WCW: Heart and Soul

LordofGustav · May 4, 2017

Fan Scorecard:

World Heavyweight Championship: Diamond Dallas Page vs. Booker T {©}

United States Heavyweight Championship: Mark Jindrak vs. Shane Douglas {©}

World Tag Team Championship: The Hardys vs. True Heroes {©}

Cruiserweight Championship: American Dragon vs. AJ Styles {©}

World Women's Championship: Manami Toyota vs. Etsuko Mita {©}

#1 Contender: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. The Destroyer

Sting vs. King Corino

"Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner vs. The Unnatural

Doomsday vs. The Natural Born Thrillers

Alexis Laree vs. Daffney

Yang vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

What will be match of the night?

How many championships will change hands?

Will Lex Luger make it to the show? DDP vs. Booker T

TIEBREAKER: How long will the main event be? (minutes and seconds) 20:03

Who will be the next World Heavyweight Champion? Rey Mysterio?

General diary comments/questions/critiques: I have the feeling that i've posted here, but some reason i didn't.

The Final Countdown · May 5, 2017

June 16th, 2002: Great American Bash <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/GAB02Poster.png June 16th, 2002 From the Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa Attendance: 14,366 (sell-out!) Announce Team: "The Professor" Mike Tenay and Bret "The Hitman" Hart http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Tenay.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Hart.jpg </div> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Cruiser.jpg American Dragon (w/Chavo Guerrero Jr.) vs. AJ Styles {©} http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/SChavo.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Dragon.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Styles.jpg</div> The show started with a cruiserweight title match between two of the brightest young stars in the entire company. I viewed this as almost a test run of sorts, a chance to see how these guys work together. They opened the show tonight, but I could easily see this same match headlining a PPV in the future. I think there were flashes of that potential here, as the in-ring action was nothing short of fantastic. Between AJ's agility and high spots and Danielson's technical wrestling, you could argue that this might have been the best pure match on the show (or maybe second best, but more on that later.) It was held back from being truly great because the crowd only showed mild interest, but I expected that. Both guys are only at middle of the pack status at this point, and they're both babyfaces besides. This was a good match and a nice way to kick off the show, but I fully believe that these guys will have much more memorable matches with each other down the road. Chavo constantly (and loudly) critiqued the match throughout, which distracted both guys at various points. He did not factor into the finish though, as the beginning of the end came when AJ broke Dragon's grip on an attempted Dragon Suplex and caught him with a back flip kick. From there he was able to go to the top rope and deliver the Spiral Tap to retain the title, which left Chavo shaking his head on the outside. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Yang vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Yang.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Daniels.jpg</div> My attempts to get Christopher Daniels more over through talking segments met with only minimal success, so it was time to put him in the ring with a fellow cruiserweight and see what he could do. The initial results were promising. This was one of the shortest matches on the show, and that left both guys free to concentrate on delivering plenty of high spots to please the crowd. Both Yang and Daniels did well in that sort of match, and they delivered exactly what they were asked to. Yang got the upper hand with some mat wrestling (which I thought came across better than it had in any of his previous matches) and went for his Yang Time finisher, but Daniels rolled out of the way. He quickly capitalized with Angel's Descent and won the match. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Keibler.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Hayashi.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Anderson.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Torrie.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Kidman.jpg </div> We ran a segment where Stacy Keibler and Kaz Hayashi cornered Arn Anderson in a backstage hallway. Stacy cited her appearance on the official Great American Bash poster as proof that she and Kaz are valuable to WCW and deserve more opportunities to show it. Torrie Wilson and Kidman overheard and took issue with that. Torrie said everyone knew the poster would've been better if she'd been on it instead, and she also rubbed Kidman's recent Nitro victory over Kaz in Stacy's face. Tempers flared, but Arn and Kidman kept the ladies apart. Stacy didn't do well off-script here and Kaz's nonverbal reactions were pretty bad too, but Arn did very well in his supporting role of trying to be the voice of reason. I'm not sure if this will lead to anything further aside from maybe a rematch tomorrow on Nitro; this was mainly an excuse to get all of these people onto the show. I also wanted to draw attention to the poster to set up something else for the future, so this helped with that as well. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: C+</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Alexis Laree vs. Daffney http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Laree.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Daffney.jpg</div> I told these two to go all out and do their best to impress the fans. I thought Alexis did pretty well with that, but on the other hand the grueling pace seemed to take its toll on her as she was looking tired by the time the match entered the home stretch. This was the worst match on the show, but I was fine with how it turned out considering where both women are at in this stage of their careers. We played off of the previous misting by Daffney that was the impetus for the feud, as Daffney teased the mist more than once during the match. It never happened though, and Daffney didn't need it either: she suplexed Alexis near the corner and hit the Banshee Knee for the clean win. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: C-</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Doomsday vs. The Natural Born Thrillers http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Adams.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Clark.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/OHaire.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Palumbo.jpg </div> A footnote here: initially the Thrillers were penciled in to wrestle Alex Wright and Jamie Knoble on this show as the latter's first PPV after they would've become a full-time team on Nitro weeks before, but Doomsday slid into the match after Wright suffered his torn quad. Get well soon, Das Wunderkind! Eric Bischoff joined Mike and I on commentary for this match, and when asked why he was there he simply said "Empire business." As for the match itself, I thought the best thing for these two teams was the same wild, brawling type of match they've done before. I think that was the right decision and the match wound up being pretty good, as the two teams offered the fans something different than anything else on the show. They beat the crap out of each other and really laid their shots in. Bryan Clark was the big negative. He's in decline physically and I already knew he would be the worst performer in the match, but his performance was actually worse than usual. Thankfully O'Haire was able to pick up Clark's slack and then some. He was the clear star of this match, thoroughly outshining everyone, including Palumbo. Ironically it would be Palumbo who scored the fall when he came off of the top rope with a diving shoulderblock on Clark. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Bulldog.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Heenan.jpg</div> Davey came out for an in-ring interview with The Brain. He thanked the fans for welcoming him back at Mayhem last month and said that even though he didn't win that match, simply stepping into that ring was one of the biggest victories of his career. He talked about how it had been a rough few years for him, but didn't really go into specifics. That was by design. I didn't want to focus too much on those very real and very serious issues in this segment, because it was due to take a ridiculous turn. <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Luger2.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Okerlund.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Katarina.jpg</div> The Campaign came to the ring, with Lex leading the way in a gaudy red white and blue tracksuit. I kept everything carefully scripted here because most of the people who had speaking roles were spotty at best at delivering solid improv. Lex stuck to his script, which called for him to go on a wildly out of touch rant. "This is the Great American Bash, Davey! How DARE you stand in this ring on this night of all nights and try and fool these people into thinking that you're some kind of hero! But Iowa is not fooled, Davey! Iowa remembers the atrocities you Brits committed against our forefathers until we fought our way out from under your oppressive rule and gained our independence! The Flex Express had a long trip back over from Japan, and I'm not about to come all that way and listen to your propaganda! This is the land of the free and the home of the brave, and you aren't welcome here! So I suggest you pack up your things, have a cup of tea and go back where you came from!" I think Lex's cocky, delusional patriot gimmick came across very well here and the fans reacted as intended, laughing at Lex and not taking him seriously. Davey continued on with the script, acting baffled by Lex's behavior. He pointed out that the American Revolutionary War ended over 200 years ago, and everybody else had kind of moved on by now. America and Britain were allies and friends now (he even referenced their old Allied Powers tag team in the process.) Lex would not listen to any of Davey's logical points and vowed to fight off the modern-day British invasion on behalf of the country he called home. Heenan and Gene bantered in the background while this was going on. Bobby tried to get specifics from Gene on how they'd made it across the ocean on a bus, but Gene just shook his head and muttered '"don't ask." Gene was very underwhelming here, as he didn't really do enough to play up the absurdity of the scenario. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: C</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">#1 Contender's Match: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. The Destroyer (w/Father Isaac) http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Rey.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Destroyer.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/SIsaac.jpg</div> This is the third time we've run this match, but the first since Mike Awesome adopted his new masked gimmick. There was no US title on the line this time to provide a boost, but that was more than offset by the fact that both of these guys have seen their popularity rise in the eleven months since their last match at Bash at the Beach. The result was a very good match, which was better than either of their previous PPV bouts and better than anything on the show to this point. Tenay and I plugged that the winner of this match will challenge for the world title next month in Australia at Bash at the Beach. You really can't do anything other than a David vs. Goliath format with this matchup considering the massive difference in size, so that's exactly what this was. Destroyer caught Rey on a springboard and tossed him to the mat, but the attempted Destruction Bomb was countered into a hurricanrana. Rey hit three springboard legdrops in a row, and that was enough to finish the match and make him the new #1 contender. Visually, I thought that was a better finish than Rey pinning this huge opponent with a rana, and it also protects Destroyer a bit as Rey had to deviate from his normal arsenal to put him down. Regardless, Rey wins the match and moves on to a world title program. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B+</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/DDP.jpg </div> DDP cut a promo about tonight's main event. It was pretty basic stuff: he recapped sneaking into Booker T's celebration and laying him out with a Diamond Cutter. "You gettin' paranoid yet, Book? You holdin' that title belt real tight to your chest? I bet you are, because you got a look into your future Monday on Nitro. You know that after all that time you obsessed over getting that world title back, it can be taken away from you with a snap of the fingers, or should I say the snap of the Diamond Cutter? That's all it'll take, Book. One moment, one opening, one Diamond Cutter, and that belt is mine. Bang." Nothing groundbreaking here, but the feud is so hot and the crowd is so invested that they reacted huge to this while watching it on the big video screen. As Dallas walked away from the backstage set, the camera caught a momentary flash of someone standing in the background. It was a blink and you'll miss it type of thing, and most viewers at home probably would've needed to go back, pause it and stare intently at the screen to make it out who it was. All it took was one hardcore fan to do so and post their findings on the Internet, though, for it to become clear. <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Kimberly.jpg Grade: A*</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">"Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner (w/Midajah) vs. The Unnatural (w/Father Isaac) http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/SMidajah.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/SSteiner.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Unnatural.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/SIsaac.jpg</div> Steiner ran at Unnatural right at the bell and floored him with a clothesline before getting in mount position and forearming him across the face repeatedly. That set the tone for what this match was going to be all about. Scotty battered his opponent with strikes, threw him around the ring with suplexes and trash talked him all the while. That's not to say it was a one-sided squash or anything; Dustin got some offense in, usually by capitalizing on a mistake Steiner made in his eagerness to inflict pain. The story was that Scott could have gone for and potentially gotten the win several times, but he was more concerned with trying to hurt Unnatural. That all led up to Unnatural poking him in the eye to thwart a Seiner Screwdriver, and then rolling him up for a pin seemingly out of nowhere. This was a solid match which would have been better if it had been a bit more give and take rather than Scott dominating for most of it, but it was done in this way both to appease Steiner and to advance the storyline. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Womens.jpg Manami Toyota vs. Etsuko Mita {©} (w/Eric Bischoff) http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Toyota.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Mita.