- hace 1 día
Categoría
🥇
DeportesTranscripción
00:00The Cho Cho Cho's in One
00:21We're in Toronto tonight for WCW Mayhem, a fitting name for this pay-per-view
00:26saying as the company has indeed been in a state of mayhem quite recently. The date's
00:30November 21st 1999, Mayhem's replaced WCW's annual World War 3 pay-per-view, the show's
00:37named after EA's WCW Mayhem video game, and we're going to crown a new World Heavyweight
00:42Champion tonight as a month-long tournament comes to an end during this show's main event.
00:47Jeff Jarrett, Chris Benoit, Bret Hart and Sting have all made it to the semi-finals and we'll
00:52see those semi-final matches tonight along with the final match.
00:55Halloween Havoc 99 was Vince Russo's first WCW pay-per-view, that show was absolute chaos
01:01from start to end, so let's see if there's an improvement tonight at Mayhem.
01:0614,000 are in attendance, 200,000 bought the show on pay-per-view, and the show gets off
01:11to a great start with this fan right here giving us his honest opinion on WCW's commentary
01:16team, what a guy. The commentators remind us that we're going to see Goldberg vs Sid in
01:21an I Quit match along with David Flair vs Kimberly Page, two matches I can't wait to see, but
01:26we kick off the pay-per-view with the Jeff Jarrett vs Chris Benoit tournament semi-final
01:30match.
01:34The commentators say it's no coincidence that Jeff Jarrett's getting to wrestle his
01:38semi-final match right at the start of the show, the powers that be have anointed Jeff
01:42as the chosen one and they want to give him every advantage possible tonight. Benoit's
01:47wearing the maple leaf on his tights here at Mayhem and he lights Jarrett up with a few
01:51chops after Double J tried to embarrass him with a few slaps. Chris delivers a tornado DDT, an
01:56inverted atomic drop and a neckbreaker, the Canadian crowd are going crazy for Benoit right now,
02:02and Jarrett falls victim to a superplex as Chris begins this match quite aggressively.
02:06We go to the outside where Benoit tries to keep his momentum up but he gets his wee rabid
02:10wolverine smashed into the ring post. This allows Jeff to take the driver's seat for a while
02:15as he delivers a powerslam and a vertical suplex back inside the ropes. After a few pin attempts,
02:20the chosen one locks in a sleeper hold, a Benoit chant breaks out in the audience as Chris
02:24tries to fight his way out, Chris escapes and he applies a sleeper of his own but Jarrett
02:28gets out with a jawbreaker. We see an uncharacteristic side slam backbreaker from Chris before Jeff
02:34finds himself taking a few consecutive German suplexes, and just as Double J kicks out of
02:38Chris' cover we see creative control walking down the ringside, brilliant. Jarrett drops
02:43Chris on the top rope as he looks for a count out victory, Benoit gets back in the ring though
02:47and he rolls through after a Double J crossbody. Chris then counters a big suplex before signalling
02:53for the headbutt and Chris is able to hit his finishing move. A member of creative control,
02:58either Gerald or Patrick, who knows, breaks the cover and while Chris argues with the
03:02baldy bastard, the other one jumps in the ring to launch an attack. This allows Double J to
03:06perform the stroke, but Dustin roadshows up and Jarrett's cover gets broken up. Dustin then
03:11fights with one of the creative control guys while the other grabs Double J's guitar but
03:15Benoit manages to push Jarrett into the former Biker McAligger and it's Jeff who ends up
03:20taking a six string to the head. Benoit advances to the tournament finals after winning via
03:24pinfall but he gets his ass kicked after the bout. Doug Dillinger has to run down with a
03:28bunch of boys to stop the beatdown and look, this security guard here on the entranceway
03:33thinks it's all a big joke. He's having the time of his life while laughing his ass off.
03:39Disco Inferno was getting interviewed backstage and when Double J came through the curtain,
03:43he decided to attack the cruiserweight champion. A bunch of wrestlers and the misfits had to
03:48pull Double J and creative control away from Disco. This isn't great for the Inferno either because
03:53his match against Evan Courageous is up next. It looks like the champ's in no shape to compete but
03:58Tony Marinara tells him to get out there and make some money. Disco's debt isn't going to pay itself,
04:03there's 25k up for grabs in this match and so the bout takes place as scheduled. Evan comes to the
04:09ring with Medusa and two other huge newcomers to the WCW roster and it was because of Medusa and Tony
04:15Marinara that Evan Courageous won the cruiserweight belt. Tony got a little distracted by Medusa's
04:21enormous mama-jamas and he wondered if he could use them as spacehoppers after the show. Evan
04:26took this personally and he went out to confront Tony, but this allowed Disco to grab a chair.
