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Wcw: Spring Stampede 2000 [VHS]

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This was one of the best WCW payperviews ever! The only problem with the video is that it is edited very strictly. Anything even remotely profane has been removed and that kind of takes away from the "live" feel of the event. Still it is great to watch. The matches are well done and filled with intense high energy. Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff made quite a great creative team!

I'm not one of those wrestling fans who analyses things detail for detail. I like just about anything and I call it how I see it. WCW for many months leading up to this show had gotten incredibly stupid and boring. It had some moments but otherwise it was a joke. When Vince Russo came back to WCW for the 2nd time. He got almost complete control and for 3 months gave WCW fans some of the most interesting and exciting stuff they hadnt seen for years. I am not a fan of Vince Russo style as a whole but I cant argue with this tape here. The peak of the russo era as far as I am concerned. It was crash tv (or should I say PPV) everything moved at a fast pace. They changed up styles. And it just made things more exciting. I highly recommend that you find a way to check this ppv/home video out. You'd be surprised just how good it is. The live crowd is hot. Always a good thing. Theres a few bad matches in the card. But with a card with as many matches as this. Thats not alot at all. Do note that this video does have some editing of the cursing used throughout the ppv. It's not too bad though. The main event between DDP and JARRETT was one of the best main events WCW had since 1998, without question. Watch it!

Debut of the "new wcw". Best PPV with Bischoff and Russo in charge. There are too many matches but they're kept short thankfully. We see the debut of Mike Awesome,and Kronic on a ppv. The better matches were Booker T vs Sting, and The suicide 6-way.DDP vs Jarrett was pretty good. Mancow vs Jimmy Hart was horrendous. There was too much interference but some of it was entertaining. Good to see the heels dominate a ppv. But its too expensive,you shoud just buy it off ebay.

When WCW said that they were starting over they knew what they were doing. This was their best PPV in three years. The show includes Jarret's first World Title and the debuit of Tammy (Sunny). The only bad thing is that the matches are short, however there are lots of matches. I really recommend this video!

My trip down "WCW lane" continues here at Spring Stampede 2000. This was one of the most important PPV's in WCW history as the company was "relaunched" the previous Monday Nitro with all previous champions stripped of their belts, all previous storylines were dropped, and the beginning of the "Millionaries Club vs. New Blood" angle which was the established veterans (Hogan, Flair, Luger, Sting, Nash) against the up & coming young stars (Douglas, Steiner, Kidman, Bagwell, Vampiro, Awesome) lead by Eric Bischoff & Vince Russo. So this PPV was full of various matches & tournament to crown new WCW Champions. Also WCW instituted a new policy where the referee's "relaxed" the disqualification rule so you'll get an ECW-like atmosphere where wrestlers are able to to do more than they can usually get away with.

Team Package vs. Mamalukes & Harris Brothers - This was a match in the tag team tournament as Team Package (Luger & Flair) had the deck stacked against them to make it an "even playing field." Flair wrestled in his normal clothes (polo shirt, slacks, dress shoes) and was just a brawl for the most part with Team Package overcoming the odds to advance to the finals.

Jimmy Hart vs. Mancow - For those that don't know, Mancow is a popular radio DJ & this match was just to get a celebrity appearence as it was nothing past a comedic match between the two with the bigger issue here being Kidman's attack on Jimmy Hart after the match.

Scott Steiner vs. The Wall - Short match & nothing noteworthy here past the ending where Steiner picked up the DQ victory for Wall chokeslamming the referee through the table.

Mike Awesome vs. The Cat vs. Bam Bam Bigelow - Mike Awesome got into a backstage confrontation earlier in the night with Bam Bam Bigelow which led to Bigelow taking out The Cat, Awesome's scheduled opponent, right before this match. For the most part, this was just Awesome showing his ability to do quick crusierweight moves as a heavyweight before The Cat came back & danced during the middle of the match (with even the announcers questioning why that was happening) before Awesome got the win & moved on.

