Ken Shamrock beat The Sultan via submission in a glorified squash highlighted
by a hurrancanrana by Shamrock. That move and Ken's enthusiasm woke up the
crowd and made for an entertaining match.
The Nation of Domination came out for an in-ring interview. Farooq is actually
pretty good on the mic but he just doesn't have anything interesting to talk
about. Rocky Maivia gave an interview which wasn't great but he managed to draw
some heat and he brought up some good points. The DOA challenged the NOD to a
fight in the parking lot during which Kama Mustapha was thrown through a car
window; it was a pretty cool spot.
To someone who follows Japanese wrestling, the Vader vs. Patriot match was
significant because both guys were top foreign stars in rival promotions. I
get the feeling that even if they had this match in All Japan (Patriot's old
promotion) Vader would have went over. But this is the WWF, where Vader is
in a constant flux of being built up and then torn down. Anyway, the match
was good and the post-match melee between The Patriot, Vader and Bret Hart was
cool. Does this mean Vader is a face now? I hope not.
Steve Austin gave an excellent pre-recorded interview from his hotel room in
Philadelphia. The "sit down" interview always brings something more out of a
wrestler and when you've got someone who can deliver a good interview anywhere,
it can't fail.
The Undertaker and Mankind beat Shawn Michaels and Hunter Hearst Helmsley via
DQ in a so-so match which had a couple of neat spots and a good finish. Was it
real blood from the Undertaker? It looked like he passed something across his
forehead before going down, which could have been a blade. Either way it was
surprising that they let one camera get a pretty good shot of the blood rather
than go to the long shot that WCW likes to use when they see red. And no doubt
Eric Bischoff will bring this up in his next Prodigy chat. What I want to know
is: What good is an insurance policy with a bad back who hasn't wrestled since
1994? They really need to focus Rude's role because he's getting lost.
Rick Rude opened the show with a non-sensical interview about insurance that went
nowhere. The crowd was dead which made Rude and Vince McMahon's silly banter even
more embarassing.
The Legion of Doom lost to Davey Boy Smith and Owen Hart when the Godwinns interfered.
The LOD are just a shell of the shell of a tag team they were even a year ago. Why
are one of the biggest tag teams of the modern era (and I'm not making a case for
their work, just their popularity) feuding with a bunch of jobbers?
Flash Funk finally wins a match. Problem is it was a screwy finish against a guy
who's being pushed as a light heavyweight and who isn't even a full fledged WWF
wrestler, Brian Christopher. Funk's finishing move is cool and he's a decent pair
of tights away from looking cool but the match wasn't memorable at all.
They aired a clip of Dustin Rhodes, Terri and Dakota frolicking on the beach to once
again get over the fact that Rhodes is an A-OK heterosexual male who just happens to
play one of the most homoerotically charged characters in wrestling history. Look,
this has nothing to do with sexuality, Dustin just looks like a big old goof in that
outfit. Anyway, this weeks installment of "Pillman loses to a jobber" was a little
better than the last. Goldust interfered on Pillman's behalf by dropping an elbow
on Jesse Jammes to get him DQed. I liked the finish because it was different but
the post-match challenge, and Pillman's inference that he's Dakota's father was way
weak.
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