[2000-07-12-WCW-Thunder] Lance Storm & Billy Kidman vs Mark Jindrak & Sean O'Haire

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Lance insists on having the Canadian national anthem played before their match, but while he remains stoic throughout, Kidman clowns about behind him: reading a paper, giving Storm ‘rabbit ears’ and dancing, before orchestrating the crowd in a ‘USA’ chant. Jindrak and O’Haire are on the apron and as soon as the anthem finishes, Storm levels them both with a double clothesline and they fall to the outside. The two of them sidestep the stereo baseball slides, then press Kidman and Storm overhead and throw them back over the top rope and into the ring. Dropkick by Jindrak to Storm for two. Kidman with a blind tag, and as Storm ducks out, a bulldog off the turnbuckles gets just the one a Jindrak kicks out early. Lance whips him to the corner, Jindrak with a foot up on the charge, but Storm catches him with a leg lariat. Both men make a tag and O’Haire takes it to Kidman with some pretty lame looking offence. Huge sky high double beel on him. O’Haire heads to the top and does a 360 landing on his feet before nailing Storm with a thrust kick. As he’s on the apron trying to recover, Jindrak reverses the Irish whip and Kidman crashes into him sending his partner flying to the arena floor. Tilt-a-whirl slam by Jindrak, ‘Seanton bomb’ and the Power Plant graduates win again. Storm helps Kidman to his feet, only to then instantly level him with a superkick as Schiavone speculates that it’s payback for Kidman’s antics during the national anthem.

 

I have a feeling I’ll be saying impressive athleticism and power moves (and little else) for quite some time when it comes to Jindrak and O’Haire. The latter has a horrible looking clothesline as well. First poor match for Storm, although this was more about solidifying his position on the roster as a heel and setting Kidman up for his first feud (I think?).