[2000-10-16-WCW-Nitro] Sting vs Kevin Nash (Lumberjack)

[soup23]

Clips of Nash’s beer being made. Nash rolls out for the lumberjack match surrounded by the young pups of the NBT. It just looks hilarious seeing cool Kevin with these guys. He is like the popular high shool guys dad that thinks he is a part of the group. Action here is pretty slow and plodding. I am impressed with how active Sting has been since coming back but not a lot of good output. Nash has Sting in the most generic neck crank when all hell breaks loose between the lumberjacks. They get cleared from ringside in a cool scene. Sting makes his comeback and we get a lame Lil Naitch bump which looked ridiculously contrived. Here comes Jarrett with the guitar and he whacks Sting coming in on a Stinger Splash. Nash is able to pick up the victory then. Pretty light week for stuff happening in Austrailia week 2 but no Russo is still a net positive. *3/4

[GSR]

Stevie Ray informs us that we’ve got the “who’s who” of professional wrestling lined up around the ring.  Yup, when the lumberjacks include Big Vito, Kwee Wee, Crowbar and Ms Jones he really said that!  Nash heads out flanked by the Natural Born Thrillers (he’s some sort of Coach it seems) and looks completely out of place amongst them.  He immediately hammers Sting at the bell as Stevie says how you want to get the advantage early in a match like this.  ‘Big Sexy’ measures ‘the Stinger’ with a back elbow before driving a foot into this throat.  He puts him over this shoulder for ‘snake eyes’ but Sting slips down his back and a dropkick sends Nash over the top rope to the outside, right in front of the M.I.A.  The Misfits throw him back inside, although only after they’ve put the boots to him first.  Sting clips out ‘Coach’ Nash’s knee and drops an elbow across it.  ‘Scorpion Deathlock’ however the NBT reach in and pull Nash out of the ring to break the submission.  Sting flies into a big boot when attempting the ‘Stinger Splash’ and after having that knee worked on for the past couple of minutes Nash has already given up selling it.  Side slam followed by ‘snake eyes’.  Nash with a neck crank as the face lumberjacks bang on the mat in support of ‘the Stinger’.  Scott Steiner rushes out from the dressing room and attacks Booker which leads to all the lumberjacks fighting each other.  Kronik show up and the crowd chant for “Goldberg” thinking that’s the signal for him, although they end up being wrong on that one.  The ‘Stinger Splash’ connects at the second time of asking, dropkick to the back and Nash bumps into Charles Robinson squashing him against the turnbuckle.  That was one hokey looking bump.  Jeff Jarrett hops the guard rails and as Sting goes for another trademark splash, ‘Double J’ breaks his guitar over his head.  Nash falls on top and Robinson comes back around to count the three.