Mr. Perfect with the Genius vs Brutus the Barber Beefcake from Wrestlemania 6: 4/1/90

     

        Sean Mooney is confused as to what Beefcake is doing as he looks at the papers that Mooney is holding for him.  Beefcake says that he is looking at Mr. Perfect's impressive record.  Mooney must not read his own notes if he had no idea what was on that paper. Lack of preparation on Mooney's part does not constitute an emergency on Beefcake's part.  I bet Todd Pettengill reads his notes.  Sloppy shop, Mooney.

Beefcake says that nobody is really perfect...everyone has flaws...everybody makes mistakes...after this match, I'll sever his perfect record at a pretty good clip...

Beefcake uses his shears to try to cut the notes that Mooney is holding, only to miss on the first cut and barely cut a corner of the papers on attempt number 2.  Actually proving the point of his promo that everyone makes mistakes.  Beefcake with a masters class is the subtle promo here, which I am sure was his intent.

    Beefcake then cackles and cuts, but we get no struts.

We return to the ring and The Genius is introducing Mr. Perfect.  Perfect heads down in the ring cart with his great theme song filling the Skydome.  Now Beefcake's underrated them song kicks up and out comes Beefcake cutting but once again not strutting as he is in the ring cart which does not have sufficient strut space.  A gentleman is shown in a Canadian Tuxedo here in Toronto.  He gives us some finger clippers and then tries to his own follicles to no avail.  

Perfect and Genius bail from the ring when Brutus enters the ring brandishing a murder weapon.  The bell rings while Perfect is still outside.  Beefcake takes his time removing his jacket and bow tie.  Perfect attacks him which since the bell rang is totally legal.  

Beefcake quickly reverses the control and nails several quick punches to Perfect's stomach.  Beefcake tosses Perfect out of the ring.  Once Perfect gets back in and tries to go on offense but Perfect lowered his head too soon for a back body drop and ate a kick to the face.  An atomic drop launches perfect out of the ring again.  Mr. P confers with the Genius to rethink their game plan.  

Once again back in the ring and then combatants resize each other up.   Perfect finally gets on the advantage with some punches, kicks, and turnbuckle shots, but Beefcake quickly reestablishes dominance.  Beefcake sends Perfect into the turnbuckle with causes, Perfect to bounce off with a somersault.  Now the Barber comes in with double ax handles, a body slam, corner punches, another turnbuckle blast, and a clothesline.  Beefcake calls for the sleeper hold. Mary Tyler Moore is shown in the crowd and she loves it.

"Who can turn the World on with his shears?

Who can take an undefeated streak and suddenly make it all worthless.

Well it's you Beefer and you should know it.

With each cut and every little strut you show it.

Hair is all around you no need to comb it.

You can have the win no need to fake it.

You're going to make it after all!!!!"

    Genius is up on the apron which distracts referee Joey Marella and Beefcake.  The Genius leaves his metal scroll in the ring.  Perfect takes this opportunity to rearrange Beefcake's face like a paragliding women's knees.  Mr. Perfect does not make a cover attempt.  Instead he keeps stomping the Barber's head.  He hits a float over neck snap for a 2 count.  Perfect gives Beefcake some kicks to the gut.  Gorilla comments on how the illegal object shot has changed this match 360 degrees.  Jesse has to educate Gorilla on how degrees work and the match has only changed 180 degrees.  

    Perfect continues the assault with a hard knife edged chop and a knee lift.  He taunts and smacks the beaten and worn down Barber.  Beefcake does a double leg take down and slingshots Perfect over the turnbuckle and Perfect hits head first on the ring post.  Knocking him unconscious.  Brutus the Barber Beefcake makes the cover and hands Mr. Perfect his first loss.  Perfect has been hoist on his own ring post instead of his petard.  

While Beefcake celebrates the big win, Genius grabs the shears and tries to sneak back to the locker room with them.  Unfortunately for the Genius, Beefcake sees this and peruses.  He takes him back into the ring and after another escape attempt, Genius goes nighty nighty thanks to the sleeper.  Perfect is too groggy to help as Genius gets his second haircut from Beefcake in 1990.  

