Go2Sleep
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I really don't think WCW was salvageable by the Summer of 99, and arguably much earlier than that. Every scenario has to start with some completely unrealistic way to get Hogan out of the picture.
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So I would be genuinely curious what the Full Sail fans reaction would be if Kane showed up on one show and proceeded to destory Finn Balor and Hideo Otami as they were having a match, than proceeded to manhandle the entire roster as they ran out to try to make the save.
Groans and silence. Kane's been stale for over a decade, has JTTS stink all over him, and never had as much charsima or presence as Sid at his peak.
Taker or Brock could pull it off, but Kane... Just no.
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Well, Adam Rose's new gimmick and promo proves that bad things can happen on NXT tv. Plus Tyler talking to his iPhone in photo mode, immersion ruined.
Still a great show overall, though.
I really hope Gargano and Ciampa get deals with NXT. That was a really nice formula tag that wasn't overdone at all. They balanced the speed/power and newcomer/vet dynamics really well and everyone came out looking good without finisher spam or nearfall overkill. Perfect little tv match.
Crowe has been really solid in the ring lately. It sucks that he's been lost in the shuffle, but can't deny that Crews is money. His finishing runs are quick, but he hits so many good-looking high-impact moves in succession that it's believable. He moves so well and comes across a legit cool dude just by his mannerisms and smile. I'd like to see these two have an extended feud with Crowe turning.
The final segment was great stuff as everyone mentioned. There are gonna be some super sweet then and now photos of Bayley and Izzy in 15 years. Sarah Dobson looked good. The promo with Sasha hit all the right notes did a good job blending their characters with their obvious emotional reactions to their reception and success. They both deserve everything good.
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All I know about Kanyon is that he took one of the greatest stupid bumps ever off the top of the Ready to Rumble cage, and I can't find it on YouTube.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10y7u_kanyon-projette-de-la-cage_sport
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I think they can establish Becky very easily via the Paige/Sasha B-feud. Becky beats Sasha in one try after Paige has failed multiple weeks in a row, then between that and Charlotte winning the title, Paige can turn on both of them out of jealousy.
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Except for Brock, of course.
Steph wouldn't even put him over clean.
Sidenote: That Steph/Vince angle from 03 was creepy as fuck
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Should be noted that Savage and Eddie didn't interact in that match much, if at all, though.
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He still looks awesome in 1997 as Mortis. I wonder if he hits a downturn in '99/'00 or something in-ring. I'll get there eventually.
I think Mortis really was his in-ring peak. He had the Uncensored match with Glacier, the tag with Wrath against Glacier and Ernest Miller at BATB, and the FoF match at Fall Brawl that year. All good matches. I can't think of anything that good after he takes off the mask, though.
I think the way stereotypical gay characters or more flamboyant characters were portrayed was due to the contempt the companies had for their own fans and what they thought their fans thought about those characters
Hmm, I don't know about this. Can't say I'm really buying that the homophobic gimmicks that existed in the territory days and persisted through the attitude era were meta-progressive in any way. I'd speculatively doubt that most of the promoters were beyond "one of the good ones" levels of enlightenment, but even if you assume all the promoters knew better, the best case interpretation is that they still tried to monetize homophobia and generally reinforced that the audience was right to be leery of the gays.
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Random thought: If I could watch one person do high-end offense all day, it would be Kanyon.
This is interesting, because watching a lot of dying days WCW recently, I thought "Kanyon: Innovator of offense" aged super terribly. His execution wasn't really that great considering that was one of his actual nicknames for a while and he had very little in the way of good matches. I did mark for the Mortis/Glacier feud as a kid, though, and Positively Kanyon ruled so I don't want it to seem like I'm super down on him, but that aspect of his work just didn't hold up for me.
I guess I have to pitch an alternate answer now, so I'm going with Daniel Bryan. He may not have been the best in any one area (striking, flying, mat wrestling, high impact moves), but he was really good in all of them. I can't think of anyone with more well-rounded offense and his execution and transitions were always so smooth and crisp.
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Hey don't worry, Owens beat Ziggler for no reason too, so it all evens out.
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- Someone must've complained about Big Show being stuff because he is now all but putting a pillow with a mint on top on the mat for you to land on when you get Vader Bombed.
I think that has more to do with him being old and injury-prone.
And Sasha probably wanted to roll through a little more on that bump, but her recent big matches indicate she does like to take high angle bumps on purpose.
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After seeing Big Show and Sting have a match on Raw tonight, I got to wondering what was the longest time between a first/last match for any two wrestlers?
Show and Sting fought at Slamboree 96 which is 19 years and 4 months ago roughly. Perhaps there's a random Nitro that's even earlier.
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So the Rusev/Dolph angle has to end with Dolph and Summer hooking up and Lana and Rusev getting back together as a face team, right?
