Decent match, with an attempt at psychology, but not enough time to make it great. 450 splash misses, allowing Kash to finish with the brainbuster of all the moves. Kash goes up but gets crotched on the top rope. His own huracanrana attempt is reversed into a single leg Boston crab, but he makes the rope. Juvi reverses a powerbomb into a pinfall attempt for two. Kennedy doing a comedy bit about demographics should be in AEW. He can’t get the Juvi Driver due to the leg. He misses a moonsault, then Juvi fucks up a clothesline. Kash flapjacks him off another attempt to climb and takes out the leg. Follows with a flip off the top to the floor, landing by the already demolished announce table. Juvi gets and early backbreaker and clotheslines Kash out. Ken Kennedy is on commentary doing some goofy “representative from the network” deal. Pretty decent little TV match for what it was, although it fell apart with the Cole kidnapping angle distracting everyone from it. The champs outnumber Johnny and Rene gets his suspect Michinoku Driver on him for the win. Backbreaker setup for a Demolition-style legdrop, but Kenzo knocks Nunzio off the top to the floor. Johnny press slams Rene for two when Kenzo breaks it up. Nunzio gets a kick and a tag to Johnny while Taz goes to rescue Cole. Rene gets Nunzio back in and does his dance and a falling headbutt. This was of course leading to the infamous prison love/poetry performance bit they did. Totally separate to that, John Heidenreich pulls Michael Cole off commentary with Taz and drags him across the barricade and kidnaps him. Nunzio tags in and continues succeeding against Dupree, so Kenzo assists in dumping him outside and posts him. Johnny and Rene begin, with Rene having no luck. Guess it was a case of no allies and the WCW stink on him. Stamboli was a guy who I never felt fulfilled his potential given his good luck, goofy charm and combination of power and agility. The FBI is comprised of Nunzio and Johnny Stamboli. Might be the difference of time, but they look quite good together with both being robed and all the flags and stuff, as I remember them basically being reviled at the time. Kenzo and Rene are new tag team champions at this point. Well, at least it was short, but both teams looked like shit, Gordy and Douglas to a lesser level excluded. Well, that’s what was supposed to happen, but he ducked down at the same time as Jimmy did so it looked like shit. Ace tries to run Jimmy into the ropes for an O’Connor roll, but gets hit by Terry for the knockout blow. Michael tries to get involved and is dispatched too. Tag to Johnny, who comes in with a pair of dropkicks that he’s way too big to do. Garvin keeps on knocking Shane back out until he returns and they clash heads in an awkward spot. The Dudes hold the advantage, but Terry gets a shot in on Shane to change the momentum. They get a sunset flip off the top rope on Terry for two, so Jimmy tags in. The blonde hair on the Dynamic Doofuses looks terrible. Gordy takes Michael’s place this match, getting some good stuff in early with Johnny and then Shane. Lance Russell and Bob Caudle on commentary, which should be interesting. The new Freebirds are the tag champs at this point, with Terry Gordy as their alternate. Back to Bubba, he had the tab for the evening switched to London to pay for, about $500, to suck up to ‘Taker. The Undertaker himself was a self-styled mafia boss of the locker room who both London and Dupree had managed to offend through inoffensive ways, in London’s case declining a drink off him one time and then being seen having one with someone else another time, so he would go on about how he thought he was “too good” to accept a drink off him. Rene reveals that Bubba NEVER had a shower in front of the boys because Sly Grenier had smartened him up that he was an insecure, obese man who hated the way he looked and took it out on people who looked good. London kept it calm and shut him down when he started to pry, which the Undertaker gave him props for, for whatever it was worth. The next day, “fat fuck” Bubba Ray Dudley “who nobody likes” started goading London about how he’d heard “you had a nice, romantic stroll on the beach”. Paul and Rene were friends and went for a walk on the beach late one night in Italy because they were bummed out about the toxic atmosphere and were having a heart-to-heart, only interrupted by Rico streaking into the sea.
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