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It's the final show and you'd think after 5 weeks of using the celebs in ring names Brian Knobbs would have been able to get Todd Bridges characters name right. This weeks pretraining briefing was given in the actual competion ring and area, the celebs do not learn ANY new moves this week but all 4 of them are told they will have to learn the moves for 2 totally different matches as everyone will be involved in a tag match and the best 2 will go forward to a 1 on 1 final for the title. Dustin Diamond is given practice on his weak and sloppy chops working with everyone else and the 2 trainers and Knobbs flubs Todds persona name yet again.

Everyone struggles to follow the sequence of moves for the tag match because they can't remember the huge amount of moves their required to do although after a few physical run-throughs it appears the celebs have got it down.

The Matches - Jabroni Match - Candy Girl, Tiffany & Frank J "Cleopatra" Stallone vs Mistress Of Mayhem (Mom) & The Redhot Redneck. Basically this is an all girl match with Stallone acting as a manager. Redneck was selling well as she'd been in the longest of all the women, Tiffany sold a nice looking stunner off Redneck and Mom came in to get the win off Tiffany with a flying cross body block. Post Match we had a face off between Stallone & Danny Bonneduche but it only amounted to 1 punch then Stallone bolted.

Finalists Tag Match - Mr Not So Perfect & The Winner vs One Mean Bean & Rodzilla.

Perfect & Winner stormed Rodzilla & Bean as instructed in their prematch training, Bean & Rodzilla managed to quickly regain control with a meeting of the minds then Winner was sent over the ropes for Perfect to work Rodzilla. Heels Winner & Perfect were selling really well for the faces and Perfect made a nice flying cross body block onto Bean who was outside the ring on the floor, Winner nailed an awful clothesline with brass knucks (it was hard to see if Diamond delivered it badly or Butterbean sold it badly) allowing Perfect to hit a nice flying splash on Bean who came back to take out the heels with a double clothesline, Rodzilla made some sloppy clotheslines but the bodyslams looked ok. Bean & Rodzilla pinned a man each and they took the win.

During the judges critique Bischoff tells Rodman everything he does looks believable, so he wasn't watching those p**s poor sloppy clothesines in this match then? Jimmy Hart days he'd sign Butterbean if he were managing again, Hogan tells Bridges he took a big risk and then tells Diamond he did a good job. Dennis Rodman & Todd Bridges move forward to the final match.

Mr Not So Perfect vs Rodzilla - We hadn't seen any of the practice for the final match but it wasn't really all that impressive and was mainly Perfect selling for Rodzilla until Perfect put Rodzilla through a table at ringside. Perfect made a better sunset flip (so he's been practicing there then), Rodzilla wasn't exactly doing many of the moves they'd been taught and Perfect sold the middle rope flying clothesline but neither of these guys really impressed because neither man really tried to do any of the moves they'd been taught over the 8 weeks. Rodman took the harder bumps (into the post and the table) so it was very hard to call but I would have sooner seen an decent match with moves than the showy match they decided to go for.

Hogan says both guys are even so he makes the call and gives the Celebrity Championship Wrestling title to Dennis "Rodzilla" Rodman who we knew had won the title before the 1st show ever aired. Clearly Hogan had decided ahead of time his old WCW friend was going to win so that was a bit of a fix really.

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This weeks show opens with the celebs bitching about how stiff a worker Dennis is, obviously he isn't there and their happy to talk behind his back. Brutus & Knobbs turn up then Dennis finally shows up. Brutus tells the celebs not to bitch, they should consider payback instead. Bischoff briefs the celebs on this weeks 3 moves telling them he's only going to tell them about 2 of the moves at that moment.

This weeks moves are The Arm Drag and The Basic Chop. Bischoff tells them Hulk Hogan is going to teach them the final move and Hulk comes into the ring to show them this weeks 3rd move, The Bodyslam. After Rodman fails to even pick Butterbean up Danny bets he can slam Bean and fails.

Hogan asks if Brutus can slam Bean and he also fails. During practice Rodman doesn't want to practice doing chops with Bean as he knows Bean will chop him harder. Hogan arrives to watch Bean & Rodman training and offers advice. Hogan also goes to watch training for the triple threat match and tells them to bring it. Todd gets angry with Dustin for offering tips on acting, during a break in training Hogan brings in a Doctor to check out the celebs for fitness. Dustin gives the Doctor a huge list of problems as he's being checked out.

