[1993-02-21-WCW-Superbrawl III] Cactus Jack vs Paul Orndorff (Street Fight)

[Superstar Sleeze]

Cactus Jack vs "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff - WCW SuperBrawl III Street Fight

 

I feel like Orndorff must have been besides himself when Cactus told him what he wanted to do and then Orndorff was like I have no qualms kicking the living shit out of you. This is a far, far departure from working with Hogan. Truth be told, Orndorff missed his calling as a sadist. Sometimes, it takes a masochist to bring out the sadist in us.

 

The Titantron really revolutionized the ability to do these street fights and still get crowd heat. With all the brawling around the ring, it must have been hard for at least half the crowd to see at time hurting the live heat.

 

Awesome match! I really enjoyed this one. From Orndorff doing an interview to having Cactus threaten him with the shovel. Orndorff crawling away on his hands and knees while Cactus attacked with the shovel was great. We get the Cactus Jack bump a thon like elbow onto Orndorff who is on concrete and the always stupid Sunset Flip from the apron to the exposed concrete. What helps this match a lot is that Cactus is a babyface so it means that Orndorff can dish out the punishment and Cactus can take his nutty bumps. The Orndorff heat section is awesome. Throwing him over multiple railings, SUPLEXING HIM ONTO THE RAILING!, great knee work, punching him straight in the mouth. Loved tearing off the knee brace, figure-4, slamming knee into exposed concrete and then slamming a chair into the knee. Best heat segment I have seen in forever. Orndorff calls for the piledriver on the chair and starts doing the Hogan cup the ear to taunt the crowd. When he turns eats a shovel to the face!!! Awesome finish. Cactus took a lickin but kept on tickin and a great finish to show you cant leave an opponent hanging around. Loved this! ****

 

[Edwin]

This was entirely different from the Falls Count Anywhere match with Sting. There Cactus was a heel; here he’s the face. I personally preferred him as a heel. The Sting match was a big brawl title match with crazy bumps and a heated crowd. This was more of an arena midcard brawl with lesser bumping a crowd that wasn’t invested as much. In the Sting match there was no padding on the floor and the commentators would bring it up constantly; here the floor was padded but Cactus of course removed part of it and pulled off the most ridiculous Cactus type bump with a sunset flip off the second rope to the floor which is obviously absurd in itself but fits perfectly for Cactus. There was some walking around grabbing each others neck which I’m not a big fan of as nothing is really happening aside from walking around the arena going to the next place where the next spot will take place. Cactus did take 3 big bumps here that I would put up with any of the bumps he took in the Sting match — the bump over the double guardrails, the nasty suplex on the guardrail (which was the nastiest bump in either of the 2 matches) and a big flat back bump from the ring apron to the floor. Orndorff wasn’t going to bump big like Sting did and it was mostly him just beating up Cactus. The finish with Cactus hitting Orndorff with the shovel made sense as it’s a weapon Cactus walked out with and tried attacking Orndorff with before the opening bell but it felt kinda flat to me. This was a miss for me.