This was Hunter Hearst Helmsley's second chance to
qualify for the King of the Ring tournament as he was disqualified
against Ahmed Johnson. During Crush's entrance, we're shown KenShamrock breaking Vader's nose last month at a Cold Day in
Hell. Crush was a member of the Nation of Domination at this time and
has Savio Vega and some lawyer looking dude with him his
name's Clarence but that distracted me thinking of 8 mile.. Chyna
accompanies Helmsley to the ring and we cut to Gerald Brisco, who
says it was stated to Helmsley he could only advance through pinfall
and submission and this match is to stop his lawyers giving him the
company..... Jim Ross and Jerry “The King” Lawler are on
commentary
HUNTER
HEARST HELMSLEY VS. CRUSH (King of the Ring Round 1)
WWF
Raw (19th May 1997)
The bell rings
and they lock up, Crush backs Helmsley into the corner and we get a
clean break, Helmsley hits Crush but it is a mere annoyance, so he
pokes him in the eye then attacks him in the corner with rights and
kicks. Crush reverses an irish whip but ducks early so Triple H hits
a neckbreaker and bows to the Nation member on the outside. Helmsley
runs into a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, an ax handle and strikes to the
back follow before another backbreaker. Crush sends Helmsley off the
ropes into a bearhug then spinebusters him down. Helmsley is put in
position and Crush gets on the middle rope, salutes but that gives
Helmsley time to move out of the way, although he ended up closer to
Crush's fist than he would have been. Helmsley goes toe to toe with
Crush which goes as well as you'd expect for a poshboy fighting a
biker. Triple H is sent into the turnbuckles, going upside down and
walks into a military press gutbuster. Crush covers for a nearfall.
Hunter Hearst
Helmsley counters a suplex, landing on his feet and hits a facebuster
into an awkward looking neckbreaker. Helmsley sets up the Pedigree
but Savio Vega gets on the apron. Helmsley uses the distraction to
bring Crush over to Chyna, who is also now on the apron. Crush
counters as the referee turns his attention from Vega to Chyna, Crush
has Helmsley's arms behind his back, taking him over to Vega, but
Helmsley ducks the kick and covers Crush for the win.
WINNER: HUNTER
HEARST HELMSLEY
Helmsley and Chyna get out of there whilst Crush and
Savio Vega get into a shoving match in the ring until Farooq cools it
off.
That was one way to go. The match was short enough
and there were only a couple of awkward moments but it felt like they
went from the beginning straight to the finish with nothing to flesh
it out in between.– [**] match but personally 3/10
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