[2000-07-31-WCW-Nitro] Shane Douglas vs Billy Kidman (Viagra On A Pole)

[soup23]

Viagra on a Poll. Here we go. I mean what can you say about this. Madden thinks it is open mic night and he makes as many dick jokes as he can. Tony is actually saying in a match that someone is going for the bottle of Viagra. Douglas legit gets cut by the bottle of Viagra. What shit. ¼*

[GSR]

As ‘the Franchise’ makes his entrance with Torrie we gets clips of Kidman and Torrie’s sex tape from Nitro, and then of he and Torrie’s sex tape from Thunder. Ol’ Shane had a few problems in the bedroom department though that led to this ‘Viagra on a Pole’ match. Kidman with a headscissors takedown. Knee to the mid-section by ‘the Franchise’ followed by a knee lift. He charges at Kidman who then backdrops him over the top rope to the floor. Baseball slide dropkick and Douglas goes crashing into the guardrail. Huge crossbody back into the ring and the ref starts to count a pin until he remembers that you can only win the match by retrieving the bottle of Viagra down from the pole! Torrie hooks Kidman’s ankle tripping him, and Douglas with a hotshot. Kidman blocks ‘the Franchiser’ with a series of side headbutts and then whips his opponent chest first into the corner. A back bodydrop is telegraphed and Douglas hits the ‘Pittsburgh Plunge’. He starts to climb the pole, however Kidman is back to his feet and plants him with a powerbomb. Now it’s his turn to climb, but Douglas with a belly to back suplex. Bulldog off the turnbuckles and Torrie is up on the apron trying to distract him. The ref goes over to try and get her down, while in the meantime Kidman with a ‘Tomakaze’. He climbs the pole and grabs the Viagra, but Douglas with ‘the Franchiser’ as soon as he drops back down to the ring. Shane picks up the bottle, the official turns around, sees him with it and declares him the winner.

 

Douglas looked bad here, slow and as though he was wading through treacle when he was moving. Madden spent the duration of the match trying to make jokes, the majority of which involved him mentioning a legendary wrestler (Andre the Giant, Lou Thesz, Giant Baba etc.) and then saying how they competed in a ‘Viagra on a pole’ match. Yawn! Finish was terrible with the ref spending an eternity with Torrie on the apron and then turning around the moment had snatched the bottle off Kidman. This month has been a massive improvement on the previous three when it comes to match quality, although this one harkened back to the darkest days of Vince Russo.

[Migs]

Well, I guess Shane deserved to get paid after however much money Paul Heyman stiffed him on, but WCW really made him earn it in humiliation here.

 

Madden makes nothing but jokes, which is probably what this whole bit of booking deserves (although frankly, the entire card they describe probably deserves that).

 

The match itself is pretty solid. Even the finish is dumb but not so insulting. Good outing from both guys to work past how dumb the stips are.