SlyGuy21
1st Match: Owen Hart and The British Bulldog vs The Road Warriors, WWF Tag Team Championships. An alright match to start, the biggest problem is the false finish. The Road Warriors win, only for the match to be restarted, and then ends in a DQ when Bret interferes, making the restart pointless. I guess it was a good way to get some heat on Bret, but it still feels unnecessary. Rating: 3/52nd Match: The Rock vs Savio Vega, WWF Intercontinental Championship. The Nation of Domination are in a feud with Rock, and I'm guessing Vince was trying to help Rock become more of a face. The problem is that Rock couldn't connect with the crowd, compared to Austin who was super over, and the exact opposite, gimmick wise. The match ends in a countout, and only really served to extend Ahmed Johnson's feud with the NOD. Rating: 2.5/53rd Match: Road Dogg vs Billy Gunn. Honky Tonk Man's back, great, now there's something else to annoy me. Road Dogg's back with Jarrett's gimmick, and HTM doesn't like him for some reason. Enter Billy Gunn, under an atrocious Rockabilly gimmick, and you have a match made at the last second. This is bad, neither guy has any connection with the crowd, and spends more time pandering than wrestling. It's bad, it's boring, and both of their gimmicks were killed off shortly after. I like both these guys, and their future tag work, but this is garbage. Rating: 1/54th Match: Undertaker vs Mankind, WWF Championship. A great brawl, that tries it's best to salvage a below average show. It's not a No DQ match, but the ref is super lenient, like he allows chair shots and steel steps. The match hits hard for sure, with Foley taking a nasty crash through the Spanish Announce Table, and the angle going in was interesting. After Taker wins, they try to do a spot where Foley throws a fireball in Bearer's face on accident, but it doesn't work. After some awkward brawling, Taker sets it off in Bearer's face. The aftermath is pretty awkward, but props to Taker for handling the spot well. Rating: 4.5/55th Match: Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Bret Hart, #1 Contender's match for the WWF Championship. This is something that has never worked, taking a phenomenal match, and trying to capture the magic twice. This has happened in the past, and I guess I can't blame them for trying, but this fails to ever hit a stride. It hits a lot of the bases, brawling on the outside, into the crowd, Figure-4 around the ringpost, but it lacks the intensity of their WrestleMania match. The match also ends in a DQ, so it really helps no one, you could argue that it does, but it doesn't. An OK follow-up to a 5 Star match. Rating: 3/5Final Rating: 5 out of 10. Despite their best efforts, this is a mediocre show. Two matches end in DQ's, one in a countout, and one is just terrible. Not even Taker's wild brawl with Foley is a reason to watch this.
amanwhorocks
1. The Sultan Vs. Flash Funk 6/10 2. WWF Tag Team Title Match: The Legion of Doom Vs. Champs-Owen Hart/The British Bulldog - Thx God they didn't lose the belts to LOD. 6.5/10 3. WWF Intercontinental Match: Savio Vega Vs. Champ-Rocky Maivia - Count Out ending. Ehrm. Match was nothing special. 6/10 4. Jesse James Vs. RockABilly - Never like ROad Dogg's Double J gimmick. 5.5/10 5. WWF World Heavyweight Title Match: Mankind Vs. Champ-The Undertaker - First half of the match was boring, but second was great. Mankind's head-first into commentator's table :)8.5/10 6. Bret Hart Vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin - What to say, WM's match wasn't it. DQ ending... Average matches, average main events, Average PPV. 6.5/10
bh_tafe3
Well, WWE Champion Undertaker had yet another PPV match with Mankind, Austin and Bret Hart got a main event match and the New Hart Foundation made their presence felt at this satisfying Two hour PPV event.The night started off with two of Bret's Hart Foundation cronies, Owen Hart and the British Bulldog defending the World Tag Team Championship against the Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal). The LOD looked to have the match won after pinning the Bulldog following a doomsday device, but the referee ruled that Owen hart was the legal man, so the match continued. Bret Hart ran out and decked the referee for a DQ. LOd got the win, but the Hart Foundation kept their Tag Titles. Entertaining match in its own way, but the LOD were well past their best in this match.Next saw another title match as Intercontinental Champion Rocky Maivia put the title on the line against Savio Vega, a member of the evil Nation of Domination. The Rock retained his title after being counted out following interference from Nation members Farooq and Crush. Ahmed Johnson, who'd been in a long and heated rivalry with the Nation, came out and chased them off. Within a few months Rocky Maivia would change his name to the Rock and join the Nation. Even Johnson ended up a Nation member in the end.Next match was what wrestling fans affectionately call the toilet break match as Double J Jesse James (later and better known as Road Dogg) defeated Rockabilly (Billy Gunn) with a small package in a real nothing match. The two would later have a very similar match at TNA Lockdown in 2008, but that was after they formed arguably the most commercially successful tag team in WWE history, the New Age Outlaws.Next saw the continuation of a very long rivalry as the Undertaker defeated Mankidn to retain the WWE Championship. This was a good match, but not the best in their series. Also happening around the match was an interesting story with Undertaker's former manager Paul Bearer, who'd betrayed the Undertaker and allied himself with Mankind, seemingly wanting to go back to managing the Undertaker now he was the champion. Undertaker shot a fireball into his face as a reply.This brings us to the main event, which saw Steve Austin finally get a PPV win over Bret Hart at his third attempt, albeit only by disqualification. They had a nice little brawl before the British Bulldog came into the ring and smashed Austin with a steel chair to draw the DQ. Owen Hart and the Bulldog then laid into Austin. Bret went for the ring bell, but Austin was able to clock him with it, and then smash him in the knee with a chair before applying the sharpshooter. They were finally separated and Hart walked back to the sheds for some ice while Austin celebrated his first ever PPV win over Hart.Decent show.
