WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 07/01/00

By The Cubs Fan

Zybsko's still in for Bobby in the studio, otherwise we've got normal crew.

This just in: Goldberg's still a heel.

To the ring,

Jung Dragons in six man
Crowbar in singles.
Perfect Event in a tag title match, versus Mark Jindrak and Sean O'Hare.

Hey, 'net reporters: Try spelling their names right. It'd be new and different.
Of course, WCW should try that too. Last week, it was O'Haire, but they announce it that way this week.

Ring announcer (and interview for the week) Dave Penzer talk to Perfect Event

I have my limits. I won't transcribe for these guys.
Anyway, Stasiak makes fun of Jindrak and O'Hare for coming from the Power Plant
Which is funny, since both of these guys spend significant time there themselves.
Penzer tries to build an issue between Palumbo and O'Hare, about who is really the best PP graduate.
Palumbo talks a lot and says nothing.
Stasiak talks some more, and I don't know if it's just how it feels, but this is like the longest interview segment in weeks.
The titles may change hands!
But I don't think so.

Back to Nitro, where Kevin Nash wants to get his 'girlfriend's' contract

It's going be mighty funny if WCW isn't allowed to bring back Scott Hall after building to it for a month.
Goldberg talks some on Thunder.
Hey, how'd he get that contract back out of his mouth so nicely?
Zybsko says that he rather see Hall behind the counter at McDonalds then in WCW again.

You'd think by now, they'd take Randy Savage out of WCW's Slim Jim ads, but no..

Bash at the Beach lineup

Nothing surprising here.
Zybsko: "Jeff Jarrett, the paper champion."
Larry's all about putting people over today.
Oh, wait there is something good:

Perfect Event vs Kronic vs Bam Bam Bigelow/Chris Candido
I'm guessing that match won't happen, as is.
(Added later: Or maybe it will. Who knows, anymore.)

It's time, once again, for everyone to get on the HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

Oh, wait. Wrong segment.
This week's ask WCW question is from Ravi Rambaran for Tank Abbott.

How do you compare in front of a WCW crowd as compared to a UFC crowd?

Tank responds that UFC fans are looking for a fight, and WCW ones are looking for entertainment.

James Storm, Terry Knight and Shane Eden vs the Yung Dragons (Jamie-San, Yang and Kaz)

Hey, Jamie's got a bigger mask.
That's better, I guess. He doesn't look like Zorro anymore.
I thought that used to be Jung. Hmm.
Yang and Shane Eden start it off, but we're more distracted by the blurred out sign in the background.

Well, I am, anyway.

Eden wins a lockup, pushing Yang. Eden does a spin celebration, and ends up getting slapped.
Yang with a whip, has it reversed, ducks under a clothesline and hits a spin kick.
Yang with a whip, backdrop, but Eden lands on his feet.
Eden gets in a knee and a quick DDT.
One foot cover from Eden gets 2.
Eden with a strutting legdrop, but Yang moves out of the way.
Tag to Kaz, corner whip on Eden, Kaz whips Yang into a corner back flip kick and Yang follows with a springboard back kick.

Corner back flip kick = where the attack runs up the ropes in the corner, kicking the opponent and doing a back flip to land on their feet.

Kaz covers, but it's broken up by Storm.
Storm poses, but Kaz knocks him out of the ring.
However, he turned his back to Eden, who clotheslines him.
Kaz tag to Jamie as Eden tags in Knight.
Knight tries for a clothesline, but gets a gut shot instead.
Jamie with punches, turnbuckle shot, stomps and then a corner whip.
Jamie charges in, gets flipped to the apron, jumps to the top rope and connects with a cross body for 2.
Knight with a shot to the back to take control, puts Jamie in position for a reverse DDT and hits a Russian Legsweep variation.

First time I've seen that variation, I think.

Knight picks up Jamie by the mask, then gives a weird back suplex variation.

Knight bounced Jamie off the top rope, and used it to drop him into a backbreaker.

Tag to James Storm, who comes in with punches, a whip, and a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker.

If I didn't know better, I'd think there was some team strategy: Work on Jamie-san's back.

Snapmare takedown by Storm, and he comes off the ropes with a dropkick to the midsection.
Storm gives Kaz a shot for good measure, and tags in Eden.
Double whip, double clothesline misses, Jamie's dropkick doesn't.
Hot tag to Yang, who comes off the top with a double missile dropkick.
Yang with his martial arts punches on Knight, but turns around into a DDT from Shane Eden.

