We are live from the Civic Center in Florence, South Carolina for this week's edition of WCW Monday Nitro. We kickoff this week's Nitro with the Nitro debut of Disco Inferno taking on Alex Wright. Disco goes for a swinging neck breaker, but Wright counters it into a backslide for the 1-2-3 and the win.
Hulk Hogan and Jimmy Hart are backstage as Hogan is wearing a neck brace from the attack from The Giant at Fall Brawl. Hogan keeps saying the "no-good stinky Giant" over-and-over again. He challenges him to a Monster Truck Challenge as well as a World Title match at Halloween Havoc. Oh boy, a Monster Truck Challenge. Can't wait for that! Ugh!
"Mean" Gene Okerlund is in the ring showing us clips of Lex Luger confronting "Macho Man" Randy Savage last week. Savage and Luger are in the ring and Luger tells Savage all he wants is respect from him. He challenges Savage to a match on Nitro next week and if he loses, he'll leave WCW as soon as he returned.
Next up, the battle of the arm breakers as Kurasawa takes on Sgt. Craig Pittman in a heel vs. heel match. Maybe, hopefully one breaks the other's arm. I doubt it. I am right as Kurasawa reverses a waist lock and gives Sarge a German Suplex for the 1-2-3.
Gene Okerlund is in the ring interviewing Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman. Pillman is calling Ric Flair's quest at finding a tag team partner to face them "pathetic." Flair has been turned down by former rivals Randy Savage and Sting. Anderson mentions how great he is at tag team wrestling (and he's right) and mentions why Savage and Sting won't team with him because he screwed them over in the past and he has no one.
Promo for WCW Saturday Night as Dusty Rhodes makes his debut as the color commentator. Sting will defend his U.S. Heavyweight Title against Johnny B. Badd. The World Tag Team Champions American Males will be in action and we will hear The Giant's response to Hulk Hogan's challenge from earlier.
Randy Savage takes on Kevin Sullivan as they show clips of Sullivan attacking Savage on the set of Baywatch a couple weeks ago. Zodiac comes out during Savage's entrance. Savage goes after Sullivan, who runs away as Zodiac attacks Savage by sending him into the ring post. Savage comes back and gives Sullivan a double ax handle off the top rope.
Savage brings Zodiac into the ring. As referee Randy Anderson tries to stop him, he gets shoved down by Savage as Savage is DQ'd. Savage slams Sullivan onto Zodiac and goes up top for the Flying Elbow Drop. Sullivan moves out of the way as Savage nails Zodiac.
The Giant comes down to the ring as he Chokeslams Savage. Several jobbers come to the ring and they all get Chokeslammed as well. Alex Wright jumps off the top rope onto the Giant, but he gets slammed to.
Here comes Lex Luger. Is he here to save Savage? He just stands over him. The Giant grabs him and Luger attacks him and tries to body slam him, but the Giant stops him and gives him the Chokeslam as well. Kevin Sullivan tells Giant not to do that as perhaps Luger is in the Dungeon of Doom?
After the commercial break, Luger is still down in the ring as it is time for our main event as Luger takes on Meng. Meng easily takes advantage of a down and out Luger and dominates him. Meng runs into the corner, but Luger nails him with not one but two boots to the face. After Luger stomped on him in the corner, Meng pulls out his spike and hits Luger in the throat with it for the 1-2-3.
Next week on WCW Monday Nitro: Hulk Hogan will be here. World Tag Team Champions the American Males will take on The Nasty Boys. Dean Malenko will be in action. Plus the main event with Randy Savage taking on Lex Luger and if Luger loses, he'll leave WCW.
Tuesday, September 26, 1995
WWF Monday Night Raw: September 25, 1995
We are live from Grand Rapids, Michigan for Monday Night Raw one night after the In Your House 3 PPV. There was a controversial finish to last night's "triple header" main event in which the Two Dudes with Attitudes won the WWF World Tag Team Championship and control all three men's titles.
We recap last night's main event where Owen Hart did not show up at the arena for the Triple Header match and Gorilla Monsoon named Davey Boy Smith as his replacement. Hart arrived at the arena late as he ran down to the ring and jumped off the top rope, only to be hit by Diesel and Powerbombed as the Two Dudes with Attitudes won the Tag Team Titles.
Earlier today, Jim Cornette's lawyer Clarence Mason managed to get Monsoon to return the titles back to Owen Hart and Yokozuna due to Owen not being the legal man in the match last night. I knew they wouldn't let this happen long with Diesel and Shawn Michaels controlling all three titles at the same time.
