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#341 ·
Opinions of No Way Out '08 ?

For me there was nothing bad but it all felt very average. Some matches seemed to end just as they were getting good (likely due to the stacked card) and whilst the Elimnation Chambers had good spots it was kinda dull at times (especially the SD chamber with Khali and Big Daddy V's involvement). Not bad by any means and a decent but not great way to spend 3 hours. Worth buying if cheap (I got for £5 so decent price).
 
#342 ·
Opinions of No Way Out '08 ?

For me there was nothing bad but it all felt very average. Some matches seemed to end just as they were getting good (likely due to the stacked card) and whilst the Elimnation Chambers had good spots it was kinda dull at times (especially the SD chamber with Khali and Big Daddy V's involvement). Not bad by any means and a decent but not great way to spend 3 hours. Worth buying if cheap (I got for £5 so decent price).
I loved the Raw Elimination Chamber match. The rest was all solid. Like you said, it's not a bad show, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it.
 
#347 ·
Their Breaking Point match is my favorite match between them. Yea, the finish kinda bothers me, but the rest was just so awesome. Orton's performance in this match is unforgettable. I think I might need to give their NWO match another watch as it's been about 4 years since I last watched it.
 
#348 ·
Orton's performance in the NWO is incredible too. Loved the storytelling in the match, which is why I like it so much. All stemming from Orton saying he was going to PIN Cena... then throughout the match he realises he CAN'T pin Cena, so his strategy for winning keeps evolving until the awesome finish.
 
#350 ·
Got into one of my late 1999/2000 WCW moods again. Don't ask me why, but I often myself feeling the need to watch late '99/2000 WCW. I think what really draws me in is the star power, which I'm a sucker for, but I always forget that most of these matches are just plain horrible.

Started with Road Wild 1999. Obviously, not a great show.. The only real highlights are:

-Solid six-man opener, featuring The Filthy Animals against Vampiro and ICP. ICP did well for non wrestlers. Guerrero, Mysterio, and Vampiro is always a good combination.

-Harlem Heat against Kanyon & Bam Bam Bigelow. Good tag action, as you would expect.

-The Revolution vs. The West Texas ********. Again. As you would expect, a lot of talent here, so the result is decent.

-Chris Benoit vs. DDP also a solid match.

And of course, the main events, with all the big names, are awful.

-Sting/Sid is just...meh.

-Goldberg/Steiner was solid for the time it got, but it ended out of nowhere.

-Savage/Rodman is actually not bad. With a good buildup, better booking, and not AFTER Rodman's notoriety, this could have been a really huge match. The result is still solid.

-Hogan/Nash is awful. I'm a blind Hogan mark, I admit that. I'll watch just about anything with Hogan. But this is right up there with Hogan/Sid at WM8 for worst Hogan big man matches. NOTHING happens. Staredowns, rest holds, test of strenghts, heel beats down on Hogan, miraculous comeback, legdrop, 1,2,3. It boggles my mind that while the WWF was blowing up with Austin, The Rock, Triple H, Mankind, Undertaker, and DX, that Hogan thought this crap still worked.

Now onto Fall Brawl '99...
 
#351 ·
I mark for 98-end WCW too, mainly because I LOVED WCW as a kid when I first started watching wrestling back in 98 when I was 9 yrs old. My dad used to work really late, and would get home around 4 or 5am, and he would watch the re-run of Nitro that came on Tuesday morning with me and my brother before we would go to school. Just good memories that take me back. That is why I will buy anything WCW related that gets put out, Best of Nitro, Rise and Fall, ANYTHING idc.

With that said, I notice some of you on here have made top 100 lists of WCW matches, I don't get into any of that stuff in depth like that with ranking as I think it's impossible to have be all end all list as ratings with some matches will fluctuate on repeat watch.

Anyway, without me having to look through all the lists, did any of you guys rank the Benoit/DDP match from SuperBrawl 8? One of my favorite WCW matches with ease, but I am a DDP mark. Still a ****+ match imo, great back and forth, both guys looked great, and it had great pacing with the right amount of time. If anyone hasn't seen this, I highly recommend you do.

