Posted June 17, 201015 yr comment_5452097 3/18 Rave and Lane vs. Disorderly Conduct. Fidel Sierra v. Alan Funk Psicosis v. Shark Boy Hugh Morrus v. Rick Cornell Silver King/El Dandy v. Los Villanos** The Barbarian v. Adrian Byrd Mona v. Dee Dee 3-Count v. Elix Skipper, Sonny Siaki, ? Hail v. ? Billy Kidman/Torrie Wilson v. The Artist/Paisley 3/25 The Maestro v. Frankie Lancaster The Demon v. Rick Fuller Ernest Miller v. Barry Horowitz The Jung Dragons v. PG-13 and Frog** Kid Romeo v. Jeremy Lopez** Lash LeRoux v. Tommy Rogers** Tank Abbott v. Dave Burkhead Vampiro v. Steve Armstrong** HAIL v. ? Mona/Fantasy v. Dee Dee/Little Jeanie.** Jim Duggan v. Fidel Sierra
June 17, 201015 yr Author comment_5452114 1/22 Scott Armstrong v. Chavo Guerrero** Buzzkill v. Chris Harris Meng v. Fidel Sierra Chuck Palumbo v. Mike Sanders** Frankie Lancaster v. Al Greene Ron Rage/Mickey Ray v. Texas Outlaws** Sonny Siaki v. Elix Skipper** Mike Ashford v. Disco Inferno PG13 v. David Flair/Crowbar**
September 26, 201015 yr comment_5456300 3/4/00 Kid Romeo vs. Elix Skipper Shark Boy vs. Silver King* The Dog/Brian Knobs vs. Adrian Byrd/Dave Burkhead Hugh Morrus vs. Matt Anderson Jung Dragons vs. Villanos/Jeremy Lopez** The Wall vs. Rick Fuller Lash LeRoux vs. Rick Cornell Hail vs. Chad Hart Big Vito/Johnny the Bull vs. Chuck Palumbo/Sonny Siaki Jim Duggan vs. Fidel Sierra* Disorderly Conduct vs. Harris Boys Romeo and Elix was going OK until they both started botching stuff and it stumbled to the finish line. Shark/King was going really nicely (Silver King was really great from 99-01), but then when Shark took over he blew like three moves in a row, including falling off the ropes twice. King salvaged what it could and it was still decent. Dog looked pretty decent, and Knobbs stiffed the chumps with some nasty cast shots, but Byrd/Burkhead are quite the wretched team. Matt Anderson was tall, lanky, had a dorky haircut and had possibly never wrestled before because MY LORD did he almost die. He decided to take a back drop almost Sabu style and it coulda been messy. His offense was the pits. His punches are officially the worst I have ever seen. Ever. Sub-Kofi Kingston, no joke. He threw them with his hand almost completely open, and aimed for the shoulder. He looked like a guy scared to death of accidentally almost hitting Morrus, so instead threw slappy type arm flails about 3 feet away from Morrus. I kinda want to see him in another match...but don't know if that happened. Dragons/Villanos was just awesome. They got enough time and they all got to run through their cool spots. Real nice 6 man. Wall/Fuller was before Wall was good, and it went like a minute. Lash/Cornell (the future Reno) got ELEVEN minutes. ELEVEN minutes. They told their masterfully crafted story and DEAR GOD ELEVEN MINUTES! NO! Someone fucked up in the booth. Siaki was gassed to the nines and Palumbo wasn't really good yet, and this match got time but it was really headlocky and bland. Duggan/Sierra continue their really nice WCWSN feud that I'm getting pretty into. Still looking for the lost post-Mid South high end Duggan match (so far one of the 1990 Slaughter matches and a 2007 flag match against Daivari), and he's looked good enough in the Sierra series that I think it can happen. D.O. vs. Harris Boys doesn't get much time as a bunch of tag teams run in and it's a big schmozz. PG-13 was one of the run-in teams, but come on. They needed a match on the show.
October 5, 201015 yr comment_5456827 1/29/00 Kid Romeo vs. Tommy Rogers* Rob Williams vs. Steven Regal** Mark Jindrak vs. Rick Cornell Adrian Byrd vs. Al Greene La Parka/Silver King vs. Villanos** Kaz Hayashi vs. Lash LeRoux** Bobby Eaton vs. The Demon Dave Burkhead vs. Norman Smiley* Kory Williams/Ashley Hudson vs. The Mamalukes Tommy Rogers was tearing it UP in WCW! Romeo was just...missing something here. He wasn't bad, just wasn't very interesting. No idea who Robbie Williams was, but Regal was Regal here. Nice left to the jaw, mugging with the fans, amazing facials, Dave Taylor getting into it with fans at ringside. Regal being Regal makes it an easy must-see. Wow they give these Power Plant guys some time! Jindrak gets like 7 minutes, working his "banned NCAA basketball player" gimmick. This was a match between two rookies. They were out of place for stuff. Park/King vs. Villanos was exactly what you'd expect. Couple of big dives (Park's tornillo was nice) a fun lucha snack. How did they not push Park to the moon? Villano V has used a weird Diamond Dust variation the last couple matches I've seen that looks really cool. Kaz Hayashi continues his run as B-Sides MVP. This was the best Lash match so far. Kaz goes over clean here and looks great doing it. Finish is Lash getting kicked RIGHT in the chin from the apron, and Kaz hitting the slingshot DDT. Fun stuff. Man, team up Eaton with ANYbody. ANYbody other then the Demon. This stank. Norman was way over and this match was more fun than it deserved to be. Main event tag went really long and the jobber duo offered little. Hudson said he'd been following Hudson and Williams on the indies for years and was excited to see them here. Big Vito actually looked way better than I remember him looking, with some nice punches and a big mafia kick. No Jersey Shore indie resurgence for these guys?
