Darren Drozdov and Savio Vega had a cool little Brawl for All match.
I dug Vega's intensity the most, too bad he lost.
This week's community theatre starring Mankind, Vince McMahon, Paul
Bearer, Kane and the Undertaker was ok execution wise, i.e. the
acting was good but the storyline sucked. C'mon, the lights go out
and Kane and 'taker trade places? But heck, I thought McMahon was so
good that I'm going to say I liked it anyway.
Darren Drozdov and Savio Vega had a cool little Brawl for All match.
I dug Vega's intensity the most, too bad he lost.
Hey, Hawk was back on the sauce this week and I was loving it all
the way to the liquor store. Call me simple but booze jokes are my
achilles heel. Add to that the fact that Jeff Jarrett was interesting
for the first time since his WWF return and it all points to worked.
Sure, the DX fake breakup was about as subtle as Sable's boob job
but it made for fine quality family entertainment and that equals
ratings.
Now the four corners match was pretty interesting. I was about to
trash the whole thing based on the piss poor psychology alone. I
mean, WHY would you ever NOT tag your own partner? You can't win
the match that way and there's no guarantee that you'll ever be
tagged back in. The only circumstance I can see for tagging someone
else is if your partner is dead (in the All Japan sense) and you're
taking the pasting of your life. But that wasn't the case. Then I
watched the match again and ignoring all the goofiness that the rules
imposed on the wrestlers, it was fifteen minutes of solid wrestling
action with about as clean a finish as you'll get in a TV main event.
D'Lo Brown stood out as the guy with the best offense, with the Low
Down being the best move on Raw all night. I appreciate the effort
the WWF has been putting out the last couple of weeks to deliver at
least one good match per show.
I still dig the Oddities but this week's appearance didn't pack
the punch of last weeks and the match between Luna and Jacqueline
was nothing but North American women's wrestling 101 with the
same three spots that every women's match this side of the pond
has. Having Jackie pinned clean did nothing but damage her character
and the fans don't take Luna as a wrestler seriously so it's not
like she needed the win. You don't build an angle by having the
face pin the heel clean as a sheet one week after the feud starts
(kind of like how they pissed away TAKA vs. Kaentai DX).
I heard John Wayne Bobbit was on Raw this week but I was distracted
by a program about reptiles on the Discovery Channel.
Bradshaw vs. Marc Mero in the second Brawl for All match
was not all that exciting, it bored the tits off of me, and
so I say, it didn't work.
Ollie
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