I was really excited to watch this, and wasn't disappointed. The early strike exchanges are so fucking vicious and really set the tone for this one out of the gate. Seriously these guys are lighting each other up with backfist, punches, chops, et. Really loved the early spot with Tracy going for his backflip over the ropes/middle rope kick and Candido ducking out of the way only for Smothers to hit his running baseball slide. Also really dug the spot where Candido sees that Smothers is getting up after he sets up the ladder and runs over and splashes him to keep him down. Candido's plunge over the top from Tracy's double axe was really crazy and well timed by both guys. This really is worked like one of their regular matches, as it is all about Candido working on top, with Tracy working mini-comeback spots, all of which are really good looking and feel like potential momentum swingers. In particular I liked the spot with Candido eating a suplex onto the ladder and then avoided the Smothers splash as well as Candido's insane face first bump off of blocked top rope frankensteiner onto the ladder. Candido ends up missing a massive swan dive from the top of the ladder which sets Smothers off. Smothers just dismissively dropping the ladder on Candido was a great spot and Tracy's corner charge head bump into the ladder looked sick as fuck. Finish with Candido and Smothers trading punches on top of the ladder until it fucking collapses was awesome. I don't give a shit if Mark Curtis had to hold up half of the broken ladder for Tracy to climb to the top afterward, this was an awesome match, with an awesome finish.

I thought this match was amazing and one of the top ten matches in SMW history.I can see people saying this is better than the Wrestlemania X ladder match. It was so awesome how the wrestlers worked a bout on a normal level and then worked the ladder into the match. Just so many great stuff and moments in the bout.