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WWE Vintage Collection Report: June 17th 2012
By Shaun Best-Rajah.com Reporter
Hosted by: Mean Gene Okerlund

Welcome to week three of four from the Cruiserweight archives.

WWE Velocity: October 8th 2005
Over The Top Rope Cruiserweight Battle Royal
Scotty 2 Hotty vs Funaki vs Brian Kendrick vs Paul London vs Juventud vs Psicosis vs Super Crazy
The winner faces Nunzio for the Cruiserweight Title at No Mercy (see today’s Main Event.) We join the match in progress with Nunzio and Vito scouting from the ramp. Psicosis botches a Kendrick hurracanrana. Kendrick quickly recovers to clothesline Psicosis out. Funaki sets Super Crazy up for a tornado DDT, but the Mexicool dumps SmackDown’s #1 announcer mid-move. Sayonara Funaki-san. Kendrick thinks he’s tossed Scotty, but the master of the Worm skins the cat back in, only to be clotheslined out by Super Crazy. London feeds Juventud into Super Crazy, who elevates his stablemate onto the apron. Juventud doesn’t take too kindly to this and shoves his partner. London dropkicks Super Crazy and Juventud pulls the top rope down to send his hombre to the showers. We’re down to the last three. Juventud nails Kendrick with a spin kick, while Kendrick uses Juvi as a springboard to forearm London in the corner. Kendrick floats over Juventud in the corner and goes for a high kick, but London pushes him out. Then there were two. Juventud gives London a tilt-a-whirl headscissors, while London delivers the Mushroom stomp. Juventud misses a dropkick and bounces off the ropes. London’s attempted springboard is met with a dropkick in mid-air. London gets Juventud in a firemans carry. After failing to dump the Juice from three different sides of the ring, London drops him with a Death Valley Driver. Both find themself on the apron. Juventud blocks a superplex, then London counters a powerbomb by stomping Juvi’s face. Juventud sweeps the leg and both men hang from the ropes. London swings some kicks, goes to get his footing, but Juventud swings both legs around to kick London to the floor. Winner: JUVENTUD.

AAA- “When Worlds Collide” November 6th 1994
Rey Mysterio Jnr, Heavy Metal & Latin Lover vs Psychosis, Fuerza Guerrera & Madonna’s Boyfriend (Louie Spicolli)
The AAA and IWC put on this show in L.A, cross-promoted by WCW to introduce Lucha Libre to an American audience. Fuerza is Juventud’s father, while Heavy Metal’s Dad Pepe, is one of two referees officiating the bout. Unlike most six man tags in Mexico, this match is one fall to a finish. Rey dazzles the crowd with a pair of headscissors on Psychosis. Spicolli doesn’t take Rey’s size seriously, pressing him over his head, placing him on the top rope and patting his face. Rey hits a missile dropkick, crawls under Spicolli’s legs and tags out. Latin Lover and Spicolli have a dance off. Spicolli dances in front of Rey, before eating a superkick from Latin Lover. Heavy Metal and Psychosis exchange counters and cancel each other out with simultaneous hair biels. Fuerza misses a dive at Rey and falls through the ropes. Rey leaps off the apron with a headscissors.

Back inside, Psychosis elevates Rey with a flapjack. Rey turns a second one into a faceplant in mid-air. Latin Lover gives Fuerza a superkick and powerbomb out of the corner, before missing a top rope splash. Fuerza briefly applies a modified Scorpion Deathlock. Psychosis misses a running dive, but manages to somersault through the ropes and tuck his neck in enough to land on his feet. Fuerza tries to elevate Rey, only for Rey to dropkick Spicolli in mid-air and out of the ring. Rey hits Fuerza with a swanton bomb from the top rope on the floor. Inside, Heavy Metal and Fuerza miss corner charges at each other. Heavy Metal hits an underhook suplex, but misses a somersault from the top rope. Fuerza slams and applies a variation of an armbar (similar to Doink’s Stump Puller) for the submission. The Rudos beat the Tecnicos. Winners: PSYCHOSIS, FUERZA GUERRERA & MADONNA’s BOYFRIEND.