Shane Douglas & Buff Bagwell vs. Harlem Heat 2000 - For those who don't know/remember, Harlem Heat 2000 was Stevie Ray, Big T (WWE's Ahmed Johnson) with Mr. Biggs (WWE's Clarence Mason) as their manager & Kash (4x4 from the No Limit Soliders group in 1999) as their bodyguard. This match was real short & sloppy with nothing noteworthy past the beginning of the breakup of the Harlem Heat group.

Sting vs. Booker - This was a back & forth match that, again, was quick but still a good encounter between the two that showed each man earning each other's respect in the end.

Vampiro vs. Billy Kidman - This was a athletic encounter between the two but the bigger story here was Hulk Hogan appearing to attack Kidman's for his actions on the previous Nitro (including ramming a Hummer into Hogan's limo) for Vampiro to get the victory. Afterwards, Hogan went after Bischoff in his locker room before Russo got the police to arrest Hogan & take him out of the building.

Hardcore Title Match: Terry Funk vs. Norman Smiley - This was more of a comedic hardcore match than a serious one as Norman Smiley kept running away from Terry Funk for most of the match...to the point where Norman was hiding in the bathroom at the start of the match while everyone backstage was stooging off where Norman was. You got your typical weaponsfest here before Dustin Rhodes' interference backfired & had Funk win the WCW Hardcore Championship.

Scott Steiner vs. Mike Awesome - For the short time they were together, they come off as working a little bit stiff with each other back & forth before Kevin Nash got his reciept on Awesome helping Steiner advance to the finals.

Sting vs. Vampiro - This was the one match both men wanted in the tournament as it was a very physical match for the short time it had with Sting advancing to the finals.

WCW Crusierweight Title Match: Crowbar vs. Juventud Guerrera vs. Shannon Moore vs. The Artist Formely Known As Prince Iaukea vs. Chris Candido vs. Lash Leroux - This match had an usual start as 3 Count kept signing their song until all the other challengers ran down to the ring as they couldn't take it anymore. This was your typical fast-paced crusierweight match with even the managers/valets (David Flair, Daffney, Shane Helms) getting involved before it came down to Chris Candido getting the victory over "The Artist" with help from Tammy Lynn Sytch (formely WWE's Sunny)...which led to a catfight between her & Paisley (Booker T's current wife, Sharmell).

WCW Tag Team Title Match: Team Package vs. Shane Douglas & Buff Bagwell - Before I get started, if your sensitive to uncensored language then mute the TV because everyone was cussing up a storm here from the wrestlers like Shane Douglas ("F' You Flair!") to even the announcers like Tony Schavonie ("Bullsh...!"). This was a back & forth match between both teams with the surpize debut of Kronik along with Russo getting involved lead to the New Blood team of Douglas & Bagwell winning the tag team titles.

WCW United States Title Tournament Final: Sting vs. Scott Steiner - Another back & forth match here & the best match in the tournament outside of Sting vs. Booker. This was actually given time to build up to something before the big swerve came with Vampiro coming from under the ring to get Sting & help Scott Steiner win the United States Championship.

WCW World Title Match: Diamond Dallas Page vs. Jeff Jarrett - This match started off with a bang as they fought through the crowd before making their way to the ring with Jarrett working over DDP's injured back & Page's fighting back for the honor of his wife Kimberly (who Jarrett knocked out earlier in the week). Eric Bischoff was in the isleway observing the match & looked like he was helping out DDP by distracting the referee at first...but it was a setup for Kimberly to turn on DDP & aid Jarrett in finally winning a World Championship.

In the end, this was the most unpredictable & exciting WCW PPV in some time as the booking wasn't too out of control (unlike how it was with Russo before & would get later on) but with trying to shove all the tournament/vacancy matches together in one short time, the wrestling quality wasn't as good as it could have been put still a strong WCW PPV I would recommend for a viewing.

