[2000-07-03-WWF-Raw] Chris Jericho & The Acolytes vs Road Dogg & X-Pac (Handicap)

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This was a fun setup of DX thinking they have a handicap match until Foley comes out an announces APA as the partners of Jericho. I thought it was smart that as APA made their entrance, DX got in the shots they could right away. A fun 4 minute affair with the crowd still really behind Jericho and a good way to advance HHH vs Jericho without them actually touching. Bradshaw hits a huge clothesline from hell and Jericho gets the win with the lionsault. Backstage, the guacamole goes flying as HHH is pissed off. *1/2

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After D-X and Y2J make their entrances, Commissioner Foley is out and says that he doesn’t think he made things clear earlier on, so he would like to take the chance now to clear those things up. He promised a handicap match, but it’s not two on one, it’s three against two, and X-Pac and the Road Dogg will be facing Chris Jericho and his partners, the Acolytes. D-X jump Y2J seemingly trying to get this over before the Acolytes have even made it to the ring. Their plan doesn’t work though and the APA pull them off him and toss both to the floor. Spinning heel kick by Jericho on X-Pac and a tag to Bradshaw. He whips Pac to the corner but runs into a big boot on the charge. Crossbody off the middle, however Bradshaw catches him mid-air and then dumps him with a fallaway slam. Road Dogg escapes ‘the Dominator’, but after Faarooq levels him with a clothesline, he’s caught from behind with a Pac spin kick. D-X look to isolate Faarooq, although that doesn’t last long as he plants X-Pac with an almighty powerslam. He goes to tag Bradshaw, but Jericho tags himself in instead and Faarooq’s not impressed by that at all. Y2J runs through his usual shtick of the flying forearm, facebuster etc. before locking on ‘the Walls’. Dogg makes the save but probably wishes he never, as he gets a ‘clothesline from hell’ for his troubles. Spinebuster by Faarooq, Lionsault and it’s a win for Y2J and the APA. The camera cuts backstage to an irate Triple H trashing the room in which he was watching the match.

 

Fun match. I thought the APA might turn on Jericho after he tagged himself, but there was no other hint of anything bar that one look of disdain from Faarooq towards him. Jericho and Pac worked well together and this was one in the belt for Y2J, getting the better over Triple H who thought he’d outsmarted him with the handicap match until Commissioner Foley got involved.