[2000-11-25-WWC] Carly Colon vs Curt Hennig

[Migs]

Mostly curious to see where Hennig is at this point, against a very young Carlito, who's only about a year in here. We're JIP, and this is mostly punching and kicking until a ref bump. Carly hits an ugly stunner and X-Factor, both for two. A missed cross body leads to the Perfectplex, which Carly gets to kick out of. Hennig wins after a chain shot, but the refs confer to set up the Dusty finish. Hennig looks fairly slow here, and Carly was crazy green. Not much to this one.

[soup23]

We get overdubbed commentary and the match is JIP. Match looks like a typical Puerto Rico affair with interference and hate and some shenanigans. Carly is fiery and has some spark but is still really green. Hennig knows how to be a heel if nothing else. Highlight of the match was Carlos throwing Hennig back into the ring at the end to get a flurry of punches from Carly. NR

[GSR]

Of course with this being Puerto Rico the action is joined in progress.  The Cuban Assassin/Fidel Sierra is seconding Hennig and he gets in some cheap shots as Curt distracts the referee.  Hennig with an STF which I can’t ever remember seeing out of him before, although he’s not exactly exerting himself from what we’ve seen so far.   He goes to slam Colon’s head into the mat, but Carly blocks it and slams Curt’s into it instead.  As he fires up the official tries to get him to let Hennig out from the corner.  After being shoved away twice he grabs Carly to pull him away, Curt then throws a dropkick and as Carly falls to the canvas the ref gets squashed underneath him.  A second referee runs out to replace the original one and Colon gets a near fall following an ‘X-Factor’.  That was super close as the crowd clearly thought he’d got the three judging by their reactions.  They make a mess of a victory roll and Curt then avoids the reverse crossbody off the top.  Carly kicks out of the ‘Perfect-plex’ and sensing that nothing he does will be able to put his opponent away, Sierra throws him some brass knux.  That does the trick, Hennig KO’ing him with the knux to defeat Colon for whatever title it is he is currently holding.  I smell a Dusty finish.  As the second referee hands Curt the belt, the original comes to and explains what happened.  The replacement tries to snatch the belt back but it looks like Hennig and Sierra are home and dry when they’re cut off on their way to the dressing room by Carlos Colon and Thunder & Lightning.  Carlos throws Curt back into the ring to his son and the two are going at it again as the footage ends.