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[2000-02-26-TWA-Total Impact-TV] Spanky vs Tiger Steele (Hardcore)


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Loss is ribbing us making me watch more Tiger Steele after the AAA match. Spanky does miracle work here really showing the size disadvantage and playing off of that by using his speed. Tiger looks better here in a garbage style brawl but not great by any means. Spanky tries to hit a spinning DDT on Tiger and he doesn’t oblige with the bump. Big schmozz at the finish with Dragon and Tiger’s lackies coming out. Spanky ends up getting the upset and busted open hardway as a result. *3/4

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Tiger Steele goes from being unbelievably awful to merely notably bad when he has the huge size difference and the hardcore match gimmicks to work with. So they took the obvious path with those options and turned in a perfectly acceptable match. This was well put together.

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  • 4 weeks later...

While this is better than the Cobarde match, it's still an awful match and Tiger Steele is one of the worst wrestlers I've ever seen. The announcers reaction to the botched big boot was hilarious. Venom aka Paul Diamond is on commentary and he somehow worse than HBK. Spanky tried his best to make this match tolerable. The run ins were laughable. Especially big Bad john who slipped off the ropes 3 times trying to superplex spanky. I love how Spanky comes out to a different 2000s pop song every match.

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Pre-match interview from Steele telling Spanky that hell end his career before its even started. Steele is accompanied by a valet called Buffy, while Spanky has American Dragon (with his arm in a sling) seconding him. Big size difference with Steele at over 7ft tall, while Venom is on commentary and says that Spanky has just signed a contract with the WWF. Spanky tries to use his speed to his advantage, he ducks under a clothesline, then a hideous big boot from Steele which misses, but which Spanky sells anyway. Spanky with a crossbody and Steele catches him. He drops the knee, Spanky moves and he then starts to try and take one of Steeles wheels out from under him. A dropkick sends him out of the ring, pescado, but again the big man catches him. He throws him into the guard rail and goes for another big boot, however Spanky moves and he crotches himself over the barrier. Spanky with some garbage can shots to the legs but Steele is in no mood for selling. Dive off the top but Steele catches him and plants him with a chokeslam. He ties a cable around Spankys neck and hangs him over the ropes before nailing him with a garbage can. Irish whip into the guard rail then Steele drops Spanky throat first onto it. Steele pulls out a table, sets it up on the floor and brings a chair into the ring. He sits Spanky on the top turnbuckle, who then fires back at him followed by ugly looking tornado DDT. Spanky with a couple of chair shots and one off the top puts him down. He places the chair on the prone Steele and climbs for the frog splash when out comes the Board of Education who attack him. He fights them off with Jeremy Sage taking a bump from the apron through the table. Big Bad John is next out and twice slips off the ropes attempting a superplex before Spanky shoves him backwards and he falls onto Steele. Wayne Knight is next to try his luck but he has as much impact as the other three. Spanky with the frog splash onto the chair and Steele and he gets the win. Post-match we see Steele busted open from those chair shots and theres dissension brewing between he, Big Bad John and Wayne Knight.

 

Worst TWA match so far. Spanky tries but Steele is just not very good and that big boot spot was cringeworthy. The lack of selling the leg as well when Spanky was creaming him with those garbage can shots also really bothered me. The ending was a cluster with all those run ins, Big Bad John can't climb the ropes and not sure the purpose of Steele's valet who didnt do a single thing.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Spanky tries at least. This wasn't as bad as Steele's match against Cobarde, but it wasn't good either. There has to be some explanation to why this guy got worse over his career. Maybe he had some kind of injury or something. He was never great as Giant Warrior, but when you look at matches on Youtube against guys like Abdullah The Butcher, he could do a big boot and moved around much better.

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  • 8 months later...

First time seeing Tiger Steele and he retrieved his attire from the WWF archives as hes fully dressed as circa 1993 Diesel. If only he was half as good as Nash...

 

I thought this was pretty bad. Spankys way to green here to be working with someone as bad as Steele to actually amount to anything memorable.

 

Those chairshots from Spanky were really weak and that mess of run ins was bad. That table spot by el Hijo de Gangrel maybe the worse table spot Ive ever seen.

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