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i was told that stat i quoted and total caerre racord hogan is at around 70% based i what i was told Surely if you were going to make statements like that you would verify it yourself to make sure it was correct before stating it as fact? And the irony of you telling FMKK to "check you self" when you don't even know if what you're posting is true and are going off what someone told you!

Naomi with the old Jerry Lawler trick of spending the duration of the Battle Royal outside the ring.

Was hoping Ruby might take this.

I'm weirdly attracted to Sonya for some reason. Oh, and Taynara in the Battle Royal!

Cena's face at the Spanish fly!

Drake looking like he's spent too much time in the sun.

I was fearing the exact same thing!

If you’ve never seen Saitama Pro before then there is no ring, just a mat on the floor with a couple of rows of fans sat on each side. I suppose this is considered a handicap match as Brain & Disaster are two men, although a handicap match like no other as Brain is sat on Disaster’s shoulders. The two are also holding rods or batons of some description. Disaster shoves Tobita to the floor, but he loses his balance at the same time and Brain slips from his shoulders. Tobita gets in a few shots on Brain, despite his efforts to hide behind the back of Disaster, and then takes off around the building with Tobita in pursuit. He bodyslams Brain on the carpet before returning to Disaster. Tobita punches him in the head but that has no effect because he’s wearing what looks like a welder’s mask. Disaster with a headbutt, he then picks Brain up and has him in a piggyback. Tobita lands a blow on Brain and they fall over again. Somehow he manages to get back on Disaster’s shoulders and that receives the loudest reaction of anything we’ve seen so far! Tobita lifts up the ring they’re ‘wrestling’ on, pulls out one of the mats and charges at B&D...who fall over yet again! Electric chair on Brain, Tobita then applies a headscissors choke on Disaster and he taps out. Tobita proceeds to hold court chatting to the fans for a further five minutes or so, while Disaster sells that choke and remains laid out on the mat. After he eventually leaves, some of the seconds carry Disaster to the back. I was sorting out some stuff from December and saw this match title, which intrigued me, so decided to give it a watch even though it is outside my original perimeters. I really don’t know what to make of it; it was different though, I’ll give it that! Every chance I’ll dig out some of the earlier Tobita matches at various points through out the project just for a break from the norm.

no im not they were bith born in the us ie there not JCC like at all you are were your born eddie was born in texas rey in san diego, so yes there more like oscar than JCC who made Mistico a compere too someone born in mexico ocsar i wager was hero to Latin fans but you will never see him on list of top mexican boxers of all time cuase i one huge reason he was not born in mexico nor were rey and eddie and this is the same reason i will never have eddie ot rey listed as top mexican worker of all time Woooosh

I can’t remember noticing whether Brock somersaulted into the ring a fortnight back but he never here, leaving that to Shelton while he enters between the ropes. No Jim Cornette on commentary this week which has to be a blessing, Kenny Bolin replacing him alongside Dean Hill. Flying back elbow followed by a pair of dropkicks and Shelton isn’t able to take Mr Black off his feet. Nice crucifix take down on the big man, although it only gets him a one. They do the Benjamin backflip spot, but for the first time he doesn’t make it, slipping on landing. He quickly ascends the turnbuckle and levels Black with a flip dive off the top forcing Henry to break up the pin attempt. Black drives Shelton back into his own corner and the two of them start to go to work on him. Knee lift by Henry and he’s over taunting Lesnar who’s on the apron. Leg drop and Benjamin barely kicks out of the cover. Shelton avoids the running lariat in the corner, Black staggers backwards and the two accidentally clash heads. Tag to Brock who finally makes his first legal foray into the match. Wrist clutch belly to belly on Henry, fireman’s carry slam on Black and it was like they weighed half as much as they do with how easy he was suplexing them. The bout breaks down and, as the ref is over with Lesnar and Henry, Mr Black lays out Benjamin with a clothesline. He pulls out his retractable baton when out comes Rob Conway who snatches it off him. The ‘Iron Man’ nails Black with the baton, superkick by Shelton and chalk up another win for the Stretching Crew. Post-match Henry and Black put a beating on Conway as it finally looks like Bolin Services has imploded. It’s so nice not having Cornette in the box for a change! Match followed the same script as a fortnight back, Shelton working the bulk of it and playing FIP, Brock coming in for the finishing stretch and to throw people around. Can’t say this did much for me though; Shelton botched his backdrop spot, the clash of heads looked really weak while there was nothing about Henry or Black’s offense that got me into it. I enjoyed Bolin on commentary, although it’s the kind of shtick that I imagine would grate after a few weeks. Thurston Throckmorton is still doing the Randy Savage impersonation complete with bald spot!