Monsoon agreed to give the titles back on two conditions. One, the Two Dudes with Attitudes must be given a future rematch. Second, the non-title match tonight against the Smoking Gunns will be for the titles in a rematch from WrestleMania XI where the Gunns lost the titles to Owen and Yokozuna. Cornette and Mason go bezerk but it won't matter.
We kickoff tonight's action with the re-return of Marty Jannetty (what's this his eighth return to the WWF?) as he faces off with Skip with the beautiful Sunny at his side. Oh man I love me some Sunny. After Jannetty knocks Skip out of the ring, he gets a hug form Sunny. Lucky bastard.
Jannetty knocks down Skip and turns Sunny around for a hug. Sunny goes to slap Jannetty, but Jannetty moved out of the way and she accidentally nailed Skip. Dean Douglas is in the aisle taking notes on the match. Sunny interferes in the match helping Skip. It wasn't enough as Jannetty hits Skip with the Rocker Dropper and the Flying Fist Drop off the top rope for the win.
We again show highlights from last night where Owen Hart did not show up for the match but came at the end. Despite him not being in the match, the referee allowed him to be a participant and counted three for the Two Dudes with Attitudes. The referee's decision was final so the results remained with the Two Dudes with Attitudes winning the Tag Team Titles.
Gorilla Monsoon wanted to maintain the integrity of the sport by having one of the championships change hands despite the controversy. We show the earlier meeting with Monsoon, Jim Cornette and Cornette's lawyer Clarence Mason. Eventually due to legal action against the WWF, Monsoon was forced to give the titles back to Owen and Yokozuna. Monsoon ordered them to defend the titles against the Smoking Gunns tonight.
We are on to the now title match between Owen and Yokozuna against the Smoking Gunns as we join the match in progress. The Two Dudes with Attitudes are watching the match from the back. Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler explain why Owen was late last night and it was because his wife gave berth to their second child and he did not want to miss that.
After Owen and Yokozuna take it to Billy Gunn, he makes the hot tag to his "brother" Bart Gunn, who runs in like a house of fire taking out the two heels. The Gunns give Owen the Sidewinder. The referee tries to get Billy out of the ring as Yokozuna goes to splash Bart, but Bart moves out of the way as Owen is the recipient of the splash.
Billy drop kicks Yokozuna out of the ring as Bart covers Owen for the 1-2-3 and the Gunns win back the WWF Tag Team Championship from the team that beat them at WrestleMania. Diesel and Shawn Michaels run from the back to celebrate with the Gunns. It looks like a possible Yokozuna face turn in the near future.
It's time for the main event as The Undertaker takes on The British Bulldog. Men on a Mission make their down to the aisle to watch the match. Waylon Mercy is also shown watching the match from the back. Bulldog hits Undertaker with a piledriver only for Undertaker to sit up. After not one but two long-standing suplexes, The Undertaker sits up.
Undertaker hits Bulldog with the Chokeslam and is about to put Bulldog away. However, King Mabel comes to the ring as Bulldog knees Undertaker into Mabel, who gives Undertaker a belly-to-belly suplex. Bulldog gives Undertaker the running powerslam and Mabel gives Undertaker a leg drop.
Shawn Michaels and Diesel run to the ring to run off Bulldog and Mabel. Owen Hart and Yokozuna come down to surround the ring with Bulldog and Mabel. However, the new Tag Team Champions the Smoking Gunns run into the ring to help out Undertaker, Michaels, and Diesel.
The Undertaker shakes hands with the babyfaces. Maybe we should have some sort of 10-man tag team match between Men on a Mission and Camp Cornette against The Undertaker, Two Dudes with Attitudes, and the Smoking Gunns.
After the final commercial break, they show the 1-2-3 Kid interfering and costing Razor Ramon his match with Dean Douglas last night. The Kid and Razor nearly fought until being broken up by WWF officials. Jerry Lawler spreads a rumor that the Kid has been talking with Ted DiBiase.
Next week on Monday Night Raw, Razor Ramon takes on The 1-2-3 Kid in a rematch from a couple weeks ago as they look to try and settle their differences. Bret "The Hitman" Hart will take on Jean-Pierre Lafitte in a rematch from last night.
The WWF announces In Your House 4 live on PPV from Winnipeg, Canada on October 22. The main event will be Diesel defending his WWF World Heavyweight Championship against The British Bulldog. Bret Hart will be at the PPV to sign a contract to meet the WWF Champion at the Survivor Series.
