This match was uploaded recently by WWE vault. It popped up in my feed so I watched the 8 min clip from a random SD in 2002.
It was like rediscovering wrestling for the first time. Its night and day to current WWE wrestling. Fast pace match, hard hitting moves both guys laying it in, no BS aura farming or crowd hijacking the show, no long drawn out entrances where wrestlers are posing. A solid finish with a devastating F5 and no finisher spam.
And this was with Stephanie as GM of the show, a couple of years before Smackdowns golden years of Teddy Long.
It was like rediscovering wrestling for the first time. Its night and day to current WWE wrestling. Fast pace match, hard hitting moves both guys laying it in, no BS aura farming or crowd hijacking the show, no long drawn out entrances where wrestlers are posing. A solid finish with a devastating F5 and no finisher spam.
And this was with Stephanie as GM of the show, a couple of years before Smackdowns golden years of Teddy Long.
