[1998-07-18-MCW] Willow the Whisp vs Shannon Moore

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

This was a really fun studio match with Shannon Moore getting the win in his Music City debut. Lots of cool spots that were timed well.

[soup23]

So this where Michael St. John washed up.

Good intro junior type match but also a match where you can tell they haven't figured out how to keep things interesting through the highspots. Still, the crowd popped huge for everything and St. John was good on commentary comparing the young Moore to a young Bill Dundee. (**)

[PeteF3]

Bert Prentice as a straight-laced announcer is pretty amusing. This is sort of closer to 1997 OMEGA in that this is almost a choreographed pretend-wrestling match, but it is interesting to see Jeff Hardy work as a dominant bullying heel, which isn't something he ever got to do too often. Shannon is raw but he does show some pretty great execution on his big spots, and puts Willow away with a primitive version of the YoshiTonic.

[TravJ1979]

Lame. Moore is a terrible promo and Prentice was assuredly foaming at the mouth for this kid.