[1993-03-28-WCW-Main Event] Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas & Dustin Rhodes vs Hollywood Blonds & Barry Windham

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Sign in crowd: "Cry Baby Brian - He's Always Fallen And Can't Get Up"

 

Okay match I suppose, but it really runs together with everything else involving these guys. This was taped before the title change. Steamboat pins Pillman to secure the win for his team.

[shoe]

I was a little underwhelmed with the amount of talent that was in the ring.

[BackToBionic]

I liked it well enough. Thought Austin holding Dustin on his shoulder for about 20 seconds was cool.

[Kevin Ridge]

Steamboat and Douglas still have the tag titles. The camera angle missed the finish with Steamboat coming off the top rope. They were in position and right when Steamboat is about to leap off they cut to Windham/Rhodes in the aisle way. The replay shows the finish. But since it was a taped match why wasn’t it edited better in the first place. Just bad production.

[PeteF3]

The cameras seem to be consciously trying to hide the Blonds' beltless waists, then out come Steamboat & Douglas with their tag titles. I get that Worldwide was syndicated and had varied air times, but come on.

 

Pretty abbreviated match, as they go almost immediately to the FIP segment and almost immediately after that start teasing the hot tag cutoffs. Too short for the amount of talent and heatedness of the issues involved.

[WingedEagle]

Barry takes simple moves like an armdrag so well and smoothly for a guy his size. Dustin sells for a bit, great powerslam and then 6 way with the heels colliding in the middle. Steamboat wins with a flying crossbody. Not bad but pretty short and given who was involved it didn't meet expectations.

 

**3/4

[soup23]

This was fine but very forgettable and quick compared to the other WCW stuff so far this year. Disappointing given the talent involved. **1/4

[garretta]

I liked this for the sprint that it was. Nothing really substantive is going to happen with six guys like this in just over seven minutes, but at least we got a clean finish, which is rare for a match of this type that's also this short.

 

The thing that stood out the most to me is the extended segment off of the missed tag between Dustin and Steamer. First of all, they really stretched it out in order for the heels to tripleteam Dustin. Second, Steamer looked like a real crybaby. How can a veteran like that keep the ref distracted when he knows what the heels are doing to his partner? I know this spot is as old as tag team wrestling itself, but there has to be a way to work it without making the babyfaces seem incompetent and emotionally fragile,

 

Tony and Larry make a much smoother team than Tony and Jesse. I liked Tony teasing Larry about all the legends he put out of wrestling, and Larry went along jovially. I also liked the spot where Larry stumbled over the words "Slam Meet". Tony jokingly offered to write it down for him, and I could tell that it was a joke between colleagues. If that had been Jesse, they'd have gotten into a nasty fight that would have lasted for the rest of the match and wouldn't have put Slamboree over for beans.

 

Also, kudos to Larry for talking about how the guys needed to keep their emotions in check; we saw what happened when they didn't in the spot with Steamer that I referenced above. I'm so glad that Larry wasn't swept out of the booth with all the recent changes in the wake of Watts' and JR's departures. (By the way, the last vestige of the Dangerous Alliance is now dead, as Larry's back to being "The Living Legend" instead of "The Cruncher".)

 

I forgot to add that Dustin's got quite an impressive rogue's gallery after him. Windham, Rude, and Orndorff all as top contenders should equal a busy and compelling next few months for the US champion.

 

I'd love to see these guys get more than seven minutes to see what they could do in a six-man tag. If they do, we may be looking at the Six-Man Tag of the Year in North America.