Shawn Michaels defends his WWF Intercontinental Championship against Dean Douglas. Goldust will make his WWF debut that night as well.
We recap last night's main event where Owen Hart did not show up at the arena for the Triple Header match and Gorilla Monsoon named Davey Boy Smith as his replacement. Hart arrived at the arena late as he ran down to the ring and jumped off the top rope, only to be hit by Diesel and Powerbombed as the Two Dudes with Attitudes won the Tag Team Titles.
Earlier today, Jim Cornette's lawyer Clarence Mason managed to get Monsoon to return the titles back to Owen Hart and Yokozuna due to Owen not being the legal man in the match last night. I knew they wouldn't let this happen long with Diesel and Shawn Michaels controlling all three titles at the same time.
Monsoon agreed to give the titles back on two conditions. One, the Two Dudes with Attitudes must be given a future rematch. Second, the non-title match tonight against the Smoking Gunns will be for the titles in a rematch from WrestleMania XI where the Gunns lost the titles to Owen and Yokozuna. Cornette and Mason go bezerk but it won't matter.
We kickoff tonight's action with the re-return of Marty Jannetty (what's this his eighth return to the WWF?) as he faces off with Skip with the beautiful Sunny at his side. Oh man I love me some Sunny. After Jannetty knocks Skip out of the ring, he gets a hug form Sunny. Lucky bastard.
Jannetty knocks down Skip and turns Sunny around for a hug. Sunny goes to slap Jannetty, but Jannetty moved out of the way and she accidentally nailed Skip. Dean Douglas is in the aisle taking notes on the match. Sunny interferes in the match helping Skip. It wasn't enough as Jannetty hits Skip with the Rocker Dropper and the Flying Fist Drop off the top rope for the win.
We again show highlights from last night where Owen Hart did not show up for the match but came at the end. Despite him not being in the match, the referee allowed him to be a participant and counted three for the Two Dudes with Attitudes. The referee's decision was final so the results remained with the Two Dudes with Attitudes winning the Tag Team Titles.
Gorilla Monsoon wanted to maintain the integrity of the sport by having one of the championships change hands despite the controversy. We show the earlier meeting with Monsoon, Jim Cornette and Cornette's lawyer Clarence Mason. Eventually due to legal action against the WWF, Monsoon was forced to give the titles back to Owen and Yokozuna. Monsoon ordered them to defend the titles against the Smoking Gunns tonight.
We are on to the now title match between Owen and Yokozuna against the Smoking Gunns as we join the match in progress. The Two Dudes with Attitudes are watching the match from the back. Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler explain why Owen was late last night and it was because his wife gave berth to their second child and he did not want to miss that.
After Owen and Yokozuna take it to Billy Gunn, he makes the hot tag to his "brother" Bart Gunn, who runs in like a house of fire taking out the two heels. The Gunns give Owen the Sidewinder. The referee tries to get Billy out of the ring as Yokozuna goes to splash Bart, but Bart moves out of the way as Owen is the recipient of the splash.
Billy drop kicks Yokozuna out of the ring as Bart covers Owen for the 1-2-3 and the Gunns win back the WWF Tag Team Championship from the team that beat them at WrestleMania. Diesel and Shawn Michaels run from the back to celebrate with the Gunns. It looks like a possible Yokozuna face turn in the near future.
It's time for the main event as The Undertaker takes on The British Bulldog. Men on a Mission make their down to the aisle to watch the match. Waylon Mercy is also shown watching the match from the back. Bulldog hits Undertaker with a piledriver only for Undertaker to sit up. After not one but two long-standing suplexes, The Undertaker sits up.
Undertaker hits Bulldog with the Chokeslam and is about to put Bulldog away. However, King Mabel comes to the ring as Bulldog knees Undertaker into Mabel, who gives Undertaker a belly-to-belly suplex. Bulldog gives Undertaker the running powerslam and Mabel gives Undertaker a leg drop.
Shawn Michaels and Diesel run to the ring to run off Bulldog and Mabel. Owen Hart and Yokozuna come down to surround the ring with Bulldog and Mabel. However, the new Tag Team Champions the Smoking Gunns run into the ring to help out Undertaker, Michaels, and Diesel.
The Undertaker shakes hands with the babyfaces. Maybe we should have some sort of 10-man tag team match between Men on a Mission and Camp Cornette against The Undertaker, Two Dudes with Attitudes, and the Smoking Gunns.
