God Tommy Rich is so fucking great pre-match, during the match holding his nose and calling fans smelly fat people, then calling the dance off segment with Meanie/Smothers where he calls Meanie a "chubby checker fatass" and introduces the segment by talking about the FBI's unfortunate 0-3 record in previous dance offs. Work in this early is good which is standard for the feud. Includes all the stapes including the teased Meanie dive, Nova going FIP after Rich guardrail spots, and FBI double teams. They do a totally bizarre double team with Smothers putting Nova up in fireman's carry position and Guido leaping off the top with a sunset flip powerbomb. I liked it but I bet others would hate it. Really out of character for the FBI either way. Smothers dancing around was really awesome. Really good teaser spot with Nova breaking a sunset flip attempt with a nice short leg drop. Heat section was good and led to a pretty decent hot tag from Meanie/Nova. I was not enamored with the actual finish, but the body of this was a lot of fun and featured some unique stuff and spins on previous matches.

FBI vs. Blue Meanie & Super Nova (5/8/98)

- Man, the FBI are so freaking great. Another match where we just have to compare the whole lot. The big thing here is Tommy jawing mid match with the crowd. Still, the work was good and Meanie and Nova didn’t make me roll my eyes. I don’t know if that is enough to push it onto the set so I’ll agree with the low level.

The Full Blooded Italians (Little Guido & Tracy Smothers) vs. The Blue Meanie & Super Nova (5/8/98)

 

This is a great FBI schtick match as Rich was fantastic ripping the fans, ripping Meanie, introducing the danceoff referencing the FBI's losing record, et al. The work here was good as usual between the teams and Nova was fine as FIP with Meanie being good at the hot tag. The finish was pretty sloppy but the FBI made this match worthy of a low-end pick with the schtick.