RuthlessCEE Aggresive: Heat and Velocity reviews (October 11th and 12th, 2003)

 

We start off on our Slamming Saturday Night being greeted by Josh Mathews and Taz.  

Match #1 

Rey Mysterio vs Kanyon

Kanyon backs Rey into the corner, misses some blows but takes back control with some elbows to the back of the head.  Rey ducks a few clotheslines but gets cut down with a kick to the stomach.  Josh Mathews says that Rey is like Dante Hall, the human joystick.  Haven't heard about the Chiefs kick return specialist in a long time.  Mysterio reverses a powerbomb attempt into a hurricanrana.  Rey slams Kanyon's head into each turnbuckle a few times and then the mat once for good measure.  Rey sends Kanyon into the turnbuckle and then proceeds to bust his bronco. Kanyon lands on the middle rope after a drop toe hold, but wisely bails before the 619 can be hit.  Rey hits him with a drop kick through the ropes instead.  Rey goes for a dive outside but Kanyon catches him and tosses him into the barricade.  Kanyon puts him up against the ring post in the ring and crushes him with a baseball slide. Kanyon then grabs Rey's head and legs and folds him around the post some more.  Kanyon gets a 2 count.  Kayon buries his knee into Rey's spine for a submission attempt.  Rey almost escapes twice only to get taken back down into the hold.  Mysterio finally does break free and goes for a tilt-a-whirl only for Kanyon to catch him with a vertical suplex for another 2 count.  Mysterio slides down Kanyon's back and hits a reverse DDT for a near fall.  Rey crawls between Kayon's legs for a quick kick to the knee and then a baseball slide into the groin.  Rey goes to the top for a seated senton for a two count.  Kanyon catches Rey on a another dive attempt and takes two back breakers.  Kanyon tries to get the cover with his feet on the ropes, but the referee catches him.  They fight with Rey on the apron.  Rey climbs the ropes and bulldogs Kanyon on to the second rope on the other side of the ring in a really cool spot that I don't remember ever seeing before.  Mysterio hits the 619 and the west coast pop to gain the win in 7:22 (*** 1/2)

Match #2 

Matt Hardy vs Tyson Dux

Tyson Dux gets an entrance.  He does some weird convulsion dance that Tazz and Josh are fans of from a previous match.  Dux had several dark matches at TV tapings but he last was televised from the previous October in a loss to Chavo on Velocity.  Dux starts out in control with a snap mare and drop kick.  He mocks the V1 hand signal and yell and hits a head scissors for a 2 count.  Matt catches Dux for a side effect, snake eyes, and leaping clothesline. Hardy stands on Dux's head but surprises Hardy with a roll up for 2.  Hardy locks in an arm stretch, but Dux escapes and hits a DDT to put both men down.  Dux is up first and hits Hardy with a drop kick.  Dux heads to the top for a crossbody and Hardy kicks out at 2.  Dux starts move epilictic dancing and mocking of V1.  He heads back to the top where Hardy cuts him off with some punches and takes him out with a top rope Twist of Fate for the win in 4:32. (*3/4)

Match #3

Billy Kidman vs Bobby Rude in a purple cape

Kidman starts with a hurricanrana in the ring and follows it up with hurricarana to the floor.  Kidman attempts a dive to the outside but misses.  Rude lays in the boots and tosses him into the barricade. Rude tosses him back into the ring for some elbow drops.  Kidman fires back but gets cut down with an underhook suplex.  Kidman comes back again this time with a dropkick, flying forearm, clothesline, back body drop, but gets caught with a tilt-a-whirl back breaker.   Kidman escapes a suplex and gets a roll up for two.  A glorious spinebuster by Rude.  Kidman hits a enziguri that puts Rude's lights out and follows it up with a shooting star press for the win in 4:24. (**)

In the back, Matt Hardy says that he is so proud of Shannon because of his win over Zach Gowen on Thursday on Smackdown.  He is going to reward him with a special gift this week on Smackdown.  