Referee Phil Fair is with the ‘Suicide Blondes’ complete with peroxide dye job so that he looks the part. The Blondes jump their heavily fancied opponents before the bell and seem rather pleased with themselves for doing so. They look to whip them into one another, however Dinsmore crouches down and Damaja leaps over him with a Thesz press to King while ‘Mr Wrestling’ spears Lee. High double press slam on DK dropping him chest first to the mat. Attempted slingshot belly to back, but King flips himself over and lands on his feet. He then ends up on Dinsmore’s shoulders in the electric chair position, Damaja with the big right hand and DK takes a crazy looking backward bump. Russian leg sweep on Lee. The Blondes are coming and going as they please here, no tags and no referee trying to enforce the rules. Damaja reverses the King Irish whip and Lee backdrops his own partner into him. This was supposed to look ‘accidental’, as if Lee didn’t know what he was doing and that the Blondes almost lucked into it, but it didn’t. Superkick by DK for a two count. More double teaming by the Blondes until they telegraph a double backdrop, and Damaja with an upward kick to Lee. He avoids the King clothesline and then launches him at his fellow Blonde. Tag to ‘Mr Wrestling’ who comes in as the proverbial house on fire, taking it to anyone who moves (including Phil Fair who unwisely climbed up on the apron at one point). German suplex on DK, but Lee with the save before the ref has even started to count the pin. All four men are in the ring and now Rip Rogers is on the apron and distracting the official. King leap frogs over Dinsmore however then runs into the ref knocking him down. Here comes yet more interference in the shape of Rob Conway and Mr Black. Damaja hits the ‘Brain Damage’ on Black and it looks like he and Dinsmore are more than holding their own against everyone. A double clothesline sends Black over the top rope and to the outside, but at the same time Conway is loading his glove. ‘Iron fist’ to Dinsmore, Lee with a springboard elbow drop and the Blondes steal a victory. I found the opening part of this fairly scrappy and rushed. The heat section on Damaja was fine and then it ended how most OVW matches end; ref bump (which was very clumsy looking) followed by interference. DK bumped like he always does, taking a couple of great ones and I liked the springboard elbow for the finish.

This is described as being a preview for the Friday the 13th show where Conway will defend his OVW title against Dinsmore in a ‘Coal Miner’s Glove’ match, and where Trailer Park Trash will defend his Hardcore title against Mr Black. Special stipulations in that are that if TPT loses he’s gone fron OVW, whereas if Black tastes defeat, then Kenny Bolin will be the one who is out of OVW. This is a ‘Coal Miner’s Glove’ match where the first person to retrieve the glove can use it on their opponents. Trash and Conway are looking up at the glove like it’s the sign for Wrestlemania or something! Several slow, unhurried attempts to climb the pole from both men. Mr B misses the big splash and TPT with the tag to Dinsmore. Flying forearm, dropkick and now he’s at it with the laboured climbing. Black grabs him, but ‘Mr Wrestling’ counters with a bulldog. Dinsmore goes for the pin and Dean Hill explains that they don’t ‘have’ to grab the coal miner’s glove, it’s only there to use if you want it! Double clothesline to Black that he just runs through. He goes over to tag his partner, however Conway doesn’t want it and Black is forced to slap him in the chest to make it. Dinsmore wants in against the ‘Iron Man’ and it has to be said that him licking his bicep before delivering a haymaker punch looks so f*cking ridiculous. Double backdrop on the big 400lber followed by a double forearm smash. As Black tries to get to his feet in the corner, Dinsmore runs up his back and starts to climb the pole. Before he’s able to retrieve the glove though, Conway shoves him off the top turnbuckle and into the front row. Cornette thinks he could’ve blown out his knee, tore a ligament or even broken his leg, while Hill, with an almighty exaggeration, claims it was a twenty foot drop that he took! We return from a commercial break to find that match still underway and with Conway working over ‘Mr Wrestling’, so no broken leg as Corny thought! Dragon screw leg whip and the ‘Iron Man’ sweeps Dinsmore’s leg out from under him. He starts to climb the pole but TPT, realising his partner is pretty helpless, with a low blow stops him in his tracks. Black misses an ‘Avalanche splash’ in the corner and Dinsmore hits that impressive German suplex. He avoids the onrushing Conway and makes the hot tag. Not the smoothest of float over DDT’s and Trash with a leg drop off the top to Black. As the ref is dealing with Dinsmore, Conway, the illegal man, climbs the pole and collects the glove. He goes to throw it to Black, but it flies over his head where it’s caught by TPT. Trash drills Mr Black with the glove and they pick up the win as you’re left wondering whether Conway did that on purpose or if it was a genuine mistake. Surely having a ‘Coal Miner’s Glove’ match on television, even if it is a tag, less than a week before the big show featuring the same stipulation between a couple of the combatants isn’t the smartest of booking ideas? I felt the first part of this jumped around too much and there wasn’t any flow to the match, while I loathe slow climbing in a match like this. It was better after the Dinsmore fall as it told more of a story, although I don’t think this was the time for the German suplex considering he supposedly had a bad leg and was struggling to stand only a minute or so before! The finish, and the reluctance to tag, hints at some potential dissension in Bolin Services.

