[2000-09-24-WWF-Unforgiven] Tazz vs Jerry Lawler (Strap)

[soup23]

Tazz takes over right away and suplexes Jerry. Tazz then drags Lawler outside to taunt JR. JR is getting fired up and this allows Jerry to make his comeback using the strap. Tazz goes low to regain the advantage. That doesn’t last too long and the match ebbs and flows before Tazz no sells three piledrivers from Lawler before passing out. The crowd doesn’t really react huge to that spot. Now Lawler hits the first three turnbuckles before Tazz stops the momentum. Ref gets bumped as Jerry hangs Tazz. Raven then makes his debut and gives Lawler the Evenflow to a huge reaction. Tazzmission chokes King out and I guess the rules have changed that you don’t have to go to four corners and Tazz is the winner. Raven debut was cool but rest of the match was a mess to me. *

[AstroBoy]

There is some straightforward brawling and integration of the strap before Tazz gets caught with a piledriver and stands right up. They do the piledriver three times before Tazz takes a silly bump and Lawler tries to fire up the crowd but it doesn't really take that well. Raven runs in and gives Lawler the DDT allowing Tazz to choke him out for the win. Nothing much to see here.

 

**1/4

[GSR]

Strap match where you can win by pinfall, submission or dragging your opponent to all four corners.  Wow, Lawler even goes up for one of Tazz’s suplexes.  He tosses ‘the King’ through the ropes to the outside and uses the strap to choke him right in front of JR.  Tazz and Ross have a heated verbal exchange at the same time, but Tazz ends up letting go of the strap as he’s more interested in getting in Ross’ face.  Lawler makes the most of the situation, using the strap to choke Tazz as JR plays number one cheerleader “get him King!  Choke the hell out of him!”  Both take some hard lashes from that strap although there is nothing fancy going on here.  Tazz no sells THREE piledrivers before a ridiculous looking delayed face plant after the third.  Lawler touches three turnbuckles then hangs Tazz over his shoulder as he goes for the final one.  Surprisingly for the WWF we get some poor camera work, missing seeing Tazz kick the referee.  Ross says that it was accidental as he was trying to kick out but who knows?  It does look a weak bump from our vantage point, so maybe that’s why we have this angle as it would have looked even worse if we had a clear view of it.  Raven debuts to a huge ovation and gives Lawler the ‘Even Flow’ DDT before disappearing back into the crowd.  Tazz locks in the ‘Tazzmission’ and he gets the win when ‘the King’s’ arm drops for the third time.

I can just about live with one no sold piledriver, but what we got here was ridiculous.  Completely forgettable match bar the Raven debut and I bet he never expected it would be all downhill for his time in the WWF from here.