The women's stuff is coming along nicely. The title match was whatever, but Paige subtly ruining Charlotte's moment by calling attention to swerve was some really nice pre-heel-turn work. Charlotte winning the title and Becky beating Sasha in one try (according to Raw canon at least) are both logical catalysts to send Paige over the edge at this point.
I also liked the Miz TV segment. Bray's chaotic evil side shines the most against other heels. NXT's gonna be in Texas this week, so my fun guess for the partner is Samoa Joe.
I know the dirtsheets said Corbin.
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If Kofi were elevated to a main event singles run, most of the people here would be complaining about his weak-ass looking offense. He's fine in the midcard, but he would be quickly exposed if they tried pushing him farther than that.
Weak offense isn't a big deal if your character is "heel who thinks he's a lot better than he is because all his matches are basically 3 on 1." And I'd be willing to bet reactions to New Day in the main event scene, however briefly, would be way more positive (so to speak) than the current Rollins/Sting angle with fucking Sheamus lurking in the background.
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well that and Kofi needs to be WWE WHC while defending under New Day rules
Kofi not getting MITB in favor of the quintessential lame-duck Sheamus is god damn disgrace. I would say that's the biggest missed opportunity of the year, but then I remembered they gave Brock's first post-streak loss to Taker and didn't have Cena put anyone over with the US challenge, so I can't quite say that in good conscience. I'd say it's a bigger travesty than Bryan's Rumble outing at this point, though.
This week's Raw proved New Day is main event level (imagine typing that out last December).
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I don't know why, but Steve Blackman pretending Terry Taylor was the camera cracked me the fuck up.
Ryback's promo was pretty bad, but I didn't notice it live because I was distracted by Kevin Caribbean Cool.
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The Fast Lane match was alright. Not the best Cena/Monster match by a long shot, but at least it was in the same vein. Cena's matches went way down hill once he started using that damn springboard stunner. Although, I did like the first Owens match even if it seems retroactively worse now that they failed to build on it in any meaningful way.
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Main Event of the next Takeover. Sasha vs Bayley! Winner gets Big E as a best friend. BOOK IT!
She doesn't care about Nikki breaking her record, but this shit right here will bring AJ out of retirement.
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I'm not really sure it's been that great of a year for Cena overall. Yeah, he's had some high-end matches, but the overall quality of his work seems way down. The Rusev program didn't do anything for me, and a lot of his open challenge matches were the same "try too hard" style that Kurt Angle got ripped for in his late-WWE and TNA runs.
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I wanna say it was Over The Limit this year, where the announce team had Diet Moutain Dews, and Lawler took a sip on camera and very ineffectively tried to no-sell the bad taste. It was one of the most hilarious counter-productive product placement spots I've seen.
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Also there's an issue with their match on RAW that Sasha's shoulders were down too. So now Paige vs. Sasha has yet to have a decisive finish.
Sasha beat Paige totally clean about 2 weeks after the revolution started.
But Paige losing a lot is obviously by design. She works better as a heel, and the jealousy angle is the logical catalyst to start breaking up these random-ass teams. Charlotte winning and Paige turning on her during whatever Charlotte's answer to the "Bella-bration" is makes perfect sense.
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Nikki won the title at 8:51:03 CST, if anyone wants to nitpick the Bella-tron angle next week.
What times did AJ win/lose the title?
She won in Chicago on 6/23/13 (7:34:59) and lost in New Orleans on 4/7/14, but the exact time is tough to determine. The ppv times are easy to get within 30 or seconds or so if you assume they all start 8e/7c on the nose, but with AJ losing her title on Raw, you have to factor in commercial time which means you can't just look at the timestamp on the network relative to the assumed start time. It was definitely in the start of the third hour range, though, so roughly 9:00 central give or take 10 minutes. Still, given that AJ won her title early on the card at Payback as opposed to Nikki who won in the second to last match at Survivor Series, she has at least a full hour (realistically 1:20-1:40) for margin of error. If Nikki loses the title at any point on Raw, I'm pretty sure AJ would have her covered by a few minutes at least, barring a drastic overrun with them as the last segment.
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Don't judge me, someone had to figure this out.
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Nikki won the title at 8:51:03 CST, if anyone wants to nitpick the Bella-tron angle next week.
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The cops finally catching up to Mickey and Mallory Knox was pretty rough.
For a face beatdown/handicap jobber squash, just wait for the part where Tony Jaa stops giving a fuck and starts, uh... Breaking shit.
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Night of Champions IX
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Dolph's gonna hook up with Summer while Lana's hurt, Rusev and Lana get back together as a face couple. After that, who knows? Maybe Rusev gets a big push, maybe he trades wins with Dolph until he's irrelevant then wins an IC #1 contender battle royal.