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/SBischoff.jpg </div> As far as talent goes, this is the best matchup we've presented in our women's division. As such, I told them to go all out and do their best to show the fans what our take on women's wrestling is all about. I thought both women rose to the challenge and upped their game accordingly. This was a great, back-and-forth athletic match. They wrestled with a smoothness that WWE's women could never hope to match while also executing moves you'd never see the scantily clad sports entertainment women use. Really the only thing the match was lacking was a true superstar reaction and investment from the fans, but I'm confident that that will come in due time. Both women teased their established finishers (Toyota's Ocean Cyclone and Mita's Death Valley Driver) multiple times but were unable to hit them. A big high point of the match came when the two women traded punches, chops and headbutts while standing on the ropes, each trying to get the upper hand and deliver a big move. Toyota eventually gained the advantage and connected with a sunset flip powerbomb off of the top rope. Both women sold that for a bit before getting back up to their feet. And then... <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Daffney.jpg</div> Daffney suddenly entered the ring and spat her green mist in the faces of both women! <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B- http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Hokuto.jpg</div> Daffney was joined after the match by a woman wearing strange all-white garb, who Mike and I identified to the fans at home as Akira Hokuto. Daffney grabbed the microphone away from the ring announcer and gave Hokuto a bigger intro, calling her the "harbinger of havoc". She talked about the official warning she'd been given by the front office about using her mist. They'd told her that they wanted good, clean and orderly wrestling on their shows, especially from the women since women's wrestling didn't have the best reputation thanks to certain other wrestling organizations, and acts like spitting mist in women's faces caused only disorder. But, far from being chastised, she took it as a compliment. Both she and Hokuto thought that the women's scene would be a lot more interesting with less order and more chaos. And that's exactly what they were going to bring to WCW's women: Chaos! (That's the name of their team, if you haven't pieced that together yet.) Hokuto did not just stand there and do nothing during Daffney's monologue. She put a beating on both Toyota and Mita the entire time, laying Mita out with a gutwrench powerbomb and dropping Toyota with a Northern Lights bomb. I thought the initial fan reaction to Hokuto's mysterious gimmick was above average even if her performance wasn't great, and Toyota sold the attack really well. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: C-</div> </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Sting vs. King Corino (w/Eric Bischoff) http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Sting.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Corino.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/SBischoff.jpg</div> As has become customary for any PPV matches involving Sting or Ric Flair, this match was focused more on telling a story as opposed to having a great match. Sting's physical decline took its toll and diminished the match a bit, but I thought they did a good job at working around his limitations and telling an entertaining story. It was all about Sting attacking Corino's back and softening him up for the Scorpion Deathlock, while Corino spent his time targeting Sting's neck in a clear setup for the piledriver. Sting also kept an eye on Bischoff at ringside. Eric had his bat in hand, but Sting was aware of him and never gave him a chance to use it. Corino went for the piledriver, but Sting countered with a back body drop. A furry of punches and backhand strikes backed Corino up into the corner, and Sting hurled him halfway across the ring with a hip toss. Corino got up and staggered back into the corner, where Sting pursued him for the Stinger Splash, only for Corino to sidestep at the last second. Sting crashed into the turnbuckles hard, and Corino quickly delivered the piledriver for a surprisingly clean pin. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Candido.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/SSytch.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Taka.jpg</div> The rest of The Empire (minus Etsuko Mita) came to the ring to congratulate Corino on his big win. It didn't stop there though; after a bit of bragging, Bischoff said he was in the mood to hit another grand slam. Candido and TAKA held Sting up, and Corino kept his arm extended as Bischoff made a big production of picking up the bat and taking a few practice swings. Before he could take a real swing at Sting's arm... <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Flair.jpg</div> Ric Flair ran down to the ring, holding a steel chair! The Empire scattered to the floor as Ric swung the chair around indiscriminately, and as they retreated Ric dropped the chair and grabbed the microphone they'd dropped in the ring. This was the angry, intense, screaming side of Flair, who told Bischoff that he'd have to do a hell of a lot better than he did at Slamboree if he wanted to finish the Nature Boy. Better men than him had been taking shots at him for the last thirty years, and he was still standing. If The Empire wanted a war, Flair would give it to them! "You think hitting my arm with a bat is going to finish me? I broke my back in a plane crash in 1975 and doctors told me I'd never wrestle again, and here I am in 2002! You wanna drive the Nature Boy out of WCW? Give it your best shot, jackass! WOOOOOOOO!" I wasn't thrilled about him using profanity but such are the risks of handing Ric Flair a live mic, especially when the subject is someone he legitimately dislikes. I guess "jackass" isn't TOO bad though, and it did end this angle on an emphatic note. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: A</div> </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Tag.jpg The Hardys vs. True Heroes {©} http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/JHardy.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/MHardy.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Storm.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Punk.jpg </div> We'd been teasing this match for months, literally from the moment Matt and Jeff first appeared on Nitro on January 28th. Now it was finally time to put both teams in the ring and see what they could do. I had high hopes here. All four of these guys are great individually, both teams have great chemistry, and obviously Matt and Jeff have tons of experience working together. Given all of that, I told them to go out and try to steal the show. Did they succeed? Yes. Hell yes. Oh my god, without a doubt, yes. This match was nothing short of fantastic. The two teams delivered a nonstop barrage of exciting tag team wrestling that made these belts feel like a bigger deal than at any point in WCW history. The Hardys did lots of flashy aerial moves and double teams, while Storm and Punk wrestled a technical match, with the occasional cheap shot mixed in to get some heat on them. Everything these four guys did worked, and they had the fans on the edge of their seats the whole way. (Some might call it the ultimate thrill ride, but that sounds pretty dumb if you ask me.) I'm not ashamed to admit that even I was completely sucked in by this instant classic. A minor nitpick would be a lack of an epic story told within the match, but I don't think it hurt anyone's enjoyment of the work these two teams did. In my opinion, Matt did also struggle a bit at times with the pressure of trying to steal the show, but the other three guys had no such issues and that more than made up for it. All four guys were awesome tonight, but Jeff Hardy's performance was on another level even in comparison to the other three, which is saying quite a lot. The fans were electric for every single thing Jeff did, whether it be a high spot like when he took both members of True Heroes out with the Whisper in the Wind, or even something as simple as playing to the sympathy of the crowd as Punk and Storm got heat on him. As long as Jeff stays clean, the sky is the limit. With him leading the way, this was not only a slam dunk match of the night, it was the best match in our history and one of the best matches anywhere in the world so far this year. After over twenty minutes of thrilling action, the Hardys ended a streak of mat-based dominance from the Heroes when Jeff hit an enzuigiri on Storm. He made the tag to Matt, who came in and went to town on Storm, hitting him with a series of big moves and wisely keeping him well away from his corner where he could tag in Punk. Matt struck with the Twist of Fate! Charles Robinson counted once... twice... ...Punk broke it up, by hitting Matt right across the back with a steel chair! The fans were understandably bummed at the dq finish, but I'm sure they quickly perked up when they realized that this finish was a natural set-up for a rematch. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: A</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/SSteiner.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/RSteiner.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Midajah.jpg </div> Scott Steiner barged into the WCW.com live chat area, with Midajah and his brother Rick trailing behind him. He tossed a producer aside, picked up a computer monitor and slammed it on the floor, smashing it into pieces. (The old WCW would've wasted thousands on a state-of-the-art monitor for this spot; we just used one of our old, broken ones.) He got right in the face of the camera man on hand to record the chat session (for website clips) and delivered an intense promo towards The Unnatural. "You pinned me tonight, ya freak, but big deal! I coulda beat you any time I wanted to, but I wanted to beat you up instead! And that's just what I did! And I'm gonna keep doin' it, because I ain't done with you yet, boy! You made the biggest mistake of your whole life when you attacked me last month, and this ain't over until I say it is! It ain't over until I beat you up so bad, you'll beg Vince McMahon to take you back and let you dress in drag again!" The usual Scott Steiner insanity here, but I thought he did a good job staying focused on the feud with Dustin instead of veering too far off into an unrelated tangent like he often does. He came across like a really intimidating presence here. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B-</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/US.jpg Mark Jindrak vs. Shane Douglas {©} http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Jindrak.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Douglas2.jpg</div> This match was always intended as a buffer between the tag title showcase and the main event, and after how amazing the Hardys vs. True Heroes match wound up being, that looked like a very good decision. Obviously this match wasn't going to come anywhere close to the one that preceded it, but it didn't need to. All we were looking for here was a solid match, one that would bridge the gap between the two featured matches without losing the crowd. They accomplished that, and Douglas deserves most of the credit. He knew he had to carry the limited Jindrak if this was going to be any good, and he did. This match was technique against power, and in this case I don't think anybody was really surprised when Douglas outwrestled Jindrak and made him submit to the crossface. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/RVD.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Piper.jpg</div> As Piper promised, he had RVD as his guest on Piper's Pit in Rob's first appearance since losing the title to Booker T last month at Mayhem. Unfortunately, this was another poor performance from Roddy. He took more of a humorous tone as he asked Rob what was next in his career, which was very out of place. RVD did a better job and propped the segment up nicely. He dropped some of the laid-back, 'dude' aspects of his character and was more serious as he admitted that losing the title had been a big blow to him. But he wasn't going to go down the same path Booker T went and go off the deep end. He wasn't going to become bitter and whine all the time like Booker. Instead, he was going to bounce back, show his one of a kind skills and work his way back up the ladder until he was champion again. As he was talking, the lights suddenly went out. When they came back on... <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Mortis.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Isaac.jpg</div> RVD was laid out in the ring, and standing over him was Mortis and Father Isaac. Isaac said that RVD's talk of redemption and recovery was a wonderful fantasy. But reality would be much harsher on him so long as he continued on his current course. I thought Isaac was very good here, and Mortis did pretty well too when he was handed the microphone. He didn't say much, but he was effective. "You call yourself one of a kind? The lone wolf dies, but the pack survives, and Salvation is the strongest pack around. You have two choices, Rob: join us and be born anew, or stand alone and be doomed to fall." <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: A</div></div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/World.jpg Diamond Dallas Page vs. Booker T {©} http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/DDP.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/vs.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Booker2.jpg </div> It was main event time. After that unforgettable tag match, I felt it was virtually impossible for this to go down as the match of the night. I was just hoping for a great match that would allow the show to end on a high note, and I had no complaints in the end. DDP's age is clearly catching up to him. He was gassed by the time this match ended. Luckily Booker had his working boots on. Book did a fantastic job here, essentially carrying Dallas and making sure the match didn't fall apart in the home stretch. Working off of the TV build, the Diamond Cutter was a key focus of the entire match, with the idea that both men believed one opportunity at that move could mean the end of the match (and in Booker's case, his title reign.) As such, Dallas went for the move frequently, even just a minute or so into the match. It got a good reaction every time, and Booker sold his wariness of the move extremely well. At one point he ducked through the ropes to regroup after narrowly escaping the move, and DDP pursued him out there. That set off a brawl on the floor, which included probably the most memorable spot in the match: DDP went for the Diamond Cutter, but Booker countered with a back suplex on the floor. Booker dominated when the match returned to the ring but could not put DDP away. Eventually Dallas ducked underneath a Harlem Sidekick and went on a run of offense, but his Diamond Cutter attempt was fended off when Booker saved himself by holding onto the top rope. That proved to be the fatigued DDP's last gasp, as Booker soon hit the Book End to retain the title at 20:53. <div style="text-align:center;">Grade: B+</div></div></blockquote> <div style="text-align:center;">Show Overall Grade: A</div> The tag title match was a 99, if you're curious. Thanks once again to K-Nection for the poster.

