Being sick and traveling home for Thanksgiving
are my reasons for this bad boy for being so late. So Happy Thanksgiving
to all. Oh... and blatantly stealing an idea from "Phat" Tony, if anyone
wants any old issues of this report, e- mail me.
What Worked
Mick Foley
= GOD. All you need to do is listen to Mankind's rant on Sunday night and
you will know this. I am not sure what my favorite part of the segment
was. Was it Foley describing step by step why Mr. McMahon's lawn was going
to go to pot. Perhaps it was him tossing his shoes to the crowd. No I think
the actual gem was Mankind talking about the tag team of "Chainsaw Charlie,
Weedwhacker Willie and Leafblower Leif". I eagerly await how Foley is going
to work in McMahon's line about "not being able to shine shit" into a quote.
The crowd was firmly behind Mankind which was good since the WWF needed
to cemented him as a face. Still I think the easiest way to show why Mick
Foley is the most entertaining personality in wrestling is the example
of my roommate. My roomie watches ZERO wrestling. She has watched Heat
the last few weeks with me because it comes on before the Simpsons. Anyway,
the last few weeks Mick has come out and she has been completely enraptured
with him. I gave a quick Mick Foley 101 speech and then just let her watch.
After seeing the Hell in the Cell bump and this segment, not only was my
roommate laughing her ass off, she wanted to watch all of his matches.
Thank God for the trusty Best of Cactus Jack tape (courtesy of Mr. Scheinder).
Foley bringing more minions into the fold.
Al Snow
and Gangrel have a wrestling match that last more than a minute. It was
pure wrestling and it worked. Snow busts out the Ocean Cyclone Suplex for
like only the second time in the WWF. Both guys hit their finishers and
both remain credible. The end was fine with me too since it involved each
faction doing cool things (ie: the dueling missile dropkicks). Plus, Snow
didn't use the head. Hey, I'm all for this feud.
Animal
and Kevin Kelly looking completely befuddled at Droz's rambling interview.
Hey, at least their pretending to be as confused by this angle as I am
works. Hawk. Boobies.
The
Hardy Boyz (the Z is because they are from the streets; the Hardy is because
they are related.) More on the actual match later.
Ken
Shamrock and Val Venis each bring their working boots and put on enjoyable
little match. The ending is really what pushed this into this half of the
column as Shamrock and Venis work a SWANK dragon-screw legwhip into the
ankle- lock submission. Then Mankind hits the ring with running leafblower.
Eventually, Shamrock and Bossman work Mankind over, including Shamrock
leafblowing Foley. Ahh, that's some high quality entertainment.
Jim
Ross In. Jim Cornette Out.
What Didn't Work
See the
future of American wrestling is in the ring with some contenders to the
throne. They want to have a WRESTLING match but instead the Acolytes run
in and ruin everything. Yeah, this is a great way for me to love Simmons
and Bradshaw. I hope those two took the Hardys, Christopher and Taylor
for drinks afterwards because they oversold everything to make the two
worthless talents look good. Thank God for an OMEGA show during the first
week of December to allow me to get my Hardy boy fix.
First
Bossman and Marc Mero have a match. Then Mero gets on THE STICK and fires
Jackie. And I am supposed to think that this is going to work. Yeah, and
the Giants have a shot of beating the 49ers.
The
rest of the Hawk trying to kill himself and Droz interview didn't work.
Besides the fact that no one cares if Hawk is trying to kill himself, I
really can't stand the fact that the announcers have completely ignored
the fact that Droz stole a page straight from "A Separate Piece" (quick
name the author - answer later) by pushing Hawk off. Guess they weren't
paying attention during 9th grade English.
Heat
gets stuck in a timewarp and we are taken back to every Raw from 1997 as
Mr. McMahon comes out and talks for the first 10 minutes of the show. Screw
the people. Corporate champion, asshole, etc....
I can't
believe that someone thought that "well you know, maybe if we put Jeff
Jarrett in the ring with Kurrigan, he can carry him to a watchable match."
Considering Jarrett is getting carried by Debra McMichael right now that
wasn't going to happen. I just kept hoping that if Sable and Debra touched,
it would be like matter and antimatter touching and they would both disappear.
John
Knowles wrote "A Separate Piece". Congratulations to all of you who knew
the answer. Congratulations to all of you who didn't know the answer, since
that means you probably didn't have to suffer by reading it.
"Watch Out! Hardcore Champion Coming Through"
Phil Rippa