Saturday, January 10, 2009

WWF In Your House: International Incident

1) The Smoking Gunns v. The Body Donnas- 2
2) Mankind v. Henry Godwinn- 3
3) Steve Austin v. Marc Mero- 3
4) Goldust v. Undertaker- 3
5) Shawn Michaels/ Sid/ Ahmed Johnson v. Vader/ Davey Boy Smith/ Owen Hart- 4

The Good:
Vancouver crowd, excited, energetic on their feet a lot........Sunny's leather halter top.......Billy's shitheel smile........Bart's momentum changing powerslam......Godwinn throwing heavy forearms and clotheslines circa All Japan '94.......Foley's famous running knee in the corner, costs Godwinn another 3 teeth.....Jim Ross trying to sell this match of ridiculous characters as a legitimate athletic contest........re-hash of rollup spot with Mero & Austin where Austin's lip busted from KOTR; good pysch.....even though it made no sense, Mero executes a no hands moonsault off the apron, im' guessing if he could do that in the bedroom, he may still be married, well that and have a cock bigger than 1 1'2 inches............Taker starting out match by chokeslamming Goldy on steel stairs- mean and unwarranted (Great Job!)..........Michaels & Vader's chemistry........Vader's running charge to Michaels, looked like Trunchbull from Rolad Dahl's classic children's novel "Matilda"..........Owen disfiguring Ahmed's face with flying heel kick.........Vader going over clean on Michaels, very unexpected.

The Bad: (do i have enough room?)
Body Donnas cut a face promo, seriously? In ring, they have 0% face heat from fans..........Zip's chops are weaker than a grade school ear flick......Bart in armlock for 2 minutes and looks bored, no pain at all........Gunns blow the World's Greatest Tag Team double team move and Billy laughs it off........several miscommunications and blown finish..........this sucked harder than Sunny after a few tequilas..........Henry has really unfinished powerslam........Foley does a spinning neckbreaker on concrete but Godwinn falls on top of him, shitty spot..........needless Foley concrete bump, then goes right in for mandible claw, didn't even sell the bump...........for an ex-boxer, Mero's punches aren't connecting- is he farsighted?................not really a fan of Sable even before her whole body became plastic.............badly botched double out of ring spot, followed up with haphazard brawling...............Taker match basically a squash, Rhodes little offense not impressive..................stupid looking idiot getting paid to wear a hotel bellhop uniform, no idea why he's there............silly "burst through the ring spot" still rubs me the wrong way............Sid's strikes are cartoonish at best.........Michaels pulls off a hurricanrana on Vader with legs on shoulders, not wrapped around head, very poor execution............Ahmed blows his load with the first two spots he does, then pulls off a Rolling German suplex that's shittier than the worst Backyard fed i've seen................Ahmed is literally laying on the corner post trying to regain energy, can someone shoot some HGH into his thigh at ringside or something?......................Michaels keeps looking back to see if heels made fresh tag before he makes hot tag

Final Thoughts;
This felt like a poor Raw or an unmotivated house show. Didn't see anyone on the show really put forth a hard working performance or complete package of a match. You could see why so many fans were drawn to ECW, not because the work was that much better, but it was a hell of a lot more entertaining.

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