04:30Disco then accidentally hit the man that he owes a lot of money to and Disco was so distraught
04:35that he ended up losing the match following a springboard crossbody from Mr. Courageous.
04:40This wasn't a terrible match and the opening match wasn't bad at all either. Some massive,
04:44and I mean massive distractions were involved in the cruiserweight title match, but all in all,
04:49it's a decent enough start to WCW mayhem. A little later on, Disco tried to explain to Tony
04:55that the chair shot was an accident, and Tony said tomorrow night on Nitro, he's bringing
05:00the boys. Disco immediately panics while saying he's a dead man. Vince Russo tells Jeff Jarrett that
05:11he blew it, and if Double J wants to be the chosen one, he has to do something tonight to
05:16prove
05:16he's worthy. So you can expect some interference from old slapnuts a little later on.
05:22Screamin' Norman Smiley says he's ready to become the first ever hardcore champion tonight,
05:26but he shits himself after hearing some construction work going on in the backstage area. Looks like
05:31our man could do with some volume. Norman's facing complete Ted Brian Nobbs next, Smiley's
05:37clearly taking extra precautions, and we get a look at the WCW Hardcore belt. From what I gathered,
05:42this was another belt made by Jaymar, however, it was based on a fan-created design. WCW didn't
05:49get the rights to create replicas, and so the other version you see in WWE video games and
05:53whatnot's a totally different design that looks like dog shit. Norman screams as Brian
05:58goes to work using a trash can, but the nasty boy misses a splash from the top rope. This
06:03allows Norman to take the trash can and Nobbs gets whacked. Smiley then uses his hockey stick
06:08to do a little more damage, but a hardcore wiggle from Screamin' Norman doesn't go to plan,
06:13what a shame. Norman ends up on the outside where Jimmy Hart tries to give his boy a helping
06:17hand, Jimmy doesn't do a great job but Norman still takes a trash can to the head. The competitors
06:22fight up the ramp, they go all the way up to the entranceway while Nobbs hits Norman with
06:26a trash can lid. In the crowd boos as both men fight in the backstage area. Smiley gets sent
06:32through a table while Nobbs gets sent into a Playstation sign, not a lot of impact here unfortunately,
06:37they then go into the storeroom where the two fight amongst cardboard boxes, food items
06:41and coffee cups. Jimmy Hart starts throwing random food items at Norman in an effort to
06:46slow him down. The match ends when Norman and Nobbs go into an elevator, the door closes
06:50with Norman punching Nobbs, when it opens again, Brian's on top of Norman and Jimmy Hart accidentally
06:56hits his boy with a trash can. It looked pretty terrible to be honest, but this is enough
07:00to give Smiley the win and therefore Screamin' Norman is the first ever hardcore champion.
07:05That junkyard invitational at Bash at the Beach and that trophy the clearly said hardcore champion
07:10doesn't count. Nobbs attacks Norman and Jimmy Hart after the match, meaning the relationship
07:15between the complete tit and the mouth of the south has perhaps come to an end. The beatdown
07:20stops with Norman and Jimmy getting let out among a ton of delicious baked goods.
07:26The Revolution are talking about what ifs in the backstage area. What if Tory ends up in the
07:31ring in our next match with Saturn or Malenko? What if JFK wasn't assassinated? What if the
07:37dinosaurs were still alive? Saturn says the Revolution are going to make the filthy animals
07:41extinct just like they did with the dinosaurs, and even though man didn't exist when the
07:46dinosaurs did, all Perry's saying here is what if. A very out of place promo for Perry's
07:52Saturn.
