[2000-10-27-EWF-Caged Terror 3] Backseat Boyz vs Bad Crew (Ladder)

[soup23]

I have enjoyed the dynamic of these two teams against each other and this served as a good blowoff between the feud of them two and what was going to transpire in the future. I thought the spots that the BSB did with the ladder were real impressive and TLC level and showed that both but especially Acid had great seasoning and charisma for how far along in wrestling they were and how young in age they were at the time. Bad Crew suffered a bit here and that made me appreciate the Dudley's in the WWF matches because while the Hardy's and E&C did the more athletic bumps and spots, the Dudleys also did some sick bumps and still conveyed a measure of danger where they could dish out damage. Bad Crew felt like fish out of water here and the most brutal and cohesive ladder spots were executed by the BSB. WIth the BSB going over, a screwy finish was going to happen. The referee gets knocked out right as Bad Crew retrieves the titles. Marital Law tag team comes out and disposes of Bad Crew and then Donnie B sends BSB up the ladder to act like they are retrieving the belts as the referee comes to. A pretty clever ending to that trope. ***1/4 (6.4)

[Tim Evans]

Some guys shouldn't be in Ladder matches. Like Big show, Kane and you can add Bad Crew to that list. This was all Backseat taking nutty bumps. Especially Trent in the first minute of the match taking a clothesline over the top onto a ladder.Not an awful match but not terribly exciting. Agree with Chad that the finish was creative. The commentary was bad and homophobic as usual.

[GSR]

Fucking hell, the Backseat Boyz haven’t even made it through the curtain and there are already “faggot, faggot” chants just because their entrance music has started.  A ladder match with the EWF tag belts suspended from the ceiling and the first team to retrieve them will be declared the winners.  Trent is a bit too pleased with himself after cartwheeling out the way of colliding with Johnny and gets clotheslined over the top rope, falling hard on a ladder at ringside.  What the fuck is up with this commentary?  When one of them says how, away from Donnie B, the Backseat Boyz aren’t that bad, the other wonders whether he gives them rectal exams!  Suicide dive by one of the Crew.  Trent with a great counter for the hip toss, blocking it and immediately locking in an abdominal stretch.  With the Crew wide open and helpless, Johnny dropkicks a chair into his face.  Apparently if you take away the Backseat Boyz sexual preferences they’re pretty good workers.  I’m going to mute these bozos in a minute.  Trent collects a ladder and places it on the ring apron, however one of the Crew reverses the Irish whip and Johnny inadvertently sends it crashing into his own partner.  The Bad Crew rest the ladder upright against the turnbuckles and then powerbomb Johnny into it, although as they show it off to the fans they’re caught by a Trent missile dropkick.  Johnny buries one of the Crew under the ladder and comes off the top with a tumbleweed.  The Backseats collect a second ladder and get a couple of rungs from the top when the Crew are up and shove them off, the champions taking a pretty nasty spill all the way down to the wooden floor.  As it looks like the Bad Crew are about to retrieve the titles Donnie B grabs another ladder and jabs it at them causing them both to lose their balance.  Plancha from the ladder to the outside by Kashmere and for once these commentators make a valid point about how he was only inches away from the belts but instead chose to fly onto the Bad Crew instead.  Orihara moonsault from Trent.  The BSB sandwich one of the Crew inbetween the ladder and Johnny assists Trent with the splash from the top.  ‘Acid Bomb’ into the ladder on the other.   The double clothesline is ducked and as the Crew comes back with one of his own, Trent sees it coming and pulls referee Brian Logan in front of him so he ends up getting wiped out by it.  Bad Crew hit their finisher ‘Badlands’ (a combination chokebomb/neckbreaker) on Trent and retrieve the title belts when they’re jumped by Lovebug and Martial Law.  Referee Logan is still knocked out and unaware of what’s going on.  Donnie B grabs the title belts which Bad Crew dropped when they were ambushed and throws them to Johnny who climbs up the ladder and holds them above his head, making out that he’s collecting them while waiting for Logan to come through.  It’s not long before he does, sees Kashmere with the title and awards the match to the Backseat Boyz.

Purely off the back of the work and effort of the Backseats I liked this one a lot.  A real cool finish too, someone needs to steal that next time they’re in a Ladder match.  Commentary was the pits which is a constant theme with the EWF.