Quick Note: Originally, Scott Casey vs Jose Estrada from a Fresno Show in 1987 was randomly picked. I cannot find this match anywhere. I checked on YouTube, I checked on Dailymotion, I checked Vimeo, but nothing. So I've decided to take it out of the list. I realize there will most likely be more of these matches I can't find, so if I can't find a match, I'm not going to do it. Now let's get to the match I'm reviewing.
I knew very little about both of these teams, so I did some research, and here's what I found. The Oddities are a group of freaks (for lack of a better term) who were brought in by The Jackyl (Cyrus the Virus from ECW) as heels, who became faces after being turned by Sable. Insane Clown Posse was part of the group, so they're my least favorite team in history now. Kaientai was a group of heel Asian stereotypes wrestlers. They were formerly members of the Blue World Order in ECW. Their most famous moment is when their manager Yamaguchi-San threatened to chop Val Venis' dick off. Wrestling is weird. The groups fought in a 3-on-4 handicap match at SummerSlam 1998 (which rivals No Mercy 2006 at having the best promotional poster)
The Insane Clown Posse is with The Oddities at ringside, so the match is at minus five stars right at this moment. I'm looking at the three members of the group (Kurrgan, Giant Silva, and Golga), and I guess the only real requirements for being an Oddity were either "tall" or "fat". Kurrgan isn't even weird looking, he's just tall. Before the match starts, Giant Silva can't get over the top rope on the first try. This man is about to wrestle.
Not a single person in this match is wearing actual wrestling gear in this match. Kaientai is sporting a "homeless John Cena" look with their tank tops and jean shorts, while the Oddities are all wrestling in sweat pants and t-shirts. Funaki is wearing a damn hoodie while he wrestles! They all look like a bunch of independent bums. I'm hesitating to talk about the match because there is so little to talk about.
The Oddities dominate for about 90% of the match, with loads of comedy spots in between. One of the spots involves Golga taking Yamaguchi-San's shoe, filling it with water, and then throwing the water on Yamiguchi-San. I didn't say it was funny, I just said it was a comedy spot. Kurrgan, however, does do a few wrestling moves throughout the match, and in all honesty isn't too bad. Silva's offense is basically just punches. Nothing else, just punches.
Kaientai eventually gets the heat on Golga. I use "heat", very loosely because the crowd doesn't care at all about this match. Golga tags in Kurrgan to literally zero reaction. Seriously, you could hear a pin drop in the crowd they were so quiet. Kurrgan runs wild, goes for a chokeslam on Funaki, only for the other Kaientai members to run in and attack. They get easily squashed, two double chokeslams by Kurrgan and Silva, and Golga hits the worst splash in history to get the three. The camera actually cuts out right after the match ends, there's no post match celebration or anything.
The match is nothing. It's all just comedy spots that aren't funny, and seeing one team completely squash another in a handicap match. That wouldn't be too bad..if the match hadn't gone 10 minutes. That's way too long for a crappy comedy match. I feel bad for Taka Michinoku in all of this. He was Light Heavyweight Champion in this match, and to see him lumped into a jobber stable and getting squashed by another jobber stable is just depressing, He's like an Asian Wade Barrett.
WCW?...Oh god.
The Insane Clown Posse is with The Oddities at ringside, so the match is at minus five stars right at this moment. I'm looking at the three members of the group (Kurrgan, Giant Silva, and Golga), and I guess the only real requirements for being an Oddity were either "tall" or "fat". Kurrgan isn't even weird looking, he's just tall. Before the match starts, Giant Silva can't get over the top rope on the first try. This man is about to wrestle.
Not a single person in this match is wearing actual wrestling gear in this match. Kaientai is sporting a "homeless John Cena" look with their tank tops and jean shorts, while the Oddities are all wrestling in sweat pants and t-shirts. Funaki is wearing a damn hoodie while he wrestles! They all look like a bunch of independent bums. I'm hesitating to talk about the match because there is so little to talk about.
The Oddities dominate for about 90% of the match, with loads of comedy spots in between. One of the spots involves Golga taking Yamaguchi-San's shoe, filling it with water, and then throwing the water on Yamiguchi-San. I didn't say it was funny, I just said it was a comedy spot. Kurrgan, however, does do a few wrestling moves throughout the match, and in all honesty isn't too bad. Silva's offense is basically just punches. Nothing else, just punches.
Kaientai eventually gets the heat on Golga. I use "heat", very loosely because the crowd doesn't care at all about this match. Golga tags in Kurrgan to literally zero reaction. Seriously, you could hear a pin drop in the crowd they were so quiet. Kurrgan runs wild, goes for a chokeslam on Funaki, only for the other Kaientai members to run in and attack. They get easily squashed, two double chokeslams by Kurrgan and Silva, and Golga hits the worst splash in history to get the three. The camera actually cuts out right after the match ends, there's no post match celebration or anything.
The match is nothing. It's all just comedy spots that aren't funny, and seeing one team completely squash another in a handicap match. That wouldn't be too bad..if the match hadn't gone 10 minutes. That's way too long for a crappy comedy match. I feel bad for Taka Michinoku in all of this. He was Light Heavyweight Champion in this match, and to see him lumped into a jobber stable and getting squashed by another jobber stable is just depressing, He's like an Asian Wade Barrett.
The Verdict
This might be a terrible comedy match that goes way too long, but at least there was something happening throughout the match. With Hogan-Sid, there is so much stalling, and so little wrestling, that it just made the stalling even more apparent. Here, there's also little wrestling, but the stalling was an actual part of the match. When the Oddities stall, they're trying to do comedy. When Sid stalls, he just poses and walks around. He's not even trying. With that being said, this match is better than Hogan-Sid.Rankings (Best to Worst)
- The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
- Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
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