Al Snow is getting a semblance of a push but he's sure paying his
dues. This was really a pretty iffy match but hey it's Al Snow!
And even through all the suckiness they did their job in making
it fun to watch. I hated it in ECW when Snow would use the head
to win a match, and I hate it now, so they'd damn better keep
it few and far between.
In case any of you were disappointed with my remark last week about
that home wrecking Val Venis, I honestly want Dustin to kick his ass
in the feud. But that's more because my formative wrestling years
were spent watching Runnels Jr. work circles around his father in
matches against Vader, Steve Austin and even Bunkhouse Buck in WCW.
I still like all the porn stuff. Meanwhile, Owen Hart and Venis put
on a pretty good short match.
X-Pac vs. Dee El Oh Brown delivered the best wrestling goods on the
show, and maybe on both shows. X-Pac is reaching another level in his
wrestling career which is really nice to see since he was kinda stuck
for a while back in '96. D-Lo is still the number one and coolest member
of the forgotten Nation, hanging with his opponent and showing off his
super duper cool moves. The European title, of course, means absolute
shit. I don't understand the significance of it at all. Maybe if it was
ever defended on European soil. They should at least give it to my man
Steve Regal.
Mankind gave a pre-match interview that was about as good as the
one on that other show Ric Flair delivered, yet they were completely
polar opposite in theme, scope and style. Flair's was compelling as
hell and Mankind's made me fall off the couch. If I wasn't such a
slacker I'd transcribe the whole thing right here and then make
arrangements to have it put on my tombstone.
The on-at-least-one-TV-show weekly triple threat match was the best
one I can remember seeing on Raw. Maivia really supplied the goods
with one of his best TV performances. Mankind worked his ass off like
he does every match. Ken Shamrock hung with them and pulled out a
super Frankensteiner right near the screwjob of a finish. Yeah, it was
too bad it couldn't have ended cleanly.
Shane McMahon really sucks. And I swear I'm not just jealous 'cos
his dad is the president of a wrestling company. He honest to god,
out and out, sucks behind the announcers table. More of this and
I'll start watching with the sound turned down.
Jeff Jarrett and Billy Gunn brought the wrestling to the table but
Jarrett's only good when he's bumping around the ring for someone
with a 1990s move set and Gunn is way back in 1987. It was ok, but
ultimately fell short of working. The Roadie holding cue cards
kept it from being a massive waste of magnetic tape.
The Disciples of some Apocalypse and Southern Justice were in the
ring together and that's always gonna be bad. Pretty much anything
with some form of disciple in the ring is not gonna be something I
want to see.
I would be a happy person if the Undertaker and Kane never saw the
light of day again.
The WWF Womens Championship match would have been a whole lot better
if they had awarded the winner an actual title belt. This showed
glimpses of ok-ishness if you squinted real hard at Jackie's DDT.
I, like all the other people with no lives who spend their spare
time watching TV shows in a language they don't understand, would
love to see some Japanese gals lay the smackdown on these two, and
so I hope and I pray.
Billy Gunn as the mystery partner worked better this time than last.
But that's not saying a lot. This match just didn't do it for me
because a lot of it consisted of the dead boys with a wad of lousy offence.
The Undertaker is really letting his barely there workrate slip ever
since turning heel. Kane is even more of a load than before. And Billy
Gunn really pussed out on the selling. Austin didn't do much but he did
it well.
TSN saw fit to cut the savage beating the Oddities took with silly
string at the hands of those dastardly Headbangers. I don't care
how bad it is, *I* decide whether to fast forward through it or not!
Ollie
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