Juventud Guerrera vs Rey Misterio Jr was about as good as wrestling on
Monday gets (since I'm not commenting on the SUPER SPECTACULAR El Pantera
performance on the Ollie side). Juventud worked super stiff with the young
Lucha punk and was winning the crowd over by mid-match. Rey wasn't afraid
to take a hellish bump with that sunset flip to the floor. Juventud and Rey
are magic and this was the best eight minutes on TV tonight. And that was
win,place, and show for fastest springboard hurricanrana on earth ever.
Rey's back, I'm happy, push Juventud harder already. Rey's chest looking
like dogfood at the end was the biggest highlight- stiff lucha- I love these
guys.
HOLY CATS! Regal is back and potatoing the crap outta Alex Wright. Since
Regal and Alex's pop probably go way back, he didn't beat the crap out of
him like he wanted to. I hope they have a Regal/Iaukea match soon since
Regal doesn't have any qualms about beating the crap outta him. Regal could
reach Loch Ness-ian proportions of fatness and still be 1,000 cooler than
any other heavyweight in WCW. Dig the Regal chant.
Malenko squashing the Disco Inferno was pretty neat for the intensity that
Malenko is shooting for while he is in Horseman limbo. Malenko only works
stiff with one guy and that's Disco Inferno for some reason. Malenko should
have showed his hand at being the next Horseman a little more, but the seeds
are being sown and this match is his first match out of the horrible Jarrett
feud. Of course, if he actually becomes a Horseman, he will be wrestling
the really horrible wrestlers of the nWo, so maybe this isn't such a hot idea.
The Giant was the only one to really look sufficiently pissed off at the
nWo so his match against Konnan worked in that context. I every other
context, well.....
The thing that worked the most is that Duggan didn't show up like they
threatened he would. It's an odd but effective way of anti-booking. They
should threaten us with Kamala next week.
The nWo desecration of Flair is fine- in that it builds a lot of heat, gets
nWo over strong, gets Hennig over as a true asshole (as opposed to "still
good wrestler"), and sets up what could be (if WCW had half a brain, which
it doesn't) a good feud with the Horsemen. Instead, the Horsemen are
totally discredited for doing nothing all night, the rest of WCW looks like
a batch of powdered ass pansies and this whole crappy angle is gonna spiral
into the ground, taking all the useless non-working stiffs that permeate the
WCW/NWO heavyweight division with it, since they ain't putting Flair and the
Horsemen over any time soon. Hogan will turn, Flair will be ruined, Benoit
won't have enough heat to make a run at the position held by Hall and Nash,
and WCW will suck like it did in 1995. Ed Leslie and the Nasty Boys will
return. Juventud will job to newly arrived John Tenta. Lenny Lane will get
the Cruiserweight title a month before it's abandoned, and Renengade will
return as the Ultimate Weapon. Kick Ass. I can't wait.
Hey! The only WCW guy who was cheesed off enough to show up and face the
nWo was Ray Traylor! Yep! Ray Traylor! My hero! God! I hope this angle dies
a violent death! Boy! I await the sincerely peeved Michael Wallstreet to
grab the ropes during abdominal stretches to really wreak his hellish
revenge on the ne'er-do-well nWo who turned their back on him! I hope WWF
signs the rest of the EMLL guys so I can get rid of any urge to watch this
nWo crap while the first hour of RAW is on.
Eddy Guerrerro vs Ultimo Dragon would have worked a lot better if the
hundred-pounds-of -crap-in-a-fifty-pound-bag-that-is-the-nWo didn't take
forty minutes for useless midnight-choking-disguised-as-interviews. Eddy
SOMEHOW botches a hurricanrana, but the rest is pretty choice for a six
minute match. Still, this is way too soon after UD puts Wright over clean
for him to put Eddy over clean- especially when there are twenty other guys
who can lose to Eddy in a goods match and not lose as much heat. UD is
precariously getting over and this ain't helping. If they were going to do
this match they should have given UD time to make the match look like more
than a rushed Nitro squash. But HEY! It's WCW. Wotta a bunch of morons.
Mongo drops the belt to Hennig. Hmmm... a stiff that tries more than any
other WCW heavyweight jobs clean to the latest lazy sack-of-shit to join the
Clique Part II, thus killing yet still another WCW belt. My eyes glaze over.
WHOMP ASS!
DEAN!
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