El-P
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After finishing 1992, I can safely say I was really pleasantly surprised after a rather cold first few weeks. I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I did. There's not much in term of really great match, but there's a shitload of excellent promos every week, and I enjoy the veterans like Garvin and Orndorff a lot. The Heavenly Bodies are the clear highlight in term of work. Rock'n Roll Express reunited set a new fire under Ricky Morton after a last few disapointing months in WCW as a heel light heavyweight. I don't mind the Horner push, he's a terrible promo but there's something charming about his out of date bland southern babyface character, and DWB is excellent. Didn't care at all about Brian Lee though. The only time he was useful to me was when he was stabbed to near death by Sullivan in a great angle. Killer Kyle is also a FF element to me. Too bad Bob Holly left so soon, as I'd liked for him to have competetive matches in this setting. -
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Silent. It's a /ɛ/ sound in French. Now a funny fact : Levesque comes from L'évèque. Which means "the bishop". Now how do you say "bishop" in German ? Yeah, you guessed it... bischoff. I told you, WCW is coming.
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Well, that's his name, and as he's slowly getting more and more of an office figure, I guess at some point he'll be more refered under his real name. I always thought it was funny how he kept the acronym of an old gimmick that was passé by late 1997 when he became a star. I mean, "Triple H" just doesn't evoque anything concrete now, as when it does, it's basically the old Blue Blood gimmick from WCW...
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"Mick Foley who competed here under the name of Cactus Jack won their version of the world title. Yeah, that will put asses in the seats..." WWE under Levesque = WCW
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Ross could be quite annoying at this point, but I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary here. At least he wasn't shilling his hotline every two minutes. Anyway, this is just not a good match, and the perfect illustration of why the LH championship was a failure. Boring limb work that doesn't mean anything, Pillman brushes off all the eg work in one split second to do a sloppy headscissor, and wins with a very sloppy bridge. Morton was boring at this time, seriously going through the motions. It took him going to SMW and reuniting with Gibson to rule again. His matches with Brad Armstrong were just as boring and uninspired (and Armstrong never helps in those cases as he's solid as hell but not very exciting). (on the same TV show, Austin had a pretty good TV title match against Scott Steiner, in which Scott was surprisingly under control, and Madusa quite fun)
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Great angle. Woman is awesome in every way. ECW at its best.
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The fact that they do nothing with Foley despite having him under contract just because Trip doesn't like the talking point of Foley making him a star back in the days is pretty telling.
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They couldn't follow the three previous matches obviously, but it'd still a good match. It's also very interesting to me, after watching WCW from 89 to then, it's clear that after 2 and a half years of Luger being the superior worker, they reached the point where Luger finally doesn't care that much anymore and doens't work half as hard as he used to, while Sting finally got it and became a good worker. The heel turn after Flair left in 91 really killed Luger's spirit it seems. And he's roided out of his mind here, gasping for air after a few minutes. I actually like this match better than the GAB 90.
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Really doesn't hold a candle to the great Liger matches from NJ to me. That said, it still made a strong statement about what the Light Heavyweight division should be as opposed to boring Brad Armstrong vs Ricky Morton matches with a bunch of headlocks. Really good stuff still, but 4 years too soon sadly for Pillman.
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Another MOTYC on the same card. Rude's selling is as great as you can get. The nuclear heat during the pre-match promo was awesome. Steamboat was great, but I think Rude was as good or even better here, really showed how far he got. Rude's peaking in 1992. The ending of the match doesn't bother me because it furthers the feud. Funny, I thought Madusa was the Ninja, but I haven't seen this in probably 10 years.
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Rude is really at his best at this point like it's been said. Great selling, does comedy yet keeps his asskicker aura, bumps like a king, delivers some cool offense on occasion, and generally rock solid. Pillman really looks like he deserves better than the useless LHW belt, although it allows him to work with Liger on PPV which is nice. But the guy has been one of the best worker in the company since 1989 at this point, and years of wallowing in the undercard damaged his star power potential. Here he shows he could hang on with the top of the card. Sadly nobody will really ever care. He should be along Dustin, Steamboat, Barry, Simmons. Instead, we'll get Nikita Koloff coming back as a face after a very poor stint the previous year... Anyway, very good match.
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Super fun TV match. Yes, with more time it could have developed into a great match with all the talent involved, but it got great heat and everyone did some cool stuff. It's kinda like the infamous 10-Man tag from Raw. WCW was running good TV matches like this on nearly every show. But an 8 man tag with no one being worst than good and with 6 out of 8 being downright super workers is rare enough and it does stand out even surrounded by the very good TV from this period. Rude busting out the missile dropkick was neat. So was Arn refusing to plunge into Sting's arms after two of his partners just getting gorilla press-slamed.