[2000-09-20-WCW-Thunder] Jung Dragons vs Mark Jindrak & Sean O'Haire & Mike Sanders

[soup23]

I don’t get the Jung Dragons Leia Meow deal and Borash is approaching Madden levels of unbearable on commentary. Beyond that, this was a pretty fun tv match with the Jung Dragons bumping and flying around for the NBT when Sanders was on commentary. The NBT do the Juvy throw back into the ring and add the wrinkle of Sanders powerslamming Jaime from midair. Leia takes matters into her own hands and attacks her partners before hitting a senton on Sanders to score the pin. **

[GSR]

Leah Meow is now with the Jung Dragons and she’s not leaving much to the imagination with that outfit, while it also looks like she’s struggling to walk with those thigh high boots that she’s got on. Sanders and Kaz kick this one off and ‘the Above Average’ one launches him with a release pump handle suplex before taking a position at the commentary table. Side headlock, Yang tries to shoot Jindrak off but he’s got the squeeze on and all that happens is Yang swings around his body. A bunch of elbows to the mid-section forces the escape, although a one footed dropkick has little effect. He ducks a double clothesline and his Three Stooges double eye poke spot on ‘the Thrillers’. O’Haire turns him inside out with a clothesline before a lovely headscissors on Jindrak and he’s able to make the tag. Kaz doesn’t fair too well and Jamie is forced to save him after the ‘Seanton bomb’ with a top rope leg drop to the back of the head. Noble takes it to ‘the Thrillers’ with a double DDT and Sanders decides to return to the match, clearly thinking that his partners need him. He’s timed that one just right, as after a modified sit out powerbomb, he’s back in the thick of it. ‘Rude Awakening’ neckbreaker by Jamie is followed by a Russian leg sweep. Jindrak grabs his ankle from the outside, but he dropkicks him through the ropes. O’Haire is around to check on his partner, pescado by Noble, however O’Haire catches him. Incredible double beel back into the ring where, in the same motion, Sanders catches and powerslams Jamie. Jindrak and O’Haire like that one and take a leaf out of their partner’s book, leaving Sanders to go it alone while they provide a bit of commentary. ‘Above Average’ Mike launches Noble over the top to the floor (poor Jamie’s flying everywhere at the moment) and puts the boots to Kaz and Yang. Leah Meow has seen enough and she starts to kick Jamie while he’s down on the outside. Schiavone talks about her taking matters into her own hands as she takes off her boots. She slaps Yang before coming off the top onto Sanders and pinning him. Post-match ‘the Thrillers’ beat down the Dragons as an angry Leah Meow watches on from ringside.

 

Up until the final thirty seconds I was really enjoying this, but why does the referee let Meow blatantly interfere in the match? Not only does he not disqualify or even warn the Dragons for her interference, he proceeds to count a pinfall attempt by her, a pinfall attempt that garners a three and then decides that is enough to give them the victory. Ridiculous! I thought ‘the Thrillers’ looked good here. Mike Sanders isn’t as impressive in the ring as his partners, but he’s found a role that suits him within the group. I also liked how he took to the commentary table to let his partners do all the work. It not only keeps him out of the action, it also adds a bit of substance to his character; likes he’s a cerebral, thinking wrestler. Why should he get his hands dirty when he’s got a couple of tag partners that could do it for him? Jindrak and O’Haire sitting by and not moving from commentary while Meow interfered also added to the absurdity of that finish. I would’ve gone higher still on the match had it not ended as it did.

[AstroBoy]

This was a pretty fun six-man with them all getting some time and I appreciated them taking a pretty basic approach and just letting the NBT work over Yang for awhile without messing up that flow. Jindrak and O'Haire are good athletes and I really like O'Haire's presence. I like his clothesline and his shit talking. They may have run out of ideas for the control as O'Haire hits the Seanton which gets broken up. This goes on a while longer and loses a little steam as they resort to more spots. Hayashi does the Gargano slingshot DDT spot. The double beal into the powerslam actually looked really awesome. And then Leia Meow wins the match without even being a participant.

 

**3/4