Kanyon, Kanyon, Kanyon. Y'know, I have EVERY Men At Work match on tape. You could tell back then that he was gonna NUMBER ONE AND THE BEST and he's getting there. I mean, that wasn't Chris Benoit in there with him, that was Horace Boulder, and it was pretty damn good. Of course, Boulder wasn't afraid to work his fat hinder off so this was squarely in the realm of enjoyable. Golly, the Boulder tope was FUN, FUN, FUN! Kanyon wrestles all weird and HE ROCKS.

Okay, if they are gonna go ahead and do this highly irritating angle where Chavo causes Eddy to lose a bunch of matches, it doesn't chafe a True Fan as much if they have Eddy lose to a member of the spunky batch of folk called Groupo Revolucion. This wasn't really anything very good, but Lil Dragon looked all neato, doing all his little fella moves, and there was never a moment when I thought he was going to ruin Eddy's knee- like in their prior WCW World Wide encounter. HEY! The first Groupo win in WCW! WOO-HOO! Bring on Niedhart! LIL DRAGON WHOMP'S ASS! WOO-HOO!

Bret Hart is becoming great at being a world-class dick. His acceptance of the challenge was GREAT. Talk about instant heat. You can do that kind of stuff if you have a history of being one of the greatest wrestler in North America ever. Booker T is gonna need a HUGE Christmas list to accommodate the three Canadians (don't forget Rick Martel) that will have added two stars onto each of his matches this year. Booker T and Bret Hart is SO VERY right up Bret Hart's alley. This should be WAYYY good.

Vampiro looked better than I've ever seen him as Brad Armstrong wasn't afraid to make him look like the second coming of a scrawny, emaciated, tattooed Akira Maeda by leaning into Vamp's kicks like a champ. Hey look, there's a little hard way there. Armstrong is a man and they should push him. Vampiro may have a future here in the states.

HEY ALLRIGHT! MORE GROUPO! WHIP ASS! heyyyyyyy HOLD ON! Magnum Tokyo and Sheeemmooo Nabunaga hate each other's guts in Mexico! I guess when you are Groupo Revolucion, you're Groupo 4 life. This was what wrestling on Monday should be- good and fun. As opposed to what it usually is- bad and stupid. Magnum smoked Alex and DI in the dance off and DI and Alex continued to climb up my list of most improved and least hatable wrestlers as they sell a whole bunch to the two highflyingest rookies in Mexico. I would have liked it more if Alex would have used an actual finisher for the finisher, though. This was great though. Put the belt on either of these two already.

Sting and Luger really suck. Davey Boy Smith and Jim Neidhart really suck. They wrestle each other and stuff. Sting and DBS don't come close to sucking as much as Neidhart and Luger, so when they hit the finish, it looked like an actual wrestling match for a second there. They also wrestled each other some BEFORE the finish and DBS Without Bret Hart and Sting Without Ric Flair Or Vader equals a Whole Bunch Of Nothing nut that was lots better than the total joke that the match became when the Anvil and the Total Package practiced their chosen profession. But this is like picking your favorite part of an Air Supply song- some parts may be better than others, but it's still gonna ALL suck. WELCOME TO WRESTLING HELL.

The Giant sucks dick. He chokeslammed two guys who are eight million times than he is and they have been wrestling three years less. Hell, Judo Suwa is gonna be FREAKIN GREAT in two years when the Giant is already working High School gyms because he'd become too fat to get through the door to take his WCW physical. The low-point for Team Dragon, but they're rookies so they will recover. The Giant's gonna suck forever, unfortunately.

Saturn vs Reese did whole lot of "exposing the business" as they say, as they weren't afraid to "show a whole lot of daylight" when they did all of their weak strikes (I'm so inside!). The dropkick was really cool and the Death Valley driver was pretty good, but after Vampiro hit that kick earlier in the night on Brad Armstrong, plus Steve Mother Fuckin Regal was on the other channel beating the hell out of the man named Puke, and Benoit beating the holy piss out of people is in the general overall consciousness of every good wrestling fan, that all makes this shit looks so WEAK and shit this weak ain't gonna fly in 1998.

Hey! If ya have Chris Benoit and Booker T- two guys who have had the best matches in WCW since Eddy and Rey stopped feuding- you should REALLY have Mongo and Stevie Ray wrestle the overwhelming majority of the match instead! Sure, they stink and all, but you wouldn't want to give them a complex or something. This sucked. At least the screwjob at the end may lead to something good. But this sucked.

I think I hated NWO Late Hour more than I should have. I dunno. Ever since Eric Bischoff showed his true colors as a WWF mole by trying to kill Juventud's heat with that Reese feud, I've been curious to see how Eric could serve up another high outside fast one for Vince to crush. Here you go. This is the best idea Pat Patterson ever had.

Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman wrestling. I give two fucks about that like I would Hogan and Diamond Dallas Page playing twenty-one. "Watch my fade away jumpshot, BROTHER!" "I'm rebounding like this because I'm jacked to the MOOON!" Malone clotheslines better than everybody in the NWO with the exception of Bret Hart, NEW JAPAN Sting, and Scott Norton. Yep. What kind of total idiot would want to see this match. I'm sure I'd be surprised. Actually, a lot of my friends and guys I work with who watch wrestling on Mondays would have a totally different highlight tape than what I would make, so Vive la Difference. Just show Juventud in an actual match already already...

THERE YOU HAVE IT.

DEAN!

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