It’s Cyber Sunday this week, and I intend to watch it at Jasp’s house along with our usual tradition of beers and Mexican food. I’m sure it will be entertaining. I noticed that the last thing I wrote about was the previous WWE PPV, so for a bit of variety, a quick update on a couple of matches I’ve seen lately, to squeeze in the middle :)

Briscoe Brothers vs. Kevin Steen & El Generico (Ladder War)
(ROH Man Up, 15/09/07)
I had this sitting on my computer for ages before I actually got round to watching it and I have no idea why because it is fucking AWESOME. It’s like the opposite kind of Ladder match to the equally awesome Shawn/Jericho one I talked about last time, as although there is a strong rivalry and violence in the match, there’s also loads of just mental stunts. I liked this match so much that I had originally planned on doing a big entry on it until I got lazy and decided to do this ‘quick update’ instead, so I’m not going to list every great/sick thing in this match. I will mention that one of the coolest ladder spots I have EVER seen is the springboard Doomsday Device on El Generico with crazy Mark Briscoe diving THROUGH the set-up ladder for the clothesline. It’s incredible. Other honourable mentions are a Package Piledriver through a ladder, a Jay Driller through a ladder and well…I’m stopping there because otherwise I will go on forever. Excellent ladder match.

Cactus Jack & Raven vs. Terry Funk & Tommy Dreamer
(ECW November To Remember, 18/11/95)
I got out my beloved Mick Foley: Greatest Hits & Misses DVD again (I was meant to do a full review, if I do I guess I’ll be copying & pasting this..) because I was bored and I remembered this match being pretty wild, and it still holds up in that regard. As the definition of a crazy ECW weapons-fest, this is pretty hard to beat, especially when you consider that this happened in 1995 before the rest of us had been exposed to such insanity. There’s very little in the way of wrestling, but it’s part of the hate-fuelled Raven/Dreamer saga, the crowd are rabid, and a few weeks earlier Cactus set Terry Funk on fucking fire, so what do you expect. For what it is, which is pure ECW craziness, it’s pretty great. Dreamer pulling Mick’s homemade Eric Bischoff t-shirt over his head and pumelling it with a chair is hilarious too.

Cactus Jack vs. Mikey Whipwreck
(ECW Big Ass Extreme Bash, 06/03/96)
This is from the same DVD, and I don’t really like it as much. It was Cactus Jack’s final ECW match, so the crowd is pretty awesome for it, and it does have some fun parts, but I dunno…Mikey Whipwreck is a twerp. It’s not bad though, it’s your usual ECW Cactus Jack match with some different stuff thrown in, including the debut of the Mandible Claw (to no reaction, because ECW fans were clueless rubes) and using a Leonard Cohen LP as a foreign object. I do like the ‘never-say-die’ attitude of both men, makes the match seem more important. I also like Cactus repeatedly murdering Whipwreck with a chair, piledrivers and the Double Arm DDT, because like I said, he’s a dork. To be fair, this is still pretty fun.

Kane vs. Albert
(WWF Smackdown, 14/06/01)
Man, the Ongoing Kane Tally! could really have done with this instead of the Gauntlet debacle on Raw this week. Albert comes out to the awesome X-Factor Uncle Kracker theme and this match is already brilliant. It’s really legit good though, and this was before either of these guys were known for having good matches. The match is basically five or six minutes of just straight up balls-to-the-wall action between two big powerhouses, which makes a really entertaining TV-style match. The best bits are Albert easily gorilla press slamming Kane (causing Tazz to just go “..Albert’s a freak” which is lol), Albert reversing the chokeslam into a DDT, and Kane reversing the Baldo Bomb with a mid-air dropkick type thing! Seriously, that happened.

Kane vs. Albert (No Disqualification)
(WWF Smackdown, 28/06/01)
That was so good I watched the rematch straight after. It’s not as the good as the first match, but still fun. Haha this time, Tazz says “Albert’s a moose, a monster, an ANIMAL!”. This match also features the mythical hurraKANErana which none of my idiot friends ever believes actually happened. It gets a massive reaction too. The No DQ stipulation doesn’t much come into play until Diamond Dallas Page runs in and hits Kane with the Diamond Cutter (which he sells like a Stunner because, you know, Kane), allowing Albert to hit a huge Baldo Bomb for the win and the Intercontinental title! Man I love A-Train.