A good camera angle! I love this series of matches, but they are so similar it is hard to tell what you have and haven't seen from the early going alone. They do the Smothers skin the cat spot, the Smothers diving forearm off the apron spot, and some other familiar shit right away. Smothers does the missed kick into running baseball slide and we get a really cool angle on Candido's chest first bump into the guardrail. Cool spot with Chris getting backhanded, falling into the second rope and popping right up into a dropkick. Smothers sets up the ladder, but Candido pops up underneath him and hits an electric chair. Candido starts working over Smothers with the ladder. Goes to climb it and Tracy hits a back elbow, but then Candido cuts him off from using it. Chris ends up cutting off another Tracy comeback with a reverse atomic drop and it occurs to me that they are working this as if it was a traditional match with comebacks and hope spots, it's just that the ladder is their as a way to inflict damage. Cool angle on Candido's wipe out bump off a missed headbutt from the top of the ladder. Smothers ends up rattling off a ten count punch spot in the corner but then ends up catching all ladder on a stinger splash attempt. Smothers ends up winning in really uneventful fashion to the point where it almost looked botched. Still this was good enough to pass through. These guys never had a bad match.

I liked it. Like Dylan said these guys were pretty samey in their matches, but they always had good ones so why complain. I liked how they started their typical match and built to the ladder spots. the finish was kinda eh, but the match as a whole was good enough to move forward. both guys work so hard in their matches together. Either this series or the Rock N Roll Express/Heavenly Bodies feud is going to be the most represented match on the set.

Ladder Match: "Wild Eyed Southern Boy" Tracy Smothers vs. Chris Candido (3/13/94)

 

This is almost a carbon copy of their match a day earlier but not as crisp in spots. Dylan is right that these two don't have anything but good matches and this should move forward but when push comes to shove I think the 3/12 match is a better match overall. The one thing this match did have over the other one was the ladder was a metal ladder and not a wooden one.