[2000-09-17-WCW-Fall Brawl] Lance Storm vs Gen. Rection

[soup23]

I don’t understand the Major Gunns against her will angle at all. Anyway, this match is a backdrop for the Duggan turn that was coming. Storm does try but General Rection is just nothing more than a patsy character and the crowd is not extremely responsive to him. When Duggan does turn as Rection was going for the moonsault, the crowd seems genuinely shocked which is a more natural reaction than WCW has been able to garner from the viewers throughout much of 2000. I would have liked to have seen Storm in a feud with a more capable opponent such as Kidman around this time. *3/4

[AstroBoy]

Rection was at least an earnest effort to present a working mans babyface and he was kinda over through some of the push. And even though I don't like his in ring output Rection did work hard here. The match is decidedly average and the crowd pops for Duggan's turn. He was pretty fun in this role at this point.

 

*3/4

[GSR]

An impassioned promo from the General who promises to bring the U.S. title and Major Gunns back to where they belong, the United States!    He dedicates the match to his mentor ‘Hacksaw’ Jim Duggan, who joins him and announces that ‘The Cat’ has made him the special guest ringside enforcer for the bout. 

Major Gunns actually looks attractive here for a change.  Storm jumps Rection at the bell as old ‘Hacksaw’ tries to get a “U-S-A” chanting going from the floor.  The General no sells Storm’s knife edge chops, switches positions with him and deals out some of his own.  Gunns’ acting here is atrocious.  Rection counters the attempted crucifix with a Samoan drop followed soon after by a huge running splash in the corner.  Lance side steps the charge when he goes for it again, however Storm is too slow climbing the turnbuckles and Rection superplexes him to the mat.  A mule kick brings the General to his knees as Storm picks up a couple of near falls.  He kicks him under the bottom rope to the outside and nails him with a springboard crossbody.  After whipping him into the guard rail he’s distracted by Duggan and runs into a big boot.  Gut wrench powerbomb that Lance barely gets a shoulder up from.  Storm catches a kick, dragon screw leg whip and he then snatches as that leg as he goes for the ‘Canadian Maple Leaf’.  Rection kicks him off and a great looking German suplex dumping Lance on the back of his head.  He clotheslines him over the top rope but ‘Hacksaw’ throws him right back inside.  As the General goes for his finishing moonsault, in “the shot heard around North America”, Duggan turns on his country and clobbers him with his 2x4.  Storm slaps the ‘Canadian Maple Leaf’ on his KO’ed opponent and gets the win.  Post-match Duggan tears off his top to reveal a Canada shirt as a forlorn Major Gunns looks on.