07:53The Revolution put Rey Mysterio out of commission on Nitro, but Saturn, Malenko and Asia are
07:58going to take on Eddie Guerrero, Billy Kidman and Tory Wilson. This one's an elimination
08:02match and after taking care of Saturn and Malenko, the filthy animals show they have no issues
08:07going after Asia. The match then officially begins with Eddie Guerrero performing a backdrop
08:11on Stenko Malenko, the crowd are already chanting boring as the two men spill to the outside which
08:17does make me wonder exactly what these fans wanted to see so early in the match. So Perry spices
08:22things up a bit with an acai moonsault. Kidman then performs a springboard crossbody to the
08:27outside and then, on the other side of the ring, a fan in the audience pokes Dean with his Canadian
08:32flag. The fan gets ejected from the arena but you can tell this was a plant right away because the
08:38cameras remain focused on him as he leaves the venue. Back in the ring, Tory somehow injures her
08:43angle as Perry Saturn was dragging her away from Asia, a concerned Eddie Guerrero goes
08:48to check on Tory and Kidman seems to take exception to this. Eddie shoves Kidman away, Kidman then
08:53gets pinned and that's Billy out of the match. Kidman and Eddie then shove each other around,
08:59the crowd chant for Eddie as Billy tries to figure out why his partner shoved him, but the match
09:03continues on and Kidman leaves the ring in a huff. Conan then speaks with Tory for a brief moment
09:08before he too heads back up the ramp, so Eddie and Tory are left all alone to deal with the
09:13whole
09:13revolution. Keep in mind that Shane Douglas is sitting on commentary. Asia delivers a vertical
09:18suplex to Eddie but when Dino Maschino gets in, Guerrero is able to score his first elimination
09:22after a hurricanrana, so Asia comes back in as the match goes two on two. Saturn ends up accidentally
09:29hitting Asia with a standing sidekick and Eddie is able to toss Saturn out of the ring, this allows
09:33Guerrero to deliver his frog splash and Asia is out of this elimination match. Saturn has to eliminate
09:38both Eddie and Tory if he wants to win this thing, he trades sleeper holds with Eddie and Guerrero's
09:43able to get the upper hand after breaking Saturn's sleeper with a back suplex. He then stops a
09:48springboard attack with a dropkick, but Saturn performs the death valley driver and Eddie's
09:52in a lot of trouble. He does kick out of the follow up cover and he dodges an elbow drop,
09:57but when he crawls to his corner he remembers he can't really tag in Tory right now so he continues
10:02the
10:02match in hopes of putting Saturn out. Guerrero gets eliminated when Saturn rolls through from a crossbody,
10:07Eddie taps out of the rings of Saturn and so Tory has to fight Perry one on one. Saturn stops
10:13Tory
10:14from leaving the ring, the fans think Tory's done for, but she delivers a low blow and now
10:18Saturn's in a lot of trouble, so much trouble that Shane Douglas has to jump on the apron to distract
10:23the referee and this allows Saturn to repay the favour, as in he delivers a low blow to Tory.
10:29Chyna no sold a low blow at Survivor Series but Miss Wilson does not and Perry Saturn ends up winning
10:34the match by pinning Tory in the middle of the ring. You know, I didn't hate this match, again it
10:40had
10:40quite a lot of distractions and little things going on but it wasn't boring to sit through,
10:44Mayhem's been alright so far, for 1999 WCW standards anyway, so yeah, not bad at all.
10:56Jeff Jarrett and Creative Control are seen attacking Buff Bagwell in the locker room,
11:00Bagwell's scheduled to face Kurt Hennig next in a retirement match but after Kurt makes his entrance,
11:05the three amigos make their way down to the ring and they give Kurt a beating too.
11:09Bagwell runs down with a 2x4 to make the save, and the match gets underway when the bad guys leave,
11:14Kurt showed his appreciation by blindsiding Buff Daddy. So the powers that be told Kurt a few weeks
11:19ago that he'll be fired if he gets pinned or if he submits in any future WCW matches,
11:24they also don't like Buff Bagwell so they said he'd get sent home too if he can't beat Kurt tonight,
11:29so one of these boys will be leaving WCW after this match, apparently. I mean don't bet money on it
11:35or
11:35anything. Hennig took control when the match went to the outside and when Bagwell tried to fight back
11:40he ended up taking a low blow, but Buff completely no sold it and he snapped Kurt's neck over the
11:45top
11:45rope. Tory Wilson could not withstand a low blow but Bagwell brushes it off like it's nothing. Back in the
11:51ring, Kurt delivers a leg drop that hits a little low, he then applies a sleeper hold and yes we've
11:56seen quite a lot of sleepers on this show already, haven't we? Buff breaks free and so Kurt uses
12:00Bagwell's chain to choke him out a little and sleeper hold number 2 gets applied as Buff starts
12:05to fade away. This match has not been good so far and it gets even worse as we approach the
12:10final
12:11moments. Bagwell performs a body slam before taunting his opponent, Kurt tries to dodge a splash but
12:16he doesn't move quick enough, allowing Buff to hit him with a weak punch. Hennig then launches Buff into
12:21the corner but Bagwell gets a boot up and that's it. After months of build up and after Kurt scraping
12:26by week after week to keep his job, he loses clean to the Buff Bagwell blockbuster and Kurt Hennig
12:31must now retire. Bagwell leaves the ring and the crowd give Kurt a standing ovation, the commentators
12:37reiterate that Kurt has to hang up his boots now and the crowd giving Kurt this ovation would've been
12:42a nice little moment if Kurt wasn't back in the ring in a few weeks time. A shit match right
12:46here though,
12:47the worst on the card so far.
