Monday Nitro – February 26, 2001: Down The Stretch They Come
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Nitro #279
Date: February 26, 2001
Location: Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Scott Hudson
We get the brackets for the Cruiserweight Tag Team Title tournament.
Rey Mysterio Jr./Kidman
Johnny Swinger/Jason Lee
Evan Karagias/Shannon Moore
Jamie Knoble/Scotty O.
Elix Skipper/???
Air Paris/AJ Styles
Jung Dragons
Kwee Wee/Mike Sanders
Cruiserweight Tag Team Title Tournament First Round: Rey Mysterio Jr./Kidman vs. Johnny Swinger/Jason Lee
Lee was a regular in OVW and HWA but never did anything on the national stage. Swinger was in a fairly good tag team with Simon Diamond in ECW. Mysterio and Kidman get jumped as they get in the ring with Lee getting two off a sitout Rock Bottom. Kidman shrugs it off and feeds Lee into Rey but a Lionsault hits raised knees. Swinger poses over Rey and gets two of his own off a swinging neckbreaker.
Rating: C+. Totally watchable match here, even if the ending was never in doubt. Kidman and Mysterio are the kind of dream team that should win this whole thing or at least make the finals before an upstart heel team cheats to win. Kidman looked like his old self here, which means he was one of the most entertaining things around.
Konnan, talking to someone off camera, is ready to find some soldiers to fight the Magnificent Seven.
Flair tells Kanyon to go get him.
Rick Steiner vs. The Cat
Booker T./The Cat/Diamond Dallas Page vs. Scott Steiner/Totally Buff
Back from a break and Scott is livid, wrecking everything he can find.
The good guys are proud of their win.
We recap Dustin Rhodes vs. Jeff Jarrett which seems to be more about Dusty Rhodes than anything else. Dustin turned down a spot in the Magnificent Seven so the team started going after him. This included Jarrett imitating Dusty in an unfunny segment last week to further set Dustin off. They fight tonight.
Dustin is ready to get his revenge.
Shannon Moore vs. Shane Helms
Rating: C+. This could have gone longer but the short time forced them to cram in everything they could into just a few minutes. Shane is getting a lot of well earned praise around this time but Shannon has been on a very strong roll of his own. I could have done with more of this and less of Evan but we seem to be stuck with him for some reason.
Chavo Guerrero Jr. comes out for the beatdown and leaves with Evan and Shannon.
Kid Romeo is still coming.
The post match replay shows Booker pinning Scott by mistake.
Dustin Rhodes vs. Jeff Jarrett
Page, Cat and Booker chase the villains off to end the show.
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