[5.0] "Would have been higher rated if it wasn't following the Undertaker vs Mankind match, which was just a much better version of the same kind of match."
[6.0] "I actually kind of enjoyed this while so many others did not. Ahmed Johnson had a certain charm about him in the ring, even if he was a bit reckless at times. This feud was hilarious to me to begin with..."
[5.0] "The match had a great start because of the intensity from Ahmed Johnson, but the match ended up feeling about 5 minutes too long as it's pretty much a carry job from Goldust with a few too many rest holds. This was a very controversial storyline and it doesn't really hold up very well and it goes too far with the gay panic stuff where you would see Goldust fondling him mid match. Dustin Rhodes put everything into this character and while that is commendable, it does affect the quality of the match in a negative way. The strong win at the end did a good job of making Ahmed Johnson look like a potential main event player as you could see the WWE was high on him at the time."
[5.0] "I don't know what to think... It's not a bad match in terms of in ring work, as Johnson gets carried once again so he only has to do his impressive moves to get the crowd going. Rhodes is fully into his gimmick but that's also the problem, as this gay panic angle is more visible here than in any of his other PPV matches. The structure of the match is fine and the fans scream at the end of it, but it leaves a poor taste in the mouth at the same time."
[4.0] "You can tell Ahmed HATED this angle. Toward the end he started throwing shoot punches at Goldust for planting a kiss on him without covering up again, something which Johnson hated legit. Outside of the very real punches being thrown, it was okay. Ahmed is still green at this point. Does he always miss them over the top rope dives to the outside?"
[3.0] "I did not like this one at all. I honestly couldn't get past the gay panic angle that preceded it. It's just super messed up of Vince to do that angle. The match itself wasn't even that good, It felt like it just kept going and going. This was below adequate to me."
[6.0] "Auch wenn die Begleitumstände rund um die lebensrettenden Massnahmen des Goldigen schon ziemlich thrashig sind, habe ich für diese Partie irgendwie eine weiche Stelle in meinem Herzen. Der siegbringende Ausraster Johnsons ist einfach zu extrem, dass nicht irgendwie cool zu finden. Ich weiss, das muss nicht jeder verstehen, ich verstehe es ja selbst kaum."
[5.0] "Ahmed was knocked out backstage and Goldust walked up and kissed him. Johnson went nuts of course and his entrance to this match where he throws the doors open and wipes out the door doormen was great! Ahmed wants revenge for GD putting the moves on him when he was tied to a stretcher unconscious. Ahmed kicks GD's ass for about 5 minutes, even hitting him with the steel steps. GD turns it around and uses the steps himself. Goldust concentrates on Ahmed's lower back. Goldust showing a nasty temper in this match. Goldust gives Ahmed mouth to mouth after a sleeprhold and Ahmed wakes up and goes sickhouse on GD! Ahmed hits a spine buster then drills him with the pearl river plunge for the title, crowd loves it."
[4.0] "A 15 minute Ahmed Johnson match with a gay panic angle. I clearly need to find new hobbies. I promise you the match does end eventually even if it won't feel like it when you are watching it"
[5.0] "There was some good stuff in this match, but not really enough to fill 15 minutes. Goldust's mind games, as commentary called them, were entertaining especially when combined with his hard-hitting style, but despite looking the part Johnson was dull as ditchwater in the ring and did little to respond to Goldust's provocations until the end. The "gay panic" storyline hasn't aged particularly well, but it's not much worse than others from the period."
[4.0] "Ahmed Johnson greift Goldust sofort an und bringt sich bei dem Dive fast um. Der schnelle Beginn gefiel mir gut, doch Johnson ist kein Worker, der mit so viel Zeit arbeiten konnte. Goldust spielte seinen Charakter so wie immer und konnte trotz seinen Fähigkeiten die Mittelphase nicht tragen. Das Ende war dann wieder besser, nur fehlte der Aufbau zum Finish(**1/4)."
[6.0] "This could have been great if they'd cut down on the rest holds and tightened things up a bit in a few places. Ahmed's botched topee was unbelievably dangerous but looked amazing."
[4.0] "Das war ein Match aus der Kategorie war halt da. Es war absolut nicht schlecht vom handwerklichen her aber es hatte halt keinen großen Tiefgang oder war sonderlich aufregend, was vor Allem bei der Länge dann etwas schwierig wird. Es war okay aber nicht mehr in meinen Augen, sodass ich 4 Punkte für angemessen halte."
[4.0] "Dieses Match hat mir relativ zügig verloren. Die ersten Minuten habe ich noch an eine Squash geglaubt, der hier durchaus passend gewesen wäre. Sobald Goldust allerdings seine Offensive bekommen hat wurde das Match lang und länger."
[4.0] "I really loved the start of his match, even though the landing wasn't pretty Ahmed's dive over the top early on was truly crazy. However the match developed two issues which held it back, first there were long segments where not much happened, and second way too much focus on Goldust being an "evil gay" (or playing MIND GAMES as they kept screaming on commentary for some reason). The good parts were good, but the overall package was lacking."