K-Nection · May 5, 2017

I have no qualms about getting things wrong when matches and stories unfold like that! Probably one of my favorite shows you have run yet and that is a huge accomplishment!!!

Hardys vs. True Heroes being a MOTY canidate is insane!!! I guess one of the 4 men in the match broke the psych wall?.....

I'm glad Flair the crazy old man is back in the ring. It really is a shame that Sting is in such huge decline now even though in RL it probably didn't even start till about 2009.

Your Women's division is really rounding out nicely! You are doing a great job of rolling them out and I'm glad to see that Toyota vs. Mita did so well before they are truly over in the states.

Lex calling out Davey was great and I'm loving this Lex far more than I ever did in RL!

Also you don't know how close I came to having Torrie on the poster but she wasn't featured in the shows for a long time and Stacey was.

michgcs · May 5, 2017

WHOA-- 99 even with the DQ ending? That's great work from the two teams!

Armando Payne · May 5, 2017

Considering what's going on in the women's division with the aftereffects of the Women's Championship, may I consider you pairing up Alexis Laree and Manami Toyota and calling their pairing The Bullet Club? Considering they're against Chaos an' all.

The Final Countdown · May 5, 2017

Prediction Results <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Prediction Scores (out of a possible 14): Cro Cop Rules: 12 cbacon87: 11 Dead_Jester: 11 crackerjack: 10 franticloser: 10 Purotastic: 10 Wolfman84: 10 Jackets: 10 Ian carlisle: 9 K-Nection: 9 Satyr24: 9 Rateddc: 9 Beejus: 9 SIser187: 9 Nobby_McDonald: 9 RKOwnage: 9 KnowYourEnemy: 9 BHK6: 9 The Lariat: 9 Uncrewed: 8 DGenerationMC: 8 Warhawk8492: 8 deanohbk: 8 Happy0wns: 8 jscotty: 8 shawn michaels 82: 8 bonnie: 8 evileddie10: 8 Bluestillidie00: 8 GingeyOne: 8 smw88: 7 Kijar: 7 Briskout: 7 LordofGustav: 7 odan: 6 michgcs: 6 chrismday: 6 sportsfanmas: 6 Armando Payne: 5 </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Final Standings in prediction contest after 3 shows: 1. Dead_Jester: 33 (20:26) 2. K-Nection: 33 (22:13) 3. Rateddc: 32 evileddie10: 31 Beejus: 31 jscotty: 30 franticloser: 30 crackerjack: 30 Uncrewed: 29 Satyr24: 29 KnowYourEnemy: 29 deanohbk: 28 The Lariat: 28 BHK6: 28 cbacon87: 28 Happy0wns: 27 smw88: 26 Nobby_McDonald: 26 Cro Cop Rules: 25 michgcs: 24 chrismday: 24 DGenerationMC: 24 Wolfman84: 24 Briskout: 23 Armando Payne: 22 Kijar: 22 Warhawk8492: 22 Ian carlisle: 22 sportsfanmas: 21 LordofGustav: 21 GingeyOne: 21 Purotastic: 21 SIser187: 18 Larrikn: 12 Jackets: 10 RKOwnage: 9 shawn michaels 82: 8 bonnie: 8 Bluestillidie00: 8 The Lloyd: 6 odan: 6 </div></blockquote> <hr noshade size=3> I'll PM finishers #1-3 with their prizes soon. The contest to decide the teams for the next UFS begins with Bash at the Beach and runs through Starrcade. This year there will actually be nine prizes, because someone will get to run the Royal Rumble as well. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="bonnie" data-cite="bonnie" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Long time reader, first time predictor!</div></blockquote> Welcome! <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Beejus" data-cite="Beejus" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> I feel a little like I threw Jindrak to the wolves by giving him a US title shot, but there just weren't really many options to go with when it came to handing out title shots.[/i]</div></blockquote> Yeah, not much else. I guess you could've thrown him a tag title shot with somebody (Stasiak?) <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="K-Nection" data-cite="K-Nection" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Yeah I think Brett needs to consider bringing back the TV title or maybe even a Japanese Title (since WWE has the European. I think you mentioned some Japanese companies that closed maybe you can buy one of those belts and bring in the champ on a PPA to drop it to one of your roster and continue the lineage)....I know he has the cruiserweight belt but it don't help out guys who are lower carders that are over the weight limit. I felt handing Alex Wright a U.S. Title shot was too much but also giving him a Tag Shot was a throwaway as he didn't have a regular partner (Really wanted TFC to pick up Al Snow and revive the gambler gimmick to tag with him <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />).</div></blockquote> I'm trying to avoid introducing any more titles than I need. I guess I COULD bring back the TV title and make it a Nitro/Saturday Night exclusive belt for lower card guys to fight over, but I dunno. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Armando Payne" data-cite="Armando Payne" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> Cruiserweight Championship: American Dragon vs. AJ Styles {©} *To the tune of American Males theme tune* AMERICAN. DRAGON. AMERICAN. DRAGON. AMERICAN. DRAGON. AMERICAN DRAGON. AMERICAN DRAGON. Now in saying that, I really, really, really love predicting Schmoz finishes in title matches as you know. And I'm kinda predicting now to finally pull the switch on Chavo turning on AMERICAN DRAGON as soon as The American Male has AJ locked into submission, AJ's gonna tap, everyone's gonna pop, new champion and then Chavo comes in beats them both up with the Cruiserweight belt, hits A-MERRY-CAN DRAGON with the Gory Bomb, puts the championship over AJ Styles, hits him with the Frog Splash then picks up the belt and holds it.</div></blockquote> That HAS to be the first time anyone has ever put Bryan Danielson and Scotty Riggs together. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>27:56 (I was going to vote for like a 45 minute time limit draw because this question spooked me, I thought you were foreshadowing a time draw because of asking for a first time in a while the time of the match and usually when a time comes out of the blue it foreshadows a time limit draw.)</div></blockquote> It was the first time I've asked this question for awhile because I only use it as a tiebreaker on the final show of a prediction contest, in case anyone in prize position winds up with the same score (like Dead_Jester and K-Nection did.) <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="RKOwnage" data-cite="RKOwnage" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> General diary comments/questions/critiques: I just finished reading this from the beginning. Wow, what a ride. I'm glad I could catch on right at the end of one of the prediction cycles. Everything has been awesome so far. And I mean everything. Including Stevie Ray on the microphone!</div></blockquote> Welcome aboard! Fun fact: Stevie Ray has been hired as a color commentator in Feinstein's ROH! Fun fact #2: this mod gives Stevie Ray a 0 in color commentary! <img alt=":eek:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="K-Nection" data-cite="K-Nection" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I have no qualms about getting things wrong when matches and stories unfold like that! Probably one of my favorite shows you have run yet and that is a huge accomplishment!!! Hardys vs. True Heroes being a MOTY canidate is insane!!! I guess one of the 4 men in the match broke the psych wall?.....</div></blockquote> Nope, the psych penalty was in effect. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="michgcs" data-cite="michgcs" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>WHOA-- 99 even with the DQ ending? That's great work from the two teams!</div></blockquote> My product isn't penalized for DQ finishes, so that didn't hurt me. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Armando Payne" data-cite="Armando Payne" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Considering what's going on in the women's division with the aftereffects of the Women's Championship, may I consider you pairing up Alexis Laree and Manami Toyota and calling their pairing The Bullet Club? Considering they're against Chaos an' all.</div></blockquote> So I guess I also would need to sign Cutie Suzuki as the head of Suzuki-Gun? And find a luchadora to lead Los Ingobernables de Japon? <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