Match #4

Charlie Haas vs Funaki

Haas take Funaki down with a headlock and controls Funaki on the mat.  They trade leg sweeps and pin attempts.  Funaki gets mowed down by a clothesline.  Funaki chops back but gets caught and face planted on the top turnbuckle and then Haas crushes him with a back breaker.  Haas sends him into the corner with a hard irish whip.  Hass then locks in an arm bar.  Funaki fights free and hits a neck breaker.  Then Funaki has a flurry of a reverse DDT, dropkick, and a bulldog but only gets a near fall.  Funaki goes for a crossbody but Haas rolls through for a 2 count.  Haas pushes Funaki off of a Rising Sun DDT attempt and locks in the Haas of Pain for the submission for the victory in 5:15. (*3/4)

It's time for Heat as we are greeted by Al Snow and The Coach.  

Match #1

Test with sad Stacy Keibler vs Tommy Dreamer with an emotionless Singapore cane

Test starts out with a body slam but misses the big elbow drop.  Tommy Dreamer does a weird strut that Stacy and our commentary team make seem like is mocking Test, but I don't get it.  Dreamer tosses Test over the top after dodging a charge.  Dreamer hits him with a baseball slide.  On the outside, Test pulls Stacy in front of him as a human shield.  Test uses the distraction to impale Tommy on his testicles on the barricade.  Test tosses Dreamer back in the ring and hits some heavy corner running clotheslines.  He celebrates with some jumping jacks.  Test attacks with a body slam but his top rope double ax handle is met with a boot.  Tommy gets his first sequence of the match with a neck breaker and a Russian Leg Sweep.  Test gets back the advantage with a full nelson slam.  Test goes for the big boot but Stacy grabs his leg to prevent it.  Stacy surprisingly hangs Test's throat on the top rope. Test stumbles into a dreamer bomb for a near fall.  Keibler tells Dreamer that he should hit a flip off the top rope onto Test and he agrees with this plan, showing that neither one of them has ever watched a Tommy Dreamer match in their lives.  Test kicks the ref into the ropes and Tommy does damage to his testicles yet again.  Test goes for the cover and tries to put his feet on the ropes but Stacy knocks them off.  Test grabs Tommy's kendo stick and goes to blast Tommy with it but Stacy enters the ring and tries to disarm him.  Test goes to crack Stacy with the weapon but Tommy successfully disarms him.  Dreamer goes to hit Test but the big man moves and Tommy pulls up before he hits Stacy.  The momentary lapse in judgment allows Test to hit the big boot and get the win in 4:47. (*1/2)

Teri interviews Val Venis.  She asks about why Val had a camera last week.  He makes some comments about how they used to hook up back in the day and then explains that he has started his own adult movie company.  Venis Video Productions.  He is looking for hot chicks to be in his movies but since he will behind the camera he is also looking for the next Great American Super Stud.  He says Great American Super Stud several times. I did not know this was the specific name for this role.  He will be going all over America to find them so every one should be getting ready for the camera.  

Match #2

Val Venis vs Eric Young

Val and Eric trade arm bars to start.  Val bring him down and wrenches on the arm a bit more.  Val hits a shoulder block and a Russian leg sweep which is mixed in with a few knees to the midsection.  Eric Young gets in control with a DDT, back body drop, and back breaker.  The advantage is short lived as Val takes back over with a clothesline flurry, back body drop and finishes the Canadian with a Money Shot in 4:08. (*)

Match #3

The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and Devon) defend the World Tag Team Titles vs La Restiance (Rob Conway, Renee Dupree with Sylvain Grenier)

 

The Dudleys make quick tags to start and dominate Rene Dupree with strikes.  Loud "USA" chants from the crowd.  Eventually the heels corner Devon and get their own set of quick tags and strikes.  Devon breaks free with a spinning elbow and body slam.  All four men in the ring as Bubba squishes both heels in the corner and Las Resistance bails before we head to commercial break.

Back from commercial, Dupree and Bubba are the legal men as we return.  The non legal heels grab Bubba by the feet and crush his testicles on the ring post, not a great night to be an ex ECW wrestlers' testicles.  Dupree hits a back body drop on Bubba and this sets the heels up for several more quick tags and strikes followed by a Dupree neck vice.  Eventually Conway hooks in a sleeper but Bubba hits a belly to back suplex to spring free.  He makes the tag but the heels have distracted the referee so he doesn't let Devon in the ring.  Bubba immediately hits a desperation Bubba bomb and this time the ref sees the hot tag.  Devon comes in and hits a few slams and clotheslines on the heels.  Bubba blind tags back in and they go for the 3D but are unable to hit it, but settle for a reversed 3D but the count is broken up.  Sylvain gets on the apron and distracts the referee but the plan backfires as the Devon hits the Wazzzup head butt splash.  Bubba inquires to Devon if would locate the tables because they must have company coming over for dinner.  When Devon gets under the ring, Sylvain wipes him out.  In the ring Conway accidently hits Sylvain when he heads up on the apron.  Dupree take over Bubba in the ring but Devon has recovered and sneaks in for the 3D to pick up the victory in 6:47 (**1/4).