12:54If it wasn't for the powers that be stripping Sting of the WCW Championship after Halloween Havoc then there
13:00wouldn't have been a title tournament concluding tonight at Mayhem. Sting says he shouldn't have to
13:05regain what he didn't lose and Sting says he's fully aware that Bret Hart's on home turf tonight but it's
13:10still showtime. Sting's gonna eliminate Bret in our second semi-final match and the hitman comes to
13:15the ring to a thunderous ovation. The Toronto fans love their Canadian hero but he's got a tough task
13:21ahead of him tonight at Mayhem. The Stinger makes his entrance, the bell rings, it's a cagey start
13:26here with both men being cautious and things get a little tense when Sting shoves Bret from the corner,
13:31the two square up to each other before the shoving continues and all I can think about here is what
13:37if? What if these
13:38two had a main event match immediately after Bret debuted? What if Bret was immediately put into the
13:43Sting vs Hogan storyline following Starcade 97? What if the dinosaurs were still alive?
13:48Sting completely understands his role tonight inside the Air Canada Centre, he bumps around the ring for
13:54Bret as the hitman lays in a few shots. Bret continues his onslaught on the outside and when we get
13:59back
13:59in the ring, Hart delivers his signature headbutt to the midsection. I can't remember the last time Sting
14:04got wrecked so early in a wrestling match. The icon fights back with two very deliberate eye rakes and for
14:11the
14:11first time since his heel turn, Sting gets booed after putting Bret on the mat. It says a lot in
14:16regards
14:17to how much the Canadian fans love Bret Hart. The hitman fights back with a suplex, Sting continues to
14:22cheat by delivering a low blow, Sting then hits an elbow drop and there it is, a sleeper hold. As
14:28we head into
14:29the year 2000, sleepers are becoming the new chin locks. Bret gets out, he takes a knee to the midsection,
14:35Sting brings his excellency to the outside and the hitman gets wrecked at the commentary table.
14:39Sting then goes for a stinger splash when Bret's let out but the move doesn't connect,
14:44yet Sting remains in control after throwing Hart into the guardrail.
14:47Back in the ring, Bret gets a boot up in the corner and look at this, the most blatant of
14:52referee bumps
14:52you'll ever see. Bret had the opportunity to not knock Mickie J in the next week but he decided,
14:58fuck it, you're going down pal. Lex Luger and Miss Elizabeth run down, the total package has a
15:03baseball bat, he looks at Bret but he decides to hit his old friend Sting, but Bret takes the bat
15:08away
15:08and he gives Lex a taste of his own medicine. Lex gets put in a sharpshooter as the referee wakes
15:13up
15:14and Mickie J disqualifies Sting for some unknown reason, I guess because Bret had Lex in the sharpshooter,
15:20the referee thought Luger was trying to interfere on Sting's behalf. Bret isn't standing for it,
15:25he tells the referee that the match can't end like this, so the hitman requests a restart and
15:30the referee allows it. The bell rings again, the match continues on and Bobby Heenan says Bret may
15:35have made the biggest mistake of his life right here. Hart stays on Sting with a rushing leg sweep
15:40and a backbreaker, he gets a boot in the face when coming off the top rope though and this allows
15:45Sting
15:45to apply the scorpion death lock. Bret counters the move by pummeling Sting's knee and Bret's able to
15:50lock in the sharpshooter and Sting has no choice but to top out. Bret's going to meet Chris Benoit
15:55in an all-Canadian tournament final and while it wasn't brilliant or anything, this match was better
16:01than Bret vs Sting at Halloween Havoc 98. Sting completes his face turn by calling Bret back into
16:06the ring to shake his hand, a great little moment here from two of the absolute best to ever do
16:11it,
16:12and Chris Benoit then gets interviewed backstage. He says the last time he fought Bret it was in
16:17honor of Owen Hart. Tonight is for the recognition of being the top man in the sport of wrestling.
16:22Lex Luger, meanwhile, is already wearing a cervical collar while saying he can't compete in his
16:27match tonight. He's going to personally refund every single person who came out to see the total
16:32package wrestle at mayhem, so that means he'll be reimbursing approximately 4 people.
