[2000-10-07-OVW-TV] Trailer Park Trash & Nick Dinsmore vs Mr Black & Rob Conway

[soup23]

This is more like the OVW I am used to. Nothing offensive in ring but nothing too exciting and it certainly doesn't match the screaming that is happening on commentary. This is a coal minor glove match to set up the big house show and Conway and Black are having problems with each other. Not the most interesting angle at all and it shows that some of the other prospects in OVW still have a ways to go IMO. *1/4

[GSR]

This is described as being a preview for the Friday the 13^th show where Conway will defend his OVW title against Dinsmore in a ‘Coal Miner’s Glove’ match, and where Trailer Park Trash will defend his Hardcore title against Mr Black. Special stipulations in that are that if TPT loses he’s gone fron OVW, whereas if Black tastes defeat, then Kenny Bolin will be the one who is out of OVW. This is a ‘Coal Miner’s Glove’ match where the first person to retrieve the glove can use it on their opponents. Trash and Conway are looking up at the glove like it’s the sign for Wrestlemania or something! Several slow, unhurried attempts to climb the pole from both men. Mr B misses the big splash and TPT with the tag to Dinsmore. Flying forearm, dropkick and now he’s at it with the laboured climbing. Black grabs him, but ‘Mr Wrestling’ counters with a bulldog. Dinsmore goes for the pin and Dean Hill explains that they don’t ‘have’ to grab the coal miner’s glove, it’s only there to use if you want it! Double clothesline to Black that he just runs through. He goes over to tag his partner, however Conway doesn’t want it and Black is forced to slap him in the chest to make it. Dinsmore wants in against the ‘Iron Man’ and it has to be said that him licking his bicep before delivering a haymaker punch looks so f*cking ridiculous. Double backdrop on the big 400lber followed by a double forearm smash. As Black tries to get to his feet in the corner, Dinsmore runs up his back and starts to climb the pole. Before he’s able to retrieve the glove though, Conway shoves him off the top turnbuckle and into the front row. Cornette thinks he could’ve blown out his knee, tore a ligament or even broken his leg, while Hill, with an almighty exaggeration, claims it was a twenty foot drop that he took! We return from a commercial break to find that match still underway and with Conway working over ‘Mr Wrestling’, so no broken leg as Corny thought! Dragon screw leg whip and the ‘Iron Man’ sweeps Dinsmore’s leg out from under him. He starts to climb the pole but TPT, realising his partner is pretty helpless, with a low blow stops him in his tracks. Black misses an ‘Avalanche splash’ in the corner and Dinsmore hits that impressive German suplex. He avoids the onrushing Conway and makes the hot tag. Not the smoothest of float over DDT’s and Trash with a leg drop off the top to Black. As the ref is dealing with Dinsmore, Conway, the illegal man, climbs the pole and collects the glove. He goes to throw it to Black, but it flies over his head where it’s caught by TPT. Trash drills Mr Black with the glove and they pick up the win as you’re left wondering whether Conway did that on purpose or if it was a genuine mistake.

 

Surely having a ‘Coal Miner’s Glove’ match on television, even if it is a tag, less than a week before the big show featuring the same stipulation between a couple of the combatants isn’t the smartest of booking ideas? I felt the first part of this jumped around too much and there wasn’t any flow to the match, while I loathe slow climbing in a match like this. It was better after the Dinsmore fall as it told more of a story, although I don’t think this was the time for the German suplex considering he supposedly had a bad leg and was struggling to stand only a minute or so before! The finish, and the reluctance to tag, hints at some potential dissension in Bolin Services.

[Tim Evans]

I don't know if you guys know this but there is a big show happening in a couple days. Cornette didn't mention it or anything. I kinda liked the story in this of Black and Conway having problems without Bolin around. Finish was good too. Dinsmore blowing out his knee after the fall to the ground before his match with Conway is a good story too. Match wasn't much but it advanced 2 stories and didn't include a heel ref bump so not all bad.