[2000-05-10-WCW-Thunder] Chuck Palumbo vs Terry Funk

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I have no idea if Palumbo will be a good worker or not. Funk is being presented as the big underdog with Bischoff really wanting to pry the title off of him. This is essentially a third rate version of the Jericho angle from Raw. The hardcore match is your basic affair with Palumbo about to toss Funk over until the Total Package comes out and attacks Palumbo. Security maces Luger and then they just leave as Palumbo pounds Luger against the wall. Yawn. *

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‘The Main Event’ Chuck Palumbo is doing a full on Lex Luger rip off complete with same attire, entrance music and posing in the spotlight. He goes out to meet Funk on the rampway, but the Funker with a spear-come-takedown. Palumbo quickly reverses position and nails Funk with a series of chairshots to the head and back before clotheslining him over the top rope and back into the ring. He grabs a table which he sets up in the corner and whips Funk through it. The Funker rolls to the outside and Palumbo with a double axe handle off the apron. Funk starts to fire back, and I like him grabbing Palumbo’s hair with one hand whilst punching with the other to stop him from getting away. They end up in the crowd, head backstage and eventually out the building, hitting each other with weapons along the way. Palumbo is about to throw Funk over the railings when Lex Luger shows up to help out. He rams Chuck’s head into the wall a couple of times and then tosses him into a dumpster. Funk hurls a garbage can at him and then covers him in the dumpster for the win. Luger attacks Palumbo some more after, wanting to know where Elizabeth is, until R&B Security arrive and mace and cuff the ‘Total Package’.

 

This was actually Palumbo’s first match on the ‘A’ shows after ‘debuting’ at Slamboree. He physically looks fantastic and if wins and losses actually meant something in this company, jobbing him out on his opening night wouldn’t be the way I would have gone about things. Your stereotypical ‘hardcore’ match with chairshots, table breaking, hitting each other with weapons and brawling backstage. Below average match.