WCW Velocity is back on a Saturday night! We are still at the Propst Arena in Huntsville, Alabama! Generic rock music is our intros friend and here is Scott Hudson & Don West on the call.
These two don’t even wait for the opening bell before tearing into each other with a pair of kendo sticks on the outside of the ring, trading brutal shots that echo through the arena. They brawl straight into the ring, where Crowbar grabs a trash can and smashes it over Dreamer's head, following up with a vertical suplex right onto the flattened metal. Crowbar goes to the outside, pulls a wooden table from under the ring, and slides it into the squared circle, setting it up near the corner. He tries to whip Dreamer into it, but Dreamer reverses, sending Crowbar into the turnbuckles instead.
Dreamer seizes a kendo stick again and cracks Crowbar across the ribs and spine, wearing him down. Dreamer lifts Crowbar up for a back suplex, but Crowbar slips out, hits a low blow, and executes a reverse DDT. Crowbar scales the ropes, looking to dive onto Dreamer, but Dreamer cuts him off with a stiff right hand to the jaw. Dreamer pulls Crowbar over his shoulders from the rope, and drives him straight down with a Spicolli Driver through the wooden table from earlier! TDreamer hooks the leg to secure the victory.
Well that’s more like it from Dreamer, and giving anyone Crowbar as a dance partner seems to help. Maybe this is the dry run for a WCW Hardcore division, a one off to get Dreamer some momentum, or a start of some storyline. Either way, probably the best use of Dreamer so far. Crowbar never seems to disappoint either and is a guy who WCW could be doing more with.
Tommy Dreamer celebrates after the match. He grabs a microphone and tells everyone that if they don’t know why they call him the Innovator of Violence, keep watching.
Jason Jett takes immediate control of this match, backing Bryan Danielson into the corner with a series of crisp European uppercuts and a stiff knife-edge chop. Jett whips Danielson across the ring and drops him with a high-angle back body drop. Jett looks completely dominant, executing a snap suplex followed by a rolling neckbreaker for a close two-count. Danielson is whipped into the turnbuckles, but scampers up and performs a moonsault overtop of Jett, landing on his feet. He hits the opposite ropes and hits a big running clothesline to knock Jett down and get a 2 count!
Danielson fires up, hitting a stiff running forearm in the corner and executing a northern lights suplex with a bridge for another near-fall that gets the crowd's attention. Danielson goes to whip Jett into the ropes, but Jett instead comes back with a sprinboard back elbow to flatten the young gun. Jett immediately hoists a dazed Danielson up into a vertical suplex position, holds him in the air, and releases him directly into a devastating Crash Landing to secure the pinfall victory.
Interesting to see Jett again as he had disappeared, again, it seems like. Also interesting to see Jett and Crowbar in back-to-back matches as they are probably two of the more underutilized talents in WCW who both could be doing more. Danielson looked great too, he’s just a local talent, but I believe he’s a Shawn Michaels’ trainee and it showed. Looked very crisp in everything he was doing and is someone I could see WCW of WWF going after. He’s a little on the small side though.
Amos Hersch charges across the ring the absolute second the bell rings, leveling The Maestro with a brutal running body avalanche in the corner. Hersch doesn't let up, grabbing Maestro by the throat and tossing him across the canvas with a massive release suplex. Maestro tries to crawl away, but Hersch cuts him off, pulling him up for a short-arm clothesline that turns Maestro inside out. With his opponent completely incapacitated in Hersch drags him to the corner and stands on the middle rope. Deadweight Elbow to squash Maestro and get the 3.
Amos continues raking up the wins on Velocity. He seems promising, and I still remain curious as to the long term plans for him as he has such a unique look while having some cool moves. I did not have a Maestro return on my bingo card either. But it looks like maybe it was just a tryout.
After the match, Amos continued his assault and hits another Deadweight Elbow on the Maestro.
We are back from Commercial and in the ring are Disqo & Mike Sanders! They complain that they are former WCW World Tag Team Champions and deserve more respect. Out comes Buff Bagwell. Bagwell says he too deserves more respect. Last week Tommy Dreamer viciously assaulted him with a chair, and this week, Dreamer is rewarded with his own special hardcore match, and not one person has asked how Bagwell is. Bagwell, Disqo & Sanders say they will stand in solidarity until someone shows them respect. Cue D’Lo Brown’s music, and he’s out alongside Norman Smiley & Willy Fraizer and it looks like we have a match.
Norman Smiley starts things off against Disqo, trading standard wristlocks before Smiley breaks out into a brief wiggle to the delight of the Huntsville crowd. The heels quickly use their numbers advantage to cut the ring in half, with Sanders and Bagwell tagging in frequently to wear down Smiley with basic stomps and clotheslines. After taking a beating, Smiley manages to duck under a double clothesline from Disqo and Sanders, making a hot tag to D'Lo Brown.
D'Lo comes in on fire, leveling Sanders with a big calf kick, knocking Bagwell off the apron with a right hand, and planting Disqo with a powerslam. Willy Fraizer enters the mix to intercept an interfering Bagwell, brawling with him to the outside while Smiley tackles Disqo through the ropes. Back in the ring, Mike Sanders tries to blindside D'Lo, but D'Lo catches him off the ropes with a Sky High. D'Lo doesn't waste a single beat, immediately scaling the turnbuckles and flying through the air to connect perfectly with the Lo Down, and thats the match!
The Real Stuff battle continues! Pretty sure this was just a one off random match, with the real story being the hinted at alliance between Bagwell, Disqo & Sanders. Though that is quickly undercut by the other team winning. Everyone looked fine here. D’Lo, Smiley and Bagwell are clearly all more over and better then the rest of the match participants, but it was fine overall.