El-P
Members
-
Joined
-
Last visited
Everything posted by El-P
-
-
Very well put, totally agree. (I'm so lazy)
-
Yeah pretty much. A bad crowd makes me hates a crowd though (and it works in both sense, a crowd going crazy for a shit match annoys the hell out of me). That being said, a match that grabs a bad crowd and turn them around is one of the most fun stuff that can happen in the context of a wrestling show.
-
-
Jeez, talk about sustained heat ! This is always cool and add to a match greatly. Not that the work here needs anything to look better, as this is better than it has any right to be considered a green Glen Jacobs is involved. Looks like an excellent to great match in edited form, and yeah, this is more a traditionnal southern tag with a gimmick added than anything else, which is also why it's so good. Al Snow finally impresses me from the get go, he's very good as a stooging heel. Morton is still a great worker... Yes he is. One of the most fun SMW match I've seen.
-
Takee is totally out of place here. I wouldn't expect the match being too good with Taker, Killer Kyle and Bob involved. Beating down Bob Armstrong is getting old. Ok, I know he's gonna win me back again at some point with some promo, but to me this kind of beatdowns has reached nWo point of repetiveness.
-
Maybe I was in a bad mood, maybe some of you took mushrooms, but I don't feel the "great match" vide *at all*. Seriously, for the entire first half I was yawning at my screen at Snow's work which I found pedestrian and devoid of any intensity. Morton was good but I really didn't think much of Snow. Maybe because I thought this was gonna be one of these short TV match and I'm not used to see longer match on SMW TV. Anyway, it did developp into what I'd call a very good match eventually, and I appreciated the fact Snow actually gradually upped his offense. So yeah, very good match in the end, and in the SMW context of the past two years, it's probably one of the strongest TV match they had (although like I said it doesn't mean that much). Best Snow's match ever ? No idea, Snow is a pretty overrated worker to me, so maybe it is, I don't remember being crazy for any of his ECW stuff either. Best Morton performance of the 90's ? No idea, as don't have that many recollection of his single matches (I prefer the 91 Gibson match without a doubt), but it sure showed Morton was still excellent when given the opportunity and the time to be. Al Snow post-match promo was indeed pretty funny. Al was at his best doing stuff like this.
-
Blah. ZZZzzz.
-
Pretty good match, one of the best New Jack ever had probably. Ross was plugging WM 11 and Bam Bam vs L.T. during the match. Cornette is giving himself way too much racket offense at this point.
-
Old school Taker seems so corny now. And so out of place in SMW too. I don't feel this angle at all, especially since they couldn't get anyone to join the Gangstas to make it seem like they had a chance (Killer Kyle, really ?).
-
Most probably. And bad crowds. And good crowds.
-
-
-
Sting vs Arn Anderson from Saturday night 04/22 is a much better match than the Sting vs Austin match from two weeks prior.
-
Interesting contrast between Sting vs Steve Austin on 04/08 and Sting vs Arn Anderson on 04/22. The first match was very much my turn/your turn, heavy on bumps but short on storytelling, with Sting making an aggravating no-sell comeback seemingly at random, overall a pretty good match but really nothing special. The second match was much more under control thanks to Arn who pretty much structured the entire match for Sting, less action (although it was not a slow match either) but flowed a lot better, had a logical progression to the finish and good transitions. Showed me that Arn in 1995 was still better than Austin who was on his way but just not there yet.
-
-
-
-
The best "straight" Nasties match ever, because they are only good when they get the shit beat ouf them, which the Steiners delivered in spades. I think I do prefer the Sullivan/Cactus match as it was really a great insane brawl, but both are the only must-see Nasties match. This is also probably one of the best Steiner matches ever BTW.
-
-
I think the consensus is that the Rock'n Roll were vastly better than the Fans. I would have disagreed 12 years ago, but then again I hadn't seen nearly enough. Today, I have no doubt the Rock'n Roll were better, and it's a case of the whole being bigger than the sum of the parts, as Ricky Morton was a great worker while Robert Gibson in his prime was... good, I guess. I would rank the 4 guys exactly in the same order, Fulton being the most underrated of the four. Rogers was one hell of a worker but didn't carry the same personnality and connection with a crowd that Morton would, and he's also not nearly as charismatic or good on the mic. He's a more "modern" kind of worker in term of mechanics though, which is why he adapted much better in his later days. But Morton is, as the whole package, quite a bit above Rogers. Fulton has been quite underrated for years, I have no idea what the consensus is these days, but he was the one carrying the charisma load of the Fans, but was also a super solid worker in the ring. Much much better than Gibson who always strikes me as being kinda there "for the ride" a little bit, even in their prime. But as a whole, the Rock'n Roll Express had a chemistry and a dynamic carried by Morton which made them a better team.
-
Weight division in NJ allowed Tiger Mask and Jushin Liger de be huge stars they probably wouldn't have become otherwise. They were kings in their own kingdom. As a smaller heavyweight, I don't think Liger would have obtained to the same status. I always enjoy a good lightweight division when booked the right way.
-
-
I heard Meltzer himself tell the story on another podcast some time ago. Who knows what truth there's to it, but the story is pretty glorious.
-
I have. Very good match, the best ever from S&S. Loved Arn & Vader cool double team moves, especially the springboard into a chokeslam. Very strong TV match.