The Sunday Night Heat Workrate Report
A weekly look at what did and didn't work
on Sunday Night Heat by Phil Rippa
Sunday, January 3rd & 10th, 1999
Hey I'm lazy. A big, lanky lazy man. So here is
two weeks of Heat. J-E-T-S! JETS! JETS! JETS!
What Worked
Jan 3
I would
personally like to send thank you cards to Christian and Val Venis for
presenting some watchable wrestling on this Sunday evening. Actual wrestling.
Who would have thunk it? Fairly faced past and a medium length match which
is actually long in the context of Heat. Christian breaks out the sweet
modified Tiger Bomb. I liked the ending with Venis blocking the superplex
into the Money Shot. Then they did the goofy run in AFTER the match so
we got a nice clean finish. Yeah.
Mankind
on commentary. Come on, did you think this was going to end up anywhere
else? The best part was that he actually did a better job analyzing a match
than most. He admonishes Road Dogg for not kicking Test like he did last
week. He breaks Test down as a flash in the pain and how he wants to see
what three months on the road will do to him. Oh and the line "Don't eat
the big cake in the middle Shane".
Jan 10
Mick
Foley as Heavyweight Champion. Put my ass in the seat. Then they did all
the cool retrospectives. That universally works.
Owen
Hart being a real man makes the Lion's Den match entertaining despite the
presence of Steve Blackman. Hey remember when Blackman's match at Survivor
Series or something like that was supposed to be the only time he would
ever be allowed to wrestle in the WWF. Anyhoo, Hart bumps for two, including
ending up bleeding from both the mouth and nose. Blackman managed to find
ways to blow his own submission holds. He also no sold a piledriver for
now apparent reason so he's not winning points with me. The Severn screwjob
was inevitable but I like it when Severn snaps because he can turn it on
and off which it makes it all the more creepy.
Hulk
Hogan, Kevin Nash, Goldberg, Scott Hall and Shocksticks made no appearances
of my television screen.
What Didn't Work
Jan 3
The
main event between Jesse James and Test was soooooo very close to working
but the screwy finish pushed it into this half of the report. Test did
a nice Falcon Arrow but I couldn't get over the fact that he looked exactly
like Kevin Nash (which for those of you keeping track at home, isn't a
good thing.)
How
many times must I put up with the utter crap that is the Headbanger and
Oddities. Hasn't anyone realized that they all suck the mighty big one?
I guess not because they keep shoving it down our throats each and every
week. Thanks guys.
I have
a good idea. Let's have the World Tag Champs lose because one half of the
team was too busy grabbing some ass. And it was Debra's ass which made
it a hundred times worse.
The
was a bunch of people talking through out the show. I really tuned it all
out. It seemed pretty much like white noise. Oh well.
Hunter
Hearst Hemsley. Mark Henry. Settle in boys. You will be on this side for
awhile.
Jan 10
For
comments on the Oddities and Headbangers, see above.
Hey
Sable is back and talking a lot. Fast Forward he we come.
Christian
is just one member of the future of American wrestling but he couldn't
overcome all the nonsense that was the Blue Meanie, Al Snow, Head and Golddust
crap that hovered around the match.
The
McMahons. THE STICK. Same old story. They did beat up Jose Lothario for
a change of pace. Hey look, Vince works as loose as most of his wrestlers.
Degeneration
X + Corporation = Clusterfuck
Phil Rippa