[Mack Dolla Bill]

WWF Royal Rumble 2000: Triple H (c) vs. Cactus Jack

I hadn't watched this match in years, and decided to watch it again. Man, no wonder I went crazy over this match as a kid it's probably my favorite match of all time. Mick Foley was on his "A" game during this whole contest and him and Triple H always had great chemistry.

Match starts out with them trading blows slowly going outside the ring, and out of nowhere Triple H hits Cactus with the ring bell. After they get back in Triple H hits a very vicious chair shot on Cactus, shortly after Cactus gets up and gives Triple H a leg drop with the chair onto of his face. Then they spill back outside the ring and fight through the crowd itching their way to the entrance ramp. Cactus grabs two wooden pallets stacks them up and gives Triple H a brutal suplex. Afterwards Triple H sidesteps Cactus giving him a belly to back suplex onto a trash can! Brutallity

Cactus then gets control and places Triple H beside the steel steps and gives him a running knee lift. As Triple H is back into the ring Cactus goes under the ring and finds a bared wire two-by-four and enters the ring. Triple H then gives Cactus a low-blow then grabbing the two-by-four nailing Cactus over the back multiple times. Once again they go outside and Cactus sets up for a piledriver onto the announce table, Triple H counters with a back body drop, spot looked very intense.

Later on the spill outside once again and Triple H gives Cactus a hip-toss onto the steel steps hitting Cactus's knees. Once they get back into the ring Triple H bring out the handcuffs and handcuffs Cactus's hands behind his back. As Triple H tried to use the steel steps, Jack performed a drop toe hold, sending Triple H's head into the steps. Triple H came back by using the chair. The Rock came out, and hit Triple H with a chair, as a police officer removed Jack's handcuffs. Jack performed a pulling Texas piledriver on the announce table, and spilled a bag of thumbtacks in the ring. Triple H came back with a back body drop onto the thumbtacks, and a Pedigree. Triple H finally performed a Pedigree onto the thumbtacks to win, and retain his title. After the match, Jack hit Triple H with the two-by-four again.

If you haven't seen this match your missing out on one hell of a Street Fight. I can't find a single thing wrong with this match that's why I'm giving it a well deserved

*****

[Jack Evans 187]

Wrestling Gold Volume 2: The Maim Event (yes that's spelled right...)

1) The Rock & Roll Express vs. Randy Savage & Lanny Poffo
Decent tag match. Nothing too special. Didn't last for very long (or at least from what you got to see), but it wasn't too bad. For those of you who don't know, "Leapin" Lanny is Savage's brother. He's actually pretty enjoyable, because he does do a lot of leaping. Ended in a DQ, which happens a lot on these DVDs... but the aftermatch stuff was great. They brawled for a couple minutes, and Savage ended up piledriving Morton through an announce table. Now this is not your announce table you'd think of these days. This was a solid, thick, heavily supported blue table. And it snapped in half with that piledriver. Pretty awesome if you ask me...
**

2) Manny Fernandez vs. Nick Bockwinkel
Real good stuff. These two meshed really well together. If you're not familiar with Manny, I'll just say that he's a hell of a worker. I really like him personally. But yeah, another very good technical matchup (can you tell I like those...). 2nd best match on the set thus far. Unfortunately the tv time limit ran out in this one...
***1/4

3) The Sheik vs. Mark Lewin
The majority of the match was these two stabbing the hell out of each other with a pencil The Sheik had in his tights and Lewin running around scaring the shit out of the crowd because he didn't know where he was or what he was doing. But hey, it wasn't bad. The ending was just crazy. Lewin has Sheik's manager in a sleeper hold in the ring, and out of nowhere Sheik lights off a fireball that ignites in the middle of the ring into both of their faces. Crazy stuff.
**1/2

4) David & Kerry Von Erich vs. Gene Yates & Killer Karl Krupp
I didn't like this much at all. It was way too early in the Von Erich's career. They were very inexperienced and it showed in the ring, as they botched a lot of moves and actions. They didn't look like wrestlers, they were just flailing around the ring the whole time. It wasn't impressive. And the match got way too much time then it needed. And to top it all off, the Von Erich's won the match. Disappointing.
*

