[2000-11-01-NWA Wildside-Athens, GA] Bad Attitude vs Boogaloo Crew (Lumberjack Strap)

[soup23]

I am always a sucker for these southern stipulations of getting the fans involved by being the lumberjacks. Heat is piled on by Attitude wearing Tennessee Vol apparel. This again works a basic structure but is a lot of fun with Bad Attitude being stripped down and whipped on the outside and then taking over for a good heat segment. JC Dazz always impresses me by mixing in moments of good agility and flash for someone his size and the hot tag sequence is really well done. Finish is what it is where it of course looks like the Bugaloo Crew has won but they end up being DQ’d. Bad Attitude immediately bolts for the exit in another funny moment. Shtick but good shtick. *** (5.8)

 

[GSR]

This is from the same NWA Wildside spot show as the Styles & Onyx tag.  A raffle has determined which members of the audience get to be lumberjacks and I like how the ring announcer runs down the rules to them, rules which must be adhered to otherwise they’ll be escorted from the building.  Oh, and “please, no groin shots!”  You’ve got a rough idea of how this is going to go with all the layers of clothing that the heel team are wearing.  Yup, within the first couple of minutes Michaels ends up on the outside four times.  Before he tosses him out for the fifth time Wrenn removes his top so the audience can get some licks in on his bare torso.  Dazz with a double Japanese armdrag on Bad Attitude and this time both get thrown to the floor.  They’re quickly back inside and pleading for a bit of mercy from their opponents.  Michaels offers a hand and as Scotty looks at it, he boots him in the mid-section and then hurls him outside.  As he tells the lumberjacks to “whip him”, they just stand there.  J.C. from behind gives Michaels a shove and the lumberjack don’t need to think twice, on him like flies on shit.  Wrenn pulls his bottoms down prior to the next time he throws him out, that elicits a “he’s got skidmarks” chant which made me laugh.  Young counters the quesadora with a ‘Blue Thunder Bomb’ as the heels go to work on J.C.   Sunset flip by Dazz.  Michaels grabs the ropes to prevent him being himself from being taken down, so J.C. yanks his pants down and Michael is out there with his bare ass on display for one and all.  The official fails to see the tag which allows Bad Attitude to double team Dazz while he tries to get Wrenn out of there.  When he misses it for a second time Scotty throws him to the floor and the fans start whipping the referee.  Dazz with a Frankensteiner but immediately then runs into a spinebuster.  He counters the attempted Samoan Drop with the ‘Rings of Saturn’ forcing Young to break up the submission.  The officious referee, who couldn’t wait to get Wrenn out of there, is happy to let this go.  At the fourth time of asking J.C. makes a tag which is seen and Big Scotty runs wild.  The ref gets accidentally bumped courtesy of a clothesline, as Young ducks out the way, and when the Boogaloo Crew hit their ‘Boogaloo Bounce’ it looks like there is no-one to count the fall.  Dazz with a bit of clever thinking drags the unconscious referee over and slams his hand to the mat three times.  The Crew are initially announced as the new NWA Wildside tag team champions, but when the official comes around he takes the belts off them and hands them back to Bad Attitude, the Boogaloos winning the match via disqualification but not the title belts.  He should’ve got out of there sharpish as the Crew get hold of him and Scotty holds a chair in place which J.C dropkicks it into his face.

The first ten minutes of this is all shtick before settling down into a Southern tag match, with sprinklings of more shtick thrown in there.  It was highly entertaining, especially the opening portion and you could tell that the fans were really enjoying it.  The lone criticisms would be the groanworthy ‘Dusty finish’, which I had a feeling was coming the moment the Boogaloo Crew were announced as the new tag team champions, and the weak disqualification.  Why didn’t the ref disqualify the Boogaloo Crew when Scotty Wrenn threw him outside to be whipped by the fans?  That was far more worthy of a disqualification than an accidental clothesline.  If it was me booking things I would’ve just made this a non-title match, that way the fans would’ve gone home happy and the match wouldn’t have finished on a downer.