Burning Hammer DVD Review #3

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WWF: Hardy Boyz: Leap Of Faith
Compilation Tape

--The "Confidential" like piece about the Hardys is actually pretty good, but I don't review stuff like that, so let's get right to the wrestling.

--Taped from all over the place.

--Your hosts are JR & King for the most part, with Michael Cole & Paul Heyman on the last 2 matches.

--WWF Tag Team Championship Match: Hardy Boyz (W/Michael Hayes) V. Acolytes. This is from a Raw on July 05, 1999. Matt tries a Plancha right away, but the Acolytes catch him, so Jeff follows with an insane Tope Con Hilo on all 3 guys. Hardys hit their SWEET~ Event Omega (middle-rope Splash/middle-rope Legdrop combo) on Bradshaw. Matt gets the pin and the titles at 4:25 with a Tornado DDT on Bradshaw, after Jeff hit him with a wooden board. *1Ú2 Good for what it was, which was the Hardys bumping all over the place for the Acolytes.

--Ladder Match: Edge, Christian V. Hardy Boyz (W/Gangrel). This is from No Mercy 1999. The ref tosses Gangrel from the match early on. Awesome spot as Christian wedges Jeff in the corner with a ladder, and the runs up said ladder to give Jeff a Dropkick. Christian gives Jeff an Inverted DDT off the middle of the ladder. Edge kills Matt with a Powerbomb off the middle of the ladder. Jeff hits Edge with a Swanton Bomb while he's laying on a ladder. First real "Holy Shit" moment, as Jeff leapfrogs a ladder off the top-rope to give Christian a Legdrop. Edge hits Novacane on Jeff off the middle of the ladder. Matt gives Edge a wicked Neckbreaker off the middle of the ladder. Christian hits Jeff with a Hiptoss off the top of the ladder, and that looked real painful. Very cool spot, as the ladders are set up like a see-saw, and Jeff jumps off the top-rope, lands on one end, & catapults the other end into Christian & Matt's faces. Everyone falls off their respective ladders, and everyone is out cold as we get our first standing ovation of the night. End comes as Edge shoves Matt off their ladder and into the ropes, where he rebounds into the ladder Jeff & Christian are on, knocking it over. Jeff lands on Edge's ladder, and punches him off the ladder as he climbs and gets the money at 16:29 for the win. ***** Awesome spotfest, and if you're going to do a spotfest then go all out and hit all your spots, which is what they did here.

--WWF Tag Team Championship, Tables, Ladders, And Chairs, Triple Threat Match: Dudley Boys V. Hardy Boyz V. Edge, Christian. This is from SummerSlam 2000. Matt just kills Buh Buh with a chair right off the bat. Edge hit's a SWEET~ double Russian Legsweep on Matt & D-Von off the ladder. Buh Buh gets Christian with a Buh Buh Bomb off the ladder. Matt & Jeff get destroyed by Buh Buh in a variation of the see-saw spot from the first ladder match. Dudley Boys get 3D on Christian through a table. Matt hits a Legdrop off the ladder on Edge, and Jeff follows with a leapfrog off the top-rope over the ladder Legdrop on Edge. Jeff misses a Swanton Bomb on the outside to Buh Buh, and goes through a table. Buh Buh climbs the ladder, but Edge & Christian shove it over sending him crashing through 2 sets of tables stacked on top of each other on the outside. Matt gets his ladder tipped over by D-Von, and he goes through 2 tables on the outside. Lita, who came down to ringside to help the Hardys, takes a vicious Spear from Edge, I'm surprised she didn't get knocked out from that. We get the mega cool "hanging onto the belts" spot from Jeff & D-Von. Jeff knocks D-von down, but Edge & Christian hit him with a ladder to knock him off, and then climb the ladder to get the win at 14:49. ***** Another awesome spotfest, along with a really hot crowd throughout the whole match, unlike in the first ladder match where they really didn't get into the match until near the end.

--WWF Tag Team Championship Match, Cage Match: Hardy Boyz V. Edge, Christian. This is from Unforgiven 2000. This is pinfall or both members of the team have to leave the cage to win rules. Jeff gets eliminated when Edge shoves him off the top of the cage, leaving Matt alone in the ring with Edge & Christian. Edge & Christian hit a double team Superplex off the top of the cage on Matt. Matt keeps getting sent headfirst into the cage, and he supplies a primo blade job in response. Christian climbs to the top of the cage to try and stop Matt from escaping, where Jeff nails him with a ladder to eliminate him from the match. Jeff climbs to the top of the cage and hits both Jeff and Matt with a Corkscrew Moonsault. Lita comes down to ringside and hits a Rana on Christian off the top of a ladder. Edge & the Hardys climb to the top of the cage, where the Hardys nail Edge with a conchairto and then climb out at 13:42 to win the match and the titles. ***1Ú4. Good match, with a good story of Matt being left by himself, although JR and Cole constantly arguing over what the rules actually were didn't really help the match, and it dragged a little during the middle.

--WWF Tag Team Championship, Tables, Ladders, And Chairs II, Triple Threat Match: Hardy Boyz V. Edge, Christian V. Dudley Boys. This is from WrestleMania XVII, or X-7 as the jackoffs at WWF decided to call it. Cool spot, as Edge knocks Matt off a ladder by jumping off a chair and hitting a Flying Clothesline. Hardys hit the SWEET~ Event Omega off ladders onto Christian. Buh Buh sets up Edge on a table, and then Powerbomb's Jeff on top of him in a vicious spot. Trainwreck spot as all 6 men go flying off their ladders almost simultaneously. Spike Dudley interferes to hit Christian with an Acid Drop through a table to the outside. Rhyno interferes and Spears Matt through a table. Lita then comes out to make sure the interference scale is even. The Dudleys hit a Doomsday Device on Rhyno, and then hit 3-D on Lita. Jeff hits a Swanton Bomb off a ladder on the outside through a table on both Spike & Rhyno. This time we get Christian & D-Von in the Òhanging onto the beltsÓ spot. They both fall off, and then Jeff screws up walking across the ladders to get the belts. He sets up another ladder, but Buh Buh takes it away, and Edge hits a SWEET~ Spear on him while he's hanging from the belts. Rhyno shoves Matt & Buh Buh off a ladder & through 4 stacked tables on the outside. Edge & Christian win the match & titles at 15:41 when Rhyno carries Christian up a ladder on his shoulders to get the belts. ***** Yet another fucking awesome match, with the non-involved wrestlers taking some hellacious bumps as well.

--Inter-Gender Match: Lita, Hardy Boyz V. Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley, Triple H, Steve Austin. This is from a Raw on April 09, 2001. Jeff just manages to make contact with HHH on a Corkscrew Moonsault. Austin hits the drop straight down version of a Spinebuster that I don't like all that much. Matt gets a nice double Flying Clothesline off the top-rope on both Austin & Triple H. Lita gets the pin on Stephanie at 6:58 with a Moonsault. **1Ú2 Post-match Team Backstage Powers conduct about a 3 minute beat down on Lita & the Hardys, including some hard chair shots to Lita. Good fast paced match, but not really what I want to see on a DVD.

--Final Flash: Great DVD, with only 1 real clunker. Still, in place of the 2 Raw matches, why not toss something on their like the Triple Threat match from WrestleMania XVI, or 2000 as some choose to call it. Not much too complain about though, when you get three ***** matches.

Highly Recommended.

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