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[1999-09-06-WWF-Raw] Al Snow as Avatar / Interview: The Rock & Mankind


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Al Snow comes out dressed as Avatar for some reason. Self-referential crap. Snow's humor never worked in a wrestling sense - he was probably a funny guy in person, but not at all when he tried to do WWF comedy. The idea is that he has lost his mind and is hallucinating and suddenly realizes he's in the Avatar outfit and freaks out. Then he starts barking for no apparent reason. Okay then.

 

Meanwhile, Michael Cole interviews The Rock and Mankind. Rock does a few funny impersonations, even though I can't stand him rewatching this stuff. They hype the Buried Alive match on Smackdown against Undertaker and Big Show.

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Al Snow's only real use was to be a punchline in Foley's books. His characters always sucked and he was stinking up the joint with his appalling attempt at acting here.

 

The Rock is such a douchebag at this point, but gets away with it because he's so ridiculously charismatic.

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Al losing his mind as Avatar just makes you feel sad and confused because the angle has been so bad. Am I supposed to laugh or cry?

 

Rock and Mankind do a quick promo backstage and I am enjoying them together although it now feels like no one is messing with HHH as the new champion.

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Only the most degenerate wrestling nerds like us watching in the Attitude Era would have any memory of Avatar and we have no actual reason to care about this, either. Al responds to this traumatic episode by coming out and doing lame faux-superhero shtick and the crowd rightfully boos. You wish you were the Hurricane, buddy. He takes the mask off and does a really terrible job of acting shocked.

 

We continue to get matches set up for Smackdown, as Rock & Mankind answer a challenge for a Buried Alive Match against Undertaker & Show. So they're still together? Rock's caveman-esque Show impersonation will never cease being funny. He's a douche, but he's making himself into a man who can and will carry the company on his own, before our eyes. Mankind cuts a refreshingly serious promo on Undertaker.

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