[2000-09-25-WCW-Nitro] Sting vs Lance Storm

[soup23]

Finish of a Jarrett match vs General Rection as he teams up with the Canadians. Sting makes the save with his baseball bat and clears the ring helping MIA. Lance calls out Sting and the match starts. This actually seems like a pretty interesting pairing on paper of two guys that never interacted much with each other given their longevity. Lance looks good on top of Sting with a springboard dropkick and a powerbomb. We also get some good reversals between the Scorpion and the Maple Leaf. Tony and Hudson have great calls giving Lance credit and Madden just squeals like a four year old. Sting breaks the hold and then gets in the fluke Scorpion for the pin. Hate seeing Lance lose and it should have brought about a long form PPV match. *3/4

[GSR]

The footage begins as Team Canada are attacking Gen. Rection after he’s just been defeated by Jeff Jarrett. ‘Double J’ puts the General in a Figure four and M.I.A. try to help their leader but are kept at bay by Team Canada (featuring a freshly cropped Jim Duggan). Sting eventually makes the save clearing the ring of them all. Lance Storm tells ‘the Stinger’ if he wants to stick his nose where it doesn’t belong, he’s going to have to teach him some respect. So, if he’s got the guts? Of course Sting has got the guts, like he’d back out of a fight!

 

We return from a commercial break with the match already in progress. Storm with a two count after a lovely looking dropkick. Sting shrugs off the Russian leg sweep and levels his opponent with a series of clotheslines. He heads upstairs, but Lance is back to his feet and swipes a foot out from under him. Suicideplex is blocked and Sting shoves Storm backwards to the canvas. Clothesline off the top, however Lance is able to avoid the ‘Stinger splash’. A swift back elbow sends Storm through the ropes to the floor where Sting whips him into the guard rail. As he rushes at him though, Lance side steps out the way and a drop toe hold sending ‘the Stinger’ crashing into the rail. Springboard dropkick followed by a sort of ‘Blue Thunder Driver’ for two. Crossbody off the top, but Sting’s momentum enables him to roll through for a two of his own. ‘Stinger splash’ hits, and as he looks for the Scorpion Deathlock, Lance grabs an ankle and reverses it into the single leg crab. He fights his way to the ropes for the break and shortly after the ‘Scorpion Death Drop’ gets him the win.

 

Unfortunately this only goes about five minutes which is a shame as it could’ve done with another five on top of that. Considering the time limitations they worked a quick pace here and didn’t really hold back. Storm’s reversal of the Scorpion Deathlock into his single leg crab was especially nice.

[AstroBoy]

This was perfectly fine and Storm was doing a nice job taking advantage of his opportunity around this time but his push is fading so it seems more and more futile. Sting is just kind of there and doesn't look particularly motivated but this was moving along well until they wrapped it up pretty quickly. Storm goes down fairly easily and that's a disappointment.

 

**1/2