What Worked:
You can't really fault the work
that Al Greene and Damien put out in their solo
match (especially with Al's second
rope "superarmdrag"), but this was clearly a
match between two men just marking
time in the undercard.
Vince/Iaukea was Worldwide Exclusive
formula, but the wrestlers seemed
energetic enough. And isn't that
what KLF's all about?
Jericho and Kidman had a nice little
match going for a while. Kidman came off
as the somewhat likable underdog
here, as the cocky heel Jericho toyed with
him. Then Jericho tried a powerbomb
and Saturn got involved and this got real
predictable, in a setting up the
PPV way. But this is free TV, so whaddya
expect?
The ringwork of Juvi and Psicosis
looked real nice when they were on offense
against the No Limit Soldier tagteam
of Thuggish Ruggish Rey and Gangsta
Charlie. I found Rey's selling
to be uninspired in places here, as being the
bookerman's bitch means you're
destined for bigger things, like one-note
bullshit matches with the bookerman
hisself. And Konnan was the forgettable
non-factor he almost always is.
I don't know. We're over 3 years into WCW Lucha
and Juvi's still Rey's bitch. Meanwhile,
Psicosis sleeps on the wet spot. It's
depressing in its predictability
sometimes.
Didn't Work:
Speaking of Rey, he gives the Big
G in the sky a shoutout thanking him for the
pushcito he's currently enjoying.
Fuck off, Oscar. If God has something to do
with Nash's booking -- and anyone
who doesn't think he used the phrase Vanilla
Midgets is as gullible as a widow
taking investment advice from a cold-calling
phone solicitor -- he's not my
God, and my lapsed Catholicism has reverted
into straight up agnosticism for
a period of at least thirty days.
So, Eric with a C Watts' new gimmick
apparently is that of a superannuated
Ecstasy pusher at one of those
top 40 dance clubs frequented by Cool Water ™
doused Guidos and wilted flower
bank tellers desperate to cash in on the
exponentially diminishing returns
of their womanhood and get a man to come home
with them, just once, this night
(never mind that their traumatized children
will grow up thinking that they
have 66 uncles, but hey). In other words, he
raided Eric Nies' 1993 wardrobe.
And back in the real world, we find that Eric
Watts is not a very good wrestler,
just as his MTV counterpart was a suckass
VJ. He and Disco have one of them
disjointed spot trading matches highlighted
by a couple of decent looking powermoves
on Ecstasy Eric's part. But for real
though, Eric seems to work on the
tightest of scripts. He had all the
transitions, smoothness, and extemporaneousness
of early Goldberg (as if
waiting for a cue from his Papa
Bill in the back). But Eric's been wrestling
for an entire decade, making it
too obvious that he and Hammer are two toady
piles of shit that DDP's trying
to polish into stars. Come the fuck on. If I
sent Malenko and Benoit my old
Fresh Jives, some Pumas, and recorded a fucking
jungle track for their entrance
music, will you pretty please push them? It
would be so much better than watching
Watts wrestle like he's reading
instructions off the fucking mat.
Shit, the STILLS of Flair/Goldberg had more
flow. The fucking photographs.
Good Gawd! Bang! Too Sweet! Arriba La Raza!
Fit must've realized he couldn't
do anything with Eaton, since taking his
decrepit ass to the glue factory
wasn't part of this match's script. Some
lethargic mat stuff here, followed
by the Fit-by-numbers stiffness. But what
else could he do with the old fuck?
Cripple him and send him into a much
deserved retirement? Not on this
show, sadly (which is too bad, because one of
the reasons I'm a Brisco mark was
when they retired Johnny Weaver in their
early-80s Mid Atlantic run, and
I wanted it to WHOO! GO BACK TO 1985!)
Morrus. Meng. Suck. Ass. All Night Long. Whoo.
Tony Gancarski.
Just one hit, and I feel great;
I support the welfare state!
Pulp. "Cocaine Socialism"