A new referee for OVW in the shape of Donna Derring.  In all honesty she looks positively ridiculous wearing the skimpiest refereeing outfit you’re likely to see; hanging out her bottoms, falling out her top and by the volume going on, probably having used a whole can of hair spray on her barnet.  One positive about the female official is it means less chance of fighting referees, something I was worried about in the previous Stretching Crew tag.  Kenny Bolin is up at the announcing booth, not happy that Cornette has been slandering a WWF superstar like Mark Henry with his accusations of him having running over the Big Show.  He claims Henry was at the Bolin Mansion at the time it happened and it could’ve been any black man driving the truck. Orton does get some good height on his dropkicks.  He avoids the running splash in the corner and unloads with a couple of punches.  Monkey flip.  Henry with a leapfrog followed by a sidewalk slam.  I had genuinely forgotten Dean Hill was there when Corny brings him in as JC and Bolin had been going back and forth non-stop ever since ‘the Star Maker’ came out.  As Orton starts his comeback, Henry’s manager Thurston Throckmorton, still dressed up like Randy Savage, grabs his leg from the floor.  He yanks him up to the apron and drills him with a right, but when he turns around he walks into a belly to belly that gives Henry the win.  Corny claimed that Derring didn’t see any of the interference even though she was looking right at it as it was going on!

Our first look at one Randall Orton.  Unlike Brock Lesnar, who looks so young compared to how he is today, Randy doesn’t look much different, bar fewer tattoos.  Orton didn’t get to do much here, but he looked fine with the basics.  Henry showed some great agility in there on more than one occasion.  Poor Dean Hill having to sit next to Corny and Bolin!

I think this is the first appearance for Orton on the PWO2K. He is an intriguing person to track throughout the decade. Donna Daring is ref and Bolin is in the announce booth. Henry does look slimmed down and has a moment of agility when Randy is positioned on the ropes. Otherwise, not much here and Randy was still really basic in his attack, selling and other mannerisms. Bullshit finish of course and Henry wins. *