The Lariat · May 6, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="The Final Countdown" data-cite="The Final Countdown" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><hr noshade size=3> So I guess I also would need to sign Cutie Suzuki as the head of Suzuki-Gun? And find a luchadora to lead Los Ingobernables de Japon? <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote> Ayako Hamada needs to lead LIDJ. You know, if she's in that mod.

The Final Countdown · May 6, 2017

Sorry to bump this with no advancement of the story, but I've created a poll on possibly bringing back the TV title. If I do so it'll be defended regularly on Nitro/Saturday Night, but never on PPV. <a href="http://www.strawpoll.me/12909636" rel="external nofollow">Vote here</a> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="The Lariat" data-cite="The Lariat" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Ayako Hamada needs to lead LIDJ. You know, if she's in that mod.</div></blockquote> A) She is. B) I would love to bring her in. I always thought she was very good, and I also had a little bit of a crush on her back at this time. She's only active in Mexico and Japan though, so that's not an option right now.

shawn michaels · May 7, 2017

That was a great show. Curious to see what comes out of here. The Tag match being 99 after a DQ finish was great and keeps me interested to see a rematch (or two) happening. I'm also wondering what Kimberly will be up to, but I guess betraying DDP will probably be a part of it. <img alt="

" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Loving all these storylines so far. Can't believe Lex made it to the PPV this time. His segments are gold. "The Internet" (meaning us at GDS) loves them, so even if the grades aren't gonna be that big, you still have to keep that ball going.

Nobby_McDonald · May 7, 2017

The Hardy Heroes stoke the show.

RKOwnage · May 7, 2017

I echo what everyone else has said. Great show!

Also, Hokuto, the Harbinger of Havoc? Someone up north might not like this little "game" you're playing <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

