[1997-08-04-WWF-Raw] Brian Pillman in a dress

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Goldust and Marlena are out to see Brian Pillman in a dress as a result of Summerslam last night. Pillman sells it like crazy as he goes into the ring with Bob Holly. Well, there's a match that could be really good if you reverse aged Pillman five years and aged Holly five years. Fun match though, built around Pillman humiliation spots. Pillman could have gotten out of the dress if he would have beaten Holly, but he lost by countout so there you go.

[Kevin Ridge]

Pillman pops his head through the curtain but Slaughter forces him to go down to the ring to wrestle. Holly still doing his race car driver gimmick. Pillman's dress stipulation is he must wear it until he wins a message. Lots of whistles from the crowd at Pillman. Goldust and Marlena end up distracting Pillman who gets counted out. So he has to continue to wear dress.

[Cox]

Funny story about this. You may notice Goldust waving a rather large bra at ringside? Well...

 

Me, my sister, and two friends took a trip out to Bethlehem (insert Three Wise Men joke here) with the hope that one of my friends (who had previously toured with Sherri and knew a bunch of WWF people) could get comps. This bent the days before cell phones, we went to the show on blind faith that she could conjure something up. Unfortunately, the show was completely sold out. But while talking with, I think Mike Chioda, Dustin approaches her and asks for her bra. She tries to trade the bra for comps, but no dice. But being a good egg, she gives The Natural her bra, and we all pile back in the car and head home, ticket-less.

[soup23]

Cool story Cox.

 

I liked this gimmick and Pillman played it up and the crowd was popping huge. The countout finish was a smart way to continue it.

[Robert S]

Well, there's a match that could be really good if you reverse aged Pillman five years and aged Holly five years.

Holly had pretty decent matches from the start of his WWF career when he was put into position to do so (i.e. in the ring with the right guy, not being squashed etc.).

[PeteF3]

We get to see more of Pillman than we really needed, and he gets into a ringside argument with Goldust and counted out against Bob Holly.

[Exposer]

Slaughter drags Pillman out to the entrance in Marlena's dress. Fun match with Pillman working in the dress & getting embarrassed multiple times. The crowd loved it. Pillman is distracted by Goldust & Marlena at ringside which gets him counted out. He has to continue wearing the dress until he wins a match in it. The pop for the loss is great. Fun, but also stupid. Not the biggest fan of this angle.