Things slow for a moment when Jarrett applies a sleeper but DDP fights out and goes to a sleeper slam. He hits a third but when trying the fourth, Vampire comes up through the ring and pulls him down. Rating: D. Three minutes, a low blow and interference means it’s already time for Awesome to give up to a veteran in just two minutes. Steiner hits a low blow that doesn’t cause a DQ. Spring Stampede 2000Date: April 16, 2000Location: United Center, Chicago, IllinoisAttendance: 12,556Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Mark Madden, Scott Hudsonif(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-wrestlingrumors_net-medrectangle-3-0')}; It’s the night of a million tournaments because TOURNAMENTS ARE AWESOME. Bischoff has been told that Hogan is out of the hospital and coming here. Winners: Buff Bagwell and Shane Douglas in 2:47 The regular teams pair off to beat up a veteran each but the old guys fight back and Flair gets Johnny in the Figure Four. Disco gets in a cheap shot before two random large men take him away. Both guys could go, but it was kept rather short. Jeff uses Kimberly as a shield but still gets sunset flipped for two. The important stuff you know. He tries again, but Kidman counters into the facebuster. It’s also not a good sign that we’re seventeen minutes into this show and they’ve already changed the card from what they announced on Thursday. Flair gets slammed off the top but avoids an elbow. At least the fans popped for the swerve. It does allow DDP the breathing room to turn things around. Mean Gene interviews Billy Kidman and Eric Bischoff. Lash dives on Crowbar but takes out Daffney as well. This was starting to get good so they had to send the Cat out there to turn it into a comedy thing. Russo comes out to say two veterans vs. two rookies isn’t fair, so the Harris Twins are added to make it 4-2. We hear a bit from Mancow about how he’s doing this for revenge and for Chicago. I don’t think I can sit through this show if I remember what Russo has coming. DDP refuses to quit, so Jarrett lets go only to get rolled up a few times. Posted: 20 Apr 2000 12:00 am By Ian Ross Editor, IGN Wrestling Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer is reporting that early estimates of Spring Stampede 2000 buyrate have the show getting a … Kimberly gets in a slap on the floor and the fight goes into the crowd, which only shows off all the empty seats. A ladder shot to Norman’s face gives Terry the title. This show was about two months of TV crammed into two hours and forty minutes. He then hits the Death Drop and makes Vampiro quit in the Death Lock. Obviously it didn’t really pay off, but let’s see if the show it at least entertaining. It’s insanity to start and I’m sure Daffney and Helms are going to get involved. *¾. DDP cuts a promo on Jeff Jarrett backstage because Mean Gene needed to keep earning that paycheck. IT wasn’t really bad, but it wasn’t very good either. PPV REVIEW: WCW Spring Stampede 2000. 8-Ball climbs up and takes FOREVER. Harlem Heat yells at each other post match. This whole thing, which still hasn’t been explained in detail on TV, has only been going on six days and has seen two beatdowns and attempted murder. Either way it wasn’t good looking but it sets up the Death Drop and Deathlock to send Sting on to the finals. Not like a cat of course because who would want to squash a cat? Plus the lack of a DQ call was a bit much. He then leaps over the guardrail to take him out. Kidman gets two off a side slam but Vampiro grabs a Rock Bottom (called a chokeslam, which to be fair is pretty much the same thing) to come back. Flair is in street clothes because this is going to be a street fight. We’re still not done yet though as Vampiro pops up through the ring and pulls Sting underneath. I get the idea of pushing Steiner but at the same time I’m not wild on having a newcomer lose this quickly. Mark Madden sees a basic kick to the back from Vampiro and calls it like Sweet Chin Music. Tony Schiavone is terrible at giving those away by saying the exact opposite. You really shouldn’t be able to do that. This was going well until the Hulk Hogan appearance. The opening video package shows when Vince Russo announced the reboot. Winner and New WCW United States Champion: Scott Steiner in 5:38 Right off the bat, this seems like a big clusterfuck. That would be your angle that has nothing to do with the match and has a 50/50 chance of never being brought up again. Jimmy Hart w/ Hail vs. Mancow w/ His Entourage They run down the card, which I always hated because it kind of gives the show a slow start instead of going right into a match. Page gets the better of it and they finally get off the wide shot and show them coming back to ringside. Like I said, it’s because this whole “let’s push the young guys” is lip service and you could tell by watching for five minutes. Both guys get overly long entrances from their locker rooms. Playing next. Rating: C+. WCW United States Championship Tournament Quarter Final When Madden runs down