Live Feed Mania – WWF Smackdown 09/12/00

WWF @ Phoenix, AZ – America West Arena – September 12, 2000 (sell out)

We’re on the road to Unforgiven, let’s see if Newfound Richard Land has anything worth talking about via another delicious Satellite Feed.

Dark Match!

Horshu vs. Scoot Andrews

This isn’t detailed anywhere online so wow, something resembling an exclusive! And it doesn’t have audio as the production team are testing the pre-tape audio of Eddie Guerrero’s visit to the Playboy Mansion instead.

Andrews is half Horshu’s size but Reigns still takes hip tosses before bodying him with a clothesline. Luther doesn’t look too bad out here which was not always the case. Second rope clothesline gets two as Horshu picks up Scoot’s massive forehead before the ref can finish counting. That takes too much energy out of Horshu who takes some dropkicks before holding the ropes to avoid Scoot’s wrath to win via DDT. And the audio comes back on right at the end so we hear the crowd boo Horshu! Interesting thing to discover. Maybe not for normal people, but still.

Dark Match!

Gangrel & Just Joe vs. The Dupps

Oh I was not ready for Gangrel to make his sweet, career-saving entrance alongside a generic looking guy like Just Joe. It looks like when your Create A Character shows up in a cut-scene. The Dupps are also sadly here.

The audio is very good on this feed as you can hear how insanely squeaky the ring is. As soon as I type that someone in the truck decreases the audio from under the ring and then plays the audio of The Undertaker and The Rock’s pre-tape instead. Joe does some stuff and then Gangrel finishes with an Implant DDT. Crowd popped for Gangrel as they should.

Dark Match!

K-Krush vs. Joey Abs

This is K-Krush’s fourth dark match and he’s already rapping on the way to the ring. He’d get smoother in his delivery. Crowd are very behind K-Kwik because he’s got more energy in his entrance than Abs has in his whole act.

K-Krush lands a handspring Frankensteiner which no-one was expecting and blows the roof off the place before diving over the frigging top rope with a crossbody.

Abs diving powerbombs him for two and if the crowd could remember his name they’d be chanting it by now. Abs (sans Posse gear and looking generic) tries a moonsault but lands on knees, allowing K-Kwik to land his running crossbody he still does to this day. A sit-out facebuster doesn’t end it and the crowd are upset. “Go home, they’re yelling” says ref Teddy Long so K-Kwik lands a top rope leg drop to a big pop.

He’d make his TV debut two months later. Shame he’d get stuck with Road Dogg and then left to be forgotten about but he’d obviously come back way stronger.

Kevin Kelly and Michael Cole make their commentary entrance to Kid Rock because weird old white guys all know each other.

Chimel shills the new Jericho hockey shirt as well as the new “It doesn’t matter…it just doesn’t matter” shirt which I don’t remember.

That is hilariously nihilistic.

“Hey Jabroni, you’re just like values: ultimately baseless! IF YOU SMELLALALALALAAaaaaah what’s the point?”

WWF Light Heavyweight Title

Dean Malenko (w/ women) vs. Crash Holly

Aired on Sunday Night Heat 09/17/00

Giant, throbbing pop for Crash Holly as he challenges Dean who is still doing the ladies man gimmick with the Jimmy Hart version of the James Bond theme. Isn’t a Jimmy Hart James Bond just the 60s Casino Royale?

Crash steps up to the challenge and exchanges some nice pin counters with Dean. Meanwhile Cole and Kelly discuss how drunk the woman behind them are. Dean tries to avoid Crash but he follows so Sexy Dean responds with a hard glare because he can get away with doing that as a spot. And also because he was expecting Crash to do something. Dean works over Crash’s knee pad as the crowd compassionately chant for Elroy. They pop when Crash makes a comeback so I’m getting mixed signals here. Malenko blocks a backdrop but Crash starts getting quick pins for two. Crash gets carried away and jumps into a powerbomb which segues into the Texas Cloverleaf for the instant-tap at 3:24.

Both lads shake hands as that was a perfectly fine three minute title defence on Heat involving Malenko on autopilot. Cole says “that was a hell of a match and I like it when they shake hands afterwards.” Aw Cole, you would have loved ROH.

Kelly and Cole hype up Unforgiven which features HHH vs. Kurt Angle with Mick Foley as the ref. Yeah thanks for reminding me about Steph’s sudden rejection of Angle after building to it for months.

