[2000-10-29-FWA (UK)-No Surprises] Jody Fleisch vs Scott Parker vs Stuart Fury

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Rough match here with no flow and a lot of standing around waiting on Jody to do something cool and aerial. It follows the trope of the non-Fleisch competitors teaming up to try to eliminate Jody but there some duress throughout the match. Even the two valets start catfighting on the outside. Jody is able to take advantage of this and win. A few cool spots here and there but ultimately a nothing match and Jody really doesn’t have much ring psychology to speak of at this point in his career. *1/4

 

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Triple Threat match for the FWA European Union championship.  The moment the bell rings Fury rolls under the bottom rope out to the floor, presumably to leave Parker and Fleisch to it.  He tells the fans that they don’t deserve to see him wrestle yet and as he’s the champion he’s going to stand outside while those two beat the hell out of each other.  His delivery is appalling and there’s no conviction coming across in what he’s saying.  Fleisch and Parker start off with some chain wrestling and Fury is yelling “boring, boring” at the pair over the house microphone.  This is going to get tiring very quickly.  More wrestling, more “boring” chants out of him.  A double clothesline sees both men go down at which point Fury hops in the ring ready to take advantage.  Double kip up by the two challengers and Parker and Fleisch team up against the champion including a double clothesline to the floor.  As Fleisch climbs the ropes to play to the fans he doesn’t anticipate being dropkicked in the back by the future ‘Solid Gold’.  Fury with some stomps and double axe handles, his ring work every bit as bad as his (in)ability on the mic.  He and Parker work together against Fleisch until Fury misses a splash in the corner, Jodie having leaped up to the top rope and jumped over the incoming champion, nailing Parker with a missile dropkick in the process.  Split legged moonsault on Parker but Fury pulls him off to break up the pin.  The trope of the third man disrupting pinfalls continues for the next few minutes, primarily Fury stopping Parker from picking up the three.  One of the valets trips Parker, and considering the valets are with he and Fury who have been working together so far, that makes little sense.  The women get into a catfight and the two wrestler’s dart out to separate them.  Parker and Fury get into an argument themselves, forgetting about Fleisch who takes them both out with a flying bodypress.  As Parker struggles to apply an STF on Jodie, Fury with a crappy looking bulldog on him.  I thought that was it for the alliance but they are soon back working together.  The two whip Jodie into the ropes who, in one motion, leaps to the top one and backflips over the pair, then catches them with a double Japanese armdrag which looked lovely.  Parker accidentally superkicks Fury, and as it looks like he’s going to apologise, forearms him across the face.  He tosses him to the floor and comes off the top with a crossbody out onto him.  Set up for Jodie’s springboard shooting star by chance?  Not this time but rather a gorgeous inside/out Quebrada.  Parker blocks being suplexed back inside and counters with a Falcon Arrow.  After Fury breaks up the cover Fleisch levels him with a springboard dropkick.  Shooting star press on Parker, hitting his knees on the top rope I may add, and Jodie Fleisch is your new FWA European Union champion.

Fury was real bad here in every aspect.  There was an awful lot of standing around by the spare man waiting for their next spot and while they had the story, they seemed lost on how to properly convey it, all three looking real inexperienced.  Fleisch has got the incredible high spots but not much in the way of transitions at the moment.  The valets added nothing to proceedings.