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Old 06-14-2005, 09:25 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Mr. JL
The last time I saw Mike Awesome, (before last night) he was at a TNA pay per view in 2003. He was facing Mike Sanders and well... in short it was a REALLY bad match.

Tonight, was the Mike Awesome I remember from ECW. He was on fire. Him and Tanaka torn up the building. I'll have to see Mike Awesome face another opponent before I can really comment though. Because the Awesome/Tanaka combination is like...

...what Bret Hart is to Shawn Michaels, Kurt Angle is to Chris Benoit, Rob Van Dam is to Jerry Lynn, Ric Flair is to Ricky Steamboat, Lance Storm is to Chris Candido. Those guys styles just fit absolutely perfectly with each other that there is no way they'll have a below 4 stars match.
Chemistry is something that really makes epic feuds, IMO. Paul London vs. Akio, I swear if they gave this time, and they let this span three PPVs would draw more interest from the crowd than Triple H vs. Batista. Pairing guys up witht hose that they naturally roll out goodness with is one of the more important rules of booking, IMO.

Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock were brilliant together. Two of the biggest icons in this business, but something else just seemed to click. I honestly believe the could have had a feud with Austin wanting to have sex with The Rock's wife, and it would have made money.

Sometimes chemistry needs to be made, though, which has been pretty much proven with Kurt Angle and Booker T. Two great wrestlers putting on two great matches, but the way they're doing so just isn't clicking. You can smell the chemistry there, but it just didn't work out as well as it could have.

One of the things ECW got right was chemistry. RVD vs. Jerry Lynn, Tommy Dreamer vs. Raven, Little Guido vs. Tajiri vs. Super Crazy, Rey Mysterio vs. Psicosis, Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka, Tazz vs. Sabu. ECW has probably had one of the highest hit-miss ratios whenit comes to getting chemistry between guys right, and that might have something to do with its success. The difference between chemistry and no-chemistry might be ECW and any number of garbage feds.
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