I don't get how he can make a post like the one below (which has punctuation, correct spacing, no spelling issues and only a couple of grammatical errors), and then follow that by reverting to the usual non-sensical, incoherent oddly spaced tosh like he has been doing ever since (see his most recent effort in the WM III thread for example). Maybe if he had posted like what he did here, then he wouldn't be getting 'slandered'?

Jim Ross informs us that Chris Jericho is going to be out of action indefinitely as a result of that “heinous attack” by Chris Benoit. Before the bell has rung the action has already gotten underway with all four throwing punches at one another. As Tim White tries to get control of the situation by ushering Bubba out to the apron, that gives Angle and ‘the Crippler’ the chance to double team D-Von behind his back. D-Von reverses the Irish whip, nails Benoit with a flying elbow and the crowd are already chanting for tables. Double shoulder charge by the Dudley’s. Benoit fires back on Bubba and tags out to Kurt who runs straight into a powerslam. A big powerbomb followed by a diving headbutt as Lawler is still the lone voice leading the charge in shouting “wassup”. Shane McMahon with the distraction and Benoit is in there, nailing both Dudley’s and turning the match in his team’s favour. D-Von counters the belly to back, landing on ‘the Crippler’, but only gets a one count. The ‘Crippler crossface’ is broken up by Bubba, saving his partner, as they’re still protecting that hold. Inverted face first suplex by D-Von who’s then able to make the hot tag. Bubba with a DDT on Kurt and a full nelson into a modified atomic drop on Benoit. ‘Doomsday Device’, and now Benoit is doing the breaking up on the pinfall attempt. A horrible botch off a backdrop where it looks like Bubba was possibly trying to catch Kurt and hit a Samoan drop all on one motion, but who knows as it looked dreadful. Fortunately they’re not in some gym somewhere where the 100 folk in attendance would have been straight on them with a “you f*cked up!” chant! ‘Bubba cutter’ and as he makes the cover, Shane McMahon with an elbow off the top to the back of Bubba’s head. A great near fall as Shane puts Kurt on top only for Bubba to roll a shoulder at the last split second. Bubba reverses the whip to the corner and you can see what’s coming a mile off as White is way too close to the action. Running splash, Angle pulls White in front of him and he gets squashed between them. 3-D on ‘the Crippler’ after Bubba had blocked the third rolling German. D-Von goes to collect a table and Shane is signalling for some help from the back. He’s barely got the table out from under the ring when he’s jumped by the Big Show. Huge chokeslam on Bubba, Shane places Benoit on top of him and White comes back around to count the fall. One atrocious botch and one predictable, not very convincing ref bump aside, this was a good little tag team encounter.

