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February WrassleGAF |BO-T| And Bo-ing is Half the Battle
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A few notable Rumble notes:
Brodus Clay was first. There was much rejoicing that he wouldn't win.
Freight Train was #2, which means we got his full entrance. Also he was first out.
Got scared of Ganondorf, who was making eliminations left and right. Until Mark Henry matched that number.
Batista eliminated Bishoptl - which means I'm getting banned.
And a lot more. Exciting stuff, the archive is in two parts:
Part 1: http://www.twitch.tv/sunnybuns/b/366540510
Part 2: http://www.twitch.tv/sunnybuns/b/366549441
Also enjoy the higher-res video!
Also, we can change our avatars to Show now and stop on March 1st if you all want, as a consensus. 3 weeks is a long time to sit on this and wait.
I want it to last until Mid March or something. We need to suffer through this, together.
Also, I'll add my avatar tomorrow. Too late for me to find something atm.
Professor Beef
Banned
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
Got my avatar up :/
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Lets do this.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
Member
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x330gw_wwe-kurt-angle-vs-big-show-showster_news#.URncV2ff2TM
I want to get my avatar from this video but the quality sucks ass v_v
Anybody has a higher quality version pretty please?
I want to get my avatar from this video but the quality sucks ass v_v
Anybody has a higher quality version pretty please?
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Yes! Change now until March 1st!A few notable Rumble notes:
Brodus Clay was first. There was much rejoicing that he wouldn't win.
Freight Train was #2, which means we got his full entrance. Also he was first out.
Got scared of Ganondorf, who was making eliminations left and right. Until Mark Henry matched that number.
Batista eliminated Bishoptl - which means I'm getting banned.
And a lot more. Exciting stuff, the archive is in two parts:
Part 1: http://www.twitch.tv/sunnybuns/b/366540510
Part 2: http://www.twitch.tv/sunnybuns/b/366549441
Also enjoy the higher-res video!
Also, we can change our avatars to Show now and stop on March 1st if you all want, as a consensus. 3 weeks is a long time to sit on this and wait.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
If you REALLY want to wait for March 1st, that's fine. I figured I'd just do mine, fuck it.
When's the March WWE PPV? Maybe we can get rid of em then. New ones for the Road To Wrestlemania.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
How do I look?
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Waiting is for cowards.
mechashiva
Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nak86dUBYSc&sns=em
One Man Kru's promos have improved a ton over the time between now and that video someone posted last month. All hail the Kru!
One Man Kru's promos have improved a ton over the time between now and that video someone posted last month. All hail the Kru!
So do I. LOL.
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Deleted member 47027
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x330gw_wwe-kurt-angle-vs-big-show-showster_news#.URncV2ff2TM
I want to get my avatar from this video but the quality sucks ass v_v
Anybody has a higher quality version pretty please?
You might be able to pull something from here:
http://www.wwe.com/videos/big-show-vs-kurt-angle-backlash-2000-25058069
Also free generico in japan download http://new.ivpvideos2.com/product_info.php?products_id=9942
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Deleted member 47027
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No, you didn't submit anyone.
But you could do it in a show of solidarity. Or I could get you a pic of the GWF TV Title as you beat Heavy.
I don't want to jinx it, man.
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Deleted member 47027
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Oh my god, Cagey's avatar has me in tears
slightconfuse
Banned
Going to sleep. I'll have one up later
HarryDemeanor
Member
Done.
bean breath
Member
It looks good, girl.
Professor Beef
Banned
I'll get a proper avatar done this week, then.
The Mango Sentinel
Member
Yeah I don't wanna do anything either because I'm lazy. Plus I didn't participate in this bullshit!! Big Nasty Paul Wight can go to hell.
But I would gladly wear an avatar of Big Show holding that little girl at WM 18 if someone made it for me.
Wrestlemania!! WOOOO!!
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Man that was fun, though. I'm gonna head to bed. You're all great people and I'm glad you all came, tons of fun. I have a super special secret spoiler about the show tonight.
A day ago, once I finalized the roster, I did a test run on the game to see how it'd handle it, make sure there was nothing amiss. Big Show entered at #40 in that one and won it also. I figured there was no way he could possibly win again. Fucking insane. I'm so unhappy
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WCW Halloween Havoc 10/29/2000
Live from MGM Grand in Las Vegas! No longer brought to you by Slim Jim, but by Backstage Assault. Pretty fitting for one of the worst wrestling games ever to sponsor the show. The one show a year where you expect a cool set doesn't get it this year. The same set up as every show. What a bummer.
