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Worst in the World: T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000

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STEVE. F*CKING. BLACKMAN. Enough said.
If you don't remember who Steve Blackman is...what the hell is wrong with you? Steve Blackman was this awesome dude who ran around doing martial arts and hitting people with stuff in his bag of weapons. He also pinned the Rock once. Basically, he is the coolest. So it is with great regret that he ends up on the Worst in the World. He shows up here to team with Al Snow in their short lived tag team Head Cheese (the greatest tag team in history, of course) to face Test and Albert, aka T&A, at WrestleMania 2000, a show that featured one singles match on the 10 match card...and it was a catfight.
The match starts with incredibly fast paced offense between Blackman and Test, ending with crescent kick by Blackman. Snow tags in and works over Test until Albert hits him from behind Test clotheslines him. T&A beat down Snow and Albert pins, but Blackman breaks it up and casual walks back to his corner like a boss. Snow regains control with a clothesline and enziguri. Blackman tags in and he and Albert exchange shoulder tackles, but Blackman sweeps the leg when Albert goes for another one. Blackman pulls Albert over so Snow can hit a springboard leg drop, and Test big boots Snow out of the ring. Now, it might look like Blackman forgot he's supposed to go after Test instead of pinning at this point in the match, but that was obviously Blackman's strategy. He faked out Test by going for the pin, so Test let his guard down, and Blackman took control. Man, how was this guy not WWF Champion?
Both teams brawl in the ring and Albert tries to Gorilla Press Slam Snow, but Blackman sweeps the leg and makes Snow splash Albert. Snow starts working Albert despite not making a tag, but that's obviously because Steve Blackman doesn't need to make tags, he chooses when he wants and doesn't want to be in a match. Head Cheese continues working over Albert, including Blackman headbutting Albert in the dick, until Albert makes the tag to Test. Test runs wild as the crowd doesn't care .You see, if it were Steve Blackman, the crowd would be going nuts. T&A hit a double powerbomb and Test pins, but Blackman breaks it up and dropkicks Albert, who can't make it over the top rope so he rolls under the bottom. Blackman beats down Test as Snow hits a lovely springboard moonsault to the outside on Albert. Head Cheese hits a backbreaker-legdrop combo, but Albert breaks up the pin. Albert chokebombs Snow and Gorilla Press Slams Test onto Blackman, but Snow breaks up that cover. Blackman hits another crescent kick on Albert, but Albert Gorilla Press Slams him and Test follows up with a top rope elbow drop for the win. Man, look at that, Steve Blackman putting over young talent, what a guy. After the match, Head Chesse beats up a little person in a cheese costume:
That's all.

The Verdict

Austin-Rock. Michaels-Undertaker. Benoit-Angle. Those WrestleMania matches don't even compare to the legendary status this match deserves. Obviously this a five star classic, the greatest WrestleMania match of all time, and was snubbed for the best match of the year by Dave Meltzer. And it's all because of one man:
STEVE. F*CKING. BLACKMAN
OK, in all seriousness. This match is fine. There weren't many botches, the wrestling was fine, and nothing dumb happened.

Rankings (Best to Worst)

  1.  Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
  2. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
  3. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
  4. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  5. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  6. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  7. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
  8. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  9. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  10. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  11. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  12. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  13. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  14. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  15. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  16. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  17. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  18. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  19. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  20. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  21. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  22. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  23. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  24. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  25. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  26. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  27. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  28. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  29. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  30.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  31. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  32. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  33. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  34. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  35. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  36. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  37. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  38. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  39. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  40. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996 
  41. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  42. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  43. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
And up next is...

Oh boy, it's the over complication of the nWo and the over complication of WarGames combined.
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