The GWF Vol. 7 (Light Heavyweight Title Tournament Disc 3)
By: Magnus Donaldson
 

So the GWF Light Heavyweight Title Tournament continues, and it is now beginning to reach it's final stages.

Terry Garvin vs. John Tatum (2nd Round)
The announcers play up these two being friends at one point: I'm not sure where that comes from exactly. Tatum essentially used this to play
 mind games, showing signs of friendship to Garvin who was having none of it. This was essentially an old school style match with lots of stalling
 and cheating by Tatum, and Garvin having the fans behind him and firing up with their support, while trying to take Tatum to the mat.
Tatum also put some power moves to use. Tatum used a steel chain assisted punch to get three. Solid bout- **

Jerry Lynn vs. Terry Daniels (2nd Round)
So this is the first proper time we will see Jerry Lynn in action. This was a really solid match, other than a few sloppy spots, and Lynn
 looked really good here. The problem was however that the crowd weren't very into it, as both men were considered faces and thus the
 crowd didn't know who to cheer and who to boo. But the match itself was solid with lots of good mat wrestling and counters.
 Lynn got the fall with a Cross Body- **1/4

Adrian Street vs. Steve Simpson (2nd Round)
Again, two faces going at it here, but the crowd were a bit more into this one. And much like the last match, this was a mainly mat based bout,
 with lots of quick holds and counter holds, and it was a fairly even match. Simpson continually tried to apply a Boston Crab, but Street had
 the ability to stop Simpson applying the hold almost every time. Adrian Street seriously injured his hand on a Bulldog, and couldn't continue,
 so Simpson advanced- **1/4

Lightning Kid vs. Handsome Stranger (Semi Finals)
A battle of two future NWO members. Following a pre-match posedown (I'm sure Bagwell got those muscles "naturally"), the match
 turned into a battle of power against speed, with Handsome Stranger overpowering Lightning Kid, and Lightning Kid stalled a lot but when
 he wrestled he used high flying and kicks. Rasta The Voodoo Man showed up at ringside for some reason. The finish was arguably one of
 the worst I've ever seen: Rasta was clearly supposed to push Handsome Stranger off the top, but he was nowhere near where he should have
 been, so he just sort of fell off the turnbuckle. This allowed Lightning Kid to get three with a Spinning Kick. Solid until that god awful finish,
 which cut 1/2* off the match at least- *1/2
(PWChronicle Note: I personally believe the angle here was that Rasta used his voodoo magic to make the Stranger fall, either way, LAME!)

Steve Simpson vs. Mike Davis (Semi Finals)
A solid, average bout here, with Davis essentially wrestling his old school style again here, with lots of cheating, stalling, punches and
 playing to the crowd. Simpson was the underdog and had the crowd on his side, and used them to fire back at Davis,
 before getting three with a Top Rope Splash- *3/4

Jerry Lynn vs. John Tatum (Semi Finals)
Tatum made fun of Lynn's smaller size, trying to play mind games, but Lynn was completely unintimidated, and had the advantage early
 (despite Tatum's claims of cheating), with Tatum having to cheat to get himself into the match. Tatum also used a lot of strikes here,
 but he would get too cocky, which allowed a Lynn fightback. Tatum then almost deliberately Superkicks the referee, and gets DQ'ed- **

A solid Volume of GWF action overall. The only real down point here was that horrendously bad finish to the Lightning Kid/Handsome Stranger
 match, which made zero sense to begin with and was completely botched. Other than that, pretty much all of the matches were solid, but there were
 no standout matches to go out of your way to see. Still, a slightly above average show overall.

Overall Rating of DVD: 6/10