[2001-03-05-WCW-Nitro] Sean O'Haire vs Lex Luger

[GSR]

O’Haire is ou for some payback for what Totally Buff did to Chuck Palumbo last week on Thunder after his victory over Disqo.  Luger is dawdling like nobodies business as he makes his way to the ring.  He gets the jump on O’Haire but is every bit as lethargic in his attack as he was on his entrance.  There is zero effort on the cover and even less when he misses the elbow drop.  I would guess there is every likelihood Lex is doing the job here!  O’Haire with those short arm clotheslines before firing some shots into Luger’s ribs.  He runs into a big boot and Lex with a running forearm to the face.  We’re reminded, like most times, how there is a steel plate inside that forearm.  Luger would rather flex than cover his man, belatedly doing so.  After being whipped into the corner O’Haire runs up the turnbuckles and backflips off the top but his knee gives out on landing.  Lex stomps at that knee while Chuck Palumbo rushes out to check on his partner. After Luger kicks Palumbo off, Chucky pulls him to the floor and starts attacking him.  Rather than calling for the bell and DQ’ing O’Haire, referee Billy Silverman is counting Luger out the ring!!!  Buff Bagwell is out next and into the ring, using a chair on O’Haire’s bad knee and then bringing it down across his back.  Silverman misses all of this too.  Eventually he spots him, IN THE RING, WITH A FOREIGN OBJECT AND INVOLVING HIMSELF IN THE MATCH, yet still fails to disqualify anyone!  Not that this was any good to begin with due to Luger, but it’s turned into an outright disaster.  Bagwell accidentally takes out Luger with the Blockbuster and O’Haire hits the Seanton bomb for the win.  Post-match Buff does catch O’Haire with the Blockbuster, before Palumbo, who had been decked moments earlier off camera, running Totally Buff out of there.

Luger’s effort, more like his lack of effort, was pathetic.  Billy Silverman looked like an incompetent fool, first not DQ’ing O’Haire for Palumbo’s interference and then allowing everything that followed.  Rewind to the first match of the night when Rick Steiner was disqualified for Scott’s interference, everything here was far worse.  Just a lack on consistency.  If I didn’t already know how the match at the PPV goes my expectations would be diminishing the closer we get.