No Way Out Review

[ChrisMWaters 0]

As the title and subtitle says, I was wondering, who is going to be writing the review for No Way Out, since Dame's is currently out of commission?

 

Thanks in advanc.e

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

No one likely.

[MixxMaster 0]

just go to one of the 3,896 wrestling websites. Reviews are a dime a dozen.

[EL DANDY~! 0]

Well, if this helps, I have a live report since I went to the show. Not exactly play-by-play, but it's got a good little synopsis on every match, so this can help you out for now, I guess.

 

I just got back from NWO at the Cow Palace. Aside from traffic (the same traffic that made me miss the trios match, grrrrr), I was able to get to the PPV just in time for the beginning, so here goes.

 

Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi d. The Bashem Brothers and Shaniqua when Rikishi Banzai Dropped Shaniqua to retain the WWE Tag Team Titles

 

-This match was nothing too special, although it did signify the "Ode to the Horsemen" theme that was recurring through the night, as the Bashems pull out the neato double Slingshot Suplex that must have had Tully Blanchard smiling somewhere. Shaniqua got to throw the good lariat she has, and I could TOTALLY dig her in the woman's division as the Shaniqua Hansen, although she needs to put an elbow pad over that elbow, STAT. Also of note is Doug almost getting KILLED on the headscissors by Scotty.

 

Jaime Noble d. Nidia in a Blindfold Match with a Front Necklock

 

-GOD. You never realize how big Nidia's fake boobies are until you see them in person. I was sitting on the side of the ramp, and DAMN. Those things are HUMONGOUS. Even the people in front of me were saying, "Those don't look that big on TV." This was nothing and gets nothing from me.

 

The World's Greatest Tag Team d. The APA when Benjamin superkicked Bradshaw

 

-Blink and you'll miss TWGTT turn back the clock to the dirty south in the 80s, working over the arm like Shelton Anderson and Charlie Blanchard. Bradshaw's lariat arm is taped up already and he's selling it pretty good when he uses it, and Simmons remembered how to sell after taking time off, and this was a perfectly good tag match, albeit unexciting at times. Bradshaw had the AWESOME lariat, but sold the arm well enough and this gets into that area of "somewhat watchable."

 

Hardcore Holly d. Rhyno with the Alabama Slam

 

-I don't really remember too much about this match, but I do remember it being somewhat unexciting and it was about this time that my brother went for the bathroom break. Rhyno hit the Anderson spinebuster so I was happy, but there wasn't else much to notice.

 

Chavo Guerrero d. Rey Mysterio with a school boy to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship

 

-This was a direct ode to Dean Malenko match with all the work on the stomach. Chavo did all the great gutbusters, including the AWESOME AWESOME Quebradora Gutbuster. Wasn't too much lucha because the WWE loves dumbing down stuff like this, but this was a great little match that got 18 minutes or so to build on and they kept up good with the stomach psychology and then Chavo CHEATS TO WIN~! when Chavo Sr. knocks Rey off. Good match, finish wasn't exactly great, but there were some really good moments. Rey looked off, and Chavo looked up to the task of carrying the bulk of the match. This also had the great spot where Chavo rolled through the bombs away into the half crab. Lance Storm should steal that.

 

Kurt Angle d. Big Show and John Cena when Cena submitted to a heel hook

 

-Good little match that was actually not too bad considering Cena isn't Brock and he isn't hitting Running Ligerbombs on Show or anything. The knee psychology (which harkens back to Royal Rumble, therefore making this some kind of modern record for WWE) was very good and Cena was up to the task of selling. Show did his part and didn't mess anything up, and his chops ECHOED throughout the arena. The spot where he slammed Cena into the turnbuckle was particulary nasty and I was totally it. Cena with the heel hook to make sure Cena tapped was a nice little bit of psychology as he didn't want the big man coming in again to interfere.

 

Eddie Guerrero d. Brock Lesnar to win the WWE Championship when he hit the Frog Splash

 

-You know, I'm not really sure this match will be matched for the rest of the year, really. Unless somewhere down the line, Benoit and Eddie get 30 for a unification bout. An absolutely outstanding match that's melded from the New Japan style and the style brought forth by Angle, Eddie, Benoit, and Brock on the SmackDown! side of things, where focus is on a body part and it stays that way for the bulk of the match. On top of that, you have the monster heel vs. the small babyface and that makes the drama better, and then, on top of THAT, you have about 10,000 Latinos in the Cow Palace screaming at the top of their lungs (10,001 if you include me as the honorary Latino...yo se que hablar espanol, putos) waiting to see if their hero goes home a champion. Eddie goes to the knee like a regular Keiji Mutoh and Lesnar sells BUNCHES. Lesnar even does the one legged suplex. Lesnar fucks Eddie REALLY GOOD Kensuke Sasaki Eddie HAS to sell because it just HURTS. He also has the neato ground submisssions, like the rear naked choke and the crossface chickenwing and the gutwrench bearhug, which Brock seamlessly transitions to other moves in all cases. Eddie makes like Chono with not only the STF, but then the Deathlock STF after locking in the Lasso from El Paso, which just made me freak out, ESPECIALLY when I came home and watched the tape, where I got to see the focus on the psychology instead of marking out for Eddie (which I still found time to do). I think if Eddie Dragon Screwed into the Figure-Four, I would have lost my shit. Brock made sure that the moves he did hit hurt Eddie enough to where Eddie has nothing else he can do other than selling, simply because Brock hit so many great high impact moves. The suplexes were great, the lariat was REALLY stiff, the spinebuster was HARSH, and the spinning powerbomb out of the rana attempt was just outrageous. The ref bump and the interference worked GREAT because of the Goldberg Jackhammer earlier, and then you have the GREAT false finish, which had EVERYBODY going nuts, and then you had Eddie's great counter to the F-5, and then he made Art Barr beam when he hit the Frog Splash to win the title, and the celebration begins. One of the best singles matches I've seen in recent years from the WWE, and WWE is 2-for-2 with the Royal Rumble and this match as MOTYCs. The pop at the end does you no justice unless you're there in person, and it was nuclear, to say the least. A spectactular match, made even better by the hardway juice Brock sported after the turnbuckle shot, and I want rematch after rematch after rematch between these two. This is the new Sting/Vader, because Eddie is SUCH a believable hero that the crowd is always behind him, and Brock is the monster Vader who beats you to death and then beats you up some more, except he uses the big high impact throws and the submissions as opposed to potatoing the fuck outta somebody. I want this feud to run until the end of time.

 

-Overall, a good show, with nothing REALLY bad outside of the first two matches and the Holly/Rhyno match. The other four are good matches, but track this mutha down for the Eddie/Brock match. Life is just too short to argue with me about it. It's REALLY good.

[Guest Suicide King]

Damn, Dandy. Now I want to see the show more than ever. Good job.

[Mole 0]

Yes Dandy, you made the Eddie/Brock match sound so amazing.

 

I think this might be the first WWE PPV DVD I will buy.