[WCW] The Netcop Thunder Rant for Aug. 19 / 99
Scott Keith
Rumors persist that WCW will be dumping the usual format for this show
and switching to an "all recap, all the time" format to basically rehash
Nitro, with some "bonus" matches thrown in, much like Worldwide. If
that happens, I will no longer waste my time recapping the show and will
instead concentrate on doing Retro Rants for this site.
On another front, the Netcop Smackdown hunt may or may not be dead. My
cable company is only offering WSBK (the UPN affiliate we get here in
Edmonton) on a "premium" package with Superchannel, the Canadian
equalivent of HBO. Which means that even if I get digital cable, I still
have to shell out $50 a month to see Smackdown, and it ain't worth THAT
much to me. And since the local Canadian stations are all being jerks
and not carrying the show, I'm screwed. I have friends offering to tape
the show for me, and if one of them can get me a copy quick enough on
Thursday night, I'll do a recap for WrestleLine or my own illustrious
site (just like CRZ's, except with more hits and less ugly) and if CRZ
submits one too...well, let the best recapper win.
Interesting tidbit: After I reported Bash at the Beach's buyrate as
0.35 last week, that little tidbit mysteriously turned up on at least
two major newsboards, with no credit being given to me. The submitter
of the info was listed as "RRR Magee". The official buyrate has since
been finalized as 0.39, which makes the guy look even dumber. HAH!
Never trust a biased Thunder reporter, although once again this proves
my theory that I am, in fact, the most influential Thunder reporter in
our sport today. And for those who care, the real credit goes to Dave
Scherer, as usual.
Onto other topics: Road Wild was this past week, and AMAZINGLY, Benoit
retained the US title. This is being written before Nitro, so hopefully
he walks out of there with the title. But for now I'm happy. Still, I
think we may have hit upon the solution: WCW likes to swerve the smart
fans, and for days before the show everyone on the 'net predicted Benoit
would lose. So all we have to do is bitch non-stop about how Benoit
will lose BEFORE EVERY TITLE DEFENSE, and he's guaranteed to hold it
forever. We CAN'T LOSE this way.
Anyway, here's my abbreviated rant for Road Wild:
- Sturgis has gotta go. The atmosphere for this show was brutal, as the
crowd was not into it at all after a certain point. And the wrestlers
looked like they didn't wanna be there either. A lose-lose situation.
- Opener was okay. On the upside, it was given lots of time, on the
downside...they didn't do much with it. Eddy plays face-in-peril in a
thorougly pedestrian six-man. ICP look better than some I've seen but
worse than most, but given the alternatives I shouldn't bitch. I had it
at **1/4.
- Heat v. Triad was...there. Stevie Ray plays face in peril, which
absolutely kills it. Had Booker T taken the beating, it would have been
great, as it was, it was inoffensive and served it's purpose. **
- Buff v. Cat. I give up on Buff. Now he's fucking up rollups. Go to
the WWF with all the other sports entertainers, Buff, because honestly
you'd be better off there not having your glaring weaknesses exposed by
matches that go longer than two minutes. -**
- Benoit v. DDP. Match of the night, but I STILL like the Nitro version
better. This one was way disjointed, without the good ending of the
Nitro match. Still, Benoit goes over despite interference, ON HIS OWN,
so I'm happy. **3/4 Would've been higher had the clean finish bug
bitten DDP as well.
- Rednecks v. Revolution. Shane Douglas is the fattest man alive.
Okay, maybe not, but boy he's sure letting himself go in a hurry. I
don't why they bothered putting this on PPV, but at least Chad Brock
wasn't involved. *1/2
- Sting v. Sid. I can see the logic of Sid going over clean, and
thankfully Sting is a good company man. I can't say that for Goldberg,
however, so we shall see how THAT program goes. The match was
absolutely nothing, and Sid's "take a superplex and two Stinger splashes
then suddenly no-sell and win" bit was more than a bit annoying. *1/2,
which is up from Sid's usual DUD.
- Rick Steiner v. Goldberg. Steiner gets some cheap offense, Goldberg
crushes him. As it should be. * This should hopefully signal the end
of the Great Rick Steiner Experiment.
