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Old 01-14-2017, 03:54 AM   #31554
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Originally Posted by Damian Rey 2.0 View Post
I get that. But we've seen just as brutal spots not end a match. Mankind in hell in the cell. HBK in hell in the cell. Etc.
This is setting up a straw man. Did Cornette defend the spots in the Mankind/Taker HIAC? In fact, if you ask him, I think he'd say that those were unnecessary. Cornette is a Mick Foley fan and an Undertaker mark, but to immediately assign the position of him as a spot apologist in the context of those matches is to misrepresent him.

Taker/HBK is another match, for the record, that got five stars, and I think it's a better match than Taker/Mankind despite the stunts. Maybe you could argue that the stunts in Taker/HBK were ridiculous themselves, but there is certainly more of an applied and effective context there.

Point being: HBK/Taker, despite the stunts, was not made by the stunts, therefore stunts do not a good match make. Now, was Okada/Omega just stunts? I don't believe so, but it certainly had a few and I'd say they took drama out of the match instead of adding it. That is subjective, but it is not an unfounded opinion to have.
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