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New feature for this week for all my Review topics, I'll post old recaps of the main event or a featured match or a major angle development from each show. Of course recaps for some shows are a pain in the ass to find even on Google so sometimes the recap isn't going to be very good. 1993 - CRZ, slashwrestling.com Martyr Jannetty v. Bam Bam Bigelow for the Intercontinental Title - The Fink has the night off apparently, as Bill Dunn is behind the mic tonight (Bill is the regular "Wrestling Challenge" announcer). I didn't know his name before tonight, so if I spell it wrong, sue me. Jannetty brings Sensational Sherri to the ring, so Bammer brings Luna Vachon with *him*. Sherri jumps Vachon before anyone knows anything. Jannetty goes over to restrain her, and while he takes her back to his corner, Bigelow jumps Jannetty. Bigelow takes control and is hyped as "the favorite" in this match. Jannetty comes back with a series of tomahawk chops, the last from the top rope. Jannetty works until meeting with a headbutt. Jannetty flips all the way over during a Bigelow backdrop attempt, but meets up with a bearhug for his efforts. While in the bearhug, Bigelow drives Jannetty into the corner multiple times. The women have done nothing so far, and don't do a great job as window dressing either. Jannetty hits a flying head scissors (doesn't look too great), hits a second flying head scissors (looks much better), and before he does the third one, Bigelow drops the both of them to the canvas. Since Jannetty is higher, his back hurts much more. We take an ad break. When we come back, Marty is in a chinlock. Jannetty is blinded by a vicious eye rake. Bigelow with dropkick. 1, 2, foot on the rope. Marty is whipped into the corner, but puts up his legs to take the big man down. Jannetty has a flurry and gets a 2 count. Two chops and a dropkick, and another 2 count. Bam Bam retaliates with a full nelson into a shoulderbreaker. Bigelow bounds to the ropes, but Sherri (finally!) grabs Bigelow, blatantly cheating. Bigelow turns around and grabs Sherri, by the hair. Jannetty takes Bigelow out. Bigelow is outside the ring, and Jannetty does some aerial thing to meet him. They flail away on the outside. Bigelow gets the upper hand and throws Jannetty in, but thanks to Sherri, Bigelow misses the 10 and gets counted out. Bigelow isn't done, though. Enraged, he takes out Jannetty with a slam and the back BUTT drop . The commentators think Bammer just broke one of Jannetty's ribs. Luckily, a timely intervention of WWF officials prevents further harm. Sherri rushes to Marty's aid, and indeed Marty is clutching his abs. 1994 - CRZ, slashwrestling.com The King's Court with WWF Champeen Bret Hart - Hart seems to have a new arrangement wrt his theme music. Of course, I think I liked the old version better. Lawler goads Hart until Hart gets ready to bop him one, when Lawler brings out Diesel and Shawn Michaels (aka Big Daddy Cool and the Heartbreak Kid). Hart does some jawing, Diesel does some jawing, Hart starts to respond but Michaels interrupts, and as Hart turns to listen to Michaels, Diesel delivers a right. Then a jackknife. Then, Diesel, Michaels, and Lawler beat the living tar out of Hart until the prerequisite semi full of WWF Officials restore some order. Diesel poses with both belts. 1995 - Kevin James Podsiadlik, RSPW message boards Jeff Jarrett (w/Roadie) vs. Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer), non-title match And the lights, which where pretty dim for Jarrett's entrance, go completely out. There's an eerie feeling about, and AAAAHHH!!! Don't do that, JJ!! Turn yourself off next time, please! At any rate, while the Undertaker makes his way to ringside, there is plenty of time for McMahon to rub it in again by once again announcing Wrestlemania XI -- the Broadcast Special. Only $0.00, don't bother calling your local cable company for availability. The match begins, JJ and the Roadie are having a last second discussion, and hey, where are you going, Roadie? Jarrett works out the answer just in time to avoid the Undertaker's initial onslaught. After thinking it over carefully, Jarrett decides to duck out of the ring completely. 'Taker follows, so Jarrett runs around to another side and gets back in. 'Taker continues his dogged pursuit, and on entry yields Jarrett the opening he was looking for. A whip with an eye to a back body drop goes very wrong, as it is Jarrett who gets dumped on his back. Undertaker takes Jarrett into the corner for a chokehold, which the referee gently asks if the Undertaker would terribly mind breaking, please? 'Taker complies and does two cross-corner whips instead, then takes Jarrett's hand asks asks if he can have this dance, an offer which Jarrett can hardly refuse. Undertaker takes it up on the ropes, where Jarrett is loath to follow, and after his famous ropewalk lands it on Jarrett's shoulder. Then a very deliberate headbutt, after which the Undertaker comes off the ropes...and the Roadie deciding he really needs to play a part in this, and tries tripping up the Reaper. It not only fails to get the Undertaker down, though, but doesn't even distract him long enough for Jarrett to take advantage, as 'Taker is back in with a kick to the gut, then a scoop and slam, and a elbow drop, which finally misses. Side out, and it's Jarrett's serve. Jarrett with a big clothesline, but we all know what the Undertaker does with clotheslines. Flip outside the ring, land on your feet, helloooooooooo Roadie. And say hello to my hand around your throat. Jarrett is quick to come to the rescue with an axehandle to the Undertaker's back. Jarrett tries to quickly think of how it is you kill a zombie. Is it flinging his head into steel steps? Well, it can't hurt to try. It doesn't seem to quite work, but Jarrett gets back in to await developments while the Roadie gets back with a few choice stomps. Undertaker tries to get back in once, Jarrett kicks him back out. The second time, Jarrett decides not to interfere, and instead waits until he is inside and uses him for a makeshift trampoline. The Undertaker finally rises, and Jarrett measures him up for a dropkick. 'Taker is staggered, so Jarrett reads another one, and this one drops the Man from the Darkside. A cover gets a two-count. Jarrett positions the Undertaker on the ropes for a little choking of his own, following by the Bossman sit. Then JJ goes up and sits on the turnbuckle, and waits for the Undertaker to rise and set himself up from a flying clothesline. Cover...2 1/2. The moment seems to be slipping away, so Jarrett changes gears and starts working on the Undertaker's legs. McMahon sees a figure-four in the Undertaker's future, and some commercials in ours. -- ad break -- And as we return, Jarrett is putting the finishing touches on a leg job well done, with a couple of elbows to the thigh, and the signal for the figure-four, which is applied without any dissent from his opponent. So what happens now, one wonders. It's terribly unlike the Undertaker to react to pain or anything like that, so we could be in for one long showdown, unless, say, Jarrett does something stupid like cheat at this point. Sure enough, the Roadie offers his hand in ineffectual leverage, and Jarrett takes it. Then it occurs to Paul Bearer: you know, in all my years in the WWF, I've never beaten anyone up before... And so, Bearer removes his jacket and starts after the Roadie. This provides plenty of distraction for the referee, but just by chance, he happens to glance at the match he's supposed to be refereeing and notices Jarrett hanging from the middle rope. And thus Jarrett himself finds the only way the Undertaker was ever going to get out of that figure-four leglock. Undertaker rises, staggers about, but manages to stay on his feet. Backing into the corner, he puts on his impression of Bob Holly, kicking away at two attempts of Jarrett to approach. Another choke hold, then a cross-corner whip. Jarrett stumbles out of the corner, and flukes his way to a neckbreaker! One stomp, then a series of punches on the prone Undertaker, set the stage for Jarrett's once again taking a seat on the top turnbuckle, and this time a flying elbow drop. Jarrett decides this would be a perfect time for his trademark strut. The Undertaker says, as long as we're on the subject of trademarks, let me show you mine. I call it the Zombie Situp. Back on his feet again, Undertaker blocks a punch, and delivers two of his own, followed by a kick and a whip. Jarrett reverses the whip, and the Undertaker, grateful for the added momentum, hits a flying clothesline. Still a bit wobbly, 'Taker gives Jarrett another cross-corner whip, whereupon JJ shows he learned something from Holly, too. After kicking Undertaker momentarily away, Jarrett takes his seat one more time on the top turnbuckle... and jumps straight into the Undertaker's choke hold. To make matters worse, it turns into a choke slam, and is followed, after due deliberation, by another choke slam. The Undertaker staggers about a bit more; or was that a subtle parody of Jarrett's strut? No matter, the Undertaker whips his hair out of his face, and by now it's clear that it's all over. A hand across the throat is the signal, and the tombstone piledriver is duly executed. Three slaps of the mat later, and it's officially Mabel vs. the Undertaker in the first match of the KotR tournament. The Roadie, not eager to see his meal