- Dennis Rodman v. Randy Savage. SO WHO IS THE FUCKING HUMMER DRIVER
ALREADY? If you're gonna unkill a dead angle, then drag it out to
Nitro, then again to Thunder, then AGAIN to the PPV, at least justify
the $30 and END IT ALREADY. This is a standard WWF main event brawl,
which keeps Savage from being too exposed. I was hoping for a three-rib
night for Savage on the big elbow, but alas he chooses the old
chain-to-the-head finisher instead and ends the wrestling legacy of
Dennis Rodman. Hopefully for good. * for the port-a-potty.
- Hulk Hogan v. Kevin Nash. The crowd seemed less than enthralled with
either guy. And we go back to 1986 as Hogan trots out the same match he
did every night from 85-89, with Nash playing
Bundy/Kamala/Muraco/Andre/One Man Gang/Bossman/Whatever HeeL You Can
name. If it means clean finishes in the main event from now on, I'm
cool with it, but Hogan looked WAY too much like the Crazy Old Man from
the Simpsons when he was hulking up. A bit of me actually felt a little
twinge of sadness and sympathy for Hulk at that moment, watching the
poor old guy try the one trick he knows to draw face heat even though
time has clearly caught up and passed him. I felt that same way the
first time I saw Nick Bockwinkle wrestle Curt Hennig, and saw the look
on Nick's face when he realized that Hennig was getting a better
reaction than him. The saddest person of all is the one who just
doesn't know when to let go, and the hardest thing to do is watch them
cling desperately to the past as they fall from grace. We are watching
Hogan do that now, and he's going to be on the road to Gagne-dom if he
doesn't step away from the business soon, I fear. Match was 1/2*, if
that, and I give it about three weeks max before Nash returns as an
Outsider and then they challenge Sting, Luger and Savage to a six-man at
Fall Brawl, then reveal their mystery partner to be Hulk Hogan. Hey, it
worked three years ago, right?
Overall, I appreciate the booking and the clean finishes. It won't
last, because this is WCW and it never does, but it made the crappy
parts easier to bear. I had nothing over **3/4, however, so I can't
call this show "good" by any stretch of the imagination.
Thumbs squarely in the middle.
Not exactly a classic when you look at that way, is it? Yet remarkably,
it's getting positive reviews from the 'net for the clean finishes.
Some people are SO easily satisfied. I'm willing to say it was "okay",
and nothing more, nothing less. If I'm Shane, I'm retiring TOMORROW
after that sad performance, however.
LETTERS...TO ME!
Small selection this week, mainly because most of the mail was dealing
with the Summerslam countdown. As a reminder, Summerslam 97 should be
up RIGHT NOW if everything ends up timed right.
LETTER NUMBER ONE!
At the beginning of last week's column, I made sure to let both Savage
and Nash know that they're not draws. And right on cue, someone
responded with this...
>Kevin Nash does not read your column. For that matter, neither does
>Randy Savage.
And it's too bad they didn't, because that would give me the two readers
I'd need to officially give me more readers than WCW has PPV buys.
LETTER NUMBER TWO!
>Yo we gonna speak on dis !!! K-dog 4 tha 9 double!!! You G's
>critisize when real G's recognize!!!! Dope shiznit goes down on this
>ppv ya know what i'm sayin!!! DOA rules tha ring I mean dope shit is
>la raza and oil of olay all day every day is straight up da bomb!!!!
>Dat O.G. Owen la quessadillia Hart is da straight off da hook neck
>breakin G. He is bouty bouty and rowdy rowdy!!! His bro da O.G.
>Hitman screams Hooty Hoo cuz he knows what time it is!!! Da bottom
>lizzine on this shiznit is K-Dog = buyrates and hooty hoo 4eva. Those
>NWO strawberries be creamin they drawers cuz they 4 life but tha K Dawg
>is a homie and he down with all dat loco shiznit!!!!
>Peace 2 da OG's wrld'wyde!!! HA HA K'Dog suck a d*ck!!!!!!!! (same to
>wcw)!!!\
>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I fear for the youth of the world.
Slow week, so sue me.
On with the show...
Live from Lubbock, Texas. The only place in America where you're likely
to hear the phrase "HEY! Get away from my sist...I mean, my wife!"
Your hosts are Mike and Larry. Someone requested that I cut down Larry
for his misogynistic remarks and generally bitter attitude towards the
youngsters of WCW. Uh, okay, he's a misogynistic, bitter old man.
How's that?
I'm watching this week's funfest live instead of on tape, so no match
times this week. As a rough guide, they all feel like infinity divided
by 3, however.