16:43Oklahoma and Steve Williams come out to watch our next match, a dog collar match between Vampiro and
16:48Berlin. As we have learned through this reliving the war journey, there's been many things that
16:53have been greatly exaggerated through retellings of the Monday Night War, but what everyone says
16:58about the Oklahoma character is 100% true. Making fun of someone's very real and very serious health
17:05condition is really low. And you know, I do enjoy laughing at dumb shit during wrestling shows,
17:10but this is even low for my terrible standards. It's just not funny and it's kinda pathetic.
17:16Oklahoma provides commentary for this one and it sucked, no point going into detail. Berlin didn't
17:22put the dog collar on and instead he led his bodyguard, who's now named The Wall, to beat the
17:27crap out of Vampiro for the majority of the bout. Wall then put the dog collar on and the commentators
17:32didn't try to explain what was going on, instead Oklahoma shouted Vampiro over and over again
17:38while imitating Jim Ross. Wall goes to cover Vampiro as we all assume Berlin's not going to
17:43officially compete in this match, but then Daz Wunderkin pulls his bodyguard off Vampiro as if to
17:48say, hey what are you doing? This happens twice and The Wall decides to throw the collar at Berlin,
17:54so it looks like the relationship between Alex Wright and his bodyguard has completely broken down tonight
17:59at mayhem. It's kinda stupid seeing as Alex was the one who told The Wall to take his place just
18:04a
18:04minute earlier. With no bodyguard, Berlin ends up losing the match, Vampiro and Jerry Only double
18:09team to Big Brad first and Alex gives up after getting choked out. Steve Williams then gets in the
18:14ring to beat up Vampiro and his misfit friend and it ends with an Oklahoma stampede to Jerry Only
18:19and a gut wrench powerbomb to Vampiro. The following match wasn't great either, but before we get into
18:26that we learn that Scott Hall's been handed the TV title due to Rick Steiner getting injured. Scott's
18:31now a double champion but he says he'll give the fans what they want by defending both belts tonight
18:36at mayhem. He issues an open challenge to anyone in the back and we'll be seeing who Scott's opponent
18:41is in just a moment. We then see Kurt Hennig leaving the arena while Kimberly Page arrives to the arena.
18:48Kim vs David Flair has much of the year potential and honestly, I can't wait to see what happens.
18:55The powers that be have told Lex Luger to stop being a little bitch. He must wrestle his match tonight
19:00against Ming but Luger's gonna spend most of the bout hamming up his obviously fake neck injury.
19:06The minger beats the crap out of Lex and when Luger performs a vertical suplex, Ming totally no-sells it.
19:11This is a man who can't be hurt. The total package gets totally wrecked on the outside while Ming
19:16continues to no-sell when the match returns to the ring but Ming has a problem, he can't apply the
19:21tongue and death grip while Lex has that neck brace on. Another problem Ming has is one many people
19:26suffered from during this era, he seems attracted and distracted by Miss Elizabeth and while this
19:32allows Luger to take advantage for a brief moment, he really can't do much to hurt his opponent.
19:37His power slam looked absolutely shit, his strikes in the corner do no damage at all,
19:42so Ming decides to hurt himself because god knows someone has to do it. The crowd's absolutely dead here
19:48as Ming lays in a few headbutts, he then brings Luger to the ropes where Liz is supposed to
19:52accidentally spray Lex with some mace, but it takes her a lifetime to get the lid off and the spot
19:58gets
19:58completely ruined. She also looked directly at Luger twice before spraying him. Ming removes the neck
20:04brace, he applies the tongue and death grip, the total package loses this match via pinfall and yeah,
20:10we're going downhill here aren't we? Bret Hart's backstage and he says neither he nor Chris Benoit
20:16are going to disappoint the fans in Toronto tonight. This is Bret's big moment and even though he's
20:20friends with Chris, he will leave Mayhem tonight as the new world heavyweight champion. Lex Luger
20:25walked into frame during this interview looking for his woman and speaking of women, David Flair's
20:30backstage polishing his crowbar. That sounds like a bad euphemism but he really was shining his crowbar.