After the final commercial break, they show the 1-2-3 Kid interfering and costing Razor Ramon his match with Dean Douglas last night. The Kid and Razor nearly fought until being broken up by WWF officials. Jerry Lawler spreads a rumor that the Kid has been talking with Ted DiBiase.
Next week on Monday Night Raw, Razor Ramon takes on The 1-2-3 Kid in a rematch from a couple weeks ago as they look to try and settle their differences. Bret "The Hitman" Hart will take on Jean-Pierre Lafitte in a rematch from last night.
The WWF announces In Your House 4 live on PPV from Winnipeg, Canada on October 22. The main event will be Diesel defending his WWF World Heavyweight Championship against The British Bulldog. Bret Hart will be at the PPV to sign a contract to meet the WWF Champion at the Survivor Series.
Shawn Michaels defends his WWF Intercontinental Championship against Dean Douglas. Goldust will make his WWF debut that night as well.
Monday, September 25, 1995
WWF In Your House 3
We are live from the Civic Center in Saginaw, Michigan for In Your House 3. Your hosts are Vince McMahon, Jerry "The King" Lawler, and Jim Ross.
The opening bout of the PPV is Savio Vega vs. Waylon Mercy. During the match, Dok Hendrix announces that Owen Hart is not in the building. What will that do for the main event? Is this legit or part of the story? I'm hoping it's the latter. Anyways, Vega hit Mercy with a spinning heel kick for the win.
WWF Interim President Gorilla Monsoon announces that the triple header main event will go on with or without Owen Hart.
Next up is Sycho Sid vs. Henry O. Godwinn. Sid was not happy after being slopped by Godwinn earlier on Superstars. Godwinn retaliated from being Powerbombed on the floor earlier in the event as Godwinn's back was hurt. The match was back-and-forth as Sid would eventually dominate.
Godwinn would hit Sid with the Slop Drop, but Ted DiBiase would prevent him from winning the match. Godwinn would go after DiBiase as DiBiase would trip him up as he ran into the ropes. Sid Powerbombed Godwinn to win the match.
Sid and DiBiase try to slop Godwinn after the match, but Bam Bam Bigelow comes out to make the save. Kama comes out to attack Bigelow and tries to slop Bigelow. However, Godwinn made the save on Bigelow and put the slop bucket on DiBiase's head.
Gorilla Monsoon tells Jim Cornette that either Yokozuna has to defend the WWF Tag Team Championship in a Handicap match or he must find a partner to replace Owen Hart.
Bam Bam Bigelow next takes on The British Bulldog. Jim Cornette is not at ringside in Bulldog's corner as he is shown in the back trying to convince Sid to be Yokozuna's partner later that night. Makes sense since Sid had problems with the Two Dudes with Attitudes earlier this year. Bulldog finishes off Bigelow with the running powerslam to win the match.
Bob Backlund comes out to introduce Dean Douglas for his match against Razor Ramon. I guess since Backlund is an intellectual just like Douglas, he was fit to introduce him. They cut to the back where Jim Cornette is asking King Mabel to be Yokozuna's partner as supposedly Sid said no. Ugh, another King Mabel main event for the second PPV in a row? No thanks!!
The Razor-Douglas match goes back-and-forth when Douglas shoves Razor into the referee, knocking him down. Razor gives the Dean the Razor's Edge, but there is no referee to count the pinfall. The 1-2-3 Kid runs down and for some reason, he counts 1-2-3 (hence the 1-2-3 Kid!).
Razor thinks he's won until he realizes it was the Kid who counted the pin and asked what's he doing here and tells him to get out. The Kid shoves Razor and Razor shoves him back. Douglas rolls him up from behind and holds the tights as the referee counted 3 as Douglas won.
After the match, Razor brings the Kid into the ring and they look to fight until being separated by officials. It's looking a lot like we're going to have a feud between the two as it looks like The 1-2-3 Kid will eventually turn on Razor.
Dok Hendrix is shown in the back interviewing the Two Dudes with Attitudes. After tonight, they'll be the "two chaps with the four straps."
Next up is Bret "The Hitman" Hart taking on Jean-Pierre Lafitte. Hart rips off his own leather jacket off of Lafitte. It was actually a very good match as much as I rip on this as a feud, more for Hart being buried for some reason.
Lafitte missed a flying headbutt. As Hart was lying on the ground, Hart grabbed his legs and put him in the Sharpshooter for the win. Hart finally gets his jacket back. Because of how great this match was, I am starting to be more of a fan of Lafitte as he shows a lot in the match and is an excellent worker of course so is Bret.
