[1998-02-21-WWF-Raw Saturday Night] Faarooq vs Steve Blackman

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[soup23]

Blackmon is undefeated at this point. Rock holds up the painting on display and Farooq grabs it and almost uses it as a weapon. Rock grabs that allowing Blackman to roll Farooq up to stay undefeated. Rock and Farooq get into a discussion of the portrait being bent. Farooq punches and destroys the portrait and those are fighting words for The Rock. The beginning of the end of this incarnation of the NOD. (1/2*)

[Loss]

Oh, Steve Blackman. That time period when the WWF tried to present him as Ken Shamrock's shoot equal was awesome. Faarooq ends up getting pinned after The Rock stops him from using the Rock portrait as a weapon. Rock is hilarious and so great already. Post-match, Faarooq gets upset and punches a hole in the Rock picture. Rock is stunned! How dare he!

[PeteF3]

Rock is far more horrified that his portrait got crimped than the fact that Faarooq lost a match. Faarooq trashes the picture entirely afterward and Rock is beside himself. Like Mero, Rock is an unabashedly shameless doofus meathead heel and it's great to watch.

[TravJ1979]

Blackman was always so generic and Faarooq "Formerly Ron Simmons, ugh" looks way old here. This was more Rock than anything else.