[2001-01-13-WCW-Worldwide] Chavo Guerrero Jr vs Evan Karagias

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A Cruiserweight title defence for Chavo and he’s straight in Karagias’ face, shoving him to the mat the moment he enters the ring, as Mike Tenay talks about this new attitude he’s adopted. Evan responds in kind while Chavo is handing his title belt to the official, unloading with a trio of rights. He whips Chavo into the corner but then runs into a big boot. Aggressive rear chinlock, where Chavo snatches Karagias around the neck and drags him to the canvas. Evan with a double leg take down as the two are rolling around getting shots in wherever possible and it looks more like a fight than your stereotypical cruiserweight match. The referee manages to separate them but Chavo is right back on his opponent, laying in some knife edge chops. He sits him on the middle turnbuckle and dropkicks him in the mush before scraping his boot across Evan’s face. Karagias reverses the Irish whip, Chavo slides through his legs but Karagias plants him with a spinebuster. An atomic drop sends Chavo crashing head first into the top turnbuckle and Evan comes off the top with a crossbody for a two count. Scoop powerslam for the same outcome. Wheelbarrow into a facebuster, which they barely pull off, but instead of going for the pin Karagias chooses to dance. When he finally does make the cover, Chavo has recovered sufficiently to kick out. Boot to the mid-section by Chavo, brain buster and he retains the gold.

 

The new attitude has added an extra grittiness to Chavo in his offense which I like, but overall this is forgettable and fairly scrappy in places.