RuthlessCee Show Aggressive (WWE Velocity 8/2/03 Heat 8/3/03)

                                                         

Unfortunately I was unable to find this full show anywhere and if you have access please leave a comment as to where I find it.  I could only find the main event.  

The APA and Funaki vs The Basham Brothers with Shaniqua and Sean O'Haire.

Our announcers, Josh Matthews and Ernest "The Cat" Miller, are unsure who the Bashams partner will be and that their opponents called Shaniqua a man.  O'Haire is the mystery partner because he is freaky as well according to the Cat. 

Bradshaw and Danny Basham start out.  Bradshaw start off with a shoulder block, chops, and forearms.  Danny comes back with a swinging neck breaker but is quickly cut down with a big boot.  Funaki is tagged in for a camel clutch drop kick double team with Bradshaw.  Doug takes over with after Funaki gets distracted trying to get a high five. Eventually Funaki comes back with head scissors but Basham grabs the ropes to avoid a dropkick.  

Doug Basham and Faarooq enter the fray.  Shaniqua distracts Faarooq whom had Doug up for the dominator.  Doug capitalizes with a Russian leg sweep. O'Haire is tagged in and nails Faarooq with several quick knees to the face.  Faarooq gets triple teamed in the corner.  Bashams hit a double suplex, the ref misses the cover because he is being distracted by Bradshaw.  Tag team specialist at work.  Faarooq hits a huge spine buster.  Both men crawl to their corner and Funaki and O'Haire get the tags.  Funaki hits O'Haire with a dropkick and an enziguri.  O'Haire catches Funaki and military presses him until Funaki wiggles free and catches O'Haire with the scorpion death drop.  The benches clear and Bradshaw crushes a Basham with a Clothesline from Hell.  After O'Haire and Funaki are the only guys left in the ring, Funaki hits a bulldog and goes for the cover.  Shaniqua pulls him out off of O"Haire.  Using the distraction, O'Haire picks up Funaki and hits him with a Razor's Edge to pick up the win. 

 (** 3/4)    

Our announcers are once again Johnathan Coachman and Al Snow.

                                                                             Match #1

                                                            Rodney Mack vs Tommy Dreamer

      Rodney Mack heads to the ring without Theodore Long.  Mack grabs the mic and tells us that Long is missing because whitey got ahold of him and he needs medical attention because of it.  Mack will now beat up whities to honor Long.  

   

        They trade Irish whips into the corner. Dreamer hits a hip toss but when he goes to follow up, Mack dumps him out of the ring.  Mack pursues and sends Tommy into the stairs.  Once back into the ring, Mack hits a shoulder breaker and transitions into a arm bar.  Mack locks in a standing cobra clutch.  Tommy runs him into the turnbuckle to break it and uses the opportunity to hit Mack with a DDT.  Mack gets his foot on the rope to avoid a three count.  Tommy heads out and grabs a Kendo stick.  He heads to the top rope but eats a clothesline.  Mack relocks in the cobra clutch but this time in a prone position.  Tommy works towards the ropes but the ref doesn't see despite Tommy working towards the ropes and someone already using the ropes earlier in the match.  Mack wins by submission in 3:36 (*1/4)

                

    

          We are shown footage from the locker room from Monday on Raw, with Stevie Richards icing his midsection after being speared and beaten by Goldberg.  There is a young worker loading strips of shredded paper that is all over the floor.  Victoria runs in with a microphone and gives it to the worker and tells him to interview Stevie.  Stevie says that if fought Goldberg on Stevie Night Heat, that he would have won.  The young employee says that Stevie still would have beaten his ass.  Stevie does a Vince McMahon impersonation and fires the young guy.  Al Snow walks up and finishes the interview.  

Stevie says that on Stevie Night Heat he will battle his most insubordinate opponent, while Victoria throws all the paper in the air while trying to get Stevie's attention because it looks like snow. Stevie puts on a Goldust mask and pretends to be both competitors while Victoria pours the shredded paper on his head.  The shredded paper is not explained.  

