The Sunday Night Heat Workrate Report
A weekly look at what did and didn't work on Sunday Night Heat by Phil Rippa

Sunday, February 7th, 1999

Boy, we Heat sucks that bad it really is hard to get motivated to right ANYTHING let alone something slightly entertaining.
 


What Worked

Too Much getting a win. Relish it boys, it probably will be the last one you ever see in the WWF.
Thank You Vince McMahon for proving that there are white guys who dance worse than I do.
The first sign of Terry Taylor's influence in the federation: the Triple Threat match was actually done correctly in the fact that it was an elimination match.
 


What Didn't Work

I want someone to tell me that all that stuff with the Oddities, Droz and DOA was a big horrible acid flashback or something. Even if they are going towards "sports entertainment" you are still not going to win me over on your product by having Droz beat up Giant Silva with a pole.
The Corporation. THE STICK. 10 long minutes. Somebody kill me please. Somebody kill me please. I'm on my knees! Pretty Pretty please! Kill me! I want to die. Put a bullet in my head.
The video package recapping the Al Snow/Road Dogg situation was nice but when you are doing the same thing that has made someone else in your federation a legend it is going to take a lot more than acting crazy and jumping through a table.
Maybe the fact that nobody's implants exploded should move the women's match into the what worked category. Maybe the fact that Shane told Sable to just sit there and act like the showpiece that she was paid to be should move the women's match into the what worked category. But when you look at the actual wrestling (and I use that term incredibly loosely) the women's match should stay right here.
Hey Val Venis is humping Ken Shamrock's sister. Good. Good for him. Hey, Ken Shamrock is all upset about it. Good. Good for him. Hey, the Godfather is trying to wrestle. Bad. Bad for us.
The truly wretched fashion statements being made these days. What exactly was Too Much wearing? I had to turn down the brightness on my screen. It looked like they jumped Joseph and his 12 brothers. And are any of the colors that the Godfather had on in the color spectrum? Quick memo to Chyna: The object of pants is to find something that COVERS your ass.
The problem with the tag match was there were two many variables going on. You have two guys who can wrestle (X-Pac, Owen Hart). One guy he is really improving. (Dee Lo). One who feels it every once in a blue moon. (Jeff Jarrett) And two who stink beyond belief (Marc Henry, Triple H). So there were spurts of good wrestling (re: Dee Lo's Sky Hi; X-Pac trying to kick people in the face) but Hunter would wander in deliver a couple of high knees and things would come to a screeching halt. Hart wasn't doing anything in this match. He worked on sheer motor memory including applying the worst looking Sharpshooter. Then you have Jarrett who decided to be the bump machine in this match when no one else was. He gets posted and takes a stair bump. I all for Jeff trying but when no one else is, it looks really awkward. When Sean Waltman gets outbumped you know something is amiss. Then they still found a way to screw up the ending. Debra kept herself clothed but Chyna comes in and does the one thing she knows how to do. And that is all she wrote.

Phil Rippa