Rich fleeing from Axl and Balls when they hit the ring by diving under the bottom rope and taking a flat back bump on the floor was awesome. Rich is so pissed off by this that he demands Tracy manage for the night and takes the ring! They do a rope running spot but Rich bails to the floor and ends up in a shoving match with Tracy as they try and decided who is going to go forward in the match. Sure enough Tracy takes his spot on the apron. During all of this Guido is doing a hilarious dance which he then teaches to Smothers. He dances tot he point that Axl tags in Balls who then spins him around like a ball room dancer and clothesline him to shit, following it up with a nasty looking back drop driver. Then he and Axl hit a diving forearm/powerbomb combo for a nearfall. Axl mocks Guido's dance and they end up doing a drop toehold/legdrop combo. Balls goes for the nutcracker suite but Guido slips out and slams him backwards by the hair and tags in Smothers who hops in the ring and moonwalks around like a jackass before walking over to Balls and asking "where's all that Balls now?" They do a leapfrog spot and Tracy catches him with a superkick and then dances around again but Balls catches him with his own side kick after another rope running spot. Balls ends up taking a big bump to the guardrail off of a pull down rope spot from Guido and Rich gets into the action and then runs over to a fan to talk shit to him. FBI work their full blown cut off the ring/triple team/heel schtick really well. Love Smothers on the fake tag spot behind the refs back and Rich stalking around ringside talking about Balls not being so bad after all. Nice double shoulder tackle from the FBI and the crowd is getting really fired up for a comeback. Every time they pan to Rich he's got a shit eating grin on his face and it makes you really wish that there was a camera that just followed him around collecting his quips and barbs with the fans. Balls catches Tracy coming off the ropes and slams him down and then goes up for a legdrop but gets tossed off and then hit with Tracy's diving reverse elbow which was a good nearfall. Axl comes in after a powerbomb from Balls and they end up doing a teased screwjob finish with Jeff Jones before Finnegan counts the fall. This was really good and not totally identical to the other matches they had.

FBI vs. Balls Mahoney & Axl Rotten (2/20/98)

- Man, the FBI shtick never gets old. Another solid match where we are going to have to havea conversation about how many FBI matches we want on the set. This one didn’t have anything truly that stood out and was sort of over before you blinked but it still needs to be in the conversation.

Axl Rotten & Balls Mahoney vs. The Full Blooded Italians (Little Guido & Tracy Smothers) (2/20/98)

 

Another solid match in this series with this one having all kinds of different schtick from the FBI like Rich & Smothers arguing over who would wrestle or who would manage while Guido does a different dance in the ring that intrigues Tracy and he wants to be taught this dance which happens while Rich riles up the fans until Balls breaks up the party with a T-Bone suplex. Simply awesome. The match went on to the normal repertoire between the teams while Rich was great at being Rich on the floor. Jeff Jones came in for his run in but Finnegan took care of him and counted out the FBI. This moves forward fairly easily.