The Matches. Triple Threat Match - The Winner vs Mr Not So Perfect vs Dangerous Danny Bonneduche.

After a bit of mime theatre to forge an alliance Danny & Winner double team Perfect who takes a nice double bodyslam. Danny & Winner chop on Perfect as Hogan says the chops look weak. Winner went to the outside to work Perfect & Danny who worked a great double noggin knocker. Perfect got a 2nd wind kicking holy heck out of Danny hitting a lovely arm drag in the ring. Danny missed a forehead to the top turnbuckle and you had to wonder if he hurt himself, Perfect hit the flip into Danny and sent him over the ring allowing Winner to come back in to get his own bodyslam.

Perfect made a nice flying cross body block into Danny & Winner then Winner missed a bad kick to the midsection that Danny sold and shouldn't have, Winner got caught in a nice schoolboy by Perfect but Danny had to yank him off to stop the pin. After working the ropes Danny & Perfect flubbed an awful looking double clothesline (clearly they hadn't practiced it and went for the move on the fly). Winner hit 2 clotheslines on Danny & Perfect with some sort of foreign object in his armpad pinning both guys to take the win and got good heat from the crowd.

Big Man Match - One Mean Bean vs Rodzilla.

We have a very long staredown the Rodzilla takes the upper hand beating Bean down in the corner and biting him on the head. Clearly one of Rodzilla's shots had gone astray as Beans nose was bleeding when they showed him looking "dazed" which Bischoff noticed and mentioned clearly. Rodzilla tried a couple of shoulder charges at Bean which just bounced off the big man who then sent Rodzilla over the top rope to the floor. Bean went right after him smashing Rodzilla head first into the apron then the guard rail which Rodzilla sold well.

Rodzilla tried to bodyslam Bean who powered out of it then hit Rodzilla with a double axehandle to the back. Bean then bodyslammed Rodzilla on the mats outside the ring then picked Rodzilla up and bodyslammed him through a table leaving Hogan to wonder if Rodman was ok to carry on. Bean hit Rodzilla with a wickedly stiff looking chairshot across the back and rolled him back into the ring. Bean hit the splash but Rodzilla kicked out, Bean hit a big chop then splashed Rodzilla into the corner. Bean connected with a 2nd cornersplash but Rodzilla kicked out from Beans elbowdrop.

Rodzilla then started to get his wind doing his own impression of Hulking Out with Bean soaking up 2 weak looking clotheslines from Rodzilla. Bean was taken down with a flying forearm and Rodzilla was caught off the ropes trying his patented flying clothesline finisher for Bean to hit a nice singlearm slam (almost like Abyss's Black Hole Slam) to take the win. Post match Rodzilla smashed Bean with a trashcan to the head as he was celebrating and hit him with one across the back and sent him to the floor.

Bischoff tells Rodman he works too stiff, Hogan tells Bridges he needs more control, Bischoff tells Bean he makes him believe his character but some of his covers were weak. Hogan doesn't like Dustin's chops and kicks and tells Danny he doesn't hit hard enough. Danny Bonneduche is finally eliminated (for a second time).

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Brutus has bleached his hair blond and Knobbs tells the other celebs Danny Bonneduche was hurt but not badly hurt. Dustin Diamond mouthes off to Todd Bridges about hit getting hit last week and Bridges goes apeshit about and tells Diamond if he wants to bitch then he should back his words up with deeds. Diamond gets put in his place like the bitch he is by Bridges, you can now basically say Bridges owns Diamond. Knobbs tells the celebs to get geared up as their going on a field trip and the celebs all don protective clothing and take them off to a local junkyard.

At the junkyard Bischoff tells them this weeks match will be a hardcore no rules match. The celebs are then sent to find weapons and then let off steam by using them on a car. Back at the complex in the rec room after a short chat about how they felt about beating up a car Danny Bonneduche walks into the room. Bonneduche doesn't believe he's been eliminated because it hasn't been said to his face. Danny meets with Hogan who tells him what happened last week. Dustin Diamond goes over to speak to Hogan as well and interrupts him & Bonneduche who then goes off at Diamond after he said he'd worked injured (Calling him a liar? Speak to your lawyer about how sensible that was Danny).