Flair, Tony Schiavone straight up responds “BULLSHIT”. There’s a place for those kind of antics, but it’s not in the middle of what was turning into a good power match and our introduction to Mike Awesome, who looks like a star. WCW United States Championship Semi-Final Mike Awesome gets interviews backstage and is beyond jacked up. There are tags required here and Crowbar gets an early two on Candido via a northern lights suplex. Things were going so badly, that Vince Russo, head of creative, decided to hit the reset button. Thankfully everyone else charges to the ring so we don’t spend another five minutes on entrances. Vampiro busts out a one handed chokeslam like he’s the Big Show or something for two. Team Package takes a beating, and it’s odd to see the other two teams working together, since I reviewed a show from January where they were feuding. The beating continues and here are two guys to take Disco away. I recently reviewed Spring Stampede from earlier in the year and had to sit through this match. Kidman goes into an offensive flurry. Why is this going on for three months? Bam Bam Bigelow interrupts, leading to Awesome attacking him. Mike Awesome vs. Scott Steiner Spring Stampede was the fifth and final Spring Stampede pay-per-view event produced by … Kidman counters with a hurricanrana. T. eats a back elbow in the corner though and a quick Vader Bomb gets two for Buff. WCW United States Championship Quarter Final The Whiplash gets two on Crowbar (just called a signature move by Tony. As it was called Spring Stampede, the event was usually Cowboy/Wild West themed. January 02, 2020 Chris No comments. Bam Bam Bigelow comes in to call Awesome a jabroni, earning himself a beatdown. Shane punches Flair a lot and we get half a Flair Flip in the corner. Hogan easily finds Eric, but before he can do anything, security or cops come in to stop this. For some reason, Scott Steiner comes out to the awful STEINERLINE theme song. The fact that there are fourteen matches means that things move by rather quickly, which helps. When they go back inside, Booker is in control with a knee drop. “BISCHOFF MUST BE HELPING DDP!” Well he wasn’t. Sting’s top rope splash hits knees though and Steiner drops him with a gorilla press. In other words, he’s like the only “young” face in the company. January 02, 2020 Chris No comments. Just having the match isn’t enough though so let’s go backstage to Team Package (Ric Flair/Lex Luger). As a bonus, add it to the list of dumb things Hogan has done over the years. Mean Gene interviews Jeff Jarrett, complete with Slapnuts guitar. Makes sense I guess. 0:44. World Tag Team Championship Semi-Final In the coolest spot so far, Shane Helms launches Moore onto everyone. Features, News, Reviews. Sting hits a flurry that sends Booker outside. Team Package rallies a bit, but the numbers game hurts them. **½. Steiner takes him down with a nice amateur move, followed by the bicep curl elbow. The venue that hosts this show, the United Center, is rather large. A second ref appears to call for the DQ. The Jeff Jarrett-DDP match was one of the few good matches of 2000 by WCW standards. April 16, 2000 United Center, Chicago On Monday, April 10th, 2000, six days before Spring Stampede 2000, the landscape of World Championship Wrestling changed entirely. Get the latest and greatest in professional wrestling news by signing up for our daily email newsletter. It’s the night of a million tournaments because TOURNAMENTS ARE AWESOME. Mike Awesome has been added to the US Title tournament and can’t wait to beat the nine lives out of The Cat. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Iaukea w/ Paisley vs. Shannon Moore w/ Shane Helms ½*. That match gave me a headache. Browse more videos. Norman climbs a ladder to get into the plumbing but Funk chairs him down and through a table full of cookies. WCW World Cruiserweight Championship His latest book is the the Complete 2000 Monday Nitro and Thunder Reviews Part 1. Smiley hilariously hangs like a bat from the pipes by the ceiling. Was the Cat legal the whole time? Awesome comes back in the ring with the slingshot shoulder block that pops the crowd. They get inside and Norman channels his inner Cat by dancing, but at least it makes more sense here. Kidman is terrified. What? Please help us serve you better, fill out our survey. Add that to the list of stupid things said on this show. BY The referees are already allowing low blows and interference. *¼. Scott Steiner, who was set to be a World Champion later in the year, should have gone over him cleanly. Rating: D-. VSplanet.net. He throws him outside of the ring and continues to pound on him. Didn’t we just do that Monday? The fans go nuts as Kevin Nash limps out and strikes Awesome in the back with a crutch. Not that it matters as we’ve got Kevin Nash with a crutch to knock Awesome off the top, setting up the Steiner Recliner to send Steiner to the finals. The Mamalukes w/ Disco Inferno vs. Match of the night here which could have been better had they swapped