Although the Vince McMahon vs. Steve Austin angle continues to work
I'm wondering how wise it is to spend so much time not developing just
a wrestler as a legit challenger to the title. Sure, Dude Love
has been groomed pretty well for the shot but along with him comes
McMahon, Brisco and Patterson. This angle is doing good business but
for those of us who care, it's not lending much credibility to Steve
Austin's title reign. Anyway, it was good to see the old boys commanding
centre ring and building a great opening segment.
The whole idea of a group of WWF wrestlers hassling people at the
WCW office is a good idea in priniciple but not in practice. DX
could have been anywhere for all the anonymous Turner employees
and visitors they videotaped. It's still at this point an innovative
angle so I got a kick out of it and am gonna recommend it but
I can't help but thinking that this promised more than it delivered.
Al Snow's onscreen debut was pretty cool because enough people in the
audience recognized him to generate some decemt heat for a guy who
nobody should be expected to know. I hope the WWF takes this as a sign
that given a fair chance, Snow can get over.
3H vs. Owen Hart was ok, but they seemed to be dragging their feet
a little and Owen just doesn't look interested at all lately. I
was digging the DX command performance a lot more 'cos they were
way over, but it was really weak to have Hart interrupt all the fun.
Vince McMahon delivered on that clothesline to Steve Austin, and the
whole match versus Rocky Maivia & D-Lo Brown was pretty good all
around, a solid storyline and decent wrestling. The run-in was cool
too since everyone involved has heat with one another and the crowd
got into it big.
Why did the debut of Kaentai DX have to suck so bad? How could it
possibly make them look good to get squashed in a handicap match
in which they had the advantage? Why did they cop out on giving a
push to anybody involved in the post-"match" brawl? Why did Men's
Teioh cut his fucking hair?
Jeff Jarrett, Faarooq, Steve Blackman, everyone else involved, please
get off my TV screen.
Ok, I've been leaning on the Legion of Doom pretty hard but even I
can see the injustice in jobbing Hawk to one of the nazi twins. I
don't like to watch the LOD but I don't get any satisfaction at
seeing a guy who was once pushed hard as a legitimate NWA heavyweight
title contender in PWI back in 1980-something against Ric Flair jobbing
to one of the Bruise Brothers. I remember being pissed off when WCW
had the Bruises lose to Hogan and Sting in a matter of seconds at a
Disney taping because they were ex-ECW. Now I cherish that tape.
Barry Windham's descent into full-on jobber mode was helped out this
week with his loss to Vader in a lousy squash. I'm glad Vader's getting
another push but I still hate to see BW go down like this.
Hey, Sable had on those cool UWFi boots! Forget her five thousand
breast implants, those boots made her the sexiest chick on wrestling
TV this week! Kick me! Oh yeah, but that whole debacle with Marc
Mero kinda sucked, even if she did almost execute a cool powerbomb.
Ollie
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