[2001-01-13-OVW-TV] Nick Dinsmore vs Rico Constantino

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Constantino is making his return to the ring after suffering an injury in a match with Flash back in July.  After what we witnessed last week, returning with a new attitude too.  Non-title match, which angers him, although Cornette explains that he hasn’t had a match in five months so will have to work his way up the ladder.  The hyping of Dinsmore taking on Chris Benoit at Christmas Chaos continues, ‘Mr Wrestling’ even styling his offense after some of ‘the Cripplers’. Dinsmore counters the Cobra clutch and reverses into another crossface, forcing Rico to grab the ropes for the break.  Constantino takes a powder on the outside, drags Dinsmore out with him and the two exchange knife edge chops.  Up on the apron, Dinsmore goes to slams Rico’s head into the turnbuckle but he blocks it and instead slams the champion’s into the metal turnbuckle hook.  Rico pulls the padding down from around his knee brace and drops a leg across ‘Mr Wrestling’s’ throat.  Face first suplex.  He signals for the Cobra clutch but is dumped with a belly to back before he gets the chance to lock it in.  Dinsmore fires back with some rights followed by running shoulder tackle.  Missile dropkick off the top, however as Rico falls backwards he collides into Robert Brisco knocking him down.  There’s our first ref bump in OVW for 2001.  Dinsmore holds the German suplex, when out comes Mr Black and Kenny Bolin.  The two put the boots in and as Brisco comes around he sees what’s happening and calls for the bell.  Rico stares at Bolin, his former arch enemy, pulls him off Dinsmore, only to then start stomping a mud hole in him himself.  Flash makes the save, but Black drags Rico from the ring to safety before he can really get his hands on him.

I wonder if OVW will be higher or lower than 40% this year when it comes to ref bumps for the year?  Not surprising that we see the best wrestling on this week’s show from two of the strongest wrestlers in the promotion.

[soup23]

Good action here until the bullshit finish. Enough of this shit. I liked what OVW had last week but it looks like we are back to the same over bloated stuff again.  Rico was a good heel in the match and Dinsmore comeback was fun with the flying forearm. Once again when Rico, joins Bolin services, Cornette says “ I never thought” for the second time in one show. This was a shame as this could have been really fun with a good finish. **1/4