[2001-01-14-WCW-Sin] Jung Dragons vs Jamie Noble & Evan Karagias

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An unadvertised match, apparently involving four guys who came to the building not knowing they were going to wrestle.  When it comes to unadvertised matches this isn’t a bad one to have.  Karagias and Kaz start things off at break neck pace.  As Evan tries for a bodyscissors, Kaz powers him with this gorgeous release wheelbarrow suplex.  Noble gets taken down with a headscissors before a pair of dropkicks from the Dragons send their opponents to the outside.  Stereo Asai moonsaults.  Noble counters the attempted powerbomb with an armdrag as he and Yang work at a pace on a par with their partners.  Yang backdrops Noble out over onto the apron, but he then leaps up, hooks Yang under the armpits and brings him out of the ring too, falling backwards himself in doing so.  Kaz blocks the superplex and reverses it into a face first suplex, however as he comes off the top with a crossbody Karagias takes his breath away by dropkicking him in the chest.  Double team side slam/guillotine legdrop.  Combination drop toe hold/baseball slide dropkick for a two.  Evan presses Kaz overhead, drops then catches him, turning it into a spinebuster.  That looked fantastic.  Scoop powerslam.  There’s a slight stumble on the quebrada although he’s still able to execute, Kaz rolling out the way to avoid the impact.  Karagias makes the tag and Noble’s first port of call is to nail Yang on the apron to stop Kaz doing the same.  Kaz rolls through on the sunset flip and boxes Noble’s ears with a kick around the side of his head.  He finally makes the tag and Yang is a ball of pent up energy in there.  Dragon screw leg whip wrenches Noble’s knee.  He turns his attention to Karagias and drills him with ten punches in the corner.  He backflips off him but is caught in a Noble German.  After a dropkick sends Kaz out to the floor, Karagias wipes him out with a springboard crossbody.  Noble sits Yang upstairs, he though blocks the top rope rana and turns it into a superbomb, Evan back inside in the nick of time to save his partner.  ‘Rude Awakening’ neckbreaker, 450 splash and now it’s Kaz saving his partner.  That pattern continues after first a Kaz slingshot DDT and then a Noble tombstone piledriver.  Yang fails to find his target on the corkscrew moonsault.  Noble looks to be setting him for a brainbuster when he unexpectedly gets small packaged for the pin.  The commentators make a big deal that after everything we saw it was a small package that bought an end to the contest.

An awesome sprint with everyone looking outstanding.  This has been some start to the PPV so far.

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 Some slop from Yang and Karagias but otherwise this is one of the better spotfest WCW has produced in a while. Noble and Moore in particular were on point and delivered some intricate and amazing spots throughout this. The pace kept up and even when they did screw up like the finish Yang covered up for it quickly. Overall a great start to the ppv. ***1/2 (6.9)