ticket stuffed into a body bag, is quick to pull Jarrett out of the ring, and lead him back to better days. 1996 - Kevin James Posiadilk, RSPW message boards TMTC Vader (w/Jim Cornette) vs. Ahmed Johnson, in a KotR match *snip* The basic problem we have here, is that we have two guys who do not know how to lose. Which means one of them is going to have to learn quickly, or we're going to have a quarter of the KotR bracket totally empty. Well, let's see how it pans out. First lockup, nothing. Second lockup, Ahmed gets pushed back, but keeps his balance, and goes on to win the subsequent posedown. At this point Ahmed gets in Vader face with a little jive. Vader responds with a spit. Ahmed dwells in the serenity of it all for nearly a second, and then goes completely berserk. Shades of Phineas Godwinn (minus the mule kicks), and all in all, Vader is lucky to only end up on his rear end in the corner. Once cooler heads prevail (cooler in the sense that Mercury is cooler than the Sun), and Vader is back on his feet, Ahmed resumes his Desert Storm-style assault, complete with outright chokes. The referee being slow to offer intervention, Vader takes matters into his own hands with a couple of eye pokes. And now with the situation reversed, Vader starts to slap Ahmed around. Then a cross-corner whip, Ahmed bounces out... and nails Vader with a clothesline! Not an everyday occurrence, but then again, Ahmed is not your everyday wrestler. Nor would you want him to be. For an encore, Ahmed leaps at Vader for a flying body press, and both men tumble out of the ring! "Unbelievable, I can't believe what I just saw." And what's that, Owen? "Vader without his face mask." As Ahmed bundles The Unmasked Man They Call Vader, Jim Cornette decides now would be a good time to get in a cheap shot to the back of Ahmed's head with the tennis racket. Jim Cornette's decision is wrong. There *is* no good time to make a cheap shot to the back of Ahmed's head with something so lightweight as a tennis racket. Cornette makes up for the previous bad decision with a much better one, a decision to go make some pressing phone calls, preferably from a pay phone in some other town. Ahmed follows, again at the Undertaker-like pace, and surely would be risking a countout if not for the convenient occurrence of an -- ad break -- First a replay of the gigantic collision from earlier on, and then back to live. Apparently over the commercial break, Ahmed has taken a crash course on how to sell an opponent's moves, as a knee lift to the chest provokes an appropriate response from Johnson, that of considerable pain. Time for an announcement: unlike previous years, where the WWF has gone through contortions in order to qualify a full field of eight to the PPV portion of the KotR tourney, this year they're throwing all that out the window and making it a set field of sixteen, no winner in one match means a break for someone else. And in the case of the double countout between the Warrior and Goldie, that someone will be the winner of this match, who will get a free trip to the semifinals via the second round bye. Back to action, a shoulder block from Vader puts Ahmed down again. While Ahmed climbs up to the second rope, Owen spills the beans by announcing his intention to enter the tournament himself, an unlikely prospect with the supposedly bad wing of his. Vader leaps off and just catches Ahmed; I wouldn't blame Ahmed for not selling that one, but he's on a roll, so he goes down for another two-count. Ahmed is back up, punches are traded, Vader goes for a short-arm clothesline, somehow misses it, and Ahmed comes back with one of his own, and hits. Down goes Vader, and down goes Ahmed. Uh, someone tell Ahmed he doesn't have to sell his own moves, just his opponents'. Vader is up first, and puts Ahmed into a corner for some more abuse with his fists. Then he backs off, comes off the ropes, and splashes Ahmed in the corner for good measure. And again. Ahmed staggers out to meet a Vader clothesline. And time for the rest hold. Yet another chinlock variation!! This one is so weak Vader has to use his head to gain any leverage for it. This results in a potentially tender moment between the two combatants. Finally, Ahmed refuses Vader's advances, and he and Vader break up... the hold, though Vader gives a loving headbutt as a parting gift, knowing that nothing can take away their time together. Anyway, back to business. Vader with the full suplex... no, try again. No, okay let's try a little lower, ah, perfect, and Ahmed lands the suplex. Wait a minute, Ahmed lands it?? Yes, fans, it's another miracle resurgence in the making. But a splitting headache seems to delay Ahmed's progress, and in fact Vader recovers first in order to deliver a scoop and slam. And pulling Ahmed into just the right position, and say, kids, what time is it? Vader scales the ropes. First floor, replacement Vader face masks. Second floor, Vaderbombs. Vader pauses tantalizingly there, but then moves on. Third floor, Vadersaults!! The crowd stands up and cheers, the big man leaps... and absolutely creams the canvas with a perfect moonsault. And Ahmed is ready. Punch. Punch. Whip. Clothesline. Like a mushroom, Jim Cornette has sprouted once again at ringside, though he must be wondering why, as Ahmed hits another whip into a clothesline. There goes the face mask again. You know, Vader without the mask reminds me so much of John "Sgt. Schultz" Banner. I know noth-ink about your scoop and slam! Ahmed covers, but failing to hear the expected taps on the canvas, Ahmed wheels around to see what the problem is. The diagnosis is quite simple, the referee has a Cornette in his hair. Okay, you want in on the action, Cornette, says Ahmed, you got it. The crowd goes wild, and Owen Hart goes frantic, after all, that's his manager in there, too. Ahmed turns to face Cornette, usually quite an unwise thing to do, doubly so with a Vader running loose in the ring, but Ahmed is a step ahead of everyone, grabbing Cornette and using him as a missile against Vader. This missile just bounces right off, but the effect is felt in the mood of the wrestler once known as the Rocket, as he abandons his guest commentator spot (where he was bombing anyway) and rushes to the defense of his manager. And as they say, the best defense is a good offense, so, in response to the match-clinching spinebuster by Ahmed, Owen Hart climbs to the top rope, lines up his cast, and makes a beeline for the back of Ahmed's head. The referee, who of course had assigned top priority to the well-being of Jim Cornette, missed the best part, but showed up just in time for the ending, an easy three-count for the Man They Still Call Vader. Nearly a minute and one instant replay of the fatal blow later, Ahmed hasn't budged a single one of his huge muscles, and the referee, deciding this is serious, calls for the medics... 1997 - G.P. Ryan, RSPW message boards Shawn Michaels/Steve Austin vs. TAG CHAMPS Owen Hart/D.B. Smith Is this indeed his first match since Thursday Raw Thursday? Vince tries to sound cool by saying that SCSA is going to open a can of whoop-[burro], and fails basically utterly. --break-- The challengers go right after the champs even before they enter the ring. SCSA whip on Owen, and a knee to the gut and 3 front elbowdrops. DBS makes the save when SCSA starts to attempt a Sharpshooter. SCSA 2d rope elbow for 2. SCSA armbar, HBK tags in, hops up top and smacks the arm and then DBS. Owen nips-up and out of the armbar by way of a facerake. DBS side headlock...HBK runs the ropes, evades a leapfrog and pokes him and nails a rana. HBK whip is reversed, slides under, and the 360-deg. enzuigiri for 2. (Is the correct pronunciation "enzi-gurrey", as JR called it?) HBK tags in and stomps DBS's vitals...Owen drops SCSA throat-first on the railing. The Foundation amble to ringside. --break-- [lasted 3:02] SCSA is escaping from an Owen side headlock, runs the ropes into a sleeperhold, but a jawbreaker breaks it. The Foundation have returned to the entranceway without incident. DBS tags in, as does HBK. HBK's whip is reversed but he hits a flying forearm and nips-up for a dropkick. HBK's whip is reversed, DBS presses and drops him crotch-first on the top, HBK tumbles to the floor. Owen practices for a degree in chiropractics with the help of the ringpost. DBS slingshots HBK into the corner for 2 1/2. DBS CW and HBK Flair Flip, but he goes back into the ring, ripe for a Running Powerslam, SCSA makes the save. Owen tags in and hits a gutwrench suplex and a legdrop for 2. Owen applies the Revered Resthold [regular readers know what that is, by now]. HBK is up quickly, fortunately, but runs into a nifty belly-to-belly, SCSA again makes the save. DBS in, whip and HBK sunset flip but Owen distracts the ref so DBS is able to kick out at 2. He does something (clothesline, my guess) and covers for 2 3/4. The old "hot tag which ref didn't see" bit. Owen goes for a superplex, but gets pushed off the 2d turnbuckle and hit with a flying cross bodypress for 2. Owen hits a spinning leg lariat, which JR mistakenly calls the same move that "put HBK on the shelf". Owen CW and a missed charge ends up ruining his social plans for the evening. Chaos Breaks Loose, HBK hits DBS with the Superkick behind the ref's back, and SCSA gets the pin. WINNERS: Shawn Michaels & Steve Austin, at 13:25 ***1/4 [A solid effort, if nothing else...] Um okay this is pretty long I'll break it up into another post...

