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DWF 10/12/07 + quick question
| 91 | Posted on 07/25/05 at 21:55:00 And the aforementioned question will follow, along with the PPV card. But first things first... Brian Pillman vs Doug Furnas Brian Pillman may be becoming the loose cannon his nickname suggests more and more, but the guy is still a great wrestler. With him and Sean O'Haire putting up their tag team titles this Sunday against the Rock'n'Roll Express, there's a lot of pressure on him to keep things sane for now. Against former TV champ Doug Furnas today, Pillman didn't let up an extremely intense offence that often consisted of him violently pounding away on poor Doug, and leaving him with a bloody nose at the end. In the end, Pillman was a fair winner, with the DDT finishing it. Pillman followed it up after the pin was registered with a second DDT. If he'd left it there for the night, things might have been much better off, but Pillman being Pillman was never going to leave it at that. Backstage meanwhile, much like O'Haire usually calms down Pillman, an enraged Ken Shamrock watching on was being calmed down by Lance Storm. Evidently Shamrock has not forgotten what happened at Fall Brawl. *** 1/2 Dynamite Kid vs Hunter Hearst-Helmsley With just six days to go to Canadian Stampede and three men challenging Don Muraco for the title, we had each challenger in singles action, as well as the champion Muraco himself. We started with Dynamite Kid facing Hunter Hearst-Helmsley. Helmsley himself is a former champion, albeit many years removed and now more concerned with two things - bringing a quality lady of the night to the ring and seemingly getting one or more of his pals a job in the DWF. Indeed, before the match he approached Matt Hardy and once again requested that he fire Snitsky and Heidenreich as his bodyguards, and hire Rockabilly as his body guard. This resulted in Snitsky using his "fire breath" to "set Hunters feet on fire". Helmsley exited quickly enough and as far as the idiot duo were concerned, they had just turned Helmsley into a raging inferno. That aside, Helmsley certainly wasn't suffering any burns come his match with Dynamite. On this night, and most nights, Dynamite was always going to be superior and had the majority of the offence, with Helmsley doing enough to at least keep Dynamite on his toes. Still, with things looking bad, Hunter called on his whore at ringside to use the mace spray on Dynamite. Dynamite was able to block that and snatch the offending object away, and with the ref admonishing the hooker, Dynamite sprayed Helmsley, sending him down. The Swandive finished and an ever impressive Dynamite improvises his way to another win. To get another crack at Muraco so soon after the last is a god send for Dynamite, who must fancy his chances now he has the option of pinning two other men to win the gold. *** 3/4 Masato Tanaka vs Juventud Guerrera The cruiserweight battle royal this Sunday will determine the top contender to Hector Guerreros title and the competition is already heating up with another preview match today. Juventud Guerrera was recently victorious in tag team action with a pin on La Parka, but this time he was up against Masato Tanaka, a man who has himself two victories this year over the great Chris Benoit. The match kept up a blistering pace, and unfortunately for Juvi, he couldn't make it two in a row as Tanaka showed some of his top form, wrapping things up with the Diamond Dust. Still, with close to twenty men entered in the battle royal, it could be just about anyone walking away with this. **** 1/4 Steve Corino (c) vs Rob Van Dam (television title) Title challenger number two is himself a reigning champion, as Steve Corino defended his TV title against Rob Van Dam. Obviously his TV title wouldn't be on the line this Sunday, but after the mammoth upset he scored over Raven last week, he may have been confident enough to put it up anyway. Once again, Kidman joined us for commentary and began hailing Corino as the next champion. RVD meanwhile is a different kettle of fish and though he seems like he doesn't know where he is half the time, he's still able to mount an amazing attack that could beat just about anyone. Still, RVD might have been on top form, himself also a former world champion, but Corino has been a house on fire as of late, and was doing wonders against Van Dam. Van Dam, ever able to make the best of a bad situation turned things around and after a split legged moonsault, followed by a very close two count, RVD headed up top for the Five Star Frogsplash. Sadly Corino rolled out of the way and when Van Dam picked himself up, Corino came in and hit the Old School Expulsion for the 1-2-3. Good job, Kidman was threatening to sue whomever made this match this close to Canadian Stampede if Corino lost his belt. But another win for the TV champ who is going on seven months now as champ. It may be that