August 6, 201114 yr comment_5478891 4/1/00 Jeremy Lopez/Tommy Rogers vs. Dandy/Silver King** Dandy/King are wearing their insanely awesome full body suits that I never realized they wore. King's is a full body suit that shows no skin whatsoever, and it is glittery silver and black. Dandy opts for gold and black, but his is sleeveless. King even works the stick to start the match, saying they are Latin America's most wanted men, and slicks his eyebrows down. Match itself was totally awesome. Lopez is a Malenko trainee who I *think* has worked Osaka Pro most of this decade, and would apparently be the worst road trip buddy ever (according to his website, Favorite Bands: Creed, Kid Rock, 3rd Eye Blind, Uncle Cracker, STP. Live, Hootie And the Blowfish, 3Doors Down). Here he throws nice chops and gets punched by Dandy (Dandy throws like 4 awesome punches in this btw). I thought Tommy Rogers was ancient here but turns outs he was only 38. He was spry and also threw nice punches. Dandy Roll is incredibly quick and I have now seen 3 WCW matches where Dandy takes the fall! Little Jeannie vs. Mona* I don't think I could ever put down a Mona match. That's like putting down kittens or bunnies. Luckily the match is really fun with a bunch of cool mat-based stuff, and Mona winning with a neat inverted surfboard. Kid Romeo vs. Allen Funk This wasn't bad, but felt like two guys that were trying to throw out a whole bunch of cool moves. Funk looked better, though, throwing a big clothesline and a couple cool suplexes. Frankie Lancaster vs. Lash LeRoux Frankie Lancaster is Bob Holly. I mean, especially in this match. They look like the same person, except Frankie had a mustache. Hmmmm. Same bleached hair, same balding pattern, same gassed physique, nice dropkick, same fucking face...This is also about the best I've seen Frankie look in ring, too, really playing to the crowd and working stiffer than normal. I really hate Lash LeRoux's hair. Steve Armstrong vs. Hugh Morrus I never remember Steve wearing tie dye and blue jeans while he wrestled. I remember Brad worked as Buzzkill a few months before this, but why was Steve doing the same thing? Was there some sort of angle where Steve was making fun of his brother for ripping off their brother? Because the announcers weren't putting any of that over. They didn't even mention that it might be odd for Steve to be working in jeans and a tie dye shirt, just business as usual. Anyway, Steve doesn't get much offense here. Morrus always takes 95% of his squash matches. He was more entertaining here than he can be (throwing some nice elbowdrops, nailing the No Laughing Matter, pulling Steve on top for the false 2.9), but it would be nice to see an actual match from him. 3 Count vs. Shark Boy/Frank Paris/Elix Skipper 3 Count was really good on a sliding scale. Helms looked really great here and threw nice strikes and was super quick, Moore took some big bumps and was also quick, and Karagias had very nice abs. 3 Count stooge around for a lot of Shark Boy biting offense, and good lord was Air Paris (Frank?) bigger than I remember. He was the biggest guy in this match! Pretty short match. Chris Harris vs. Chuck Palumbo Harris blows a couple things and we cut to random kids in the crowd. Still moved quickly for a big guy and that helped. Palumbo still threw an awesome right hand, even this early on. And good gracious his two jungle kick superkicks here were brutal, the last one just blasting Harris under the chin. Cassidy Riley vs. HAIL I liked O'Reilly (Riley?) in TNA as one of the Hotshots, but here he doesn't get to do much. Announcers were putting over HAIL as a giant (6'9" 350 lb!!!) which is completely absurd since he was only slightly bigger than Chris Harris or Chuck Palumbo in the previous match. But to get over his size Hudson was pushing Cassidy as being 6'2" 220 lb. which is awesome. This match was not much, although HAIL's jumping piledriver looked really good. His finisher was called Hail's Bells, which is both awesome and horrible. Kory Williams/Ashley Hudson vs. Vito/Johnny the Bull Vito actually looked really good here, and Kory Williams threw some alright punches and some really high pretty dropkicks. He also gets his head kicked in by Vito. Match was kinda boring when Ashley Hudson was in, which was most of it. Brian Knobbs vs. Adrian Byrd vs. Dave Burkhead vs. Rick Fuller vs. Norman Smiley vs. The Dog* Yeaahhhh! Hardcore main event 6 man, title on a pole match! Dog and Fuller disappear through large portions of this, and the star of the match is probably Dave Burkhead. This was basically 6 guys wandering around a ring filled with garbage, hitting each other with chairs and trash cans and trash can lids and ladders, all while trying to grab the title from the pole. Burkhead is always seemingly right in the way of plunder here, so he wins best in match. He takes chairshots, trash can shots, a ladder shot to the back of the head (then takes a huge running bump from the ring to the floor), then while lying on the floor gets a ladder thrown from the ring onto his face! It all made me root for him and when he climbed to the turnbuckle to reach for the title I was actually getting excited. "Will Burkhead win the title here!?" But no, Knobbs beats him with a trash can and grabs the belt : ( It was fun while it lasted.
October 21, 201114 yr comment_5486362 Jung Dragons vs. Villanos/Jeremy Lopez** For the longest time Jeremy Lopez being one of the Villanos was Schneider's favorite WCW booking. The Korey Williams/Ashley Hudson team were working southern inides as the New South: an Australian and a black guy wearing confederate soldier uniforms waving the confederate flag and talking about how they were the new face of Dixie...it was all about the mic work and cheap heat built around that gimmick.
