El-P
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Don't give Russo any ideas. The Twitter Drop and the Youtube Death Shot should be used by both Hardy.
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How can you employ a writer that has the worst track record in wrestling business history and has a proven failure for the last 10 years ? Same reason probably.
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Greatest exploding deathmatch ever probably. Terry Funk milks every tease to the max, Onita takes a hideous bump into the exploding wire, all about selling, facials and body language. An amazing spectacle. Of course people raised on stuntfest and modern BJ deathmatch will get caught of guard. Onita wasn't all about insane bumps, but a lot more about selling and drama, and that's what this match is all about. An sick bumps to, of course, but sick bump that matter.
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We'll all die eventually. Possibly from horrible diseases. Meanwhile, if I have to spend my life only eating vegetables and not drinking, and only doing healthy things, I think I might die from boredom already. I never did any drugs because I guess I'm the kinda guy who would easily get caught into it, and I fear I would like it too much for my own good, but I'm not giving up on fine wines, beers, cocktails, champaign and delicious junk food from time to time. I still wonder how Micheal Hayes ever got to that kind of position of power, since he's a southern wrestling guy with alcohol problems (not to mention the occasional racist remark). Doesn't strike me like the kind of guy Vince would get along with.
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Great fucking match, that's all. Double Inoue was an awesome team with a great dynamic, Kyoko the happy go lucky work machine, and Takako the bitch. Oz is pure gold, as always, and Cuty is very underrated.
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Oh Loss, why the Raven hate even when Raven isn't around. Never saw Flamingo, but it sounds like a hoot.
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They had a match in Paris in April which was quite crazy for WWF at this time if I remember right, complete with breaking wooden chair.
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Fascinating. Some people do live strange lives.
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TNA is WCW circa 2000 going senile.
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Amazing how things fell apart during the Summer of 98. They had a strong undercard until mid-spring, then they went overboard with Jericho getting his title back on technicality, although it still made for good promos and matches. But Booker T got injured and the TV title went into Stevie Ray for bullshit reasons. Benoit was nowhere to be seen, but Steve McMicheal came back. Disco Inferno & Alex Wright as the dancing fools were a funny act but they got stuck with Public Enemy. The crazy Chavo storyline went nowhere after the hair match. Really, the only strong undercard storyline left was Raven vs Saturn vs Kanyon. Bret Hart as a manipulative heel is much more fun that I remembered. He's giving Lex Luger his best match since probably the Arn Anderson one in 95. Bret was awesome at being a douchebag during this period. We get Hacksaw Duggan in a mini-feud with Barbarian, which I can always watch. Rey Mysterio is back, and it's a welcome addition. Funny, for all the talk of how Chris Jericho was held back, he sure was pushed hard during the whole year, as on the day after he loses the cruiserweight title for good to Juvi, he gets the TV title. Goldberg cutting promos, not a very good idea. Plus the guy mostly bores me unless it's a really important match. Can't wait to revisit the Warrior feud... trainwreck incoming...
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Yeah, it's sad how WCW always seems to be refered to as this godawful retarded promotion. WCW was much better than WWF for a long long time.
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I think it happened in 1999.
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I officialy lost my mind. I thought the build to Hogan & Bischoff vs DDP & Leno was actually really efficient, with some terrific Hogan promos and Bischoff being amazingly annoying. And I thought the match worked to boot... Like I said, I may have lost my mind, but there it is...
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Man... Can Dixie borrow a brain for a minute or two, just the time to send Russo his release ? It's amazing that when you think they can't sink lower, they actually do. At this point they're digging the Earth's core. WCW 1999/2000 only scratched the surface in comparison.
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I guess you can argue Dyno was one of Foley's main influence as far as the ridiculous bumping came from.
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When was The Rise part again ?
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I disagree. After my ECW watch last year, Sabu is a guy that not only hold up very well, but actually got up in my totem pole. Sabu matches aren't great in a "oh, look at that cool spot" kinda way, but in what Sabu portrayed and conveyed through those insane spots, a complete lunatic that would do insane shit to himself to hurt his opponent. Sure, they were some poor setup at times, but Sabu brought so much shit, never got complacent and always mixed up things by modifying one of his usual spot, brought new teases, that the positives to me squashed the negatives. And his matches didn't look like controlled chaos not overscripted "insane" match like we saw in WWE in the last decade, it looked like real chaos, and the occasionnal sloppyness actually added to that. Wrestling has become way too clean, and rewatching Sabu's matches today (or Sandman's), makes them look actually better and deeper than just "look at the insane spots". To me Sabu got better with time because the times have gone so far toward overproducing and overscripting that this guy's work looks much more fresh and organic in comparison. And there's that fascinating stuff about never knowing if he was actually hurt or just selling, which infact kinda made him the most realistic "seller" I've seen. Anyway, I'm ranting, and it has really nothing to do with Tiger, whose work doesn't hold up that well with the times for other reasons.
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Funny that a Hebner ref is involved in a "Jeff screwed Jeff" situation. Of sorts. Sting looks visibly pissed off from the get go.
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Good read. Man, TNA sure is the most ridiculous national wrestling promotion ever.
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No idea, but retrospectively it made no sense the WWF would even want these guys. Kroffat & Furnas feuding with the Steiners would have been so much fun. And I don't know why this match got so much vote in the SC ECW poll. Yeah, it's fun to see Furnas throw RVD around, but it's nothing that special. For an RVD match, it's still quite good though.