20:41We're going to find out who's going to face Scott Hall for the US and TV titles tonight at Mayhem
20:46and
20:46yeah, it's Booker T, no point keeping you in suspense. Scott says Kevin Nash isn't here yet but
20:52he will show up a little later on, so Big Sexy's either going to interfere in this match or he'll
20:56get
20:56involved in another match a little later I presume. Loads of time wasting at the start of this one but
21:01the
21:01crowd eats it up. When the two finally lock up, it's Scott Hall in the driver's seat and he takes
21:06great
21:06delight in slopping Booker around. Booker fires back immediately after a hook kick but the crowd
21:11are definitely behind Scott tonight, Booker gets booed after this move. Booker performs a sidewalk slam,
21:17he then knocks Scott out of the ring after a forearm, when Hall gets back inside the ropes he delivers
21:22a
21:22chokeslam and then we see the fall away slam. Will we see a sleeper hold in this match? Yes,
21:27yes we will. And when Scott applies the hold we see Jeff Jarrett and Creative Control making their
21:32way down to the ring. Booker escapes and he pulls off the axe kick, a spinner Rooney and the Harlem
21:37sidekick but Creative Control get in the ring while Double J distracts Nick Patrick. Remember Booker was
21:43pissed off that the powers that be suspended his brother and that's why Creative Control are launching
21:47this attack. The bald bastards get wiped out but Booker jaw jacks Double J, this allows Scott to walk
21:53over and perform the outsider's edge and the bad guy retains both his championship belts.
21:58After the bout, Double J and Creative Control attack Booker, the lights then go out in the arena,
22:04the clock strikes as the bell chimes and when the lights come back on, Midnight's in the ring.
22:08She launches an attack on the heels, Booker and Midnight take Creative Control and Double J out,
22:14the overall match quality here and the way it played out was like something we'd see on Thunder or Nitro,
22:19although Midnight did look pretty impressive for the brief time she was in the ring.
22:47Kimberly Page was driving very safely when that no good jaywalking David Flair stepped in front of
22:53her vehicle. Ever since then, Davey boy Flair has gone logo and he's spent the last two weeks stalking
22:58Kimberly all around arenas on Nitro and Thunder. The powers that be decided to boot him in a match
23:03against David because those boys know how to boot great wrestling matches and so tonight we're going
23:08to see an all time classic, Kimberly Page vs David Flair, the blind leading the blind. This all started
23:14because David attacked Kimberly's husband with his crowbar so he's no one to blame but himself.
23:18The two make their entrances, Kimberly's looking great tonight, David gets told to put his crowbar
23:24down and Kim distracts her opponent by doing some stretches, it doesn't seem to work which is very
23:29confusing to say the least. David gets kicked in the balls and I honestly thought he was selling it
23:34the way he sells everything else, like absolute shit, but when David went back to his corner and
23:39he started punching his own dick we all quickly realised that Davey's wearing a cup. Only David Flair would
23:44go one on one with Kimberly Page while protecting his wee willy. Nick Patrick gets smacked with David's
23:50crowbar and David threatens to smash Kimberly's skull in, and you know how Kim breaks the psychotic
23:54episode that David's been going through for weeks? You know how she fixes something that therapy and
23:59drugs couldn't fix? By trying to seduce David once again. Yeah, and that stupid bastard falls for it.
24:05Kim pulls out David's cup, she hits him with it, and David's all dazed and confused. Young Flair then gets
24:13a proper kick in the balls and Kim kicks David in the head. Yo David, you're holding a fucking crowbar,
24:19mangle her face instead of standing there doing nothing you dickhead. It gets better,
24:24Kimberly shoves the cup in David's face, so David inhales his own smeggy ball scent along with choking
24:29on his own pubes. He then gets slapped around by Kim and I'm sure a lot of you fine gentlemen
24:34would pay
24:34for such an experience but right here David's not having a good time. David shoves Kim away, he then grabs
24:41his crowbar, he approaches his opponent like Frankenstein's monster but here comes a returning
24:45Chris Kenyon to save the day, thank god. Kenyon beats Flair up, David takes a rushing leg sweep
24:51and a Samoan drop, Diamond Dallas Page then walks down and as David hits a low blow on Chris,
24:56DDP launches an attack on Flair Jr. This would've been cool if David wasn't so desperately awkward.
25:02Page delivers a diamond cutter and to be fair to Flair, David does take it well. Page is just about
25:08to
25:08wreck David with his own crowbar but here comes Arn Anderson to stop the beatdown. Anderson wants
25:13to protect David and he wants this to come to an end, so Dallas eventually leaves along with Kimberly
25:18and that's our match over, it's an old contest. Arn makes the stupid mistake of handing the crowbar
25:24back to David and Arn gets smacked from behind. Flair's completely lost it again and after this attack
25:30he runs away through the audience. If you thought this couldn't get any worse, Doug Dillinger then shows
25:35up to help the enforcer, so Anderson's now proper fucked, he won't make it out of the arena alive.