                                                                                Match #2

                                                                Maven vs Aaron Stevens

The matchup begins with Maven tripping Stevens a few times and then locks in a headlock.  Stevens leaps over Maven in the corner into a backstabber.  Hard Irish Whip into the corner takes Maven down again.  Stevens holds onto the rope to avoid a Maven dropkick.  Stevens with a suplex and transitions into the Mike Rotunda Hall of Famer abdominal stretch. Maven hip tosses Stevens to get out and then a jawbreaker.  Flying elbow for 2, Maven goes to the top rope, Steven hits the ropes to crotch him.  Stevens goes for a superplex.  Maven throws off Stevens and then hits a crossover DDT for the victory in 3:52. (**)

Match #3

Lance Storm vs Spike Dudley

Lance tells the crowd that he is not boring.  Guess what, Lance is not boring.  Lance complains about the lack of response from Hollywood a few weeks ago.  Spike Dudley's music hits and out comes the runt of the Dudley litter yawning.  The bout starts out with some forearms being exchanged.  Lance gets the edge with a backbreaker and then stomps a Canadian mudhole in Spike or would it be Dudleyville mudhole.  Lance holds Spike vertical for about 30 seconds until dropping him with a suplex.  Spike gets his first sustained offense of the match from a hurricanrana, reverse atomic drop, and the corner stomps that appear as if Spike is running on Lance's chest.  Spike goes for the hurricanrana again but this time, Lance catches and tosses him like a 150 pound sack of laundry.  Spike goes for what appears to be a Russian leg sweep setup, but rolls forward with Lance's legs wrapped and rolls him up for the surprise win in just 2:33. (*1/2)

                                                                            Match #4

                                                    Stevie Richards with Victoria vs Goldust

The bout begin with some closed fists being exchanged until Stevie rakes the eyes.  Stevie starts kicking Goldust but he fires back with a butt bump, bulldog, and clothesline to the outside. He follows the owner of Stevie Night Heat to the outside, where Stevie runs the golden one into the ring apron twice to regain control.  Goldust gets thrown upside down into the turnbuckles.  Stevie copies Goldust's chest rub taunt.  He locks in a headlock and nails a neck breaker for a 2 count.  Goldust comes back with his own neck breaker to put both men down.  Stevie chases Goldust around the ring landing punches while Goldust appears to be "Turreting Up", it's like Hulking up if it made fun of a disability.  Goldust drops down and hits the slap and a reverse atomic drop, ura nage, for a two count.  Goldust starts hitting the 10 count mounted punches in the corner.  Stevie slips free before the 10 and Goldust lands an awkward diving punch which sends Stevie reeling into the opposite corner. Goldust sets up Shattered Dreams, but Victoria enters the ring and charges.  Goldust catches her with a drop toe hold which causes her to fall head first into Stevie's groin.  A staggered Richards wanders into Goldust's grasp and he hits the Curtain Call for the win in 4:46. (*3/4)

Survivor Series 1996 vs World War 3 1996

The Monday Night Wars between the WWF and WCW were the most watched era in professional wrestling history.  It has been romantized by fans as being an amazing era.  Well….. It was not as great as one would remember.  I have been watching all of the Raws and Nitros in order and have been comparing the builds to each month’s pay per view card.  Often times there were tons of storylines and matches that were confusing, boring, and made no sense.  Before fans continue to clamor for a return to this style of professional wrestling maybe they should read these breakdowns for the Pay Per View builds. 

(These comments were adapted from an email to a lapsed casual wrestling fan who loved this era and wanted me to explain what it was like to relive these shows)

November 1996 had the WWF offering Survivor Series and WCW offering World War 3.

WWF Survivor Series

Shawn Michaels defends the WWF championship against Sid.

