5 Commentator matches you may not remember
Everybody knows that JBL and Jerry “The King” Lawler are former wrestlers with championship histories. King even has a fairly extensive resume of wrestling matches while being an active commentator.
What you may have seen but don’t remember are these five matches that saw regular commentary team members in matches, even though they were never trained to wrestle.
#5 Oklahoma vs. Asya (WCW Nitro - January 10, 2000)
WCW had a lot of really, really bad ideas, especially during the last 3 years of their existence. The worst part of all, is that they often decided to run with them just because the guys writing the show thought what they were doing was funny -- even if they knew the audience didn’t.
WWE, of course, isn’t without their many misgivings in this category, but we will get to that later.
Former WWE writing team member Ed Ferrara, good friend and writing partner to the infamous Vince Russo, jumped to WCW in October of 1999.
Ferrara only spent about a year and a half in what was then the WWF, and when he and Russo could no longer hold a good relationship with boss Vince McMahon, it was time to go.
Many people believe that Vince and Ed were a major part of the reason WCW died, and things like the Oklahoma character are something people point at when the discussion arises.
Oklahoma was a parody of Jim Ross, played by Ed Ferrara, an insulting imitation all the way down to the facial mannerisms caused by JR’s bell’s palsy.
Ferrara is a trained wrestler, but only wrestled for 2 years in the mid-1990s. In this match, he called out any woman to fight him by saying to any taker: “bring your fat ass down here”.
Asya, essentially a parody of Chyna, was a muscled strong woman who took on the challenge. She ended up kicking his butt before another female wrestler, Madusa, came down to attack him.
He hit her in the head with a broom (after using barbeque sauce, of course) and held up the Cruiserweight Championship to celebrate. Oh, yeah.
The Cruiserweight Title was made a complete joke, with the worst member of the boy band stable “3 Count” Evan Karagias winning the belt. He lost it to Madusa (formerly WWF’s Alundra Blayze, who infamously dumped the WWF Women’s Title in the trash on NItro), who lost it to Oklahoma.
Who, of course, didn’t meet the weight requirement. Even though, you know, he got a title shot. Don’t know why that was allowed in the first place. WCW. Where the big boys play.