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Dueling Chair Shots
by Kurt La Mont
column date 03/13/2000

Living Dangerously Review:

The title of the PPV was certainly appropriate for a few people as they were indeed living dangerously.  The first is Lori Fullington.  That was just an incredible spot when she was gored through the table by Rhino.  I don’t think that anyone saw that coming.  To me it appeared that Rhino didn’t let up at all which I was even more shocked at.  Kudos to her for being willing to do that.

The other two who were living dangerously were New Jack and Grimes.  Grimes impresses me more and more each time I see him.  This guy is just about willing to do anything.  Putting Balls through the table on the floor from the top turnbuckle was just awesome.  Then to fall from the scaffolding with New Jack to the floor was even more nuts.  I was at the show and the only thing that I could see there was the beginning of there descent to the floor.  From what I read New Jack landing on the floor was sick.  After the show I took an eye measurement of the scaffold and it was at least 12 feet high, but no higher than 15 feet.  Just nuts.

As for the rest of the show it was solid, but unspectacular overall.  Super Crazy winning the TV Belt was one of the highlites of the night.  He certainly is a deserving champion.  I wasn’t quite ready for a Rhino title reign.  I don’t think he’s at the point where he ‘deserves’ it yet.  I still want to see a number of really good matches from him before I’m convinced that he’s a worthy champion.  Super Crazy has certainly done this as he has had his share of great matches in ECW for over a year now.

The biggest disappointment for me was not having the Rhino/Sandman match.  This was an oppurtunity for Rhino to have a match like I mentioned above but for some reason it was taken off.  I understand that Sandman was “at the hospital” but to announce this match for the last 2 PPVs and not deliver on either one is terrible.  No one in the crowd even knew that that match had been cancelled.  And if the match had to be cancelled they should have at least have Cyrus come out and announce it to the crowd.  That would have generated heat for him as much as anything else could have.

Other disappoinments include seeing how fat Chetti is now.  I understand that he had a bad back and probably can’t work out like he wants to but if you can’t be in shape for a match maybe you shouldn’t be out there.  He was winded after a couple of minutes.  I never would have guessed that he would allow that to happen.  Do you think that if Taz was still around Chetti would be that out of shape?  Me either.

I also didn’t like how the Dusty and Corino match ended.  What’s the point of having Dusty get a clean win?  Is a big push in his future?  I didn’t make sense to me.

Overall, a solid show, one that I liked better than Guilty as Charged.  On a scale of 1-4 I give it a 2.5.  Typically I don’t like giving out halves but this was better than a 2 and not quite a 3.  It needed one great memorable match to make it a 3 and I don’t think that this PPV had one.  Of course maybe I’ll feel differently after seeing the replay on Tuesday.

If you were at the show read on, otherwise this will make little sense. (insert ‘your column never makes sense’ joke here).

How can such a small school like WCSU have two different campuses?

Wouldn’t somebody in that town realize that having only 1 exit from the arena parking lot is a problem?  And how about having a cop at the exit letting the traffic from the crowd out instead of relying on the traffic light?  Only 7 cars could leave the lot when the light was green.  You had to wait another minute before it turned green again.  I think there are still people waiting to get out now.

And was I the only one who realized if you turned right out of the parking lot you could turn around once you got out?

And how can a grocery store as large as Stop & Shop not have Combos?  WTF is that all about?