitty looking catfight. Savage's selling was top notch here, and the sloppy elbow was a great touch. Too bad they had to do this stupid finish with yet another fake Sting (seriously ?). I don't mind Savage winning, as he's the big star and DDP has been elevated by this feud anyway at this point. Yeah, the last big time Savage match although he worked a few pretty good stuff with Bret in 98.

This is all about setting up Hall vs Zbyszko because this was a total nothing match, as always with those two together, boring test of strenghts and sleeperholds. Luger was on autopilot, his last good match seems eons ago now. The highlight is Larry Z putting a submission hold on Syxx. Okay, were are the dozen refs who jumped on Flair twenty minutes before ? *sigh*

Decent match with Hennig looking better than Flair (not hard at this point), but ridiculous finish. The referees deal is just inconsistent booking and it's rather infuriating, plus the belt stomp doesn't make a whole lot of sense since Flair didn't use the metal plate to bash Hennig's face in. Hennig has looked better than I expected during those last previous weeks.

Just want to say that it was so cool to see Savage & Liz back together on screen as heels at this time. They just fit together so perfectly, with Liz looking better than ever. Truly the greatest pro-wrestling couple. And yes, good promo and cool jacket. I just understood *now* why Savage didn't wear the nWo colors that night.

WCW MOTYC & MOTDC. If anything, this match shows that the quality of execution does matter, especially when you work that kind of style. Yeah, one of Eddie's greatest performance, and the picture perfect cruiserweight match, the apex of the style in the US.

Not exactly putting heat on Piper vs Hogan. But a nice trolling promo nonetheless.

A Fit Finley semi-competitive squash. Okay. Nothing special really.

Third segment on the show with those three guys. More fake Sting that the announcer still can't identify on the first glance. Bischoff making a second McMahon reference, again a terrible idea when your show is clearly losing steam while the opposition is getting hotter. This whole angle is awkward, doesn't make sense and really doesn't accomplish anything. Nitro has been pretty bad two weeks in a row now. You can feel the peak has been reached a few months ago, and even the undercard doesn't look so good now.

What's there is great, but it's typically the Nitro format which gets frustrating. The clean win kinda came from nowhere.

Better than the nursery, but still a far cry from the atmosphere of the ECW vignettes. Still kinda cool though, but Raven really needs to get some issue to talk about now. He's cruising here.

Cool hype segment for Eddie ve Rey. Rey still isn't that much of a promo, but it doesn't matter here, as the production helps get the importance of the match across.

Cool segment indeed. I wish they had done more of this.