Cole then gets mad at one of the crew members waving his arms around trying to get fans to calm down while Chimel is hyping up the show. “Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do at shows?”

Cole compares Chimel to one of The Sopranos as Kelly reminds us they didn’t sweep at The Emmys for once. “It’s over!” he yells.

Lo Down (D’Lo Brown & Chaz) vs. Kai En Tai (Taka Michinoku & Sho Funaki)

Aired on Sunday Night Heat 09/17/00

Lo Down have custom shirts and a theme song and poses! Almost like a real tag team! Hopefully there’s no drastic changes coming soon to disrupt the work they’ve been putting in.

Kelly explains his booking idea of Kai En Tai borrowing Finkel to get help from the APA but Fink deliberately mistranslates their request as “please don’t come out and help us during this match!” so the APA don’t. Meanwhile, Kai En Tai spend the whole match wondering where the APA are. That’s not a bad idea actually. Like the APA, Cole doesn’t understand.

Healthy crowd pops for both lads despite both being heel. Chaz misses a leg drop so Kai En Tai get their little punches in as they dog pile him. D’Lo tags in to oversell a TAKA superkick so the ref can check on him, allowing Chaz to land THE BURNING HAMMER (delivered very safely). D’Lo assists Chaz in landing an elevated splash before yelling “What’s up with that?” and the crowd react by cheering. Not sure if that’s agreeing or not. TAKA lands a Tornado DDT to hot tag Funaki into cleaning house. Sadly they over-celebrate a camel clutch/basement dropkick leading to TAKA walking directly into a Sky High. Cole enjoyed that. This sets up the Powerplex tribute with D’Lo landing his Frog Splash after Chaz’s superplex for the loud win at 4:51.

Very nice action that showed this team had potential until it didn’t.

Brooklyn Strap Match

Tazz vs. The Brooklyn Brawler

Aired on Sunday Night Heat 09/17/00

Cole isn’t thrilled with seeing Tazz. Just you wait mate. Kelly: “If Brawler gets any bigger he’s going to have be called Two Boroughs.” Ha!

This is to build hype for Tazz’s strap match with Jerry Lawler at Unforgiven which did neither man any favours but Raven made his debut so there’s that. Tazz whips Brawler a bunch of times before Brawler goes low (steady now) and whips him back. Brawler loudly asks the ref if they can home yet. When he’s told no, he replies with a loud “fuck.” Brawler chokes Tazz but misses a clothesline to walk right into the Tazzmission at 2:31.

Tazz says he’s Thug Life born and bred and when the time is right he’ll be Thug Life born and dead. What is with the nihilism on this show? “Beat me if you can, try to find meaning in the pointlessness of life if I let you!”

Kelly tells the off-camera guy to stop waving while they’re doing their hyping “because it’s bothering Mr. Cole.” Kelly’s a true friend.

Chyna heads out to a massive pop. She stays in the middle of the ring not saying anything and the crowd just soak her with love. “Wow” mouths Kelly. Chyna wants to explain that her and Eddy are just fine together. Crowd boos Eddy and the concept of Chyna being in a relationship not involving them. Chyna says Eddy’s not a bad guy even if he makes her cry a lot. Oh now I remember those awkward, unenjoyable backstage moments between these two. Crowd are crazily loud during this though so maybe that’s why they’re cheer- oh Chyna reminds us she’s posing for Playboy and the crowd get even louder. Just when you think nothing can spoil this segment, Naked Mideon runs out. “Jesus Christ” mutters Cole. That moment aside, this was a nice little segment to remind us all how ungodly over Chyna was at her peak.

WWF Women’s Title

Lita (c) vs. Ivory vs. Jackie

Aired on Sunday Night Heat 09/17/00

Giant pop for Lita and her non Essa Rios or Hardy Boyz theme. Kelly calls Jacky the pound-for-pound toughest wrestler in the WWF, as evidenced by Lita planking her directly onto her head with a dodgy headscissors. The other two do their thing before Lita tries to interrupt, resulting in her getting sent flying outside the ring. Jacky lands a horrible crossbody because Ivory moved too close to her that Jacky could barely leave the ground for it. Lita forgets what to do in a spot so Ivory clotheslines her hard. Ivory flies in with a lariat to the shock of the commentators. “Oh my God!” Twist Of Fate sets up the moonsault on Ivory at 2:28.

Lita was very over and very rubbish.

The ring canvas and ropes are changed over while Jerry Lawler makes his entrance. He can’t believe a Women’s Title match headlined Heat. “Was it good?” he asks. We don’t hear an answer.