Jim Cornette finally got a partner for Yokozuna as it was none other than his own British Bulldog. Duh, why didn't you ask him in the first place? Bulldog will compete in two matches tonight. Apparently, Owen Hart is not here for whatever reason.
It's time for the triple header main event between the Two Dudes with Attitude against Yokozuna and now British Bulldog replacing Owen. The winner of the match, will win whoever's championship that man pins as all three WWF Championships are on the line in case you didn't know or lived under a rock.
Is it just me, or does Diesel's theme sound a little like the theme for Roseanne? It's that harmonica part that really gets me. Late in the match, Shawn Michaels gave Yokozuna Sweet Chin Music to the floor. Bulldog gave Diesel the running powerslam, but Michaels broke up the pin. All of a sudden, Owen Hart emerges from the back to the ring as he's ready to go as he climbs to the top rope.
As he jumps off, Diesel hits him in the gut and then gives him the Jackknife Powerbomb and pins him. The referee counts 3 despite Owen not being officially in the match as the Two Dudes with Attitudes are now WWF World Tag Team Champions in addition to being the World Heavyweight and Intercontinental Champions as they own all three belts; for now.
I'm sure with Owen Hart not being there and then being there not technically in the match will screw Diesel and Michaels out of the Tag Team Titles. I just know it. I hope the WWF lets them have all three titles for a little bit anyways to change things up as they really need it.
The opening bout of the PPV is Savio Vega vs. Waylon Mercy. During the match, Dok Hendrix announces that Owen Hart is not in the building. What will that do for the main event? Is this legit or part of the story? I'm hoping it's the latter. Anyways, Vega hit Mercy with a spinning heel kick for the win.
WWF Interim President Gorilla Monsoon announces that the triple header main event will go on with or without Owen Hart.
Next up is Sycho Sid vs. Henry O. Godwinn. Sid was not happy after being slopped by Godwinn earlier on Superstars. Godwinn retaliated from being Powerbombed on the floor earlier in the event as Godwinn's back was hurt. The match was back-and-forth as Sid would eventually dominate.
Godwinn would hit Sid with the Slop Drop, but Ted DiBiase would prevent him from winning the match. Godwinn would go after DiBiase as DiBiase would trip him up as he ran into the ropes. Sid Powerbombed Godwinn to win the match.
Sid and DiBiase try to slop Godwinn after the match, but Bam Bam Bigelow comes out to make the save. Kama comes out to attack Bigelow and tries to slop Bigelow. However, Godwinn made the save on Bigelow and put the slop bucket on DiBiase's head.
Gorilla Monsoon tells Jim Cornette that either Yokozuna has to defend the WWF Tag Team Championship in a Handicap match or he must find a partner to replace Owen Hart.
Bam Bam Bigelow next takes on The British Bulldog. Jim Cornette is not at ringside in Bulldog's corner as he is shown in the back trying to convince Sid to be Yokozuna's partner later that night. Makes sense since Sid had problems with the Two Dudes with Attitudes earlier this year. Bulldog finishes off Bigelow with the running powerslam to win the match.
Bob Backlund comes out to introduce Dean Douglas for his match against Razor Ramon. I guess since Backlund is an intellectual just like Douglas, he was fit to introduce him. They cut to the back where Jim Cornette is asking King Mabel to be Yokozuna's partner as supposedly Sid said no. Ugh, another King Mabel main event for the second PPV in a row? No thanks!!
The Razor-Douglas match goes back-and-forth when Douglas shoves Razor into the referee, knocking him down. Razor gives the Dean the Razor's Edge, but there is no referee to count the pinfall. The 1-2-3 Kid runs down and for some reason, he counts 1-2-3 (hence the 1-2-3 Kid!).
Razor thinks he's won until he realizes it was the Kid who counted the pin and asked what's he doing here and tells him to get out. The Kid shoves Razor and Razor shoves him back. Douglas rolls him up from behind and holds the tights as the referee counted 3 as Douglas won.
After the match, Razor brings the Kid into the ring and they look to fight until being separated by officials. It's looking a lot like we're going to have a feud between the two as it looks like The 1-2-3 Kid will eventually turn on Razor.
Dok Hendrix is shown in the back interviewing the Two Dudes with Attitudes. After tonight, they'll be the "two chaps with the four straps."
Next up is Bret "The Hitman" Hart taking on Jean-Pierre Lafitte. Hart rips off his own leather jacket off of Lafitte. It was actually a very good match as much as I rip on this as a feud, more for Hart being buried for some reason.