possibly a good omen for this week's show I wonder who will do the honors this time, if it happens.... Mr. America vs. The Lie Detector of Doom!

New feature for this week for all my Review topics, I'll post old recaps of the main event or a featured match or a major angle development from each show. Of course recaps for some shows are a pain in the ass to find (especially Thunder recaps) even on Google so sometimes the recap isn't going to be very good. 1998 - couldn't find a recap 1999 - Scott Keith, RSPW message boards Chris Benoit (w/ Malenko's old music) v. DDP. Finally, a match with promise! Benoit hooks the Crossface right off the bat, but DDP makes the ropes. DDP bails and Benoit hits a suicide plancha. Chris vaults into the ring and lands right on DDP's knee. Ouch. Slugfest erupts and they end up in a double KO spot. They fall to the floor and brawl up the aisle as we take a commercial. We come back with DDP in control, although Chris quickly regains it with 10 punches of doom...oops, ballshot. The ex-champ (hahahahahaahah!) dominates with his usual array of punches and stomps. DDP gets the ref to check the time and then chokes Benoit down with his tape. Tilt-a-whirl gets two. Oh, joy, a sleeper. My, but DDP is a useless bag of shit tonight. Benoit makes the comeback and hits the german suplex for two. Another one, no release, for two. A third, but DDP blocks with a ballshot. DDP powerbomb gets two. Diamond Cutter, reversed into a backslide for two. Another attempt, reversed to the Crossface! DDP ta...oh, fuck, it's Bigelow for a bullshit run-in DQ ending. FUCK! Flair, DDP and Bigelow beat down Benoit. Would it have KILLED someone in the uppercard to put Benoit over for once? ***1/4 2000 - CRZ, slashwrestling.com DAVID FLAIR & VIC VENOM (with bat) v. THE MAN & REID FLEIHR (with Beth Fleihr) - one more opportunity for the commentators to decry backyard wrestling. And now for another ironic dichotomy...Hey, look, that's Reid Flair! Father and son start offLockup, side headlock by David, into the ropes, shoulderblock by David, off the ropes, up and over, knife-edge chop by Ric. In the corner, shirt is ripped, chop, chop, chop, into the opposite corner, charging towards Russo, who leaps off the apron to avoid it. Back to David WHOOOOOSH GAB 11 DAYS AWAY right hand, chop, WHOOOOOOOSH, Flair over to grab the house mic. "Russo, I told you, you got none of these - get in the ring! How 'bout it, Boise? I'm so sure of it - I'm - you couldn't beat me ever...you couldn't beat him, pissant! Hey! Three minutes! I'll stand out here for three minutes, or I'll retire tonight - HE'LL wear your little skinny ass out. Twelve years out. Come on! Show me, buddy - woooo!" He throws the mic to Russo. "Three minutes - you stay out? You give me that little (shit)." Tag on both sides. Didn't Russo see what Reid did to Bischoff? Russo with a Shane-O-Mac-esque shuffle - oh, sorry, that wasn't fair of me to compare it to...hell, it's the same Goddam outfit, even! Russo trying a jab and missing - a crotch grab and paintbrush for Ric on the outside. Another paintbrush by Russo - and another. Russo and David share a moment of reserved celebration. Russo turns around and promptly goes down to the patented Reid Flair double leg takedown. Russo takes off his warmup jacket. Russo walks in - single leg takedown for Flair. Russo looks for some advice from David, who whispers in his ear. Russo turns back...and promptly goes down to a spear and double leg takedown. For purposes of our storyline the past 1:08 will count as "three minutes," because now Ric is in the ring and ready to mount Russo and give him some fists - he gets four punches before David comes in to save him - elbow, in the corner, elbow, chop, chop, chop, elbow and Ric goes down. David brings him up - vertical suplex. Chop, chop, chop, David struts...then shows off his biceps. Ric comes back with a chop. Chop, chop, and David goes over the top to the floor. Ric follows. Chop, taking him to the ringpost, but too close to Russo. Flair over to Russo, who has a statue of liberty, which he proceeds to conk over Flair's head. Russo rolls him back in the ring and David drags him over for a stompin'. Reid in to help out his unconscious father - putting his arms around David's waist, but he throws him off. Reid back to the waist - David shoving him off again. A third waistlock attempt - David pulls him off and puts him into the ropes, where Russo stands and pulls on the ankles. Nice bump for Reid! David putting on the figure four while Russo presses him down. Referee "Blind" Charles Robinson decides to count it - 1, 2, 3. (4:42) Russo and Flair jump for joy. Beth in to check on her son as the ring fills with concessions. Russo has THE STICK. "Get up! Get up!" He blocks a slap. "Are you gonna believe me now, or are you gonna listen to me when it's too late, Beth?" Russo and David walk off to moderate showers. Reid starts to try to follow them...and we go to break.

