[2000-03-11-WCW-Worldwide] Silver King & El Dandy vs Big Vito & Johnny the Bull

[soup23]

The WWF tag division is so good at this point that I think the Mamalukes are underrated throughout history. A good tag team with a good gimmick filling out the cards for WCW. This was a blast with King and Dandy showing a lot of fire and flying around. Even Tenay and Heenan wanted to spend the time talking about Luger and Flair but they get caught up in the action and stay focused on it for the final 3-4 minutes. The Harris brothers interfere at the end which doesn’t make sense because you have a heel vs. heel feud and the Harris brothers suck. I will say their beatdown here was good. Fun 5 minute match on Worldwide. **1/2

[Loss]

Typically fun, short C-show match involving these guys. WCW sure went out of their way to portray the luchadores as worthless nobodies. Sad.

[GSR]

Great opening as Dandy with a pescado to Vito and Silver King with a springboard crossbody to Johnny before The Mamalukes have even entered the ring. Really nice teamwork from the luchadores, and a double hip toss followed by a Dandy forward roll over Johnny leads to Vito breaking up the pin at two. Irish whip reversal, Johnny picks up Silver King and Vito is in with the ‘Hart Attack’ clothesline. A pair of double axe handles to the chest and The Mamalukes continue to put the boots to King. Kick to the head/spinning neckbreaker combination for two as King kicks out. Silver King with a sunset flip, but Vito follows up with a thrust kick flooring him. Vito with a whip to the ropes, King holds on and when Vito charges at him he gets backdropped over the top rope to the floor. More nice teamwork from the Mexicans and Vito again has to save his partner from the pin. King and Dandy have their opponents in opposite corners, climb the turnbuckles and start punching them, however The Mamalukes are able to lift them up and stereo powerbombs. Johnny with a knee to the mid-section of Dandy and Vito with a jumping DDT for the win. Post-match the Harris twins attack both teams, with everyone bar Vito taking impressive looking bumps for the ‘H-bomb’.

 

Silver King and Dandy looked so much better than the Mamalukes here, just a shame that they’ve already been typecast as jobbers. Their double team manoeuvres and team work is all so smooth, to a point there’s almost a sense of the Midnight Express about them. Didn’t think much of Vito who seems more interested in posturing and posting out there.