VCW Monday Night Wrestling 10/11/99 (VCW 40)

Card Information:
 Held in: COMPAQ CENTER
Location: TEXAS, UNITED STATES
Date/Time: 10/11/99 at 7:00pm

Interview:
A ten-bell salute for the late Gorilla Monsoon.
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Interview:
Gabriel Black comments on upcoming matches, then challenges Richard Tobian, Falcon, 
Crimson, and David Wright Hubbard to a match tonight.
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Interview:
The Immortals buy evening gowns, which results in lots of wacky high jinks and crazy events.
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The Immortals defeated Russel Taylor and The Super Giant Ninja when K. Collins
 pinned Russel the Muscle with the Flying Dropkick in 0:01:22.
Rating: 1/2*

Interview:
Stacey Lockman asks Richard Tobian about his participation in tonight's War Games match.
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Bass Rogers pinned Haigeikobai after a jack-knife power bomb in 0:00:26.
Rating: 1/2*

Paul Canyon pinned Jack Norman after a small package in 0:06:29.
Rating: *

Butch Manson pinned Owen Addison after hitting him with the crowbar in 0:10:58.
Rating: ** 3/4
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Interview:
Stacey Lockman finds out the status of Crimson's involvement in tonight's big 
War Games match.
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Chris Champlain pinned Bunyan after a DDT in 0:00:23.
Rating: 3/4*
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Tim Bell pinned Wham Bam Gigolo after a flying forearm in 0:01:17.
Rating: -1/4*

Interview:
Falcon gets the Stacey Lockman interview treatment concerning the War Games match tonight.
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Rex Richards pinned Rushmore after hitting him with brass knuckles in 0:08:17.
Rating: -** 3/4
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Interview:
Johnny Smiles makes fun of Marty and Sherri's Heroes of Wrestling PPV performance last 
night, until Marty challenges him to a table match.
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Table Match:
Johnny Smiles defeated Marty Jannetty by putting him through a table in 0:08:05.
Rating: **
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Interview:
Stacey Lockman tries to interview David Wright Hubbard, but he has his own ideas.
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Interview:
Lance Errington and Lady Erica Whitmore have some very personal insults for Troy Black.
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The Golden Society (Dean Sanders, Lance Errington and Neytron DelArmeggio)
 defeated The Annihilators and Troy Black when D. Sanders pinned B. Rivera
 with the Flying Elbowdrop in 0:24:46.
Rating: **** 1/4

War Games No-Countout-No-DQ-Match:
The Inquisition (Gabriel Black, Manhunter #1, Manhunter #2 and Moy Lazzario)
 defeated Crimson, David Wright Hubbard, Falcon and Richard Tobian when
M. Lazzario made Falcon submit to a bow-and-arrow submission in 0:50:53.
Rating: ** 1/2
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Interview:
All hell breaks loose following the War Games match; Richard Tobian attacks Falcon 
and leaves him for dead as the Torturer brings the axe handle into play, and things 
get ugly.
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Match observations: 

