Botches Of The Week (July 27)

1. D.U.I. The Enemy? D.U.I. The Enemy?

So on Raw Reunion this week, John Cena treated us to a between-schedules insult-rap to both members of The Usos and mentioned how they looked like their mug-shots.

Then two days later Jimmy Uso got arrested again for Driving Under the Influence (also known as the FCW Special).

2. What?

On Smackdown this week Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville got a backstage segment (it was a busy episode as you can tell) where Mandy explained the pair of them were getting a match and next week and then it got a bit messy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWCNro3rI9g

So they’re getting a tag title shot and if they win they get a tag title shot. And also we found out backstage segments are filmed live on Smackdown rather than pre-taped (that or Sid skipped Raw Reunion to join the writing staff).

3. Ref Jam Vendetta

In tribute to Raw Reunion, here’s a vintage house show clip featuring Mr. Perfect getting annoyed with the referee’s truly awful ring counts.

https://twitter.com/Maffewgregg/status/1154023880668962816

Gotta love Hennig backing up at the angry ref though. And Perfect was the babyface!

4. Rubbish Jimmy Garvin

This clip blew up on Puro twitter this week and it’s good for them to keep to themselves. I don’t know the match or opponent but the only thing you need to know is Google Translate tells us the tweet says “Let’s be healed by Jim Garvin’s gentle power bomb.”

https://twitter.com/kokontezangetsu/status/1153608718358962182

5. Fortunate Son

WWE Network’s Photo Shoot featured Shane McMahon this week (another show for him to ruin) and featured many fascinating clips of Shane directing his Dad on Raw.

Of course he’s only directing VINCE MCMAHON so he is seen critiquing his son’s lack of pace in keeping the cuts quick so the crowd doesn’t die out and also lectures him for walking in front of his light.

Shane deals with his Dad by pretending not to hear him, something Vince would borrow when it comes to listening to fans.

6. Invasion Must Die

You’d think I’d know everything in terms of botches and mistakes but every week something new comes along to surprise me.

Monsoon Classic uploaded the entrances to Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. Scotty 2 Hotty on the Sunday Night Heat pre-show of WWF Invasion 2001 and pointed out they didn’t show all the heel (baddie) ramp when Chavo was making his way out.

Notice how Chavo came out, then they cut to Scotty for an awkward moment before Chavo came back out the other side.

They hadn't finished building the stage. This was 15 minutes before they went live on PPV during the pre-show. Imagine that happening today. https://t.co/Sq7xru6M0r

— Tom. (@NotThatTomGreen) July 22, 2019

Turns out there had been a woman’s basketball match the previous day so the production monkeys could only start making the set the morning of the PPV, which is why they were still finishing it when the PPV was on the air and Team Canada were shown already in the ring after the introduction.

Luckily it was finally finished for the very important Battle Of The Refs match that happened to take place on the highest-non-Wrestlemania-WWF-PPV-buyrate-show.

7. Raging Bullpoop

Game Changer Wrestling was dealt an unlucky hand during their recent Homicide Tribute Show. In the main event, Louie Ramos ended up bleeding very, very badly very, very quickly, leading to a legit stoppage by the New York commission who had a rep at ringside (and thankfully a medic too).

I’ll spare you a GIF of the bloodshed (that required dozens of stitches to fix) and instead give you the exact moment Nick Gage realised things had got out of hand minutes into the main event.

8. Golga 13

It wasn’t a busy week for botches so thankfully here’s Brandon Stroud with a Hail Mary pass.

Here’s John Tenta wearing a mask and hanging out with The Oddities on a 1998 Raw and doing the best to make a Disciples Of Apocalypse match exciting by breaking the ring. Thanks Earthquake but the match still sucked.

9. No Mas!

Meanwhile in CMLL, during the weekly Arena México show Blue Panther wrestled Felino and the match ended via submission but without Panther submitting.

Courtesy of Luchablog:

Pompin signaled the submission win and Felino reacted like normal, but Blue Panther seemed confused. He never physically indicated he gave up. It wouldn’t have mattered if he did since Pompin was looking at Felino instead of Panther. My guess is that was intended to be the finishing hold but perhaps Panther was planning to hold out for a few seconds longer. This is all more interesting than the rest of this show.

Good job we don’t see that in wrestling much.

Oh you know what I mean.

10. And Finally

It’s been a botch-less week but I’ve had my second ever request from someone so it wasn’t all bad.

Here’s Bushwhackers’ grope from Wrestlemania V. They insist it was just to keep balance but in the game this is known as “testing the waters.”

That’s your lot, thanks for botching and leave me alone.

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