[2000-10-18-WCW-Thunder] Booker T & Sting vs Mark Jindrak & Sean O'Haire

[soup23]

The makeshift team of Booker and Sting has a go against the big NBT duo. I was impressed and also fearful for Sting's life when they do the hiptoss from the floor back into the ring spot with him. I thought the finish made the NBT team look helluva weak as you have Mike Sanders having to run down and interfere allowing them to save face against a makeshift tag team. Overall this was only three minutes but it didn't do anyone any favors. 3/4*

[GSR]

The ‘dream team’ of Sting & Booker T will be teaming up shortly to take on the Natural Born Thrillers, although later in the evening will be opponents in the ‘Countdown to Armageddon’ match (Booker informing us that he’ll be in that even though he is the World champion just in case he slips on a banana peel at Halloween Havoc).  After Booker’s promo we cut to the Thrillers who are singing a Backstreet Boys number in ‘Coach’ Nash’s office.  Comedy~ everyone.  As the Thrillers leave for the match Nash has a quiet word in Mike Sanders’ ear, instructing him to makes sure that Jindrak & O’Haire don’t lose the straps tonight.

O’Haire drills Sting with a right hand however over cooks the spin kick and ‘the Stinger’ plants him with a face jam.  He goes for a big splash but O’Haire gets his knees up before dropping him with a short clothesline.  Double leap frog by the NBT and Jindrak then hurls Sting to the outside.  They do their double hip toss from the floor back into the ring and Sting is lucky not to break his neck on the top rope, barely clearing it.  The pair of them whip ‘the Stinger’ into the corner but he jumps to the middle turnbuckle and leaps backwards, nailing them both with a double elbow.  Hot tag to Booker who runs riot over the Thrillers.  Axe kick followed by the Harlem side kick and Jindrak is in to break up the count at two.  ‘Book End’ on O’Haire, ‘Scorpion Death Drop’ on Jindrak and here comes Mike Sanders.  He slugs the referee and then calls for the timekeeper to ring the bell implying that the ‘dream team’ have been disqualified.  Tony Schiavone says how the fans deserved a much better tag team title bout than that, I won’t argue on that one.

Nothing match and the only thing of note was that scary double hip toss that Sting took where he caught his head on the top rope.  He’s lucky he got away without series injury there.