Boogie Knights vs NBT vs Filthy Animals WCW Tag Team Championships
Jindrak reminds Madden of Arn Anderson. The NBT also remind him of a white Harlem Heat. I'm surprised that Alex Wright wasn't brought in to WWE for HHH to get his win back. Disco gets huge heat. Rey drops the dime. Tower of doom spot. Kidman landed hard. Kind of breaks down and everyone gets confused before it settles down. O'Haire may have a leg injury. Super hip toss to Kidman. Sean throws Rey over the top. Alex catches it into a belly to belly. Kidman breaks up the pin. The cameras miss BOTH Rey and Kidman's dives to the floor. First they missed Kidman's by focusing on Rey, but then they cut to the floor where Kidman landed and missed Rey's. Alex runs into Rey and falls over the ropes. I don't know how, but he did. Chartbuster on Jindrak. Rey breaks it up. Seanton Bomb. Thrillers retain. The heels beat up the Animals after the match. Konnan slides in and gets put down right away. Sgt. AWOL hits the ring and clears them out.
Reno vs Sgt. AWOL WCW Hardcore Championship
Wall just stayed out there. Huge flap jack through a table about 10 seconds in. Reno's shorts get shorter every show. They were basically high waters. Then they were normal shorts to the knee. Then they were above the knee. Now they're slightly longer than Muay Thai shorts. FUCK. Wall fucking crushes a kendo stick on the back of Reno's head. Full fucking force. Jesus. Wall puts a trash can on Reno's head and kicks it. Twice. Roll of the Dice on the ramp. Reno is dropped off the stage through two stacked tables. An atomic throw. Wall doesn't go for a pin or anything.
They head to the back. The clearly fake lap top and monitors show up again. There just happened to be a table leaning up against a garage door. That doesn't make any sense. The computer monitor that Wall threw at a pillar is unplugged, but still has a picture on the screen. They make it back to the arena, but Wall punches Finlay on the way for no reason. FIIIIRRREDDD UPPP FUUUUCCCKKKK YYYOOOUUUUUU!! Tony is setting Mark up for these. That cock. Madden must have lost some bet where he HAD to do Tommy Rich anyone time someone said "fired up". Roll of the Dice on a propped table on the floor. Reno retains. The Perfect Event hit the ring to beat on Wall after the match. Lash and Chavo make the save.
EARLIER TODAY. Shane talked with the NBT. I was wondering how Perfect Event and Reno made it to the back in different clothes and not sweaty while they were still in the ring. Earlier Today didn't pop up for about 10 seconds into this.
Goldberg actually DID KO himself on Thunder spearing the corner. His head cracked into it and made a terrible sound. Goldberg hasn't arrived yet and no one knows the extent of his injuries.
TO THE BACK. Kronik talk with the Nevada State Wrestling Commission and inform them that Goldberg has a head and neck injury and if he shows up, they should check him.
Perfect Event vs MIA
Impromptu match. Hopefully this is short and is the last straw for the Perfect Event. I don't know why they kept the Perfect Event name when they stopped doing the Perfect and Lex gimmicks months ago. Probably a good 5 months since the Perfect gimmick ended, and 3 or so for the Lex rip off. I'd be okay with Chuck vs Chavo. Zero interest in Lash or Meat. Chuck accidentally hits Meat with the super kick, leading to Chavo making the pin. MIA win. The whole match the announcers talked about how stupid Stasiak was and how much better Chuck was in the ring. I think they even went so far as to say that Chuck would have been better off in a handicap match.
TO THE BACK. The trainer and Animals suggest Konnan not to wrestle. He's going to come out anyway. Joy. Happy happy fucking joy joy you WCW cunts!!!!!!!
Shane Douglas/Wonder Woman vs Konnan/Tygress
I don't know how you can lose with Wonder Woman as your partner. Tygress comes out alone. Match goes for a few minutes until Konnan shows up, but he's still hurt. His back is so hurt he couldn't make it out for the match, but he could do his rolling clothesline? Tygress is the best worker in this match. This is awful. Lol. Shane punched Tygress right in the face like it ain't no thang. The video quality is really bad, but the camera work is worse. Almost all hard cam shots for the YAKs. I'm not kidding when I say Tygress is the best worker in this match. Torrie hit the Franchiser on Konnan! Shane is so blown up. He might throw up. The Animals pin Shane with a double face buster. This was actually worse than what you could imagine.
TO THE BACK. Gene is with David and some doctors. He's going to prove Buff is the father tomorrow.
Buff Bagwell vs David Flair DNA Match
It's a first blood match. Madden thinks the rules are you have to jerk off your opponent. David does all of Ric's spots. Buff dominates. Fans and the announcers popped huge for the Flair flop. The video quality is bad, but I swear Buff's skin is the same color as his tights. His hair always weirded me out. Buff busts David open with a chair shot. He doesn't have to give a blood sample. At least it was short. After the match, Lex Luger came out to celebrate only to SWERVE Buff! Buff had internal bleeding from a clothesline? Whatever, David gets a DNA sample anyway, making the entire match a complete waste of time. Why didn't they just have that be the finish of the match? Even stranger: Why were the announcers surprised that Lex turned on Buff? Lex turned on EVERYONE he was ever associated with. And before Lex feuded with Chuck and went off TV, he and Flair were feuding with Shane and Buff.
