The night after Sin … what sins were committed last night?
Speaking of sins, the first
portion of the show had Flair, Luger, Bagwell, Steiner, Jarrett, and Animal rambling
on and having a funeral for Goldberg’s career that went through the first commercial
break. Then, after all that, there was Kevin Nash coming out dressed all in
denim, yelling at Scott Steiner and challenging him for a match. Then out came
DDP, followed by Rick Steiner who everyone in the world had forgotten about. Nash,
Scott, and Flair bicker some more and after all that, The Cat comes out, makes
Nash vs. Steiner as the main event and brings and end to a never ending
intolerable segment that was just plain brutal to watch.
1. Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs.
Crowbar - 4
2. Rey Mysterio Jr. &
Billy Kidman vs. Shannon Moore & Shane Helms - 2
As of this point, it’s 26
minutes into the show and we finally get the first match. Last night at Sin,
Chavo retained the Cruiserweight title and it defending it here against
Crowbar, who I’m not sure meets the weight requirement. The gist here is that
Crowbar was comissioned by Ric Flair to show that he’s more than just a
hardcore wrestler. In that aspect, I’d say he did a fair job here. There was a
good nearfall by Crowbar off of a northern lights suplex followed up by a
running splash off the apron. The end featured Chavo smashing Crowbar into a
chair on the floor that was called a “slingshot face jam” by Scott Hudson on
commentary that was followed up with a brainbuster and Chavo retaining the
title. Better match than I expected it to be but the crowd was not into it at
all. Tag match started off with all four guys going at it and this trend
continued through the majority of the bout. Moore took a nutty bump on a
backdrop off the apron, over the ringpost, and straight down to the floor.
There were zero, I mean absolutely zero tags here as it was just a four man
free-for-fall and a bunch of highspots that went about four minutes.
Afterwards, there’s a Mike Awesome run-in … well, more like a jog-in and Lance
Storm issuing an edict for Awesome to face Kidman in a hair match later on.
3. Kronik vs. Sean O’Haire
& Chuck Palumbo - 4
4. Hair vs. Hair Match:
Konnan vs. Mike Awesome - 4
Tag titles were on the line
next and not even a minute in Bryan Clark hits a fucking running somersault
splash off the apron on Palumbo for absolutely no apparent reason. Later, Adams,
not to be outdone, hit a fucking JUMPING MULE KICK! What the hell got into
Kronik? O’Haire’s intensity is just off the charts, screaming and hollering and
being a general crazy man but Palumbo was basically forgotten about and lost in
the shuffle. End was really sloppy as Adams hit one of the worst superplexes on
Palumbo as he landed completely out of position and O’Haire, who was perched on
the opposite corner and hit a Seanton Bomb allowing Palumbo to get the win.
Where was Bryan Clark in all this you wonder? Why he was busy getting a lame
beatdown from Shawn Stasiak and Mark Jindrak who had wandered down to ringside.
Let’s stop for a second and think about something … Konnan is in a hair vs.
hair match. Konnan, who is completely bald, is in a hair vs. hair match.
However, I guess the fact that he’s defending Kidman’s hair is acceptable. Nice
quick start and then Awesome just got smashed with a rolling clothesline. Wild
spot where Awesome got the ring steps and tried a running springboard off of
them which resulted in Konnan throwing a chair into his face in mid-air. Good
nearfall by Konnan off a facebuster. Sloppy and awful looking top-rope DDT on
Awesome polished this off. Awesome seemed to be on auto-pilot for most of the
match but did hit a nice top-rope splash. This was a fun little match although
I probably would have liked to have seen them get some more time.
5. The Cat vs. Bam Bam
Bigelow - 1
6. Shane Douglas vs. Gen.
Rection - 2
7. Scott Steiner vs. Kevin
Nash - 4
Before his match, Cat issued
an open challenge and out came Bam Bam Bigelow of all people wearing a black
button-up shirt with no sleeves. Cat got smashed early on a few times in the
corner to start with but aside from that, there was nothing much here. A
superkick polished off Bigelow in about two minutes. Douglas and Rection was a
rematch for the U.S. Title from Sin. Douglas in his pre-match promo says the
U.S. Title is “16 pounds of gold” and that he’s “fulfilling his destiny”. I’m
sure that when he was growing up as a kid, his ambition was to become the U.S.
Champion and feud with a guy named Gen. Rection. Rection missed a big elbow
drop and so far I’ve found this a bit more enjoyable that the match they had on
the PPV as they weren’t distracted by random stipulations. Douglas went for a
chain in his boot and got a huge press slam for his efforts. Interference by
Chavo by hitting Rection with the chain that Rection through away and the
referee looked completely clueless. Main event was for the WCW
Title and Nash got clobbered with some smashing forearms and chops to start and
hit with a big belly-to-belly suplex from Steiner. This is the liveliest this
crowd has been the whole show. Both guys hit their normal offensive moves but
I’ll be damned if they didn’t have a bit more juice to them that they normally
did. From the beginning it was a stiff, hard hitting slugfest. Everything was
going good right up until the end when Luger, Bagwell, and an assortment of
others interfered and beat down Nash until DDP, Cat, and Rick Steiner made the
save. I’m deducting a point for the end but otherwise this was a lot of fun.
2001: A WCW Odyssey Master List
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