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THE DEVICE Hmm...Doom Sexy the Shannon Killer returns, the nWWWo fails to update that week. Coincidence? I think not. Looks like it's time to update the ol' scoreboard...
DOOMSDAY ON MOVIES: Yeah, I know, Fight Club opens this weekend, and this could be the best movie of the year. Well, Superstar also opens this week, and it could very well be the worst movie of the year. I mean, seriously: name the last good movie based on an SNL skit. If you said Wayne's World, good for you. Coneheads sucked, Night at the Roxbury sucked, so what makes Superstar different? Well, the other movies were based on sketches that were actually FUNNY. DOOMSDAY ON TV: Does anyone else find it disturbing that the geniuses at the WB couldn't wait three f'n weeks before doing a crossover with Buffy and Angel? Geez, if you're doing a spin-off, that means you're supposed to SPIN the show OFF. Not too difficult a concept, guys. DOOMSDAY ON MUSIC: Album of the week is Come Out and Play, by Twisted Sister. Great album, good ol' hard hitting rock music. Among the highlights are the anthems "Be Chrool to Your School" and "I Believe in Rock and Roll," plus an amusing cover of "Leader of the Pack." The best thing about TS was their attitude, and it shines through big time on this album. DOOMSDAY ON B-BALL: R.I.P. Wilt Chamberlain. One of the best big men ever to play the game is gone, and wouldn't you know it, he was a Laker. What makes the Lakers MY Lakers is that they have both tradition AND style. Wilt was a big part of that. We'll miss you, big guy. DOOMSDAY ON FOOTBALL: Good grief. How much of this must I endure? You gotta feel my pain here, people. But you know what? If I can endure one 1-15 season, I can take another. I just hope it doesn't come to that. Come on, say it with me: J-E-T-S, JETS JETS JETSJETS!!! All right, time to say, "Let's go METS," and get on to the DEVICE. You know, this is actually the second column I wrote this week...you see, my computer is messed up thanks to the rain, so I have to write my column on one computer, then send it from another. Well, the disk I used wasn't so great, so I lost my column in the transfer. But that's okay, because I wouldn't want to have written a column before watching last night's Thunder. Now, I can say for WCW... Okay, spare me the jokes about the Nitro set. Believe me, that's so obvious, Shannon would even have thought of it (and isn't THAT saying something!). Seriously, though, we're beginning to see the Russo-Ferarra era set in at WCW, and it's a lovely thing. So what was so great about Thunder, anyway? Well, let's start with Lash Leroux. The kid is good...maybe it's just because he was in his hometown, but he had an opportunity to shine last night, and he took it. OK, so his match against Al Greene was nothing special, but he worked it very well. I like his WhipLash finisher, it's a very interesting slam that works well for him. He's a very able cruiserweight, and he has good charisma in the ring. I also like his mic work...the crowd responded well, although we shouldn't be surprised, since he was in his home state. Nonetheless, I like his accent, and he's got some personality to him. Watch this kid. He's gonna be a star someday. Second, it's good to see Buff Bagwell get what's coming to him. I mean, you know your star is falling when La Parka is running out to save you....okay, time for me to digress. Remember on Nitro when La Parka had "SOLO PARA TIMBONAS" on his tights? Well, it turns out that timbonas are pot-bellied women, so La Parka's ass is only for pot-bellied women. Now isn't THAT a scary thought...In any case, it's good to see Bagwell getting what he has coming, as I discussed last week. I also have to admit, I'm a fan of TheMonsterMeng. Now, I'm not saying that he should get any kind of title push, but he's just one of those guys who works well as the unstoppable monster. Just keep feeding him jobbers and lower midcarders, maybe give him a feud -Bam Bam Bigelow would work quite well- and keep him away from Sid and Goldberg and all the main eventers. I enjoy watching the guy. He has great facial expressions, and he's just really cool. The big winner, though, was Big Sexy Kevin Nash making an appearance on commentary. I mean, this seems to be "Let's Grant Doomsday's Wishes" week. I've been hoping for this for a long time. I mean, we all know Nash was never a great wrestler, so you have to wonder how he managed to do so well in this business. Gee, could it have been his mic work? Nash has a great sense for comedy, and while he'll never do great stand-up or (Mick forbid) movie work, he's a natural for color commentary. And you can't help but wonder if this would have happened had it not been for Vince and Ed coming down from Titanland (screw WWFE, they'll always be Titan to me). I mean, the former WWF-ers are definitely used to breaks in kayfabe, and we all know about Nash and HIS ability to break kayfabe, and that shined through on Thunder, especially as Big Kev got Zbysko and Tenay into the act. Good for WCW. They finally realize that kayfabe has become next to worthless as we head into the new millenium, and stuff like Nash's commentary is what will help WCW make its way back to respectability. But wrestling shows cannot live by great commentary alone. There were still some serious throwaway matches on Thunder, i.e. Horace vs. Brian Adams. I liked the Rey/Saturn match, although I've seen better, but as far as the actual wrestling was concerned, Thunder pretty much blew. This has to be the first time in recent memory that a WCW show was better on entertainment value than on actual wrestling. So, where do we go from here? Well, with Jeff Jarrett on the way, WCW gains an experienced worker who may get over once again, with Russo and Ferrara behind him...he should work well with WCW's better wrestlers (i.e. Saturn, Malenko, Benoit, Kidman, Douglas, Mysterio, Kanyon, Luchadores, etc.) Besides that, I'd like to see Nash do more commentary on Nitro, and I'd like to see Sid de-pushed immediately following his job to Goldberg at Havoc, but then again, who wouldn't? In any case, WCW looks to be in pretty good shape, because THE FUTURE IS NOW!! Till next week, I'm Dan Doomsday, the Pride of 2dope, saying....
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