       Tonight, originating from the Compaq Center, VCW Monday Night Wrestling 
made a triumphant return to Monday night television, after last week's 
preemption from that crappy movie, Schala:  Warrior Temptress. Anyway, as the 
final show before VCW's blockbuster pay-per-view, Horror Show, which will take 
place this Sunday, we expected a lot of action tonight. As it turns out, we 
weren't disappointed.
       After a ten-bell salute for the late Gorilla Monsoon, VCW Monday Night 
Wrestling was off and running, as VCW World Champion Gabriel Black opened the 
show by challenging four of his least favorite fellow VCW stars to a War Games 
match with the Inquisition. This would result in Stacey Lockman running hither 
and yon trying to get responses from the four superstars challenged. For once, 
she actually had to earn her paycheck. Anyway, all four had their own way of 
accepting the challenge, so the match was made for later tonight.
       After that, the Immortals proceeded to make an utter disgrace of 
themselves again by showing footage of the two of them, with Nicole, supposedly
shopping for evening gowns. It was a totally embarrassing display of the 
incompetence the Immortals are often known for, at its worst. Their subsequent 
quick victory over the team of Russel "The Muscle" Taylor and the Super Giant 
Ninja did little to redeem them. On the other hand, this may have been a ploy 
by the Immortals to get the Annihilators to take their guard down and not be 
worried about the Immortals... but who knows? Really, who cares? 
       Hell's Bikers and the Ontario Color Show met in singles matches, and 
each match resulted in somewhat of an upset. The powerhouse of Hell's Bikers, 
Jack Norman, lost to the much smaller and more agile Paul Canyon via a small 
package, while Owen Addison, the spokesman and apparent leader of the Ontario 
Color Show, lost to Butch Manson after being hit in the head by a crowbar. 
Unofficially, it's being planned that Hell's Bikers, along with Dick Douglas, 
will face all three remaining members of the Technicians at Horror Show.
       The Boise Triad members, Wham Bam Gigolo and Bunyan, didn't seem to be 
any more successful without former partner Ruby Richard Cage, who they claimed 
was weighing them down. Chris Champlain kicked out of Bunyan's Splatliner 
easily, then planted him with a DDT on a chair, while Tim Bell totally 
outmanuvered the large, clumsy Wham Bam Gigolo for a victory as well. These
combined matches took under two minutes, too. Obviously, Ruby Richard Cage has
had some equally poor performances in the ring, but it seems that when Wham Bam
Gigolo and Bunyan call Ruby Richard Cage a bad wrestler, they should look to 
themselves first.
       Rex Richards and Rushmore had a brutal match. No, there wasn't much in 
the way of blood loss or violent attacks... but it certainly was brutal to 
watch! What was one of the worst VCW matches of all time was mercifully ended 
when Bass Rogers slipped Rex Richards some brass knuckles, which he used to 
cold-cock Rushmore. And the whole mess took over eight minutes, too. 
Fortunately, VCW fans may take solace in knowing that the member of the booking
committee responsible for that atrocity was dismissed from his duties and 
subsequently beaten up. Surry about that.
       Johnny Smiles had quite a few wise-cracks for the Heroes of Wrestling 
disaster that took place last; specifically, for Marty Jannetty and Sensational 
Sherri, who took part in it. That led to Marty Jannetty challenging Johnny 
Smiles to a Table Match, which led to Marty Jannetty taking a Smiledriver 
through a table tonight. It's looking like leaving DeJohnnyration X was a bad 
move for Marty Jannetty.
       Lance Errington and Lady Erica Whitmore had some very unkind words 
concerning Troy Black tonight prior to the Golden Society's match against Troy 
Black and the Annihilators. While one would think that this would be added 
motivation for Troy to really assault Lance Errington with a vengance, the 
Golden Society managed to hold their own, and eventually picked up the win in a
hard-fought, even match.
       When fans saw that the main event was beginning a good long time before 
the show was scheduled to end tonight, many of them thought that perhaps there 
was something extraordinary going on tonight. They were right... tonight, eight
of VCW's top stars put themselves through nearly an hour sheer hell tonight in 
a War Games match. While not everybody was quite up for the task of going for 
fifty minutes straight (the Manhunters and Crimson, in particular, tired rather
quickly), everybody really took a lot of abuse. In addition to the hellacious 
blood loss a VCW audience has come to expect from Gabriel Black, David Wright 
Hubbard, and Falcon, Crimson also lived up to his name, turning the ring 
crimson with blood. Finally, mercifully, Falcon ended the carnage when he 
submitted to Moy Lazzario's bow-and-arrow submission.
       Richard Tobian didn't seem to pleased with that result, however; which 
is understandable, since he had Gabriel Black locked in a scorpion deathlock at
the time. Would Richard Tobian have wrung a submission from Gabriel Black had 
Falcon not submitted first? Who can say? But Richard Tobian definitely took
this as further evidence that Falcon was on the side of the Inquisition, and 
quickly dispensed his idea of justice with a chair, then gave Falcon the Ric 
Flair treatment of slamming the cage door on his head.
       But even then, the carnage still wasn't over. The Torturer came in with 
a wooden axe handle, and all hell broke loose. Just about everybody still 
standing, even Jessica Judd, who wasn't even in the match, took a shot from the
axe handle. But just when it looked like Gabriel Black was going to come out on
top of this situation again, David Wright Hubbard took control with the axe 
handle, and beat the hell out of his former boss with it as the show concluded.
       Well, what more can be said? Even Horror Show will have a tough act to 
follow this Sunday, coming off a great match between the Golden Society and 
Troy Black and the Annihilators, and a brutal War Games match where the 
Inquisition and their enemies nearly killed each other for the amusement of the
crowds. But then again, given the quality of recent VCW pay-per-view events, 
don't be surprised if Horror Show ends up being even better than what we saw 
tonight. Whatever the case, don't miss Horror Show, this Sunday, on pay-per-
view!!

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