Bleh its Thunder...this week match #2 of the best of seven series between Booker T and Chris Benoit. May 29, 1998 The Barbarian def. Jim Powers Davey Boy Smith & Jim Neidhart def. High Voltage Van Hammer def. Glacier by DQ Booker T def. Chris Benoit Fit Finlay def. Brad Armstrong; TV Title Match Saturn def. Barry Darsow Goldberg def. Barry Horowitz; U.S. Title Match May 27, 1999 Kaz Hayashi def. Lash Leroux Van Hammer def. Prince Iaukea The Cat def. Vampiro Konnan def. Kenny Kaos Evan Karagias def. Lenny Lane Chris Benoit def. Diamond Dallas Page by DQ Buff Bagwell def. Randy Savage by DQ May 31, 2000 Terry Funk NC Chris Candido; HC Title Match Sting def. Horace and Billy Kidman (pinned) in a three-way match Jeff Jarrett def. Shane Douglas; WCW Title Match Shawn Stasiak & Chuck Palumbo def. Kronic by DQ to win the Tag Team Titles David Flair & Vince Russo def. Ric Flair & Reid Flair Kevin Nash & Scott Steiner def. Tank Abbott & Rick Steiner

New feature for this week for all my Review topics, I'll post old recaps of the main event or a featured match or a major angle development from each show. Of course recaps for some shows are a pain in the ass to find even on Google so sometimes the recap isn't going to be very good. 1996 - John Petrie, www.otherarena.com Out of the audience comes Razor Ramon. Ramon grabs the mic and asks where Billionaire Ted, The Nacho Man, and Scheme Gene are. He calls Eric Bischoff a Ken doll. The audience was either too stunned to react (unlikely) or most of them simply didn't know who he was (incredibly enough.) I'm opting for the latter. The match never ends, as both wrestlers disappear during Ramon's tirade. Ramon strolls of, never once attracting any security (they're all too busy keeping Randy Savage out of the building apparently.) *recap snip to end of show* Out comes Razor Ramon to the broadcast booth. Ramon says "we're sick of your big mouth." "Who's we?" "You know!" Ramon challenges WCW to bring out their three best wrestlers, because "we're taking over!" Bischoff, doing his best to maintain the illusion of a shoot, tells Ramon he's gone too far. Ramon says "you want a war... you got it!" 1997 - G.P. Ryan, RSPW message boards Back come Hollywood & Eric. Eric & HH natter on when a hole is opened in the ring, and an arm holding a baseball bat shoots out and NWO Sting pops up. Hey, Cobra finally got his hair made up a bit more like Steve's. Way to go! He nods in response to Eric's question of doesn't he know that he'll never be the man Hollywood is. All of a sudden, the camera pans upward and we know who's coming. Eric gets dropped again. HH falls backwards over NWO Sting on his way out. Sting takes some batting practice and drops Sting-bra, in the process showing the ersatz Sting has a mask on instead of makeup, and the "increased resemblance of hair" was indeed a hairpiece. HH calls out the Wolfpack & Chono & Muta & Virg-ent. The rope is re-lowered and Sting returns to the ceiling as the show ends. 1998 - CRZ, slashwrestling.com BOOKER T. v. CHRIS "GOD OF RSPW" BENOIT in Match #1 of a Best-of-7 Series To Determine the #1 Contender to the TV Title - Staredown to start. T pushes Benoit. Staredown continues. Lockup, to the corner, reverse, clean break, no. Benoit with chop (woooo!) T turns it around and pummels Benoit and shouts. Whip into the ropes, out with a back body drop. Big forearm from T and Benoit is on the outside. Tony continues to talk about Sting. Benoit comes back in. Lockup, no, Benoit with a big kick. He stays on him with rights. Whip, reverse, ducks a clothesline. Benoit tries a suplex but Booker rolls for 2. Booker T follows up and Benoit is again on the outside. Commentators ignore Benoit's reigns. Booker T with knees to the guts and a big chop. Whip into the corner, but Benoit puts the feet up. Benoit tries for the armbar, but T counters and takes him down with a kick. Big bodyslam for 2 by T. Shout. Whip, T ducks, eats a kick. Benoit with another kick, and a front suplex lands Booker T on the top rope. T falls to the outside. Benoit back to the stompin', whip, and down with an elbow for 2. Benoit with a kick to the head. Snap suplex for 2. Benoit to the chinlock - he also pins back his right arm with his leg. T. gets up and fights out. Sunset flip for 2. Big chop by Benoit, cover for 2. Benoit with a whip, and a clothesline. 1, 2, no. Benoit to the chinlock again, again holding back the right arm. Fans bring T back to life again, but Benoit trips T. Benoit urges T to get up, but stomps on him before he can. Picking him up, it's chop (woooo!) time. T crumples. Benoit stays on him with deliberate knife-edge chops. Benoit puts a boot between the shoulderblades. Into the corner, Benoit snaps him over and returns to the chinlock. It looks like Booker T taps out to me, but I guess not. Into the corner, T comes back, but Benoit hits a backbreaker for 2. Benoit makes the thumb across the throat signal and climbs to the top. Here comes the lying headbutt - nobody home! Fit Finley, in street clothes and with title, comes out to watch. Booker T has come back with the spinebuster (or as Tony would say, the "sidewalk slam"), whip, pancake, breakdance, oh oh...Benoit ducks the kick, T ducks the clothesline, Benoit ducks the kick - reverse, reverse, axe kick by T! Sidewalk slam ("side sauto") by T - T climbs the ropes and tries the Harlem hangover, but misses! Both men is down. Benoit up at 9, covers for 2. T attempts a clothesline - Benoit catches it and puts on the Crippler Crossface! It's over! (11:44) Finley says something in Irish. Damn, THIS - this is what watching wrestling is all about. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 1999 - CRZ, slashwrestling.com RICK WOOF WOOF v. (THIS IS) STING for the World television championship in a steel cage - Sting with the gutshot and two rights, kicking away now, into the cage. Sting grabs the cage ceiling, and kicks Steiner. Head to the cage agin. Still on him. Stomping on the hands. Rick to the groin to gain control. RIght hands from Steiner, right, Sting goes down, kick, kick, rights to the kidney. Dropping the elbow. Repeated rights, head ground into the mat. Picking him up, Steiner whips, but Sting reverses and hits a dropkick. Steiner's head rubbed into the cage, right hand, Sting off the ropes, SPLASH into the cage wall on Steiner - going to the well one too many times - Steiner ducks and Sting splashes the cage wall without anybody between 'em. Steiner with rights. Now STING taken into the cage wall, boot to the head. Sting's head meets the cyclone fence - elbowdrop. Steiner looking for the pin but Abbott refuses. Abbott could be the next Jim Neidhart! Steiner clamps on a chinlock - Sting gets up and elbows out - Golotta and Abbott applauds the low blow. Sting with a standing dropkick, nicely done. Call to the crowd, who responds in kind. Another standing dropkick and Rick stays down. Sting stands on the neck. Sting off the ropes with a lariat. Stands him up, repeat. Splash attempt meets with the knees. Steiner has him up - Sting goes down - dueling backslide attempts - Sting has him across his back - is this a submission hold? Steiner grabs the rope - Sting breaks and Steiner tries to throw an elbow. Sting is in control - they trade punches. Now Steiner on top with clubbin' blows. Whip into the opposite corner but the followup elbowdrop misses - Sting goes for a Stinger splash but IT misses because Abbott PULLS STEINER OUT OF THE CORNER! Abbott with a shot to the back of Sting's head and he's OUT. Steiner stomps on Sting, then pulls out a roll of tape. While Steiner tapes Sting's wrists to the top rope, Abbott walks out of the ring. Stiner lays into Sting with punches and kicks - Sting kicks back but Steiner's got too much of an advantage. As Abbott walks away - so are they friends or WHAT? - ahhhh, who cares - closing credits. (No contest, under 6 minutes) 2000 - CRZ, slashwrestling.com WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE: JEDOUBLEF JADOUBLEREDOUBLET v. THE MAN - Jarrett comes out with a special guest referee - DAVID FLAIR. Flair's in blue trunks and boots. Jarrett tries a sneak attack, Flair elbows, chops, chops, chops, right, chop, right, chop, right, into the corner, back elbow, a few steps in David's direction, and Jarrett comes back with an upperct to the throat. Right, right, right, right, Flair turns it around, but now we look to the entryway where VIC VENOM and R&B SECURITY bring out BETH & REID FLEIHR. Ric spots this and runs up the aisle, meeting Russo and taking him down just off camera - punching away on him but Jarrett is over from behind with rights. Jarrett tosses him to the floor - head to the barricade. We look back to the aisle as Russo and entourage continue where they left off. Jarrett putting a chair to Flair. Crowd chants "Russo sux." Chair to Flair's head - is he blading there? Jarrett puts the edge of the chair on Flair's head. Flair rolled back in the ring - fistdrop, another, and another. Yeah, whoosh that logo out one more time - 13 days - gotcha. Choke on the second rope. We look at Beth instead of the action. Jarrett punching away on the bleeding forehead of Flair. Flair chops back. Right, chop, chop, snapmare, fifteen quick punches, gutshot for David (who was bringing in the Statue of Liberty), grabs the statue and whacks David with it. Jarrett from behind - Flair into the corner - FLAIR FLIP! And he falls out on the floor. Russo stands over him...but does nothing. Oh, THERE'S a bat to the back. Flair rolled back in. Figure four coming up. Of course, there's no ref, so I don't know how well this'll work. CHARLES ROBINSON is out as Flair's shoulders are down - 1....2....NO! Flair starts to fight it - but Russo is up on the apron - takes a right from Flair as Flair is on his way to grabbing the ropes. Jarrett breaks the hold, right, into the ropes, Flair with an inside cradle - 1, 2, no! Right by Jarrett, right, in the corner for a Ten Punch Count Along - Flair stops it at eight, atomic drop, Golota, "Iblockyourpunchyoudon'tblockmine", again, chop, right, chop, right, into the opposite corner is reversed - FLAIR FLIP! Flair runs the apron, ducks a clothesline, hits one of his own - to the top rope - DOUBLE AXEHANDLE!!!!!! Russo on the apron, right hand for Russo! Tony: "Down goes Russo! Down goes Russo! Down goes Russo!" And the thing that I LOVED about this was that Tony was NOT going to let Madden get his smartass crack about Flair's move hitting for the first time since the first Starrcade out...and he was JUST DYING to say it to let everybody know how smart he was. Flair with a bit of a Fargo strut of his own. Knee to the upper thigh...but Jarrett kicks out of the figure four attempt, unfortunately sending Flair into Robinson. The various members of R&B Security get on the apron, but because they attack black ninja style, it's no problem for Flair to punch, chop, and punch them to the floor. Duck, chop, chop, Russo is getting the zebra shirt on the outside, snapmare, running kneedrop, woooo!, Russo in - face rake, chop, going for the figure four but David Flair hands Jarrett the gee-tar - KABONG. Jarrett covers - 1, 2, 3. Ladies and gentlemen, for the second time tonight, we have a new World Heavyweight Champion. (7:44) The ring quickly fills with litter - the R&B Security guys forve Reid to watch what's going on in the ring. Commentators all but okay the throwing of debris in the ring, sheesh. Jarrett, Russo and David Flair hightail it up the ring to avoid the flying garbage. We look back in the ring to see a shirtless Charles Robinson and bleeding Ric Flair - and now the Security folk bring back Beth & Reid to the ring...Ric manages to get up and chase after them - but this show's over.

