House Show Results from Las Vegas, NV, Friday, February 20th, 1998
House Show Results from Las Vegas, NV, Friday, February 20th, 1998
- We got to the arena about a half an hour early, and I couldn't believe how small it was for having a capacity of over 16,000. I guess I am used to arenas with luxury boxes taking up a lot of space, but I was surprised none the less.
- I don't know if this is always the case, but one end of the arena was entirely closed off by a curtain. Even with this curtain up, most of the upper deck sections on the other end were almost completely empty. I am not great at judging crowds, but I would guess around 10,000.
- Juventud Guererra and Lizmark Jr. beat La Parka and Psychosis in ~11 min. when Juventud pinned Psychosis after a huricarrana.
- This was a good opener, La Parka and Psychosis worked the crowd well for great heat as heels.
- Of course there were a bunch of great spots, with a much less sloppy performance for Juventud than at Superbrawl.
- La Parka chaired everyone afterward, but since he had a regular MGM Grand chair rather than the usual tin foil model, the chairshots looked weak.
- Ultimo Dragon beat Chavo Guererro Jr. in ~9 min. with the Dragon Sleeper
- I think I can safely say that I was in the majority in not knowing of any matches on this card other than Hogan vs. Sting and Bret vs. Flair.
- I say that because this match had no crowd heat, and the crowd only popped at the finish out of relief that the match was over.
- Totally uninspired performance by both men. It was just standard fare with a slow, resthold start, near fall middle, and a few spots at the end.
- Chris Benoit beat Raven in ~11 min. with the Crippler Crossface.
- Great match. Better than any PPV match in WCW thus far this year.
- Started out with the usual brawling, with Benoit receiving several stiff Irish Whips to the guard rail.
- For this event, the video boards were used, which helped a lot for this match, since I was in the first row of permanent seating.
- A few minutes in, Benoit put out Raven with the Crossface in the aisle, then brought a plastic garbage can full of plunder from the back out.
- He assaluted Raven for a bit with tinfoil cookery before Raven took control.
- Raven brought a table from the back while the cement heads behind us chanted "ECW".
- Benoit was set up on the outside, then Raven Slignshotted over the top rope through the table as Benoit moved and the crowd popped huge.
- Raven recovered and hit a DDT, but Benoit kicked out and eventually hit the Crossface, making Raven pass out.
- Intermission
- Curt Hennig beat Mongo in ~7 min. with the Perfectplex (sorry, I'm a WWF mark)
- Awful match. Hennig stalled for five minutes to get heat before the match even started.
- Storyline was Mongo's back giving out as he went for the Mongo Spike, even though Hennig worked the leg throughout the match.
- Lex Luger beat Scott Hall with the Rack at ~10 min.
- This was supposed to be DDP & Luger vs. Hall and Savage, but Savage was busy washing Hogan's car.
- Hall entered to ready or Not by the Fugees. Being an internet geek, I was just about the only one who knew who was coming when the music started.
- The Survey was over huge. nWo won in impressive fashion.
- DDP and Luger flipped a coin to see who would wrestle Hall one on one. The crowd must have lost the coinflip.
- This match was a disgrace. Absolutely no work done. Two long restholds by Hall, a few reverse atomic drops that missed by ten inches by Luger, and the predictable Savage run-in.
- Savage ran-in, DDP saved Luger, the faces cleaned house, yadda, yadda, yadda.
- Luger wore the bandage.
- Savage took his 45th diamond cutter.
- Bret Hart beat Ric Flair via submission to the Sharpshooter in ~11 min.
- This was a great match...for me to poop on. (Conan fans will get that one)
- Take their Souled Out match, shave four minutes off the feeling out period, and take two minutes off Bret's finishing period, and viola
- I love Flair, but lately, he just doesn't work imaginative matches, and Bret is one guy who works the same match all the time.
- The crowd was into it, but I just wanted something different from their earlier match that I also paid to see.
- Maybe I am being too negative, because technically, it was a sound match.
- Intermission while they built the cage.
- Sting beat Hulk Hogan in a cage match in ~11 min. via submission to the sharpshooter.
- During the match, I almost got in a fight with some white trash in front of us for telling thier kids to put their signs down during the
match. They then showed tons of class by repeatedly telling me to "shut my f@#$ing hole" two feet from their kids.
- Decent match, but the finish was bad.
- Henning and Hall ran in, but Sting Hulked up, hit a double clothesline, and finished off Hogan.
- One nice spot saw Hogan get pinned upside down on top of the cage after a suplex reversal.
- After the show, I told Sting I liked the match, and he said "really?!?" with a shocked look on his face.
- The finish was annoying, but both buys worked hard otherwise.
- For my $35, I was pretty disappointed by the show.