DrVenkman PhD
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Pretty good show these two put on, IMO. Could've been worse, given what was in there, but I thought Luger did well. You could see the positives from having good matches with others. I'm going to call this **1/4. I might be all alone with that ratingNah, if you check the KOTR thread you'll see I said I was surprisingly into this match. By the time they wrestled each other again 14 months later, not so good. You'd think having Luger and Tatanka stretch a match out to a time limit draw would be a disaster, but stranger things have happened - Tatanka and Sylvan Grenier actually had a downright decent match on a SmackDown from Detroit in 2006!
IMO, Crush came around about three years later than he should have.I know you mean the Kona Crush gimmick, but it's a funny statement to make when Crush did in fact debut with the company 3 years prior.
Doink is at the ramp...I SEE THREE OF THEM"I'm seeing double - FOUR Krusty's!"
Sorry, I just love The Simpsons and excuses to quote it.
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Promos for a SummerSlam Flashback special were cut and that appears to be about it. I know the June 30th Raw kept in the promo for the Million Dollar SummerSlam contest but I don't recall seeing it on this Raw so maybe that was cut too.
I skimmed the Nitro review because I haven't seen it yet ("VOD Error") but I'm glad it's good because as I've said, I love that Raw so it will be nice to have a good Nitro go with it. The reason there are 3 non-match segments in a row is because there was originally a Benoit/McMichael vs. Steiners match before the final segment.
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They actually do update on the unseen Ken Shamrock beat down when they report Ahmed's legitimate injury (something to the extent of "but Ken Shamrock was not injured due to the Hart Foundation's attack).
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How do you fit 23 shows at 3-4 hours a pop in a weekend? I just got up to Mania 11 today and think I'm running further behind schedule than usual... might have to cut out the HOFs. Copious use of fast forward?
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Very strange. You'd think the debut of Scott Taylor a few weeks earlier could have been considered the beginning of the division, but I guess someone decided the Fed audience at the time wanted to see The Fantastics look old, out of shape, and wrestle each other. I tried looking up details of their tenure on wikipedia but only got this:
In 1997, Rogers and Fulton both wrestled in the WWF's Light Heavyweight Division.[1] They were pit against each other in the first round of the Light Heavyweight Championship Tournament.[1] Rogers defeated Fulton with the Tomakaze, a finish which never was shown on television. The maneuver itself was said to have been stolen by former WWE superstar and current TNA wrestler Christian Cage. However, it was later observed that Christian Cage had been using the move much before Rogers and Christian himself was the inventor of the move in spite of Rogers stealing Christian's move.That seems pretty incorrect.
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"Unless WrestleMania VIII gets posted on Tuesday, WM X8 is the only thing I have to review for a week and a half."You're not doing the Houston show?
I was at this Raw live (I think I've mentioned this about 3 times in the 24/7 threads now...) and I actually had a pretty good time, people were really loud for Hogan.
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In my memory, Undertaker lost after Ahmed gave him the PRP. Seeing Kama pin him clean was really weird... but only the second strangest thing on the show after Fulton vs. Rogers. What the hell was THAT?
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I'm assuming you were still having problems with the 24/7 version of this show because Mr. T doesn't even have an entrance on that version - after his interview with Mean Gene, everyone is already in the ring.
I'm always up for seeing the Real American video - it was on TNT a few episodes ago too. However it seems my SNME stops once Muraco drops the spike on Hogan due to a VOD error.
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He did a really bad one to Matt Hardy during their spring feud with the Hardys. Murdoch appeared to be going for the actual Destroyer while Hardy seemed to think it was going to be a Code Red or sunset flip.
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If I'm remembering right, my live reaction to seeing Shawn do the crossface was disbelief followed by a bit of a laugh, followed by another laugh (in a good way) and applause when he followed up with the anklelock. I feel so dumb clapping at my TV watching wrestling (or even sports) but spots like that bring it out sometimes.
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I like the 2002 Rumble but it really does drag, especially the points where intervals are in excess of THREE MINUTES (a rare one or two, but there are about 4 more that are 2.5 - 90 seconds was the norm at this point).