This week it's the seven year anniversary of Scott Hall's debut in WCW (during the Enos/Doll match). I as a mark at the time, having no clue about internet wrestling sites, just about creamed my pants thinking it was an invasion by the WWF. Ah those were the days. Also this week in '98 the Booker T/Chris Benoit Best of Seven series kicked off. May 27, 1996 Ric Flair & Arn Anderson def. The American Males Mike Enos NC Steve Doll Diamond Dallas Page def. Sgt. Craig Pittman The Giant def. The Shark; WCW Title Match Lex Luger def. Maxx Muscle; TV Title Match Bobby Walker def. Brad Armstrong Steven Regal def. Alex Wright Sting NC Scott Steiner May 26, 1997 Super Calo, Juvetud Guerrera, & Hector Garza def. La Parka, Ciclope, & Damien Psicosis def. Alex Wright Wrath def. Mark Starr Konnan def. Villano IV The Great Muta NC Masahiro Chono The Barbarian def. Jim Powers The Giant def. Jerry Flynn, Johnny Swinger, & Rick Fuller in a handicap match Harlem Heat def. Jeff Jarrett & Steve McMichael May 25, 1998 Fit Finlay def. Mike Enos; TV Title Match Saturn def. Glacier Chris Jericho def. El Dandy Konnan def. La Parka Juventud Guerrera def. Kidman Chavo Guerrero Jr. def. Ultimo Dragon Dean Malenko def. Lenny Lane; CW Title Match Goldberg def. Johnny Attitude; U.S. Title Match Chris Benoit def. Booker T Sting & Lex Luger def. The Giant & n.W.o. Sting May 31, 1999 Kidman def. Hak by DQ Van Hammer def. Evan Karagis Konnan & Rey Mysterio Jr. def. Curt Hennig & Bobby Duncum Jr. by DQ David Flair def. Erik Watts The Cat def. Scott Norton Randy Savage def. A Fake Kevin Nash Buff Bagwell def. Bobby Eaton Diamond Dallas Page & Bam Bam Bigelow def. Saturn in handicap match to win the Tag Team Titles Rick Steiner NC Sting; TV Title Match; Special Referee, Tank Abbott May 29, 2000 Lt. Loco def. Disco Inferno G.I. Bro def. Mike Awesome in an Ambulance Match Kevin Nash NC Rick Steiner & Tank Abbott in a handicap match Terry Funk NC Vampiro; Hardcore Title Match Scott Steiner def. Shane Douglas in an Asylum Match for the U.S. Title Billy Kidman def. Sting Jeff Jarrett def. Ric Flair to win the WCW World Heavyweight Title

God I hate network television and their control over sports. They are actually gonna wait until June 4th to have the damn Finals even if the Spurs take the next two in the West and wrap up the series on Tuesday which will be EIGHT days before they will start the Finals. The Nets might as well go on vacation now having to wait 11 days.

Finally Bored enough....in no paticular order (as of right now): The Day I Tried to Live - Soundgarden All I Need - Method Man f/Mary J. Blige Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana Dream On - Aerosmith Hooker with a Penis - Tool Oh fuck it I'm Bored here are some random ones: Just - Radiohead How I could Just Kill a Man - Rage Against the Machine cover Ashes in the Fall - Rage Against the Machine LapDance - N.E.R.D. All Over You - Live Simple Minded - Dragpipe Paul Revere - Beastie Boys Magdalena - A Perfect Circle Blind - Korn Breaking the Girl - Red Hot Chilli Peppers Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chilli Peppers Okay I'll stop for now.

In the mid to late 90s I followed hockey pretty well. I definently wasn't a diehard fan but I knew most of the players names and watched fairly frequently but for whatever reason I've lost interest in the last couple of years and have hardly watched any hockey at all this past season. My opinion probably won't amount for much then but IMO the NHL will not and almost can not be taken seriously if their champion is the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. A team named after a shitty Disney movie franchise just has minor league written all over it.

Surprised no one posted this: Tito Ortiz was backstage at WrestleMania and is expected to sign with WWE soon. He hasn't signed yet, but the two sides are having talks and a deal is expected to be reached soon. Credit: WrestlingObserver.com

I'm Bored so here's a fun fact: The lowest buyrate for a non-IYH PPV is a tie between King of the Ring '97 and Armageddon '02, both at a 0.5 buyrate. Oh and on topic here is the answer (well pretty much) as to whether they will actually make an explanation for having a Raw only PPV: At the recent PPV convention in New Orleans, WWE had a strong presense. Instead of promoting the upcoming brand specific PPVs, WWE was said to really be pushing for the Road to Wrestlemania XX, in early 2004. Apparently WWE is not making a big deal out of the brand split PPVs, as to not draw attention to the fact that only half the stars will be on these upcoming shows. credit: Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter So there ya go...they'll just try to see if the marks don't notice I guess.

