We have generic rock music and a sea of green, so that must mean it’s Saturday night and I’m sitting alone, at home, in the dark, watching wrestling. I need a girlfriend! Scott Hudson & Don West are on the call in Bakersfield, California for WCW Velocity!
The FBI wastes no time attacking before the bell, sparking a massive 6 man brawl. Smiley clears the ring with some wild, looping rights, sending Maritato to the floor, and the fans start chanting for the Big Wiggle. Frazier gets the tag and uses his size to dominate Guido, but Stamboli sneaks in with a cheap shot to the back, allowing the FBI to completely cut the ring in half. They isolate Frazier for a long stretch, utilizing quick tags and keeping him grounded. Frazier finally bursts through with a double clothesline and makes the hot tag to Chetti!
Chetti comes in on fire, hitting a pair of clotheslines on Maritato and a dropkick to Stamboli. He goes for a running cross-body on Palumbo, but Chuck catches him mid-air. Stamboli immediately springs to the top rope from the outside. Palumbo drops Chetti with a backbreaker, Stamboli leaps and drops a Leg across Chetti's throat, Kiss of Death! Palumbo with the pin, and that’s a wrap.
Actually an entertaining little match. The FBI is a group that manages to maintain some sort of relevance, even though they haven’t really done anything in a few months. Shame they seem to be on the outside looking in right now.
Dreamer brings a trash can full of toys out with him, and this instantly turns into absolute chaos. They don't even bother wrestling, Mack immediately grabs a Kendo stick and cracks Dreamer right across the ribs. Dreamer battles back, hitting Mack with a trash can lid before pulling out a cookie sheet and smashing it over Mack's head with a sickening clang. The ECW history is on display with these two as they just start trading brutal, unprotected shots.
Mack takes control on the outside, whipping Dreamer hard into the steel steps and then fetching a regular old stop sign from under the ring. He wedges it into the turnbuckle, but when he tries to lawn-dart Dreamer into it, Tommy blocks it, fights out, and hits Mack with a russian leg sweep with a kendo stick across the throat! Dreamer grabs the stop sign and tosses it to the canvas. He hooks Mack and plants him face-first onto the steel with a devastating DDT! He makes the cover and gets the 3.
Dreamer continues building some momentum with the hardcore matches on Velocity. Mack meanwhile is a guy who has come up and hasn’t had any direction seemingly. This Dreamer run must be a dry run for a Hardcore division coming in.
Back from commercial and we are backstage with a Buff Bagwell promo. He cuts a talking head style promo, doing the same generic Bagwell schtick you’d expect, he says tonight The Stuff begins his ascent, again, with a victory over Hennig.
We cut to Curt Hennig cutting a similar promo backstage. Hennig alludes to the fact there are more days behind his career than in front of it, and that he needs to remind everyone who he is before the sands of time tick away on the Perfect One.
They start off with some traditional chain wrestling, and Hennig is absolutely schooling Buff early on, showing him how a master does it. Buff gets frustrated, dropping to the outside to stall and soak up the boos from the Bakersfield crowd. Back in the ring, Bagwell resorts to dirty tactics, thumbing Hennig in the eye and hitting a swinging neckbreaker for a close two-count.
Buff controls the pace for a bit, hitting a vertical suplex and posing for the crowd, but he misses a splash in the corner. Hennig capitalizes immediately, firing off a series of crisp chops that leave Buff's chest beet-red. Hennig hits a running dropkick, a snapmare, and a flipping neck whip! Bagwell is reeling. Hennig grabs Buff as he stands up and hooks him up for the Hennig-Plex! He lifts him up, but halfway through the bridge, Hennig’s lower back completely gives out. Bagwell is dazed but quickly scrambles over, rolls up Hennig with a school boy and gets the pinfall!
That was fine. They are leaning into Hennig getting older, which is interesting and curious where that goes. Bagwell gets a random victory which is fine, it’s interesting that it looked like he was going into a program with Dreamer but that was not brought up at all this week.