Posted by Rohan on 08:53:57 08/04/02:

From Dan Lennard -

4/7, Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia (WWA, 5000+ fans): Jerry Lynn & Nova b AJ Styles & Chuck E. Chaos; The Funkster (Allan Funk) b "Quebecer" Pierre Oulette; TEO b Puppet; Buff Bagwell & Ernest "The Cat" Miller b Stevie Ray & Disco Inferno; Sabu b Devon Storm; Midajah b Queen Bea; WWA Heavyweight title match: Nathan Jones b Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner & Grandmaster Sexay in a 4-way dance.

NOTES: The house was about half-full but they were hot for just about everything. They did the live commentary to the audience bit, which worked OK. The main commentator was Jeremy Borash, with Stevie Ray and Disco Inferno going back and forth as the colour commentator.

There was a show-long angle where Stevie and Disco lost their tag match, then feuded over who was the best colour commentator. Stevie won the crowd vote and threw Disco out of the ring. Which was a pity 'cos Disco was clearly miles better than Stevie. Disco was probably the most over heel on the night and he worked hard, both in the ring and on the mike.

WWA used two local referees who did a fine job.
Fast-paced, entertaining opener. Sloppy in parts. Chuck E. Chaos is Melbourne wrestler Chucky. He tried hard but was clearly a yard behind the other three guys. Lynn won with a cradle piledriver on Chuck.

Very few people knew who Pierre was (I guess that shows how "over" mid-90s WWF was in Australia). Fans got into Funk's gimmick. He REALLY does look like Hogan and he has the mannerisms down pat. Funkster won with a piledriver followed by the leg drop.

The midgets worked hard and the fans were into the hardcore aspect of it, as well as the comedy. TEO won an entertaining match with a senton splash. Afterwards, Scott Steiner and Midajah came to the ring. Midajah beat up the midgets and threw them out of the ring. Scott then did his generic "Bad Daddy Booty" speech and threatened to beat up a fan at ringside.

Fans were into the gimmicks in the tag match but died during the wrestling. Disco worked hard but Stevie and Cat were pretty bad. Buff was beyond bad. He's got even lazier if that's at all possible. Worst match of the night so far. Buff pinned Disco after hitting him with a double-arm DDT.

Sabu and Devon Storm had a solid match with loads of what I call mid-90s ECW-style moves. Sabu was crisp with all but one of his moves, which made the bout seem a lot better. Sabu pinned Storm with an Arabian moonsault (I think that's what it's called - it's when he jumps off the chair onto the ropes and moonsaults back over the chair).

The ladies evening gown match was mercifully short. Queen Bea is a local stripper. Midajah won and stripped the dress off Bea, leaving her in bra and panties. Puppet and TEO then hit the ring and stripped Midajah to her bra and panties. This brought out Steiner who suplexed Puppet into orbit, then beat up TEO and pressed him over his head and threw him onto Nathan Jones, who'd come to ringside.

Main event delivered everything and more. Steiner worked a fair proportion of the match and seemed to move OK. Crowd popped huge whenever he was in the ring with hometown boy Nathan Jones. Sexay was crazy over. Jarrett was strangely subdued - maybe 'cos he was dropping the strap? Ending came when Sexay and Steiner brawled at ringside. Jarrett went to hit Jones over the head with his guitar but Sexay jumped onto the ring apron and grabbed the guitar away from him. Jarrett spun round and got chokeslammed. Crowd popped huge for the title change.

I must mention the post-match shenanigans. Sexay and Jones did the whole Too Cool dance routine with three people from the crowd which went down huge with the fans. Disco ran out to cause trouble, but got beaten up...again.

Overall, this card blew away the PPV that WWA did last October, mainly 'cos they steered clear of weird gimmick matches and angles for the main part, and just concentrated on wrestling.

I'm tempted to buy the PPV from Melbourne now, on the strength of this card.

Borash claimed WWA would be touring Australia again, but he didn't give any dates.

No-shows included Kronik, Konnan, Road Dog (heard a rumour he's in jail in the US) and Sid Vicious. Of course, Rey Jnr and Eddie Guerrero weren't there either.

From 1wrestling.com -

The World Wrestling All-Stars' latest Australian tour ran the Sydney Entertainment Centre earlier today.

Complete results of the event, which featured a title change, were as follows:

*Jerry Lynn and Nova defeated AJ Styles and Chucky Chaos. Chaos is a local Australian worker.

*The Funkster (Alan Funk) pinned Pierre Oulette (of Quebecers fame) with a legdrop.

*In a Hardcore Midget match, Teo pinned Puppet. Scott Steiner came out and destroyed the midgets similar to the WWA Revolution PPV.

*Buff Bagwell and Ernest Miller defeated Disco Inferno and Stevie Ray when Buff pinned Ray with a DDT.

*Sabu pinned Devon Storm/Crowbar with a Triple Jump Moonsault in a No Disqualification match

*Midajah defeated Queen Bee in an Evening Gown match. The Hardcore midgets descended upon Midajah and began tearing at her clothes after the win, which brought out Scott Steiner and set up the main event when Nathan Jones saved the midgets.

*Nathan Jones defeated WWA champion Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, and Grandmaster (Sexay Brian Christopher) in a Four-Way Dance to win the WWA championship. Nathan Jones chokeslammed Jeff Jarret for the win. After the match, Grandmaster got Jones to dance in the ring and brought several fans into the ring to join them. Disco Inferno tried to join the fun but was tossed out of the ring by Jones.

Notes: Unlike the last tour here, the entrance and pyrotecnics were scaled back....NWA Wildside's Bill Behrens is on the tour....Joey Styles reported several weeks back on the Hardcore Hotline that former ECW PPV director Ron Buffone will be directing the WWA's Erruption PPV which airs on 4/14 in the United States....There is no word on the status of the promotion's Cruiserweight championship which Eddy Guerrero held now that he is back in the WWF...The tour has two more dates, 4/10 at the Perth Entertainment Centre and the 4/13 PPV taping at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. The only matches announced for the PPV are Sabu vs. Devon Storm in a Steel Cage Match and Puppet vs. Tito in another installment of their Harcore Midget war. There was a tour date scheduled for the AIS Arena in Canberra, but I have yet to receive results....The tour was promoted on several local TV shows including Good Morning Australia and the Footy Show. Steiner and Grandmaster were among those making appearances....Several WWF personalities including Vince McMahon are scheduled to make promotional appearances in Australia on 4/13 to build to the WWF's 8/10 Melbourne event. Of course, 4/13 is the WWA's PPV taping.