Jason Lee grabs a wristlock, but Shelton reverses the hold by leaping to the top rope, bouncing off it and flipping backwards. A variation of the ‘Diamond cutter’ and King is in to break up the pin. Benjamin lands on his feet after a double back drop, and as the Blondes celebrate unaware, in comes Brock Lesnar who lifts them both up at the same time for a double back suplex. High elevation on the flip dive off the top to Lee, but while the ref tries to get Brock out of there, DK grabs Shelton (who was covering Lee) and DDT’s him. The Blondes isolate Shelton until King runs into a big boot and he’s able to make the tag to his partner. Press slam on Lee, he then plants DK with a belly to belly as he comes flying off the middle. All four men are now in the ring as the match has broken down with the official struggling to keep control. King ducks the clothesline and lands a great looking superkick on Brock. Phil Fair is out and on the apron, when DK forgets about his opponent to go and club him (looks like they’re no longer pals). Sidetracked by Fair, King gets caught by wrist clutch suplex. Lesnar cranks the head and the trapped King is pinned to the mat for the three. After their previous match against Rob Conway & Mr Black, it looks like the Stretching Crew have been working on a formula that works for them and plays to each others strengths. Shelton is the athletic workhorse of the team, doing the FIP role when require, while Brock comes in for his power spots or the hot tag where he can just throw people around. Lesnar already looks better in this limited role as opposed to the first match where he and Shelton seemed to want to share the load. Thankfully no sign of the Brock dropkick either! The Blondes are the ideal opponents for them anyway, a couple of experienced, good hands whose size makes Lesnar’s stuff all the more impressive.

A November ‘Dream Match’ that came about as a result of what happened on last week’s show where the ‘Disciples of Synn’ scored a non-title victory over Flash & B.J.Payne after Slash had sprayed Flash in the face with Synn’s aerosol canister and pinned him following ‘the Decapitator’ (yes, finally we have a name for his neckbreaker!). The DoS continued to attack the champs after the match with Leviathan coming out to join in the fun and help his fellow Disciples. The Big Show made the save, and while the rest of the DoS high tail it out of the ring, Leviathan is more than happy to go one on one with him. A thrust kick sends ‘the Demon’ over the top to the outside and he’s then held back from going in after him. In what must be a record for OVW, the ref bump comes within the first 60 seconds of the match! Show boots Leviathan in the mid-section and powerbombs ‘the Demon’ only for him to kick out of the cover. In doing so though he presses Show up and onto the official who gets squashed under him. That brings out the troops, but returning the favour from last week are Flash & B.J. Payne who try and keep this a fair contest. Leviathan with a body slam, however he can’t get Show up and collapses under his weight. Synn is in the ring and about to whip him with her cat o’ nine tails, but he snatches her in time before planting a smacker on her lips and then slamming her to the mat. Show has Leviathan set for the chokeslam when he’s nailed from behind by a chair swinging Mark Henry. Spear by ‘the Demon’ and he’s 2-0 against the Big Show. As physically impressive as Leviathan looks, the fact that this went less than 60 seconds before the ref bump and then all the smoke and mirrors tells you everything about his ability as a wrestler at this time.

