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Back to the top, but Chono puts him down with a mafia kick, and Jericho bumps through the table and finishes with another mafia kick at 11:10. Jericho fights back with a table, somehow managing to get this match over despite everything working against him, and a missile dropkick gets two. Chono with the drop sleeper for two and he goes up with a horrible shouderblock, then hits an atomic drop and retrieves a table. Jericho with a german suplex as Patrick ignores the count, and BOY I hope you’re looking forward to more of THAT spot tonight because there’s a lot of it. “Very good, you know what country you reside in” quips Bischoff sarcastically. Chono tries for the STF and Jericho makes the ropes while the crowd chants “USA” for the guy from Canada. Bischoff: “Forget all the wrestling vernacular people assign to that move, it’s a jump leg back round kick, it’s that simple!” You’re right, that rolls off the tongue much easier. Jericho makes a comeback with an enzuigiri. So in fact they became a backwards rebel crowd by acting like a normal crowd. See, this was another colossal fuckup by WCW, as the show was the only one in history DESIGNED to have a heel crowd who would turn on the babyfaces, and instead this was just a normal crowd who cheered for them. Jericho comes back with a leg lariat and hits a dive to the outside, which the crowd pops for. Chono slowly works on the arm to start while assorted WCW geeks come down to ringside to watch, and a flying shoulderblock follows.
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I mean, only 48,000 paid? Talk about a flea market promotion. Bischoff makes fun of the WWF for “giving away tickets at a local 7-11 to get people to come”, but the Rumble still had 10 times as many people in the building as this show did.
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Nick Patrick, who was half-assed going back to being a normal referee in the weeks leading up to this, is now decked out in full nWo gear and calling it for the heels. Chono, oddly, has the honor of being involved in two of the worst WCW PPVs ever, this one and Havoc 92. So the nWo announcer does the actual ring announcements, sarcastically burying the WCW babyfaces, who get no music. The atmosphere is immediately bizarre and off-putting with all-black color scheme and a deliberately low-rent production style. The following PPV is brought to you by the New World Order. Not surprisingly, the Observer review of this one was pretty scathing, with Dave calling it the worst PPV in the history of wrestling. Your hosts are Eric Bischoff & Ted Dibiase But keeping in mind that they were coming off their biggest success ever in Starrcade 96, this whole deal comes off as ego and arrogance to the nth degree. Although the show was accurate, in that this was sold out. Live from Cedar Rapids, IA, drawing 5800. I know Rumble 97 won the poll, but as the man once put it… The SmarK Rant for nWo Souled Out 1997 – 01.25.97