Lilian sings the Anthem to remind people what country they’re in. Lilian blows kisses to the crowd. Cole asks Lawler why he doesn’t do that once the show is over. He waits until their Dads aren’t looking his way.

SmackDown!

We’re in Phoenix, Arizona for the second time this week for a second straight sell-out. This place is called Phoenix cos the fans are HOT.

Commissioner Mick Foley starts the show. He’s got the slightly updated version of his theme with extra guitar that I never cared for. Foley reminds us that Linda McMahon made him Commish while Vince left WWF to pump some kids into any woman breathing his then-wife. Foley thought he had absolute power but he doesn’t, he still answers to the fans. And he’s not saying that to suck up…cos if he did he’d just say that we were here…IN PHEONIX, ARIZONA for the cheap pop pop.

So for Unforgiven he’s giving us Kurt Angle vs. HHH, and a Fatal Four Way for the WWF Title: The Rock vs. Chris Benoit vs. Kane vs. The Undertaker. All those guys hate each other so he’d better have them blow off steam tonight so they don’t ruin the PPV and he’s forced to book Al Snow in the main event. Everyone boos that. He’s the European Champ, Mick! Why not insult Test? He’s dead.

The Rock shows up to soak up the millions (and millions) of cheers because he’s the coolest thing in the company. The Rock tells Foley that he wipes “a lobster’s left testicle” with what Foley wants because The Rock isn’t put off by three challengers, even if it’s a Four Ho Match. Foley informs The Rock that lobsters don’t have testicles. “I know because I have looked.”

Foley shows some footage from Raw while Rock tries not to smile at Foley’s dumb line. Oh it’s Undi pretending to be tough by spitting chewing tobacco and promising to beat The Rock. Foley says he knows that look, it’s the same one he saw in Undi’s eyes when he threw him off HIAC. Uh-huh.

This brings out Undi to the dulcet tones of Kid Rock. Undi says just because him and The Rock aren’t friends doesn’t mean he’s going to sneak attack him. He does stare directly into Rock’s eyes which worries Chris Benoit enough to wander out accompanied by his four shoulders.

Benoit says whatever Foley’s plan for tonight is it’ll probably suck. Benoit shows a clip of the finish from Undi/Rock vs. Kane/Benoit like he’s Denis Norden. Benoit was being set up for The Last Ride but Kane clotheslined Undi so Benoit won with a Jacknife roll-up. Nice finish! Benoit is a little mad (he’s a little everything) at pinning Undi only for them both to get a title shot. Nice point.

Kane is here and he’s speaking clearer and clearer by the week. Tonight he says to all the people who call him a monster that they’re right. No-one pops so Foley moves on-

No wait, Kurt Angle is here for a bigger pop than Kane. Kurt says WWF Title matches aren’t that important because the title can change hands frequently unlike HIS GOLD MEDALS. So this all pales in comparison to the health of Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley, who was brutally attacked again by her husband Triple H. We get the clip of HHH delivering a back elbow to Steph while trying to grapple with Kurt. Presumably HHH felt the weight behind him and thought Adam Cole was attacking him. “He says he loves his wife but look what he did! It’s true, it’s true!”

Triple H angrily appears and has to be restrained by Foley. So Mick finally reveals his plan for tonight: It’s a night of tag matches! Kurt Angle and Triple H vs. T & A. Both men react badly to this and realise it’s not worth wrestling Test so they shake hands and agree to share Steph instead.

Also Kane & Benoit vs. The Acolytes in an Acolytes Rules Match, with no rules. And Undertaker & Rock vs. The Dudley Boyz in a Tables Match. Kurt adds that not only can the tag partners not attack one another (which Foley didn’t say) he thinks the partner’s spouses shouldn’t be involved either. This angers Triple H but Angle saunters off with a big grin on his face.

Oh this leaves The Rock in the ring with Kane & Benoit who kick the hell out of him with Undi deciding to leave…before his sense of Biker Loyalty kicks in and he evens the playing field by taking out Benoit but leaves Kane alone to chokeslam The Rock. That’s fair.

Well that was a lengthy segment but it was perfect for someone like me dipping in for the first time in decades to have everything laid out and explained as well as the important bits emphasized. Hot crowd helped.

