Posted December 6, 201014 yr comment_5459565 Little Guido v. Chris Chetti More evidence that Guido got the best out of Chetti. They run through the early matwork and it looks nice and sharp. Chetti has enough of Sale's shit and jumps to the floor and beats on him which leads to Guido missing a huge plancha and face planting. Chetti reels off some offense in the ring including a nice crossbody for a nearfall but gets caught on a moonsault attempt and powerbomb. Guido tosses him to the floor where Sal punches him hard as fuck in the face. Seriously it was an awesome punch. Some decent back and fourth and Guido goes to the balls before hitting a nice diving elbow for a nearfall. Pretty wild spot on the floor as Chetti tries to use the apron for a headscissors counter and Guido just falls straight back and drops him right on his face. Back in the ring they light each other up with a stiff chop exchange. Chetti's rope walk back kick looked pretty weak but Guido sold it so well that I didn't mind. Guido goes to throw Chetti into Sal but gets caught himself. Chetti hits his big moonsault clean for the finish. It's hard to even express how great Guido was at making Chetti look like a good wrestler. Danny Doring/Roadkill v. Axl Rotten/Balls Mahoney "Every fag I ever met likes to have a little bit of Balls." That's what Axl says to Doring right before tagging in Balls and right after a long gay baiting pre-match segment. Seriously Rotten has got to be the most extreme closet case ever. Balls damn near kills Doring with a lariat. Cool double team from the faces as Balls hits a spinebuster into a Boston Crab and then Axl leg drops a prone Doring. Axl and Roadkill start brawling on the floor and Balls misses a leg drop in the ring which sets up Balls In Peril. Pretty by the numbers match from that point forward, but it was still solid work from everyone with the double chairshot finish to Roadkill. Enjoyable for what it was. Super Crazy v. Tajiri Good opening exchanges leading to a spot where Tajiri did a weird springboad escape that may or may not have been a botch. He landed awkwardly on his back and sold it and Crazy immediately targeted it with a backbreaker and surfboard though so it worked out okay one way or the other. Awesome spot as Crazy did a backflip off of Tajiris chest so Tajiri just punted him in the face, followed it up with a punch/kick combo, a cool headscissors, then sent Crazy sliding through the bottom ropes before hitting a sweet Asai and a nasty head kick. Then he locked on a tarantula. Just an awesome run of offense. Tajiri misses the rewind elbow and gets kicked to the floor which led to a totally insane spot where Crazy vaulted over the ref and hit a flip dive. Crazy hit a powerbomb onto the turnbuckles and then a springboard frogsplash for a nearfall. He went back up to the top but got crotched and ate a tree of woe dropkick. Crazy ends up going for a desperation powerbomb, but Tajiri counters with a spinning DDT for the finish. I really love this series because every move feels like it could be a finish and both guys always work incredibly hard. Another sweet match from these two. Big Dick Dudley v. Nova Nova took a wild looking table bump. New Jack comes out and helps Nova. Not really much of a match. Sabu v. Skull Von Krush I will say this for this match, the big spots were pretty awesome. Sabu's missed dive was cool, Sabu's superplex was cool, and the table elbow drop ruled. There was also a guy in the crowd who kept yelling "white power" at Krush which was interesting. Spike Dudley v. Bubba Dudley Bubba takes it straight to Spike with power offense. Spike tries to counter by attacking the balls but Bubba goes back on offense. Funny spot with Gertner coming in and rubbing Bubba's wound. Bubba ends up headbutting Spike in the nuts. Bubba ends up missing his senton to set up Spike's flurry. Spike hits his corner punch/rana combo which I love and follows it up with his rolling senton. He then does the bit with the neckbreaker on the guardrail and the leaping chairshot, but Bubba cuts off his momentum with a nasty shot into the guardrail. Bubba grabs the house mic and starts shit talking Spike while battering him with it. Cool spot as Bubba goes for a drop down and Spike hits a short knee drop, followed by a bulldog and his typically solid missle dropkick. Spike hits an Acid Drop and Sign Guy comes in the ring to break it up but ends up hitting Bubba. End result is D-Von sneaking in and the Dudz hitting 3D for the finish. Not their best match, but still good stuff. Taz v. D-Von Dudley This was actually fairly decent. It was structured pretty well, D-Von got enough to look credible, and they even ran a bit where Taz had a real hope spot and was cut off which surprised me. Decent finish too. Above expectations. Tommy Dreamer v. Justin Credible v. Lance Storm Dreamer has Shane as a corner man of sorts. The match itself pretty much sucked. This was pre-Impact Players being officially together so they did dissension shit at the end. Just a boring match. Rob Van Dam v. Jerry Lynn I am no fan of this series, but this was a good match for the style. RVD had some shit looking spots, but for the most part they hit all the big stuff well. Lynn's dives looked really massive, there was a great over the guardrail bump, I thought they actually did a good job segmenting the match in such a fashion that it felt like more than just a stunt show, things didn't look totally choreographed from bell-to-bell and RVD got opened with a nasty cut which actually made the finishing run - which was the weakest part of the match - more dramatic. I am nominating this as an "others may like this better than me" match, but honestly it was a pretty solid match.