he ends up vacating that belt when he holds something a little bigger. **** 1/4 The Rock'n'Roll Express vs Alex Wright & Ulf Herman So the Rock'n'Roll Express could be six days away from once again being tag team champions, as they became at the start of the year. Facing the awesome combination of fellow Germans Alex Wright and Ulf Herman, they were always going to be in dire straights, and sure enough, Ricky Morton was trapped in the wrong corner and double teamed. And sure enough, the hot tag came and in came Robert Gibson who worked over Alex Wright with a swift flurry. With things going their way, Morton was back up and the Express were able to use their incredible double team strategy to really fly, as they first worked over Wright, then dropkicked the massive Herman off the apron. All looked good until Brian Pillman sprinted down. As he later explained, he thought interfering was the done thing, but it forced Sean O'Haire down to stop him doing anything stupid. Too late, he'd distracted the Express - Gibson was thrown from the ring and Herman delivered a devastating chokeslam to Morton. Wright finished Morton off with the Schadenfreude for a big victory for the German pair. As good as Wright and Herman were and yes, despite the controversy, the victory wasn't exactly undeserved, the Express were robbed by the randomness of Brian Pillman. O'Haire apologised profusely afterwards when Morton came round and got Brian to sort of apologise (though the mad grin on his face made it hard to tell if he was sincere). Still, after that, there'll be a little bad blood between the teams come this Sunday. And with both teams being very popular, it will be interesting to see how they'll play it. *** 3/4 Chris Jericho vs Dean Malenko Our final challenger to the world title this Sunday, yet another former champ in Chris Jericho. His world title reign some four years ago lasted seven months so he knows what it takes to hold the gold. Against former Intercontinental champion Dean Malenko, he had a tough match and yet the adrenaline rush he has now he's got a chance to be champion again showed through as he was always on top of things and finished it with the Asai Moonsault. A big win and who knows, Chris Jericho may be on his way to becoming a two time heavyweight champion yet. *** 3/4 Tajiri vs Terry Gordy Another man in the cruiserweight battle royal this Sunday is Tajiri, as well as tag partner Hayabusa. Tajiri is a former cruiser champ himself, but his opponent today was the much bigger former TV champion Terry Gordy. It was a close run thing, with Tajiri hitting some very stiff moves which kept Gordy on the back foot, until out came Gordys tag partner Steve Williams. One trip later and Gordy locked in the Asiatic Spike to secure victory. And Gordy and Williams got a bigger kick by giving Tajiri a few cheap shots until Hayabusa ran down and got a few swift kicks on Hayabusa until the Miracle Violence Connection backed off out. *** Don Muraco (c) vs Chavo Guerrero (world heavyweight title) So Don Muraco rounds off the four, of course, as a dominant a world champion as we've ever had. Now whilst the challenge he faces on Sunday is vast and whilst he's not one to duck people, the sight of him defending his title today against Chavo Guerrero was a little baffling. The suspicion is that with both Chavo and Muracos manager Jeff Hardy in the cruiserweight battle royal, Jeff somehow managed to wrangle this match for his man to try and eliminate the competition. Eliminate the competition he might have, as Chavo was NEVER going to be a match for Muraco. A token threesome of dropkicks a couple of minutes in was the grand sum of what he was given the chance to do, and they didn't phase the big man one bit. Chavo was positively wiped out and Muraco scored an easy a win as he was ever going to get. Very very impressive, but he's got so much more to be worried about this Sunday with the quality of his opposition, and he doesn't even have to be pinned to lose the belt. Still, if anything it teaches us that we should be careful what we ask for - we may just get it. **** Other notes Brad Armstrong, "The Rock", appeared on the Kings Court with King Kanyon today to showcase his being Intercontinental champion. Now he might have run down the crowd somewhat, refering to them as trailer park trash (of course) but Brad keeps on waivering towards actually being popular. But as he ran down everyone he could think of, out came a man who is definitely on the fans good side, Rey Mysterio. Now as he beat Brad a few weeks ago at Fall Brawl, albeit only on a technicality, he's entitled to another shot and he asked as much right there and then. Brad told him that "The Rock isn't interested in giving some roody poo candy ass midget the time of day, let alone a shot at the great ones belt", but he may not have a choice on that. And following Rey was Eddie Guerrero who has some claim on getting a shot himself, at