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KroniK vs. The Mamalukes
WCW The Great American Bash - June 11, 2000
KroniK vs. The Mamalukes
WCW The Great American Bash - June 11, 2000
Next match on the show is the return of KroniK! Brian Adams could be one of the leaders of this thread after I'm done with it. They face the future Rellik and the future dress-wearer (oh yeah, there's so much bad wrestling I'll never be done with it) in a match to be sort of Number 1 contenders to the tag titles? It's really not clear. Also one of the stereotypes is the Hardcore Champion, but they can't agree on who.
KroniK brawl the Mamalukes out of the ring so they can polish up the Hardcore Title really nice. We start with Clark and Johnny the Bull. Clark brawls Johnny into the corner, no-sells his offence, then hits a uranage. Jumping shoulder knocks Johnny out of the ring, so we start some standard WCW Brawling On The Outside! Including a Russian legsweep against the guardrail. Johnny gets a spin kick to down Clark, then Vito comes in for a double axe handle and beatdown. Vito's wearing the Hardcore Title belt, by the way. Vito back-and-forth brawls with Clark for a bit, but Clark refuses to sell still. Johnny eats a spinning backbreaker.
In comes Adams, who starts to murder Johnny a bit, somehow even more slowly. Full nelson slam by Adams forces Vito to break up the pin. Johnny tries to float over on the top rope but Clark catches him into a powerslam for two. "Vito sucks" chant when Vito isn't even the legal man, which I think is go-away heat. Would not surprise me. Johnny hits a jumping clothesline, fails to suplex Adams, and takes a gorilla press gutbuster. Once again Vito breaks up the pin. He gets a cheeky kick, Johnny hits a DDT, but can't capitalise. Now Vito, who's STILL wearing the strap, and does some "very impressive" punches and a hair-pull.
Adams dodges a corner charge and Clark comes in to assist on a double back body drop. They remove the title from Vito and Clark derisively throws it away, showing it holds as much value to him as it does the fans. Adams hits an honest to goodness BRAINBUSTER, which ultimately looks better than anything else so far. And Vito kicks out at ONE. These people are insane. Mafia Kick, double hot tag. Johnny is the house on fire, powerslams Clark, goes to the top rope... and botches jumping up! I'm pretty sure Clark was meant to roll away from the resulting crossbody, but it takes Johnny long enough that he can do a Samoa Joe walk! Vito doesn't care about Johnny's plight, only the title, so Johnny eats a shoulderblock and High Times to give the match to KroniK.
Very generic brawling, and all the things that are cool (or could be cool) were botched or booked into mediocrity. WCW!