[1991-01-30-WCW-Clash of the Champions XIV] Paul E. Dangerously vs Missy Hyatt (Arm Wrestling)

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

This is so stupidly over the top that I love it. Paul E. gets distracted by Missy's boobs and loses in seconds! He stands there like an idiot with his mouth open for a couple of minutes after. I actually wish they had made this even more ridiculous though.

[shoe]

Just some harmless fun.

[PeteF3]

Rhubarb Jones gets the biggest intro of his life, and they bring in some arm-wrestling champion to officiate this. Fantastic. Big pop for Missy removing the jacket, and Dusty puts it perfectly: "He had a couple of things on his mahnd bethahds ahm-wrasslin'!" Funny payoff to a funny little undercard angle.

[Kevin Ridge]

So much for that. Paul takes a peak at Missy’s chest and gets beat right away. It can happen. Dusty wants Paul to know he has let all the men down.

[soup23]

Good clean fun. LOved Dusty's commentary.

[garretta]

This was notable mostly for all the different ways that JR and Dusty avoided saying, "Paul E. was distracted by Missy's breasts." There were more euphemisms than the number of seconds in the match, for heaven's sake.

 

To nitpick just a tiny bit, if this had been a real arm-wrestling match, Missy's win wouldn't have counted because Paul never really locked up with her, his hand was wide open when she forced it down. Those special referees introduced before the match somehow managed to miss that, unfortunately for Paul.

 

I seem to remember that Rhubarb Jones was the regular ring announcer for the WCWSN tapings at Center Stage around this time. If that's true, it's kind of odd that they'd have Gary Cappetta do a great big celebrity intro for him here, even with his DJ credentials. I liked how Rhubarb saluted the troops just before he introduced Missy and Paul; unless I'm totally forgetting it, Vince never had Howard Finkel do any such thing before or during a WWF card, even the ones that were being fed overseas. If he had, it might have taken a bit of the sting out of having their World champion portrayed as an Iraqi sympathizer.

[cactus]

I wasn't a fan of this storyline from the segments leading up to this, but the payoff was fine, I suppose. Hyatt gets a huge pop when she takes of her robe and Paul E's acting is fun, if not campy.