Will someone cash in on the bounty on Bill Goldberg?  Tune in tomorrow night. 

From Crossing the Line to Barely Legal:

 

Until the start of the Extreme Three Way Dance Podcast, I had never watched ECW other than a few clips here and there, but as an avid original fan of the PTBN and NoSo Network, I followed along on the journey.  I knew ECW had crazy moments and a rapid fan base but I didn't really know what I was getting into.  So here are my thoughts on three years of watching the promotion starting with The Night the Line was Crossed which I review here up until ECW's pay per view debut Barely Legal.

The Taz and Sabu feud, with Taz calling out Sabu for months without a response for months, didn't make any sense to me at first, but I loved Taz being a badass and killing dudes while Fonzie being the most devious insane heel manager ever was great.  Taz started out dressing like a savage and being under the tutelage of Kevin Sullivan.  His transformation into a fight camp bad ass has been such an amazing improvement.  Sabu says nothing and his matches are car crashes.  In a 2022 lens his work isn't that impressive but in mid 90s lens, this is shit crazy cool.  Sabu spent most of the time in random matches until his feud into partnership into maybe another feud with Rob Van Dam.  Since it's the 1990s, I will rate these two over three years with this Bill Clinton:

Shane Douglas continues his long battle against the Pitbulls after taking Francine away from them.  In the three years, I have been watching minus a quick failed WWF run, Shane Douglas has been so freaking evil.  At the beginning he was a Ric Flair wannabe who just made pot shots at Ric Flair, he came back evil, angry and amazing.  Every match you want him to be destroyed and he gets away.  The Pitbulls went from insane creatures managed by Jason to insane creatures managed by Francine to slightly less insane creatures with human names occasionally.  I miss Jason so much and his insane character so much.  He was so bad he was great.  I hope he comes back.  Both of these acts reach their peaks with Francine with them.  The Pittbulls now have "the masked man" who may reveal himself.  It's Rick Rude and nobody is pretending otherwise.

  

The tag team division has been a story of a dominant team ruling the division taking all comers from the Public Enemy, to DA Gangstas, to the Eliminators, the tag division has been fun but also victim of the champs being entertaining centerpieces who each have their own brand of the same match, over and over again.  The Eliminators have been my personal favorite, but each team made you clearly aware of who they were and what they were motivated by.  The current tag champs, The Dudleys are very confusing to me. The Dudley's transformed from a collection of misfits in Raven's Flock to feuding with estranged Brother D-Von to Buh buh reuniting and turning evil for no discernable reason.  I haven't been a fan of the new Buh Buh and D-von unit and they defend the titles against the former champs, The Eliminators at Barely Legal.

  

The World Title has been held in strangle hold by Raven other than his month stay in rehab has been in strangle hold by Raven.  Raven has burned and churned through flock members but Stevie Richards has been by his side since the beginning.  As Stevie gained popularity  and independence, Raven would make sure to put Stevie back into his place.  Stevie and his own cronies, the Blue Meanie and Nova would begin parodying other groups both musical and wrestling based, and when they parodied the nWo with the bWo, Stevie took off in popularity.  I honestly haven't figured out why this is so popular as I believe Stevie has been more entertaining his whole run than he is as the bWo. Raven also messed with Sandman, by taking his title, his ex-wife and his son.  His shoot 7 year old son, in an ECW ring, with a bloody Raven.  It's been a crazy ride that like most ECW feuds went a little longer.  Terry Funk is middle aged and crazy, fought to win the NWA title one last time, the grizzled old gun fighter heading in for final battle.  Raven thinks Funk needs to go away, because Funk reminds Raven of his father that molested him.  Funk doesn't care about the molestations and Raven needs to get over it. Raven's three rival meet in a 3 way dance to determine the #1 contender for Raven's title later in the night. 