25:40EMTs come down, they put Anderson on a stretcher and it all ends with Arn having this incredible look
25:46on his face. Told ya, an absolute classic right here at Mayhem, worth the price of admission alone.
25:56Sid Vicious says the idea of him saying I quit to Bill Goldberg is ridiculous, it's inconceivable.
26:03Goldberg may have gave Sid the fight of his life at Halloween Havoc but according to Sid,
26:07Goldberg did say I quit during that match and he's gonna do it again tonight. These two had what I
26:12thought was a decent match at Halloween Havoc that played up to their strong points or lack thereof,
26:17so I'm foolishly going into this one with high expectations. The two make their way to the ring,
26:23Goldberg gets kebbaged after inhaling a serious amount of pyro smoke, the fight begins before Goldberg
26:28can even get inside the ropes but he quickly pulls off his signature power slam. Goldberg beats
26:32the crap out of Sid on the outside but the big man gets the upper hand by getting back inside
26:36the
26:37ropes before his opponent. Sid pulls off a cobra clutch slam that looked great followed by a big
26:42clothesline and Sid tries to make Goldberg give up by clawing at his face. Goldberg gets choked out
26:47in the corner, it's not looking good for billy boy right now, Sid then performs a chokeslam but
26:52Goldberg won't give up. So Sid hits a second chokeslam but again Goldberg won't quit. The crowd
26:57are cheering for Sid here and they boo Goldberg when he traps Sid in a headscissors before applying
27:02a cross arm breaker. A loud Goldberg sucks chant breaks out and this is a first in WCW, you Canadian
27:08fans sure do like to make things interesting and even Goldberg has to acknowledge it after performing
27:13a few clotheslines. Unfamiliar territory right here for billy boy. That's the end of our match folks,
27:19Sid gets pummeled in the corner, Goldberg then applies a bridging cobra clutch and Sid passes out.
27:24It's insane that this is all it took to put down the unstoppable Sid Vicious, at Halloween Havoc he
27:29had to get beaten down to a bloody pulp but here Goldberg made it look way too easy. The boos
27:34get
27:34really loud inside the arena as Goldberg gets announced the winner after Sid passed out and yeah,
27:40a real disappointment here. This should have been an all out war featuring two of WCW's biggest and
27:45baddest superstars. Before our main event, Lex Luger sends a warning to Miss Elizabeth. Liz is hiding
27:59from Lex and that means she knows she screwed up tonight, so Luger tells Mean Jane to send Elizabeth
28:05a message, she better watch her back tomorrow night on Nitro. What an asshole.
28:11So here we go, the WCW world title tournament comes to an end, Bret Hart vs Chris Benoit,
28:16a main event we couldn't really envision happening inside a WCW ring just a few short months ago.
28:22To their credit, the company do a fantastic job here of making the match seem like a big deal,
28:27they show Benoit and Bret walk into the curtain before making their entrances,
28:30and they then show good arena shots just before the two square off. This is one crowd pleasing
28:36matchup right here for the fans in Toronto no matter who wins, so we've got a great atmosphere
28:40for this main event, not like previous WCW pay per views where the fans are burnt out by this point
28:45of the show. These two also had a fantastic match on Nitro in memory of Bret's brother Owen,
28:51so again, expectations are high. The referee has to force a break in the corner at the opening bell,
28:56but while it shows his speed off by pulling off a quick arm drag, Bret again brings it to the
29:00corner though this time he gives a clean break, and a test of strength ends with Bret working
29:04over the wrist and shoulder. It then goes to the mat as Tony Schiavone makes mention of the Owen Hart
29:09tribute match from Nitro, and when the two get to their feet Bret takes a knee to the midsection,
29:14twice. Benoit's been busted open already so he does what any man would do when seeing their own blood,
29:19he applies a chin lock. Bret tries to pin Chris while the chin locks apply just because he's the
29:24excellence of execution but his plan doesn't work. He does get a chance to lock in a sharpshooter though
29:29after reversing a sunset flip, Chris counters the sharpshooter attempt with a crippler crossface
29:33but Bret's too close to the ropes. The two men stand up, they look at each other and they shake
29:39hands. It's so fucking refreshing to see a WCW main event that's centered around what happens in the
29:44ring but it is early days yet. There's no way this one isn't going to have some sort of interference.