Um actually no. As much as I'd like to badmouth Nash but he didn't headline any of three lowest WWE/WWF PPV buyrates and was already in WCW for two of them.

That was the lowest WWE/F buyrate in 5 years. Bulldog/Diesel is the lowest WWE/F PPV of all time. That would be IYH #4 (0.4) but IYH #5 (0.3), IYH: International Incident (0.37), and IYH: It's Time! (0.35) all drew lower buyrates.

Oh what are you talking about? Undertaker will put him over...after he squashes him he'll raise John Cena's arm! That's the ultimate rub!

Okay before I go into the rant the tag match kicked 20 types of ass even with the DQ finish and the Benot/Hardy was very good as well. But onto the discussion of needing a midcard title on Smackdown since the IC title has been brought back on Raw. Well they already have a midcard champ on SD...its Brock Lesnar! I wouldn't consider myself a fan of Brock's but he is holding what should be THE belt in the WWE so I don't know it'd be nice if they actually had him, you know, be a main eventer on the show. So he has a match tonight and first it plays second fiddle in the segment to a Vince/Mr. America confrontation to hype a fuckin' lie detector test next week. OMG I GOT TO WATCH! So Brock gets to fight a group of midcarders and has to bump like a freak on the outside for Chuck Plaumbo, who hasn't exactly been built as a major threat enough to be able to toss the WWE Champ around like a rag doll. He then has to win by DQ against Johnny Stamboli, who is pretty much a jobber at this point. Then we get the F.B.I. midcard beatdown (oh side note...can Cole come up with anything besides "numbers game"? Jesus fuckin' christ he must have said it 20 times tonight) and the WWE Champion can't overcome it. But wait...here comes a REAL main eventer in The Underatker! So people there you are...YOUR WWE Midcard Champion, Brock Lesnar!

Well I wasn't going bother explaining why I didn't like Kobe Bryant because figured someone else would have the same reason as I do but no one has to this point and it has nothing to do with Kobe Bryant the player. You see in 1995 Kevin Garnett, a poor kid, who isn't exactly the best student in school, decides to skip college and go directly to the pros. This was the end of the world in a lot of people's minds even though in the past high school players like Moses Malone had skipped college in the past but never did it cause a huge influx of high school players going pro. Garnett had every right to go directly to the pros because he did need to support his family and if he had gone to college he would have gone strictly for basketball to use it as a training ground to get him ready for the NBA rather than trying to get an education. Garnett is drafted by the hapless Minnesota Timberwolves but he lives with it even though its his dream to play for the Chicago Bulls. Then we go to 1996 when Kobe Bryant, the son of a pro basketball player, who grew up in a upper-middle class family, and was a very good student decides to skip college and go to the pros. He doesn't get half the criticism Garnett gets even though Bryant isn't in huge need of money and would have been a true student-athlete had he go to school. He has a incredible p.r. machine behind him that gets everyone to hype as the next Michael Jordan rather than criticizing him for go straight to the pros and now making skipping college a trend for talented high school players. Bryant is everything wrong with a high school player skipping college to go to the pros IMO. But it doesn't end there for me. He is drafted by the Charlotte Hornets and Kobe DEMANDS he be traded. He will only play for the three biggest markets the New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls, and Los Angeles Lakers. Rather than risk Bryant not signing the Hornets cave into his demands and Bryant gets himself traded to the Lakers and his promptly booked on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno soon after and shows up at his prom with Brandy. I don't give a shit about Kobe Bryant the player as in '96 he showed that is a spoiled brat who will always get his way and I will always hate Kobe Bryant.

Gee I seem to remember quite a few people after Mr. America angle first started saying it sounded funny and it might not suck...hmmm where are these people now? And Kanyon jobs to Funaki...well I guess that officially tells us they won't be pushing him. Might as well just make him a namless jobber at this point. Kinda sad after reading that the thing that sounded the most interesting was Rhyno goring A-Train through the ropes.

Once again proves that then American public loves crap! Last week's Raw was the typical suckfest but it did a decent rating and now we actually a pretty entertaining Raw with a main even that was built very well and the rating drops almost a full point.

Boredom strikes and here is the complete All-Star rosters chosen by me for both leagues as of today. These are not who I think will make the teams as obviously players who don't deserve to make team are voted as starters every year. Remember the rosters have been expanded to 32 this year and followed the rule of one player from each team. Maybe I'll update this list every once in a while up until the actual selections are made. American League C: Jorge Posada, New York; Ramon Hernandez, Oakland 1B: Carols Delgado, Toronto; Mike Sweeney, Kansas City; Rafael Palmeiro, Texas 2B: Alfonso Soriano, New York; Bret Boone; Seattle 3B: Hank Blalock, Texas; Troy Glaus, Anaheim SS: Alex Rodriguez, Texas; Nomar Garciaparra, Boston OF: Carl Everett, Texas; Aubrey Huff, Tampa Bay; Garrett Anderson, Anaheim; Juan Gonzalez, Texas; Vernon Wells, Toronto; Raul Mondesi, New York; Tim Salmon, Anaheim DH: Edgar Martinez, Seattle; Ellis Burks, Cleveland Pitchers: Esteban Loaiza, Chicago; Mike Mussina, New York; Mark Mulder, Oakland; Barry Zito, Oakland; Pedro Martinez, Boston; Roger Clemens, New York; Jason Johnson, Baltimore; Runelvys Hernandez, Kansas City; Nate Cornejo, Detroit; Keith Foulke, Oakland; Ugueth Urbina, Texas; Eddie Guardado, Minnesota National League C: Mike Lieberthal, Philadelphia; Jason Kendall, Pittsburgh 1B: Jeff Bagwell, Houston; Todd Helton, Colorado; Richie Sexson, Milwaukee 2B: Marcus Giles, Atlanta; Jeff Kent, Houston; Jose Vidro, Montreal 3B: Scott Rolen, St. Louis; Aaron Boone, Cincinnati; Mike Lowell, Florida SS: Alex Gonzalez, Florida; Edgar Renteria, St. Louis OF: Gary Sheffield, Atlanta; Preston Wilson, Colorado; Albert Pujols, St. Louis; Barry Bonds, San Francisco; Austin Kearns, Cincinnati; Luis Gonzalez, Arizona; Rondell White, San Diego Pitchers: Mark Prior, Chicago; Woody Williams, St. Louis; Damian Moss, San Francisco; Kerry Wood, Chicago; Kevin Brown, Los Angeles; Kevin Millwood, Philadelphia; Zach Day, Montreal; Tom Glavine, New York; John Smoltz, Atlanta; Eric Gagne, Los Angeles; Tim Worrell, San Francisco; Billy Wagner, Houston

They obviously are having Christian vs. Booker T at Bad Blood and Christian will drop the title there as JR made sure to point out last night that Bad Blood would be in Houston. So it will last about a month and he'll be down the card after that and Booker will feud with Jericho. Trust me they won't be putting the IC title on Goldberg as it would help no one.