TO THE BACK. They followed David all the way to the lab techs. Goldberg arrived. Paula is with Steiner. I don't now what he said. Something about having a big dick, I think.
Mike Sanders vs The Cat Kick Boxing Match for the WCW Commissionership
"This is gonna be me dead in your ass!" I don't know what that means, Mike. Are you going to fuck him until YOU die? Head kick! Sanders goes down! Standing 8 count. Round one is over. The longest 2 minutes in WCW history. Wait, didn't Buff and Piper have a boxing match? I'm sure that was terrible as all boxing matches with pro wrestlers are terrible. Sanders has not landed a single strike. Chuck and Meat were going to throw in the towel, but they were arguing over it. Round 2 over. "There's a YAK in the ring with a number in her hand." Shane Douglas comes out to calm the Perfect Event down. Round 3 starts and the ref isn't even in the ring. Shane punches Cat with his handy dandy chain, but Cat gets up at 9. Even though he was down for close to 20 seconds. And the ref just stopped at 9 because Cat moved his arm. But then the bell rang once he got up so Cat jumped to the floor to beat up Shane and threw a glove at Mark Madden. Cat gets counted out? What? Not counted down, counted out in a kick boxing match. Well after the round was over, too. What the fuck? Mike Sanders is the new commissioner. What a TERRIBLE match and a TERRIBLE finish. It doesn't even make sense. A. How is there a count out in a kick boxing match? B. How does that count out occur a good minute after the final round ended? C. Why would a ref stop at 9 because the guy on the mat moved his arm? D. Why would the ref allow 2 corner men and a third to come down in the middle of the match? E. The ref CLEARLY should have stopped the fight by the second round when Sanders was not defending himself in anyway and was repeatedly knocked down. F. WHY THE FUCK DO WRESTLING PROMOTIONS BOOK WORKED BOXING/KICKBOXING MATCHES? They always suck.
TO THE BACK. The Commission asks Goldberg about his brain and if he's okay to wrestle tonight. Gene is with Kronik. Crush has the weirdest speaking patterns.
Mike Awesome vs Vampiro
This match better save the show, because so far it's been pretty terrible. Vamp wants Awesome to put his title shot on the line. He agrees. Awesome does a tope straight into open guard. He should have dropped some hamma fists! We are out into the crowd. They should go into the casino. Awesome bomb through a craps table would be boss. Vamp grabs a random microphone stand somewhere deep in the crowd. Then he grabs a cane and uses it. Then a fan jumps and headbutts Awesome, but gets put down by both Vamp and Awesome. Got the biggest pop of the night.
They quickly make it back to ringside and have a chair duel. Van Daminator. Kind of. Stevie Ray is hilarious. He makes Tony repeat every stupid thing he says. If he messed up a word, uses a strange word, sells something too much, undersells something, just anything. Huge super belly to belly from Vamp. I think Mike was supposed to catch Vamp in a powerbomb, but instead it was a flying dick to the face with Awesome just falling back. Tony says Mike Awesome brought tables to the forefront in WCW. What about the Public Enemy? Or Cactus Jack? Or the hardcore division for the past 2 years? Awesome throws a table at Vamp. Nail in the Coffin, but Vamp doesn't go for a pin and instead looks for something under all sides of the ring. He can't find whatever it is he's looking for. Sitout Awesome Bomb on the floor! Avalanche Awesome Bomb not only wins the match, but ends Vampiro's WCW career with a concussion.
TO THE BACK. Gene is with the MIA. I think Hugh considers himself a C-Team level guy. That's kind of weird.
Vampiro is being helped out of the ring by refs and trainers. The winners of the WCW Mastercard package are shown.
Lance Storm/Jim Duggan vs General Rection Canadian Championship
Wait, this is a handicap match? Since when? It wasn't a handicap match as of Thunder. Crowd is really hot for it, but only because they like to chant USA. The match itself is boring as balls. And everyone knows that balls are boring. A lot of miscommunications between the Canadians. #hardbodiedref gets bumped. Prime Time comes to the ring with a 2x4, but Gunns hits him with a flag. She won't allow Lance to use the board. Duggan tries and Hugh pins Duggan with the moonsault. New champion! Major Gunns returns home! I find it hard to believe that Hugh can beat two men when he hasn't won a match against any of the Canadians in months.
TO THE BACK. Paula is with Double J. How can you evolve from a has been to a never was? Does that make sense to anyone else?
