Sunny makes her way out first. She’s the guest ring announcer for this match and JR compares her to a Page 3 girl and a Spice Girl for us UK fans. They show a guy in the crowd who looks bewildered at what he’s seeing as Sunny takes the microphone. Leif Cassidy makes his way out first and JR says he needs to keep the match on the mat. Tiger Ali Singh is accompanied by his father, Tiger Jeet Singh. We saw them last month at SummerSlam in the crowd. (here)
Vince McMahon, Jim Ross and Jerry “The King” Lawler are on
commentary for this match.
Tiger Ali Singh says he’s a proud Aisan-Canadian and wants
people to be drug free like he is. Tiger Jeet Singh snatches the microphone and
cuts a promo in a different language.
TIGER ALI SINGH VS. LEIF CASSIDY
WWF One Night Only 1997 (20th September 1997)
Leif Cassidy jump-starts the match
with clubbing blows and kicks to Ali’s midsection. Cassidy connects with chops
in the corner, Tiger Ali Singh blocks a right hand, Cassidy ducks and
laughs at Singh before getting knocked back with right hands.
Tiger Ali Singh tosses Leif Cassidy into the
corner, connecting with boots to the ribs and right hands before Cassidy fights
back, getting his boots up. Tiger Ali Singh sends the future Al Snow from
corner to corner and hits a belly to belly suplex, tossing Cassidy across the
ring. Tiger Ali Singh measures up Leif for running boots, but takes enough time
that Cassidy can slide to his knees from the irish whip. Leif Cassidy knocks
Tiger Ali Singh down with a clothesline, then another. He taps Singh with a
spinning back kick and covers for 2. Tiger Ali Singh powers out and fights to
his feet, Leif Cassidy puts on an arm wrench but is knocked silly. Cassidy is
able to apply a standing hammerlock and sends Singh’s shoulder into the top
turnbuckle. Tiger tries to shake it off and keeps Leif at bay with kicks to the
midsection, Leif Cassidy goes back to the arm, taking Singh down to the mat and
hitting a legdrop to his new target.
Leif Cassidy works an armbar on the mat but lets Tiger to his feet, he tries to fight back with a right hand but Cassidy takes him back to the mat, isolating the left arm. The King is talking about Ali getting advice from his father at ringside, giving JR chance to plug Lawler’s relationship with Brian Christopher, an inside joke at the time. Tiger Ali Singh is back to his feet, Cassidy wrenches the arm wringer but right hands get Ali out of that one. Tiger Ai Singh ducks a clothesline and rolls Leif Cassidy up, well botches it completely actually. It genuinely looked worse than Austin’s rollup at SummerSlam 1997, but he can be forgiven for that one. Leif Cassidy kicks out at 1 and struggles to get Tiger Ali Singh on the top rope. Ali fights back and sends Leif Cassidy to the mat before scraping him with the Diving Bulldog he calls the Tiger Bomb for the win. Even Earl Hebner is glad this match is over.
WINNER: TIGER ALI SINGH
This was Tiger Ali Singh’s WWF Pay-Per-View debut, and it was not pretty. It was overly basic and nothing they did looked particularly good. For the worker that Leif Cassidy is, and the hype Tiger Ali Singh got due to his 2nd Generation Status, it was a major disappointment. [DUD] 0/10
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