Lafitte missed a flying headbutt. As Hart was lying on the ground, Hart grabbed his legs and put him in the Sharpshooter for the win. Hart finally gets his jacket back. Because of how great this match was, I am starting to be more of a fan of Lafitte as he shows a lot in the match and is an excellent worker of course so is Bret.
Jim Cornette finally got a partner for Yokozuna as it was none other than his own British Bulldog. Duh, why didn't you ask him in the first place? Bulldog will compete in two matches tonight. Apparently, Owen Hart is not here for whatever reason.
It's time for the triple header main event between the Two Dudes with Attitude against Yokozuna and now British Bulldog replacing Owen. The winner of the match, will win whoever's championship that man pins as all three WWF Championships are on the line in case you didn't know or lived under a rock.
Is it just me, or does Diesel's theme sound a little like the theme for Roseanne? It's that harmonica part that really gets me. Late in the match, Shawn Michaels gave Yokozuna Sweet Chin Music to the floor. Bulldog gave Diesel the running powerslam, but Michaels broke up the pin. All of a sudden, Owen Hart emerges from the back to the ring as he's ready to go as he climbs to the top rope.
As he jumps off, Diesel hits him in the gut and then gives him the Jackknife Powerbomb and pins him. The referee counts 3 despite Owen not being officially in the match as the Two Dudes with Attitudes are now WWF World Tag Team Champions in addition to being the World Heavyweight and Intercontinental Champions as they own all three belts; for now.
I'm sure with Owen Hart not being there and then being there not technically in the match will screw Diesel and Michaels out of the Tag Team Titles. I just know it. I hope the WWF lets them have all three titles for a little bit anyways to change things up as they really need it.
Sunday, September 24, 1995
WWF In Your House 3 Preview
Here's a look at tonight's In Your House 3 PPV card.
Savio Vega vs. Waylon Mercy
The man who somehow has been getting a push this summer Savio Vega takes on relative newcomer Waylon Mercy in Mercy's PPV debut. Mercy is a southern gentleman who shakes his opponent's hand who all of a sudden "snaps" in the ring before coming out of his trance and goes back to his southern gentleman ways.
The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith (w/Jim Cornette) vs. Bam Bam Bigelow
Really no feud but The British Bulldog turned on Bigelow's "buddy" Diesel right before SummerSlam and turned heel. Maybe Bigelow wants revenge. Who knows?
Henry O. Godwinn vs. Sycho Sid (w/Ted DiBiase)
Henry O. Godwinn is an average, everyday pig farmer that for some reason was a member or an associate if you will of the "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation. Well not for long as DiBiase told Godwinn he was not a member of the Corporation. Godwinn responded by pour his slop bucket all over DiBiase on an episode of WWF Action Zone. DiBiase would try and slop Godwinn on an episode of Superstars, but accidentally slopped his own wrestler King Kong Bundy by mistake. Godwinn again slopped DiBiase on an episode of Superstars. DiBiase is vowing revenge by having Godwinn take on the cornerstone of his Corporation Sycho Sid tonight. Then just yesterday on Superstars, Godwinn slopped Sid following his match with Savio Vega and Sid was furious trashing the backstage area, swearing revenge on Godwinn.
Bret "The Hitman" Hart vs. Jean-Pierre Lafitte
Bret Hart's miserable 1995 continues as since he fought Diesel to a double DQ for the WWF Championship at the Royal Rumble back in January, he has been involved in miserable and horrible feuds with Hakushi after Jerry Lawler said he was "racist towards Japanese people", and then involved in a feud with Lawler where he made Lawler kiss his feet, then involved in a feud with Lawler's "personal dentist" Isaac Yankem DDS in a stupid gimmick. Now Hart has to take on the WWF's "pirate" Jean-Pierre Lafitte after Lafitte stole his leather jacket and other items belonging to the Hitman.
Razor Ramon vs. Dean Douglas
This feud started at SummerSlam last month when Dean Douglas was grading Razor Ramon's performance during his ladder match with Shawn Michaels. The Dean gave Razor a poor grade and Razor responded by attacking him. The last two weeks on Monday Night Raw, Douglas cost Razor his matches against The British Bulldog and The 1-2-3 Kid.
