Posted by Anthony Pearce on 21:02:00 14/04/02:

Melbourne, Australia
7:30pm 13th April 2002
Report by: LJ TurnTaBull, rajahwwf.com reader

Cruiserweight Tournament
Match 1
Nova vs AJ Styles
AJ Styles wins with the Style-Splash and proceeds to the final.

Match 2
Jerry "The New F'n Show" Lynn vs Chucky (australian local talent)
Jerry Lynn wins a very quick match with the cradle piledriver and proceeds to the final.

Hardcore Midgets
Teo vs Puppet
Teo wins with an "elbow drop" from the top of a ladder onto Puppet who is trapped inside a garbage can. 1-2.3 pinfall to Teo.

Quebecker Pierre (Carl Oulette) vs The Funkster (Kwee-Wee?)
The Funkster funks up and wins the match with a Leg Drop. Funkamania runs wild.

Tag Match
Buff Bagwell & "Straight Shooting" Stevie Ray vs Earnest "The Cat" Miller & "Grand Master Sexay" Brian Christopher
GMS gets the pin after the Hip Hop Leg Drop onto Buff Bagwell.

Cruiserweight Championship Match
Jerry Lynn vs AJ Styles
AJ Styles wins with a Dragon Attack (twisting senton bomb).

Hardcore Rules 15ft Cage Match - One pinfall to win
Sabu vs Devon Storm
Sabu finished with a moonsault from the top of the cage onto Devon Storm through a table, which does not break. Climbs up again and finishes him off with a Leg Drop from the top of the cage. Sabu wins.

Evening Gown Match - First to remove opponents dress wins
Midajah vs "Former Penthouse Pet of the Year" Queen Bea
Midajah disrobes Queen Bea and gets the victory. The midgets run out to the ring, strip Midajahs clothes off and run off with the two ladies dresses.

Main Event - WWA World Championship Match
"The Big Bad Booty Daddy" Scott Steiner vs Nathan "The Front Row" Jones
Steiner wins with the Steiner Recliner.

Notes

- During the ring announcers introduction of the PPV he announced the company as the World Wrestling Allsports (long pause) Star Association. He then proceeded to introduce the commentators.... who had already started off the show and introduced themselves (Jeremy Borasch and Disco Inferno). Funny stuff. I dont think he will be with the company anymore.

- The cruiserweight matches were of an AWESOME quality, even if the Lynn/Chuck match only lasted a minute or so. The Australian crowds have ZERO appreciation for great wrestling matches, and more than one "BORING BORING" chant was started during the Cruiserweight Championship match. I think the WWF (when they visit in August) might be totally put off by the local crowds and we might not see them come here again.

- Buff Bagwell looked like he had fallen off a skateboard or something. Large scabs on the undersides of both his arms.

- The Style-Splash is a sweet move. I dont exactly know what its called, or even if it has a proper wrestling name. Its hard to describe, but I will give it a go. Styles has the person in a piledriver position. He hooks his legs around their arms, the falls forward into a piledriver-come-facefirst slam. Like I said... hard to describe.

- After their Tag Victory, GMS and The Cat get the WWA dancing girls and some kids from the crowd into the ring and dance. Disco Inferno climbs into the ring, does his dance, then gets beat up by everyone in the ring.

- The finish to the Midget match was somewhat botched. The elbow drop from the top of the ladder totally missed.

- During the main event, Nathan Jones went to the top ropes to do a Kane-esque Flying Clothesline..... he slipped during take off and fell straight down to the mat. Being the consumate professional, Steiner sold it like the move was a success and the match continued.

- The crowd sucked. They were worse than the non-televised sydney event from last weekend, and a hell of a lot worse than the Sydney PPV from last year. Next to no crowd noise for most of the event.

- The sound on the telecast was terrible. The commentators microphones totally covered out any other noise, and I dont think there were any microphones in or near the ring. The biggest bumps the wrestlers took hardly made a sound on the telecast. To me, this totally detracts from the matches, and makes them seem less real than they already are.

Sorry if the notes arent in order of the matches they correspond with, but I wrote them straight offf the top of my head as they came to me.

On a somewhat unrelated sidenote from the Sydney Show last week... outside the venue after the show was over, there were people from a local wrestling federation AWF handing out pamphlets for their next show. One of the staff at the venue called security and had them chased away.

Till next time, whenever that may be....

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