A young AJ Styles makes a brief cameo here. We get a recap of the tournament to crown the first WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions. Finish was goofy as fuck but I don’t mind it too much since Kwee Wee’s character was kind of a dope. Unique finish with Jett playing possum-Eddie Guerrero style to sucker Kwee Wee into a missed Flying Elbowdrop and then hitting his finisher The Crash Landing (Rolling Release Suplex that looks dangerous as fuck). I think WCW had pretty much realized they were shit out of luck at this point but that might have happened a few days after this show. Excuse me while I unroll the eyes from the back of my head. Scott Hudson mentions this as the inaugural Greed pay per view. Crowd starts off kind of apathetic but they manage to get the crowd really into it. Kwee Wee definitely more than handles his own with the very talented Jett. Hey, it worked for Rey Mysterio Vs Dean Malenko five years earlier. It seems like a lot of these later WCW Cruiserweight matches use a similar formula explosive, fiery babyface Vs bully heel who tries to slow down the tempo. They’re pretty much eliminated the flamboyant aspect outside of the pink pants/boots. Kwee Wee’s character is a lot less goofier than it was in his early days (although Tony & Scott Hudson mention his explosive temper).
He’s got a unique and well delivered moveset. Jason Jett pretty much disappeared after ECW and WCW ended. Kid Kash did the same thing (he had his first and last WCW match on the very last episode of Thunder three days after this pay per view) but at least, he had a fair amount of success after those companies folded. He jumped off one sinking ship onto another. Jason Jett is former ECW star EZ Money, who signed with WCW after ECW folded. Jason Jett is having his second match in WCW, having won his debut in a HUGE upset against Alex Wright (another guy I didn’t know lasted till the end of the company). I had no idea Kwee Wee stuck around in WCW till the bitter end. Somehow, TNA does a better job of making a crowd look better than it is with much less resources than WCW had. It just shows the thousands and thousands of empty seats. I’m not sure why WCW did a wide shot for the pay per view opening. Luckily, they were able to settle their differences and work together in a feud that probably made WCW tens of dollars. These two had a legit beef with each other a few months earlier that culminated in a backstage fight. DDP cuts a pretty good promo where he admits he doesn’t have the physical gifts of Steiner but he’s smarter and scrappier than Steiner. DDP’s strategy against Steiner…two words Diamond Cutter. Our opening video package hypes up Diamond Dallas Page as the last man standing against Big Poppa Pump. Live from the Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, FloridaĪnnouncers: Tony Schiavone & Scott Hudson