From there Road Dogg and Snow battled into the crowd, back up the ramp then going behind the curtain and into a janitorial area where Snow sprayed Road Dogg with a hose. Snow then used a long medal pole to hit Road Dogg across the back. Snow then whips Dogg into a few beer kegs that were stacked like a pyramid then. After this the two men showed the arena could not contain their animosity and they brawled outside into the snowy weather of Worcester Massachusetts.
Outdoors, Road Dogg whacks Al in the back with a shovel into a wheel barrow, Road Dogg then wheels Al into a garage door. The wild brawl ends when Road Dogg is able to piledrive Al Snow into snow covered wooden pallets. This match in my opinion, solidified Road Dogg as one, a serious Hardcore champion and two as a singles wrestler as he had spent the majority of his time in the World Wrestling Federation as a tag-team competitor. As for Al Snow, he would go on to have several classic Hardcore Championship matches with the likes of Bob Holly, the Big Boss Man and Raven.
On a personal level, this was one of my favorite matches as a teen. I remember my friends and I were so inspired by this encounter not only would we reenact it with the wrestling figures we had, we would also reenact it amongst ourselves brawling from the house to the near by Elementary School which just so happened to have a loading dock shaped like a wrestling ring. We would also wrestle outdoors in the winter and do our best to have our own Hardcore wintery fights in a controlled and stable manner of course. The Hardcore Championship and the crazy matches it brought on were a huge part of wrestling in the late 90’s and some of the most fun matches I can remember. Sure, sometimes they got a little out there with the areas they’d fight into, but hey it’s professional wrestling, its okay to go outside the box (or arena) at times and see how crazy and creative you can be.