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  1. The HHH-HBK still made me laugh at the time and still makes me laugh. The exaggerated rope-running still makes me chuckle. The one that really angered me (at the time) was when DX promised two new members and I had to go out and when I came home I asked my 10-ish year old brother who they were and he went "Uh, you should probably just watch" and it turned out it was Chyna's new breast implants.
  2. I've always felt that was the catalyst. It was the first one titled Raw is War with Marilyn Manson music and guys walking through some dystopian wasteland looking more like superheroes than wrestling clips set to WWF-created music. The main event was kind of something never seen before in American pro wrestling: with Bret going on a very non-babyface, profanity-laden tirade against Vince McMahon (One of the earlier onscreen revelations that he was the actual owner and not just some goofy announcer, as I had believed for many years) while JR apologizes repeatedly while the ring crew disassembles the cage felt so much like "Did they forget the cameras were rolling? I know wrestling is fake but this feels really REAL" moments. Like you hear often about the early days of the NWO that people were calling 911 talking about these guys attacking WCW wrestlers for real because it was treated so differently and this was one of the first times WWF felt that way. Plus the booking in that main event was incredible: a week before WM, you put on a match that completely could impact your main event, and the dynamics of Steve Austin trying to help his bitter rival a week before WM because doing so would give him a world title match is the kind of real-world logic that you almost never see in WWE. Then Undertaker has to come down and help his WM opponent to presever their Title match. They basically set up a year's worth of feuds a week before WM. About the only lowlight is Shawn's appearance as he didn't seem to know what he was doing, just meandered around and at one point tries to pick up a section of pipe for some reason. They should have had him get in someone (even Vince's) face to sow seeds of whether he'd get involved in one of the main events.
  3. I was hoping for a reviving of the Inferno Match of Kennel From Hell!
  4. This. That was, what, a 20 minute segment?! I couldn't believe how quickly the show blew by when I hit the FF as soon as MJF came out and didn't let up until they had moved on. WWE does this shit all the time where a heel runs down a face who just stands there and takes it, then says something not nearly as vengeful back, and looks completely lousy. I think the better use of time would have been for MJF to start running Cole down only to walk into a superkick and Cole walking out like a "I'm not going to play this little game with you". Would put over Cole as a guy who isn't going to get caught up in MJF's head-games and force MJF take another tact with him (Sneak attacks, payiing off other guys to beat him up...your standard MJF playbook...man am I tired of him...) This feud is probably good for @just drew as I don't think anyone in AEW has gone into a feud with MJF and come out hotter/more over than when they went in. JungleHook-Vance/(I don't know how to spell his name) was really fun though a little part of me was disappointed that Taz didn't get up out of his seat and clobber Jose. Did anyone catch what was said post-match when they were talking about how good-looking JungleHook were and it cut to that, ahem, bouncy woman cheering, something was said and then the announcers just kind of chuckled and moved on?
  5. Early on when Scrypts nailed a couple big punches on Kato and staggered him and Kato had this look of sorta respect for him, I thought "Man, Kato and Scrypts as a tag team would be really fun actually" and after Axiom showed up and helped Scrypts I thought "Scrypts should turn on Axiom and form a team with Kato". Also, I think they should change Kato's name because I keep thinking it's going to be a Flintstone. Hail's victory was a pretty amazing NXT pop. If WWE can overlook her size, she could be a big star because she plays that lovable underdog to character to the absolute hilt.
  6. One of my favourite Arrested Development gags was George Michael deciding to change his name to get away from the similarity to the singer and "that incident" and deciding to change his name to George Maharis, the same actor whom had once been arrested for having sex in a gas station bathroom with Perfecto Telles (Whose name comes up later as someone dating Maeby). The Maharis incident is never referenced on the show and is only funny if you happen to know the story (Which I did not until I saw something online).
  7. I'm not sure I've ssen a colour commentator repeatedly flummox his PBP man just as much as Booker and Vic. There are times when Booker says something that is so strange or so opposite to what is being presented that Joseph will just say "What are you talking about?!" Booker's the best.
  8. Oh man, I love him so much. First match of the night, first exchange of the night and he sounds like it's the most exciting thing he's ever seen. Somehow, some way, he ALWAYS sounds like he is breathlessly enthralled by the action. And it never sounds like he's forcing it.
  9. Let me preface that this is no knock on her as a worker, but I really hate just about everything about how WWE presents Raquel Rodriguez on the main roster. Her theme reminds me of the late 90s when WCW would bring in luchadores and give them you know Football Highlights #45 or whatever, but WWE had some generic latin guitar for an empty room song for every luchadore on TV. Rodriguez is big/scary, her theme should be imposing. Then she comes out, smiling and waving, turns her back and flexes her back muscles while trying to smile at the crowd over her shoulder and it looks SO stupid and forced. Once she gets in the ring, it's fine and good, but everything leading up to it is just terrible.
