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WRESTLEMANIA XI
Just like with my last report I had some of it written and like usual, it got messed up while saving. Thankfully all I had done was the introduction which has a retarded women from the Special Olympics singing the National Anthem, and four minutes of the Allied Powers vs. The Blu Brothers match. We'll just join in process I guess. I should also note that the celebrities at tonight's event are Pamela "No longer Lee" Anderson, Jenny "Please give me an acting job" McCarthy, Johnanthan "I used to be a teen heart throb" Taylor Thomas, Nicholas "The Hispanic on NYPD Blue" Turturro, and Salt and Pepper from what I remember. Itleast at this Wrestlemania they had celebrities that were "in" instead of having old people like they did at previous Wrestlemanias. Match 1: The Allied Powers vs. The Blu Brothers (w/Uncle Zebakiah)- This match is joined four minutes in. At this point Jacob sends Bulldog into the corner and Bulldog is able to get his boots up as he charges in. Same thing happens again and then Jacob is able to get the upperhand and tag out to Eli Blu. They put the boots to him and then Eli slams Bulldog. Lawler brings up the fact that Bulldog has only lost at one Wrestlemania. Eli goes to the second rope and misses an elbowdrop. They both make the tags and Luger comes in and beats the hell out of Eli. Kneelift and off the ropes goes Eli, clothesline by Luger. Off the ropes again and Luger gives the big man a powerslam. Luger knocks Jacob off the apron and then nails Eli with a flying forearm and Jacob makes the save. Bulldog comes in and beats on Jacob. The ref has to pull Bulldog back and Luger tries to knock Uncle Z. off the apron but he jumps off first. At this time the old switchero occurs and Jacob is now in. Luger goes over and only gets a two count as he didn't know a switch occured. Jacob puts the boots to Luger and then sets him up for a piledriver right near Bulldog and Luger makes the tag and Bulldog comes off the top rope with a sunset flip and scores the pin. Time of the match: 6:40. I'll give this match a * 1/2 out of *****. It made Bulldog and Luger look half decent in this match and it looked like they were a capable tag team but Luger would soon be on his way out of the WWF and Bulldog would get a new personality and team with Owen Hart in one the greatest tag teams in WWF History. Luger and Bulldog pose in the ring. Jim Ross, who got the duty of interviewing wrestlers in the entranceway tonight talks to the Blu Brothers and Uncle Z. Uncle Z. in his redneck voice complains about Bulldog pinning the wrong man. Gorilla Monsoon is backstage talking to Jeff Jarrett and The Roadie. Jarrett says that bad luck had followed Gorilla his whole carreer and for him to get away from him. He says he's going to beat Razor Ramon and the 1-2-3 Kid, who was going to be at ringside. Jarrett does the phrase that I always enjoyed, "Ain't we great." They walk away and Roadie puts his hand over the camera. WWF Intercontinental Champion Jeff Jarrett (w/some funky lights and a no-talent piece of s...I mean the Roadie) vs. Razor Ramon (w/Syxx, X-Pac, 1-2-3 Kid, Cannonball Kid, Sean Waltman, who knows what name he's going by tonight)- Jarrett's outfit is blinking. They go the back with 1-2-3 Kid speaking about the match tonight and Kid told him that if he tries to stick his nose in the match, he'd take care of him. They come down to the ring and the 1-2-3 Kid is wearing a really stupid looking black and red plastic karate robe type thing. Razor quickly takes off all his gold and they run down to the ring and Razor knocks him to the outside. Razor's fireworks then come down and he and that ugly little kid pose. The bell never really rings to the signify the beginning of the match so I just started it when Jarrett got on the apron. Jarrett runs in and boots Ramon in the stomach and goes in for a side headlock but Razor sends him off the ropes and nails him with one of those powerful slaps of his and goes for the quick pinfall and only gets a two. Razor sends him off the ropes and misses with a clothesline and JJ sneaks under him but when he gets back up he's met with a thunderous punch by Ramon that gets a two count. Razor sends him into the corner and puts on the breaks and points to his head saying he's smart but when he turns around he's met by a punch and a clothesline that sends him over the top rope and to the outside. At this point I pause the tape to go make myself turkey sandwich. Five minutes later I'm done and I start the tape back