In the month of RAWs leading up to this PPV... 1^st week Sid vs Owen and Bulldog interferes Sid makes the save 2^nd week Sid vs Bulldog and Owen interferes, Shawn makes the save. 3^rd week Shawn and Sid try to win tag titles against Owen and Bulldog.  Shawn accidently super kicks Sid. Bad guys win.  Sid and Shawn fight each other.  Friendship over.  If these two crazy kids who once had a few month friendship before turning on each other can’t make it, then what chance does humanity have. Slim, my friend, slim. 

Undertaker vs Mankind

After having a BOILER ROOM BRAWL and a BUIRED ALIVE MATCH… This bitter feud can only be settled in one way.... a REGULAR MATCH.... but in this one Paul Bearer who had turned on Taker and joined Mankind in the boiler room match at Summerslam in August, will be hung in a shark cage above the ring so he can't interfere.  This would make sense as a stipulation had Paul Bearer actually INTERFERED in the previous matches.   The Executioner, who was a drugged up Terry Gordy from Fabulous Freebirds fame, who had actually been interfering should have been the one to be locked up.  They brawled a few times in the buildup.  Great feud that is on its last legs and should have been over or at least taken a break.

Bret Hart vs Stone Cold Steve Austin

Bret Hart was contemplating retirement or jumping to WCW.  Actually brought up in storyline.  According to Bruce Prichard, Vince didn't know if he was saying or going until his promo in the ring.  Vince thought Hart might just announce he was going to WCW to screw him.  Austin had been calling him out, saying Bret sucked and that he wanted to whip his ass, etc.... Austin had been aligned with Brian Pillman and Owen Hart saying that Bret sucked and that he wasn’t the Hitman but the Shitman but then Pillman mentioned that Bret was good at wrestling.  Do you think Stone Cold like this?  No.  Uh-uh.  So he beat the hell out of him and broke his ankle with a chair. (The attack took place on Superstars the weekend show- they just showed a clip on RAW) On Raw, Austin went to his house and tried to kill Pillman while Pillman had a gun and tried to shoot Austin and said fucking on live television.  It was insane and a shit show.  The next week they barely mentioned that it even happened.  So let’s just ignore that one of our wrestlers tried broke into another wrestler’s home intent on killing him and that gun was fired that made “explosions”.  They didn’t want to say gunshots.  Kevin Kelly, the announcer that was dispatched to interview Pillman said, “Luckily no one was struck by any of the explosions.”  Like explosions fly through the air and hit people.

Traditional Survivor Series Match

Hunter Hearst Helmsly, Goldust, Crush (Recently released for prison convict version not to be confused with Demolition Crush, Hawaii Crush, or Japanese Sympathizer Crush), and Jerry Lawler

vs

Marc Mero, The Stalker (Old as shit Barry Windham in zubaz sweat pants and camo face paint, Mark Henry, and Rocky Maivia (debut)

Hunter had been feuding with Mr. Perfect who was retired but kept coming to ringside to steal Hunter's bitches during his matches.  Perfect and Hunter agreed to a match on RAW but Perfect was found beat up and injured by Hunter in the backstage area. Perfect talked Marc Mero into taking his place and defending the IC title against Hunter.  Perfect hit Mero with a chair.  SWERVE!!! New champ. 

Mark Henry had debuted and had been getting teased by Jerry Lawler about thinking he could wrestle.  (Turns out Lawler was right because Henry got hurt trying to wrestle and was replaced in this match by really old, fat, and drunk Jake Roberts but you didn't know that until the Free for All)

Speaking of the Free 4 All look at this great matchup in Survivor Series team history.  It’s a look how much more interesting these guys would be with a different character All-Stars.

Jesse James (Road Dogg but he is still just saying Jarrett can't sing and would sing Jarrett’s fake song on the way to the ring)

Aldo Montoya (Justin Credible with a jock strap on his face)

Bob Holly (Still race car driver and not Hardcore in any way)

Bart Gunn

Vs

The Sultan (Rikishi in a mask that covered his face because his tongue had been cut out managed by Iron Sheik and Bob Backlund)

Justin Bradshaw (pre JBL, pre APA, pre Acolyte just a cowboy with bad intentions)

Salvatore Sincere (If Brother Love was athletic and an actual wrestler.

