Thunder – July 26, 2000: More Painful Than A Shovel To The Head
Thunder
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July 26, 2000
Location: Wheeling Civic Center, Wheeling, West Virginia
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, Mark Madden
The Cat is standing by his limo when the Jung Dragons attack, this time with a sledgehammer. Yang smashes the window by mistake and Smooth the limo driver freaks out. Cat gives him a 3-1 match later tonight.
3 Count vs. Juventud Guerrera/Rey Mysterio
Miss Hancock wants to arm wrestle Major Gunns tonight.
The Artist vs. Skip Over
Judy Bagwell drags Buff Bagwell away by the ear so they can go find the Cat. I guess this is supposed to be funny too.
M.I. Smooth vs. Jung Dragons
Kanyon says he needs to find a Kimberly. Judy is feeling the BANG tonight though.
Muta and Vampiro have beaten down Kronik.
Post match Demon comes out to help with the beatdown but Kronik makes the save and hurts people.
Judy puts Buff in a room and tells him to stay there. What in the world did Buff do to deserve this story?
Big Vito wants a rematch with Lance Storm.
Judy Bagwell vs. Kanyon
Shane Douglas and Torrie Wilson talk about the G-rated tape from Monday.
Kidman has another tape.
Kanyon is driving away, gets out and Kanyon Cuts a guard, then leaves. Funniest thing on the show by about a mile so far.
Shane leaves to get some air when Kidman comes up to laugh at Torrie. This is of course stupid and Shane beats Kidman down.
Hardcore Title: Lance Storm vs. Big Vito
Awesome runs in and lays out Storm.
…This brings us to the big problem that was there last week: how many fans knew what was going on? Serious question: how many fans watching this heard the word “booker” and thought they were talking about Booker T.? I know it sounds stupid today but is it really that much of a stretch?
Booker T. vs. Jeff Jarrett
Overall Rating: F. Let me make this clear: there was good stuff on this show. The opener was fun and some of the Kanyon stuff was amusing. If you take those parts on their own, you would have had a pretty entertaining show and WCW would have come off looking a lot stronger than they did coming into this week. However, there was a lot of other stuff this week too.
I know I often talk about WCW acting like its fans are stupid. However, in this case, it felt worse than ever. This actually felt like they wanted me to be angry at them and walk off, never to watch again. Between the Goldberg shoot, a shovel to the head not putting someone down for more than twenty seconds, Kanyon suddenly wanting Judy Bagwell as his valet, everyone (and their mother in this case) talking about ratings and a man having performance issues, I felt like I was watching the kind of show that non-wrestling fans pretend all wrestling is to make fun of it.
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