least in his eyes. For once he didn't has his brothers backing him up, but demanded a shot because a) he could beat Rey any day of the week and b) nobody disrespects him like Brad disrespected him. Bad move, as Brad got straight back in his face and went straight for the gratuitous lawnmower lines. Eddie was incensed, and so was Rey who wasn't happy with Eddies remarks about him either, and instantly made a challenge. Brad then agreed that if either of them could impress him during their match, he'd give them a shot. The upshot of this is that an Eddie/Rey match has now been signed for Canadian Stampede, and from what we understand, Brad Armstrong will be keeping a watching eye. Larry Zbyszko is a bit big for his boots, and it's really cost him now. With John Cena injured, that potential Canadian Stampede match is off, and Zbyszko proclaimed in an in-ring spiel that this should count as a victory to him, just like the moral victory he has over Bruno Sammartino. Cena wasn't going to sit back just because he was hurt and walked out to confront Larry. Actually he drove out, in Larrys stolen car, complete with new paint job, fuzzy dice and bigger stereos. Now Larry was furious, even more so when Cena said he was returning the car because the suspensino had broken after he went over a speed bump too fast, and then damaged the automatic locking. But things were about to get worse, as Cena told Larry he'd had a word with the officials, slipped them some twenties that he'd found in Larrys glove compartment and gotten him a replacement opponent - RAVEN! Larrys jaw dropped at that news and he was steaming. Cena made his exit, looking very smug indeed. Now one could feel sorry for Larry, but again, that's not going to happen. Canadian Stampede in six days time means one thing - a very unhappy Kurt Angle who of course despises anything non-American, and he made his thoughts very clear in front of "his" American people today. Usually a bit of Canadian bashing would go down well with a U.S. crowd, but Angle is an idiot so that was out of the way. And Angle intends to embarass Canada as much as possible, challenging any Canadian to a match this Sunday. To answer the challenge came Christian. Angle laughed at that particular prospect, except Christian told him he wasn't the one to answer this one, as out from the crowd popped brother Edge, who promptly speared Angle out of his boots. Angle would LOVE to give the finger to Canada by defeating Edge in his backyard and conversely, Edge would love to humiliate the overly cocky Angle and make him eat his words. With Christian possibly hanging around, it could be an interesting match. Finally Pretty Perfect are going to team up again this Sunday, after Matt Hardy made them an offer. He wanted to kick the show off with a six man tag and had already signed The Pitbulls and Bobby Eaton on one side, and Dean Malenko on the other, and told Pretty Perfect if they dropped their tag team boycott AND won the match on Sunday, he'd drop the ban on them getting title shots and allow them another crack at Psychoanalysis. Unsurprisingly, Hart and Hennig accepted that one, and we've got ourselves a little tag team action. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canadian Stampede - final lineup Don Muraco (c) vs Dynamite Kid vs Chris Jericho vs Steve Corino (worlds heavyweight title) Psychoanalysis (c) vs The Rock'n'Roll Express (tag team titles) Jody Fleisch vs Matt Hardy Raven vs Larry Zbyszko Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero Edge vs Kurt Angle Lance Storm vs Rene Dupree The Pitbulls & Bobby Eaton vs Pretty Perfect & Dean Malenko Cruiserweight battle royal: Low Ki, Masato Tanaka, Kid Kash, Jeff Hardy, Jonathan Coachman, Chavo Guerrero, Juventud Guerrera, Mando Guerrero, Tajiri, Hayabusa, La Parka, Christian York, Joey Matthews, Super Calo, Pete Gas, Rodney, Tajiri and Hayabusa OK, that quick question (actually it's not THAT quick, so bear with me). So I had the idea recently (and I can't believe nobody has ripped this one off yet) of nabbing the idea from the WWE of Taboo Tuesday, only with another cheesy generic name. Simply, people vote, I book matches depending on the results and I might even chuck a title change or two in there. Just a little something to amuse me, might be a bit of fun, y'know the sort of thing. The only problem is that the number of people reading right now isn't exactly gigantic compared to other peoples cards right now. Not a problem, I take Snabby's line of not running my circuit for the benefit of other people so I'm not going to complain about that. The problem would be if I announce the idea in my cards and then nobody votes, and I look like a tit. So basically, how likely am I to actually get anything in the way of votes if I were to announce it? My line of thinking is if Superstar Jimi C can always get half a dozen votes for projects everyone KNOWS he's not going to follow up on, I should surely be able to get at least three (which would sort of be an absolute bare minimum to justify it) on a project that everyone equally knows I AM going to go ahead with. Right? If so, brilliant. If not, |