Also like to add that Mayne doesn't even have enough at-bats to have a qualifying batting average at this point so he can't be considered to have a serious shot at making the all-start team at this point. Even taking that into consideration, and even though I'm an A's fan so I'm biased, Ramon Hernandez is having a better year to this point. One thing also is the rosters were expanded to 32 this year so its possible they could choose two back-up catchers and catcher is a very weak position in the A.L. right now.

This week: The Owen Hart tribute show, HHH's Raw debut (he was holding down John Crystal!), and the smark's wet dream match. May 24, 1993 Mr. Perfect def. Doink; KOTR Qualifier Money, Inc. def. Mike Bell & Tony DeVito Crush def. Bobby Who Adam Bomb def. Phil Apollo May 23, 1994 Owen Hart def. Doink; KOTR Qualifier Duke Droese def. Barry Horowitz Irwin R. Schyster def. Gary Sabaugh Nikolai Volkoff def. Matt Hardy May 22, 1995 Razor Ramon def. Mike Bell Hunter Hearst Helmsley def. John Crystal The Allied Powers def. Tony DeVito & Bill Payne Kama def. Barry Horowitz Shawn Michaels def. King Kong Bundy; KOTR Qualifier May 20, 1996 Steve Austin def. Marc Mero by DQ Savio Vega def. The 1-2-3 Kid The British Bulldog NC Jake Roberts May 19, 1997 Hunter Hearst Helmsley def. Crush; KOTR Qualifier Bob Holly def. Owen Hart Scott Taylor def. Leif Cassidy Rockabilly def. Goldust by DQ Faarooq def. Rocky Maivia Steve Austin NC Jim Neidhart May 18, 1998 Val Venis def. Scorpio Terry Funk def. Marc Mero D.O.A. def. L.O.D. 2000 Dude Love def. Dustin Runnels Dick Togo & Men’s Teioh def. The Headbangers by DQ The New Age Outlaws def. The Rock & Owen Hart; Tag Title Match Steve Austin NC Pat Patterson & Gerald Brisco in a handicap street fight; Special Guest Referee, Sgt. Slaughter May 24, 1999 Jeff Jarrett def. Test Kane & X-Pac def. Gangrel & Edge; Tag Title Match The Hardy Boyz def. Taka Michinoku & Funaki Ken Shamrock def. Hardcore Holly Mankind def. Mr. Ass D’Lo Brown & Mark Henry def. The Acolytes Triple H def. Al Snow The Big Show def. Goldust The Rock def. Val Venis May 22, 2000 T&A def. The Hardy Boyz Eddie Guerrero def. D’Lo Brown; European Title Match Kurt Angle, Edge & Christian def. Rikishi & Too Cool Chris Benoit def. Val Venis by DQ; IC Title Match The Dudley Boyz def. The Big Bossman & Bull Buchanan Bradshaw def. Crash Holly in hardcore match Perry Saturn def. The Godfather & Essa Rios in a handicap match May 21, 2001 The Big Show def. Rhyno to win the Hardcore Title A.P.A. def. Dean Malenko & Perry Saturn Matt Hardy def. X-Pac Hardcore Holly & Crash def. The Dudley Boyz Eddie Guerrero & Jeff Hardy def. Edge & Christian Kane def. Kurt Angle; IC Title Match Chris Jericho & Chris Benoit def. Steve Austin & Triple H to win the Tag Team Titles May 20, 2002 The Hardy Boyz def. The Big Show & X-Pac Trish Stratus def. Jacqueline; Women’s Title Match Bubba Ray Dudley def. William Regal by DQ; European Title Match The Hardy Boyz def. Booker T & Goldust Jerry Lawler def. Raven by countout The Undertaker def. Rob Van Dam; WWE Undisputed Title Match

From an old CRZ recap: "Irwin R. Schyster vs. Gary Sabaugh - Joe tells me that Sabaugh is the Italion Stallion. I can believe it, Rocky didn't win in the first movie either. Writeoff, no penalty." So there ya go.

Yes it was an NBA playoff situation so the show was only one hour. The previous week they had just two matches and less than 5 minutes of wrestling time. This week it was three matches with a little over 8 minutes of wrestling time.

May 20, 1996 The Steiner Brothers NC Fire & Ice Ric Flair def. Eddy Guerrero Sting & Lex Luger def. The Faces of Fear; Tag Title Match Diamond Dallas Page def. Brad Armstrong The Giant def. Arn Anderson; WCW Title Match May 19, 1997 Steven Regal def. Prince Iaukea; TV Title Match Masahiro Chono def. Dave Taylor Scotty Riggs def. Mr. Wallstreet The Steiner Brothers def. Jeff Jarrett & Steve McMichael Ric Flair def. Syxx by DQ May 18, 1998 Saturn def. Psychosis Juventud Guerrera def. Damian Goldberg def. Glacier; U.S. Title Match May 24, 1999 Van Hammer def. Chavo Guerrero Jr. Scott Norton NC The Cat David Flair def. El Dandy 12-Man Cruiserweight Battle Royal goes to a NC Chris Benoit def. Buddy Lee Parker Buff Bagwell def. Rick Steiner by DQ; TV Title Match Roddy Piper, Chris Benoit, & Dean Malenko def. Ric Flair, Diamond Dallas Page, & Bam Bam Bigelow by DQ May 22, 2000 The Cat def. Booker T in a weapons match Daffney Unger def. Crowbar to win the Cruiserweight Title Billy Kidman def. Horace; Special Guest Referee, Torrie Wilson Shane Douglas def. Terry Funk to win the Hardcore Title Mike Awesome def. The Wall in an Ambulance vs. Tables Match Scott Steiner def. Rick Steiner by DQ in a cage match Chuck Palumbo def. Diamond Dallas Page Vampiro def. Hulk Hogan Jeff Jarrett def. Kevin Nash to win the WCW World Heavyweight Title