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sigh... It starts - again - with another loser-vs-loser match featuring Jeff Jarrett vs D'Lo Brown, but of course the feature of this particular match is neither wrestler; those two boobs are no match for the silicone that Debra is flaunting. It's just a sad state when "sports entertainment" is geared more towards a Twin Peaks environment than the good ol' fashioned "wrasslin'" that it used to be. I know it's all scripted and it's all entertainment; I just prefer "sports entertainment" to be more "sports" than adult entertainment. Of course the match itself was 99% about Debra's cleavage...and Jerry Lawler was his usual prepubescent little boy blathering self, acting like he's seeing a pair of boobs for the first time in his life. Fast-forward to the next match, which is some eternal, "relay-type" of tag-team match where two tag-teams start out, and as soon as one team gets eliminated, another team comes out to replace them, until there's only one team left. It really seemed to have no real purpose - not even for building storylines - other than to fill a lot of minutes on a boring card. This was followed by a dialogue involving "Road Dogg" who was interrupted by the newly-introduced Chris Jericho. Really seemed to be no point to this, either, unless it was an introduction to a story involving those two. Following this was yet another "hardcore" match between "Big Boss Man" vs "Al Snow and Head"... I've sat through several of these already but I have to say, this one... well, it "takes the cake", if you will. (Watch the match in its entirety and you'll know what I mean. LOL) The ending was about as unpredictable as you can get and I have to hand it to these two guys for doing some of the craziest stuff in order to entertain their audience. Next up: A womens' match (*yawn*) between "Ivory" and "Tori". The best thing that can be said about this is that it was short-lived (thankfully!). Now we have one of those classic "interviews" with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and man, this guy is hilarious on the mic. It's no wonder he went on to super-stardom in Hollywood; he wasn't all that unique as an in-ring athlete, but on that mic, he was pure gold. Following this was the "Lion's Den" cage/weapons match between Ken Shamrock vs Steve Blackman. It was an interesting match but almost seemed geared to turn the fans on to actual MMA stuff...maybe _"here's a sneak preview of what happens in real mixed martial-arts matches"_ I don't know. Not a boring match but after watching real MMA for several years, this was difficult to sit through simply because you could tell it was staged. Now we have a "Greenwich Street Fight" (seriously?!!!) between Shane McMahon and "Test" (Andrew Martin), newly introduced to the WWF PPV arena. (At least, it's the first PPV I've seen him in.) Supposedly, Shane is out to derail the relationship between "Test" and Shane's sister, Stephanie McMahon. As is the current WWF custom, however, three outsiders decide to join the fray, turning it into yet another Jim Crockett Promotions-like onesided affair. At least the conclusion of the match was interesting...as interesting as a match like this can be, that is. I mean, anyone who's followed the WWF for any length of time (especially in its current state) knows that Stephanie McMahon wound up marrying (in real life) Paul "Triple H" Levesque, so you know this is just another part of another script. LOL Now we have a 4-minute backstory leading up to a tag-team match between The Undertaker/Big Show vs Kane/X-Punk... I mean, X-Pac. Seriously, why did they give Sean Waltman such a big push when he amounts to so little? Whose leg did that little dachsund hump to get the push he got? Guess I'll never know, but with any luck, he'll get tossed over the 3rd Street Bridge and into the harbor... He's always been a little man dancing around in the shadow of big men. This is no different: they team him up with someone like "Kane" (Glenn Jacobs) in an attempt to make him (Waltman) halfway believable. Does anyone actually believe, however, that a yapping little peanut like Sean Waltman would actually stand a chance against two 7' giants? This is my biggest issue with Sean Waltman's push in the WWF: He's too small to be taken seriously, yet they (the WWF) keeps trying to force him on the viewers. At least they gave the match a suitable (and somewhat believable) conclusion. Now we have some kind of bizarre _Kiss My A$$_ match between "The Rock" vs Billy Gunn and the WWF stoops even lower by degrading some quite-large lady into being the so-called ass that "The Rock" will have to kiss if he loses the match. The match itself is in poor enough taste but degrading some poor overweight, obese woman into belittling herself like this... just classless, IMO. And of course they HAVE to make her a vital part of the match. Now we have the "Main Event" - a three-way match featuring "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs "Triple H" vs "Mankind", with special guest referee Jesse Ventura. Normally these become so chaotic that they're difficult to follow or make sense of but here, you actually had a good, easy-to-keep-up-with three-way match. I kept waiting for the inevitable to happen but this time it didn't, and the match ended quite surprisingly. Overall this was a mediocre PPV card but it _did_ have some decent matches on it and the conclusion was somewhat interesting.