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I will say the 1998 WCW house show I went to either the week or night before WrestleMania XIV was awesome. I don't know if we lucked out by being in a major market (the show was at the Palace of Auburn Hills) at the height of the wrestling boom, but they put on a great show. Hogan jobbed clean to Sting in the main event (though Hogan did that weird "let's brawl outside the ring even though it's a cage match" spot that him and Savage did at Uncensored which is confusing to people).
That Sid/Taker match is the infamous "oops I crapped my pants" match, I believe.
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Keith just revised his **** rating to a **1/4 rating today.
I liked this show a lot more in 1999 but the intro song is still funny.
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Just some clarification King because I know you weren't watching WWE at the time so I can help with a few of your (perhaps rhetorical) questions / comments.
1. It's my opinion that Miz won the vote because at that time, it was rumoured that Morrison was supposed to be winning back the title as soon as he returned and BDV was getting a push, so if you wanted Punk to retain the title, you voted for Miz (which is what I did) even if it means a worse PPV match. Weird thinking in retrospect.
2. While steel cage is normally a forgone conclusion in terms of winning a stipulation vote, HHH and Umaga had a hell of a tear apart brawl before on the Raw before the PPV and voters probably wanted more.
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That tag match on Nitro with Hugh Morrus and Ice Train was so bad. Ice ALWAYS seemed out of place and confused and the ending with Hugh being like "screw this Moonsault" and not doing it was the icing on the cake. Not Bradshaw/Trish vs Nowinski/Jackie bad (is anything?), but really a brutal tag match for live TV.
I was really into Raw (and Nitro!) this week though. I don't know, this was one of my favourite eras so I'm digging the Austin and Bret promos, and Faarooq made me laugh.
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Woo! Honourable mention! I agree with most of this but I find myself enjoying Jingus posts in wrestling folders (but as you say, your issue is with CE).
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As long as you already wrote your review and realize the match will be gone after the 8th, it's all good.
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The booking of that Lawler/Doink match is so bizarre and I always questioned it. Once Lawler pinned Doink - the very first eliminaion - the match had no reason to continue. Lawler could never legally get back into the ring to lose. So stupid.
However, I have childhood nostalgia for that opener and wish the PYBOs were on the Canadian 24/7 so I could watch it.
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The Raw vs SmackDown match in 2005 was KIND OF like the Wildcard match. But yeah, they need to do one up in the future.
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In his book, Bret said that match was "Match of the night" and "saved the show". Yeah, it's awesome and all... but so was Flair vs Savage. Sometimes, Bret.... sometimes.
Anyway, keep it up.
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Quick note: The music Paul Bearer came out to was that of legendary early 90s midcard act Papa Shango.
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Rock on, 'Sault.
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Random observation point: Your sig implores people making you a mySpace addition, but when I did so, I was removed in a big deletion purge.
Review: WWF King of the Ring 1994, 6/16/1994; from Baltimore, Maryland.
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This show is funny because I've never seen anyone say "meh, that was passable". They either say "Bret vs Diesel + 3 Owen matches?! Great show! Just ignore the Piper/Lawler match!" (because all tournaments have weak matches like the IRS stuff, KOTR 93's version would be Perfect vs. Mr Hughes and Bigelow vs. Duggan) or "that show was dull and poor, Bret and Owen couldn't save it".
I'm in the thumbs up portion myself but I think I like the Razor/Bigelow match more than you do, so maybe that helps. The biggest flaw you mention is the extneded "resthold", but I actually liked the Torture Rack spot and as Art Donovan so keenly pointed out, it was like Razor was dead!
When I was a kid I actually kind of liked IRS vs. Mabel but only for Mabel selling the Write Off clothesline. I was an IRS mark as a youngster.
In regards to your mention of the Steiners, I believe they were gone from the company (or at least about to be) by King of the Ring. Scott jobbed to IRS in a Qualifier on Superstars and Rick wasn't even around.