the participants in the last two matches. I know I’m supposed to yell about how bad this was but there’s a problem: I barely remember anything on this show five minutes after it wrapped up. He goes to fly from the top but Funk gets the feet up to block it. Shane Douglas made a career out of throwing verbal jabs at Ric Flair. Just look below for “GET EXCLUSIVE UPDATES” to sign up. I always wondered why WWE doesn’t run there, but I’m sure they could have sold it out in 2000. Rating: C+. I get that the disqualification protected your big monster like character, but at this point, I believe Wall had suffered a fair amount of losses. Name, namesake, whatever. Face Hulk Hogan is feuding with heel Billy Kidman, so he attacks heel Jimmy Hart, who is face Hogan’s manager. Bigelow gets in offense as the Cat appears and kicks him. What are they allowing now? Fat Ahmed Johnson hits a spinebuster on Buff and he yells in an extremely high pitched voice. BY Thomas Hall – ON April 7, 2020 IN News. With Brian Adams, Mike Alfonso, Marcus Bagwell, Steve Borden. He hits a pretty impressive splash for two. On Monday, April 10th, 2000, six days before Spring Stampede 2000, the landscape of World Championship Wrestling changed entirely. Winners and New WCW World Tag Team Champions: Buff Bagwell and Shane Douglas in 8:36 Instead it came off like he tried a diving hurricanrana but got spinebustered. The battle goes outside, where Wall gets a table. They head outside with Jeff using various things fans hand him, including Page’s book, as they’re now ripping off ECW. Vampiro brings Sting back up and he has blood on his mouth. Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. The Harris Brothers This was another bad match to add to the pile with Russo making sure to put in everything he could to every match and making the action a backdrop to whatever is supposed to lead up to the next angle. Another match, another disappointment, another shoddy ending. Here’s another match tonight that had a lot of potential but wasn’t any good. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over ten years now and have reviewed over 5,000 shows. Funk throws the ladder on top of Smiley and pins him. Like pretty much every other match on this card, it starts with a brawl. BY Thomas Hall – ON January 29, 2020 IN Features, News, Reviews. There’s WAY too much on here to know if anything was really good or not and the little bit that does stick out is quickly forgotten for the sake of whatever else Russo has to throw out there. They get into a shoving match that just looks so awkward. Hogan storms through the back and……walks past the door with VINCE RUSSO AND ERIC BISCHOFF’S NAMES ON IT to open the door next to it. Booker calls Sting back inside for a fist bump. Some chairs to the head have no effect on Terry so Norman chairs him even more on the way into the arena. He mistakenly hits the Blockbuster on Douglas, leading Russo to pull Nick Patrick out of the ring. The idea of the youth movement is fine, but like I said earlier: the only champion who is actually young (or at least didn’t feel like a veteran) here is Candido, who had years of experience of his own. **¼. Eric Bischoff is scared as Hulk Hogan searches for him. Steiner hammers him down but gets dropkicked out to the floor, allowing Sting to get in a dive. It was just nonstop nonsense. Bigelow appears again to beat him down and take him out. It’s like two at once! Steiner pounds Wall down into the corner but Wall does the same thing back to him. Douglas gets the win for his team. The goons keep the referee from seeing a tag as this is getting dangerously close to being a wrestling match. If nothing else he could have made a “now THAT was a shoot” joke later on. After more worrying from Eric Bischoff in the back, Mean Gene interviews Buff Bagwell and Shane Douglas. Thomas Hall – ON The previous week on Nitro, all titles were vacated and put on the line at this PPV. In a different vein though, the Dustin Rhodes vs. Terry Funk feud needs to stop. Kidman is ready for Hogan if he comes back tonight. Madden: “Well a hummer can wear you out.” Wait we’re still not ready to go because ten minutes of talking before the first match isn’t enough. This is another match that happened tonight and there’s really no reason to see these two fight anymore, though I’m sure they will because Vampiro is creepy or whatever. I’ve covered the lame booking and Russo not knowing how to run a wrestling show to death and I’m sure I’ll get to it more in the future, but this show was such a total overload. It’s the night of a million tournaments because TOURNAMENTS ARE AWESOME. Steiner pokes him in the eye so Wall chokeslams the referee through the table instead, drawing a DQ from a second referee. Funk throws him around the catering area, but Smiley uses a trash ca to come back. Funk kicks the chair into Dustin’s head though, knocking him into the ladder. Russo gets up from commentary to interfere, but Buff turns the tide. 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