Vince was pretty decent as the ring leader this week, his
delivery on "Answer me, dammit!" being particularly choice. Seeing
the Musketeers getting squashed doesn't have the appeal it did a
couple of months ago but they still bump better than half the young guys.
Later on in the show Austin did HIS thing on the mic and whaddya know,
it was good too.
D-Lo won the European championship, which is actually a pretty
good move IF they don't just use him as way to get X-Pac the
belt. Mr. Brown is slowly but surely cultivating a personality
and his ring work is really good for a WWF wrestler. Top level
guys like 3H should do more jobs like this, it ain't gonna
affect their heat for more than a few minutes and it instantly
elevates a former mid-carder to hey!-the-marks-are-gonna-pay-attention-to-this-guy
status.
SO I got handed some piss poor info last week and Pierre
really did deserve to lose against Steve Williams but I liked
this Brawl for All match anyway and I'm digging the balls it
took to debut Doc Death in such an underwhelming way. Hey, he
and Regal could paste the shit out of each other and I'd love
it a whole lot. Um, why didn't the show Scorpio vs. Sk8-Ball?
From the clips they showed it looked like das bruise brother won.
Ok, I got to see the Val Venis angle from last week where Mrs.
Yamaguchi-san gives him a blowjob, hey why weren't they doing
stuff like THIS when I was in public school? Anyway, the whole
Japanese stereotype bullshit has got to go but how can you really
complain when they run an angle where a wrestler gets a hummer?
X-Pac and Maivia were kicking ass in the ring in a way that is
rare on Raw. Sure, they had to ruin the fun with a bad angle but
I really dug this match anyway because ya just gotta not expect
a whole lot from North American wrestling this month.
I think Precious Paul is great as the evil genius who's ripped
and kicks ass but c'mon, it's LOD and DOA!
Steve Blackman and Jarrett did their typically boring match but
I gotta wonder about the finish which came out of nowhere but
actually worked. Now either Jarrett was hurt bad on the move and
called an audible or maybe they're going in some sort of direction
where anybody can get dropped on their ass at anytime and get
pinned (like they do in New Japan). Probably the latter was what
happened but I don't think it'll be a trend. The debut of "The
Shooters" as a group wasn't all that but I still think Severn
looks like a kick ass mean dad in that suit of his.
Owen vs. Faarooq was not good. Jason Sensation got more heat for Owen
than he could get for himself all year. Plus! Faarooq looked really
bad tapping out SO close to the ropes.
Jackie buried Sable on the mic! Again! Hey! Sable looks
10X better deflated. Was there even a wrestling match here?
Austin vs. Mankind and Kane was so paint by numbers that even though the
crowd was into it I ain't gon' give it a passing grade this week. The
current storyline Austin's involved in is not nearly as compelling as his
post-Wrestlemania run against Dude Love and Vince McMahon SO I could
really care less about this kind of crap match. Michaels sitting at
the announcers booth is a bad idea when all he does is mock commentary.
Gosh, even Mr. Memphis sounded a little more serious. Why are they
selling a PPV main event with four guys that have fought each other so
many times recently? I'm not even remotely interested in anything on
Fully Loaded. This hasn't been a good PPV arc for Raw, in my not so fucking
humble opinion.
Ollie
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