OVW TV TAPING
10/24/01
Aaron "Lurch" Wilson
AWLurch@hotmail.com


-Overall a very good show from Ohio Valley Wrestling taped
as it is every week in Jeffersonville, Indiana just across
the river from Louisville, Kentucky in a packed standing
room only crowd in Davis Arena. I will also note that
The Godfather and Big Bossman were spotted in the Crow's
Nest of Davis Arena watching the show with Godfather
even taking the time to sign a few autographs for fans
before the show.

-Ron Waterman vs. Mr. Black w/ Jerome Croney

-This was overall a very good match with Waterman continuing
his great improvement in charisma. Waterman took the upper
hand throughout the match with the crowd all over Mr. Black.
Waterman even pulled off an impressive "Raven-like" Clothesline
to corner bulldog. The match ended as Croney attempted to
interfere on the ring apron distracting Waterman as Black
tried to hit Waterman from behind. Waterman then moved out
of the way and took out Mr. Black applying the Ankle lock
submission making Black "Tap-Out"

-Winner via submission Ron Waterman

-Next there was an interview segment in the ring with Jim
Cornette and Flash. Flash is apparently still upset from
an attack last week off the side of the road by Bull Buchanon
and Flash is insistent that Cornette was responsible.
Cornette then goes on to offer Flash the truth and goes on
to tell Flash that the truth is that Flash is really selfish
and just out to look for himself. He claims that Flash just
wants the belt, and is determined to be the one to beat Bull.
Flash then in turn, denies Cornettes allegation and says that
he doesn't care and would rather just beat up Bull Buchanon.
Throughout this interview the crowd, which seems to have a
different opinion on Flash every week, was yelling "WAAAA!"
pretending to cry like a baby. Overall a very entertaining
segment.

-Bull Buchanon vs. David Flair

-Before this match Bull gets on the microphone and tells Flair
while somewhat playing the role of the "cocky heel" that he
has no pride in what he's about to do to Flair, that it's
just strictly business. Aside from Bull's opening speech,
Flair on the other hand prooved that he was going to put
up a fight and had a very impressive match. Bull hit all
of his signature moves with Flair pulling out some new stuff.
Flair pulled off a very impressive jump over Bull from the
turnbuckle and turning him around into a Drop Toe Hold.
Although Flair did seem to put up a fight throughout the
match, Bull did take the upperhand throughout the match and
gained the pinfall after a Top Rope Leg drop.

-Winner via pinfall Bull Buchanon

-Jim Cornette then came down the ring once again for an interview
segment, this time with D'Lo Brown, who hasn't exactly claimed his
former fan favorite status with the Davis Arena crowd. D'lo
get's on the mic and states that although Mark Henry hasn't been
here in the recent weeks that he does have Henry here tonight and
introduces him. Out comes an average sized Bald Black man wearing
Mark Henry's old Olympic Warmup Jacket and carrying a bucket of
KFC with him to the ring. D'lo continues to go on ranting about
Mark Henry and how he is out of shape not even paying attention to
the imposter when the Real Mark Henry makes his OVW return throwing
the imposter out of the ring and taking his place. D'lo then turns
around and recieves a vicious standing clothesline as people attempt
to break up the situation. Eventually D'lo manages to get back the
upper hand by throwing the drink into the face of Henry and takes
him down and delivers two giant Frog Splashes from seperate corners,
as the ref break up the mayhem.

-Val Venis vs. Leviathan w/ Synn and Swail

-This was in my own opinion the best match of the night with Val coming
out to his old "Helllooo Ladies" music. Throughout the beginning it
really seemed as if Venis was technically toying with the Demon of
the Deep Leviathan, really working on his knee. Eventually Leviathan
starts working back on Venis' knee doing things that I don't think
anyone in Davis Arena has seen, on a technical standpoint. As Val
attempted to fight back the crowd as they chanted "Go Demon Go" really
got into this match emotionally. The Demon then went for a huge power
bomb and pulled it off on the WWF Superstar only to get a two count.
He then went for a second with Val putting up a little resistant but
still could not manage to pull off the three, putting the Davis Arena
crowd at the edge of their seats. Eventually after a lot of struggle
the Demon was able to pull off the third power bomb and the pinfall,
in what I believe to be Leviathan's best match.

-Winner via pinfall Leviathan

-An interview segment with Dean Hill joined by Kenny "the King" Bolin,
Rico Costatino and The Prototype took place next, with the three
talking about their match at Monday Night Raw this week. It will
be a Dark match before Raw against the Minnesota Stretching Crew,
Brock Lesnar and Shelton Benjamin, for the Southern Tag Team Titles.
Bolin Services was very proud of this title defense claiming that
this will be a huge match that will showcase their talent to the
thousands that will be packed in Freedom Hall this Monday Night.
It should be one excellent match which I will be writing a report
monday night for this site on all of the OVW happenings of the night.

-Steve Bradley vs. Machine w/ Victoria
OVW HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH
TV MAIN EVENT

-This TV Main Event was also a very great match, getting off to a
very good technical start. Machine really seemed to use Victoria to
his advantage, throwing this street thug out of the ring to Victoria
allowing her to get the cheap shots on Bradley. Bradley also had a
very innovative move as he appeared to go for a move, but then did
a complete 180 degree turn with his body racking Machine across his
leg, as well as Machine doing his Three consecutive Russian Leg Drops.
As it appeared that Bradley may actually pull off the win and the
OVW Heavyweight title, Machine loaded his mask with some foreign
object and headbutted Bradley followed by going to the top rope for
a huge diving headbutt and picking up the pinfall. After the match
Flash then ran down to the ring and un-masks Machine taking out
the foreign object and hitting Machine himself in the head with it.
Next Bull Buchanon makes his way to the ring and brawls with Flash
being pulled apart by the referees, who obviously were not enough,
as it took Waterman, Randy Orton, Damaja and Jim Cornette to stop
this havok in the ring as the Television Cameras went off the air.

-Winner via pinfall Machine

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