29:56The interference occurs about a minute after the handshake. That fan who tried to attack
30:00Dean Malenko jumps the guardrail to attack Benoit, only it's actually Dino Machino himself wearing
30:06the face paint. Dean spits on the Canadian flag while attacking Chris, so Bret comes out to defend
30:11Canada's honour while helping out his opponent. The interference gets no reaction and as the match
30:16resumes in the ring, the fans act like it never happened. We see a sweet pile driver from Bret
30:20before he tries to attack Chris in the corner, Benoit comes back with a few hard chops and Bret
30:25gets put on the floor. Backdrop from Benoit, back suplex from Benoit, the hitman replies with a DDT
30:31but Chris answers with a tombstone pile driver. Benoit then signals for the diving headbutt and there it is.
30:37This could be it all over but we've got more interference as the outsiders show up.
30:42They take way too much time coming to the ring though and Scott pulls the referee out way too late.
30:47Bret has to kick out of Benoit's cover. Hall puts Benoit down with a fallaway slam and just as Nash
30:52is about to hit Bret with a chair, Goldberg appears and Big Sexy gets speared. Bret then takes care of
30:57Scott Hall and the bad guy gets beaten up inside and outside the ring, so the outsiders decide to leave
31:02and they walk back up the ramp with their tail between their legs. What you need to keep in mind
31:06for
31:07the future though is that the outsiders stop Benoit from winning the match, that's all that matters.
31:11Goldberg fights with the outsiders by the entranceway before security rush down to break things up,
31:17the fight continues in the backstage area as Benoit goes back in the driver's seat inside the ring.
31:22Chris is now focusing on Bret's leg and Benoit tries to make Hart give up to the figure 4.
31:27Bret makes it to the ropes and this allows Bret to once again control the match. The hitman performs a
31:32superplex, he follows this up with a Russian leg sweep, Benoit ends up on the outside where he gets a
31:36tasty drink thrown all over him but he counters Bret's suplex and we see the German suplexes.
31:42He tries a dragon suplex that Bret counters but Benoit goes under the arm and Bret gets trapped,
31:47Chris goes for the crossface but he struggles to lock it in and Bret's able to get to his feet.
31:52A quick wrist lock leads to Bret taking Chris off his feet and Bret applies the sharpshooter,
31:57a tremendous sequence of moves and counters here and it all ends with Chris Benoit giving up.
32:01Bret Hart has finally done it, he's won the WCW championship after spending nearly two years in
32:07the company, some may say it is too little too late and Bret's now in a tough position of leading
32:12a
32:12failing company but it's still a huge accomplishment and it's good to see him finally win WCW's biggest
32:18prize. It was also good, at the time, that someone like Chris Benoit got a main event opportunity,
32:24I know talking like this is always touchy for some people but Chris was always in the midcard to upper
32:29midcard section and it seemed like guys in that same tier would never get shots like this,
32:33so fair play to Vince Russo, I know it won't be popular but he done a good job of shifting
32:38the
32:38main event picture right here. Bret celebrates with his family in the ring, he and Benoit show
32:43each other respect and now we gotta wait and see what's next for Bret Hart tomorrow night on Nitro.
32:52Now as much as I think Russo did a good job with the main event, there was a lot of
32:57nonsense on this
32:57show too. It started off well, the opener was good, the Revolution vs Filthy Animals match wasn't bad,
33:04I also enjoyed Sting vs Bread just because it was better than their previous PPV match,
33:08but there was also some real low points on this show. It was leagues better than Halloween Havoc,
33:13except for that Goldberg match, but there were some other bad matches here too,
33:17including Bagwell vs Hennig and Berlin vs Vampiro. The thing is, the bar's been set pretty low for WCW
33:24and just saying something semi-decent makes you think it's better than what it actually is,
33:29but I like to take these small victories where I can with WCW right now. I like the feeling of
33:34not wasting an afternoon watching, studying and scripting out something that WCW produced,
33:39so yeah, I thought it was okay but your mileage may vary. When you've been on this journey and
33:44you're rewatching years of PPVs in chronological order, you definitely get a different outlook as
33:50opposed to picking a random show and shitting all over it on the internet. Check out the tournament
33:54matches for sure, watch Kimberly vs David Flair if you want to laugh, the rest of the show does
33:59give you good insight into what WCW was like during this era while not hampering you down with a million
34:05cutaways and backstage promos, so it's a decent little sampler if you really want to experience
34:10the rough days of WCW.
34:13Thanks for watching soldier and I'll see you next week for reliving the war, please take care.