up. The ref counts close to 10 but Razor stops him. Jeff's stalling by complaining of a busted lip. Jarrett trips Ramon and jumps back in the ring. Razor reverses a corner whip and Jeff jumps up on the second rope and when Razor comes in he jumps off and attempts a sunset flip. Razor though punches Jarrett and gets a two count. Jarrett punches him Ramon sends Jarrett into the ropes where The Roadie up. Jarrett puts the breaks on He turns around and ducks a right hand by Ramon but doesn't duck the second one and Jarrett nails The Roadie who falls off the apron and hits the floor. Razor rolls him up for a two count. He sets him up for the Razor's Edge but The Roadie pulls him out of the ring to safety. Jarrett signals that he's leaving but the 1-2-3 Kid in his karate pose stops him. That was so lame. Kid approaches Jarrett and throws him back into the ring. Rollup by Ramon and he gets a two count. Jarrett reverses a corner whip and sends Razor in and he sells it like he just hit a brick wall. Jarrett puts Razor's throat on the ropes and chokes him. The ref talks to Jarrett and The Roadie chokes him. Jarrett then springs off the ropes goes to drop a leg on Ramon but he moves out of the way and hurts himself. Roadie gets up on the apron but Ramon sends his head into the turnbuckle and he goes flying down to the floor and he's out for just about the rest of the match. Razor throws Jarrett over the ropes and he falls on top of the Roadie. Jarrett tires to leave again but the 1-2-3 Kid does his karate pose and that scares him into the ring. Jarrett hits a neckbreaker and two dropkicks then sets his throat up on the ropes and drops a leg. He does his great strut and then sends him into the corner. Into the corner again and Razor catches Jarrett's a foot and Jarrett goes for an enzuigiri but he misses and falls on his face. Razor drops an elbow and misses and Jarrett gets a two count. Jarrett knocks Ramon down and gets a two count. Jarrett executes a sleeper and Ramon gets up and puts the elbows to the stomach. Jarrett gets sent off the ropes and goes for a hiptoss but Ramon blocks it and puts on the backslide and gets a two count. Jarrett gets up and nails a quick clothesline for a two count. Ramon bounces off the ropes and punches Ramon and then sends him off the ropes where Jarrett jumps on top of Ramon's head and puts on the sleeper. Ramon gets him down and sends him off the ropes where Jarrett takes his head and slams it into the mat. 2 count only. Jarrett puts the reverse chinlock/sleeper (I can never tell the difference) and the fans cheer Razor and he gets up and hits him with a side suplex. They're both down now and when they get up they both go off the ropes and they both run into each other and they go down again. They get up again and they both go off the ropes and they both hit each other with punches and they go down again. Ramon puts his hand on JJ and gets a two count. Ramon blocks some punches and nails some hard rights. Jarrett jumps onto Ramon but he catches him in the move where he throws you backwards (I looked in my TNM 7 and couldn't find it and the announcers aren't helping me at all). Two count and Vince McMahon keeps on pissing his pants everytime Ramon goes for the cover. Ramon sends Jarrett into the corner and clocks him with a spinning roundhouse right. We're nine minutes in now. Razor distracts the ref now and 1-2-3 Kid goes to crotch JJ on the ringpost but Jarrett kicks him away and the little moron goes flying into the guardrail. Razor goes to the top rope and misses a bulldog and he looked totally drunk when he did this. His right knee is hurt and Jeff puts a beating on him. Figure Four Leglock by Jeff Jarrett. The ref counts him down for a two a couple times as The Roadie is up right now and pulls Jarrett's hands. Razor reverses the Figure Four and 1-2-3 Kid tries to pull Razor's hands but the ref sees it and the ref breaks the hold. Razor sets Jarrett on the top and plants him with a belly-to-back superplex and Razor sells the hurt knee again by not pinning him. Razor gets up and gives the signal for the Razor's Edge and sets him up and The Roadie runs into the ring and the clips Razor's knee for the lame DQ. Time of the match: 12:40. The Kid runs into the ring and nails Jarrett and The Roadie with spin kicks until Jarrett attacks him and sends him off the ropes and sends him up in the air the Kid falls down on the mat really hard. Jarrett puts The 1-2-3 Kid in the Figure Four Leglock and at the same time The Roadie punches him. Ramon jumps Jarrett as he still has the