WHAT WORKED-
The Juventud- Lenny Cruiserweight title match was pretty great- though there was that mass homophobia in the Las Vegas crowd that would be a lot more noticable, I guess, if they chanted comparable anti-African American slurs at Ernest Miller during his matches. After some quality wrestling, Sid comes out and powerbombs them. WOW! HE'S REALLY BIG!
BOY! LOOK AT THAT CROWD DIE! Serves them right I guess. Maybe Sid's really gay positive and couldn't stand the anti-gay overtones of the match.  Maybe he just wanted to be the big dominant top again to take out the two smaller bottoms as the whole BIG GAY SID-Latent Homosexual angle continues to play itself out.  The crowd at home, meanwhile, is
spent after seeing Sid climax and everyone rolls over and tries to find something to watch until RAW comes on. Maybe WCW had the right idea at that meeting Monday and they should let EVERYONE go and just have three hours of Powerplant trainees START to wrestle, but THEN Sid comes out and powerbombs them! The quarterhours wouldn't know what hittem!  THEN-
for the MAIN EVENT!- Hogan can wrestle Rick Steiner, STING! or the Cat for the main event every week!  That would set up the big ratings blockbuster of Hogan vs Sid on Wednesday Night Thunder!  KICK ASS!

  The Insane Clown Posse continue to bump their way into my heart- as is most anybody in a Posse in big two wrestling, it seems. Actually, Shaggy 2 Dope is quite watchable while Violent J is kind of a less talented New Jack without the balcony dives.  You need a screwjob to get frickin' Rey and Kidman over these two?  WCW booking- and US booking in general-
pretty much sucks the engorged and throbbing bloodbomber.

  Benoit and Steiner look like they could have a decent match if given a lot of time and if Steiner develops- over night- any ability at all to sell.  This was suplexarific and stiff as hell.  The screwjob was a screwjob but at least Charles Robinson is back and not afraid to get his skull crushed by Benoit in the most manly manner available. Is Steiener actually the NUMBER TWO heel in WCW right now? What? WHAT?

  Vampiro and Eddy almost had a really good match.  Shaggy 2 Dope's knee being broken into three ruined an already craparific finish but I'm guessing this is gonna lead to Eddy vs Vamp on PPV- which could be pretty good in a brawly way. If they try to develop some sort of Cruiserweight title scene without big Rough Trade veterans running in and powerbombing all the participants, maybe I'll order Fall Brawl.  Who could be sure? Shaggy making it to the apron while holding the comical
remains of his knee to make the obviously shitty finish work gets mad phat props in my book.

   Did Buff Bagwell put the blast on Bischoff's mom or something?  Fearlessly they continue a feud that is as Fan-Interest-Free as the good  old Hacksaw vs Big Bubba feuds of the middle 90s as they rekindle the  Nothing That Was which was called the feud with the Cat.  God, who gives  a fuck?  I was talking to Schneider while flying through this in fast
forward late Monday and we both though it was funny that- at one point-  we both thought that Miller could develop into something worth watching  (when he first started in the BRC stuff) and that BUFF could become the  best heavyweight in North America (during the legendary and actually  great NWO New Japan run).  Buff was injured about as severely as
possible so he has an excuse for sucking.  Miller realized that he  didn't have to improve to keep getting a push so fuck it, a little dance, a little dirt-worst cheap heat tactics, throw in the screwjob and we'll call it a match.  What you get is a really promising-at-one-time heavyweight who is understandably wrestling scared going through the motions with a wrestler who could give a shit about the craft of professional wrestling and I lean on the remote control like a mofo. Egad.

  The First Family are about as unover as Hulkamaniac Dave Sullivan and  the expanding Dean Malenko and the ilk act like they are being programmed against a stable whose best worker is JERRY FLYNN.  Actually, let's give it up for Bryan Knobbs who fearlessly shows that he isn't TOTALLY worthless by taking an Exploider right on the fricking head. Still, Barbarian plus Shane Douglas equals PEEEEEEYOOOOO!  And then Benoit ON THE STICK! which always works in so many ways. Show them what the revolution is all aboot, God's Favorite Crippler.  Whip motherfarking Ass!

  It's weird that Kendall Windham- who would actually seem to have a post-incarceration future if he wasn't saddled with his load of a brother- wins his first title ever against Booker T- who actually had a future but is now saddled with his load of a brother.  Screwjob, useless title change, sets up the PPV, yadda yadda yadda.  Wake me up when Booker T is a singles wrestler again.

- Hogan and Sting were actually having an okay match before Sid feels his wild, man-loving urges and then feels the need to suppress his latent homosexuality by powerbombing Hogan and Sting.  Though he doesn't actually get to deliver the powerbombing moneyshot, he does successfully ruin the match before Bischoff can remind him that he was only supposed
to ruin matches of guys with TALENT.  Goldberg rushes in- awash with with the manly smell of testosterone rage, knowing someone was attacking a really old guy and guy wearing make-up.

- Lex Luger is back.  See!  If you people would have watched the USFL as avidly as III did back in 1983 and 1984, Luger would have played six years for Memphis Showboats, gotten a job in '91 as offensive line coach for Bethune-Cookman or Florida-International, and we would never have to THINK about THE RETURN of Lex Luger and it's EFFECT on the STINGER. Noooooooo, we want baseball in the Spring.  Ya buncha pansies....

THERE YOU HAVE IT.

DEAN RASMUSSEN.
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