The Final Countdown · May 11, 2017

June 2002: Road to Bash at the Beach, Part I <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Nitro2.jpg June 17th, 2002 From the Knapp Center in Des Moines, Iowa Attendance: 7,002 (sell-out!) Announce Team: "The Professor" Mike Tenay and Bret "The Hitman" Hart </div> Show-opening in-ring promo between Booker T and Rey Misterio Jr. to promote their title match at Bash at the Beach. Both men agree they have unfinished business, referencing their US title match at SuperBrawl, Booker costing Rey the US title by interfering in his match against Shane Douglas as well as his involvement in both of Rey's World title matches against Rob Van Dam. They also reference the "pick your poison" where both guys will choose an opponent for the other over the next two weeks. It starts next week, with Rey telling Booker he'll be facing the man who beat him to end his last reign as world champion: Scott Steiner! (B+) The first match of the night saw the Natural Born Thrillers run right through 3 Count. Eric Bischoff stepped out into the aisle to watch the match and nodded his head at what he was seeing. (B-) Mark Jindrak confronts Shane Douglas backstage and requests a rematch, believing he was close to winning the title and can do it with one more chance. Douglas laughs in his face and tells him to accept that they're on two completely different levels. (B-) Yang gave a strong effort, but Chris Candido grounded his flying and beat him with the fisherman buster. (B) Post-match, Candido and the rest of The Empire mock Ric Flair for returning last night. "You should've stayed at home and tried to live off of what was left of your sad, pathetic legacy. Now we're going to have to destroy whatever is left of the once-great Nature Boy!" Bischoff proclaims. (B+) In the locker room, a chat between AJ Styles and American Dragon is interrupted by Chavo Guerrero Jr. Chavo tells his protége that he's very disappointed in him for his failure last night, and even more now that he's standing here talking to the guy who beat him like they're old buddies. He challenges both of them to a tag team match next week, and introduces the man who will help him teach Dragon a much-needed lesson: Shane Helms! (B-) Christopher Daniels didn't have any trouble beating former WCW wrestler Lenny Lane. Jamie Knoble watched the match from the announcer's table and made it clear he was interested in testing the skills of the self-proclaimed "God's gift to the cruiserweight division." (C+) Stacy Keibler and Kaz Hayashi approach Yang as he unwinds following his earlier defeat. Keibler says both men have been struggling recently, and suggests they reform the Jung Dragons and pursue tag team glory. Yang doesn't appear to totally trust Keibler, but says he'll think about it. (D+) In a match between two world-class technical masters, Lex Luger forced Big Vito to submit to the Torture Rack with Gene and Katarina watching on. (D) Luger cuts a post-match promo in which he calls Davey Boy Smith "despa-despicable" for invading America, and promises to send him packing just like the fathers of this country sent that disgusting tea into the Boston Harbor. Afterwards, there's a shot of Davey watching on a monitor and shaking his head in confusion. (C+) Toshiyo Yamada is the much more experienced and seasoned competitor, but she seemed thrown off by the eccentric Daffney, who defeated her with the Banshee Knee. (C-) Post-match, Daffney trash talks Yamada as Akira Hokuto goes on the attack. Manami Toyota rushes out to save her occasional partner and dares both members of Chaos to fight her, but Daffney just laughs as she and Hokuto leave. (D+) <div style="text-align:center;">Spotlight Segment: http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Punk.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Storm.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/JHardy.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/MHardy.jpg True Heroes took to the ring to boast about withstanding the challenge of the Hardys and retaining their tag team titles last night, and it wasn't long before Matt and Jeff came out to confront them. Jeff wasn't good as he tried to call them cowards, but the way he delivered it came across as whining and unsympathetic, which obviously wasn't what we want out of a babyface promo. The Heroes mocked him a bit for that. Storm wasn't anything special, but wasn't bad either as he called up a replay of Jeff using a closed fist during the match and said that that had been clear grounds for a disqualification. After the referee allowed that to slide, the Heroes naturally assumed that the rulebook had been thrown out the window and so merely attempted to fight fire with fire. Matt responded to that on behalf of the brothers, and he was honestly the strongest performer of the entire segment this time. He avoided Jeff's mistakes and didn't really whine. Instead he confidently said that no matter what flimsy excuse the Heroes wanted to make, they got themselves disqualified because they knew the Hardys had their number and were about to take their titles, and that's exactly what will happen when they get another shot at the titles. Punk shot that down, and he was a solid performer on the microphone as usual even if Matt was a bit better this time. "Good luck with that. Unfortunately for you, you failed to take the titles last night. The record books might say that you won, but it was your job as the challengers to pin us or make us submit, and you couldn't do it! That means that you go to the back of the line while we move on to new, more worthy challengers!" "That's not your decision to make, Punk." All attention turned to the new voice that had joined the conversation. http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Anderson.jpg Our commissioner stood in the aisle, and he had a microphone of his own. "Punk, Storm, congratulations on your success last night. You found a way out, you found a loophole and you exploited it. I can't even get angry with you for doing so, because fifteen or twenty years ago I might very well have done the same thing. I didn't wear a white hat, and I didn't allow a little thing like the rules to get in my way. As the onetime Enforcer of the Four Horsemen, I have to tip my cap to you. But as the commissioner of World Championship Wrestling, it's my job to give these fans the best professional wrestling in the world. If you want to be a champion here in WCW, you're going to have to earn it, and if you think you proved anything last night you are sadly mistaken. While it is ordinarily true that we don't grant immediate title rematches, the Hardys were victorious last night. In my mind that means they're still the #1 contenders to the world tag team championship, and so I can announce right here and now that there will be a rematch for the titles at Bash at the Beach!" The fans popped for that, the Hardys high fived each other and the Heroes shook their heads and complained. Arn turned and walked back towards the curtain, but suddenly turned around like he'd just remembered something. "Oh, I almost forgot. To make sure we don't have a repeat of last night, this rematch will have no disqualifications!" Grade: B</div> 24 hours after coming up just short in his world title shot against Booker T, DDP dominated Alan Funk and beat him with the Diamond Cutter. © Post-match interview with Heenan: Bobby tries to ask DDP about the current state of his career, but he's suddenly attacked and laid out by a chair-wielding Buff Bagwell. (B) Post-Great American Bash footage: Sting welcomes Ric Flair back, but asks him if his arm is fully healed from the bat shot. Ric tells him not to worry about it, because the Nature Boy is back to style and profile! (B) Our main event featured Hugh Morrus and Konnan butting heads with Mortis and The Unnatural of Salvation. While Morrus and Konnan kept it competitive as usual, Mortis secured the victory for his team with the Flatliner. (B+) The Steiners run in and attack Mortis and Unnatural after the match. They cut off The Unnatural in the aisle as Salvation tries to retreat, and batter him against the guard rail. Mortis makes it almost to the curtain when RVD steps out, throws a steel chair right at his face and connects with the Van Daminator! He does his "R-V-D" thumb pose and the Steiners continue to beat on Unnatural as the show ends. (A) <div style="text-align:center;">Show Grade: B+ http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Saturday.jpg Taped immediately after Nitro Announce Team: Tony Schiavone and Tracy Brooks </div> Fit Finlay gave Lenny Lane a beating in a one-sided match. (C+) Christopher Daniels interview; he says he'll confront Jamie Knoble on Nitro. (C-) Hayabusa won a cruiserweight bout against Cash. (C+) AJ Styles and American Dragon cut a promo about their match against Chavo and Shane Helms on Nitro. (C+) Rick Steiner defeated Mike Sanders. © <div style="text-align:center;">Show Grade: C </div> </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Nitro2.jpg June 24th, 2002 From Trusts Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand Attendance: 4,886 Announce Team: "The Professor" Mike Tenay and Bret "The Hitman" Hart </div> The show opener saw The Empire duo of King Corino and Chris Candido outwrestle the physically superior Doomsday, with Candido pinning Bryan Clark. (B) The Empire's post match promo is interrupted by a chair-wielding Ric Flair. The Nature Boy grabs the mic and challenges anybody from Empire to fight him any time, any place, and he'll show them he's still got plenty of fight left! (A) Davey Boy Smith's match against Shawn Stasiak was interrupted by Lex Luger, who attacked Bulldog and put him in the Torture Rack for a dq. (C-) In an interview with Bobby Heenan, Christopher Daniels accepts Jamie Knoble's challenge and says he'll prove that he truly is God's gift to the cruiserweight division. © <div style="text-align:center;">Spotlight Segment: http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Bischoff.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/OHaire.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Palumbo.jpg We aired footage recorded at a recent house show, where Bischoff approached the Thrillers in the ring after a victory in a tag team match. He applauded them on their win and revealed that The Empire was always on the lookout for new talent, and he'd had his eye on them for some time. "You guys were the most dominant tag team in the modern era. For nearly an entire year you ruled WCW's tag team division before True Heroes came along. Now you've made it clear that you want to get those belts back, but I'm sure you're frustrated that Matt and Jeff Hardy have leapfrogged you in the contender's rankings. They haven't even done a fraction of what you guys have done in WCW, yet they're the ones challenging for the titles on two straight PPVS! That should be you guys! You're the most decorated and accomplished team in WCW today, and it's about time you got treated as such! "I can help you there. You guys want those belts back, while I want to add more talent, more gold and more influence to my Empire. It's a win-win situation, gentlemen. Join The Empire, and I guarantee you I'll help you become bigger, better and RICHER stars than you ever were on your own." The Thrillers talked amongst themselves off-microphone but didn't verbally respond to Eric. The angle didn't call for that, and O'Haire and Palumbo come off better when they don't have to speak anyway. Eric did a good job with his delivery here. It came across as a powerful and persuasive speech. He told the Thrillers to take some time and think it over, and he was sure they were smart enough to make the right decision. Grade: B+</div> The argument between Torrie Wilson and Stacy Keibler at Great American Bash led to a rematch between Kidman and Kaz Hayashi tonight. A back and forth aerial showcase was crashed by Yang, who attacked Kidman behind the ref's back and opened the door for Hayashi to finish him with a back senton. (B) DDP confronts Buff Bagwell, demanding to know what his problem was. Buff laughs it off and says he got "a great incentive" to attack Dallas with the chair last week. (C+) Pre-taped promos reveal that Rob Van Dam and The Steiners will take on Salvation in a six man tag at Bash at the Beach. In addition to hyping their feuds, both teams make note of RVD and Scott Steiner teaming after their battles over the world title, adding an extra wrinkle of intrigue to the match. (A*) Melissa Anderson served as the opponent for Akira Hokuto's first match in WCW since 1997. The niece of Double A was a very tough obstacle, but Hokuto defeated her with the Northern Lights Bomb. © Manami Toyota appears in the aisle after the match and says she wants a piece of Chaos, but Etsuko Mita and Eric Bischoff come out and say that they have an axe to grind with Chaos as well for ruining the match at Great American Bash, and the champ's desires supersede whatever Toyota wants. Daffney stands beside Hokuto in the ring and laughs at the drama. (C-) Shane Douglas' interview for WCW.com is interrupted by Mark Jindrak, who walks right up to him but doesn't say anything. Douglas laughs and tells him to beat it, because the champ is too busy to deal with a peon like him. Jindrak remains silent, but slaps Douglas right across the face before walking off! (C+) As promised, American Dragon teamed with AJ Styles against Chavo Guerrero Jr. and Shane Helms. All four guys got a chance to showcase their offense here, and the Dragon/Chavo story advanced with Chavo talking about "tough love" and "hard lessons" when he went on the offense against his pupil. Chavo got the win for his team in the end, and he did it by pinning the reigning cruiserweight champion with a frog splash. (B+) Arn Anderson informs the Hardys and True Heroes that their match at Great American Bash was so good, the rematch was being considered for the main event spot at Bash at the Beach. "We couldn't decide, so in the end we'll leave it up to the fans. Right after this show a poll will open on WCW.com, where we'll allow the fans to decide whether the tag title rematch or world title match should be the main event." (B+) The main event featured Booker T in non-title action against Rey Misterio Jr's hand-picked opponent, Scott Steiner. Mike and I spent a lot of time talking about the intrigue here, as Steiner defeated Booker to end his last title reign and also has a guaranteed world title match to his credit after leading his team to victory in the UFS. It was more of the same action between these two, but The Unnatural showing up at ringside threw Scott off just enough for Booker to hit him with a Harlem Sidekick to the back of the neck and roll him up for the 3 count. (B+) After the match, Rey comes out to hear who Booker has chosen as his opponent for next week. Booker hypes the opponent as one of the biggest rivals of Rey's career, a man who knows him better than just about anybody and knows just how to beat him, just how to hurt him. He introduces the opponent: <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Psychosis.jpg Psychosis! (A) Show Grade: A http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Saturday.jpg Taped immediately after Nitro Announce Team: Tony Schiavone and Tracy Brooks </div> In women's action, a tornado DDT propelled Alexis Laree to victory over Shinobu Kandori. © Backstage promo: Stacy Keibler celebrates the reunion of the Jung Dragons. (D) With Christopher Daniels watching on color commentary, Jamie Knoble defeated 3 Count's Shannon Moore via submission. (C+) Bobby Heenan interviews Psychosis, who says he doesn't care about Booker T, Rey Misterio Jr or their title match. He's here to make a statement and earn his way back to WCW full-time. (C-) True Heroes squashed the team of Jason Jett and Lash Leroux. (C-) <div style="text-align:center;">Show Grade: C- </div> </div></blockquote> <hr noshade size=3> <a href="http://www.strawpoll.me/12942117" rel="external nofollow">Here's the poll to decide the main event of Bash at the Beach.</a> The TV title poll is still open, but the result is pretty obvious at this point. The Yay's ran away with it. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="shawn michaels 82" data-cite="shawn michaels 82" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That was a great show. Curious to see what comes out of here. The Tag match being 99 after a DQ finish was great and keeps me interested to see a rematch (or two) happening. I'm also wondering what Kimberly will be up to, but I guess betraying DDP will probably be a part of it. <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Loving all these storylines so far. Can't believe Lex made it to the PPV this time. His segments are gold. "The Internet" (meaning us at GDS) loves them, so even if the grades aren't gonna be that big, you still have to keep that ball going.</div></blockquote> Hey, where is Kimberly? Why hasn't she shown up the past two weeks? <img alt=":confused:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/confused.png.d4a8e6b6eab0c67698b911fb041c0ed1.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> I considered having Lex miss it. Part of me thought it would be funny for him to be stranded over in Japan until I return there (probably in August.) It's a good thing Lex's new character is a hit and I'm having so much fun writing him, otherwise I would've jumped at the chance to fire him when he failed that drug test. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Nobby_McDonald" data-cite="Nobby_McDonald" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The Hardy Heroes stoke the show.</div></blockquote> They really did! That's why I'm running the poll that could potentially give their rematch the main event spot. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="RKOwnage" data-cite="RKOwnage" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I echo what everyone else has said. Great show! Also, Hokuto, the Harbinger of Havoc? Someone up north might not like this little "game" you're playing <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote> Heh, I never made that connection. As much as I would love to take potshots at Mr. Best for Business, Hokuto's not the right person to do it with. Aside from that, anyone who watches current NJPW can tell you that Triple H parody gimmicks are a recipe for disaster. <img alt=":eek:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

K-Nection · May 12, 2017

I'm so psyched for Bash at the Beach! It is already looking like a stacked card!

I wonder if Vince is paying attention to WCW starting to nip at their heels?

LordofGustav · May 12, 2017

Any chance that you can push Psychosis?