Jeff Jarrett vs Sting
They immediately go to the floor and brawl for a bit. Stinger splash! A second one is blocked, but the block is blocked. Sting knocks Jeff to the floor. 1989 Sting comes to the ramp. 2000 Sting fights with him.
Deathdrop on the stage. They head into the crowd when 1990 Sting starts a fight. Deathdrop on the stage. Tony says that is just what Sting looked like when he won his first world title in 1990, except for the face paint and tights being different. He actually said that. And somehow 1989 Sting and 1990 Sting are way different.
Wolfpac Sting is out next. Sting REALLY doesn't like this one. Even he hates that shitty red paint. Deathdrop on the stage.
Jeff hits Sting in the shoulder with a bat and then cracks him a few more times. Why hasn't a DQ been called? Maybe ghosts don't count as outside interference. Or maybe you can't get a DQ for fighting yourself. Look, I get the story that Sting is fighting to prove to himself and everyone else he's still got it, but taking that to the literal extreme is stupid. Crow Sting pops out from under the mat and pulls 2000 Sting in.
They both pop up seconds later and 2000 threw Crow Sting out of the ring. 2000 Sting was about to hit the death drop when ANOTHER Sting repels from the rafters and eats a deathdrop through the announce table, but not before all his face paint and wig fell off.
Sting 2000 gets back in the ring where Chris Harris Sting hits him with a guitar. He no sells it and gives him a deathdrop.
Jarrett had another guitar hidden at ringside, whacks Sting, and gets the win. This was a face palm and a half. So fucking stupid. This show has been awful. This might be the most over booked Jarrett match I've ever seen, and some of those NWA title matches in the first couple years of TNA were absolutely ludicrous. Fuck. There were probably something like 5 minutes of actual match between Sting and Jarrett and the rest was Sting vs various other Stings. This is neck and neck with Spring Stampede for the shittiest show I've seen so far.
TO THE BACK. Paula is with Booker. WCW was showing a replay of Thunder Down Under on PPV. Wat. Booker is going to let Goldberg be the main event so he can have more time to get his head clear.
Booker T vs Scott Steiner WCW Championship
Not only is the title match not last, but Booker came out first.
TO THE BACK. Steiner choked Ricky Santana at the Gorilla positions because this match was suppose to go on last.
"He's been known to kill bookers before." Steiner jumps into the crowd to run after a fan. He's probably the most legitimate "this dude is fucking crazy and will kill a fan" guy in decades. What I wouldn't do for someone to chase people in a WWE crowd. Can you imagine a pissed off Mark Henry jumping the rail to scare people? Body slam through the new announce table. Scott loves fucking with Stevie. Scott Steiner should be in the next Terminator movie as a Terminator who has some bad wiring. He doesn't give a fuck about killing John Connor, he just runs around curling cars and screaming gibberish and trying to fuck everything. Steiner counters the ax kick with a Steinerline. Super Samoan drop. This is could be good if it goes on. Every time Book starts a come back, Steiner cuts him off. Crowd is probably 70/30 in Steiner's favor. Missile drop kick only gets a two count. Book goes for the Harlem side kick, but Steiner hits him in the knee with a pipe. Then he puts Charles Robinson in the tree of woe. Steiner Recliner! #hardbodiedref hits the ring, but Steiner takes him out. Slick runs in and gets cracked in the face with a pipe. Security hit the ring and Scott takes them all out. Slick called for the bell before he got hit, but I'm not sure if it was a DQ or because Booker gave up. Jarrett comes out to try to control Scott. Booker retains via DQ. This was shaping up to be a good match before it got cut short for a DQ. A DQ that didn't even make sense. Robinson didn't call for a DQ when Steiner used the pipe, so I don't know why Scott put him in the tree of woe. Then when Scott Armstrong came out, he wasn't going to call for a DQ. He was checking to see if Booker was giving up. Scott let go of the Recliner to attack him. Fans were booing.
Kronik vs Goldberg
Fans were still booing when Kronik came out. So much so that Tony had to mention it. Mickie Jay gives Kronik the win via forfeit, but...
TO THE BACK.
The Commission finally made their decision to allow Goldberg to wrestle. They waited until there were 5 minutes left in the show to make that decision? And he still headbutts the door despite having a concussion a few days prior?
Stevie is PISSED that Kronik got a table out from under the ring, yet they don't have a table after having two broken. Wrath gets speared through a table. He's eliminated. Jackhammer to Crush. Goldberg wins. This wasn't even five minutes. That's your main event? After you just had a DQ finish to your title match? Something must have gone long because the show went to black not even 10 seconds after Goldberg won the match.
