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Date Posted: 00:26:34 06/25/01 Mon
Author: brec7
Subject: Re: RETRO POST: GPW Review 06/25/2000
In reply to: BMN 's message, "RETRO POST: GPW Review 06/25/2000" on 21:35:27 06/21/01 Thu

>GPW at the North Sydney Forum
>June 25, 2000

>1. Todd Douglas vs Hans Schultz (*** 1/2)
I must say that I`m surprised I don`t recall this match.

>2. Bobby Rude v Cuban Assassin (** 1/4)

>Cuban again looked sloppy (he sold a hiptoss TERRIBLY
>early on)
Rude was a hiptoss machine early on! (It seems I comment at least once in every one of these responses on how much Rude has improved.)

>Good heat for the match, but two things could be done
>to improve the Cuban's matches. Firstly, he should
>drop the foreign object bit. It is a tired old
>routine and why doesn't Frank Parker, referee
>extraordinare, never check the pockets? It doesn't
>make sense. Secondly, Cuban often grabs for a
>chinlock at the worst points of the match. The 1:00
>mark would better than a minute before the finish.
Interesting to see what they could have got out of Cuban had those two ideas been enforced.

>3. Chi Chi Cruz vs Rene E Dupre (* 3/4)
>
>These two could have blown the roof off of the place
>but they made two crucial errors. First of all,
>neither cut a promo to keep the previous week's events
>fresh in the audience's minds. Second of all, they
>worked a scientific match almost the entire way
>through, even though Chi Chi's turn on Dupre had him
>steaming only a week ago.
Bad booking for sure! The heat would have been through the roof. Perhaps they weren`t as mad at each other after all those OTHER shows. Hey, it`s a theory...
The perfect pace would have been a brawl, someone gets tired, slaps on a resthold. Into a scientific match, slowly building into a series of impact moves to "go home".

>4. Kurrgan vs Wildman Austin (* 1/2)
>
>Another miscue: Austin defends the title against
>neither Dupre, Douglas nor Rude (all of who sided
>against Austin in the big angle last week). Kurrgan
>only joined the territory last week and is already
>thrown against Austin. The audience was interested
>but not nearly as much as I believe they would have
>been for one of the three suggestions above.
More bad booking! Fans would pay to see Kurrgan win the title any time (I presume Austin was the champ at this time)- why waste it on a night when OTHER matches could draw similar/higher interest?

>Austin was especially funny tonight; I'll allow the
>other recappers to quote him.
Austin was very funny during this match. The in ring action may have been below **, but the entertainment value wasn`t.
I do remember one line; Kurrgan said, "He`s a Joe E Legend mark."
Austin looked at the fans, all pissed off, and said, "WHAT DID HE SAY?"
I think it was our section that responded, "That you`re a Joe E Legend mark."
He shrugged his shoulders and said, "I am!"
The crowd popped- of course.

>Kurrgan looked more like the immobile giant who failed to >impress in the WWF than a more revitalized wrestler than he >appeared to be the last few times I'd seen him.
One of the strangest things about big guys is that they will sometimes go from carrying a bad worker to an ok match, to dragging down a good worker to bad match.
I`ve seen this with Kingman as well, and I have NO explanation for it! I guess it has to do with contrasting styles more than anything else.

>5. $10,000 (wink, wink) Battle Royal (** 1/4)
>
>End of the night battle royals are often pretty so-so
>affairs and this was no exception.
This battle royal was much better than the rush job that RAW put out in its last North Sydney show. Flesh Gordon comes to North Sydney to get eliminated 3 minutes into a battle royal? What a waste of money!

>The card was not booked at all properly in my opinion.
> I'm firmly convinced that had GPW not run such a
>great show last week, the crowd would have been too
>sparse for words.
They were on the way down. Obviously we missed the next show (as mentioned in this post) but I recall that the last GPW show of the summer, which I didn`t attend, drew a pretty poor crowd. Dr. X anyone?

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