[2000-09-02-MPPW-TV] Derrick King & Blade Boudreaux vs Charlie Laird & Jet Logan

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Coco leads his recruits against King and Blade. Action here is fine but not spectacular by any means and there wasn’t a whole lot of meat to it. I guess they have sort of dropped the King turning heel narrative they were working with because he picks up the win here. I liked Laird in the big elimination match but he was less impressive here. After taking the loss, Laird and Logan are forced to do some military drills as punishment. *

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Gen. Koko B. Ware is doing a Sgt. Slaughter gimmick with Charlie Laird in the Terry Daniels role. Logan isn’t wearing the camouflage fatigues so it looks like he hasn’t been fully initiated into the Corp yet. Jet starts off promisingly against King until DK ducks under a clothesline and catches him with a neckbreaker. Laird was supposed to break up the pin but he’s late, so the ref has to delay on his count while Logan kicks out himself. Double suplex on Laird for a two. As Blade runs the ropes, Jet swings at him from the apron causing a distraction and allowed Laird to hit a laboured take on the ‘Olympic slam’. He follows that with a terrible looking bulldog where Boudreaux jumped to take the bump before Charlie has even grabbed hold of him. Flying forearm and Blade makes the hottish tag. Three lovely right hands to the jaw of Logan, superkick and this time Laird remembers that he needs to break up the cover! All four men are in the ring, Koko hooks King’s leg from the outside and Laird with an ‘Ace Crusher’. He would rather dance than go for the pin though, in the process ‘bumping’ into the referee in a spot that looked even hokier than that bulldog. When he eventually does cover his man, there’s no-one to count. Laird complains to the ref wondering where he was (is he for real?) and when he turns around, King with the facebuster for the win. The General isn’t happy with his charges losing and gets them to do drills in the ring as punishment.

 

When you compare the newcomers of MCW to the newcomers of MPPW, there is no comparison. Laird looked plain bad here, blowing making the save on the pin attempt, that awful bulldog (although to be fair that was every bit, if not more, Boudreaux’s fault), the ridiculous ref bump and of the two, Logan looks to have more potential. While he generally doesn’t have an issue when in there with better workers, seeing Blade against a pair of greenhorns does amplify his shortcomings. King pulls out the win for his team, stopping his rot from previous weeks.