[2001-01-31-WCW-Thunder] Chuck Palumbo & Sean O'Haire vs Big Vito & Johnny the Bull

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Tension is brewing in the ‘Natural Born Thrillers’ camp.  We see a clip from a previous bout where Palumbo & O’Haire’s interference inadvertently cost Jindrak & O’Haire a match against the Mamalukes and Tony Schiavone talks about the teams’ problems, unsure whether they’re down to pure jealousy or just personal pride. 

I like how Palumbo shakes out his arm after dishing out some forearms, always a nice touch when someone does that.  Non-title match by the way.  Johnny is laying his stuff in and the Mamalukes with a huge double spinebuster for a two.  Vito plays to the crowd allowing O’Haire to fire out the corner with a knee to the gut and then pepper his ribs with quick fire punches.  He can’t continue the attack and the Mamalukes are soon back at it with their double team combinations.  Wow!  Johnny gorilla presses O’Haire overhead with ease.  That was seriously impressive.  O’Haire reverses the Irish whip and hot shots Johnny across the top rope as ‘the Thrillers’ take over.  Palumbo is at it again, selling his fist on the punches.  Big ‘Alabama slam’ after Johnny tried a tip up.  There’s a bit of a screw up by the champs on a double team which gets a few noticeable cat calls from the crowd.  Johnny counters the side headlock with a belly to back and both crawl to their corners to make the tag.  Vito is in with the first blows, planting O’Haire with a side slam.  Double arm suplex on Palumbo.  A Johnny spinning kick sends O’Haire to the floor where the two continue to go at it.  The ‘Vito Special’ for a two; so special because it never gets the job done!  He ducks a clothesline but then gets floored with a Jungle Kick.  O’Haire, who had got the better of things on the outside, comes off the top with the ‘Seanton bomb’ and as Tony says “nobody gets up from that!”

Stasiak & Jindrak make their way to ringside post-match wanting words.  Stasiak congratulates them on an impressive win, but in doing so deliberately gets their names wrong.  Although they are from the same team, he has a proposal for them, continuing in claiming that Jindrak carried O’Haire when they were tag team champions just like he carried Palumbo.  O’Haire cuts him off and says that they may be from the same group but he’s hated him since day one.  If they want a title shot, they can have it at Superbrawl.  Stasiak suggests putting the dissension behind them until then, however they attempt to jump the champs when they turn their back but don’t fare too well, coming up on the short end of things.