The one thing that I heard over the years, when ECW was being discussed was how everyone had their strengths focused on their weaknesses hidden.  That is so accurate.  I can't think of a single character that I haven't enjoyed for a while.  From Jason to Malenko, to Ron Simmons, to the FBI, to Mikey Whipwreck.  I enjoyed every character.  Some would over stay their welcome because they were so one dimensional but that single dimension was a fun place to to be. I have loved the ride way more than I thought I'm pumped for the PPV and to see where ECW goes from here.  And if you ain't ready to ride with this bunch deeper into 1997, then you going to have to answer to 'ol Slick Willy himself. 

Sunday Night Heat April 7th, 2002 (First heat post brand split)

 

    After the brand split, we've got a whole new Heat.  It's taped before RAW instead of Smackdown and our announcers are Johnathan "Coach" Coachman and Ra "Raven" ven.

    Really surprised to see Scott Hall walk out here for a Heat match.  The nWo has fallen real fast in 6 weeks from their debut.  Even more surprised that Hall is battling Crash Holly of all people.  Raven says the show is going to be mundane but he will make it better with his commentary.  Way to get me invested, Johnny Polo.  Scott Hall played the hits, fall away slam, abdominal stretch, second rope fall away slam, Razor's Edge.  1-2-3.  Crowd popped for Hall calling for the Razor's Edge because they are smart.  

    Jerry Lawler is backstage interviewing Jazz, about her title defense tonight against Jackie.  Jazz says Jackie has no chance because she is a skank.  Jackie steps into screen to ask, "Who are you calling a skank, skank?" Jazz seems surprised by her appearance even though she was clearly only a few feet away when the interview began.  Jazz informs Jackie that is was indeed, Jackie herself that Jazz was calling a skank and that she should know that because she does not stutter.  Jazz thumps the belt of off Jackie's head and the brawl is on.

    Here comes Tommy Dreamer, who has won all of two televised matches in his WWF career to this point.  He has defeated Tajiri and Kai En Tai during September on this here very Sunday Night Heat.  Someone needs to sit Tommy Dreamer down and ask him why Japanese people really fire him up.  Tommy has some soul searching to do.  His opponent, Sean Stasiak, not Japanese so my money is on Staskiak.  This is both of their first matches on TV since the Invasion.  It's the movable object vs resistible force.    Coach and Raven are giving this match all of the respect it deserves, by talking about Eddie Guerrero attacking RVD and Undertaker being named the #1 contender by Flair until it was changed to Hogan by Vince on Smackdown.  All things I would rather be thinking about too.  Raven finally talks about the match in that Tommy Dreamer is tough from all of their battles in ECW.  Coach adds that Stasiak isn't the most intelligent but this abdominal stretch is effective.  Dreamer sells a right side injury, but continues to bring the attack to Stasiak to the silence of the crowd.  Dreamer's ribs give out on a maneuver and Stasiak capitalizing for the victory. 

    We get a recap of Flair and Vince trying to talk Austin into signing with their shows, which led to Austin signing with Raw and stunning both Vince and Flair.  

    We've got our Women's Title match on deck, sponsored Castrol GTX and Nissan.  Coach and Raven mention that the Forcible Entry compact disc has debuted at #3.  #1 you ask?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYDE0MeAOAk&list=PLqf3vdDTch5eM9SWPvNXKag22XOW6x8En

This banger of a 2002 time capsule.  Jaxz attempts to take a powder but Jackie brings her back to the ring where a distracted ref misses a pin by Jackie, which Jazz turns into a tights aided rollup to retain the title.  

    Now it's time for our Tough Enough season 2 recap.  Matt Morgan has to bow out of the compeition beause of knee injury.  The rest of the cast head to see a live WWF event and then cut their own promos which are all generic and bad.  

Be sure to order WWF Backlash to see Triple H defend against Hulk Hogan.

It's main event time.  Big Show vs Goldust.  Raven mentions that last year at Backlash he had this banger.