Billy Gunn

They also played promos of Rocky Maivia being a blue chipper, third generation star.  They showed the time he sacked Heisman Winner Florida St QB and future New York Knick point guard Charlie Ward about a 1000 times.  Fun Fact Rock lost his starting job at Miami to Warren Sapp.

The Smoking Gunns explode!! Bart grew tired of Billy being too focused and trying to bang Sunny instead of their matches.  So the team broke up.  Billy couldn’t get over trying to get Sunny so he turned on his brother.  Now that he is on his own….he doesn’t go after Sunny.  So you turn on your flesh and bone for some “flesh and bone” and then you don’t even try???

Also a Survivor Match featuring tag teams

-Bulldog, Owen, New Rockers (Marty Jannetty and Leif Cassidy AKA Al Snow)

Vs

-The Godwins and new comers Doug Furnas and Phillip Lafon.  Just showed their pictures and being told they were good. No build to this match.

Another Survivor Series match

Savio Vega, Yokozuna (who had not been mentioned in months) the debuting Flash Funk, and a mystery man.  They used a silhouette of Macho Man, Macho was not on TV for WCW then because of contract negotiations so people thought it was going to be him.  Turns out it was Jimmy Superfly Snuka who was inducted into the HOF the night before and was murdering his girlfriend 15 years before.

vs

Faarooq, (he ditched the blue fat knight look and debuted the Nation of Domination Faarooq and got in shape. The Faarooq personality change was a surprise the night of the show. Vader, and "Razor Roman" and "Diesel"

This fake Razor and Diesel thing was dumb. Jim Ross turned heel because he was sick of Vince running the company badly.  He said he was bringing Razor and Diesel back who were currently in WCW destroying people in nWo.  When Ross introduced them they were other guys playing the characters and Ross just acted like everyone was crazy for saying they weren't Razor and Diesel.  Razor was played by Rick Bognar who did a good Scott Hall voice impression, but looked like he ate Scott Hall and couldn't wrestle very well, which would happen when you ate another human being as large as Scott Hall.  Diesel was Glen Jacobs who used to be Issac Yankem DDS.  He was much better than Bognar.

I learned from the Prichard show that they did this dumb bullshit because Hall and Nash were acting like they were Razor and Diesel when they first invaded WCW.  This showed that the characters were WWF property when WWF sued over it.  They got some money and WCW threw in to pay less money that if WCW were ever up for sale and Vince got to buy it if he wanted.  Seemed like a throw in at the time but a few years later Vince gets all of WCW for pennies on the dollar and makes $10 a month off of people like me who watch old Nitros because they obviously hate themselves.  Proof below.

WCW World War 3

60 man 3 ring battle royal for #1 contender.  You don't get too many names on the list for this match but the main focus is on Lex Luger being on a roll and that he can stop the nWo.

Chris Benoit vs Kevin Sullivan

They just pick up this feud up from a few months ago. After not caring about Benoit not being a quality Horseman and Sullivan now hates him again.  Apparently Sullivan doesn’t care that Steve Mongo McMichael who joined the Horsemen midway through his FIRST match.  He must be up to snuff on the Kevin Sullivan Scale of Horseman Rating.  If Sullivan hates the Horsemen why does he care if they have in what his opinion is a bad wrestler? Shouldn’t he enjoy watching the Horsemen struggle with subpar members? Sullivan keeps saying cryptic things about "She"  If it doesn’t make sense blame Sullivan himself because he was the head booker at this time and thought this story was a great one to put himself in.

