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[2000-04-Portland-Total Chaos TV] Bart Sawyer vs Brian Cox


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Surprisingly, the first move of the match is a go-behind into full nelson which Cox easily escapes from. He slaps on one of his own and Sawyer slowly worms his way over to the ropes. Still in the full nelson, he walks his legs up the ropes so he’s in a seated position (you know what’s coming next!), the ref tells Cox to break, he lets go, and ‘not so Smart Bart’ falls to the canvas. Hip toss followed by a poor looking lariat and Sawyer rolls under the bottom rope to the outside. The action is tricky to follow from here as we regularly cut to shots of the crowd (some in black and white, some in colour) in-between the action. Almost certainly parts of the match have been clipped (only slightly at times), and these shots of the crowd are so ‘you don’t notice’. This degenerates into your stereotypical hardcore plunder of hitting each other over the head with trash cans and steel chairs. The match is eventually ruled a no-contest with the official throwing it out after two more chair shots by Cox to Sawyer. As he’s explaining that to him, Sawyer cheap shots Cox over the head with a chair before sprinting off up the aisle.

 

Sawyer has moments where he looks pretty entertaining with his facials, selling and that final weasley chair shot, but still this wasn’t very good. According to the commentators he apparently gets busted open during the match too, although I couldn’t see anything. No rating from me due to the clipping, but even if we had the full unedited version it wouldn’t have made a difference.

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This was filmed weird as at one moment Bart Sawyer is on the outside and the next he's in the ring and then again he's backstage. Then they use the same crowd shots over and over again. It's like AAA. Standard brawl with trash cans and unprotected chair shots to the head. It's weird to hear Don Coss doing commentary in 2000. Reminds me of Lance Russell in MCW.

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