[2001-01-10-WCW-Thunder] Kevin Nash & DDP & Gen. Rection vs Shane Douglas & Mark Jindrak & Shawn Stasiak

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General Rection is backstage with Gene Okerlund and he explains to him how he was contemplating what he’s going to do in the upcoming match after Sgt. A-Wall and Crpl. Cajun were taken out by the Natural Born Thrillers, when two guys came up to him offering their services.  These are two guys you just don’t say “no” to, ‘The Insiders’, Kevin Nash and Diamond Dallas Page.

The face team “sprint” to the ring and it’s funny seeing the General run full speed, Page be a few steps behind and then old man Nash with his dodgy knees bringing up the rear.  Page takes Jindrak’s head off with a pair of clothesline and he decides that’s enough for the moment, letting Stasiak try his luck.  DDP tags out to Nash and somehow I don’t expect Stasiak to get anything out of ‘Big Sexy’.  He doesn’t.  The General with a big elbow off the top for a two count.  Jindrak leaps over the top rope onto the apron after being whipped into the corner, and when the General runs in, he stuns him with a back elbow.  Springboard clothesline.  ‘The Franchise’ makes his first entrance but doesn’t stay long, happy to let ‘the Thrillers’ do the bulk of the work while he reserves his energy for the PPV on Sunday and his U.S. title shot.  They continue to get heat on the General, cutting the ring in half.  As it looks like he is about to make the tag Shane calls to his partners who enter the ring distracting referee Slick Johnson.  I thought we were getting the “false tag” spot, but no Nash and DDP still enter as we get a mighty pier sixer.  The rest of ‘the Thrillers’ (Mike Sanders, Chuck Palumbo, Sean O’Haire and Reno) run out from the back and attack ‘the Insiders’,  Johnson bizarrely letting it go and not calling for the DQ or anything.   Douglas wraps a chain around his fist and, as he’s about to nail the General, Johnson hooks his arm to prevent him from doing so.  When he turns around he turns into a powerslam, Rection getting the pin on the man who he’ll be defending against in four days.

We get some final comments from ‘the Thrillers’, Okerlund hoping they did their worse tonight because they’ve got the big one at Sin.  Sanders has words for Ernest Miller, telling him come the PPV he’s going to drop a bombshell on him that he won’t believe.  Just as they leave Stasiak threatens Gene, who says he’ll have his guys from Jersey pay him a visit and inspect his knees!

I was pleased to see ‘the Thrillers’ get some payback after how they were treated on Monday as I feared the worst for them here on seeing who the General’s partners were.  Another pure WCW finish in the way that the DQ was completely ignored on the interference, as was Douglas dropping the fall to Rection just days prior to them facing each other in a singles match at the PPV.

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Promo with Rection and we learn he has The Insiders as backup. Match was a slog as Rection continues to be one of the more unsympathetic FIP’s I can think of in wrestling history. Stasiak also continues to be a chore and 2001 Shane Douglas doesn’t move the needle. As a result, it was a lengthy match that ended with the Thrillers just coming out and attacking the Insiders. Douglas goes for the chain but Rection blocks it with a powerslam and gets the win. How many upset wins did Rection get compared to other more deserving wrestlers? Overall, a poor match. *