This is JIP a couple minutes in so we miss what I guess would've been some babyface shine. Boesch on commentary mentions a cut under Hector's eye and when we join the match Master G is standing in the middle of the ring, fists cocked ready to fight. We go into the heat almost immediately and the Guerreros are easily one of the best teams of the era working a heat segment. I've said that before, I'm sure. I'll say it again, I'm sure of that too. They have so much cool and varied offence but it's all focused and this time it was to Master G's back. Hector with cool high knee drops to the lower back, a sort of jumping headbutt, his 180 degree splash, really the Hector Guerrero tour de force. When Brickhouse comes in he hits five awesome dropkicks that the Guerreros bump great off of and you sometimes forget how nice Brickhouse Brown's dropkick was. Hector's bump off a Master G punch was impeccable. Chavo coming in behind the ref's back and clonking Master G with a pistol holster is certainly a finish. A remarkable family.
Eddie Guerrero v D'Lo Brown (Heat, 4/27/02) - GOOD
If I can speak freely, I did not know D'Lo Brown was still in the WWF at this stage of the game. Coachman is on commentary with Raven (what the fuck??) and they tell us D'Lo had been out for a year through injury, questioning perhaps his decision to go right at the Intercontinental champion so early after his return. But fair play to our man D'Lo because he looked great here, hitting a bunch of cool offence like a Buzz Sawyer style powerslam and a cool tilt-a-whirl sidewalk slam, had real nice snap on his legdrop, hit an awesome leg lariat, swung Eddie around with a neat rolling armdrag, lots of fun stuff. Eddie was working INTENSE like nobody else in the WWF at the time (Benoit was still injured) and had no daylight on anything, all of his strikes super snug and thrown with bad intentions. I love his back body drop bump, the height and the angle on it right before he whips himself over in midair, perfectly lucha libre. When he takes over he works D'Lo's midsection and hits a great hilo from the apron, then throws on an abdominal stretch and Raven does his best Gorilla Monsoon impression by talking about the pressure on the transverse abdominis. His tornado DDT as he runs up the turnbuckles looked sensational. Eddie's frog splash is a perfect thing and this is probably one of the better matches that happened on Heat. Which, I'll be honest, I never knew was still even a thing in 2002. I thought they dropped that in 2000, though maybe that's just because they stopped showing it on Channel 4.
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