Triple Header: All Three WWF Championships are on the Line - Two Dudes with Attitudes (WWF World Heavyweight Champion Diesel and WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels) vs. WWF World Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna (w/ Jim Cornette and Mr. Fuji)
For the first time ever, all three major men's WWF Championships are on the line in one match; hence the "triple header" mantra for this PPV. If Diesel or Shawn Michaels pin either Owen Hart or Yokozuna, the "Two Dudes with Attitudes" win the WWF World Tag Team Championship for the second time in their career and they will possess all three major WWF Championships. If Diesel is pinned, then he loses his WWF World Heavyweight Championship to whoever pins him. Likewise to Michaels if he's pinned then he'll lose his WWF Intercontinental Championship. If Yokozuna pins Diesel he's the WWF Champion and if he pins Michaels he's the Intercontinental Champion. Same goes for Hart if he pins either Diesel or Shawn.
Savio Vega vs. Waylon Mercy
The man who somehow has been getting a push this summer Savio Vega takes on relative newcomer Waylon Mercy in Mercy's PPV debut. Mercy is a southern gentleman who shakes his opponent's hand who all of a sudden "snaps" in the ring before coming out of his trance and goes back to his southern gentleman ways.
The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith (w/Jim Cornette) vs. Bam Bam Bigelow
Really no feud but The British Bulldog turned on Bigelow's "buddy" Diesel right before SummerSlam and turned heel. Maybe Bigelow wants revenge. Who knows?
Henry O. Godwinn vs. Sycho Sid (w/Ted DiBiase)
Henry O. Godwinn is an average, everyday pig farmer that for some reason was a member or an associate if you will of the "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation. Well not for long as DiBiase told Godwinn he was not a member of the Corporation. Godwinn responded by pour his slop bucket all over DiBiase on an episode of WWF Action Zone. DiBiase would try and slop Godwinn on an episode of Superstars, but accidentally slopped his own wrestler King Kong Bundy by mistake. Godwinn again slopped DiBiase on an episode of Superstars. DiBiase is vowing revenge by having Godwinn take on the cornerstone of his Corporation Sycho Sid tonight. Then just yesterday on Superstars, Godwinn slopped Sid following his match with Savio Vega and Sid was furious trashing the backstage area, swearing revenge on Godwinn.
Bret "The Hitman" Hart vs. Jean-Pierre Lafitte
Bret Hart's miserable 1995 continues as since he fought Diesel to a double DQ for the WWF Championship at the Royal Rumble back in January, he has been involved in miserable and horrible feuds with Hakushi after Jerry Lawler said he was "racist towards Japanese people", and then involved in a feud with Lawler where he made Lawler kiss his feet, then involved in a feud with Lawler's "personal dentist" Isaac Yankem DDS in a stupid gimmick. Now Hart has to take on the WWF's "pirate" Jean-Pierre Lafitte after Lafitte stole his leather jacket and other items belonging to the Hitman.
Razor Ramon vs. Dean Douglas
This feud started at SummerSlam last month when Dean Douglas was grading Razor Ramon's performance during his ladder match with Shawn Michaels. The Dean gave Razor a poor grade and Razor responded by attacking him. The last two weeks on Monday Night Raw, Douglas cost Razor his matches against The British Bulldog and The 1-2-3 Kid.
Triple Header: All Three WWF Championships are on the Line - Two Dudes with Attitudes (WWF World Heavyweight Champion Diesel and WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels) vs. WWF World Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna (w/ Jim Cornette and Mr. Fuji)
For the first time ever, all three major men's WWF Championships are on the line in one match; hence the "triple header" mantra for this PPV. If Diesel or Shawn Michaels pin either Owen Hart or Yokozuna, the "Two Dudes with Attitudes" win the WWF World Tag Team Championship for the second time in their career and they will possess all three major WWF Championships. If Diesel is pinned, then he loses his WWF World Heavyweight Championship to whoever pins him. Likewise to Michaels if he's pinned then he'll lose his WWF Intercontinental Championship. If Yokozuna pins Diesel he's the WWF Champion and if he pins Michaels he's the Intercontinental Champion. Same goes for Hart if he pins either Diesel or Shawn.
Jean Pierre Lafitte In Some Hot Water Following Incidents with Diesel, Shawn Michaels, and "The Clique" in Montreal and Quebec City; Jeff Jarrett and Jim Neidhart Coming Back to WWF
Carl Ouellet, best known currently as the Pirate Jean Pierre Lafitte as well as formerly Pierre of The Quebecers, is in some hot water following conflicts with WWF Champion Kevin Nash and Shawn Michaels due Ouellet refusing to do a clean job to Nash at a house show in Montreal. Vince McMahon decided to change the finish to a double disqualification. During that match and the following night in Quebec City, Ouellet and Nash gave each other legitimate hard hits. The "Clique" will apparently bury Ouellet after Ouellet's match tonight with Bret Hart at In Your House.