Hogan says to settle it they should have a Falls Count Anywhere match and then later in the ring tells the other celebs they will be in the hardcore match. This weeks 3 new moves are demonstrated on Brian Knobbs, how to Hit In The Back (Hogan does a chairshot across the back), Hit In The Head (Hogan gives Knobbs a trashcan shot to the noggin) and Hit In The Gut (again using a foreign object, I think it was a baking tray?).

The celebs start practising taking the various moves from Knobbs & Brutus, Trishelle goes off to the medic after taking her chair to the back. Dustin & Danny are then taken off to the other ring by Brutus to practice working their Falls Count Anywhere match. After blocking out a whole ton of ideas Danny suddenly goes crackers after Diamond hits him in the head with a trashcan in the ring.

Hogan comes in to give everyone a quick peptalk then brings in this weeks expert - Bill Goldberg and they then show Bill the 3 moves they learnt this week. Goldberg then asks Danny to show him a trashcan shot. Goldberg says the 1st is weak as is the 2nd but Butterbean slaps Danny around the face then Goldberg says the 3rd hit is ok. Goldberg asks if he can take a powerslam, hits Danny with a hard one then promptly leaves.

The Matches. Hardcore match - Mr Not-So Perfect & One Mean Bean vs The Redhot Redneck & Rodzilla.

There had been no mention that this was going to be a tag match as well so that was quite an interesting surprise, Redneck was sent to the floor early leaving Bean & Perfect to doubleteam Rodzilla who ducked a chairshot so Perfect ending up clocking Bean and allowing The Redneck to re-enter later hitting Perfect with a nice chair to the back which Perfect sold pretty well. This wasn't pretty and it didn't look very practiced either. Lots of weapons used on everyone, mark for the various ladder hits taken by Rodzilla. I assume when he got smashed in the head by Perfect's tea-tray as he was still tied up in the ring that one genuinely hurt him as you could clearly see the swearword he said. Butterbean got put through a table (well he did eventually) and Rodzilla took the pin for his team. Not a brilliant match but it had its moments.

Falls Count Anywhere Hardcore match - The Winner vs Dangerous Danny Bonneduche. Winner started stomping on Danny just as he rolled into the ring, Winner then hit a nice bulldog that Hogan liked. Danny got his wind and worked Winner from corner to corner, Winner was sent to the floor and Danny followed with a nice cross bodyblock. Danny took a nice hit to the ringsteps then they both fought their way down the tunnel and into the locker room and Perfect got involved. Danny gave a weak trashcan shot and sent Winner through a door then Danny was sent through the set wall. Winner eventually dragged Danny back up the tunnel into the ring beaning Danny in the head with a cookie sheet before missing an elbowdrop. Danny missed either a frogsplash or missile dropkick attempt (I couldn't tell what he was going to attempt) then Winner DDT'd Danny into a steel chair taking the win. Very good match indeed.

Trishelle is eliminated after admitting she didn't give 100% this week.

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Bischoff tells the celebs that they are no longer 2 sets of teams but are now all competing against each other individually and that the next match will be a Battle Royal but not with standard rules because as well as being able to eliminate someone by sending them over the top rope they can also eliminate them by using a finishing move.

This weeks 3 new moves to learn are Over The Top (safely going over the top rope to the floor), Duck & Boost (the crouching shoulder lift over the ropes). The celebs are told they will learn the 3rd move later. Todd Bridges hurts his gonads on his 1st attempt at the Over The Ropes and Butterbean fails several times before needing a boost over from Brutus Beefcake. Brian Knobbs then gets them doing the Duck & Boost. When learning a combination eye rake and throw over the top ropes Dennis Rodman manages to injure Sammy, one of the jobbers who were helping to train the celebs (it actually turns out he broke his wrist!). Dustin Diamond leaves to get checked out by the medic as he's complaining of a shoulder problem.

Danny Bonneduche finally arrives to practice as Brutus Beefcake is practicing elbowdrops on Todd Bridges who is curled up in the top ropes in a corner and starts practicing the moves as Hulk Hogan arrives with RVD who comes to teach them about finishing or signature moves. RVD shows the celebs his 5 Star Frogsplash using Brian Knobbs as his partner, Bonneduche looks amazed and stunned and RVD explains the oversell of the move.

