WWF Sunday Night Heat 9/3/2000 review
We are six days past SummerSlam and
the march to Unforgiven is on although no matches have been announced during
the first week of shows. Our announcers are Michael Cole and Kevin Kelly. They are excited that the New York Mets are
first in the National League East today.
Too Cool’s music hits and out comes
the aforementioned tag team although we are informed that it will be Grand
Master Sexay in a singles match. Cole
calls him Grand Master Sexy, and the extra “A” really helps to keep a chill
from running down your spine, which happens when Cole pronounces it correctly yet
somehow very incorrectly for consumption.
The Grand Master will battle The Goodfather from the Right to Censor
accompanied by Steven Richards and Bull Buchanan.
Grand Master Sexay vs The Goodfather
Grand Master gets the early
advantage moving quickly around The Goodfather while the announcers convince us
that SummerSlam was the greatest SummerSlam of all time. At this point it is legitimately in the
conversation. The crowd is chanting “Save
the Hoes”, much to the Goodfather’s dismay because he believes gardening should
be done with your bare hands to become one with Mother Earth, apparently. The crowd legitimately gets behind a Sexay
hope spot that Goodfather cuts off.
Steven Richards’ facial expressions both positive and negative really
enhance the match. Scotty 2 Hotty pulls
the top rope down to cause Goodfather to plunge out of the ring and the crowd
pops for the babyfaces unprovoked cheating.
Too Cool was so over in 2000. It’s
amazing how fast and how big they got over.
Sexay
tosses Goodfather back into the ring, applies the goggles and hits a
dropkick. This reminds Michael Cole that
the struggling Yankees should fire Joe Torre.
Who within two months would be unceremoniously…… crowned the World
Series Champions for the third straight year and three out of four. I would hate to be Cole’s personal
assistant. Dude has really high standards.
Steven
Richards jumps back up on the apron and distracts the referee, in order for….Scotty
2 Hotty to interfere. Richards distracts
the ref so long that Scotty can get in a bulldog, his goofy worm running man,
and the 4 hops while the crowd chants letters.
Right before he hits the chop, referee Jack Doane grabs him and tosses
him aside. This distraction allows Bull
Buchanan, who I forgotten was at ringside, to come in and hit a scissor kick on the Grand
Master, which Goodfather follows up with a leg drop for the pin.
The Goodfather
defeats Grand Master Sexay with a leg drop after Bull Buchanan interference at
4:10
Coming up next: It’s Kane. We are told, “Who knows what he is going to
do?” Will he do cartwheels? Bake a cake?
Run for mayor? The possibilities are
endless.
We get a video package of some of
the shenanigans WWF superstars have been up to this week outside of Raw and
Smackdown. WWF Superstars took on
Michael Bolton’s Bombers in a charity softball game in the Durham Bulls
stadium, in one my favorite sentences I have ever written.
Players that I caught in the clip or were interviewed: Team WWF:
The Dudleys, Victoria, D-Lo, Chaz, Coach, Dean Malenko, Pete Gas, Jerry Lawler,
The Kat, Howard Finkel. Michael Bolton’s
Bombers included Michael Bolton of course, Duke basketball coach, Mike
Krzyzewski, and ESPN SportsCenter anchor and former Melrose Pool Boy, Charlie
Steiner. From the clips, Chaz legged a
single into a double and D-Von throws in a strange sidearm fashion into the
infield. Both teams seem to say that
they lost but many heels accuse Bolton’s team of cheating. Classic Bombers.
Highlights of Radio WWF from the
week at WWF New York in the heart of Times Square. The show is hosted by Michael Cole and Mick
Foley. The guests include a phone in
from The Rock, Trish, Chyna, and Too Cool live in studio. Foley dances with Too Cool which I’m sure was
some riveting radio.
Off to the racetrack as NASCAR
driver Hermie Satler, raced the SummerSlam car with the APA working as his pit
crew. They assumed beer would be the
high performance liquid to add to the engine.
Hermie politely declines.
Out comes Kane, and we aren’t
getting a cake. He tells us that he has
always been a monster. That he wears his
mask because he doesn’t want to have people stare at him. Everyone wears a mask and he hates
everyone. Someone wears a handsome,
eyebrow raising, catch phrase saying mask and that is the Rock. Kane should be WWF champion but his brother interfered
and Kane is coming for both of them.
WWF
promo of a brawl breaking out at beauty pageant, where Miss Connecticut beats
up Miss. Georgia. Ah… the
pettiness.
Crash Holly vs The Big Bossman
The announcers tell us that
this match was setup by Commisioner Foley because Bossman attacked Crash while
he was trying to talk to some ladies.
This was never shown but the announcers are acting like we did. Don’t know if this was cut from the version
that I saw or that it was never shown.
If anyone knows please let me know. Bossman comes out second with a
microphone and proceeds to tell Crash that woman don’t want him because he is
small and that they only want big men like him.
The match is short and only really features punches and kicks with
Bossman dominating until Dean Malenko of all people comes out and tosses the
nightstick to Crash who wallops Bossman with it. Crash makes the cover for the win.
Crash Holly defeats Bossman via
nightstick shot at 2:58.
We are now shown a week in
review package focusing on how the Love Triangle of Triple H-Stephanie-Angle
has become a Love Pentagon to include Eddie Guerrero and Chyna.
T ‘n A with Trish Stratus vs APA
It’s main event time. Some back and forth action until T ‘n A takes
control. After Faarooq gets beat down for a minute or so, Bradshaw gets the hot
tag and clears house for awhile until Albert nails him with a big boot. Trish hops up the apron and the Dudley Boys
come running in and hit a 3D on Bradshaw, in retaliation for APA costing the
Dudleys, their match vs Kai En Tai on Smackdown. It wasn’t personal it was business as Kai En
Tai paid for protection. The Dudleys have officially taken in personally and T ‘n
A gets the win.
T ‘n A defeat the APA after a 3D from the Dudleys at 4:14
Overall: We had three
matches, none longer than 5 and a half minutes, a promo that wasn’t anything we
hadn’t heard before, a video package of what happened this week already, and a
video package of stuff that has no effect on anything with the storylines. But guess what. It was fun I enjoyed it. Especially the softball stuff for some dumb
reason. The opening match was built
strictly on characters and not in ring action, and it worked because all of the
characters were over. The second match
seems to be leading to something, so it gives me a reason to watch further, and
the seeds of an APA vs Dudleys rivalry are planted. This show was entertaining
and for a C level show, it accomplished its goal. On the Sunday Night Heat scale, I give it 6.5
fireballs out of ten.