The Final Countdown · May 12, 2017

June 2002: News and Summer 2002 Roster Update <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/WWE.jpg</div> King of the Ring was held in Milwaukee on June 30th. No world title match this month, though Mr. Perfect went to a double countout with Headshrinker Samu in a European title match, and Rikishi retained the Intercontinental title against Vampiro in the WCW reject's PPV debut for Vince. Undertaker won the KOTR tournament, beating Bradshaw in the first round, Kane in the Semifinals (which narrowly eclipsed Triple H against Christian in the other Semifinal as the best match on the show), and then Hunter in the finals. That's the second straight year that he's lost in the finals. Chris Jericho beat Boy Toy Michaels in the main event, which wasn't anywhere near as good a match as you would expect. They had a much, much better match on Smackdown in May. Because of that disappointing main event, there's no denying that Great American Bash was the better show this month. Curt Hennig is getting divorced. That's sad, but unsurprising in this business. The Rock won an online poll for the most entertaining wrestler in the world. <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/WCW.jpg</div> WWE's signing of Juvi led me to investigate some other luchadors to possibly bring in. Firstly, there's Psicosis coming back full-time. I also signed both Aguila/Essa Rios of WWF fame and Volador Jr, a really talented 21 year old that I think has a ton of potential. I've sent both of them down to Wildside as a team, and they should be called up to give our tag division some more depth later in the year. Our deals with MTV Europe to air Nitro and Saturday Night are expiring in a month, and I've made the decision not to renew with them. I've arranged better deals for Nitro, which will reach wider audiences on Channel 5 in Britain and Sky Euro throughout the rest of Europe. Our deal for MTV Europe to air our PPV events technically still has 3 months remaining on it, but we're under no contractual obligation to provide them a minimum number of events, so I've also upgraded there with Telewest in Britain and Sky Euro (who required us to guarantee six PPV events as part of the deal.) I'm allowing the Saturday Night deal to expire, both on MTV Europe and the USA Network. Thus begins the fazing out of that show's contracts to make room for the women's show we want to launch later in the year. I do think having a B show is a good idea though, so I'm hoping we'll be able to convince networks that we can handle 3 TV shows and we can bring it back in the future. I was pleased with the success of Yang's heel turn. I think reuniting the Jung Dragons is a good move for everybody: it gives Kaz, Yang and Stacy something to do, and it gives us some needed depth in the tag division. There were a couple of title changes down in our developmental territory. Wildside put their heavyweight title on Reno, who dethroned Rick Michaels. Reno has seen some modest improvement in his brawling ability, but he's still pretty limited in-ring. They also needed to crown a new women's champion since we called LuFisto up to the main roster (she's yet to appear on our TV, but has worked some dark matches.) Lacey beat Nattie Neidhart to win the vacant title. That was probably a smart decision, because Nattie's improved about as much as she can in Wildside and her call-up isn't too far off. Lacey is likely to be down there much longer, so she's a good choice to carry the title. Scott Steiner thinks Christopher Daniels' act is crap. He said it in a much more blunt and expletive-filled fashion, but the point is he thinks I should fire Daniels. Not going to happen. I saw Shane Douglas watching Doomsday's match with The Empire on the June 24th show and shaking his head at Bryan Clark's selling. He's not alone; Clark has been the low point of basically every Doomsday match since the team returned from injury last year. CM Punk must have enjoyed working with Jason Jett in their squash match on Saturday Night, because afterwards I heard him telling Jason that he's a fan of his in-ring work. <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/NOAH.jpg</div> NOAH held their next big PPV, 'For the Warriors Fell', on June 21st. Akira Taue retained the GHC Heavyweight title over Naomichi Marufuji in what was a good main event, but the runaway match of the night happened right in the middle of the card when Jun Akiyama beat Kenta Kobashi in an instant classic. It was a good show, but imagine how much better it would've been if Akiyama or Kobashi had the title and that match headlined. <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/USA.jpg</div> XPW ran a show called 'No Escape' (ironic) on June 30th, then folded the very next day. Rob Black, we hardly knew ye. The final match in XPW history saw Shaggy 2 Dope retain the XPW World title over Tony Jones. Perfect. <div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Mexico.jpg</div> AAA, who are currently narrowly winning their war with CMLL for the top spot in Mexico, have begun a working agreement with Marco Moreno's International Wrestling Revolution Group. That's interesting since IWRG already has a partnership with CMLL. AAA might have felt it was worth overlooking just so they could form an alliance with someone. It's their only current one, while CMLL has agreements with NJPW, Michinoku Pro, Osaka Pro and the Mexican branch of Toryumon. AAA held the tenth annual TripleMania, their biggest show of the year. It was okay; slightly better than CMLL's big show a few days earlier. Dos Caras retained the Campeon de Campeons title against Latin Lover in the main event, but there were several matches earlier in the show that were better. The clear match of the night was Hector Garza winning the Mexican National Heavyweight title from Sangre Chicana. CMLL's 'Juicio Final' PPV was okay. Villano III retained the World Light Heavyweight title in an okay main event, but Atlantis beating Brazo Hermoso to keep the Middleweight title two matches earlier was a much stronger bout. <hr noshade size=3> <div style="text-align:center;">Summer 2002 Roster Breakdown: (Faces in blue, heels in red) </div> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Main Event:</div> Davey Boy Smith Diamond Dallas Page Ric Flair Rick Steiner Rob Van Dam Scott Steiner Sting Booker T (World Heavyweight Champion) King Corino Lex Luger Mortis Shane Douglas (United States Heavyweight Champion) </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Upper Midcard:</div> Chuck Palumbo Hugh Morrus Jeff Hardy Matt Hardy Rey Misterio Jr. Sean O'Haire Buff Bagwell Chris Candido CM Punk (World Tag Team Champion) Lance Storm (World Tag Team Champion) The Destroyer The Unnatural </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Midcard:</div> AJ Styles (Cruiserweight Champion) American Dragon Billy Kidman Brian Adams Bryan Clark Ernest Miller Hayabusa Jamie Knoble Konnan Mark Jindrak Norman Smiley Road Warrior Animal Chavo Guerrero Jr. Disco Inferno Fit Finlay Shane Helms Shawn Stasiak TAKA </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Lower Midcard:</div> Big Vito Johnny the Bull Cash Christopher Daniels Kaz Hayashi Mike Sanders Psychosis Shannon Moore Yang </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Opener:</div> Jason Jett Lash Leroux Alan Funk Elix Skipper Evan Karagis </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Enhancement Talent:</div> Air Paris Flash Flanagan </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Women's Division:</div> Alexis Laree Manami Toyota Melissa Anderson Toshiyo Yamada Akira Hokuto Daffney Etsuko Mita (World Women's Champion) Katarina Waters LuFisto Shinobu Kandori Takako Inoue </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Announcer:</div> Mike Tenay Tony Schiavone </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Color Commentator:</div> Bret Hart Tracy Brooks Bobby Heenan </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Road Agent:</div> Dusty Rhodes Ricky Steamboat</div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Personality:</div> Arn Anderson Gene Okerlund Roddy Piper</div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">On Vacation:</div> None</div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Out Injured:</div> Alex Wright (torn quad)</div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Active Tag Teams:</div> 3 Count (Evan Karagis and Shannon Moore) Chaos (Akira Hokuto and Daffney) Doomsday (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark) Jung Dragons (Kaz Hayashi and Yang) The Natural Born Thrillers (Sean O'Haire and Chuck Palumbo) The Hardys (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) The Mamalukes (Johnny the Bull and Big Vito) True Heroes (CM Punk and Lance Storm) </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Factions:</div> Salvation (Father Isaac, Mortis, The Destroyer and The Unnatural) The Empire (Chris Candido, Eric Bischoff, Etsuko Mita, King Corino, TAKA and Tammy Sytch) </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Managerial Assignments:</div> Eric Bischoff (King Corino, TAKA and Etsuko Mita) Father Isaac (Mortis, The Destroyer and The Unnatural) Kimberly Page (None) Midajah (Scott Steiner) Stacy Keibler (Kaz Hayashi and Yang) Tammy Sytch (Chris Candido) Torrie Wilson (Billy Kidman) </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">In Developmental:</div> Aguila Allison Danger Boby Roode Brian Kendrick Chris Harris Colt Cabana David Flair Harry Smith James Storm Johnny Parisi Kaoru Ito Kid Romeo Lacey Mercedes Martinez Momoe Nakanishi Nattie Neidhart Paul London Reno Teddy Hart TJ Wilson Tony Mamaluke Volador Jr.</div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">Creative Meeting:</div> Franchise Players: 1. Booker T 2. Rob Van Dam 3. Scott Steiner 4. Ric Flair 5. Sting Next Big Things: 1. Jeff Hardy 2. CM Punk 3. AJ Styles 4. Alexis Laree Hot Prospects: 1. American Dragon 2. Melissa Anderson 3. AJ Styles 4. Johnny the Bull 5. Alexis Laree Talk the Talk: 1. Ric Flair 2. Roddy Piper 3. Dusty Rhodes 4. Booker T 5. Diamond Dallas Page Show Stoppers: 1. Rey Misterio Jr. 2. Jeff Hardy 3. Rob Van Dam 4. CM Punk 5. Manami Toyota Ring Generals: 1. Rey Misterio Jr. 2. Lance Storm 3. American Dragon 4. King Corino 5. TAKA Who's Hot: 1. Chavo Guerrero Jr. 2. Fit Finlay 3. Shane Helms 4. Jamie Knoble 5. Sean O'Haire Who's Not: 1. Mike Sanders 2. Big Vito 3. Ernest Miller 4. Johnny the Bull 5. Animal Time Decline: 1. Ric Flair 2. Lex Luger 3. Sting 4. Diamond Dallas Page 5. Fit Finlay Hidden Gems: 1. Nova 2. El Generico 3. Kenny Omega 4. Simon Diamond 5. Jorge Estrada</div></blockquote> <hr noshade size=3> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="K-Nection" data-cite="K-Nection" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm so psyched for Bash at the Beach! It is already looking like a stacked card! I wonder if Vince is paying attention to WCW starting to nip at their heels?</div></blockquote> Those top two matches especially are pretty big. I have high hopes for this show. They declared war on me, so I'm going to say yes. This time Vinnie Mac's going down though! But don't worry, you'll one day be able to watch old episodes of Raw on the WCW Network. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="LordofGustav" data-cite="LordofGustav" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Any chance that you can push Psychosis?</div></blockquote> He'll probably slot into the cruiserweight division after this re-debut match with Rey. We'll see how he performs. If his matches are good, he could become one of the bigger stars in the division.

Purotastic · May 15, 2017

Good to see Psychosis brought in. I always liked him.

