[1999-03-14-WCW-Uncensored] Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko vs Curt Hennig & Barry Windham

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Last few minutes. I didn't remember this being a lumberjack strap match at all. Match seems okay, but not much different from last month outside of the gimmick. Arn takes matters into his own hand and hits Hennig with a tire iron to give Benoit and Malenko the win and the tag titles after a Benoit diving headbutt where Hennig is waaaayyyy too far away. That finish made me cringe a little because it was a close call. The heel turn led to a good run for Benoit and Malenko as a heel tag team with Arn at ringside that I wish had lasted much longer.

[Tim Evans]

So was this supposed to be a double turn? Windham looks in way better shape than he was during his final WWF days. Benoit got lucky with that headbutt.

[soup23]

Decent action and Arn gives an assist to give Benoit/Malenko the tag straps.

[MikeCampbell]

I believe it was lumberjacks with straps due to the way Hennig and Windham won the titles. Chris Benoit finally gets some respect from the WCW booking staff. And, Double-A gets some overdue revenge on Hennig's turn from 18-months earlier.

[PeteF3]

Windham still knows what he's doing in there, though he's lost a step or six at this point. Not bad action but pretty needlessly overbooked--these really aren't guys to be going out there and doing a lot of gaga. Oh well, we got the result we wanted at the time so it's hard to complain too much. This tag division appears that it may be a beacon of light in the sea of WCW crap.