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Vince/Shane vs. HBK/God. Teh lulz at the start are just too much lol.

Vince: Get jiggy with it!

JR: McMahon wants God to get jiggy with it.

:lmao :lmao :lmao
Never has blasphemy made me laugh so much. And the spotlight moving forward with the music... :lmao

For the "match you like but everybody else didn't":

I liked Cena/JBL WM21 to an extent and I've only heard people criticize it. Not a perfect match by any means, but enjoyable for the 10 minutes it got. I also enjoyed the 3SOH match between HHH/HBK which everybody seems to be shitting on in this thread.
 
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With mention of an MSG set potentially coming out next year, I realised I had a bunch of MSG Classic shows on my pc. Watched the first one which featured a super fun Hogan/Bossman match, an awesome Rockers/Brainbusters match, and then this:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xthl0y_mr-perfect-vs-ronnie-garvin-msg-march-1989_sport

Mr Perfect Vs Ronnie Garvin. Early into Perfect's WWF career, but he looks great already. Garvin is a great puncher, and Perfect sells everything wonderfully. Open few minutes are a ton of fun (Garvin stomping on Perfect's hand while he's outside recovering from a few blows to the head is awesome), then they slow things down and get some heat on Perfect with some headlocks, and then they finish up with some nice back and forth action and again Garvin looks great throwing punches and other blows while Perfect sells really well. Finish keeps Garvin looking strong while showing that Perfect can get the win over even the toughest of opponents. Would be cool to see this on the DVD set.
 
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Going to meet Roddy Piper tomorrow , who is considered to be the greatest mic worker in the history of the game. However, Piper wasn't really known for his in-ring skill, but that doesn't say that he never put on some really great matches.

So my question to you guys is simple....... Top 5 Piper matches ? Obviously the Bret match would be on there, along with the Valentine match and other underrated matches from his career. Personally, Piper states that his favourite match was with Adrian Adonis at WM III. Thoughts ?
 
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Just watched Beyond The Mat again I still can't stop laughing at that scene when Rock is obviously trying to get himself in the spotlight with foley and the kids backstage and Austin walks past and just notices and walks over to them and Rock suddenly acts like a nervous dog and steps to one side with a face like a kid told no Austin a badass back then and always :lmao
 
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Backlash 2004:

Shelton Benjamin vs Ric Flair - ***
*Fun match that doesn't last too long and Flair puts over Shelton during his first push coming off two back-to-back victories against HHH.

Jonathan Coachman vs Tajiri - **
*Why did they draft Tajiri from Smackdown just to put him in a trainwreck of a match like this? And to make matters worse, Coach dominates most of this despite not being a wrestler to begin with. And the "Boring" chants were rather justified.

Chris Jericho vs Christian/Trish Stratus - **3/4
*Fun while it lasts and Jericho finally gets his revenge on the backstabbers after the humiliation he went through at WM20.

Victoria vs Lita - **3/4
*A decent match between two of the best women's wrestlers in WWE history. They do some good mat-wrestling and then some good back-and-forth using their moveset.

Randy Orton vs Cactus Jack - ****1/2
*An excellent blow-off match to an amazing and well-built feud that took place over the course of almost one year. Foley does an excellent job putting over Orton clean to prove his legitimacy and this is to Orton's career and the "pay your dues" stage what the JBL "I Quit" match was for Cena. Orton bleeds, takes some serious bumps and he should have definitely earned the smarks' respect at that point if he hadn't already. I also like how JR sells Foley's psychotic character and gives up on defending him. If it was today, Lawler would find any stupid way to defend the over-the-top actions of Foley seeing as he's become an ass-kisser to all the faces by any means necessary.

Rosey/The Hurricane vs La Resistance - *1/2
*This is to Backlash 04, what Brodus Clay squashes are to today's PPVs. Just random filler to kill time with no build and I don't remember it being announced on any of the preceding Raw episodes. Eugene randomly turns up and the faces win but really, if there's a piss-break in this PPV, it's this match. I admit I cracked up when Eugene was running the ropes in excitement like a little kid, though.

Edge vs Kane - **
*Edge's return match after being away from the ring for 13 months since February 2003. A disappointing comeback in a highly boring match. Hell, the crowd was more concerned chanting "You screwed Bret!" and "We Want Bret" to Earl Hebner than the in-ring action. I think I even heard some "You both suck!" chants towards the end, lol. I don't agree with that but if this was your first impression of either Edge or Kane, you would probably think that too.

Chris Benoit vs HHH vs Shawn Michaels - ****3/4
*This match has it all from signature moves to ref bumps to table breaks to sledgehammers but still, it can't live up to the classic these three had at Wrestlemania XX. I honestly have no idea why, but there's just something that isn't there. Might have to do with the fact that Wrestlemania is the biggest stage whereas Backlash is just another PPV because even this one has a great ending with Benoit making HBK tap out to the Sharpshooter to the delight of the hometown crowd and his entire family from his wife and kids to his mom and dad at ringside. WWE gives the Canadians the "one-up" on this in return for the screwjob with the ending as Benoit also waves the Canadian flag to close the show. Lastly, the crowd here are a lot better than the MSG crowd at WM but "the biggest stage of them all" is where it matters the most!

Overall: ***1/4 out of ***** (Three decent matches, two duds and two classics. All the variety in quality of matches puts this one in the middle of the road for me. But the two classics are enough to make this PPV worth a watch.)
 
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Just watched Beyond The Mat again I still can't stop laughing at that scene when Rock is obviously trying to get himself in the spotlight with foley and the kids backstage and Austin walks past and just notices and walks over to them and Rock suddenly acts like a nervous dog and steps to one side with a face like a kid told no Austin a badass back then and always :lmao
There are a lot of scenes that are VERY depressing in that documentary like Jake Roberts daughter and Foley's wife and kids during the I Quit match (which I kinda blame on the mom, but I digress), one I found depressing was the scene where Terry Funk goes to the doctor's office. Maybe because I didn't know who Funk was before but man, that scene got to me.
 
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There are a lot of scenes that are VERY depressing in that documentary like Jake Roberts daughter and Foley's wife and kids during the I Quit match (which I kinda blame on the mom, but I digress), one I found depressing was the scene where Terry Funk goes to the doctor's office. Maybe because I didn't know who Funk was before but man, that scene got to me.
The mos depressing thing about the documentary was it highlights Droz and his first meeting with Vince and what they have planned for him and at the very end the last thing you see on the documentary is "Three weeks after this film was published Darren Drozdov was parlysed from the neck down" :(
 
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The church segment from a week or two before is the most offensive, yet hilarious thing I've ever seen. The match really isn't all that bad, either.
I honestly loved the HBK/Vince feud. That and early '06 as a whole was awesome.
It's honestly one of my favorite feuds. That church segment is legitimately one of the best things WWE have ever done imo. Every time I watch it it cracks me up lol.

I just got the entire 2004 PPV year today so I'm fixing to work my way through it soon.
 
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I really need to get a hold of the rest of the 2004 PPVs post-Backlash (SummerSlam notwithstanding since it's available on both YT and DM). I can't really download them directly from sites like rapidshare, uploaded.to and so on because it takes too long and in a laptop, the battery issue comes into play. And unfortunately, the torrents available for them are all slow as fuck and nobody has seeded them.
 
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