[2000-10-07-OVW-TV] Disciples of Synn (Slash & Damien & Judas) vs Big Show & B.J. Payne & Flash Flanagan

[soup23]

Show as a face feels fresh and he grabs a hold of Synn until the Disciples come in to help out. Judas throws ashes into Big Show and the beatdown commences. Flash delivers a nice senton bomb to the outside. That is short lived as Flash gets worked over. Fun work and Leviathan is not involved in this match as they are saving the big showdown of him vs Big Show. That is smart. Flash makes the hot tag and Leviathan comes in. The battle between him and Show is a ton of fun. Synn botches a fireball shot and the Disciples retreat. After the break, we get a Disciples video to Voodoo from Godsmack. This is well done and overall this is probably some of the best stuff we have seen from OVW. Cornette is still yelling of course but Leviathan and Big Show both feel bigger than life which kind of plays to the gravity and urgency Cornette calls everything with. **1/4

[GSR]

A recap from last week, where the Big Show (who has a look of Lars Sullivan about him here) says that he doesn’t want to wait until Friday the 13^th, he wants Leviathan right now. Synn answers him and explains that no-one commands her demon; he only comes to her call. Show tells her that she better call him then before slamming her to the mat. Slash and Damien try to jump him but he’s easily handling the two of them until Judas throws ash in his face. Flash and B.J. Payne even things up and they run the DoS out of there. Show then demands a match against all of Synn’s Disciples for next week, pretty much threatening Cornette with harm unless he makes the match, which he naturally does.

 

This week’s episode opens with a short promo from Synn who believes that the Big Show is trying to save his ass and is setting a trap for Leviathan before Friday the 13^th. As a result, even though he is here, she’s refusing to let him wrestle in this upcoming match.

 

The Big Show is doing the hip swivel when Dean Hill introduces him and considering how hot he’s been at DoS, wanting to get his hands on them, I don’t think comedy is appropriate here. The ref is going to struggle to control this if the opening is anything to go by with all six men fighting it out in the ring. Show with a clothesline for each of the Disciples, he then presses Flash overhead and throws him at them. Flash tosses Slash through the ropes to the outside and comes off the top turnbuckle with a senton out onto him. High double backdrop, but Robert Briscoe isn’t paying attention and it only gets a two count. Combination reverse DDT/elbow drop across the throat by Show on Damien. Flash whips him into the corner only to run into Damien’s boot. Tag to Judas, but Damien’s work isn’t finished as he distracts the official allowing Slash to wallop Flash with his shin guard while Judas holds him. Spinebuster for a near fall. Slash with a quality delayed vertical suplex, and this time Payne is in there to break up the pin. He misses a leg drop and Flash with a DDT after Slash telegraphed the back drop. Hot tag to the Big Show who runs rough shot over the DoS. The match has returned to how it started with all six men fighting it out in there. Judas blinds Show by throwing the ash in his face and here’s Leviathan who spears him for the DQ. Show is back to his feet and grabs ‘the Demon’ around the neck for a chokeslam. Synn was supposed to throw a fireball at him, but she botches that releasing it early. Ever the pro Show sells it anyway, staggering around the ring as Synn calls her Disciples off.

 

A really cool music video for the Leviathan/Big Show 13^th October ‘Night of the Demon’ show follows. It’s set to 'Voodoo' by Godsmack and has a satanic/horror theme to it. The video starts focussing on Synn as she’s shown burning photos of the Big Show, interspersed with clips of her interfering in matches. From here it segues into concentrating on Leviathan and it looks like a 1930s horror film with the way that it’s shot in black and white. Leviathan rises out of a grave, marches around the cemetery, through a forest, ending up with Synn; the story, I think, being that she summoned him from the dead. Again this is all cut with clips of him looking dominant in matches and even no selling Big Show’s chokeslam.

 

Final quick promo from Show in the locker room, where Synn finally manages to throw a fireball at him!

 

I take it Show has been shipped off to OVW to lose some weight, although he looks in fine physical shape and even vaults over the top rope when entering the ring for the six man tag. Comfortably this Big Show/Leviathan match feels like the biggest thing we’ve seen in OVW so far. It was right how they removed Leviathan from the tag (certainly don’t give it away for free) and the spots we’ve seen between the two (such as no selling the chokeslam, picking up Show for a belly to back suplex) certainly gives the impression that he can hold his own in there without worry. Even the fact that OVW has the Big Show in their rings adds something to the promotion and raises its standings. That was evident in the tag which was enjoyable fare, especially when Show, Slash or Flash were in the thick of things. That final locker room promo looks like it was a last minute thing and they just re-did the exact spot that Synn was supposed to do in the ring (Synn saving Leviathan as Show has him grabbed around the neck). Last note on the music video which is an outstanding piece of work.

[GSR]

On 4/2/2018 at 10:54 PM, Magnum Milano said:

A really cool music video for the Leviathan/Big Show 13^th October ‘Night of the Demon’ show follows. It’s set to 'Voodoo' by Godsmack and has a satanic/horror theme to it. The video starts focussing on Synn as she’s shown burning photos of the Big Show, interspersed with clips of her interfering in matches. From here it segues into concentrating on Leviathan and it looks like a 1930s horror film with the way that it’s shot in black and white. Leviathan rises out of a grave, marches around the cemetery, through a forest, ending up with Synn; the story, I think, being that she summoned him from the dead. Again this is all cut with clips of him looking dominant in matches and even no selling Big Show’s chokeslam.

Cornette talks about this video on this week's episode of his podcast (#239, which is another 'deep dive' into OVW) mentioning how it only cost $125 total to produce.

[Tim Evans]

it's still sad to see Show go from WWF champ to this in less than a year. However, this was pretty great. Show cuts a good southern promo before the match. Even though the fireball was botched, Synn trew a nice looking one. Loved the video with Leviathan and Show. Leviathan had a great look that could have worked on the main roster. I'm shocked that OVW actually built to a match that people wanted to see and it didn't include the heel refs.