A recap from last week, where the Big Show (who has a look of Lars Sullivan about him here) says that he doesn’t want to wait until Friday the 13th, he wants Leviathan right now. Synn answers him and explains that no-one commands her demon; he only comes to her call. Show tells her that she better call him then before slamming her to the mat. Slash and Damien try to jump him but he’s easily handling the two of them until Judas throws ash in his face. Flash and B.J. Payne even things up and they run the DoS out of there. Show then demands a match against all of Synn’s Disciples for next week, pretty much threatening Cornette with harm unless he makes the match, which he naturally does. This week’s episode opens with a short promo from Synn who believes that the Big Show is trying to save his ass and is setting a trap for Leviathan before Friday the 13th. As a result, even though he is here, she’s refusing to let him wrestle in this upcoming match. The Big Show is doing the hip swivel when Dean Hill introduces him and considering how hot he’s been at DoS, wanting to get his hands on them, I don’t think comedy is appropriate here. The ref is going to struggle to control this if the opening is anything to go by with all six men fighting it out in the ring. Show with a clothesline for each of the Disciples, he then presses Flash overhead and throws him at them. Flash tosses Slash through the ropes to the outside and comes off the top turnbuckle with a senton out onto him. High double backdrop, but Robert Briscoe isn’t paying attention and it only gets a two count. Combination reverse DDT/elbow drop across the throat by Show on Damien. Flash whips him into the corner only to run into Damien’s boot. Tag to Judas, but Damien’s work isn’t finished as he distracts the official allowing Slash to wallop Flash with his shin guard while Judas holds him. Spinebuster for a near fall. Slash with a quality delayed vertical suplex, and this time Payne is in there to break up the pin. He misses a leg drop and Flash with a DDT after Slash telegraphed the back drop. Hot tag to the Big Show who runs rough shot over the DoS. The match has returned to how it started with all six men fighting it out in there. Judas blinds Show by throwing the ash in his face and here’s Leviathan who spears him for the DQ. Show is back to his feet and grabs ‘the Demon’ around the neck for a chokeslam. Synn was supposed to throw a fireball at him, but she botches that releasing it early. Ever the pro Show sells it anyway, staggering around the ring as Synn calls her Disciples off. A really cool music video for the Leviathan/Big Show 13th October ‘Night of the Demon’ show follows. It’s set to 'Voodoo' by Godsmack and has a satanic/horror theme to it. The video starts focussing on Synn as she’s shown burning photos of the Big Show, interspersed with clips of her interfering in matches. From here it segues into concentrating on Leviathan and it looks like a 1930s horror film with the way that it’s shot in black and white. Leviathan rises out of a grave, marches around the cemetery, through a forest, ending up with Synn; the story, I think, being that she summoned him from the dead. Again this is all cut with clips of him looking dominant in matches and even no selling Big Show’s chokeslam. Final quick promo from Show in the locker room, where Synn finally manages to throw a fireball at him! I take it Show has been shipped off to OVW to lose some weight, although he looks in fine physical shape and even vaults over the top rope when entering the ring for the six man tag. Comfortably this Big Show/Leviathan match feels like the biggest thing we’ve seen in OVW so far. It was right how they removed Leviathan from the tag (certainly don’t give it away for free) and the spots we’ve seen between the two (such as no selling the chokeslam, picking up Show for a belly to back suplex) certainly gives the impression that he can hold his own in there without worry. Even the fact that OVW has the Big Show in their rings adds something to the promotion and raises its standings. That was evident in the tag which was enjoyable fare, especially when Show, Slash or Flash were in the thick of things. That final locker room promo looks like it was a last minute thing and they just re-did the exact spot that Synn was supposed to do in the ring (Synn saving Leviathan as Show has him grabbed around the neck). Last note on the music video which is an outstanding piece of work.

No Dean Hill this week as Jim Ross is on commentary duties with Cornette. Inverted atomic drop on Conway as Dinsmore saw the leap frog coming. He follows that up with a regular one, however the ‘Iron Man’ reverses the Irish whip and catches him with a drop toe hold. ‘Mr Wrestling’ blocks a hip toss and counters with a double arm overhead suplex, while Corny is dropping Gordon Solie references and referring to the match as “a game of human chess” because of how well these two know each other. Dinsmore heads upstairs for the missile dropkick, but Kenny Bolin clobbers him with his briefcase and he crashes to the mat. JR then describes Bolin as “an open wound on the backside of life!” Belly to belly suplex for a near fall. DDT, but instead of going for the cover Conway chooses to play to the crowd. Dinsmore escapes the ‘Torture Rack’, hits a belly to back suplex and both men are down. Superkick by ‘Mr Wrestling’. He connects on the missile dropkick and Bolin is up on the apron distracting the referee. Jerome Croney tries to interfere, but Dinsmore counters whatever he had planned with a sit out powerbomb before nailing the ‘Star Maker’ with a right hand. Conway ducks out the way of a flying forearm and Dinsmore levels the referee instead (in a spot which looked hokier than usual, even for this promotion). Mr Black is next to try and help his BS compatriot, but his interference also fails to pay off and Dinsmore hits an awesome German suplex on the big man. In amongst all this confusion Conway loads his glove with something and one ‘Iron fist’ later we have a new OVW Heavyweight champion. Can we have Jim Ross back every week please? Cornette is so much more restrained next to him compared with Dean Hill, both in his volume levels and also in actually letting Ross speak and call the match! You know the score by now though; decent action followed by a ref bump and outside interference. Just like the tag match I enjoyed from last week, it was the same here until you know what. The work between the wrestlers was strong and I liked Corny emphasising how they knew each other so well to explain for the reversals, counters etc. Ref bump was poor although in a backwards kinda way it was worth it to see that awesome German suplex Dinsmore hit on Mr Black.