Opening match: Silver King v. Psychosis. Okay, everyone who DOESN'T
know what the "finish" here is, raise your hand. Psychosis breaks out
the half-gold-half-black trim for his suit tonight. Silver King plays
the heel, sticking his tongue out and yelling a lot. Silver King hits a
nice DDT to start, but gets sent to the floor and nailed with a tope con
hilo by Psychosis. On a related note to my "Y v. I" tangent last week,
you'll notice that for most in the company, "I" is changed to "Y" within
a name (Fyre, Berlyn, Asya) and I was wondering about that. But I
couldn't help but notice that for Latino talent, the "Y" is changed to
"I"! Eddy becomes Eddie, Psychosis becomes Psicosis, Mysterio becomes
Misterio. What kind of a bizarre conspiracy is this? I'll make it my
life's work, faithful reader, to find out! So anyway, more stuff
happens here, much of it very good, but in protest of the ending I won't
bother relating it to you, because if WCW doesn't care, then neither
will I. And yes, Sid comes down, breaks up the match, and it's yak yak
yak and don't look back. ***
Al Greene v. Shane Douglas. Nothing like a good Al Greene match to
spice up the evening. Exciting wristlock to start, then Douglas
proceeds to squash Greene. It's not very exciting, as if you couldn't
tell. Douglas finishes it with the Pittsburgh Plunge. Shouldn't it be
called, say, The Enema, in honor of Bret Hart's famous speech? Crowd
could care less about this one. 1/2*
Interview with Rick Steiner. I've seen horror movies that inspire less
fear in me than that one line. Anyway, Rick says bad things about the
Revolution's mothers. No, really.
Months ago, Glacier disappeared from WCW TV, with rumors of him being
repackaged as a disgruntled high school coach. Now, roughly, what, six
months later, he returns after non-stop creative brainstorming as...a
disgruntled high school coach. So why the big layoff? Is this such a
high-maintenance creative concept that they couldn't just throw him out
there with this gimmick, but rather they had to fine-tune it and let the
memory of the crowd's beloved Glacier simmer in their minds?
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Anyway, his new name is Coach Buzz Stern, but you just KNOW I'll find a
way to work Glacier references in there if it kills me.
Adrian Byrd, Dave Burkhead and Bobby Blaze v. Steve Regal, Dave Taylor
and Chris Adams. It should be noted that I called for Adams to replace
Finlay in Team Europe a couple of weeks ago. I am the most influential
Thunder reporter on the 'net, you know. This lasts TEN FRIGGIN'
MINUTES, and can be summed up in three words: Squash...Sid...Next. For
a guy who's not even wrestling tonight, Sid is getting a lot of action.
Sadly, the same cannot be said for the show at large. 1/2*
The Revolution cuts a promo to respond to Sid & Steiner.
Cruiserweight title (does that still exist?): Rey Misterio Jr. v. Lenny
Lane. Rey, whose primary move is rubbing his crotch in other guys'
faces, mocks Lenny for being too gay. What is the world coming to?
Lodi gets sent back to the dressing room. Rey hits a couple of
highspots quickly, but Lenny turns the tide with a dropkick. Pretty
dull offensive sequence from Lenny, who is okay but not really cut out
for a serious match. Witness his goofy selling, for instance. Really,
really contrived spot as Lenny goes to the top rope facing away from
Rey, then decides to jump down, right onto Rey's knee. Yeah. The
airplane spin solidifies Lenny's role as a comedy wrestler. Then, in
the wittiest thing I've seen all week, Lodi sneaks back to ringside with
a sign that says "Shhhhh!" He gets involved as Lenny and Rey pull out a
really nice series of finishing stuff with a series of two counts. Lodi
gets involved again, Rey gets rammed into him, and LENNY GETS THE PIN?!?
Ladies and germs, we have a new champion. Wow. You know, when people
were suggesting that they move the title to someone else, I don't think
Lenny was QUITE what they had in mind. But hey, Lenny puts forth an
effort and he's over, so why not. Screw the suits. I could have done
with a better finishing sequence, but I'll take what I can get. **1/2
World tag title: Harlem Heat v. Scott Norton & Horace Hogan. Hey,
here's a weird phenomenon: Hulk Hogan gets a renewed push, and suddenly
Horace is back on my TV again. Hmmm. Question of the week: Can Booker
T carry three guys? Answer of the week: Not bloody likely. Really,
really staggeringly boring match which causes me to break out a Netcop
staple, never before seen on WrestleLine...THE TOP TEN THINGS I'D RATHER
BE DOING THAN WATCHING THIS MATCH!