RVD asks to see what the celebs have done so far and Bonneduche (who had only been practicing for 45 minutes) steps up to go Over The Top and totally f**ks up the landing (they say he caught the apron, personally I think he totally missed it and took the full impact on his toes and jarred his spine), the medic calls for an ambulance and Bonneduche is taken away on a stretcher wearing a neck collar to be checked by the EMT's in hospital.

Rodman uses the midrope clothesline that he's been doing since day 1 (I assume he learnt that in his WCW days?) as his finishing move and RVD likes it. Butterbean uses the bellyslam as his finisher. Trishelle hasn't got anything so RVD teaches her a nice bridging submission move. Todd Bridges shows the somersault flip into a corner splash he's also been using since the 1st week but RVD doesn't think theres enough of it and suggests adding a sunset flip (actually it would have been easier and better looking if they'd done either a monkeyflip style Irish Whip or schoolboy roll-up out of the corner as both were more logical moves and they already knew the schoolboy anyway). Dustin Diamond decides to use the DDT as his finisher. As Brian Knobbs gives an end of day talk to the celebs we get to see Sammy stood in the ring wearing a plastercast and sling on his broken wrist.

With 4 hours until the match everyone goes to practice with Knobbs telling them they have no idea if Bonneduche is going to show or not but either way the match will go on. Everyone works everyone else with plenty of preset moves thought out and practiced ahead of time, in the locker room before the match Knobbs gives everyone a pep talk and tells them that they are now all members of Team Hogan.

The Match. 5 Person Battle Royal.

As we already know this is a Battle Royal, it was going to be 6 people but Bonneduche cried off with his injury which was no-one's fault but his own. The Winner & Mr No-So Perfect kick this one off, after some showboating to the crowd for cheap heat by both of them Winner hits Perfect with a nicely sold kick to the midsection and an eyerake. Perfect worked the ropes and ran into Winner's back elbow as Winner then stomped Perfect in the gut as he lay on the canvas. Winner strutted into a good elbowdrop on Perfect who was taken over the ropes but managed to reverse himself back in and didn't look too bad doing it either.

Perfect hit Winner with a midsection kick of his own (Diamond really can sell them well!) and then took Winner over to smack him into the top turnbuckle several times. Perfect nailed Winner with a nice forearm to the chest and then hit the overhead somersault into a forearm smash although the forearm smash looked scrappy as Perfect clearly didn't spot his landing very well. Next into the match was The Red Hot Redneck who teamed up with Mr Not-So Perfect against The Winner, they worked him over for a short while before the next entrant who was Rodzilla (unashamedly billing him from "Parts Unknown") who made the save on Winner from the doubleteam beatdown of Perfect & Redneck.

Everybody was beating everyone else down but it turned into a Team Beefcake vs Team Nasty face off until we got the next entrant in the shape of One Mean Bean. Bean came in splashing Winner into Perfect and Rodzilla into the Redneck. Bean sent Perfect to the ropes but he managed to roll back in under the bottom rope, Rodzilla then got Bean's attention after a slap to the back of the head. The 2 biggest men faced each other down and Rodzilla went for the eyerake and Bean sold it well, also really selling a hard looking kick to the midsection. Everyone else came in joining Rodzilla hitting Bean with forearm smashes aplenty, everyone then piled on top in an attempt to pin him (so yet another variation to standard Battle Royal rules then?) but Bean used his sheer mass and strength to kick out.

Eventually with everyone working together One Mean Bean was first to be sent over the top rope and eliminated. Rodzilla duked it out with the Redneck & The Winner was fighting with Perfect in opposite corners. Winner tried to establish a team with Rodzilla only to be sent into the ropes for a clothesline, the Redneck hit Rodzilla with a nice double axehandle to the head then a series of midsection kicks. Perfect hit a well measured sunset flip on The Winner to eliminate him using the finishing move option, as Winner was hitting Rodzilla its hard to telll if Rodzilla actually injured Redneck for real (As when Bridges hit Rodman his head whiplashed back and caught Trishelle in the face), the ref did go and check on her.