Yang tires to break Val Venis' record for longest headstand after receiving a DDT.
Unfortunately, you can tell that he's holding himself up.

Eden goes for a Jericho-like one foot cover, but gets a springboard dropkick from Kaz before he even gets a count.
Storm hits a superkick on Kaz, knocking him down
Jamie takes over on Storm with punches, but he's clotheslined by Knight.
Triple whip by the non-Yungs, clothesline attempts all miss, Jamie and Kaz hit dropkicks and Yang hits a 'rana.
Storm and Knight end up out of the ring, and get simultaneous Asai Moonsaults from Kaz and Jamie.
Eden attacks Yang from behind in the ring, then tries a corner whip, but it's reversed.
Eden tries to kip up on to avoid Yang's charge, but Yang grabs him by the legs and pulls him into the middle of the ring.
Yang drops him with a double leg back piledriver

Think of it as a sit down piledriver, except the victim is dropped on their head behind the opponent, not in front of them.

Jamie and Kaz come off the top with a legdrop/senton combo from the same corner.

Hmm. That should be called the Tsunami.

Kaz covers Eden, and gets the win.
Your Winner: Yung Dragons (4:11)
One of two legal men is closer than usual.

"Alan" Funk (w/Mike Sanders) vs Crowbar (w/Daffney)

I guess I shouldn't make fun of other people not being able to spell the names of WCW wrestlers, if WCW can't either.
Mike Sanders is looking A LOT like Jeff Jarrett this week.
Probably intentional.

I wonder, if Jarrett loses at the PPV, will they replace him in the New Blood with the New Dubba J?
Actually, they can't. Brian James works elsewhere.
Maybe just "The New Chosen One"
Yea, that'll get over.

As the two are walking around the ring, they end up running into each other.

Alan fakes a slap at Sanders, and tells him to take his glasses up.
Oh no, the tag team for the ages is going break up three weeks in!

Anyway, Alan Funk with the usual intro Re-Enforcer intro, and then addresses this match....
Alan: "They put me in a singles match with Crowbar. (Looks at Sanders) Just two weeks ago, Crowbar beat the living crap out of you. He totally annihilated you. And I'm going show you how to wrestle. So, Crowbar, get off your [mumbled - short yellow bus?] and get your butt out here."

Allan Funk bringing the continuity to Worldwide!
Anyway, Sanders took the comments well, so maybe they won't break up.
Officially, anyway.

Oh, I how I've missed Daffney screaming. So, so much.
Alan attacks Crowbar from behind, and the match is underway.
Alan with a whip, reversed, Crowbar with a nice, high dropkick.
Crowbar with a chop, followed by an armbar, opening Alan up for some kicks to the midsection.
Alan reverses the armbar into his own, but Crowbar rolls out of it and back in control, hitting a Northern Lights variation.

Alan really doesn't have Crowbar in a headlock, and Crowbar grabs a leg for extra leverage.
No bridge, either.
Tenay calls it a "overhead move."

Crowbar with a side slam, then heads to the second rope so we can look at the blurred sign again.

Actually, he's going for a rope flip/split legged moonsault, but close enough.

2 count on the follow-up pin attempt.
Crowbar with punches, and chops in the corner.
Corner whip by Crowbar, Funk kips up, but he's caught by the legs.
Funk ends up reversed the predicament, landing on his feet, and slingshotting Crowbar, dropping him neck first on the ropes.
Crowbar falls out of the ring, where Sanders is waiting to get his shots in. He throws Crowbar in.
Funk with a cover, 2 count.
Stomps and regular shots, as Funk pushes him into a corner.
Chops, and Funk celebrates, but Crowbar recovers and pushes him into the corner for his own shots.
Whip, Funk reveres, Crowbar goes for a headscissors takeover, but instead gets dropped into a reverse powerbomb.
Cover, 2 count.
Body slam by Funk, 2 count.
Funk with a vertical suplex, dropkick Crowbar back first on the top turnbuckle.

That couldn't have felt good.

