El-P
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Yep. To me it looked like a messed up leapfrog, but you never know with these two. Either a nifty spot, either a great cover. Nice little TV match. Bobby Eaton should have been a regular on WCW TV for years, he was still a super solid worker at that point, but he was already the designated jobber of the Dangerous Alliance a year earlier, so the writing was on the wall.
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Early 1993 was okay but nothing special. Not a whole lot happening in term of good TV matches or angles. The beat the champ concept is nice on theory, but thus far they haven't done much with it with Smothers mainly beating jobbers. I'm also not that fond of Smothers in the Confed flag waving babyface role to be honest. I enjoy him much more as a heel. Still a really good worker though. Brian Lee vs Kevin Sullivan is good only for a few goofy Sully promos. The most fun stuff is the three-way feud with Cornette & Bodies vs Rock'n Roll vs Studd Stable, although Fuller & Golden don't deliver much in the ring, but as far as promo goes, this is really good. Orndorff departing leaves a void, as he was one of the best worker in the company. I need more Tim Horner in the ring too, I enjoyed his push more than most, as ridiculous as it was at times.
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The last part of Watts tenure, first two months of 1993? was much better, and some of the best TV since the Dangerous Alliance days in early 92, only with better booking of the angle and build of the big PPV. Regularly good matches on TV, some new fresh blood like Benoit, Scorpio, pushing Austin & Pillman as a tag team (still not yet named Hollywood Blondes), pushing heel Windham hard (and he was the best wrestler on TV at this point), a really efficient build for Vader vs Sting too. The US title tournament was good, with the surprising final of Steamboat vs Dustin. It's too bad we never get a true finish to Dustin vs Windham, nor more of a following to Dustin vs Steamboat as they got more agressive during the return bout. On the flip side, Maxx Payne was rather a cool character, but he was nothing as a worker, and really didn't need to be pushed that way. The tag team division outside of Steamboat/Douglas vs Austin/Pillman was getting nonexistent with only JTTS tag teams like Z-Man & Johnny Gunn (who didn't look very good), the Wrecking Crew, Shangai Pierce & Tex Slazenger (who were no good either). It's a shame Superbrawl III bombed because it was a really good PPV. The arrival of Davey Boy I'm sure is what encouraged WCW to turn Regal who debuted as a white meat english babyface. Flair coming back was both exciting but also left some questions to what direction the company was gonna take, they needed to push younger stars already at this point. Sting vs Vader was an awesome feud, and Sting was really peaking on every level, and having Flair throw back into the mix was taking things back a few years, especially with him and Ole back on the booking sheet. Anyway, Watts tenure had debuted very badly, then took off around Halloween Havoc and really got going by 1993. He was cut short when he was getting much better. The post Flair period in WCW delivered two really good moments, from Halloween Havoc 1991 with Rude showing up to Watts debut, and from December 1992 /January 1993 when Watts finally got it.
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Vader vs Sting is easily one of the best feuds of the 90's. They add a gimmick a manage to work it in a way to get yet another great match. Brutal match. The ending is a bit deflating to the audience, but it makes sense that Vader would finally win this one. Great visual of Sting beating down a bloody Vader after the match. Strong strong MOTYC.
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One of the infamous Lazy Muto performance, up there with fucking up with Takada as far as Muto being an unprofessional prick just sending the match down the drain. It's infuriating because Muto could of course have a very good match with Windham, but there he's going long and doing the job, so he just doesn't show up. Windham try to Hansen his way into a good match by being really active on offense, but there's no way to get heat on Muto, who also does some comical face at awkward times. Then comes the finish, Muto just doesn't go with it (seriously, he took a great bump earlier on on a regular DDT, you know he could make Windham's Emplant DDT look like a killer) and gets up right away. I like Muto more than most, but this is an infamous terrible fuck you performance. Sad for Windham. The perspective of Flair vs Windham for the NWA title is kinda neat, although there's a feeling of unfrehsness about this to me, it's going back to past history instead of going forward. And year, Flair was not good on color.
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Yep. in retrospect that is just awkward to hear. Superb match, crisp work (mostly), stuff you just didn't see back in 93, and aged very well because these two were not doing a spotfest but actually sold well too. Great finish, a swerve in a good way. 2 Cold looked like a star, that he never got pushed more than he was in WCW or WWF was a travesty.
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A thought it was a bit disapointing. Good match, but with Steamboat and Pillman you except more. I don't know, the work on the back was solid, Steamboat's selling was excellent, but maybe I expected more of a crazy brawl which is something the lumberjack gimmick kinda calls for to me. Gotta love to see Austin and Flamingo together rooting for Pillman. Man, that makes me think Raven vs Stone Cold is a dream match of mine I'll never get to see. The finish happening during the break is vintage Watts. It's a nice touch from to time to time.
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Agreed. There was no point to continue the show at all, at least no point in broadcasting it. Nobody cared about watching a cold Cody Rhodes vs Rey match, and the final angle was awkward to watch, really. Showing clips and have an update between them would have been fine.
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Jerry Lawler : 1 - Death : 0
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Graet segment. Cornette showing up on WCW TV and trashing the company is awesome, but they blipped some stuff about Jim Herd and such. Nice inpromptu match in zubaz. This is some interpromotionnal wrestling TV there. Too bad it got squashed before it could get really good. The Bodies in WWF never amounted to anything, but in WCW as outsiders they would have been awesome.
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You don't say. Clarke has made quite a bit of progress since he showed up in 1990 in WCW. With his look and impressive moves, I really never got why he was never pushed hard in WWF. Nice little TV match, good angle at the end, although the whole confederate flag waving babyface is still kinda odd to watch.
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Fuck. Hopefully the King gets his way through this.
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Too much dead weight for this to be a good match, although getting rid of Killer Kyle right away was nice. Golden has showed me exactly zilch in the ring since I began watching SMW. Too few of DWB vs Tracey at the end, but it's a way to kick off their feud. Mantell is awesome on color though.
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