Big Show tosses Goldust into the ring post but Show gets caught coming in the ring.  Coach speculates what kind of mood, Steve Austin will be in tomorrow night on Raw.  I'm going to take a guess and say fun and fancy free.  Goldust has taken show down to his knee with sleeper hold.  Raven mentions that he is member of MENSA for the fourth time tonight.  Big Show powers out, chucks around Goldust and then holds Goldust in the air during the finishing chokeslam for an impressive amount of time.  

Sunday Night Heat Review 9.3.2000

 

                                                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. 

 

In Your House Final Four vs Super Brawl 7: A Build Breakdown

The Monday Night Wars between the WWF and WCW were the most watched era in professional wrestling history.  It has been romanticized 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 story lines 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.

On February 16th 1997, the WWF brought to customers a hour pay per view event called In Your House: Final Four. 

 This show was headlined by a four way match between Bret Hart, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Vader, and the Undertaker.  In January at the Royal Rumble, Bret Hart eliminated Steve Austin but the referees missed it because they were dealing with a brawl between Mankind and Terry Funk on the outside.  Austin returned to the ring and eliminated Undertaker, Vader, and Bret Hart.   WWF President Gorilla Monsoon said that although he can't overturn Austin's win but he will not allow Austin to main event WrestleMania.  So Monsoon put Austin, Vader, Undertaker, and Bret Hart into the Final Four Match to determine the number 1 contender for the WWF Title at WrestleMania 13.  Before Gorilla announced this match, Bret Hart opened up Raw by quitting the WWF because he was tired of getting screwed.  Austin repeatedly cut promos about how he was being screwed out of his title shot but he was going to kick the ass of everyone in the match any way.  Vader informed us that he was a Mastodon and there wasn't anything anyone could do to stop him.  Undertaker said that he was tired of taking a backseat and being distracted by other people to keep him from being champion.  Undertaker has not been champion since November 1992 and that was for less than a week.  The four men repeatedly got into brawls and interfered into each other's matches.  They was a lot of chaos leading into this match.  The RAW before the show was preempted by a dog show, so RAW was moved to Thursday and called Thursday RAW Thursday.  I have no idea why they repeated the Thursday.  On this show Shawn Michaels forfieted the WWF title rather than defend it against Sycho Sid claiming that he had a probably career ending knee injury.  He also didn't like who wrestling had changed him and that he had, "Lost his smile."  This entire time, Vince McMahon was in the ring interviewing him and seemingly trying to kiss Michaels and sob uncontrollably.  This changed the Final Four match from being a number one contender match to a match for the vacant WWF title and the winner would defend against Sid the following Monday on Raw.

The British Bulldog and Owen Hart defend the Tag Team Titles against Doug Furnas and Phillip Lafon

The Bulldog and Owen were doing a lot of bickering during their matches.  This stemmed from Owen accidentally on purpose eliminating the Bulldog during the Royal Rumble.  This also made Bulldog annoyed by cheating despite the fact that he had been cheating for a few years now.  Apparently when the Bulldog fell out of the ring at the rumble, he hit his head and it affected that part of his brain that handles determining the difference between right and wrong.  Now Bulldog really hates when Owen hits people with Slammy's and gets counted out on purpose while faking an injury to retain the titles.  These teams would meet in a variety of different ways with Bulldog getting upset with the cheating that Owen continued to do.  You don't marry an alcoholic and ask them to stop drinking and you don't tag up with the King of Hearts and ask him not to be smarmy and not cheat.  You knew what you were getting into when you entered this tag team Bulldog.  Accept Owen for who he is!!

Hunter Hearst Helmsley defends the Intercontinental Championship against Ahmed Johnson.  

On Thursday Raw Thursday, Hunter was defending the title against young blue chipper Rocky Maivia.  Goldust and Marlena appeared and distracted Hunter so he put in extra show boating before hitting the pedigree.  Rocky took advantage of this and rolled Helmsely up to become the new champion.  Rocky then gave a terrible, I love everybody and work hard promo.  

So now Rocky Maivia defends against Hunter Hearst Helmsley.  To recap in match between Hunter Hearst Helmsley and Rocky Maivia which featured interference from Goldust and Marlena, Ahmed Johnson lost his title shot and pay per view paycheck.  I would be really pissed if I was Ahmed.  He probably tried to raise these concerns with Vince McMahon but Vince couldn't understand him because Vince doesn't speak fat tongued gibberish.  