  10. Maybe Tony is as down on friendship as Vince McMahon. I mean, he clearly doesn't like "Best Friends" maybe he just hates friendship, too!
  11. He was absolutely miserable to my little brother when he did our local indy in the early 2000s, which lead to a lifelong "feud" between the two that existed only in my brother's mind, much like the feud he carried for years with his second cousin after they got into a scuffle when they were 4 or 5 years old. Funnily, years later, the two ended up working together and didn't realize they were related for weeks before my mom went into the store and it all clicked, they were pretty good frieds for a few years too. Unfortunately, my brother never got to work with Greg Valentine so that feud lives on. On another Valentine tangent, you know who he always reminded me of? https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bubble-bobble/images/6/6b/1039781-blubba_large.png/revision/latest?cb=20120720111134 The evil whale from Bubble Bobble! They have the exact same face, dont they? Or is it just me? It's just me, isnt it?
  12. Bruce Hart in his biography claims to have written Bret's column for years until Bret took it away from him as punishment for (I think) siding with Vince after Owen's death. It''s one of an endless number of things Bruce claims he did that people ripped off (Him and Brian Pillman's team was CLEARLY the inspiration for the Stone Cold character; the Hart Foundation's jackets were his idea (Bret claimed a photo of a monkey in epaulettes was the inspiration...no seriously), and IIRC Bruce even believed that he was the first perrson to give wrestlers theme songs to come to the ring to).
  13. I also liked Heyman keeping Roman appraised of the situation because, seemingly, Roman couldn't be bothered to watch a 3 hour Raw either: "You know my tribal chief, if you just turn on the TV, you could watch all this yourself. No, I made sure that you had USA, it shouldn't be hard to find. Well, it's just then I could go back to the lockerroom and stop standing on the ramp giving you play-by-play. Well, no, yeah, there are a lot of commercials, I understand."
  14. The Owens/Zayn team has reached a certain formula that works exceedingly well in-ring and out that makes you want to keep going like this forever but also feel kinda bad because both could/should be working World Title matches on the reg. too! I enjoy the Sami mouths off, challengers come out, Owens wants to fight, Sami tries to talk him down format. Indus Sher looked amazing here. The fact that Graves name-dropped them as potential tag title contenders, along with Oblivion, Imperium and teams from SD, should tell Viking Raiders all they need to know about their WWE immediate futures. Methinks, Excalibur might be shouting "War Machine!" before too long. I DEAN'ed this episode (fast-forwarding most of the promos and angles, rewinds; brings the show down to a brisk 40 minutes or so (Obviously exaggerating but it really does speed it up), so have no opinion on the lengthy Becky, Cody promos or the Seth Rollins interviews. Battle Royal was okay, even if there were like 4 guy-eliminates-guy-stares-at-him-til-someone-else-eliminates-him-while-he's-distracted spots in a row there. Was disappointed to see JD McDonagh go out so early, but his post-match attack and promo gives me hope they'll do something with him. The Domenick Mysterio stuff is really funny and really good, but gets harder and harder to watch with Corey Graves shouting "MAMI!" all the time. Genereally speakin, everything is a little harder to watch with Corey Graves. I wish he would go to Edge's doctor and go back to wrestling because I think there's a number of guys they could plug in to his spot on Raw that would make the commentary instantly better. I really do like Kevin Patrick, though. I think he should be the heir apparent to Micheal Cole.
  15. I'd forgotten that it was gone in the States! If it makes you feel any better, it is, on average, $4-10 higher than a place like WalMart.
  16. I didn't read the whole thread, but the highlight of the night was Tony Schiavone saying something along the lines of "No spooky witches at ringside is a good idea...it would be a good idea all the time, no spooky witches...except then I never would have met my wife" then there's a beat and Tazz and Tony laugh, and Excalibur goes quiet as if he's had to mute his mic. I also laughed at Sting talking about Darby Alllin being a self-made man who had no ins to this business like the Stinger when he was young and I thought "Yeah, it must have been really hard for the bleached-blonde, 6'2" guy with the bodybuilder physique to get noticed by pro wrestling feds when there was a much shallower talent pool for people to draw from!" That said, Darby's vignette really made me want to watch him win the title. Sammy's vignette was like it was written for a different person then they just spliced Sammy's name in: "Follow your dreams, kids! I'm living proof." says the guy who sticks out his tongue, cheats to win and makes out with his girlfriend to anger the crowd. Julia Hart looked like a car-crash victim after that match, basically like she was holding her own hip in place. Anna JAS looked...I'll just settle myself down here and stop. The match was pretty fun with two wrestlers of so little experience. Cage match was a little more death match-y than I am really into. The image of Moxley holding that turnbuckle dealy at crotch-level and trying to push it into Kenny's mouth was a different type of hardcore that I'm also not really into.