This show fucking sucked. It might be worse than Spring Stampede. SS had like 14 matches, most of which were in the 6 minute range. This show had less matches, but they were all longer most of them had terrible finishes and most of them sucked. You had a kick boxing match that ended in a count out, a mixed tag where a former Nitro girl was the best worker, a first blood match where David lost but got Buff's blood anyway which defeated the purpose of the match, a 15 minute Sting match where over half of it was spent on Sting fighting dudes dressed up like him from different eras only for him to lose to a guitar shot, a DQ finish in the title match that wasn't even the main event that kept fans booing into the real main even which was a 4 minute handicap match. What the fuck. And in the title match, Booker got dominated and punked out. The crowd treated him like Cena. Awesome vs Vamp was okay, I guess. The triple threat tag was fine. Everything else was anywhere from bad to terrible.
Lance sums it up:
A list of things that WWE had done in the past few years that WCW 2000 did first:
A big rookie heel group, the championship matches not main eventing TV or PPVs, pipebombs, an interactive internet companion to shows, Cat's music and catch phrases, pretending Chris Benoit doesn't exist, having Bret Hart look old and sad, terrible fake laughing from announcers, SHOOT names, a three man comedy music group, a monster turning into a goofy dancing gimmick, champions who regularly don't show up on the blue colored B show, an overly snarky announcer that is a detriment to shows, women who literally float between alignments based on the week, faces who are absolute shit heads, American hating heel holding the US Championship, having a woman and non wrestler win the Cruiserweight Championship, guys coming out and burying other guys or the company, start and stop pushes, guys who are super over and ready to be the next star losing every match against anyone more established than them, David Arquette, Michael Buffer, and a lot of other things I can't think of at the moment.
BONUS:
WCW Halloween Havoc 10/29/2000
Live from MGM Grand in Las Vegas! No longer brought to you by Slim Jim, but by Backstage Assault. Pretty fitting for one of the worst wrestling games ever to sponsor the show. The one show a year where you expect a cool set doesn't get it this year. The same set up as every show. What a bummer.
Boogie Knights vs NBT vs Filthy Animals WCW Tag Team Championships
Jindrak reminds Madden of Arn Anderson. The NBT also remind him of a white Harlem Heat. I'm surprised that Alex Wright wasn't brought in to WWE for HHH to get his win back. Disco gets huge heat. Rey drops the dime. Tower of doom spot. Kidman landed hard. Kind of breaks down and everyone gets confused before it settles down. O'Haire may have a leg injury. Super hip toss to Kidman. Sean throws Rey over the top. Alex catches it into a belly to belly. Kidman breaks up the pin. The cameras miss BOTH Rey and Kidman's dives to the floor. First they missed Kidman's by focusing on Rey, but then they cut to the floor where Kidman landed and missed Rey's. Alex runs into Rey and falls over the ropes. I don't know how, but he did. Chartbuster on Jindrak. Rey breaks it up. Seanton Bomb. Thrillers retain. The heels beat up the Animals after the match. Konnan slides in and gets put down right away. Sgt. AWOL hits the ring and clears them out.
Reno vs Sgt. AWOL WCW Hardcore Championship
Wall just stayed out there. Huge flap jack through a table about 10 seconds in. Reno's shorts get shorter every show. They were basically high waters. Then they were normal shorts to the knee. Then they were above the knee. Now they're slightly longer than Muay Thai shorts. FUCK. Wall fucking crushes a kendo stick on the back of Reno's head. Full fucking force. Jesus. Wall puts a trash can on Reno's head and kicks it. Twice. Roll of the Dice on the ramp. Reno is dropped off the stage through two stacked tables. An atomic throw. Wall doesn't go for a pin or anything.
They head to the back. The clearly fake lap top and monitors show up again. There just happened to be a table leaning up against a garage door. That doesn't make any sense. The computer monitor that Wall threw at a pillar is unplugged, but still has a picture on the screen. They make it back to the arena, but Wall punches Finlay on the way for no reason. FIIIIRRREDDD UPPP FUUUUCCCKKKK YYYOOOUUUUUU!! Tony is setting Mark up for these. That cock. Madden must have lost some bet where he HAD to do Tommy Rich anyone time someone said "fired up". Roll of the Dice on a propped table on the floor. Reno retains. The Perfect Event hit the ring to beat on Wall after the match. Lash and Chavo make the save.
EARLIER TODAY. Shane talked with the NBT. I was wondering how Perfect Event and Reno made it to the back in different clothes and not sweaty while they were still in the ring. Earlier Today didn't pop up for about 10 seconds into this.
Goldberg actually DID KO himself on Thunder spearing the corner. His head cracked into it and made a terrible sound. Goldberg hasn't arrived yet and no one knows the extent of his injuries.
TO THE BACK. Kronik talk with the Nevada State Wrestling Commission and inform them that Goldberg has a head and neck injury and if he shows up, they should check him.