Slash & Damien ‘the Disciples of Synn’ are accompanied to the ring by Synn and some character called Judas. Test of strength that Slash is coming out on the wrong end of, so he bites Dinsmore’s hand and turns it into a full nelson. Dinsmore slips out, hooks Slash’s arms and cradles him for an early two count. Nice hammerlock escape and reversal by Dinsmore, all while Cornette is screaming how the DoS will come out on the losing end if they try to wrestle ‘Mr Wrestling’. A miscommunication sees Slash run into Damien, and Dinsmore drops them both with a double clothesline. Double Russian leg sweep on Damien that is swiftly followed by a belly to back suplex. Slash with the blind tag, but Damaja is aware of it and catches him with an inverted atomic drop. Boot to the mid-section of Damien before he catapults Slash into this own partner. Lionsault by Dinsmore and Damien has recovered in time to break up the pin. As referee Robert Briscoe tries to get Damaja out of the ring and onto the apron, Judas throws powder in the face of ‘Mr Wrestling’. ‘Rude Awakening’ neckbreaker but, instead of doing his job, Briscoe is now conversing with the fans who’re apparently telling him what he just missed. Despite there being no evidence whatsoever, their word is enough for him and he ejects Judas from ringside. A quick commercial break and we return as Dinsmore hits a German suplex on Slash. That doesn’t take much out of him though and he’s able to execute the ‘Alleycopter’, dumping Dinsmore to the mat. Big spinebuster by Damien and ‘Mr Wrestling’ barely gets a shoulder up in time. Double chokeslam before Slash goes to town with his array of strikes in the corner. The DoS have Dinsmore set for their finisher when Damaja rushes into the ring and rocket launches Slash into the official. Yup, wasn’t going to be long until he got bumped! A ‘Cactus clothesline’ takes Slash and Dinsmore out of there, Damaja with a flapjack on Damien and now here’s Synn, about to throw fire (which Cornette had been dropping not so subtle hints about in commentary) at him. He snatches her before she’s able to, then takes an eternity playing to the crowd about whether he should DDT her or not. Of course that’s a stall job and he’s just waiting for the customary interference. It’s Robbie D who jumps off the top and nails Damaja in the back of the head with a metal tray. Damien drops an elbow and the DoS retain the gold. B.J. Payne makes the post-match save for the faces, but Synn ends up spraying an aerosol in his face. That brings out Flash, who had been burned previously by Synn, and he cleans house. A match I was enjoying an awful lot until the ref bump; you know by now it’s coming, but it’s still bloody annoying when they do. Once I’ve finished my watching for the year I’m going to go back and count the number of OVW matches that featured them and will hazard a guess now it’ll be over 75%. Dinsmore and Slash had really good chemistry together and I liked the opening section they worked together. Damien is not a patch on his partner, but he just about holds his end up. I wasn’t a fan of Slash’s neckbreaker (which is his finisher in Memphis) being nothing more than a transitional move here though. Jim Cornette is still not coming up for air and shouting his way through the match. The Flash save at the end should have been a big deal, but Cornette calls that in the same loud tones that he’s been calling the match. As a result it all merges together and doesn’t have the same impact had he spoken normally even for a few seconds before his arrival.