  17. I was in a Toys R Us recently and they had a Dusty Rhodes figure for $37 (Canadian)! Is that a typical price and who can afford that!?
  18. I did watch some Smackdown and NXT on the weekend, that along with last week's Dynamite fully qualifies me to vote, so JD McDonagh-Dragon Lee for me because it was pretty damn fun, downer ending aside.
  19. Really says something for how well-stocked the women wrestlers are in WWE that they can pluck 6 good-to-great women off the NXT roster (Starks, Indy, Isla, Fyre, Katana, Carter) and still run 3 perfectly solid women's matches on the show (Wait...was the Dani Palmer match on this week's show or last? I just watched last weeks show on Sunday so they're running a little together for me!). What is going on with the Von Wagner story?! I honestly can't understand what the child photo is supposed to show?! I'll concede I wasn't really watching either this week or last week's vignette but is the storyline that he had a huge head as a child!? I hate to be harsh, but Wagner might be the WORST actor WWE has hired in some time. I think he'd work better either under a hood as some sort of monster, or basically not talking at all, letting Stone talk for him. NXT's tag situation is really weird right now. Heel champs (Gallus) defating a heel team (Dyad), then being challenged by a pseudo-face team (Tony D & Stacks) whom the crowd really isn't sure how to react to yet. With the Creeds sort of part of the story but not directly. Fun show overall, lots of stiffness across the board. Well except for Duke Hudson who has basically turned into the Chase U Hulk Hogan (And it's totally working for him) with big goofy strikes and poses. And I have to give a shout-out to Ivy Nile and Thea Hail who were absolutely amazing in their tiny roles: Nile getting on the Creeds for fooling around and a short, intense attack on Raine; and Thea Hail who did not stop gesturing, reacting, stomping or otherwise movie for the entirety of Duke's promo or match. I'd really like to see both of them get a shot at doing something more in NXT, both could really play a Spike Dudley-esque underdog role that WWE rarely likes to do but always pops the crowd. I guess that spot is kinda occupied by Roxanne right now.
  20. Whereas I actually really liked the promo because I didn't come off as scripted to me. Brock's never been the best talker, but the rambling, the talking into the mic that wasn't on, the repetition made it feel like someone losing his mind in the moment and becoming unhinged. If I still had friends who watched wrestling, ('d be texting and saying "Look at this face!" all day long. I laughed really hard at Natalya's walk-in, then laughed when Graves addressed it. I enjoyed Imperium-Sami/KO quite a bit. Was chuckling to myself at the WWE-edness of Imperium's time in WWE. Bring them to NXT together, push them as Imperium. Rename Walter, promote him with Kasier, renaming Vinci and splitting him off with his own NXT push, then putting him right back with Imperium with no explanation of why. Looking at the field for the NXT Women's tourney, there's a pretty easy path to the semis of Stratton-Perez and Jade-Lyra (seeing as they've been feuding this way too) but I can't help but feel none of them should be champ: Roxy just had it and her chase should be longer, Stratton, Lyra and Cora are close but don't feel quite ready for that level. I wish WWE had brought Meiko back to be champ and have the rest of the women beating each other up in order to be #1 contended for whenever she is able to stop in and wrestle.
  21. They could book QT Marshall in the main and AEW fans would go "Well, let's just see where this goes...looking forward to it!" That's what I've come to appreciate about them: "Keep Jeff Jarrett away from AEW...I love Jeff Jarrett now!"
  22. DEAN is the best. Even as an old man now, if I post something - even it's a stupid joke or off-handed comment - and DEAN like it then I feel like I've done something right. Sometimes I'll watch something and be super-negative/nit-picky over it, come on here to post something and before I do, read DEAN's post about the same show that is almost, always positive and I go "Well if Dean liked it so much...I'm probably in the wrong." What I've really come to appreciate about his show reviews is that if there's something bad he'll write "A little rough" or "Good match before the bad ending" and move on, he doesn't stay and harp and hammer on about the negative, which is a lesson I definitely need to learn. All the best wishes to him and his family. I'm hoping he'll be back posting in ALL CAPS before I know it.
  23. Weird to have Grayson Waller featured so heavily on NXT for the past half a year/year now then selected off-air as a supplemental pick.
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