5) The Fabulous Ones vs. The PYT Express (Pretty Young Things)
I'd be shocked if anyone has heard of the PYT express. It was the duo of Koko Ware (before the B.) and Norvell Austin. They weren't together very long, but this was a solid matchup between these two teams. Nearly the whole match consisted of the PYT isolating Steve Kern and then the Fabulous Ones finally made a switch while the ref's back was turned, and the match ended pretty abruptly. Koko was a pretty good in ring performer in his day...
**1/4

6) The Road Warriors vs. Jerry Lawler & Austin Idol
Pretty good. This was the Warriors 2nd year in the business. Those two were just fuckin monsters. Fuckin jacked, as if everyone doesn't know that... But anyway, another DQ finish. I'm really starting to like Lawler in his hayday...
**1/2

7) Steel Cage Match: Randy "Macho Man" Savage vs. Jerry "The King" Lawler
Damn this was good. One of those classic old school cage matches. Loved it. Those two beat the hell out of each other. Ended in yet another DQ but this one wasn't that bad. Mad Dog Vachon hopped over the cage like it was nothing and then he and Savage beat the hell out of Lawler. Layed him out flat with a top rope elbow from Randy and a big leg drop from Mad Dog. Another great hidden gem on this set.
***3/4

8) The Samoans vs. Ted Dibiase & Bob Roop
I really couldn't get into this. There wasn't much to it. The Samoans dropping headbut after headbutt after headbutt about covers it. The finish was just confusing and ridiculous. Roop hit a shoulder breaker on one of The Samoans and pinned him. He got the three count and the ref called for the bell, but then he says it's a DQ because Ernie Ladd was in the ring, whcih he was, getting beat on by Dibiase. But it was just confusing. Bit of a disappointment for me.
*3/4

9) Bruno Sammartino & Dick The Bruiser vs. Ernie Ladd & Baron Von Raschke
What in the blue hell was this? I'll tell you what it was. A complete clusterfuck mess. This was so weird. It is announced that this a 2 out of 3 falls match, which it was, except the thing is, the only thing on the dvd is the 1st fall. And the ref. Wow. The ref was just terrible. He was counting when there was no one being covered... Just a mess. I can't give this a rating.
N/R

10) Tully Blanchard vs. Manny Fernandez
Dammit dammit dammit. The potential for this match is so damn high. I was expecting another good one. But what I get is a damn 3 minute match that ends in another DQ. Gino Hernandez comes out and he and Tully beat the hell out of Manny. He's a bloddy mess. But I'm disappointed again...
*

11) Jerry Lawler vs. Rick Rude
Unfortunately, we only got to see the last 5 minutes or so. It was alright. The finish was like wtf. A simple double axe handle to the back of the head wins the match for Rude. I really really liked the after match stuff though. (I'm noticing myself saying that a lot in this set) Lawler knocks Angel, Rude's manager right in the face, and then it starts. Tommy Rich, Eddie Gilbert, The PYT Express, and everyone else including Jim Neidhart have an all out brawl. Great stuff there. Not so much for the match.
N/R


12) The Crusher/Dick The Bruiser/Little Bruiser vs. The Blackjacks & Bobby Heenan
Ughhh. Boring. A mess. Too many people. That describes it all. The one thing I have to say about this match, is that little bruiser, who is a midget, looks sooo much like Hornswoggle it's not even funny. Seriously. Also Heenan has a really nice blade job in this. Blood pouring down his chest. Other than that, just shit. I wa so glad when this was over.
3/4*


Overall: Mixed feelings. The first half of this was great on the strength of Manny/Bockinkel and Lawler/Savage. But then after the cage match it just went completely downhill, which was just disappointing. Overall I'd say Volume 1 was a bit better. So far Orton/Adonis from disc 1 and Lawler/Savage from disc 2 are tied for MOTS (match of the set). Both at ***3/4 I'm anxious to see if anything is gonna top them...

