A new policy: if anyone says anything
at all disparaging about this report, it
will be considered as tantamount
to taking food out of my kitten's mouth. I am
in constant contact with the State
Attorney's Office, as well as with a trained
team of assassins who are nothing
if not covert, and shan't brook any
disparagement. Thanks!
What Worked:
Lizmark and Silver King get about
five minutes and we get a bunch of fluid
aerial stuff from both men (including
Silver King cross bodyblockin' out of the
ring) and some kicks that were
stiffer than Curt Hennig from the King, who is
my official underused luchador
of the week. And he goes over! Bang!
DC and the Armstrongs go at it for
the Worldwide tag straps! The Armstrongs as
faces work like nothing so much
as the Fantastics, with some utterly graceful
doubleteaming. If there were still
territories, you could pencil them in as
Continental Tag Champs (especially
if the Bullet were booking). Of course,
there aren't still territories,
so the best worker in the world isn't the
traveling world champ letting Pez
Whatley wrestle him for 60 minutes and tag
wrestling is dead. But the Armstrongs
still rule, and this was every bit as
good at their previous tag series
with Raven and Kanyon. DC goes over for the
belts, though. And they get a DC
Sucks chant!
Aw, mother of fuck. Bull Payne.
Bobby Duncum. Aerial stuff that didn't blow
from Duncum. Good pacing. Stiff
enough kicks. I don't want to see it again or
anything, but it was up here this
time.
Scott Stud and Prince TahitianTreat
have a solid if unspectacular match. A
buncha methodical offense, about
what you'd expect.
The best thing that ever happened
to Rey Mysterio was getting to know and love
his lovable booker. The second
best thing was getting to wrestle Ric Flair with
Flair playing heel. Fuck the rating
this got. Unlike Bigelow, Nash, or Norton,
Flair came off as a heavyweight
that Rey could beat, just because Flair
bothered to make his offense look
credible even though he had seven inches and
96 pounds (maybe 60 legit) on Rey.
Flair bumped like all heck for Thuggish
Ruggish Rey, and I really dug the
pacing and the psychology here, and was
completely able to suspend disbelief.
Lash and Lenny's match was awkward
in patches, but had nice spots and a
surprisingly versatile offense
from Lane.
What Didn't Work:
Scott Norton no-sold. Chip Minton
did a lot of dropkicks. This was really lame
and lacked drama, as does any Scott
Norton match. How the hell did NJ get the
belt off this pustra?
Barry Darsow and Jerry Flynn go
all Coliseum Video Fan Request match with
typical heaps of Darsow (as the
crowdpleasing Thunderfoot rips Darsow's shirt
off and then calls out Meng for
a future match).
Oh no! Mike Enos got Meng all over his Lodi pants! He'll never get that out!
Chris "I've Always Wanted to live
in Connecticut" Jericho and Saturn worked
well enough together, but the non-finish
was depressingly predictable and
advanced the storyline not at all.
Tony Gancarski.
Lucky lisp was not wasted on you!