Figure Four Leglock on and refs come into break it up. I'll give this match ** out of *****. A few nice spots but there were to many rest periods and a lame ending takes 1/2 of a * off of the rating. Jim Ross interviews a busted nose Jarrett and tells him he should be ashamed of himself. Jarrett says that "payback will be a you know what." He said "you know what" because this was at the same time that a year after this Dean Douglas would get hell from the WWF for saying hell on TV so if Jarrett was to say bitch then he'd really be in trouble. In the back Nicholas Turturro says that he couldn't find Pamela Anderson so came back and found The Million Dollar Corporation, and Jenny McCarthy. Kama Mustafa (AKA The Godfather) tries to pimp up a new ho in Jenny McCarthy but she blows him off. I guess that was pretty funny. Shawn Michaels and Sid then walks into the room and Shawn says he knows where he is but he's not telling. He says that tonight is Pamela Anderson's dream night and Shawn's bodyguard Sid does his usual babbling. King Kong Bundy (w/Ted DiBiase and the urn) vs. The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer)- They show clips of the Royal Rumble where IRS stole the urn. Million Dollar Man's music kicks ass. Todd Pettingil is with Neil Anderson and tells him to get in the three point stance. He says that Lawrence Taylor's chances are real good. That was very, very, stupid. The lights go out and The Undertaker along with Paul Bearer comes out. Lawler: "Now your tuxedo looks good." The Undertaker's entrance is as long as Glacier and Goldberg's combined. This match is gong to be slow. Ted drops the urn and The Undertaker flinches like it hurt him. Bundy charges The Undertaker as he has his back turned but The Undertaker sees him coming and he moves out of the way and then nails the thrusts to the throat (That we'll call chops for the rest of the match). He boots Bundy and then nails a few more chops. UT twists Bundy's arms and does the whole walking the ropes and then jumps off and nails Bundy. He's stil up. Three clotheslines later Bundy is down. Bundy gets up though and clothesline The Undertaker out of the ring where he sees Ted and takes the urn and gives it back to Paul Bearer. The urn shines some stupid ass light out of it and gets back up on the apron where The Undertaker chops him and then Ted walks the aisle and waves for someone. Undertaker chokes Bundy in the corner as Kama runs down to the ring and kicks Bearer in his big gut and takes the urn. Undertaker then reaches over the top rope and pulls Kama's hair and tries to take the urn but Bundy attacks The Undertaker and he runs away with the urn. Undertaker bashes Bundy's head into the turnbuckle as Jim Ross interviews Kama. Kama: "This urn is mine now. And with this urn you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to melt this urn down and put it on a chain and put it around my neck because this urn is mine!" In the ring Bundy clotheslines The Undertaker outside of the ring and when he gets back in he chokes him on the ropes. Bundy pounds on The Undertaker and slams him down and then drops a knee on him for only a two count. He applies a sleeperhold now and keeps it on for a while until the ol' fans get behind the face and he gets up. Bundy hits The Undertaker's back when he gets back up and sends him into the corner and splashes him and The Undertaker no-sells it. Bundy runs into a boot from The Undertaker and he slams him down and then nails a flying clothesline and gets the three count at 6:54. He couldn't even chokeslam him? Damn Bundy was fat back then. I'll give this match a * because it gave a gimmick that I've always liked Kama Mustafa a chance to advance. Unfortunately he'd soon get squashed by The Undertaker he'd be turned into :shudder: The Godfather.
Nicholas walks through the back looking for Pamela Anderson and he runs into
Steve McMichael, a member of LT's All Pro Team. Steve stutters over his words
and the rest of the All Pro Team speak about the Million Dollar Corporation.
This is pathetic. Nicholas then leaves realizing it was stupid. Nicholas
finds another room and says "what the hell is going on in here?" and since
he's a big TV star, Vince didn't care. Gorilla Monsoon talks with Paul Bearer about the urn and Paul makes my ears crack by crying in his whiny voice. he then talks to The Undertaker who says that he's going to go through anyone Ted puts in front of him. We go to another interview segment as Tod Pettingil talks to George Martin, who used to play with Lawrence Taylor. Who cares?
