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Weird People versus Big Strong Meaty Country Boys!
MATCH #3: MANKIND & VADER (w/ Paul Bearer) vs. HENRY & PHINNEAS GODWINN (w/ Hillbilly Jim).
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By this point, I think it is pretty clear that this week’s show has no chance of topping last week’s edition. Stone Cold Steve Austin’s weekly part is already over, & now the viewers are subjected to a tag team match as their main event.
A top AEW star just called one of his colleagues 'spoiled' and 'narcissistic' HERE.
Basically, the theme behind this tag team match is “Weird people” (Mankind/Vader) facing off against “Big Strong Meaty Country Boys” (The Godwinns).
Vader & Mankind are not getting along with each other. One good spot occurs when both Vader & Mankind yank the ropes with their bare hands in order to tumble one half of The Godwinns right over the top-rope.
Ladies & gentlemen, I perfectly sympathize with the reader if they sigh on realizing what comes next- The Ahmed Johnson/N.O.D feud is still dragging on for the night.
McMahon plugs that Johnson is still on the hunt to find the Nation while the tag-team match is going on. As for the match itself, nothing special. But the result itself is quite underwhelming when The Godwinns beat Mankind & Vader via count-out.
How? Well, towards the end, Mankind grabs a steel chair & decides to use it on The Godwinn brothers. But he misses, & accidentally strikes Vader with it. All of this happens near ringside, & the referee has already counted to ten. Hence, the result.
This to me is a very weird scenario. Let me explain. Take all the characters from your favorite TV Show, let’s say- Breaking Bad. Put all of those characters & insert them into Game of Thrones. What you end up with, is basically great characters with a lot of potential placed in a completely wrong setting.
Similarly, you have these great characters/wrestlers in the WWF, like Mankind. But instead of doing what he is really supposed to be doing, we see him losing against the frickin’ Godwinns in an impromptu tag-team matchup.
RESULT: The Godwinns win via count-out.
At the end of the show, we see one of the N.O.D members scared to death, putting all his stuff in the back of their car. The setting is a parking lot, and all other members are urging him to speed it up.
Unfortunately for him, Ahmed Johnson catches up & stuffs the poor guy into the trunk of the car. But their getaway vehicle screeches away in an instant. We can even see a butt sticking out of a window as the car speeds away from Ahmed.
Johnson wasn’t fast enough to catch them, & this is where the show ends. Three frickin’ Ahmed segments with no pay-off, Stone Cold triumphs over three crybabies & little boy blue, Owen Hart (& his snowsuit) is awesome, Savio Vega had a 'real' bad day & somebody decided to put The Godwinns over. All we can look forward to is HBK facing Psycho Sid at Thursday RAW Thursday which is two more weeks to go from now. Sigh.