Bolin Services jump Damaja and Dinsmore before the bell, getting an early advantage on them. Conway assists Henry with the big ‘Avalanche splash’ on Damaja. They try to repeat it again in the opposite corner, but this time Damaja catches Conway with a Thesz press first, while at the same time Dinsmore comes off the top with a flying crossbody to Henry. The ‘World’s Strongest Man’ runs through an attempted double clothesline, though they manage to take him down with a double Russian leg sweep. Conway is back in the ring, but a Damaja drop toe hold results in him headbutting his own partner in the groin. Combination flapjack into a facebuster, although the execution was off on that one. Dinsmore goes for the Lionsault, but as he leaps to the middle ropes he’s clobbered by Henry who then pulls him to the outside. Belly to belly by Conway for a two. ‘Mr Wrestling’ fights his way out of the ‘World’s Strongest’ bear hug only to run into a great looking tilt-a-whirl slam. The Conway sleeper hold is countered with a belly to back suplex; Dinsmore then avoids the Henry big splash and makes the hot tag. Clothesline from the top turnbuckle by Damaja to both members of Bolin Services. Noggin knocker followed by a pair of ‘Damaja splashes’. Henry saves Conway from the ‘Brain Damage’ and all four men are fighting it out in the ring. As referee Robert Briscoe is pre-occupied with what’s going on elsewhere, Jerome Croney jumps in and onto the back of Damaja. That makes no difference, as this time he’s able to hit his finisher on Conway while at the same time stunnering Croney. The official turns around, sees Croney in the ring and calls for the DQ even though Damaja is covering ‘the Iron Man’. Post-match Damaja and Dinsmore land a nice double missile dropkick on Henry as he’s running his mouth to the camera. Run of the mill tag match that didn’t do much for me. Damaja and Dinsmore’s basic double team moves were fine, but when they tried to incorporate some fancier stuff, that’s where they struggled and things looked sloppy. Henry had some nice moments in there such as attacking Dinsmore on the Lionsault and that real powerful looking tilt-a-whirl, while Damaja’s ‘Brain Damage’/stunner looked great. Did we really have to have a DQ though? I’m guessing it was to protect Conway, but after a few months break in watching the OVW stuff I see that nothing has changed when it comes to ref bumps and outside interference.

For once I was actually interested in what shodate had to say about the match (knowing how others view it and also his constant rhetoric about 'realism'), then we got zero thoughts about the match, just some line about Jerry Lawler! I was going to address his subsequent post about Lawler's strikes not looking as though they have as much impact as Aja's uraken and Hotta's kicks (there's a bloody obvious reason for that!) but I'd decided a while back that I was no longer going to reply to his posts so just left it. There's some good stuff in the MDA about this match as it's on the Yearbook, with Loss calling it the best sub five minute match he'd seen back in 2012. I never considered that it was UWFI-esque, but thought they were doing MMA before the term had even been coined. Here's what I wrote when I watched it for the first time a couple of years ago.

It's only one year, and who knows how much he was plagued by the injury from his debut match, but from re-watching the year 2000 for PWO2K Benoit's 2000 blows aways Eddy's by a country mile.

As they’re in San Antonio, Edge & Christian are wearing some ridiculously oversized Cowboy hats for the night. Shoulder tackle by D-Von to Christian. He gets distracted by Edge though and Christian with a low blow followed by a reverse DDT. Huge powerslam by Show. D-Von blocks the attempted superplex and counters with a release face first suplex off the middle to Edge. As he’s about to make the tag, Christian rushes in and plants him with a belly to back. No tag, but Kane steps over the ropes and into the ring to get in on the action. Cool looking tilt-a-whirl slam on Christian. He clotheslines Edge over the top rope to the outside, launches Christian out there too and wants a piece of the Big Show. The crowd are pretty pumped to see those two go at it, much more so than I’d expect. Surprisingly Kane is getting the better of things until he backhands the referee who’s trying to stop him from pounding away on Show. Shane McMahon is up on the apron and that diversion gives Show the opportunity to level Kane with a clothesline. He tosses him to the floor and the two of them continue their battle on the outside. “Wassup” headbutt and the Dudleys get the tables. Real nice play off the previous match where E&C go for the baseball slide dropkick, but this time the Dudleys lift the table up so that they slide underneath it. 3-D on Edge through the table for the win. The table breaking’s not over mind as Kane is about to chokeslam Shane through an additional one when Show breaks it up. He then turns his attention to Shane but Show has recovered in time and he ends up chokeslamming Kane it.