Oh and then there’s an exclusive bit where Foley heads back out to add that if any of the teams start working against one another tonight then they’re out of the Unforgiven match because he forgot to mention it a few minutes ago. Foley then quickly records an overdub backstage that can be inserted into the aired version. I went and watched the Network/Peacock/whatever version and yes, the overdub is obvious if you paying attention. Hey, shit happens.

Acolytes Rules

The Acolytes (Bradshaw & Faarooq) vs. Kane & Chris Benoit

There’s no rules! But you can’t attack your partner. That sounds like a rule.

Benoit is beaten up by The Acolytes to start. Kane eventually brawls with Bradshaw at ringside, allowing Benoit to deliver the German Suplexes and lock in the Crippler Crossface early. Bradshaw saves his drinking buddy and powerbombs Benoit for a lovely reaction. Faarooq lands his big arse spinebuster on Benoit but Kane saves the day. Benoit rewards his loyalty by sodding off and watching The Acolytes batter Kane from the ramp. However it’s 2000 so Kane won’t stay down for any of their moves until Bradshaw lands the God I Wish I Was Stan Hansen lariat and both men hold him down for the victory at 3:45.

Kane ignores it to immediately chase after Benoit who makes like Gary Oldman and Littlelegs out of there. Match served it’s purpose and set the tone for the rest of the night.

Triple H goes to sees Foley in his Zodiac Killer style hide-out. HHH “I know you’ve got head trauma, hell I gave you most of it, but even you can’t justify this!” Foley explains he wants Triple H to take out Angle but he wants to wait until Unforgiven where he can ref it himself and make sure the fans enjoy it. Even in 2000, Triple H was already accepting what was best for (breathes in) BUSINESS.

We get a Eddy/Chyna recap. Eddy attacked Road Dogg in front of Chyna but he apologized and Chyna accepted it. So they team up to take on Too Cool and uh lose clean. Eddy takes it well and attacks both men afterwards with Eddy apologizing again. Chyna tells Eddy she’s posing for Playboy. “Nude photos, my butt! You’re MY Mamacita!!”

So earlier today, Eddy drove his low rider to the Playboy Mansion in an attempt to prevent publication. “Nice crib.”

Eddy does his best to enter the Mansion but the bad actor portraying the security guard tells him no. Eddy expositions about the upcoming Playboy issue and he would hate everyone buying those on the day they get published which is the 25th of October, ese. A second, even more horrible security guard actor shows up and shuts the door. Eddy did his best with the weak material but this didn’t hit because the WWF couldn’t decide if Eddy was a funny liar or an awkward violent sod so they went with “both” and it didn’t gel at the time. Chyna agrees with my assessment as she leaves the building after seeing that segment.

Lawler and Cole excitedly talk about the hot UPN show The Hughleys. Oh wow lasting four seasons on UPN is like Bruno holding the belt for seven years.

Right To Censor show up with their entrance music that will give you legit pain if you listen to it via head-phones like I just was, ow fuck. Steven states that they did not run over Austin because that would be bad. Well thanks for clarifying. New member Val Venis explains to the crowd that selling action figures of a porn star to children was something that even WWF was struggling to defend he realized his decisions weren’t making the world a better place and selective censorship is not wrong. That line wasn’t scripted. Oh right in 2000 he’s referring to scantily clad women. “The WWF is going to change whether it wants to or not!” These segments are fascinating as an insight to Vince’s victim complex.

(in Val Venis promo voice) “Goodbye…singles push heh heh heh.”

Too Cool (Grand Master Sexay & Scotty 2 Hotty) & Rikishi vs. Right To Censor (Bull Buchanan, The Goodfather & Val Venis)

Too Cool are joined by their friends in the battle of freedom of expression: Victoria (yes that Victoria) and Mandy The Ho. Venis is now dressed in all white and looks like a disgruntled ice cream salesman. Venis batters Hotty until Rikishi gets the hot tag after two minutes. Jesus the pop for him is at Austin levels. Rikishi fights off everyone and butt splashes Venis. Sexay lands the Hip Hop Drop on Venis but Bull breaks it up. Bull gets the facebuster and the W-O-R-M chop as the crowd loses it’s mind.

Steven enters the match but gets thrown in the corner to take THE ASS. But then Eddy runs in to mace Rikishi because he’s a comedy evil heel. This allows Venis get the win after a…Blue Thunder Bomb of all things at 3:47. Quick someone let Simon Miller know.

Match was all about playing the hits before Venis got to win in his debut repackage.

T & A talk backstage. Albert asks Test if he’s ready to take on the man who stole his wife. “You mean my leftovers?” No he means your push.