Perfect Event vs MIA
Impromptu match. Hopefully this is short and is the last straw for the Perfect Event. I don't know why they kept the Perfect Event name when they stopped doing the Perfect and Lex gimmicks months ago. Probably a good 5 months since the Perfect gimmick ended, and 3 or so for the Lex rip off. I'd be okay with Chuck vs Chavo. Zero interest in Lash or Meat. Chuck accidentally hits Meat with the super kick, leading to Chavo making the pin. MIA win. The whole match the announcers talked about how stupid Stasiak was and how much better Chuck was in the ring. I think they even went so far as to say that Chuck would have been better off in a handicap match.
TO THE BACK. The trainer and Animals suggest Konnan not to wrestle. He's going to come out anyway. Joy. Happy happy fucking joy joy you WCW cunts!!!!!!!
Shane Douglas/Wonder Woman vs Konnan/Tygress
I don't know how you can lose with Wonder Woman as your partner. Tygress comes out alone. Match goes for a few minutes until Konnan shows up, but he's still hurt. His back is so hurt he couldn't make it out for the match, but he could do his rolling clothesline? Tygress is the best worker in this match. This is awful. Lol. Shane punched Tygress right in the face like it ain't no thang. The video quality is really bad, but the camera work is worse. Almost all hard cam shots for the YAKs. I'm not kidding when I say Tygress is the best worker in this match. Torrie hit the Franchiser on Konnan! Shane is so blown up. He might throw up. The Animals pin Shane with a double face buster. This was actually worse than what you could imagine.
TO THE BACK. Gene is with David and some doctors. He's going to prove Buff is the father tomorrow.
Buff Bagwell vs David Flair DNA Match
It's a first blood match. Madden thinks the rules are you have to jerk off your opponent. David does all of Ric's spots. Buff dominates. Fans and the announcers popped huge for the Flair flop. The video quality is bad, but I swear Buff's skin is the same color as his tights. His hair always weirded me out. Buff busts David open with a chair shot. He doesn't have to give a blood sample. At least it was short. After the match, Lex Luger came out to celebrate only to SWERVE Buff! Buff had internal bleeding from a clothesline? Whatever, David gets a DNA sample anyway, making the entire match a complete waste of time. Why didn't they just have that be the finish of the match? Even stranger: Why were the announcers surprised that Lex turned on Buff? Lex turned on EVERYONE he was ever associated with. And before Lex feuded with Chuck and went off TV, he and Flair were feuding with Shane and Buff.
TO THE BACK. They followed David all the way to the lab techs. Goldberg arrived. Paula is with Steiner. I don't now what he said. Something about having a big dick, I think.
Mike Sanders vs The Cat Kick Boxing Match for the WCW Commissionership
"This is gonna be me dead in your ass!" I don't know what that means, Mike. Are you going to fuck him until YOU die? Head kick! Sanders goes down! Standing 8 count. Round one is over. The longest 2 minutes in WCW history. Wait, didn't Buff and Piper have a boxing match? I'm sure that was terrible as all boxing matches with pro wrestlers are terrible. Sanders has not landed a single strike. Chuck and Meat were going to throw in the towel, but they were arguing over it. Round 2 over. "There's a YAK in the ring with a number in her hand." Shane Douglas comes out to calm the Perfect Event down. Round 3 starts and the ref isn't even in the ring. Shane punches Cat with his handy dandy chain, but Cat gets up at 9. Even though he was down for close to 20 seconds. And the ref just stopped at 9 because Cat moved his arm. But then the bell rang once he got up so Cat jumped to the floor to beat up Shane and threw a glove at Mark Madden. Cat gets counted out? What? Not counted down, counted out in a kick boxing match. Well after the round was over, too. What the fuck? Mike Sanders is the new commissioner. What a TERRIBLE match and a TERRIBLE finish. It doesn't even make sense. A. How is there a count out in a kick boxing match? B. How does that count out occur a good minute after the final round ended? C. Why would a ref stop at 9 because the guy on the mat moved his arm? D. Why would the ref allow 2 corner men and a third to come down in the middle of the match? E. The ref CLEARLY should have stopped the fight by the second round when Sanders was not defending himself in anyway and was repeatedly knocked down. F. WHY THE FUCK DO WRESTLING PROMOTIONS BOOK WORKED BOXING/KICKBOXING MATCHES? They always suck.
TO THE BACK. The Commission asks Goldberg about his brain and if he's okay to wrestle tonight. Gene is with Kronik. Crush has the weirdest speaking patterns.
Mike Awesome vs Vampiro
This match better save the show, because so far it's been pretty terrible. Vamp wants Awesome to put his title shot on the line. He agrees. Awesome does a tope straight into open guard. He should have dropped some hamma fists! We are out into the crowd. They should go into the casino. Awesome bomb through a craps table would be boss. Vamp grabs a random microphone stand somewhere deep in the crowd. Then he grabs a cane and uses it. Then a fan jumps and headbutts Awesome, but gets put down by both Vamp and Awesome. Got the biggest pop of the night.