The Final Countdown · May 17, 2017

July 2002: Road to Bash at the Beach, Part II <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Nitro2.jpg July 1st, 2002 From Perth, Australia Attendance: 7,500 Announce Team: "The Professor" Mike Tenay and Bret "The Hitman" Hart </div> The opening match between Norman Smiley and Shawn Stasiak had no winner declared thanks to Booker T, who attacked both men and threw them out of the ring before grabbing the microphone. (D+) <div style="text-align:center;">Spotlight Segment: http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Booker2.jpg Booker stood in the ring and said that he was sick and tired of these games the WCW front office was playing with him. It wasn't bad enough that they'd denied him his title rematch for almost a year. Now that he'd gotten his title back, they were doing everything they could to try and derail his title reign. "I pinned Diamond Dallas Page right in the middle of the dang ring at the Great American Bash, but is anybody talkin' about that? No! All anybody talked about was the tag team title match between the Hardys and the True Heroes! And now that punk sucka Arn Anderson is trying to take MY main event spot away from me at Bash at the Beach, with the help of you fans! Well that's not happening! I'm the world heavyweight champion, and I AM THE MAIN EVENT! Arn Anderson, you betta get those geeks runnin' the website to pull that poll down right now, because there ain't no way I'm gonna sit back and let you take the main event away from me!" Booker was fantastic tonight. He pulled off his angry rant exceptionally well, insulting Arn, the fans and his Bash at the Beach challenger Rey Misterio Jr. Eventually someone came out to respond, but it wasn't Arn or Rey. http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Punk.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Storm.jpg Instead it was True Heroes. The tag champs came into the ring, and at first they only made Booker angrier by saying that the tag team titles belonged in the main event thanks to them. They then tried to get on his good side by saying that if he was looking for someone to blame, he didn't need to look any further than Matt and Jeff Hardy. Storm did well tonight in his straightforward style, talking about how the Hardys were getting a title shot on back to back PPVs and contrasting that with how long Booker had to wait for his own title rematch. Punk's general performance was good as well as he backed Storm up. The champions succeeded in getting Booker even angrier, and giving him a target for that anger. http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/JHardy.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/MHardy.jpg The Hardys came out to confront the Heroes. Jeff was fine, telling Storm and Punk that they had no idea what they were in for taking on the Hardys in a no DQ match. Matt was awful tonight, tripping over his own words and mangling the intended message of how they were going to push themselves to a whole new level of extreme at Bash at the Beach. He didn't react well to the failure either, and it dragged his performance down even further. The two teams continued to argue until Booker made his presence felt by attacking Jeff from behind. He started brawling with Matt, and the Heroes stood back and laughed until they were dragged into the fight by the Hardys. Booker did not discriminate, attacking the Heroes as well. The segment ended with a wild melee, officials rushing out to try and break it up as we cut to a commercial. Grade: B+</div> The reunited Jung Dragons, now with Stacy Keibler in their corner, used their aerial skills to topple the much bigger Doomsday. Yang Time spelled the end for Bryan Clark, and Brian Adams left ringside alone after the match while shaking his head. (B-) Chavo Guerrero Jr. and American Dragon approach AJ Styles on a house show so Chavo can taunt him about beating him last week on Nitro. He also notes that he's been rewarded with a cruiserweight title shot at Bash at the Beach, and says he'll show his young student how to get it done and become a champion! (C+) Shane Douglas looked to be well on his way to outwrestling Animal for a non-title victory, but Mark Jindrak attacked him for a DQ finish. (C+) Davey Boy Smith boards the "Flex Express" to challenge Lex Luger to a match at Bash at the Beach. Lex accepts, saying he'll beat him for the red, white and blue. Gene then points out that BATB will be in Australia, but Lex is too busy flexing in Davey's face to respond. (C-) The Empire come to the ring and agree to accept Flair's challenge of a match. "If you're so eager to finally begin your long-overdue retirement, we'll be more than happy to help you!" Bischoff states. Flair appears in the aisle and says he can't wait to beat up whoever Empire sends at him. Sting comes down and suggests that they make it a tag team match, but Flair says they've already been there and done that. "This is my fight, and I'll fight it alone!" he insists. King Corino laughs and says that sounds great; to coin a phrase, he'll "beat the OLD man" at Bash at the Beach. (A) Bischoff stayed at ringside, joining Mike and I on commentary for the next match. He watched on in approval as the Natural Born Thrillers dominated the team of Mike Sanders and Elix Skipper. (C+) DDP interrupts a Buff Bagwell interview and says that if Buff isn't going to tell him why he attacked him, maybe he'll be more willing to fess up after a Diamond Cutter or two. Buff laughs and says Dallas is welcome to try. (B-) Alexis Laree and Melissa Anderson tried their best, but Chaos was too much for them. Hokuto finished Alexis off with a Northern Lights bomb. © After the match, Daffney tells Etsuko Mita and Manami Toyota that they can both get what they want--at the same time! Chaos will fight them both in a tag team match at Bash at the Beach! (C-) Jamie Knoble and Shane Helms had a cruiserweight showdown. It was a competitive back and forth match, but guest commentator Christopher Daniels was ultimately disappointed when Knoble locked on the guillotine choke for the win. (B) RVD and the Steiners appear on Piper's Pit. Roddy pushes the idea that RVD and Scott Steiner will be as likely to tear into each other as they are Salvation. Neither exactly denies it, but Scott says that as long as RVD stays out of his way and leaves "that painted freak" Unnatural to him, they won't have any problems at Bash at the Beach. Salvation appear on the video screen, mocking their foes for their disunity and saying that they have no hope of defeating their brotherhood. (A*) It was a huge night for Psychosis to make a statement and revitalize his career. He knew Rey Misterio Jr like the back of his hand, and the two longtime rivals pulled out many of their old tricks in pursuit of victory. Psychosis pushed Rey to the limit, but Rey had the wherewithal to avoid the top rope legdrop and picked up the victory soon thereafter with the springboard hurricanrana. (B) Arn Anderson makes an announcement from his office. Due to the out-of-control situation we saw earlier, he's making a big main event for Nitro next week: Booker T and Rey Misterio Jr. against the Hardys! (B+) <div style="text-align:center;">Show Grade: B+ http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Saturday.jpg Taped immediately after Nitro Announce Team: Tony Schiavone and Tracy Brooks </div> American Dragon defeated Cash with the Dragon Suplex. (B-) WCW.com exclusive: after Nitro, an angry Shane Douglas says he'll give Mark Jindrak his US title rematch, but only if Jindrak can beat an opponent of Shane's choosing next week on Nitro. (C+) Billy Kidman used the Shooting Star Press for an easy victory over Alan Funk. (C+) True Heroes made short work of The Mamalukes in a tune-up for their rematch against the Hardys. (B-) Pre-taped promos: Ric Flair and King Corino promote their singles match at Bash at the Beach. (B+) <div style="text-align:center;">Show Grade: B- </div> </div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Nitro2.jpg July 8th, 2002 From ETSA Park in Adelaide, Australia Attendance: 3,200 (sell-out!) Announce Team: "The Professor" Mike Tenay and Bret "The Hitman" Hart </div> RVD and The Steiners attempted to work out the kinks in their temporary partnership with a tune-up match against 3 Count and Alan Funk. The distrust between RVD and Scott Steiner was obvious, but the trio was still able to win the match pretty easily. (B-) Post-match: Salvation appear on the video screen and cut a promo about Sunday's match. "We've just seen the dissension present in your unstable partnership. What hope can you possibly have to defeat us when you'll have to look over your shoulder, wondering if one of your partners might stick a knife in your back?" (A*) AJ Styles and Jamie Knoble teamed up against their respective Bash at the Beach opponents, Chavo Guerrero Jr. and Christopher Daniels, in a fast-paced cruiserweight match. Daniels earned himself some bragging rights in the division, as well as some momentum for Sunday, by pinning Knoble to win the match. (B) The Natural Born Thrillers reveal that they've thought Eric Bischoff's offer over, and they'll give him their answer at Bash at the Beach. (B) Shane Douglas comes to the ring and introduces his hand-picked opponent that Mark Jindrak must defeat to earn another US title shot. "I had to find someone just as talented and just as intimidating as you, Marky Mark, and I found that man!" Out came the Disco Inferno. © Douglas sat in on color and taunted Jindrak throughout the next match. Jindrak mowed Disco down for the win and will receive another title shot on Sunday. (D+) Davey Boy Smith and Lex Luger cut pre-taped promos about their match. Davey doesn't understand what's going on in Lex's head, but he started this fight and now Davey will finish it. Lex promises to follow in the footsteps of men like Paul Revere and George Washington and send Davey Boy running back to England. (C+) Two of the top cruiserweight contenders met in a very important match for future title considerations when American Dragon took on former champion TAKA. Technical skill won out over agility this time, as a Dragon Suplex gave the masked man the victory. (B) The Empire cut a promo on Ric Flair. Corino says that they've already beaten him down physically; now it's time to take his pride. (B) Psychosis earned a full-time contract with his performance against Rey Misterio Jr. last week, and this week he used his flying legdrop to defeat Air Paris. (C+) <div style="text-align:center;">Spotlight Segment: http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Sting.jpghttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Flair.jpg We did a segment where Sting approached Ric Flair in the back and asked him if he was really good to go. He'd been keeping his medical diagnosis a secret from everyone, including Sting, and Sting just wasn't sure if he was ready to get back in there so soon. Sting was pretty good here. I thought he played his part well, showing concern for Ric while avoiding being condescending. Ric didn't see it that way though. "You too, Stinger? You've stood across the ring from me, what, five hundred times? A thousand? You should know better than anyone that it's going to take a hell of a lot more than a bat to the arm to keep Ric Flair down! Bischoff and Corino think they're going to put the Nature Boy down? They think they're going to take my pride? I'M RIC FLAIR! If I say I'm gonna go out there and take that Corino punk to school, that's exactly what I'm gonna do! And after I'm done with him, I'll slap that son of a (censored) Bischoff right across the face! Watch me!" If Sting was pretty good tonight, Ric was fantastic. He did his fired up routine, but didn't go too far with it and sound like a crazed old man, which does happen with him sometimes. He brought the intensity, but remained the Nature Boy rather than a raving lunatic. Sting offered to accompany him to ringside to make sure it remained a one on one match without any outside interference from The Empire, but Ric assured him that he could handle it himself. Grade: A</div> Manami Toyota and Etsuko Mita don't like each other much, but they both have a grudge against Chaos and know they'll have to work together to beat them on Sunday. They teamed up tonight and put their differences aside to defeat Shinobu Kandori and Takako Inoue (though Mita didn't exactly look thrilled when Toyota recorded the pin.) (C+) Booker T and Rey Misterio Jr. were at each others' throats before the main event. Rey told him to get over the ongoing fan poll; whether they were in the main event or not, Rey's sole focus was taking that title away from him. Booker told him there was no way that was happening. "I'm the champ, I'm the star, I'm the main event player, and you ain't gonna change that, sucka!" (A) Booker and Rey's feud carried over into their main event with the Hardys, with poor teamwork, staredowns and tags made with rather more force than necessary. Despite their great individual skills, they had no chance to beat a team like the Hardys without working together. They caught a break though; as the referee tried to keep the bickering partners apart, True Heroes attacked the Hardys. Storm struck Matt with a superkick, while Punk rammed legal man Jeff's head into the post and rolled him back into the ring. They'd been positioned in a way that only Booker T saw it all go down, and he shoved Rey out of the way and covered Jeff for the pin. (B+) <div style="text-align:center;">Show Grade: B+ http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/Saturday.jpg Taped immediately after Nitro Announce Team: Tony Schiavone and Tracy Brooks </div> The Jung Dragons defeated The Mamalukes. © DDP and Buff Bagwell cut promos about their match at Bash at the Beach. (B) Hayabusa used the Phoenix Splash to beat Mike Sanders. © Chris Candido mopped the ring with Lash Leroux in a one-sided squash. (C+) Bobby Heenan gives the hard sell for Bash at the Beach, going over the major matches to look forward to. © <div style="text-align:center;">Show Grade: C+ </div> </div></blockquote> <hr noshade size=3> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss322/FCDiary/WCW/BATB.jpg</div> Fan Scorecard: World Heavyweight Championship: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Booker T {©} United States Heavyweight Championship: Mark Jindrak vs. Shane Douglas {©} No DQ match for the World Tag Team Championship: The Hardys vs. True Heroes {©} Cruiserweight Championship: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. AJ Styles {©} "Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. King Corino Rob Van Dam and The Steiner Brothers vs. Salvation Manami Toyota and Etsuko Mita vs. Chaos Diamond Dallas Page vs. Buff Bagwell Davey Boy Smith vs. Lex Luger Jamie Knoble vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels What will be match of the night? How many championships will change hands? Will the Natural Born Thrillers accept Eric Bischoff's offer and join The Empire? General diary comments/questions/critiques: </div></blockquote> <hr noshade size=3> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Purotastic" data-cite="Purotastic" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Good to see Psychosis brought in. I always liked him.</div></blockquote> I would've preferred Juvi, but Vinnie Mac spoiled that idea. We'll see how ol' Hypnosis does.

