Smoking Gunns vs. Razor Ramon & 1-2-3 Kid
WWF Tag Team Championships
In the aftermath of In Your House 3: Double Header, it’s the new tag team champs crowned on Raw versus Razor and 1-2-3 in yet another chapter of their dysfunctional friendship angle. Razor and Kid must be on the same side this time as they’re both wearing purple.
Kid starts against Billy as the two lock up. It’s fast paced to start, but as soon as the Gunns start to bully up on Kid, he backs away to his own corner and tags in Razor. It’s nice to see something not done in every tag-match for a change, this was actually refreshing that the smaller, younger guy didn’t get immediately beaten in the corner, stranded for a hot tag. Things have slowed down to a snail pace due to lots of time wasting by both Razor and Bart. Razor whips his way out of an arm drag while Kid lowers the ropes causing Bart to tumble outside. Razor hits Bart with a hammer toss to the corner as he collapses to the mat.
A huge chant starts for Razor, as he and Kid bully Bart in the corner, while Billy gets reprimanded by the ref for trying to save his partner. Razor tosses Bart overhead, and then tosses Kid into him after a quick tag. Bart’s still stranded in the corner, as we see great teamwork between Kid and Razor. Bart finally turns the tide as he hits a slam on Razor, but the hard camera cuts to Dean Douglas watching a TV backstage while making notes. It becomes more and more evident, that this match is most likely just an angle.
As we cut back, Bart gets the tag to Billy, as he runs wild on both Razor and Kid! Wasn’t expecting that. Billy tags the apparently injured Bart straight back in, as he grinds Kid down with a triple backbreaker, but Razor stomps him to kill the pinfall. Kid’s now stranded in the corner, but he manages to duck a splash by Billy! As both men are down, Razor leaves his post and puts Kid over Bart. While Razor’s arguing with the ref, he does the same with Billy over Kid, but Razor does it a third time as the ref starts to count! Unfortunately it’s only a very close 2 count for Kid.
Razor’s in as he batters both Gunns like the jobbers that they are. He lines Billy up for the Razor’s Edge, but Kid demands a tag. Razor questions it, but doesn’t go for the tag. He tags in Kid, Kid goes straight for the pin, but he screws up once again as Billy rolls him up out of nowhere for the win!
Winners: The Smoking Gunns
Kid starts to sulk but Razor leaves him to it and exits the ring. Kid starts to attack the guns from behind as they celebrate and he steals the belts! Razor’s back in, as he calms both men and hands the belts back to the retaining champs. Still no pay off to this pointless feud between Razor and Kid. This was a great match which was actually different to the very generic tag team formula, but the story it told doesn’t really seem to be going anywhere. That being said, great tag-team work from all men as far as I’m concerned.