Lugz presents: HHH elbowing his wife. Oh I bet Lugz loved being involved in a bit of spousal abuse being associated with their product. He could have at least booted her.

Kurt Angle & Triple H vs. T & A (Test & Albert)

Angle heads out second and his pyro is so late he’s nearly out of the frame when it goes off haha. Triple H allows Kurt to start and is immediately clotheslined by Albert. Triple H applauds this.

No wonder Albert got that cushy NXT job. Kurt desperately tags in Triple H because he doesn’t want to wrestle Test (understandable). Triple H suplexes Test and then tags in Kurt via chop. Kurt takes it out on Test by delivering an overhead belly-to-belly as the crowd lets Kurt know he sucks. Kurt and HHH nearly come to blows but Test interrupts and attacks because that was the dumbest thing he could have done. Albert can’t take on the might of Triple H so Trish trips Tripper, which angers Steph enough to make her entrance. Kurt has a very impressed look on his face. Test delivers the Gutwrench Powerbomb but HHH kicks out cos that used to be Test’s finish. Test yells “you’re next, bitch!” at Steph to no pop. HHH takes T & A’s double teams until Steph tries to trip Test, leading to Trish and Steph going at it. Kurt breaks it up and hugs Steph, leading to HHH very nearly hitting Kurt with Angle BEGGING him for it. Instead, Test lands Uncle Slam and FUCKIN PINS HHH at 5:49. Oh wow.

I thought that was Test’s only pin over HHH but it turns out he beat him on Raw in 1999 and Smackdown in 2002. Huh. Like the other matches tonight, this was all about the story and what a tale it was.

Tazz goes to see Foley, who asks him “Hey Tazz, has the mood changed yet?” and I had to pause to laugh. Tazz wants out of the contract and wants out of this place. (Fun fact: Tazz didn’t know the cameras were on here). Foley shills his new Christmas book which angers Tazz into quitting. Foley gives him a match with Lawler at Unforgiven with the idea that none of them can touch until then. Foley does a Darth Vader impression with Tazz pretending to find it amusing. What a weird segment. Tazz’s pushes were stopping and starting so frequently I’m surprised he wasn’t kangaroo jumping down the aisle.

T & A celebrate with champagne. “Gold medalist my ass, he’s a Bronze at best!”

The WWF Tag Team Champs Edge & Christian are here to worry Phoenix because they’re not used to having winning sports teams in front of them. “Yeah that was funny” dead-pans Cole. Edge’s mic doesn’t work so he launches it outside where it emits a loud crunch. Edge carries on with Christian’s mic in a moment that was 100% edited out. E & C also say they didn’t run over Austin because it was “Heinosity To The Max” and if they had a time machine they’d go back and prevent it. Oh wait, they DO have a time machine! So because they’re so sick of beating The Hardys every week they want to face the version of them from the future.

“To see if they’ve learned anything?”

“No, to say if they’ve learned how to talk!”

OK that was a good jab.

So The Hardy Boyz of 2050 show up, played by old men. Christian asks if they still spell things with Zs instead of Ss. That was the one good line as the rest is “ha look how old you are.” Then Lita from the future shows up. Lawler loves it. “Even her tattoo has aged! I’m afraid her body has been introduced to gravity!” She yells that she loves prunes to no pop. Edge explains that everyone knows that Lita “will do a Hardy for anything…i mean anything for a Hardy.” Edge said this. E & C get ready to spear the old folks but Foley saves them by making their Unforgiven match a cage match. Foley does them no favours by clarifying to the crowd that those weren’t the real Hardyz, and then Team Xtreme run out to double suplex the champs. E & C are so good in their current roles they could even salvage this rotten idea. The idea that The Hardyz are making it to 2050 was the best joke of the whole thing.

At WWF New York, Perry and Terri have a date. I can’t believe that place went out of business

WWF Hardcore Title

Steve Blackman vs. Perry Saturn

Perry and Terri was a pretty forgettable team-up. I only remember Perry dumping her for Moppy because she was less wooden.

While Blackman’s making his entrance, Tazz appears in the crowd behind Lawler throwing popcorn and holding up a big orange sign with his name on it. “Made it Ma, I’m on SmackDown!”

Saturn starts the match with a crazy tope directly into a bin lid. Bloody hell. All the while, Tazz is yelling and telling fans “yeah I lost to Blackman but so what? He’s tough!”

