[2001-03-03-IWA-MS-Nightmare on Highway 62] Spike Dudley vs Mitch Page

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Mean Mitchell has got some female manager/valet with him.  Page jumps Spike before the bell and immediately starts pounding away on him.  Both men miss charges into the corner, Spike doing himself more damage than Mitch, as he went flying between the turnbuckles into the ring post and then crashed to the concrete.  They go at it on the floor, Spike picking up a chair which he cracks over Page’s head.  He’s not finished with that chair, climbing to the top rung and jumping off with another shot.  One of the two busted Mitch open.  After breaking a light tube over his back, he grabs a second, this time though Page gets in beforehand  with a shot to the gut.  He tells the crowd to part and then hurls Spike into the chairs wiping rows of them out, the second match that has happened in tonight already.  Spike finds a barbed wire crown from somewhere and uses that.  Plancha from the top turnbuckle to the floor.  They make their way to the back of the arena where Page launches Spike into one of the walls.  He sets up a table at ringside before returning to his opponent.  Barbed wire covered 2x4, vacuum cleaner, all sorts are being used here.  Page lands a big backdrop and then teases that he’s going to throw Spike into the crowd, like Bam Bam Bigelow would do in their ECW matches.  All four sides of the building are chanting “over here”.  As he’s about to, Spike wriggles free and grabs him for the Acid Drop but Page blocks that and levels him with a clothesline.  Spike fights off the superplex, biting Mitch, who falls backwards to the mat.  Double foot stomp off the top!  Again he looks for the Acid Drop, this time though Page dumps him over the top and through that table he’d set up earlier.  The slack cover allows Spike to get a shoulder up.  A huge Last Ride powerbomb folds him up and there’s no kicking out this time.  I had genuinely forgotten all about that valet until seeing her again as Page is leaving.  Spike gets a big standing ovation, still selling the back of his head, as he leaves.

A decent enough brawl although not something that I could ever recommend someone going out of their way to watch.  This was Spike’s farewell to the Indies as he would debut on Raw in just over a fortnight’s time helping his “brothers” in a match against Edge & Christian.