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[2001-02-10-CZW-Crushing the Competition] Ric Blade vs Super Crazy vs Nick Mondo (Ladder)


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A week after KO’ing himself in Jersey All Pro, Ric Blade is back and wrestling in a ladder match. Mondo cuts a funny promo at his expense, talking about him nose diving into the mat when on a Shooting Star and claiming that he had to pay Shorty to stand in his corner and cheer for him. John House seems to think that Crazy will wait until Blade comes out before getting in the ring because he doesn’t want to square off one on one with Nick Mondo. No idea why he would’ve thought that and turns out to be completely untrue. A Crazy Asai moonsault takes down both men, he grabs a waistlock on Blade and Mondo with a sunset flip on Crazy who at the same time launches Blade with a belly to back suplex. Blade bails to the outside but gets levelled by a Mondo tope con hilo. Quebrada to the floor by Crazy. Not wanting to be left out as usual and still showing that he’s got zero idea when it comes to selling, Blade follows that with an Asai tumbleweed (as Gargiulo called it). Handspring kick to the jaw of Mondo after a couple of his lousy looking kicks. A real contrived spot as Blade throws Mondo a chair and he has to stand there holding it while Ric runs the ropes for another handspring. This time though Crazy is on the apron, grabs Blade on the handspring and with him upside down, Mondo dropkicks the chair in Blade’s face. Double jump springboard moonsault by Crazy and Mondo collects the ladder which Crazy then props up in the corner. Surfboard and the momentum on release sends Mondo crashing head first into the ladder (that looked so hokey). A Samoan drop, nip up, standing moonsault from Blade and Crazy kicks out of the cover at two. Blade turns his attention to Mondo, but his attempted tornado DDT is countered with a sit-out spinebuster onto the ladder. Mondo opens out the ladder, starts climbing it and is met up there by ‘Mr No Sell’ who’s ascended the other side. That fast becoming staple of the three-way, the ‘superplex/powerbomb’ with Crazy powerbombing Blade while he superplexes Mondo off it. Crazy covers both men though only gets a two as Blade kicks out (surprise, surprise) while Mondo gets a foot over the bottom rope. As Crazy steps out to re-position a couple of chairs on the concrete, he’s caught by a Mondo baseball slide dropkick. He continues what Crazy had begun, bridging the ladder between the chairs. After laying Crazy across it, he hits a running Swanton over the top rope and back out onto him. Amazingly for Blade he hits it perfectly and didn’t overshoot like I was half expecting. Tilt-a-whirl powerslam by Mondo on Blade. Teeter totter springboard leg drop to the ladder, with the ladder crashing into a chair which had been placed over Blade’s face. Crazy breaks up the cover and then powerbombs Mondo hard to the canvas. Consecutive moonsaults off all three turnbuckles and its Blade’s turn to break things up. Corkscrew moonsault, but before he can get the three, Crazy with a leg drop to the back of the head. Crazy and Blade agree to work together and a double backdrop sends Mondo flying out the ring and onto a ladder which has once more been bridged between a couple of chairs. Blade drags him back inside, they both cover him and we have co-winners. Huh? Crazy’s got no real interest in hanging around any longer than necessary, preferring to have a chat with Doug Gentry (who’s filming this for RF) while he wanders to the dressing room. We’re not quite done as Mondo then demands a barbed wire ladder match against Ric Blade for next week’s show.

 

I intend to not try and repeat myself when it comes to these three ways, but see my previous comments with this being the worst example yet. The purpose of this being a ‘ladder match’ was solely so they could incorporate using it as there was nothing for them to retrieve. I should get used to Ric Blade’s non-existent selling but it bothers me more each time I see him. And what on earth was up with that garbage finish? Just declaring co-winners? Nonsense.

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