WWF Monday Night Raw: November 20th 1995
1-2-3 Kid w/Ted DiBiase vs Hakushi
Kid had just turned on Razor Ramon and sold out to the Million Dollar Man. We pick the match up with Kid unloading on Hakushi with several kicks in the corner. Kid wears the modern day Kamikaze down with a neckbreaker across the shoulder and chinlock. Hakushi rolls under a kick and lands several palm thrusts. Kid telegraphs a dropkick and hits a top rope splash for two. Hakushi ducks under a clothesline and comes back with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, handspring backelbow in the corner and cross body attack. Hakushi goes airborne with a flying tackle, elevates Kid with a backbodydrop and superkicks him to the floor. The referee starts to count Kid out and doesn’t see DiBiase shove Hakushi off the top rope. Kid crawls back in and finishes Hakushi off with a spin kick. 1-2-3. Winner: 1-2-3 KID.

WWE SmackDown! June 26th 2003
Ultimo Dragon vs Shannon Moore
A promotional vignette precedes Dragon’s WWE debut from MSG. Reigning Cruiserweight champion Rey Mysterio is on commentary, while Billy Kidman is also pictured in the crowd as a keen observer, after being off TV for a few months. Dragon and Moore trade wristlock reversals and counters. Dragon elbows out of a waistlock, and hits a handspring backelbow to send Moore out of the ring. Dragon fakes a plancha only to moonsault off the ropes and back to the middle of the ring. Dragon scores with kicks, before running into an elbow and drop toehold into the ropes. Moore delivers a back suplex. Dragon escapes a chinlock, only to run into a clothesline. Dragon counters a suplex with a leapfrog hurracanrana. Moore charges into a kick. Dragon follows up with a spin kick, legsweep and flurry of martial arts kicks to the legs and midsection. Dragon elevates Moore to the floor and hits the name moved after him – the asai moonsault. The fight goes to the corner and Moore tries to pull Dragon’s mask off. Dragon responds with a jawbreaker from the second rope. Dragon follows up with kneelifts, then counters a backdrop with an asai DDT (standing Dudley Dog into a reverse DDT) for the 1-2-3. Mysterio shakes hands with Dragon in the ring, while Kidman applauds from his seat. Winner: ULTIMO DRAGON. Underutilised, Dragon left the WWE a little over a year later, having achieved his two goals of performing at MSG and at a WrestleMania.

WWE No Mercy: October 9th 2005
Cruiserweight Title: Nunzio w/Vito vs Juventud w/The Mexicools
We join the match in progress. Nunzio grabs a leg to throw Juventud from the top rope. Nunzio targets Juventud’s back with a surfboard. Juventud gets on Nunzio’s shoulders and sunset flips the champion for two. Nunzio delivers a side Russian legsweep. Juventud meets Nunzio up top and a double faceplant wipes both out. Nunzio charges into a face full of feet. Juventud nails a spin kick, then rolls through a sunset flip attempt to dropkick. Shining Wizard connects for the Juice, who turns a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker into a faceplant. 1-2-no. Nunzio misses the Sicilian Slice. Vito tries to interfere, but gets taken care of with a headscissors. Nunzio rolls through a top rope cross body for two. Nunzio blocks a Juvi Driver, so Juventud delivers a Northern Lights suplex, then rolls back up to hit the Driver at the second attempt. Uno, Dos, Tres. Winner: JUVENTUD. Nunzio would win the title back the next month at a House Show in Italy, but quickly drop it back to the Juice on the subsequent episode of SmackDown!

Still one more week of Cruiserweight action to go. Hopefully the WWE brass decides to bring back the Division as has been rumoured. I’m sure stars such as Sin Cara, Tyson Kidd, Justin Gabriel and Hunico amongst others would agree with me.

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