I wish DDP didn't get stuck Kanyon and Bigelow, and involved with the whole Arquette BS. He was really over in 97-98 and had some solid matchups. I would've loved to seen him in longer feuds with other talent than some of the guys he did. He still had some great matches, the Havoc match with Goldberg I have at ****, the SuperBrawl 8 match with Benoit mentioned above at ****, had a good feud with Savage in 97, had a great 3 way dance with Benoit/Raven at Uncensored that I'd give *** 1/2 - ****, followed with a good cage match against Raven at another PPV (can't recall atm), but it's ***+, and a Heavyweight Championship against Sting on Nitro in 99 I believe it was that I'd go *** 3/4 - ****.

Very capable worker for his age, had a good gimmick and was charasmatic enough to get over and stay over, and worked well heel or face. Having the company ran by a bunch of idiots hurt him in the long run (as it did with mostly everyone not named Nash), but I sure would've loved to see him used better towards his end in WCW, and his whole run in WWF/E. I believe he could've had more ****+ matches had he worked with other capable workers. One of my favorite wrestlers ever.
 
#352 ·
Oh. Wasn't too high on that match, it didn't really "click" with me.
If this is a joke I don't get it. :(

You will however be happy to know I got Decade of Decadence on DVD tonight on ebay. Yay!

I also picked up Allied Powers and the first Ladder Match DVD. With all of these DVDs I think I have all 3 TLC matches between E&C/Dudleys/Hardys?
 
#353 ·
Watching the end of "SD" tonight made me try to remember match with Orton & (I think it was Cena) when one handcuffs the other to the turnbuckle... Seems to me this was a part of a feud where the other got revenge in the following match.

Also, watching start of show made me curious which people prefer overall: Cage or HIAC? Personally, think I'd choose latter.
 
#354 ·
HiaC for sure
 
#357 ·
If this is a joke I don't get it. :(

You will however be happy to know I got Decade of Decadence on DVD tonight on ebay. Yay!

I also picked up Allied Powers and the first Ladder Match DVD. With all of these DVDs I think I have all 3 TLC matches between E&C/Dudleys/Hardys?
It wasn't, haha. I tend to like Edge's matches obviously, and I can't go into a thousand word review of how they used 'psychology' or any of that technical stuff, but that match just did not do anything for me. *shrugs*

yey Decade of Decadence. You know, it's a shame Edge's promos haven't been put together on any of his DVD sets. DoD has "The Totally Awesome Best of Edge and Christian" (which is amazing, by the way) but that's obviously exclusive to his tag team days. He's had some really great moments promo and backstage segment wise since then, and it's a shame that they're gonna be left to the dust. Or to whatever "best of" DVD they come out with next.
 
#359 ·
What does everyone think about the '02 Rumble match? Haven't seen it since it happened and remember nothing of it.

Wrestlemania XX:

Cena/Big Show - **3/4
World Tag Title 4-way - **1/2
Christian/Jericho - ****
Evolution vs Rock & Sock - ***1/2
CW Open - **3/4
Goldberg/Lesnar - DUD
WWE Tag Title 4-Way - **
Victoria/Molly - *
Guerrero/Angle - ****
Kane/Taker - **3/4
HHH/HBK/Benoit - *****
 
#360 ·
What does everyone think about the '02 Rumble match? Haven't seen it since it happened and remember nothing of it.

Wrestlemania XX:

Cena/Big Show - **3/4
World Tag Title 4-way - **1/2
Christian/Jericho - ****
Evolution vs Rock & Sock - ***1/2
CW Open - **3/4
Goldberg/Lesnar - DUD
WWE Tag Title 4-Way - **
Victoria/Molly - *
Guerrero/Angle - ****
Kane/Taker - **3/4
HHH/HBK/Benoit - *****
RR 02 match is one of my favs. Around ****1/2 for it.

WM XX ratings? Ok :p

Cena/Big Show - **
World Tag Title 4-way - **
Christian/Jericho - ****1/2 (I'm one of the biggest fans of this match though)
Evolution vs Rock & Sock - **1/2
CW Open - **1/4
Goldberg/Lesnar - :lmao
WWE Tag Title 4-Way - **1/4 (or maybe the other one was **1/4 and this was **. I forget)
Victoria/Molly - I don't even remember this.
Guerrero/Angle - ***
Kane/Taker - **3/4
HHH/HBK/Benoit - ****3/4

Pretty shitty show outside of 2 matches, and then Undertaker's match just for his entrance, return as the Dead Man, and the "Ooooohhhhh YEEEESSSSS!" that was a massive surprise at the time :D.
 
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