The Hollywood Blondes vs Marcus Alexander Bagwell and Erik Watts - Superbrawl III
Austin and Pillman had been teaming up on a full time basis since the start of the year after Barry Windham recommended Austin to Pillman. The Blondes are the #1 contender's to the tag titles, but for whatever reason, champions, Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas, aren't on the card. This would be the tail end of the initial monster push of the terrible Erik Watts. The first half is reserved exclusively for Watts to be on offense. It's mostly horrible with Watts somehow messing up arm drags (Letting go of the arm too early). Hilariously, every time Watts is tagged in, the crowd boos. After the third time of this happening, Jesse Ventura asks why they're booing. In one of his funniest lines ever, Tony Schiavone utters a line similar to "You sure that's boo or is that...wooo?" : Ah, Tony sucks so much. Finally, the story of the match changes with Watts playing the face in peril with the heels working over his back. Watts isn't a great seller, but I'm actually able to get into the story. It builds into the hot tag to Bagwell. Bagwell has the match won with a Fisherman Buster on Pillman, but Austin sneaks in and gives him an elbow from the middle rope. That allows Pillman to score the win. Despite Watts trying his best to make this suck, The Blondes and to a lesser extent, Bagwelll, wouldn't let that happen. With a time length of over sixteen minutes, the match would have greatly benefited from a few minutes being shaved off and having more time devoted to face-in-peril sequence. Having such a long babyface shine wasn't necessary. Fine opener though. 2 3/4 Stars.
Oh and Erik Watts sucks.
Austin and Pillman had been teaming up on a full time basis since the start of the year after Barry Windham recommended Austin to Pillman. The Blondes are the #1 contender's to the tag titles, but for whatever reason, champions, Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas, aren't on the card. This would be the tail end of the initial monster push of the terrible Erik Watts. The first half is reserved exclusively for Watts to be on offense. It's mostly horrible with Watts somehow messing up arm drags (Letting go of the arm too early). Hilariously, every time Watts is tagged in, the crowd boos. After the third time of this happening, Jesse Ventura asks why they're booing. In one of his funniest lines ever, Tony Schiavone utters a line similar to "You sure that's boo or is that...wooo?" : Ah, Tony sucks so much. Finally, the story of the match changes with Watts playing the face in peril with the heels working over his back. Watts isn't a great seller, but I'm actually able to get into the story. It builds into the hot tag to Bagwell. Bagwell has the match won with a Fisherman Buster on Pillman, but Austin sneaks in and gives him an elbow from the middle rope. That allows Pillman to score the win. Despite Watts trying his best to make this suck, The Blondes and to a lesser extent, Bagwelll, wouldn't let that happen. With a time length of over sixteen minutes, the match would have greatly benefited from a few minutes being shaved off and having more time devoted to face-in-peril sequence. Having such a long babyface shine wasn't necessary. Fine opener though. 2 3/4 Stars.
Oh and Erik Watts sucks.