[2000-02-19-MCW-TV] Jerry Lawler vs Bull Pain

[soup23]

MCW feels like a player having Lawler and Dundee in the mix. I do like the KAW contingent still being mentioned. This had shit like the previous OVW match but I found it more appealing based on the character work and Bull and Lawler being more polished at making it work. Also, Lance works as an announcer calling that style over Cornette. Lawler drops the strap and whips ass until we get interference from Morton and a big brawl to end everything. Fun. **1/2

 

 

[Loss]

I like watching these guys throw punches and kicks, but the interference was too much and the match probably worked as a means to an end to get heat on the KAW crew, but not really as a match on its own. This really came across like the worst of NWO stuff. Not a fan.

[GSR]

‘The King’ is out first followed by Pain who has his Kick Ass Wrestling entourage of Todd Morton and Al K. Holic accompanying him. Lawler warns Morton that he may have been the ‘big stuff’ in KAW but this is Memphis wrestling now and if either of them want some, just get right in!

 

Pain distracts the official to allow Morton and Holic to get some shots in on ‘The King’, Morton and Holic distract the official to allow Pain to rulebreak and bend the rules behind his back, rinse, repeat. I liked the commentator talking about Pain using a chain, but how these guys are used to KAW where there are no DQs or time limits and that matches continued until someone got their butt kicked. Lance replies that this is not that type of match, however if Lawler had been prepared he’d get in and do that kind of fighting with them. Bull misses an elbow off the middle rope, ‘The King’ then pulls down the strap and starts to fire back. He beats Pain down in the corner, picks him up for a piledriver and Morton is in to attack him for the DQ. 3 on 1 beatdown until Bill Dundee (carrying a board) makes the save and the two sides continue to fight as the show goes off the air.

 

The first part of the match with Bull in charge was too repetitive, then it felt like the piledriver attempt and Morton’s interference came too quick. It was also sad to see Lawler pull down the strap and it garner more reaction from the commentators than the audience. The post-match was much more exciting than the match itself.

[Moonsault Marvin]

The match was a fairly standard Lawler match, but the crowd no longer buys into the aging Lawler, leaving the match without the rabid response of Memphis fans of yesteryear. Dundee bringing in the weapons at the end livens things up. Average match.

[Edwin]

This was relatively underwhelming. Both guys seemed like they were just cruising through this.

 

Lawler dropping the strap to a mild reaction sucked as that usually drew a massive response some 12 or so years before this.

 

The post match brawl with Dundee coming out to try and save Lawler was better than the match itself.