Ken Shamrock made the tag match against D-Lo and The Rock worth watching,
coming up with a great Frankensteiner from out of nowhere. Mark Henry's
turn was ok and now they just might make him earn all that money he's
being paid.
Marc Mero vs. Vader wasn't a good match but I'm still getting a kick out
of Dustin Rhodes dress up routine so I'll give it a thumbs up. It was
entertaining, and, hey!, a breast was used as a foreign object!
Ken Shamrock made the tag match against D-Lo and The Rock worth watching,
coming up with a great Frankensteiner from out of nowhere. Mark Henry's
turn was ok and now they just might make him earn all that money he's
being paid.
Hey, there's a shot of a girl flashing her chest in the DX opening! HHH
did a pretty funny Mike Tyson impression. The whole thing with Owen and
the limo throughout the first hour was pretty cool, especially when he
dove through the roof and attacked HHH.
The Cactus Jack football field interview was reminiscent of the Cactus
of old, and the Chainsaw Charlie/Terry Funk explanation worked for me.
Nice shots from IWA. And then Goldust, after another costume change, as
Dude Love ruled. Too bad these two had to put over lame Steve Austin.
TAKA Michinoku and Scott Taylor made their match against Savio Vega and
Jesus Castillo work. This segment worked alone for the shoot comment of
the century when Lawler said, "I'm not embarrassed to be with younger
women, except when I drop them off at school."! Pretty cool move by Vega
to catch TAKA's moonsault and slam him on the floor. And the whole thing
ended with some nice crutch shots by Owen.
The Royal Rumble "draw" was a great old slobberknocker. I dug the return
of the Honky Tonk Man since he's a good character and seeing him in the
Rumble (only, I hope) won't be too painful. Another great line when Ross
said to Lawler, "What are you his cousin?". It was weird that Savio Vega
teamed with D-Lo and Rocky to triple team Steve Austin, given that Vega
was fired from the NOD and they had that long, boring feud and all.
The four-way tag match was under the sucky first pinfall rules so it didn't
work. There's no way a wrestler should tag to anyone but his partner since
doing so would mathematically eliminate them from getting a victory. At
least it put a bunch of crappy workers together and got them out of the way
all at once.
I can't say anything bad about Steve Austin's interview on its own since
it was, as usual, well done and the crowd loved it. Of course I can
complain about how it's the same interview he's been giving forever and
he really can't wrestle so he shouldn't be put over every wrestler in the
company on the same night.
First he brings back the claw and now he brings back the handicap match
to the WWF. Three cheers for Kurgan, who screwed up a simple vertical
suplex too! At least I got a look at some of the indy talent I've been
reading about, Jimmy Cicero and Lance Diamond.
Man, this NWA thing is getting bad. The Rock'n'Roll Express are not the
team to get this angle over. No one cares and it's just sad to see a
once good team shrivel up and die in front of our eyes. I'm starting to
feel even better about dissing Jim Cornette's "wrestling" rant from two
weeks ago.
DX part 2 wasn't so hot because I'm not a big fan of Kane at all and the
Undertaker only slightly more. Thankgod the WWF may have gotten themselves
out of a Kane vs. Undertaker match from hell afterall.
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