Funk stalls before following up, then hits snapmare takedown. Cover, 2 count.
Funk to the second rope, but the Angry Legdrop misses.
Funk punches, blocked by Crowbar who connects with his.
Crowbar with a whip, jumping back elbow, followed by a clothesline.
Whip, Funk ducks the clothesline, Crowbar flips out of the back suplex, Funk blocks the German suplex and tries for a DDT but Crowbar reverses into a more standard Northern Lights Suplex. 2 count.
Crowbar off the ropes, but he's pulled out by Mike Sanders.
Funk off the ropes, baseball slide dropkick connects with Crowbar.
Funk holds him for a Sanders moonsault, but Crowbar escapes and Funk takes the blow instead.
Crowbar goes back in, but quickly comes back out with a slingshot tope on both Re-Enforcers.

Crowbar might have hurt his head there.
Sanders and Funk only really caught his legs, and not his whole body.

Crowbar throws Alan Funk back in. Body slam, outside, slingshot somersault legdrop.
Crowbar covers, but the ref is distracted by Mike Sanders going to the top rope.
Daffney notices it too, and crotches him on the top rope, before hitting a Daffney-rana.

Didn't look that good, though.
Daffney didn't really hook her legs, so Sanders just kinda launched himself.

Crowbar clotheslines Sanders to the floor.
Funk goes after Daffney but Crowbar stops him, and drops him with the Mind Bender. That's enough for the win.
Your Winner: Crowbar ( 6:13)

Mark Jindrak and Sean O'Hare vs Perfect Event

Sean and Mark will start this off.
Lockup, but Sean with a knee shot, a couple punches, and a turnbuckle shot.
Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, boot choke.
Punch, whip, clothesline is ducked and Jindrak hits a dropkick.
Tag to O'Hare, corner whip, O'Hare with the corner splash and assists Jindrak in the crossbody.
O'Hare with a decent punch, then one where you can easily tell doesn't come close. Stasiak sells it anyway.

The announcers talk about how O'Hare has a shoot fighting back ground.
Did they teach him to throw punches like that in shoot fighting?

Whip, reversed, Stasiak again misses the clothesline, and O'Hare hits a good running punch.
Punch (not even close despite a favorable camera angle), punch (totally exposed by the camera angle) and Stasiak ends this for now with an eye rake.
Punch, tag to Chuck.
Guess what Chuck does? Punch, punch, open hand slap, whip, reversed, clothesline is ducked under and something goes wrong as Palumbo just kinda runs in to O'Hare and falls down.

I'm thinking O'Hare was supposed to get in a powerslam there, but he pulled back at the last second.

Cover, 1 count.
Palumbo with the eye poke, punch, whip, hiptoss blocked, Palumbo with a knee and then flips out.
O'Hare with a clothesline, duck under by Palumbo, who lands the Jungle Kick.
After a little celebration, cover for 2.

The crowd chants..."You two suck"? Not sure.

Tag to Stasiak, whip by Palumbo, who gets in a high kick and Sean follows with a swinging neckbreaker.

Hey, a wrestling move!

Punch, whip, jumping back elbow, celebrating by Stasiak.
Tag to Palumbo, I'm ignoring the announcers talking about how Stasiak has proved himself, Palumbo goes up top for a missile shoulderblock.
Cover, but Jindrak breaks it up.
Palumbo with a punch, punch, corner whip, O'Hare runs up the ropes and hits a moonsault, landing on his feet (almost) behind Palumbo, who ran into the corner after him.
Palumbo runs out of the corner, and right into a powerslam.
O'Hare is slow to move towards his corner to make the hot tag, and starts crawling the wrong way.

He might have hurt himself in that powerslam attempt, though I didn't see how.

Tag to Jindrak, tag to Stasiak.
Sean misses the clothesline and gets one. So does Chuck.
Elbow for Sean, dropkick for Palumbo.
Jindrak beats Stasiak in the corner, while O'Hare charges at Palumbo, and gets backflipped out of the ring.
They fight on the outside, while Jindrak hits a body slam and an Asai moonsault
The ref's watching the fight outside (and mostly O'Hare), and doesn't notice.
Palumbo breaks up the pin attempt with the Lex Flexer.
Perfect Event gives Jindrak a double flapjack-like move., and that's it.
Your Winner: Perfect Event
Sean O'Hare takes out Sean and Chuck with superkicks after the match.
If only he was that effective during the match.

WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 07/01/00

By The Cubs Fan

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