[1991-12-21-WCW-Saturday Night] Interview: Cactus Jack & Abdullah the Butcher

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Cactus talks about careers that were ended and bones that were broken since he and Abdullah arrived on the scene. Who? My overanalysis aside, this is a great interview where Cactus ponders teaming with Van Hammer at Starrcade. They promise to win Battlebowl. The segment ends with both guys hitting each other over the head with Abby's stick.

[Kevin Ridge]

Cactus and Abdullah will be okay on the opposite sides at Battlebowl. Doesn’t matter to Cactus if Sting or Hammer are his tag partners. I wish WCW would explain more how Battlebowl works. Also, who exactly is in it.

[PeteF3]

Cactus will paint his face or carry a guitar if he's teamed with Sting or Van Hammer in the Lethal Lottery...or they can make Sting or Hammer more like them. Instead of ending careers Cactus and Abby are out to win BattleBowl. Cactus and Abby start beating each other with the stick, just because they can.

[soup23]

Psychotic promo from these two but Cactus does a good job putting over the Battlebowl concept and the multiple people he could be forced to tag with.

[garretta]

Cactus and Sting could have been an interesting team, considering what's happened between them. Cactus and Hammer........I can't have a nightmare that scary.

 

Mick does a wonderful job here putting over the fact that he and Abby are out to win Battlebowl, not just cripple people, while Abby finds a fascinating plaything in JR's mic cord. I liked the ending with the two of them beating each other over the head with Abby's stick, but JR could have sold it a little better. He must be going through an exceptionally grumpy stretch, between smarting off to Rude and pretty much dismissing two of the promotion's scariest heels as overgrown children. "While they finish playing"? I get that Rude and Luger are bigger heels than Mick and Abby right now, but this almost sounds like the prelude to a burial. I know Abby in particular has to be close to leaving, since he never stayed too long in one place if he could help it (at least in North America), but there was no need for JR to try to emasculate him like that.

 

To echo Kevin's point, a Control Center that fully explains the concept of the Lethal Lottery and Battlebowl would do a lot of good right about now. I've managed to figure things out (I think), but I could always use an official explanation to make sure.

[dawho5]

Love these two teamed up. They play off of one another so well. I would love to see a full blown Abby/Jack feud someplace they allowed blood and stabby things.