This may have been part of the gimmick as Perfect was trying to send Rodzilla over the top when he used his strength putting Perfect over the top rope to the apron. Perfect grabbed Rodzilla's arm, the Redneck grabbed Rodzilla by the leg sending him over and Rodzilla took Mr Not So Perfect with him leaving The Red Hot Redneck as this weeks match winner.

I think Bischoff's comments about Dustin Diamond having plateaued out were unfair, he pulls his weight and works pretty hard. Danny Bonneduche is eliminated from this weeks show, its not undeserved as he wasn't giving the show his full attention what with still doing his radio show and missing half the training. As good a performer as he was he just wasn't willing to listen or do moves the way he was taught.

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Apologies on the late review, this wasn't uploaded to the newsgroups as per usual so I had to spend 4 hours grabbing the individual parts off rapidshare.

Todays 1st challenge is for the celebs to learn how to cut a promo. Dustin Diamond slaps Donny Bonneduche for taking it too far. This weeks 3 new moves are the Hiptoss, Taking The Turnbuckle & the Elbow Smash. Nikki Zeiring bottles it and walks out on the practice session when asked to give someone a hiptoss claiming her back hurt from having just done a hiptoss. Of course they wouldn't be having these issues if they'd all been taught how to bump safely in the very 1st week like I said they should have.

Trishelle has issues with the hiptoss as well, basically being frightened to go head over heels, basically she's also scared to bump. Danny Bonneduche also has his own completely different issues with the hiptoss and insists on doing it his own way. He ends up taking a very hard bump & hurts himself saying "something went pop" before he goes to see the medic. Nikki says she doesn't want to be there and Hogan comes to speak to her, Hogan says he'll work with her. Bonneduche comes back to training despite being told to go get an X-ray. Hogan works with Nikki & Dustin sells like crazy to make her feel better.

The matches.

For Team Beefcake. The Redhot Redneck & The Mean Bean vs Dangerous Danny Bonneduche & Mr Not So Perfect

The Redhot Redneck & The Mean Bean cut their promo. Dangerous Danny & Mr Not So Perfect cut their promo. Bean & Danny kick this off. Danny hits Bean with a couple of kicks to the midsection, an armbar then another armbar with Perfect helping him. They then doubleteam Bean working towards a fairly nice double clothesline, Bean kicks out of Danny's cover. Redneck has to bring Bean back to the ring and tags in with Danny and ends up getting seriously smooched. Danny hits her with a nice schoolboy but she kicks out after 2. Danny totally flubs the hiptoss and looks awful in his execution and landing.

Danny gets thrown around the ring then sells a kick to the midsection real well as Redneck tags Bean back in, Danny doesn't manage to sell Bean's elbow smash very well though. Danny kicks out of a heavy looking elbowdrop from Bean & tags Redneck back in. There's a nice double clothesline as they take each other out and Perfect is finally tagged in to work Bean. Perfect makes a nice flip across the ring to deliver an axehandle to Beans head but Bean kicks out. Perfect is splashed into the corner, he bounces Danny off the apron into the guard rail and pins Perfect to take the win. Good match but Bonneduche flubbed twice and looked scrappy, Bridges didn't get enough ring time. Butterbean & Trishelle worked well.

For Team Nasty its a 2 on 1 handicap match. Candy Girl & The Winner vs Rodzilla.

Candy Girl & The Winner cut their promo. Rodzilla cuts his promo. The Winner & Rodzilla start this one off, Rodzilla making a well sold armbar but Winner rakes the eyes to break it. Candy & Winner doubleteam Rodzilla with the armbars and kicks to his midsection but he powers out of it. Winner flubs a very low kick on Rodzilla almost in the family jewels. Rodzilla gets back on top taking Winner around the turnbuckles and Winners sell of the hiptoss isn't very good at all. Candy sells being kicked in her midsection ok and takes a better looking hiptoss off Rodzilla. Her kick to his midsection is way more accurate and on target than Winners was and Winner hits Rodzilla with an elbow smash from the apron as Candy works Rodzilla on the ropes.

Rodzilla is sent out of the ring after a double axehandle to the back from Candy, Winner hits him with another axehandle from the apron. Candy makes a nice schoolboy when Rodzilla comes back in the ring and Winner tags back in to beat Rodzilla down. Candy drops 2 elbows on Rodzilla and Winner comes back in again to work Rodzilla into the turnbuckles again. Rodzilla kicks out of an elbow drop from Winner & Candy misses a double axehandle off the top rope and hit Winner instead. Rodzilla hits Winner with another scrappy hiptoss. Rodzilla makes the pin off his flying middlerope clothesline. Rodman had a decent match, Zeiring was ok but Diamond was very scrappy in places.

