My usual gripe for ladies’s matches on shows of this era is the very fact the in-ring motion is ridiculously short. While that could be a think about this “hated,” as Chyna and Ivory, in her Right to Censor era, got slightly below three-and-a-half minutes for this match, it’s much worse than simply that. WWF Women’s Champion Ivory and Chyna’s match for the title kicked off a serious injury angle for “The Ninth Wonder of the World” in a distasteful way, even for the Attitude Era. It was disappointing, as well, because this was Chyna’s first shot on the Women’s Championship, something she probably must have won much earlier in her profession, and looking out back on it, she must have just decimated Ivory.
The injury built off a previous angle where Chyna took a piledriver from one other Right to Censor member, Val Venis, weeks prior. In a backstage segment right ahead of the match, Chyna told Billy Gunn that she didn’t “give a rattling” what the doctors said. If that did not foreshadow disaster enough, the video package featuring a sit-down interview with Chyna in a neck brace, in addition to video of the piledriver, was played right before the ladies went to battle. The D-Generation X member admitted she wasn’t at one hundred pc.
Chyna dominated this match until the very end, and he or she’s absolutely furious to kick things off. She whipped Ivory across the ring by her hair and stomped her down within the corner. The champion tried to flee through the group, but Chyna military pressed Ivory above her head and got her back within the ring. That was about the entire match there was, as Chyna then attempted the back handspring elbow, and went right down in probably the most unbelievable, within the worst possible way, neck injury spot. Though, to be fair, it wasn’t like WWF was putting much thought into its women’s stories in any respect right now.
Jerry Lawler actually got up from the desk to envision on Chyna, attempting to make this more believable, but he was never nice to her on commentary, at all times calling her a person and other nasty things, so I wondered why he of all people would care. She was just staring blankly within the ring and probably not reacting much, which also took me out of it. Chyna was loaded on to a stretcher and brought out, which was probably the one somewhat believable a part of all of this.
Chyna would go on to beat Ivory for the title at WrestleMania, but the very fact she needed a giant comeback angle for the Women’s Championship, when she had already held men’s titles and was at all times over with the fans, was really lame.
Written by Daisy Ruth