[2000-08-15-WWF-Smackdown Dark] Joey Abs vs Bob Evans

[soup23]

I assume someone taped this off of the satellite feed of SmackDown. Joey Abs looked pretty legit great in this enhancement match against Brutal Bob. His power moves look good and have explosion. The crowd being so quiet is such a contrast to the other WWF stuff we have seen from this year. Bob does some heeling and misses a moonsault. Abs has a good back body drop and a powerslam for a nearfall. Bob actually gets a near victory after that with a scoop slam which surprised me. Abs puts Bob away with a powerbomb. Not bad at all. *1/2

[GSR]

Joey Abs comes out to the Mean Street Posse’s entrance music, although no V-neck sweater for him! Side headlock by Evans, he shouts “Jersey rules!” however it garners zero response from the crowd. Abs with the escape and he grabs a headlock of his own. Evans shoots him off but Abs gets the better of the shoulder tackle before clotheslining ‘Brutal’ Bob over the top rope and to the outside. He returns to the ring, ducks the lariat and drills Joey to the mat with some sort of DDT variation. Back elbow followed by a double bicep pose as Evans is trying his best to get the fans to care about what they’re watching. Abs reverses the Irish whip and catches his opponent with a clothesline. Nice vertical suplex for a two. He goes for the splash in the corner but Evans gets his knees up. A brief and subdued “Bob, Bob, Bob” chant after he again shouts something at the crowd. Evans misses the moonsault and Abs with a scoop powerslam for a near fall. The action continues until ‘the Absolution’ brings a rare victory to the Mean Street Posse.

 

Evans tried his best to get the fans into this, but bar the few who started to chant for him in an almost ironic way, the majority couldn’t care less. Despite his nickname, ‘Brutal’ Bob has got no look, isn’t much of a worker and there’s absolutely nothing brutal about him! No surprise that this didn’t lead to anything and with Abs it looked like a case of in, out, job done and no hanging around.