They quickly make it back to ringside and have a chair duel. Van Daminator. Kind of. Stevie Ray is hilarious. He makes Tony repeat every stupid thing he says. If he messed up a word, uses a strange word, sells something too much, undersells something, just anything. Huge super belly to belly from Vamp. I think Mike was supposed to catch Vamp in a powerbomb, but instead it was a flying dick to the face with Awesome just falling back. Tony says Mike Awesome brought tables to the forefront in WCW. What about the Public Enemy? Or Cactus Jack? Or the hardcore division for the past 2 years? Awesome throws a table at Vamp. Nail in the Coffin, but Vamp doesn't go for a pin and instead looks for something under all sides of the ring. He can't find whatever it is he's looking for. Sitout Awesome Bomb on the floor! Avalanche Awesome Bomb not only wins the match, but ends Vampiro's WCW career with a concussion.
TO THE BACK. Gene is with the MIA. I think Hugh considers himself a C-Team level guy. That's kind of weird.
Vampiro is being helped out of the ring by refs and trainers. The winners of the WCW Mastercard package are shown.
Lance Storm/Jim Duggan vs General Rection Canadian Championship
Wait, this is a handicap match? Since when? It wasn't a handicap match as of Thunder. Crowd is really hot for it, but only because they like to chant USA. The match itself is boring as balls. And everyone knows that balls are boring. A lot of miscommunications between the Canadians. #hardbodiedref gets bumped. Prime Time comes to the ring with a 2x4, but Gunns hits him with a flag. She won't allow Lance to use the board. Duggan tries and Hugh pins Duggan with the moonsault. New champion! Major Gunns returns home! I find it hard to believe that Hugh can beat two men when he hasn't won a match against any of the Canadians in months.
TO THE BACK. Paula is with Double J. How can you evolve from a has been to a never was? Does that make sense to anyone else?
Jeff Jarrett vs Sting
They immediately go to the floor and brawl for a bit. Stinger splash! A second one is blocked, but the block is blocked. Sting knocks Jeff to the floor. 1989 Sting comes to the ramp. 2000 Sting fights with him.
Deathdrop on the stage. They head into the crowd when 1990 Sting starts a fight. Deathdrop on the stage. Tony says that is just what Sting looked like when he won his first world title in 1990, except for the face paint and tights being different. He actually said that. And somehow 1989 Sting and 1990 Sting are way different.
Wolfpac Sting is out next. Sting REALLY doesn't like this one. Even he hates that shitty red paint. Deathdrop on the stage.
Jeff hits Sting in the shoulder with a bat and then cracks him a few more times. Why hasn't a DQ been called? Maybe ghosts don't count as outside interference. Or maybe you can't get a DQ for fighting yourself. Look, I get the story that Sting is fighting to prove to himself and everyone else he's still got it, but taking that to the literal extreme is stupid. Crow Sting pops out from under the mat and pulls 2000 Sting in.
They both pop up seconds later and 2000 threw Crow Sting out of the ring. 2000 Sting was about to hit the death drop when ANOTHER Sting repels from the rafters and eats a deathdrop through the announce table, but not before all his face paint and wig fell off.
Sting 2000 gets back in the ring where Chris Harris Sting hits him with a guitar. He no sells it and gives him a deathdrop.
Jarrett had another guitar hidden at ringside, whacks Sting, and gets the win. This was a face palm and a half. So fucking stupid. This show has been awful. This might be the most over booked Jarrett match I've ever seen, and some of those NWA title matches in the first couple years of TNA were absolutely ludicrous. Fuck. There were probably something like 5 minutes of actual match between Sting and Jarrett and the rest was Sting vs various other Stings. This is neck and neck with Spring Stampede for the shittiest show I've seen so far.
TO THE BACK. Paula is with Booker. WCW was showing a replay of Thunder Down Under on PPV. Wat. Booker is going to let Goldberg be the main event so he can have more time to get his head clear.
Booker T vs Scott Steiner WCW Championship
Not only is the title match not last, but Booker came out first.
TO THE BACK. Steiner choked Ricky Santana at the Gorilla positions because this match was suppose to go on last.