Also on this card that weren't announced and had no build.  

Marc Mero vs Leif Cassidy      

The Nation of Domination (Faarooq, Crush, and Savio Vega) vs Goldust, Flash Funk, and Bart Gunn

At a house show at Madison Square Garden, Savio Vega turned on Ahmed Johnson and joined the Nation, because he didn't like the way Ahmed was treating him during that match.  So instead of just letting it go and discussing it in the back with your partner or just never teaming with Ahmed again, Savio decides that the only way to handle this is so attack Ahmed, change all of his values and morals, and join a street gang.  Adds up.  I don't even want to get caught with Savio Vega in traffic.  Dude tends to over react.


On February 23rd, 1997 WCW presented Super Brawl 7.

Hollywood Hulk Hogan defends the WCW titles against Roddy Rowdy Piper

The WCW Championship committee has required that Hogan defend the title against Piper.  Piper however does not want the title shot.  He said two months ago that he just wanted one more match against Hogan, just to prove a point but it is time for him to go home and be a father.  Piper has his 8ish year old son with him.  Hogan and Bischoff come out to tease Piper for being a wimp and they even make fun of his son.  The kid looks legit scared.  Piper says that Hogan is the true icon and to just let him leave and go home.  Piper walks his son out of the ring and takes off his belt and beats the every loving snot out of Hogan with it.  Piper has been talked into accepting the title shot by Hogan's own arrogance and dickishness.  Hogan would spend the next month pretending that he beat Piper In December and that he would do it again.  Since Super Brawl 7 is in San Fran, Piper locks himself in a cell at Alcatraz a week ahead of the match.  Piper believes that no food, water, or real exercise will better prepare him for his match against Hogan because it might make him crazier.  I suggest that Piper intakes nutrients and trains and maybe just skips his meds on Sunday before the match.  But what do I know, I am not a trainer, doctor, or psychiatrist.  

The Outsiders defend the WCW tag team titles against Lex Luger and the Giant.

The night after Souled Out and the Giant getting screwed out of the WCW title.  Luger came out and said that he would stand beside him.  This earned them a shot against the Outsiders.  The next week, Luger randomly shows up with cast on his hand.  He broke his hand and Bischoff says that without a doctor to release him that he can't let Luger wrestle.  He needs the doctor's release by the end of the end of the show or his title match is gone.  Bischoff says this is because he is leaving the country and needs to time to promote and schedule the matches.  We will ignore all of the matches that are put on the card next week and even some that are added the day of.  Luger gets his doctor's release the next week but it is to late.  Bischoff comes out and and denies him the match, despite the fact that Bischoff was supposed to me out the country this week.  The Giant says that he will just go it alone and beat Hall and Nash on his own.  It's a handicap match for the titles.

A Four Corners Tag Match for #1 contenders to the WCW Tag Tiltes

The Steiner Brothers vs Harlem Heat vs The Faces of Fear vs Public Enemy

The Outsiders tried to kill the Steiners with their car   It gets interested at about the 2:00 mark and includes some nifty camera work.  Good Job WCW!!  The Outsiders give this video tape to Tony Schiavone to prove that they didn't cause the accident although the video is them causing the accident.  It isn't brought up again.  SCOTT HALL AND KEVIN NASH TRIED TO KILL TWO PEOPLE AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE!!!!!  So since the Steiners are injured the match becomes......

Harlem Heat vs The Faces of Fear vs Public Enemy in a Triangle March for No Reason Whatsoever.   So the only drama to come from the tag division at this time to hype this match involves two teams who aren't in the match nor will any of the teams in this match face in the future.  Bad Job WCW!!

Kevin Sullivan vs Chris Benoit

Their rivalry over who gets to have Sullivan's wife rages on.  I think it is at this point that Benoit and Woman transferred this angle from TV to reality.  They seemed much more touchy feely and natural with their goo goo eyes.   It is very creepy considering what would happen down the road.  Kevin Sullivan says that he doesn't care about Nancy AKA Woman anymore and Jacqueline comes through the crowd.  She is apparently a woman from Sullivan's past and doesn't like how Nancy has treated him and she is going to destroy Nancy for Sullivan.  Sullivan since he is evil agrees to this.  During their match at the PPV Jacqueline and Woman will be connected by a leather strap.  Sullivan beats jobbers the next few weeks and Jacqueline beats them up.  Benoit's portion of the feud other than banging his wife, is to cut nonsensical cryptic promos when standing with the other Horseman.  