Hogan picks no winning team tonight. It comes down to Nikki & Trishelle being the last 2 left to be critiqued and Nikki is voted off this week but its not like she didn't deserve it after her diva tantrums.

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This weeks challenge is for the celebs to create an in-ring persona. This weeks 3 new moves are the Basic Tie-up, working the arm (an armbar) and working the ropes (the criss cross). Hogan comes to the Team Nasty training session. Rodman proves he doesn't know how or when to sell but Diamond looks good working with Hogan. Hogan also attends the Team Beefcake training session and works Bonneduche in a 2 minute match although Bonneduche didn't sell the final clothesline very well. The celebrities work 1 to 1 on their characters.

The Matches.

For Team Nasty - Nicki Zeiring as Candy Girl & Dustin Diamond as The Winner vs Erin Murphy as Mistress Of Mayhem (Mom) & Dennis Rodman as Rodzilla. Rodman & Diamond started off precedings with a nice tie-up into a side headlock on Diamond who sold it well. Rodman tries the 1st armbar on Diamond who sells like crazy, Diamond escapes with an eye rake. Murphy comes in and makes a nice armbar of her own. Diamond missed a corner splash that Murphy turned into a schoolboy. Murphy wasn't selling being choked by Diamond very well & sold it even worse when Zeiring did the same outside the ring. Zeiring came in for a few cheapshots on Rodman before tagging herself back out. Diamond threw Murphy back into the ring & Zeiring hit her with a schoolboy. Zeiring tagged Diamond back in who bounced Rodman off the apron and into the guard rail in a pretty hard looking fall, Diamond went for a clothesline on Murphy who ducked and he hit Zeiring but it looked awful and very unpracticed. Rodman was finally tagged in hitting Diamond with a stiff looking clothesline, Murphy was tagged in for a nice top rope flying cross body block to take the win from Diamond. Good twist ending!

For Team Beefcake - Todd Bridges as Mr Not So Perfect (which got a laugh from Eric Bischoff) & Butterbean as Mean Bean vs Trishelle as The Red Hot Redneck & Danny Bonneduche as Dangerous Danny Bonneduche. Wow, he must have struggled to come up with that character & name for all of 10 seconds? Bonneduche & Butterbean started this match off with a tie-up & Butterbean throwing Bonneduche to the ground. He was suckered into a missed corner splash then Trishelle came in to help Bonneduche with the schoolboy on Butterbean. Bonneduche put Butterbean into a nice & well sold armbear then Trishelle came in making her own nice armbars. Trishelle hit a clothesline that Butterbean no-sold then he hit Trishelle with a clothesline of his own. Bridges tagged in and missed lots of moves on Trishelle, Bonneduche was tagged in and took charge pretty quickly. Bridges was selling ok and talking to Bridges a lot to co-ordinate their moves. Butterbean came in to doubleteam Bonneduche only to hit Bridges with his clothesline. Trishelle pantsed Butterbean and Bonnduche took the win off a nice cross bodyblock off the top rope onto Bridges which impressed Hogan.

Hogan picks Team Beefcake as the winners this week. Team Nasty are left to the elimination and Erin Murphy is eliminated from this weeks show despite having a good match this week.

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After an arguement about whose team is better Hogan gets the teams to jump off a high platform into an airbag. Brutus Beefcake gives the demo, Trishelle gets shit scared but jumps with a pretty shitty landing. Frank Stallone refuses to jump at all.

This weeks 3 moves are The Headlock Takedown (more of a side headlock into a hiptoss), The Schoolboy (looks like a legsweep into a roll-up) and The Shoulder Tackle. Butterbean nearly kills Brutus with a fart. Dennis Rodman injures both himself (strained rotator cuff) & Brian Knobbs trying to show him a flying clothesline off the middle rope. Danny Bonneduche comes back from his radio show and learns the moves. Frank Stallone gets dropped into the deep end and has to replace Rodman in an active wrestling role.

The matches.