10. Challenging Viscera to a pie-eating contest.
9. Discussing Shakespeare with Sid.
8. Watching RAW with Bob Ryder.
7. Compiling a "Best of Giant Gonzalez" tape.
6. Two words: NITRO RECAPS!
5. Taking a steam bath with Lenny and Lodi.
4. Erik Watts v. David Flair, best of 47 falls.
3. Negotiating rights for Hogan v. Warrior III.
2. Listening to Hogan's stories of his glory days in the 80s...oh wait,
that's Nitro.
And the #1 thing I'd rather be doing than watching this match....
1. Working on the King Lear Rant, which details the fall of the WWF
from 1994-96, and will be available on WrestleLine NEXT WEEK! Don't
miss it or you'll miss HISTORY, baby!
PT Barnum has nothing on me.
Stevie Ray plays brother-in-peril for a while until Booker nails a
dropkick off the top on Horace and gets the pin. Ugh, thank you, drive
through. *
Berlyn promo. Did you know he's "new talent" now. PR is amazing.
First Family interview. Oh man, finally the show hits an upswing,
because hearing Brian Knobs try to speak English always brightens up my
night. And Brian, my savior, doesn't disappoint, giving us the newest
gem in his crown: "HARLEM HEAT," (I'm writing caps because Brian always
SCREAMS his lines), "NEXT WEEK, IT'LL BE ON LIKE A BIG STEAMING NECKBONE
STEW...OR...UH...LIKE A CHICKENWING ON A STRING." I can't even make
jokes that match up to the awesome metaphorical power of quotes like
that one. The gist is that it's Harlem Heat v. Morrus & Knobbs next
week.
World TV title match: Rick Steiner v. Saturn. Okay, so they've spent
the whole show talking about how Steiner and Saturn are both these great
mat-based shooters, so you'd expect to see some wrestling, right? Minus
five brownie points if you said "Yes", because obviously you're not
paying enough attention. Steiner gets a quick start (punch, punch,
punch), Saturn comes back with a cross-body block, but that goes nowhere
as Steiner continues with his (to quote Tenay) "Brutal offensive attack"
and we take a commercial break of doom. We return with more of that
amateur-wrestling based punching and kicking from Steiner. Please take
the TV title off this guy. Saturn comes back one more time, Sid lumbers
out AGAIN, DQ. Hey, a lame ending to a boring show, good finish.
Benoit comes out to make the save...end of show.
No wait, that's just my beautiful dream world.
What ACTUALLY happens after Benoit makes the save is that someone in
production realizes that Sid ran in 5 minutes too early, so we have to
STREEEEEEEEEEEEETCH it out a bit. So Benoit issues a challenge for
Benoit & Saturn v. Sid & Steiner next week on Thunder. Good enough.
Then Sid talks. Then talks some more. Then Saturn talks. Then Benoit
talks. Then Sid talks. Then Steiner talks. I may have the order mixed
up a bit here, but I was drifting off after the first few minutes of
talking about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Finally, we hit 5 minutes past the
hour and put them out of their misery. Match was *, maybe.
The Bottom Line: Smackdown debuts next week. Funeral donations for
Thunder can be sent to me, and I'll happily pass them on to WCW.
Honest. Donations of less than $50 will be cheerfully laughed at.
Still spent, but laughed at.
I don't MEAN to sound negative about this week, because the storyline
was coherant and it's nice to see the Revolution (so you say you want to
start one? Well, you know...) get a push on a show where they can be
the center of attention, but the Sid nonsense and the boring matches
really killed my interest in this week's effort.
It's a start, though. Maybe next week the dung beetle that is WCW can
figure out how to get around that stick.
Scott "Netcop" Keith / ske...@home.com / ICQ # 28819658
www.WrestleLine.com contributor and Co-Mod of RSPWM
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Joshua Holmes
: Opening match: Silver King v. Psychosis. Okay, everyone who DOESN'T
: know what the "finish" here is, raise your hand. Psychosis breaks out
: the half-gold-half-black trim for his suit tonight. Silver King plays
: the heel, sticking his tongue out and yelling a lot. Silver King hits a
: nice DDT to start, but gets sent to the floor and nailed with a tope con
: hilo by Psychosis. On a related note to my "Y v. I" tangent last week,
: you'll notice that for most in the company, "I" is changed to "Y" within
: a name (Fyre, Berlyn, Asya) and I was wondering about that. But I
: couldn't help but notice that for Latino talent, the "Y" is changed to
: "I"! Eddy becomes Eddie, Psychosis becomes Psicosis, Mysterio becomes
: Misterio.