"He's been known to kill bookers before." Steiner jumps into the crowd to run after a fan. He's probably the most legitimate "this dude is fucking crazy and will kill a fan" guy in decades. What I wouldn't do for someone to chase people in a WWE crowd. Can you imagine a pissed off Mark Henry jumping the rail to scare people? Body slam through the new announce table. Scott loves fucking with Stevie. Scott Steiner should be in the next Terminator movie as a Terminator who has some bad wiring. He doesn't give a fuck about killing John Connor, he just runs around curling cars and screaming gibberish and trying to fuck everything. Steiner counters the ax kick with a Steinerline. Super Samoan drop. This is could be good if it goes on. Every time Book starts a come back, Steiner cuts him off. Crowd is probably 70/30 in Steiner's favor. Missile drop kick only gets a two count. Book goes for the Harlem side kick, but Steiner hits him in the knee with a pipe. Then he puts Charles Robinson in the tree of woe. Steiner Recliner! #hardbodiedref hits the ring, but Steiner takes him out. Slick runs in and gets cracked in the face with a pipe. Security hit the ring and Scott takes them all out. Slick called for the bell before he got hit, but I'm not sure if it was a DQ or because Booker gave up. Jarrett comes out to try to control Scott. Booker retains via DQ. This was shaping up to be a good match before it got cut short for a DQ. A DQ that didn't even make sense. Robinson didn't call for a DQ when Steiner used the pipe, so I don't know why Scott put him in the tree of woe. Then when Scott Armstrong came out, he wasn't going to call for a DQ. He was checking to see if Booker was giving up. Scott let go of the Recliner to attack him. Fans were booing.
Kronik vs Goldberg
Fans were still booing when Kronik came out. So much so that Tony had to mention it. Mickie Jay gives Kronik the win via forfeit, but...
TO THE BACK.
The Commission finally made their decision to allow Goldberg to wrestle. They waited until there were 5 minutes left in the show to make that decision? And he still headbutts the door despite having a concussion a few days prior?
Stevie is PISSED that Kronik got a table out from under the ring, yet they don't have a table after having two broken. Wrath gets speared through a table. He's eliminated. Jackhammer to Crush. Goldberg wins. This wasn't even five minutes. That's your main event? After you just had a DQ finish to your title match? Something must have gone long because the show went to black not even 10 seconds after Goldberg won the match.
This show fucking sucked. It might be worse than Spring Stampede. SS had like 14 matches, most of which were in the 6 minute range. This show had less matches, but they were all longer most of them had terrible finishes and most of them sucked. You had a kick boxing match that ended in a count out, a mixed tag where a former Nitro girl was the best worker, a first blood match where David lost but got Buff's blood anyway which defeated the purpose of the match, a 15 minute Sting match where over half of it was spent on Sting fighting dudes dressed up like him from different eras only for him to lose to a guitar shot, a DQ finish in the title match that wasn't even the main event that kept fans booing into the real main even which was a 4 minute handicap match. What the fuck. And in the title match, Booker got dominated and punked out. The crowd treated him like Cena. Awesome vs Vamp was okay, I guess. The triple threat tag was fine. Everything else was anywhere from bad to terrible.
Lance sums it up:
A list of things that WWE had done in the past few years that WCW 2000 did first:
A big rookie heel group, the championship matches not main eventing TV or PPVs, pipebombs, an interactive internet companion to shows, Cat's music and catch phrases, pretending Chris Benoit doesn't exist, having Bret Hart look old and sad, terrible fake laughing from announcers, SHOOT names, a three man comedy music group, a monster turning into a goofy dancing gimmick, champions who regularly don't show up on the blue colored B show, an overly snarky announcer that is a detriment to shows, women who literally float between alignments based on the week, faces who are absolute shit heads, American hating heel holding the US Championship, having a woman and non wrestler win the Cruiserweight Championship, guys coming out and burying other guys or the company, start and stop pushes, guys who are super over and ready to be the next star losing every match against anyone more established than them, David Arquette, Michael Buffer, and a lot of other things I can't think of at the moment.
BONUS:
bean breath
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I can't believe how lucky I was to get that late entry (#39?), I wish Khali was still in, Show vs. Khali would've been awesome. I was on the edge of my seat, I really didn't want an Ultra Mantis avatar.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
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Oh my god, thank you so much!
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
Member
There should be more Showsters out there dammit.
shit, I just realized that I have class in 8 hours. FUCK!
shit, I just realized that I have class in 8 hours. FUCK!
Disappointing news:
For the first time, the TNA Lockdown PPV will not be an all Steel Cage match PPV. The plan going forward is to have the top matches inside the cage but to have traditional style undercard matches.
The all cage match format had been the norm for the PPV since it was first launched the company.
For the first time, the TNA Lockdown PPV will not be an all Steel Cage match PPV. The plan going forward is to have the top matches inside the cage but to have traditional style undercard matches.
The all cage match format had been the norm for the PPV since it was first launched the company.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Hmm... not sure that's a totally bad thing.
Big Show mask or Sandow Mask?
Big Show mask or Sandow Mask?
bean breath
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Hmmm, I need a more recognizable Show avatar. If anyone's making avatars, can I get a nice, clean Big Show floating head type avatar, please?
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
I'm waiting for someone to change their avatar to a big shoe.
Professor Beef
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You should have Ricardo and ADR as the ghosts.
bean breath
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It's too bad we can't have animated avatars anymore.
UberTag
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