For Team Beefcake - Trishelle & Danny Bonneduche vs Todd Bridges & Butterbean. Butterbean & Bonneduche kicked things off with Butterbean giving Bonneduche the shouldertackle which was well sold by Bonneduche who went for his own shouldertackle and was bounced off onto the deck by Butterbean. Trishelle got tagged in, Butterbean turned his back on her and she jumped on his back and started whaling on him. He splashed her back into a corner and she tagged herself out as Bridges got tagged in. Bridges sold a nice kick to the midsection and an equally good forearm (both moves from last week). Bridges hit the Headlock Takedown pretty well. Trishelle also took a good Headlock Takedown off Bridges then tagged back out. Bridges ran himself into a very scrappy looking clothesline (the 3rd of last weeks moves) from Bonneduche. Trishelle hit Butterbean with a kick to the midsection allowing Bonneduche to hit the Schoolboy and take the win for his team. Not a great match but not awful either as they used all this weeks and all last weeks moves too. You also have to mark for Butterbean throwing Bonneduche over the top rope into "security" after the match.

For Team Nasty - Erin Murphy & Dustin Diamond vs (as Managed by the injured Dennis Rodman) Nikki Zeirring & Frank Stallone. Zeiring started this off with a kick to the midsection on Diamond then hitting Diamond into the turnbuckles, she missed the 1st opportunity but hit the Schoolboy on the 2nd chance but Diamond kicked out on 2. Zeiring then hit a nice Headlock Takedown on Diamond. Stallone tagged in and hit a Schoolboy of his own Diamond getting only a 2 count. They split and setup for a Headlock takedown but Erin Murphy hit Stallone from the outside allowing Diamond to hit him with a nice double axehandle across the back then sent him out through the middle ropes which was well sold and done by Stallone. Rodman ran interference on the ref as Diamond choked Stallone out over the bottom rope. Zeiring & Murphy were tagged in with Zeiring ducking a clothesline but nailing a nicely sold kick to the midsection of Murphy. Stallone & Diamond tagged back in and Stallone hit a half decent clothesline but only got a 2 count. Rodman distracted the ref and Murphy came in to hit Stallone with a lovely double axehandle across the back and rolled Diamond over on top of Stallone, Diamond took the win. Rodman sold a nice kick to his midsection from Diamond after the match.

Hogan picks Team Beefcake as this weeks winners. Team Nasty are then left to the elimination, Frank Stallone is eliminated.

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Ok well I didn't know a few of the people but it made for interesting viewing all the same.
It was weird to see they taught them moves and THEN taught them how to bump afterwards.

The matches.

For Team BeefCake - Todd Bridges (of Diff'rent Strokes fame) as Manager of Tiffany (famous for singing "I think we're alone now") & Danny Bonneduche (no clue who he is) vs Trishelle (no idea who she is either) & Butterbean (never heard of him either). Butterbean took the 3 moves they'd learnt then dropped Bonneduche with a stiff looking clothesline that Bonneduche sold very well indeed. Bonneduche also sold Trishelles kick to the midsection very nicely (I think her open handed slap to the face was pretty real), the double clothesline was sold well by both women and Tiffany had made her forearm smashes look good and hard. They were doing corner splashes and heads to the turnbuckle (we'd seen Bonneduche doing the turnbuckle training but it wasn't one of the 3 set moves they had to do). Butterbean took the eventual win for his team after a belly to belly slam.

For Team Nasty - Nicki Zeiring (no clue who she is) as Manager of Frank Stallone (brother of Sly) & Dustin Diamond (Screech from "Saved By The Bell") vs Erin Murphy (Tabitha from "Bewitched") & Dennis Rodman (Basketball star). Rodman & Diamond kicked this off and it was hard to tell if the midsection kick to Diamond was being sold well or actually hit him, likewise with the forearm and Diamond sold a nice clothesline as well. Diamond sold the kick from Murphy pretty well but Stallone did nothing but showboat when he came in. Diamond missed the cornersplash allowing Murphy to tag Rodman in who hit another big clothesline. Rodman took the win with a flying clothesline off the middle rope onto Diamond. Shame Stallone did NOTHING in this match.

Team Nasty got the winning vote from Hogan meaning one of Team Beefcake was going home. Tiffany was eliminated from the first show.