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[2000-07-08-Stampede Wrestling] Greg Pawluk vs Tiger Khan vs Principal Richard Pound


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Pawluk looks like Dynamite Kid took a shit and he popped out. Stampede and the match is a mess. Mauro at the end says to forget the hyperbole that this was a battle for the ages. WELP. Too much three way generic action and Principal Richard Pound is an interesting gimmick that doesn’t have great execution. Tiger Khan is also doing a miltia gimmick. Khan is really sloppy. Even the referee is overacting here. Pound ends up winning with help from the Honor Roll faction and a hand full of trunks. Diana Smith presents the title and Pound calls her toots. Mauro in his white shirt and jacket is so 2000. They really are trying to present Pawluk as this exciting up and comer but he didn’t show me much of anything besides a second rate Dynamite, Benoit and even Davey Richards impersonation. **

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This was weird as it was two heels vs the babyface and most of the action has the two heels fighting each other. Pound is pretty generic and not overly exciting. Khan is ok and takes a big bump to the outside through a table. I was reading about Pawluk in the old 2000 observers talking about how he could be the next big thing in Stampede but it never came to be. He was really green. The post match was hilarious with Pound going after Diana and Harry Smith making the save with the worse cane shots i've ever seen. Not very good but interesting to see.

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Mauro Ranallo informs us that “for the first time in its illustrious history the British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight championship will be decided in a Triple Threat match”.  Greg ‘Pistol’ Pawluk is your next generation Dynamite Kid/Chris Benoit clone, while Principal Richard Pound does look like he’d be more at home in the classroom as opposed to a wrestling ring.  Khan crosses the Principal after it looked like they’d formed some sort of alliance and as he pounds away on him in the corner, Pawluk catches him with a sunset flip powerbomb.  Huracanrana on Pound.  Mauro and Bad News Allen are really stressing this Pawluk/Dynamite thing.  Khan throws the Principal to the outside as he looks to go to work on Pawluk, however ‘the Pistol’ reverses the Irish whip and nails him with a big back elbow smash.  A boot to the gut sends Khan through the ropes to the floor and as he and Pound renew their rivalry, Pawluk wipes out both with a crossbody block from the top turnbuckle.  Mamma Mia!  While Khan nurses his injuries at ringside, the action continues between PRP and ‘the Pistol’.  DDT by the Principal for a two.  The official is called Oscar Wilde by the way, surely someone’s idea of a joke?  Pawluk reverses the Hangman’s neckbreaker into one of his own, however Khan breaks up the pin with a top rope leg drop.  Pumphandle slam on Pawluk by Khan and this Wilde’s counts are dirt slow.  The Principal uses his leather strap on Khan and even though the ref catches him, does nothing about it.  After he tosses Pawluk to the outside, ‘the Pistol’ is jumped by William Yeats who rams his head into the door at the Pavilion.  C’mon, Oscar Wilde and now William Yeats!  Lovely gut wrench suplex by Pound but Wilde is dealing with Yeats and Pawluk and out of position to make the count.  Pawluk was busted open somewhere in there and Bad News isn’t happy that after being slammed into their announcing table his blood is now all over it.  Khan gets a foot over the rope following a lariat and even Bad News is commenting on the slowness of this Wilde.  Yeats attacks Khan’s second and when the Tiger goes to help out, it’s déjà vu time as he too gets rammed head first into the Pavilion door.  PRP with a piledriver on Pawluk.  He hammers away at that cut while having ‘the Pistol’ trapped in a camel clutch, although it looks more like a shaving nick, already having closed up.  Khan returns to the ring and cracks a chair over both of his opponents.  After laying Pawluk on a table he set up at ringside, Khan runs up the turnbuckles for some sort of dive out on to him only to lose his balance.  The Principal meanwhile appears to have fallen asleep in the corner!  Attempt number two and he almost loses his balance for a second time, regains it, but ‘the Pistol’ moves out the way of the somersault senton, Khan crashing through the table.  Pawluk unloads on PRP, lands a flying elbow before dropping a knee across his forehead.  He heads upstairs but Khan is back to his feet and shaking the top rope causing him to crotch himself.  Yeats passes the Principal a foreign object which he slugs Pawluk with.  Double sledge off the top and Principal Richard Pound is your new, and unlikely, British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight champion.  Mauro claims we’ve just witnessed a worldie as he tries to sell the match for all he’s worth.  Diana Hart-Smith is about to present the title to him, but when he calls her “toots” she throws the belt down instead.  A monotone and emotionless Diana calls PRP a “disgrace” and thinks that Greg Pawluk is more deserving than he and wants him to forfeit the title.  Pound responds by saying that Stu, who is shown in the front row, is yellow and her husband and brothers are saps.  Diana slaps him and the Honor Roll then grab her as the Principal gets a couple of shots in on her.  A 15 year old Harry Smith saves his mother, clearing the ring of ALL SIX MEMBERS of the Honor Roll which looked frankly ludicrous.

Pawluk may have patterned himself after Chris Benoit and the Dynamite Kid but he’s got a long way to go before he comes anywhere close to those two.  These three are clearly inexperienced in wrestling a triple threat match so this is wrestled more like a regular bout, one man often outside the ring for one reason or another, leaving the other two to it, but it still comes across as a bit of a mess.  Bad News Allen is very funny on commentary though.  Considering Diana has experience of appearing on WWF TV she was dire in everything she did and are we really meant to believe that Harry could run through six men all on his own?

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