Tag Team Champions The Smoking Gunns vs. Owen Hart/Mystery Partner- Yes! Owen
Hart is out now to announce his mystery partner. He says that this man had
done when he had been wanting to do for years and that's beat his brother
Bret Hart for the WWF Title. He then brings out Yokozuna who is fatter then
even along with Mr. Fugi, Jim Corrnette, and the Japanese flag. Hah! Owen
gives Yokozuna a hug. The Smoking Gunns talk in the back and say that they
didn't expect Yokozuna to be in this match and that after the night they'd
still be champion. Bart Gunn and "Not yet and still isn't a Bad Ass" Billy
Gunn. Lawler actually makes note of the fact that Owen was The Blue Blazer
exactly six years ago from the date this event was on. He also said he called
up Deon Warwick's psychic hotline and she told him that a big phone bill was
in his future. Some women that I don't recall her name shows us clips from the WWF Fan Festival and the wrestlers trying to make the fans seem like they care. A bunch of old guys, Bob Holly's car, Madusa's bike, Shawn Michael's Heartbreak Hotel, and Dunk Doink. I would have loved to be there. :cough:no:cought: Todd Pettingil talks with Bam Bam Bigelow about his match with Lawrence Taylor and says that Lawrence disrespected him. Bigelow: "An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth." He still has teeth left? Bigelow says that he's the got the Million Dollar Team behind him. We go back to the announcing table where Lawler and McMahon speak about the LT vs. Bigelow match.
I Quit Match: Bob Backlund vs. Bret Hart- The Fink introduces Roddy Piper as
the special guest ring announcer. Ohhh lordy. Itleast he's not reffing in his
skirt (I mean kilt). Backlund really, really, rules. At this point in time
Bret Hart had run out of people to feud with so they put him in this feud
along with guys like Lawler, Hakushi, and Jean Pierre Lafiette. The whole
thing around this match is that Backlund never said I Quit in his match with
the Iron Sheik and that Bret Hart has never said "I Quit." Bret gives his
pink glasses to a little kid. Jim Ross interviews a stunned Bob Backlund and Backlund says he saw the light. Bob's a great character. Nicholas is back there once again and says he looked all over and that Pamela Anderson is gone and they they've made some celebrity changes. Todd interviews Diesel who just towers over Todd. He says that Big Daddy Cool came here to do one thing and was to retain his title and that he was going to show everyone why he's Big Daddy Cool. It's sad, Diesel used to have talent. The Fink then introduces Johnathan Taylor Thomas who is coming out after his win over Bob Backlund. He's going to be the special guest timekeeper. Fink then introduces "That failure who couldn't find Pamela" Nicholas Turturro as the special guest Ring Announcer. Nicholas throws a few fake punches and takes the mic. Shawn comes out first with that blonde bimbo... Sid. Oh yeah. He's got Jenny McCarthy with him also. Jenny sits at ringside as Shawn dances in the ring. The WWF Champion's music plays and Pamela Anderson makes his way down to the ring with Diesel!
WWF Champion Diesel (w/Pamela Anderson) vs. Shawn Michaels (w/the two blonde
bimbos Sid and Jenny McCarthy)- Pamela and Jenny sit next to each other and I
would have loved to be the fan who sat behind them. Before the match even
begins Diesel backdrops Shawn Michaels to the outside of the ring. Diesel
calls Pamela Anderson into the ring and they stand together as the fireworks
go off. Jim Ross interviews Sid and Shawn in the aisle and Sid says it isn't over. Now it's time for the main event! Actually it's not. Todd interviews Shawn and Sid in the back and Shawn says he gave him the Sweet Chin Music and that he had the match won. Sid babbles on about referees or something. Sid thinks he's Hulk Hogan as he calls Diesel "brother." Shawn said he was sick of talking and told Diesel that if he was a real man he'd give him another match. Now it's time for the main event.
Main Event: Bam Bam Bigelow (w/King Kong Bundy, Tatanka, Nicollia Volcoff,
Kama Mustafa who is without the urn, IRS, and Ted DiBiase vs. Lawrence Taylor
(w/a bunch of football players and some Hispanic looking goof)- Vince McMahon
introduces all the guys and I make a couple observations. In the aisle Ted DiBiase yells at Bigelow saying that he embarrassed him. Overall, a pretty good PPV. There a couple bad apples but the PPV was a pretty good Wrestlemania. I'll be back later with something that I haven't decided yet! And make sure you send feedback to me at JOBSquad12@aol.com
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