The one worst thing about wcw 2000 ppvs was so many matches that its rare that any match got over 10 minutes. And this is no exception with 2 tournaments. Still some of the matches were good but like many wcw ppvs most of the matchs were very forgetable. I'm posting all the tournament matches but it really won't spoil much as the finals matches are on the back of the box.

tag title tournament match #1
handie-cap match
lex luger and Ric flair vs. the harris brothers and mamalukes
(5/10)

Man-Cow vs. Jimmy Hart
This is why wcw lost ratings. Man cow is a really crappy annoying radio show host. Hart is just annoying and worthless in wrestling. Put these together and you get the crappiest catfight ever.
(0/10)

U.S. title match #1:
Scott Steiner vs. The Wall
(4/10)

u.s. title match #2:
The cat vs. Mike Awesome
(4.5/10)

tag titles match #2:
Shane Douglas and buff bagwell vs. Harlem Heat 2000
(3/10)

u.s. title #3:
Sting vs. Booker t
(7/10)

u.s. title #4:
Vampiro vs. Billy Kidman
(7/10)

Hardcore title:
Smily vs. terry funk
(5.5/10)

u.s. title #5:
Scott Steiner vs. Mike Awesome
(5/10)

u.s. title #6:
Sting vs. Vampiro
(6.5/10)

Cruiserweight title
Chris Candido vs. Shannon moore vs. juventud vs. Iaukea vs. crowbar vs. Lash leroax
(7/10)

world tag team titles
Lex Luger and ric flair vs. buff bagwell and shane douglas
(6/10)

u.s. title
Sting vs. Scott Steiner
(5/10)

world title
DDP vs. Jeff Jarrett
(8/10)

1st match the mamalukes vs ric flair and lex lugar winners lex lugar and ric flair. 2nd match jimmy hart vs mancow winner mancow. 3rd match the wall vs scott stiner winner scott stiner. 4th match mike awesome vs the cat winner mike awesome. 5th match harlem heat 2000 vs buff bagwell and shane douglas winners buff bagwell and shane douglas. 6th match booker t vs sting winner sting. 7th match vampiro vs billy kidman winner vampiro. 8th match terry funk v norman smiley winner terry funk. 9th match mike awesome vs scott stiner winner scott stiner. 10th match vampiro vs sting winner sting. 11th match crowbar vs the artist vs shane helms vs lash lerox vs juventude gureera vs chris candino winner chris candino. 12th match team package vs buff bagwell and shane douglas winners shane douglas and buff bagwell. 13th match scott stiner vs sting winner scott stiner. main event 14th match jeff jarett vs ddp winner jeff jarett.

This is last ppv event for Spring Stampede. This ppv totally switched up the story lines for a way to bring up the ratings, which well you know failed. All the title belts are vacant. Their is a hardcore title match between norman smiley and Terry funk. their is a cruiserweight title match between chris candido and the artist. Their is a tag team title tournament. The final being Lex Luger and Ric Flari vs Shane Dougalous and buff bagwell. Their is a U.S title tournament, the final being Scott Steiner vs Sting. and the world heavyweight title match is diamond dallas page vs Jeff Jarrett

I said it before and I'll say it again, I love tounaments. The Jeff Jarrett-DDP match was one of the few good matches of 2000 my WCW standards. There were many good/soild matches in between. The only match I didn't like was the 2 on 4 hanicap match.other then that, I liked the video. I give this PPV a 8 out of 10.

This was really the last WCW PPV before Ted Turner finally had enough and sold WCW to business enemy Vince McMahon. Up to this point of time in 2000, WCW had had much better wrestlers and storylines than the WWE. Maybe thats why they grumbled; too many great wrestlers, too many matches and wrestlers that had control over their storylines like Hogan and Bret Hart. Some miss the "sport" factor that WCW had, nowadays the WWE is more "entertainment" with famous celebrities, long climaxing matches and heaps of advertising.