[Austin101]

Hey all just went to the services yesterday and they went as well as they could have for his funeral.



Anyways while I had a quick moment on this night I read through the 30 plus pages I missed so I don't need to read through 1, 000 when I get back Sunday.Some random thoughts..

..-Welcome back Cal, WHERE THE HELL IS CLIQUE? That's kind of concerning. Think he's the one that pulled a Benoit.

-Nice reviews by HBKBretHart, Cal (SD and WM 24) Crossface, Jack evans, matt among others.Remember I'm going the Flair DVD when I come back. The first one then the second one not to long after.

Within the next couple weeks I guess...-I bought GAB 2007 (Cena-Lashley since its supposed to be decent) and Cyber Sunday 07 today so I'll add them to my TO DO list when I get back.

I'll be in and out but not online till Sunday as said, here's some random match ratings I've seen and my opinions.

Austin-Rock IYH D-X *** 1/4

Austin-Rock RR 98 Interaction ** 3/4

Austin-Rock WM 15 **** (Used to have this *** 1/2 bumped up big time after 2 more viewings)

Austin-Rock Backlash 99 **** 1/4 (better them WM for sure)

Austin-Rock Rebellion 01 **** 1/4 (Criminally underrated match)

Austin-Rock WM 17 **** 3/4 (Best match by far for a million reasons between two)

Austin-Rock WM 19 **** 1/2 (bumped up a 1/4 after 5 more viewings in last year and story behind it)

They also had great confrontations in the Cell at Armageddon 2000 and RR 01 face to face among other places like Survivor Series 2001 or that mixed tag in 98 that Melzter gave three stars.

Cactus/HHH **** 3/4 (Could easily be 5 though)
Rey-Eddie Havoc **** 3/4

etc.

Looking forward to bein back, I miss this place.

[Seb91]

Cena/Lashley - ***3/4

Just. After re-watching, I wouldn't go to ****. It's still very good though, seeming as WWE were churning out awful PPV's at that time with both Trips and more importantly Shawn injured. The finish was a bit bleh, it just look like he threw him off the turnbuckle, rather than an EPIC F-U FROM THE TURNBUCKLE! CENA RETAINS~! BAW GOD WADDA MATCH~! type feeling, which WWE tried to build up around this match.

[Seabs]

Cena/Lashley ***1/2

[BrownieDude]

Cena/Lashley - ***3/4

Always annoys me when people upload things to rapidshare... megaupload is way better for me.

Looking at the G.A.B this year its a pretty great card so far. Edge/HHH and Jericho/HBK almost make it worth it already. Have Edge/HHH had any singles matches of note in the past that I don't know about?

[Medic]

Originally Posted by BrownieDude

Cena/Lashley - ***3/4

Always annoys me when people upload things to rapidshare... megaupload is way better for me.

Looking at the G.A.B this year its a pretty great card so far. Edge/HHH and Jericho/HBK almost make it worth it already. Have Edge/HHH had any singles matches of note in the past that I don't know about?

I think they only had one single match against each other which was on RAW in 1999.

Found it on dailymotion :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3s...-11-199_events

[JBL_Wrestling_God]

What would be awesome is a Evolution dvd...does anybody think there will ever be one coming out?

[Mr. Reinheimer]

There wouldn't be much to highlight. It was mainly Triple H being a champion and having a horribly long reign or two.

[JBL_Wrestling_God]

Originally Posted by Mr. Reinheimer

There wouldn't be much to highlight. It was mainly Triple H being a champion and having a horribly long reign or two.

Are you kidding me? HHH was awesome as a heel with Evolution and had some really good title reigns and there's plenty of highlights..there feuds with mankind, goldberg, shaun micheals and also how the faction helped Batista and especially Randy Orton rise to the top..those two might of still got to the top without Evolution but it would of been much much tougher.They were all championships at one point, the faction didn't last long but when it did last they were one of the best factions in HISTORY.