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5202003Welcome to Falls Count Anywhere. My name is Emmy Winner Chris Garcia.

RAWBest RAW in a while, in my eyes, especially the Main Event which was HHH’s best

match in ages. This was a solid show, with more wrestling than last week, with a pair of

really good matches.

The Good

Jericho can sell hatred and venom very well. Hey, Chris quoted Swingers! The segmenthelped Christian, he’s always been a good talker, but the fans have yet to connect with

him. I like the RVD insertion, as I think he’s finally starting to grow on me. The call for

the match made a lot of sense, and starting off a new belt with a big win is a good idea.

The RVD/Kane vs. Jericho and Christian was good, though RVD looked to be a bit

slower than normal. Christian and Jericho wrestled a very smart match, playing to the

strengths of their opponents. I would have liked a real ending, but Booker coming in

builds the programme.

Flair cried! Making the main event matter is not an easy thing when it’s supposed to be asquash. Michaels is great, even in the small doses he’s gotten in recent months. Later,

Flair styling with the robe was a great touch, getting him over as the legend, giving the

crowd a pop before the La Resistance match. It’s a technique that works, give the crowd

something really short right before a match with no heat going in, and it’ll help it.

The Main Event ruled. No question that being in the ring with Flair forces the boys to

bring their A game. Flair was awesome, as he knows how to give a match emotion, andHHH was back in 2000 form. It worked so well. I hope that he keeps it up when he’s in

with other guys. The crowd was into it, and HHH bumped like a superball.

The Average

The opening segment was super long, and not terribly exciting, but Austin did a fairly

good job, and HHH has started to get his interview back after a month of fairly plaintalking. This exact thing was done in 1999, but at least this was fairly acceptable.

The 3 Minute Warning vs. The Dudleys surprised me by moving well, telling a fun story,

and getting the crowd into it. Rico should be a real star, if he wasn’t saddled with thelame gimmick.

The Interegation stuff was OK, with Austin doing the peering through the blinds beingthe highlight. Storm gets no rub from it, but Austin was good. Goldberg had intensity,

which is his strong point. The destruction was short.

The Bad

The White Boy Challenge is a bad thing. I like Teddy Long, but he can’t carry the match

with the fans in the arenas, as they are bored by Rodney Mack. Spike got some nice



support when he was holding on in the cobra clutch. Also, it was announced that Teddy

Long drinks not of the Haterade.

Bischoff has failed to entertain me. The “He’s hungover, make noise” gags did nothing

for me. Bringing in Mae Young and Moolah was so predictable, but I think Bisch

dropped the F-bomb.

The La Reisistance rematch was bad, basically an excuse to extend the split between Test

and Steiner. I was so waiting for Stacey to yell “You’re tearing me apart!”

All in all, a really good match, with an event for the final. I hear that they did a big

emotional scene for Flair, with everyone coming out to hug Flair and celebrate his career

with him. They are going to release it on DVD, and may even play it on TV sometime. Ihope they can keep this up, more wrestling on a wrestling show, though having this

quality main event is asking a lot. A guy can hope, right?

NewsWell, not many injuries to report. Spanky got his eye cut, and was checked for a

concussion. Probably won’t miss any time.

Brock was wrestling with hurt ribs, but it wasn’t anything serious and it didn’t get much

worse.

Nash gets a Hell in the Cell with HHH. This will be truly awful unless they pull some

incredible booking.

FlashBack!

So, this Saturday, Joker and myself went video shopping and found a video tape that we

had to buy: The Rock ‘n Roll Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Ape. We watched it as anappetizer leading into Judgement Day.

And all I can say is WOW!

In the 1960s, Mexico was putting out a dozen Luchadore themed movies a month. Most

of them faded fast, though the ones with El Santo, Blue Demon, and Mil Mascaras did

very well. Woman’s wrestling has been more popular in Mexico than in the US, andthere were a bunch of Wrestling Women movies, the most notable being The Wrestling

Women versus the Aztec Mummy. A few of these films got dubbed and released in the

USA. In 1986, K. Gordon Murray started reediting these films, using rockabillysoundtracks, and Rhino started releasing them.

Now, the movie is not good, by any means. The story is strange, the dubbing isn’t great,and the wrestling segments, while very cool, go very long. That said, the acting is

actually pretty good, with Lorena Velazquez doing a great job in both the wrestling and

the regular scenes. The story, which also led to white masked evil doctor craze that

continues to this day in Dr. Wagner. The movie really doesn’t have an Aztec Ape, instead



it has a wrestler who had the brain of a ape put in. After 2/3 of the movie, they transfer

his ape brain into a wrestling woman’s body and she has the climactic fight with the girls.

Everything is weird, but it’s fun, as the songs are awful, but they are saved for thewrestling segments, where they add an element of fun distraction when the matches go

real long.

Would I say to watch it? Sure. It’s a great document as to the type of movies that

Mexican fans were being treated to back in the heyday of Santo. Also, where else are

you gonna see 1960s woman’s wrestling? I’ll do a whole article on Lucha moviessomeday.

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