[2000-07-21-EWF] Da Hit Squad vs Bad Crew (Cage)

[soup23]

Certainly an indie cage match but one that had some big bumps and kept the action moving along. Bad Crew still lacks a lot of polish in their execution but for the role they fill in EWF they are effective. I love seeing Hit Squad both throw people around and launch their bodies into the cage. The highlight came in the finale as Bad Crew tapes up one member of Hit Squad to the ropes and then places the other on a table on top of a table. Then Bad Crew #1 cranks up a legit bulldozier and raises it up with him on top to give a big splash for the victory. The spot came off as memorable if pretty contrived. The bit of taping the other member of Hit Squad to the ropes was critical to the success of the move overall. *** (6.2)

[AstroBoy]

Eh this was a lot of garbage brawling at a pretty plodding pace. All guys take some hurtful shots with the ladder and fly into the cage with great aplomb but it just sort of drags and stays in the same gear until the big spot with the table to end it. With four guys crammed in to a cage like that it has to be hard to space out and portray real intensity for extended moments but this was just kind of dreary even if the action was consistent.

 

*1/2

[Migs]

I think with the pace these guys cut at the beginning, this might have been better off as a sprint? About 8 minutes in, it already felt like they were close to a finish.

 

That finish was wonderfully absurd, though.

[Tim Evans]

This started out nice with lots of big bumps into the ladder by the squad and some vintage 2000s brawling. Then it went on and on and got boring. Loved the finish though. I'm surprised that finish doesn't happen more often.

[GSR]

The two teams punch each other, hit each other with a chair, whip each other into the cage and a ladder, a lot, and that’s pretty much the story of the first seventeen minutes of this match!  In a rare deviation from that, Mafia lays the ladder over one of the Bad Crew and drops an elbow which is up there in the stupidity stakes as it hurts him way more than his opponent.  The Bad Crew tape Mafia to the ropes and then tape Mack to a table.  They then lift that table up and place it on top of a second one, although I do wish Mack would show some sort of fight rather than lie there like a corpse.  One of the Crew exits the cage and returns about ninety seconds later being driven to the ring on an actual digger!  The digger raises him up to the top of the cage where he comes off it with a big splash onto Mack, putting him through the two tables for the win.

I was going to call this ‘dull’, however Astro’s description of ‘plodding’ is far more apt.  DHS did take some nice bumps into the cage, it was just so repetitive.  The finish was the only memorable thing about this, though I wish Mack would at least wriggled and made it look like he was trying to escape.  The commentary (somebody Burns and a wrestler called the Butcher) was atrocious with one of them referring to Mack as Monsta Mash.