Diesel vs Virgil
I had so few expectations for this match, so I was pretty
pleased to see Diesel properly go at Virgil with some aggression at the start
of the match. Also enjoyed Virgil’s armwork when he took control. Against Jeff
Jarrett a few weeks earlier, he’d been content to just hold Jarrett by the
wrist, but here he did some fun little bits, twisting it over the ropes and
hitting a top rope ax handle to the shoulder. Of course, from there it all goes
to shit, as Diesel slows things down, locking in THREE separate bear hugs.
Virgil makes a brief spirited comeback but it gets ended by a big boot and a
Jackknife for the win.
Thurman “Sparky” Plugg vs Barry Horowitz
Fairly pointless match, highlighted by the commentary team
ignoring it for its entire runtime in favour of a chat with Mr Perfect. This
was fairly enjoyable, though it’s odd that Horowitz had the best looking move
of the match with a nice inverted DDT. The future Bob Holly was fairly
pedestrian here, before winning with a top rope kneedrop.
The Quebecers vs Men On A Mission
This match was the result of an audience phone in, where the
viewers could pick MoM, the Bushwhackers or the Smoking Gunns for this title
match. They could have voted better, but then they could also have voted worse.
This was a bit of a mess, to be honest, not aided by some overly fussy
refereeing by Earl Hebner. It really hurt the match from as his insistence on
clearing everyone from the ring hindered the drama on the nearfalls. I did
enjoy some of this, largely due to the Quebecers. Loved Jacques’ intelligence
as he eyepoked big Mabel and kept kicking at his legs to try and knock down the
redwood, and there were some nice Quebecer double teams – a double stungun on
Mo and a nice rocket launcher shoulder block that sent Pierre hurtling at Mabel
from the top rope. Mabel had some fun fat guy offence, but Mo stinks as usual
and the aforementioned Hebner refereeing prevent this from being a good bout.
The Quebecers picked up the win with the assisted cannonball.
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