[2000-10-09-WCW-Nitro] Mark Jindrak & Sean O'Haire vs Disco Inferno & Alex Wright

[soup23]

Jindrak and O’Haire are the tag champs. Wright is good here and really could have had a run as a fun worker on the indie scene if given the chance once WCW closes shop. Jindrak/O’Haire are able to show their double team moves and make them look impressive against Wright who isn’t a small person. Disco and Wright are a pretty cool team when the crowd helps them out. The Aussie crowd is pumped here. Ref gets bumped and Disco hits the Chartbuster with Billy Silverman as the second ref making the count. New Champs! But wait, here comes Mike Sanders who changes the decision to a DQ. After a beat up from the NBT, Sanders then decides to restart the match and the pin is academic. Lame ending there. **

[AstroBoy]

Disco and Wright really got over here and gave the crowd something to actually cheer about, so naturally they bait and switch the title change.  Ah well.  Jindrak and O'Haire are still kind of rough around the edges, see O'Haire's karate thrust/knee lift combo.  But clearly there is a lot of potential and presence from both.  I definitely agree that Wright is kind of a what-if guy, at least seems like he could have had a solid career.  A fun, pretty hot tag match.

 

**1/4

[GSR]

Wright backs Jindrak into his own corner off the hammerlock and as Charles Robinson separates them, he distracts the official so that Disco can get in a couple of shots from the apron.  A pair of blistering knife edge chops before he whips Jindrak into the turnbuckles and nails him with a back elbow smash.  He tries to repeat it, only this time Jindrak with the reversal.  Tilt-a-whirl slam and as he starts dancing to mock the ‘Boogie Knights’, Disco wallops him from behind with his duck.  Saito suplex by Wright as O’Haire is forced to break up the pin.  Jindrak reverses the Irish whip and O’Haire with a knee to the back of Disco as he hits the ropes.  Nice variation on the champs double leap frog, with Jindrak not actually jumping and Disco just running into him.  They call for the ‘Seanton bomb’ after the double beel, but Wright pulls O’Haire’s leg away as he’s on the top turnbuckle causing him to crotch himself.  Alex with a missile dropkick to Jindrak and O’Haire is in again for the save.  Combination inverted atomic drop/dropkick for a two count.  O’Haire trips Wright from the outside and Jindrak drops an elbow to his lower back.  Double dropkick and Mark Madden is straight in there with the Rock & Roll Express reference.  Jawbreaker by O’Haire that Jindrak follows with a springboard clothesline.  Wright side steps the splash in the corner, avoids the swinging arm and makes the hot tag to Disco.  Spinning neckbreaker on O’Haire and a DDT to Jindrak.  Flying crossbody off the top onto both by Wright.  Disco ducks a short lariat and O’Haire wipes out Robinson who takes a great bump from it.  Jindrak with a roll up, however Wright kicks out sending him flying into Disco who hits the ‘chartbuster’ and a replacement official slides into the ring to count the pin as we have ourselves new WCW tag team champions.  They barely have chance to celebrate when Mike Sanders is out and states how the ‘Boogie Knights’ should’ve been disqualified.  As they watch on from the ring they’re then jumped by Chuck Palumbo, Shawn Stasiak and Johnny the Bull.  Double flapjack on Wright and Sanders then orders the match to be restarted.  The Thrillers make the cover and end up retaining the straps.

The Dusty finish was flat out bull shit, but bar that I thought this was really good.  Alex Wright looked great, the champs were impressive and even Disco was decent in there and not resorting to full on comedy.  I thought the kick out into ‘the chartbuster’ was nice and listen to the reaction when the crowd think they’ve seen the belts change hands.  Even if it meant the Knights losing them on Thunder and just letting them have a couple days reign, it would be a much better than what they did here which leaves a sour taste in ones mouth.