High Impact Tour Greenville, SC 5/21/01
Interview:
The Legends make a challenge to the Triple Threat
Savage, Flair, Dibiase, and Dusty come out and Ric grabs the mic. Ric says he
is 4 days away from going home to Charlotte! Ric says he wants to make tonight
a little interesting. He talks abot how important it is to have the advantage
of 2 on 1 in the cage. So tonight he wants 3 matches! The best of 3 get the
advantage in the cage! Douglas and the Triple threat come out on the stage
and they accept the challenge. Dusty asked if they have a 4th person yet and
Douglas tells him to fuck off! Douglas says he will announced the 4th
the day of the event!
Batista pinned Randy Savage after a Hotshot in 0:11:24.
Rating: **
[Dusty Rhodes interfered against Batista.]
Batista gets the victory over Savage to give the Threat a 1 match advantage!
Savage was upset at Dusty who tried to get him the victory but it didn't work
out!
Interview:
The Gangstas in the locker room...
New Jack says last night the Gangstas came into the USWA and they got their
asses kicked. New Jack says that in Charlotte they want a rematch with the
juiced up mother fuckers! Jack says he wants to kick the HELL out of both of em
in a texas tornado tag...no tag bullshit..they want an old fassion ghetto brawl.
Michael Shane, Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman defeated
The New Church (Raven, Reckless Youth and Vampiro) when Dreamer defeated Vampiro
by countout in 0:24:31.
Rating: *** 1/4
[Jim Mitchell interfered against The Sandman.]
Shane and the Extreme Team take a victory from the New Church. Shane is upset
with the way Raven has been interfering in his matches, so he called Tommy and
The Sandman tonight and asked for some help. Sandman and Tommy are 2 of the best
tag team guys in the company.
Negro Casas defeated Paul London when Paul London passed out in
a scorpion deathlock in 0:07:26.
Rating: **
Negro hooks the Scorpion Deathlock on London for the win. London didn't know
what hit him as he took a loss to the Lucha Legend.
Dusty Rhodes pinned Shane Douglas with the Bionic Elbowdrop in 0:10:53.
Rating: **
The Bionic elbow spells the end for Douglas who has now lost 2 key singles
matches to the legends. It all comes down to Flair/Jarrett in tonights main
event.
Jun Akiyama pinned Tazz with the Exploder in 0:09:11.
Rating: **** 1/4
Jun Akiyama comes into the USWA and makes an IMPACT! Jun just beat Tazz in
singles the NIGHT BEFORE his title match! Who is this guy?!?!
Sabu pinned Vic Grimes with the Triple Jump Moonsault in 0:09:52.
Sabu suffered a neck injury. He will be out for approximately 2 cards.
Rating: ** 1/4
Sabu didn't get out of this match without an injury. Sabu took a nasty fall
on his neck and will be missing Action. Sabu said he will be in Charlotte
on the 25th and nobody can stop him!
Excellence Inc. (Donovan Morgan and Michael Modest) defeated
Too Cold Scorpio and Brian Christopher when M. Modest pinned Scorpio after
a fisherman suplex in 0:12:19.
Rating: ****
AWESOME tag match with Excellence inc getting the win over Too Cold and
Christopher. Morgan and Modest look good.
Jeff Jarrett pinned Ric Flair with the Forward Russian Legsweep in 0:11:53.
Rating: ***
He did the impossible. Jarrett beat Flair in singles action. This is one of
the biggest wins of Jarretts Career. Not only did he defeat a Legend, but he
did it giving the threat the numbers advantage in the War Games!
Card rating: ***
Match observations:
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Sean Hovan, 01-01-2007