In Mexico, it was Eddy Guerrero, Psicosis, and Rey Misterio Jr.
WCW tried to get Eddie Guerrero, Psychosis, and Rey Mysterio Jr. over with
the general populace, but those of us who had seen lucha beforehand use
the original spellings more often than not.
: What kind of a bizarre conspiracy is this? I'll make it my
: life's work, faithful reader, to find out!
Wow, short life's work. Thanks for vindicating my decision to
just skip Thunder this week. :)
--
Joshua Holmes
jdho...@force.stwing.upenn.edu
Who has no "i"'s in his first or last name.
mdb
>Rumors persist that WCW will be dumping the usual format for this show
>and switching to an "all recap, all the time" format to basically rehash
>Nitro, with some "bonus" matches thrown in, much like Worldwide. If
>that happens, I will no longer waste my time recapping the show and will
>instead concentrate on doing Retro Rants for this site.
You should let me do Thunder! in any event.
>couldn't help but notice that for Latino talent, the "Y" is changed to
>"I"! Eddy becomes Eddie, Psychosis becomes Psicosis, Mysterio becomes
>Misterio. What kind of a bizarre conspiracy is this? I'll make it my
>life's work, faithful reader, to find out!
I thought it was just a question of copyrighting and the like.
>Al Greene v. Shane Douglas.
>Crowd
>could care less about this one. 1/2*
A prime example of why you should just stop doing Thunder! recaps.
Perhaps you didn't care about the match, perhaps I didn't care about
the match (I did like the gutbuster and fishermanbuster) but the crowd
was cheering quite loudly. If I didn't know better I'd have thought
Lubbock was Shane's hometown or something.
>Months ago, Glacier disappeared from WCW TV, with rumors of him being
>repackaged as a disgruntled high school coach. Now, roughly, what, six
>months later, he returns after non-stop creative brainstorming as...a
>disgruntled high school coach. So why the big layoff? Is this such a
>high-maintenance creative concept that they couldn't just throw him out
>there with this gimmick, but rather they had to fine-tune it and let the
>memory of the crowd's beloved Glacier simmer in their minds?
I thought it had something to do with whatever injury it was that
Glacier had, but I guess that couldn't be it, could it?
Maybe you're just sore they didn't have a bunch of Nitro recaps for
you to bust on?
>Berlyn promo. Did you know he's "new talent" now.
Did you know Kane was scarred by a fire that killed his parents and
was set by the his half-brother the Undertaker? Kane is the bastard
son of Paul Bearer and UT's mom. At one point in the revenge on Ut
plan, Kane and Paul dug up the corpses of the mother and her husband.
Then things got confusing as they were friends and enemies and then UT
was just a character, maybe. Anyway, thanks to the love of X-Pac,
Kane's vocal chords are now healing to the point where he can say
"Suck it."
>talks. Then Sid talks. Then Steiner talks. I may have the order mixed
>up a bit here, but I was drifting off after the first few minutes of
>talking about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Actually they were talking about having a match "next week."
mdb
First, we start off with some lone guitar, "WAAA!" and then I go "Yeah!" and then the girls go "Oooohh"
and then I go "Hot mamas!" and then they go "Here's a whole bunch of money" and I take the money
Then I go out and then I try to buy Apple Jacks, but you know then the Secret Service is coming,
and they start hitting me and I say "Stop hitting me!" "Who's hitting you?" "Stop it!"
Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.
Scott Keith
>>couldn't help but notice that for Latino talent, the "Y" is changed to
>>"I"! Eddy becomes Eddie, Psychosis becomes Psicosis, Mysterio becomes
>>Misterio. What kind of a bizarre conspiracy is this? I'll make it my
>>life's work, faithful reader, to find out!
>
>I thought it was just a question of copyrighting and the like.
>
WCW doesn't generally do that.
>>Al Greene v. Shane Douglas.
>>Crowd
>>could care less about this one. 1/2*
>
>A prime example of why you should just stop doing Thunder! recaps.
>Perhaps you didn't care about the match, perhaps I didn't care about
>the match (I did like the gutbuster and fishermanbuster) but the crowd
>was cheering quite loudly. If I didn't know better I'd have thought
>Lubbock was Shane's hometown or something.
