WWE 24/7 Notes

I can't believe I haven't seen this tidbit mentioned elsewhere.... February is "Midget Mania" month on WWE 24/7, and what DVD are they showing? Hard Knocks, the Chris Benoit story. Either that was a really odd coincidence or someone in programming there has a great sense of humor. Not sure.

I was watching the weekly ECW program last night, and noticed Matt Bourne as Bourne Again. Wow, was this a great gimmick! No, seriously, it was. He was wearing the Doink outfit with about half his facepaint on, doing a dead-on Rowdy Roddy Piper impersonation. He came across as someone you'd see on the street talking to himself and yelling at passersby. Just a really, really, creepy gimmick for the former Doink. Anyways, he had a match with 2 Cold Scorpio which resulted in a disqualification when Mr. Hughes interfered. I have no idea where this whole angle went, if anywhere. Some solid promos by Public Enemy as well, who had just lost the tag team titles to Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck.

Also caught some of SuperBrawl III (Sting vs. Vader in a White Castle Hamburger Of Fear match and the WCW return of Ric Flair). Not a bad show, though some of the early matches dragged on forever. Speaking of Scorpio and Benoit, the two of them put on a helluva match, which ended literally one second before the time limit draw (I'm sure Gary Michael Capetta counting down the remaining seconds over the PA helped them work out the timing, though). Steve Austin and Brian Pillan as The Hollywood Blonds = gold. Too bad they had to work with Erik Watts (who was getting John Cena-like jeers) and - heh heh - Marcus Alexander Bagwell. Also, I was amazed that they kept Jesse Ventura's commentary on the entire show, given how often they edit him out their DVD's. It was HILARIOUS hearing him tear Tony a new Schiavone.