I'm still on a high from sweet glorious football and the fact that I got to watch a lot of wrestling on Sunday (most of it 40 times better than Heat).
What Worked
Golly Gee
Andy, Gangrel/Togo was really good. I will ignore the glorified squash
part of this match and I will focus on the SWANK second rope moonsault
by Togo. Then Gangrel threw in a release Tiger suplex and all was right
with the world.
Three
weeks ago Edge had the best match in the short history of Heat, winning
me over on his ability. This week he continues to impress. Of course it
helps that he was in the ring with Taka. Mr. Michinoku gets in his share
of offense which is rare nowadays for anyone who has even heard of Michinoku
Pro. He gets off a Spinning DDT and a Springboard Dropkick. Edge came up
with a reverse suplex that I haven't seen him use before and it especially
looks cool if you do it on someone who is 75 pounds. Plus, if Phil can
put a Marty Jannety match in the What Worked column, I can put this match
here.
Since
the WWF doesn't have the go-to-guys like WCW (ex: Benoit, Guerrero, Malenko)
you never know were the good matches are going to come from. (I, of course,
am excluded all of KDX who are misused and Mick Foley). That's why I was
pleasantly pleased that D-Lo and Val Venis delivered something very watchable.
I have mentioned many reasons why I have no problems with Venis and Brown
has started to grow on me. I haven't seen the match from the PPV but I
am assuming that it was better than this. This match did have a clean ending
so it gets a thumbs up for that. I guess D-Lo's move to Warsaw really motivated
him.
What Didn't Work
Let me get
this straight. Kane and the Undertaker are supposed to be striking fear
into all the WWF Superstars. So to do this Mark Callous decide to do this
by turning into King Of Pancrase. WHERE THE HELL DID KNEEBAR COME FROM?!?!?!?!?
Did Dean send him a tape or something? I do like the fact that he is supposedly
"injuring people. Blackman and Animal. Don't stop there. Isn't that Hunter
Hearst Hemsley? I heard he called your mom a whore. Look it's Dustin Runnels.
He still makes fun of your Punisher days.
That
reminds me. Dustin Runnels sure looked like he had hit the chalice a few
times tonight before he staggered out to the crowd. It really is going
to take something on the order of the fishes and loaves to a) make me care
and b) make you have talent.
Marc
Mero and Jackie give an interview straight off of one of the old GLOW sets.
They had to make it quick though because Lady Godiva was waiting to do
her segment.
The
good half of the New Age Outlaws has a match with the bad half of Southern
Justice. See if Mark Canterbury was wrestling not Dennis Knight this would
have had potential because Canterbury looks like he is a problem solver
while Knight just looks pasty and flabby. Armstrong needs to lose the whole
Solid Gold audition thing too.
Vader
and Bradsaw do a lot of exposing the business as the two have the WORST
brawl in the history of wrestling. Throw in the fact that Ken Shamrock
wasn't doing anything to endear himself to me and you had the poopiest
part of the night.
Who
else was really disturbed when Brisco and Patterson where dragged out to
the ring with the clothes all unkempt? There were a million horrible things
going through my mind and nothing were funny, so you will just insert your
own joke about the Brisco Bodyshop.
I gave
him a second chance but Shane McMahon really isn't afraid to be really
really horrible. The WWF really needs to find someone who compliments Jim
Ross.
Mr.
McMahon announces the main event for Breakdown and a collective yawn goes
up from the crowd. It's pretty sad when you have to ask "remember when
these were called Triangle Matches."
Phil Rippa