1. Chavo Guerrero, Jr. defeats Kaz Hayashi
Kaz draws decent heel heat, and Chavo looks to be having a good time.
Chavo wins the match when he counters a back drop with the tornado
DDT. Nice little match.
2. Mona defeats Brandi Alexander, with Asya
Crowd seemed to like the ladies match, with a big reaction when Mona
took off her evening gown-type skirt. Mona wins when Brandy hits the
cross-body block off the top turnbuckle, but Mona rolls through for
the roll-up pin.
3. Dean Malenko, with Shane Douglas defeats Steven Regal with Dave
Taylor
Crowd really popped for the Revolution, finishing the catch phrase
right on cue. Very nice back and forth scientific match, with two
excellent workers, till the semi-schmozz finish. Taylor whacks Douglas
with the flagpole on the floor after a ref bump. Regal then tries to
hold Dean while Taylor pulls back with the flag, but Douglas makes the
save, and Malenko clocks Regal with the flag and holds him down for
the pin. Not bad at all.
4. Kidman defeats Juvi
5. Chris Benoit defeats The Barbarian, in a World TV Title defense
6. Konnan/Rey Rey defeat the Windhams, with Curt Hennig
7. Goldberg defeats U.S. Champion Sid Vicious in a non-title match
Crowd really into this match. Lots of the usual Kidman/Juvy spots,
with each one teasing their finishers but getting crotched on the top
turnbuckle. The finish came when they were jockeying for position on
the top buckle, and Kidman did a neat little sunset flip/powerbomb
maneuver and held on the the three-count. Nice match, but I was
disappointed at no 450 or shooting star press.
Benoit's opponent was scheduled to be Ric Flair. With Flair's problems
with Bischoff, I thought he would not be there. Then, when he returned
to TV, I thought he would be back. Then, when the time comes, we get
Barbarian instead. *sigh* The crowd loves Benoit, and he sells
Barbarian's power moves like crazy, then when Barbarian goes for a
suplex, Benoit spins through for the Crippler Cross-face out of
nowhere for the submission win. Would have much much much preferred
Flair. *sigh*
Pretty typical Konnan/Rey spots, with typical heel moves from the
Rednecks. The Windhams use their size and power advantages over Rey,
till he gets the hot tag to Konnan. Konnan and Barry dump out to the
outside, and Rey gets the advantage over Kendall and goes for the
Broncobuster. However, Hennig gets the cowbell in on Rey as he hits the
buster, and Kendall rolls up Rey. Then, with the ref over with Konnan
and Barry, Kidman runs in and flips the rollup, just in time for the
ref to count it down. Crowd had great heel heat for the Rednecks
(although they did sing along to Rap Is Crap) and a great response to
Rey and Konnan too. And Hennig played to the crowd like a champ.
Two questions: How can you have a run-in DQ ending for the main event
of a house show? AND, Why do you bother announcing that the match is
non-title if you're gonna schmozz the ending anyway? I really thought
that they would have a clean pin for Goldberg over Sid, under the "if
it doesn't happen on TV it didnt count" rule, especially when Penzer
said the match was NOT for the US strap. But it was not to happen. The
crowd popped like crazy for Sid, and they went bananas for Goldy. Sid
stalled like crazy throughout. They actually had a little psychology
in the match, with Sid getting the headlock on GB, GB tossing him off
to the ropes, and Sid selling GB's power on the collision coming off
the ropes. Sid sold the crash a little more every time, with GB taking
Sid off his feet to a big pop after that. Sid offers the Test of
Strength to GB, then stalls some more, after which GB holds his own
hand up for the lockup. The action picked up after that, with GB
getting the over-the-shoulder powerslam on Sid, then setting up for
the Spear. Then Rick Steiner runs in for the DQ, to the huge
disappointment of the fans. Sid goes for the powerbomb, but GB gets
the nut shot on Sid to escape. Sid tumbles out, and GB nails Steiner
with the Spear and Jackhammer.
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