[2000-11-22-WCW-Thunder] Bam Bam Bigelow & Reno vs Mike Awesome & Crowbar (Hardcore)

[soup23]

A nice summation of the undercard hardcore scene in WCW currently. A lot of plunder in this one and not a ton of intensity. Everyone seemed to be taking this one fairly light and going through the motions. I was also hoping for some more continuity between this being a tag team match but the guys just paired off mainly resulting in Awesome and Reno matching up as well as Bigelow and Crowbar. The brooms and mops in particular were used a ton here and don’t have much impact. Finish happens when Crowbar allows Awesome to Awesome bomb him from the inside of the ring to the outside through a table that has Reno laying on it. As Awesome celebrates, Bigelow spears him through a table. Reno looks awful with bruises on his back but hazardly falls on top of Crowbar to get the pin. *1/2

 

[GSR]

Not a promising start as Awesome has to reset himself on a suicide dive over the top rope to the outside as Bigelow isn’t paying attention.  Second time of asking he’s ready and Bam Bam launches a trash can at his head while he’s mid-air causing him to nose dive to the floor.  That was dangerous as hell and not at all worth the risk.  Crowbar fails to connect on an Asai moonsault, however it looks like Bam Bam was out of position and again not paying attention.  The four of them fight up the aisle to in front of ‘Thundervision’, although all they are doing is hitting each other with weapons.  They eventually make it into the ring where it’s just more of the same.  Bigelow Frisbees a trash can lid at Crowbar which bounces off him and hits someone in the crowd.  The kid is rubbing his head and they’re lucky that it was so flimsy otherwise they could’ve had a lawsuit on their hands.  Bam Bam ends up going through a table before Reno is laid on a second one at ringside.  Awesome ‘Awesome bombs’ Crowbar from the ring out and onto Reno putting him through it.  That looks to have taken every bit as much out of Crowbar though and Reno manages to crawls on top to get the pin.  Check out Reno’s badly bruised, welted back and upper arms from all the kendo stick shots he took during this.

The ‘Awesome bomb’ finish was the one saving grace as up to that point I thought this was terrible.  Way too long and way too repetitive.  Don’t know what Bigelow was playing it as between being out of position for the dive, failing to catch Crowbar on the Asai moonsault and then hitting that kid in the crowd with the trash can lid, he didn’t look good at all tonight.