Thursday, August 23, 2007

In Your House: Fully Loaded 1998 Review

The night of a thousand clotheslines

Val Venis defeated Jeff Jarrett (w/Tennessee Lee) (7:50)
Venis pinned Jarrett with a roll-up.
** 1/4
Pretty good for an 8 minute match (or match at all by 98's standards)

D'Lo Brown (w/The Godfather) defeated X-Pac (w/Chyna) (8:26)
Brown pinned X-Pac after a 'Lo Down.
**1/4
Another OK match.. This was nontitle if that makes sense.

Faarooq and Scorpio defeated Terry Funk and Justin Bradshaw (6:51)
Scorpio pinned Funk.
*1/2
Faarooq and Bradshaw against one another before the APA was formed.

Mark Henry defeated Vader (5:03)
Henry pinned Vader after a Big Splash.
½*
What do you expect from THIS match?

Disciples of Apocalypse (8-Ball and Skull) (w/Paul Ellering) defeated L.O.D. 2000 (Hawk and Animal) (8:50)
DOA won when Animal was pinned.
¾*
Yawn.

Owen Hart defeated Ken Shamrock (w/Dan Severn as Special Guest Referee) in a Dungeon match (4:53)
Owen won when he knocked Shamrock out with a dumbell and lifted his arm in a tap out motion..
This match was taped days earlier in the Hart family Dungeon.
**3/4
Pretty fun match.

WWF Intercontinental Champion The Rock fought Triple H (w/Chyna) to a time limit draw in a Two out of three falls match(30:00)
Rock pinned Triple H after a Rock Bottom (20:21)
Triple H pinned Rock after Chyna interefered and hit a DDT(25:23)
The time limit expired right after Triple H hit a Pedigree, Rock retained the title(30:00)
**1/4
Man was this boring for these guys.

Jacqueline defeated Sable (w/Jerry Lawler as Emcee) in a Bikini contest
Sable originally won the match, but was later disqualified for not wearing a bikini top (she had hand prints painted on each breast).
Loved this when I was 14 and I'll leave it at that.

The Undertaker and Steve Austin defeated Kane and Mankind to win the WWF Tag Team Championship (17:28)
Undertaker pinned Kane after a Tombstone Piledriver.
**1/4
OK main event.

~ I refer to this PPV as, “a Night of a Thousand Clotheslines” because, well, there were a lot of clotheslines. No match stands out as special.

~ Bonus match: Raw, the next night; Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Undertaker defeat The New Age Outlaws to retain the Tag Team titles. *1/2

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