Greggyb · May 17, 2017

an Scorecard:

World Heavyweight Championship: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Booker T {©}

United States Heavyweight Championship: Mark Jindrak vs. Shane Douglas {©}

No DQ match for the World Tag Team Championship: The Hardys vs. True Heroes {©}

Cruiserweight Championship: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. AJ Styles {©}

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. King Corino

Rob Van Dam and The Steiner Brothers vs. Salvation

Manami Toyota and Etsuko Mita vs. Chaos

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Buff Bagwell

Davey Boy Smith vs. Lex Luger

Jamie Knoble vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

What will be match of the night? Book/Rey

How many championships will change hands? 0

Will the Natural Born Thrillers accept Eric Bischoff's offer and join The Empire? One will. One won't

General diary comments/questions/critiques:

Happy0wns · May 17, 2017

World Heavyweight Championship: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Booker T {©}

United States Heavyweight Championship: Mark Jindrak vs. Shane Douglas {©}

No DQ match for the World Tag Team Championship: The Hardys vs. True Heroes {©}

Cruiserweight Championship: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. AJ Styles {©}

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. King Corino

Rob Van Dam and The Steiner Brothers vs. Salvation

Manami Toyota and Etsuko Mita vs. Chaos

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Buff Bagwell

Davey Boy Smith vs. Lex Luger

Jamie Knoble vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

What will be match of the night? Hardyz v True Heroes

How many championships will change hands? 1

Will the Natural Born Thrillers accept Eric Bischoff's offer and join The Empire? One of them will SWERVE!

Uncrewed · May 17, 2017

World Heavyweight Championship: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Booker T {©}

United States Heavyweight Championship: Mark Jindrak vs. Shane Douglas {©}

No DQ match for the World Tag Team Championship: The Hardys vs. True Heroes {©}

Cruiserweight Championship: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. AJ Styles {©}

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. King Corino

Rob Van Dam and The Steiner Brothers vs. Salvation

Manami Toyota and Etsuko Mita vs. Chaos

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Buff Bagwell

Davey Boy Smith vs. Lex Luger

Jamie Knoble vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

What will be match of the night?- Hardys/True Heroes

How many championships will change hands?- 1

Will the Natural Born Thrillers accept Eric Bischoff's offer and join The Empire?- No

DGenerationMC · May 17, 2017

World Heavyweight Championship: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Booker T {©}

United States Heavyweight Championship: Mark Jindrak vs. Shane Douglas {©}

No DQ match for the World Tag Team Championship: The Hardys vs. True Heroes {©}

Cruiserweight Championship: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. AJ Styles {©}

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. King Corino

Rob Van Dam and The Steiner Brothers vs. Salvation

Manami Toyota and Etsuko Mita vs. Chaos

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Buff Bagwell

Davey Boy Smith vs. Lex Luger

Jamie Knoble vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

What will be match of the night? No DQ match for the World Tag Team Championship: The Hardys vs. True Heroes {©}

How many championships will change hands? 2

Will the Natural Born Thrillers accept Eric Bischoff's offer and join The Empire? One Thriller refuses on behalf of the team and the other jumps him before joining Bischoff

Dead_Jester · May 17, 2017

World Heavyweight Championship: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Booker T {©}

-As nice as it would be to see Rey score the upset win Booker is on fire at the moment.

United States Heavyweight Championship: Mark Jindrak vs. Shane Douglas {©}

-Always thought Jindrak was more capable than he was given credit for but he won't be dethroning Douglas.

No DQ match for the World Tag Team Championship: The Hardys vs. True Heroes {©}

-Hate to go against gut instinct but i'll go with the Hardy Brothers taking this one.

Cruiserweight Championship: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. AJ Styles {©}

-Feel it's still a little too soon for AJ to drop the strap.

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. King Corino

-While it is hard to go against the dirtiest player in the game I think Corino will benefit more from the win.

Rob Van Dam and The Steiner Brothers vs. Salvation

-Salvation are a complete unit and Scotty doesn't exactly play well with others.

Manami Toyota and Etsuko Mita vs. Chaos

-Champ and challenger win the match and head into a Title rematch down the road.

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Buff Bagwell

-Can't stand Bagwell but him winning makes the most sense given the circumstances.

Davey Boy Smith vs. Lex Luger

-Luger is little more than a comedy act at the moment.

Jamie Knoble vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

-Daniels needs to make a strong impact in the division more so than Knoble.

What will be match of the night?

Hardys vs. Heroes

How many championships will change hands?

1

Will the Natural Born Thrillers accept Eric Bischoff's offer and join The Empire?

As a unit no, but I think one of them will.

smw88 · May 17, 2017

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. King Corino

Rob Van Dam and The Steiner Brothers vs. Salvation

Manami Toyota and Etsuko Mita vs. Chaos

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Buff Bagwell

Davey Boy Smith vs. Lex Luger

Jamie Knoble vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

What will be match of the night? World title match

How many championships will change hands? 0

Will the Natural Born Thrillers accept Eric Bischoff's offer and join The Empire? Yes

General diary comments/questions/critiques:

deanohbk · May 17, 2017

Booker

Douglas

Hardy's

AJ

Flair

RVD Steiners

Toyota & Mika

Buff

Davey

Daniels

Hardy's v heroes

1

Yes only one of them will

Ian carlisle · May 17, 2017

Fan Scorecard:

Rey is not quite ready yet to become world champion.

Shane Douglas to continue to look strong so when he does fight for the title eventually he looks like he has a shot at winning it.

100 match , it is time for the Hardys to win the titles so you can viably have a another match down the line.

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. King Corino

He has to get a win in this rivalry at some point to keep it competitive

Rob Van Dam and The Steiner Brothers vs. Salvation

The Destroyer pins Rick Steiner

Manami Toyota and Etsuko Mita vs. Chaos

It is the story of the mid card tag matches , rivals can not put their differences aside in order to defeat their biggest rivals.

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Buff Bagwell

To keep DDP strong

Davey Boy Smith vs. Lex Luger

Jamie Knoble vs. "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

What will be match of the night? Hardys v Heroes

How many championships will change hands? 1

Will the Natural Born Thrillers accept Eric Bischoff's offer and join The Empire?

1 will , 1 won't

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