| Azrael | Posted on 07/26/05 at 06:10:16 To your question: I'd vote for it. I assume you'd list a few people eligible for each match (I really don't remember how Taboo Tuesday worked). And now, for predictions. Don Muraco (c) vs Dynamite Kid vs Chris Jericho vs Steve Corino (worlds heavyweight title) Don't see any reason why Muraco doesn't win this. But the odds do seem to be stacked against him. Psychoanalysis (c) vs The Rock'n'Roll Express (tag team titles) I see Psychoanalysis retaining, if only so they can almost snap at each other for a couple more months. Jody Fleisch vs Matt Hardy All the odds are stacked against Jody, which of course means he'll win when Snitsky and Heidenreich use their superpowers to no avail. Raven vs Larry Zbyszko Raven better win. I like your Zbyszko and all, but I don't see him beating a World Title contender. Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero I think Eddie cheats his way to a win. But really I have no idea. Edge vs Kurt Angle Angle keeps up his display of American dominance. Lance Storm vs Rene Dupree Uh...Storm I guess. The Pitbulls & Bobby Eaton vs Pretty Perfect & Dean Malenko I'll go with Pretty Perfect and Malenko on this one. Cruiserweight battle royal: Low Ki, Masato Tanaka, Kid Kash, Jeff Hardy, Jonathan Coachman, Chavo Guerrero, Juventud Guerrera, Mando Guerrero, Tajiri, Hayabusa, La Parka, Christian York, Joey Matthews, Super Calo, Pete Gas, Rodney, Tajiri and Hayabusa Hmm...I'm torn between Tanaka and Low Ki. I guess I'll go with Tanaka. Even though Tajiri and Hayabusa are pretty formidable if they're entered twice. :) |
| Snabbit888 | Posted on 07/26/05 at 07:51:29 Pillman is nuts, but he may have pissed off the only other guy who snaps more than him. Ha ha... DWF needs more Rockabilly. Dynamite with another good win. I always forget that HHH was a DWF World champion. Ewww. Tanaka challenging for the Cruiserweight title is kinda... I dunno, weird. he surely meets the weight limit, but he doesn't seem like the Cruiserweight division type. Ah well, your promotion. :) Corino with a good title defense against the former World champion RVD. Corino is elevating the TV Title nicely, and will moreso with a good showing at the Stampede. Wow... Ricky Mullet and Lazy-eye Gibson lose before their big title shot thanks to creepy Brian Pillman. O'Haire has to be getting sick of being peacekeeper. Jericho with the token win over Dean Malenko. Don't like his chances this Sunday though. Tajiri vs. Gordy seemed misplaced in this card. So... yeah. Not a lot to say about it. **** squash main event! Woohoo! :) Don Muraco (c) vs Dynamite Kid vs Chris Jericho vs Steve Corino (worlds heavyweight title) *** Muraco retains, pinning Jericho. Psychoanalysis (c) vs The Rock'n'Roll Express (tag team titles) *** Psychoanalysis somehow retains, setting up the Syndicate beating them next month. Jody Fleisch vs Matt Hardy *** Fleisch Raven vs Larry Zbyszko *** Raven please. Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero *** Mysterio Edge vs Kurt Angle *** Angle Lance Storm vs Rene Dupree *** Dupree The Pitbulls & Bobby Eaton vs Pretty Perfect & Dean Malenko Pretty Perfect/Malenko Cruiserweight battle royal: Low Ki, Masato Tanaka, Kid Kash, Jeff Hardy, Jonathan Coachman, Chavo Guerrero, Juventud Guerrera, Mando Guerrero, Tajiri, Hayabusa, La Parka, Christian York, Joey Matthews, Super Calo, Pete Gas, Rodney, Tajiri and Hayabusa *** Hrm... Kid Kash. And I'd surely vote. |
| 91 | Posted on 07/26/05 at 19:51:29 Yeah, **** for the main, that seemed a bit off, but I guess TNM went "wow, a great worker like Chavo against the guy with the biggest push in the company, I'll give it an awesome rating, even though it lasted less than five minutes". Oh well. Actually, ALL the ratings were huge here, and here's me saying I wasn't fussed about that anymore. Cest la vie. Masato... yeah, I keep forgetting I have him, which sort of hurts his chances. I put him in basically because I really ought to be doing something with him, especially off the back of his run earlier in the year. As for Gordy/Tajiri, it's another case of people - in this case two teams - I really ought to be using. Especially Gordy as a) I'm a great appreciator of his work, hence his two TV title reigns and b) hearing 'Freebird' every time he wins is always a plus. Speaking of the Japanese pair - whoops. :D Well spotted Azzy. I have a suspicion I've left two others off. If I have, don't worry, I've remembered to include the winner at least. I was thinking with Rockabilly - am I going overboard by having him appear AT ALL? Your praise just sealed the death knell, and I do have a couple of possible ideas in mind. For your sake, I hope you weren't just saying that to be nice. :P |