The Outsiders defend the tag titles against the Nasty Boys and The Faces of Fear (Meng AKA Haku and Barbarian)

So the Nasty Boys had hung out with the nWo in a hotel party and were shown being told by Hogan to watch his back for weeks.  They come to the ring with the nWo and are celebrating some more evil acts perpetrated by the nWo against WCW, when the Nasty Boys complain that, after looking at their nWo contracts, that they were given last night that the pay isn't enough and that Hulk forgot to sign it.  Hogan laughs and the nWo beats them up.  This is supposed to lead to people rooting on the Nasty Boys and their quest for revenge.  Here's the problem though, so the Nasty Boys wanted to turn against WCW and destroy them but the pay wasn't enough so now we are supposed to like them like conquering heroes.  Jimmy Hart rightly brings up that the Faces of Fear have beaten tons of teams, (which they had including Benoit and McMichael at the previous PPV) so they should get the title shot.  The Outsiders, who are supposed to cowardly sneak attacking heels accept the challenge to fight them too.  Way to make your team from the invaders that people are supposed to hate look like badasses for agreeing to fight the team of badasses that we are supposed to hate unless they are facing the nWo.  Huh?

Jeff Jarrett vs The Giant 

This is a rematch from last month since it ended in DQ.  They continue to squabble about the US title that Giant stole from Ric Flair who is injured and still champion.  Flair is backing Jarrett but the other Horseman don't like it.  Flair says I am the lead dog and you other guys have to deal with it or pound sand because Flair obviously likes a guy he just met better than people that have been having his back, and in the case of Arn Anderson, people who have been getting his back for a decade.

Lex Luger vs Arn Anderson

Another rematch from last month.  Luger has not said two words to or about Arn since last month.  Arn keeps cutting promos that he didn't think Luger had the anger in his soul that he showed last month and it caught Anderson by surprise.  This time he won't be surprised.  He might be surprised to hear that Luger apparently care about his match because he needs to destroy the entire nWo in the World War 3 battle royal.

Dean Malenko defends the cruiserweight title against Psychosis.

There was no build for this match, just hey, Psychosis, you weigh below 205 pounds, you get a title shot.

Ultimo Dragon vs Rey Mysterio

Another match with no real build for this match other than the announcers saying that match will be exciting.  But they also say that about every single match on Nitro so their credibility is squadoosh.  Hey its Jim Powers vs VK Wallstreet, this should be an amazing contest!!!

The Amazing French Canadians (Carl Ouelett and Jacques Rougeau) They were freaking awesome as the Quebecers in the WWF in the first year of RAW, now two years later they are fat and just cashing checks.  Vs

Harlem Heat

Harlem Heat blamed Col. Robert Parker for costing them the tag titles to Outsiders and didn't want him to be their co-manager with his wife Sherri.  Parker kept coming to ringside for all of their matches on Nitro with the Amazing French Canadians which led to shenanigans.  Also this made not only Sherri not want to be married to Parker anymore but also in her words to "kill him"  Apparently Sherri says winning a random match on Nitro against the Amazing French Canadians who until this point had not won a match on Nitro is more important than love.  She is a career woman, really ahead of her time.  Parker joins the Amazing French Canadians as their manager and helps them defeat an imploding American Males, (Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs.)

Chris Jericho vs Nick Patrick (Jericho has to have one arm tied behind his back)

-Jericho is continuing to accuse Patrick of being dirty and working for the nWo.  This is how Jericho has decided to take down the big bad nWo by accusing a referee in a neck brace that he is secretly refereeing nWo matches on WCW Saturday Night, where the take on jobbers, in a mask.  What an American Hero Jericho is!!!

Also Roddy Piper came out and confronted Hogan after he beat Macho Man last month and said that Piper is better than Hogan.  Bischoff has been trying to get Piper to sign a contract to fight Hogan at Starrcade next month.  Starrcade is WCW's Wrestlemania. Unfortunately, Bischoff hasn't been able to get Piper to sign anything because of agents and scheduling but he hopes to at World War 3.  Riveting! Call you cable or satellite provider now to see paperwork being completed.

That is the build to the November 1996 pay per views so which do you choose to plunk down your hard earned money on?

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