>
The crowd was hot, but of the matches, this was the least hot. I didn't
get any impression of heat for Douglas here.
>>Months ago, Glacier disappeared from WCW TV, with rumors of him being
>>repackaged as a disgruntled high school coach. Now, roughly, what, six
>>months later, he returns after non-stop creative brainstorming as...a
>>disgruntled high school coach. So why the big layoff? Is this such a
>>high-maintenance creative concept that they couldn't just throw him out
>>there with this gimmick, but rather they had to fine-tune it and let the
>>memory of the crowd's beloved Glacier simmer in their minds?
>
>I thought it had something to do with whatever injury it was that
>Glacier had, but I guess that couldn't be it, could it?
>
Ray Lloyd was on WCW Live a few weeks ago and he basically said "I'm here,
I ready to go, yee haw". No mention of an injury that would keep him out
of action for months on end.
>Maybe you're just sore they didn't have a bunch of Nitro recaps for
>you to bust on?
>
There's always next week.
>>Berlyn promo. Did you know he's "new talent" now.
>
>Did you know Kane was scarred by a fire that killed his parents and
Nice knee-jerk reaction, but on WCW Live they've stated many, many times
that Berlyn is "Alex Wright's new gimmick".
>>talks. Then Sid talks. Then Steiner talks. I may have the order mixed
>>up a bit here, but I was drifting off after the first few minutes of
>>talking about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
>
>Actually they were talking about having a match "next week."
>
For the first minute, yes. After that it was just wasting time.
Murphy
wrote this little gem:
>was just a character, maybe. Anyway, thanks to the love of X-Pac,
>Kane's vocal chords are now healing to the point where he can say
>"Suck it."
And to make matters worst for you mdb, Kane gets louder pops than most
people in WCW.
Justin Crast
It's great knowing someone who has worked so little gets such good "pops",
isn't it? He's over on gimmick alone, he's never improved his work until
recently, and even now it is nothing to write home about. Glen Jacobs owes
his success to Vince McMahon, and is a living example of a promoter taking
it upon himself to get over an unskilled pro-wrestler rather than try and
take advantage of the skills of a good pro-wrestler.
Justin (btw, Godfather and Undertaker are pretty good examples as well)
mdb
>On 21 Aug 1999 04:10:05 PDT, nospamdv...@mindspring.com (mdb)
>wrote this little gem:
>
>>was just a character, maybe. Anyway, thanks to the love of X-Pac,
>>Kane's vocal chords are now healing to the point where he can say
>>"Suck it."
>
>And to make matters worst for you mdb, Kane gets louder pops than most
>people in WCW.
Doesn't really mean a thing to me. N'Sync sells millions of records,
but I know better.
I've given up on pro wrestling for the next few years. I'll take what
moments of joy I can find, but wrestling has dropped from the 132nd
most imprtant thingin my life to about 246th. Seeing Jeff Hardy run
the safety wall into a crossbody on Rock was the one and only good
moment out of the entire five hours last night, barring the laughs
from how bad it's all gotten. 'Will you marry me?' Sid's march to
174. (Please WCW, book some battle royals the next few shows and just
get this over with! And is there any reason not to wait for the match
to end for Sid to walk in?) The Jim Ross armbreak sound effect.
Barry Windham's drumming in particular as I am a drummer, though I had
a good laugh at the performance asa whole. KISS main eventing Nitro.
They're old enough! Next week, the Rolling Stones!
It's all gone to hell and it'll be a long time before it gets any
better.
Christopher Tew
>I've given up on pro wrestling for the next few years. I'll take what
>moments of joy I can find, but wrestling has dropped from the 132nd
>most imprtant thingin my life to about 246th. Seeing Jeff Hardy run
>the safety wall into a crossbody on Rock was the one and only good
>moment out of the entire five hours last night, barring the laughs
>from how bad it's all gotten.
Heyyyyy, Jericho's beatdown on Dogg was a good moment too. He
should've done a third powerbomb and then spit on Dogg, but that's
more of a Benoit thing anyhoo.
I bet that the fact that Jeff Hardy actually made Rock take a bump
will result in a depush for Jeff. :P
> The Jim Ross armbreak sound effect.
I want to forget that.
>It's all gone to hell and it'll be a long time before it gets any
>better.
If Flair is given the book to WCW or the WWF in the next few years,
yeah. But don't discount ECW suddenly pulling some good stuff out of
its ass...
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