Terri jumps on Blackman’s back allowing Perry to brain Steve and send him over the guardrail with bin lid shots. Blackman lands a crazy flying kick off the guardrail and appears to land badly. We keep cutting back to Tazz yelling J.R.-isms at Lawler. Tazz tells Cole to call Saturn’s Northern Lights Suplex correctly. He doesn’t. Terri holds Blackman so Perry can land a beautiful Asai Moonsault. And then Blackman kicks him in the bin as he flies off the top to retain at 2:51.

Tazz throws his popcorn onto the fan next to him before bopping Cole over the head with his sign while yelling “Hardcore Match!” If Tazz had stayed as an annoying little get instead of feuding with commentators his run could have been salvaged. Anyway match was fun chaos with the daft Tazz moments helping.

Undi spits some chewing tobacco out in front of Kevin Kelly because he’s a bad ass and tells Rock not to piss him off. How, by asking you to not spit your shit on the floor?

RC MAXIMUM POWER COLA presents the two moves Lita is able to do properly.

X-Pac & WWF Tag Team Champions Edge & Christian vs. Chris Jericho, Matt & Jeff Hardy

While E & C head out, security throw Tazz out. Took them long enough. Wrestlemania X7 would have been off the air by the time security got to Tommy Dreamer.

Don’t know why we’re doing this match after we’ve already had the segment earlier. X-Pac attacked Jericho on Raw with nun-chucks so Jericho is in no mood to be polite with him and his team-mates sneak attacking their long haired opponents. Deafening Y2J chants as Jericho pounds away until Christian tags in to save his life. Jericho is well above X-Pac right now but it’s only Unforgiven and everyone else is busy so it could be worse, he could be beefing with Painter & Decorator Val Venis.

X-Pac lands the Bronco Buster on Matt Hardy but Lita didn’t take kindly to Edge’s words earlier so she crotches him. Uh against the ring post. Hot tag to Jericho leads to Jeff busting out the twisting body press as Cole triumphantly yells “he calls that the Whisper In The Wind!” Jeff and Matt land “The Poetry In Motion!” as Lawler asks if they have a stupid name for every move as Matt lands the “Twist of Fate!” to set up…X-Pac winning with the X-Factor because he was legal at 3:53.

A bunch of very hot moves between a bunch of very hot wrestlers and to give X-Pac something in his feud with Jericho. Oh and to get the new names of those moves over.

And then Lawler explains…oh God it’s The Smackdown Challenge.

WWF dare Al Gore and George W. Bush to come to Smackdown for a debate moderated by Jesse Ventura. Uh huh. We get some useless interviews with wrestling fans saying “yeah it’d be cool if this happened.” This made WWF look like a bunch of needy bitches.

Oh in another moment that didn’t make the broadcast, a lovely British gentleman calling himself Steven William Regal shows up to declare himself a goodwill ambassador for the good American people. He shows the uncultured crowd good eating etiquette. Regal explains you don’t need a rose, a pansy will do. I love these subtle moments. Crowd boos the honourable man’s good intentions and he waves them all cheerio. Well that was nice, some pre-debut Regal!

The Rock vents to Lilian Garcia that he can’t trust Undi, the cameraman or even Lilian herself. Rock asks Lilian if she likes pie. She says she does and Rock is like “ah I thought so.” I did not understand all this pie talk as a child. As an adult I’m still unsure.

Tables Match

WWF World Champion The Rock & The Undertaker vs. The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray & D-Von)

Bubba’s wind-up punches and chops keep Rock at bay until he remembers who he is. Undi lands Old School (still known as “Vintage Undertaker!”) until D-Von distracts him. The Duds isolate The Rock so they can land the WHASSUP headbutt and GET THE TABLES as I realise how much of this show is a singalong. Table gets set up in the corner and Rock tries to whip him into it so Bubba charges into D-Von to prevent it. Nice strategy. The Rock lands Rock Bottom but misses the table cos D-Von moved it. I like the teasing here and the crowd are biting on all of it.

Undi tries for a chokeslam on D-Von but The Rock accidentally Irish Whips Bubba into him, cutting him off. Rock gets sent outside so Undi the dumb-dumb mouths off at him to get up, turning around and walking directly into a 3D through a table for the loss at 6:31. Simple dumb fun.

The Rock walks into the ring to presumably apologise for the loss but Undi chokeslams him through a table and then drives his push bike up the stage.

Overall: Well that was a shit-load of words for a very fun live feed of a period of wrestling that had me glued to the TV screen every Saturday morning.

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