Jeff Jarrett vs Steve McMichael

Speaking of the Horseman, this story line makes zero sense.  Ever since Jeff Jarrett joined WCW, he wanted to be a Horseman, Ric Flair wanted him to be a Horseman, but none of the other Horseman wanted him to be a Horseman.  I am assuming it is because they heard what a fraud his singing career was.  As the months, and I mean months went on, Jarrett continued to try to get into the Horseman while the Horseman bickered about it.  Eventually the person that wanted him in the most was Steve McMichael's wife Debra.  This even led to Mongo helping Jarrett beat Horseman member Chris Benoit.  Mongo decides that he doesn't want Jarrett in the Horseman despite what he had said and done otherwise.  He was tired of listening to his wife.  So this match was booked and if Jarrett wins he gets to join the Horsemen.  Mongo remains a Horseman either way.

Eddie Guerrero defends the United States Championship against Chris Jericho.  

Eddie had defeated Syxx at Souled Out in the ladder match to retain the title.  Jericho lost to Masahiro Chono at the same event.  Apparently losing a non title match earned Jericho a shot at the second biggest singles title in company.  WARNING  These are not the Eddie Guerrero and Christ Jericho who would be awesome about 1 year later.  These were boring "Yeah!! C'MON!!" generic create a wrestler versions.

Prince Iaukea defends the TV title against Rey Mysterio

This was originally going to be Lord Steven Regal who had the title for months.  He went to a time limit draw against Mysterio in a really good Nitro match.  This was supposed to be the rematch with the time limit waived.  Then the week before on Nitro, Regal is defending against jobber Prince Iaukea and Mysterio comes out to watch, Regal who had been destroying the Somoan, gets rolled up for the 1-2-3.  Now you scrap the match with build that people had seen is a very good match-up but this time you will get a winner instead of a time limit draw to replace it with a title defense of a jobber against Mysterio.  What a terrible decision.  

Dean Malenko defends the Cruiserweight title against Syxx

Malenko was wrestling and Syxx came out and stole the belt.  This is exactly what Syxx did to Eddie Guerrero the previous month so you have to give credit to Syxx.  He has apparently stuck with two things in his career stealing belts from guys so they defend it against him and drugs.  Always do drugs.  Malenko took the microphone a week later and asked Syxx to return the belt.  Malenko's dad trained Syxx and if Syxx wants a shot all he has to do is ask. Syxx comes out and says that he respects Dean's dad more than anything.... but he is dead and Dean sucks.  This was some harsh stuff which Dean responded to by not going after Syxx but staring at him stone faced.  That'll teach Syxx for stealing your championship and talking about your family.  Watcha gonna do, Syxx, when MalenkoMania stares blankly at you......

Added to the card the night of without anybody knowing ahead of time....

Konan, LaParka, Villano 4 vs Ciclope, Juventud Guerrera, Super Calo

-This was just for the heck of it.

Diamond Dallas Page vs Buff Bagwell

-The nWo had been gunning for Diamond Dallas because he was the only one to ever get one over on them.  The nWo would try to attack him but Page would always escape.  In my opinion, Page was the third most over face in the company at this point, behind Luger and Sting in the rafters.  I have no idea why WCW wouldn't announce the Page match ahead of time.  Page was being hinted at taking out current nWo member and former prison guard from Cobb County Georgia prison guard Big Bossman now known as Fat and Lazy.  I mean Big Bubba.  The entire nWo was walking into the arena and then boom, Bubba is laying on the ground unconcious.  Nobody knows who did it or how they did it.


So which event would spend your hard earned February 1997 dollars on.  This may be the hardest one to chose since the two companies began competing on Monday nights, but by a short margin I will select WCW because they made you want to see Piper get revenge on Hogan for embarrassing him in front of his kid and the main event of the WWF may only have the title one day because you were going to see the winner face Sid the next night for free anyhow.



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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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