Fall Brawl was a decent show with the main event of Hulk Hogan's team beating The Dungeon of Doom in perhaps the worst WarGames match ever. Hogan made Zodiac (formerly Brutus Beefcake) submit with a camel clutch as he kept saying yes and no for the submission. What a joke!! Brian Pillman vs. Johnny B. Badd and Ric Flair vs. Arn Anderson were easily the best matches on the card. Pillman and Anderson turning on Flair sets up for their future run with the Four Horsemen.
There are rumors that the WWF will be bringing back Jeff Jarrett and Jim Neidhart.
Fall Brawl was a decent show with the main event of Hulk Hogan's team beating The Dungeon of Doom in perhaps the worst WarGames match ever. Hogan made Zodiac (formerly Brutus Beefcake) submit with a camel clutch as he kept saying yes and no for the submission. What a joke!! Brian Pillman vs. Johnny B. Badd and Ric Flair vs. Arn Anderson were easily the best matches on the card. Pillman and Anderson turning on Flair sets up for their future run with the Four Horsemen.
There are rumors that the WWF will be bringing back Jeff Jarrett and Jim Neidhart.
Tuesday, September 19, 1995
WCW Monday Nitro: September 18, 1995
We are live from Johnson City, Tennessee for this week's episode of WCW Monday Nitro, one night after the Fall Brawl PPV. The Giant and Kevin Sullivan are seen arriving at the arena in an ambulance as Gene Okerlund interviews them.
Giant brags about "breaking" Hulk Hogan's neck last night and calls himself the one true immortal. Okerlund tells Giant his "father" Andre the Giant would not approve of his actions as Giant replied saying Andre would have approved ending Hulkamania. I suppose Hogan is not here tonight.
The American Males (Marcus Bagwell and Scott Riggs) are supposed to take on The Blue Bloods (Bobby Eaton and Lord Steven Regal) to start the night. However, Harlem Heat attacked The Blue Bloods and challenged the Males to a match instead as apparently the WCW World Tag Team Championship is on the line.
Sherri was about to hit Bagwell with her shoe, but Col. Rob Parker came to the ring and Sherri sees him and jumps into his arms as he carries her to the back. Booker T picks up Bagwell for a pumphandle slam which Bagwell counters into a pin for the 1-2-3 as the American Males are new WCW World Tag Team Champions to the surprise of everyone.
Gene Okerlund calls Ric Flair out for an interview. Flair says Arn Anderson broke the code when he had Brian Pillman interfere on his behalf. Flair mentions how he will beat Pillman later tonight.
The supposedly new and improve "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff takes on Johnny B. Badd. Orndorff has this new soothing theme music as he's Mr. Wonderful. I like this new theme of Mr. Wonderful, better than stupid generic crap music you hear them play on infomercials. Badd tried to put Orndorff in a sunset flip, but Orndorff countered by holding Badd's legs and his knees were on Badd's shoulders, pinning him to the mat to win.
We are shown a clip of WCW wrestlers on the set of Baywatch. Randy Savage is shown lifting weights as Kevin Sullivan attacked him. Ric Flair helps Savage from the attack as apparently Flair is now a face.
Okerlund interviewed Savage and Savage declined Flair's help. Savage said he will take out Sullivan. Then he talks about Hogan, saying he was wrong for having Lex Luger on their team last night as Luger hit Savage, albeit accidentally.
Luger comes out to confront Savage and says he's sick of playing with children and wants to play with the big boys referring to leaving WWF for WCW. Savage has his own personal agenda to be the World Champion. Savage agrees but still trashes Luger and wants to fight him, but nothing happens except for Savage getting in a little slap to the face.
They show clips of Hogan getting his motorcycle being run over by The Giant driving a monster truck before the Fall Brawl PPV. Then they show The Giant breaking Hogan's neck at the end of the PPV.
Ric Flair took on Brian Pillman in the main event. Pillman is still "Flyin'" Brian and still comes out to the "Blondes Have More Fun" song but shows his new heel persona. Flair made Pillman submit to the Figure Four for the win. Flair then got on the microphone and calls out Arn Anderson for a fight as Anderson is not there. Flair says he'll kick Anderson's "ass" as we come to a close.
Next week on Nitro: Randy Savage takes on Kevin Sullivan, Alex Wright battles Disco Inferno, and Lex Luger takes on Meng.
Giant brags about "breaking" Hulk Hogan's neck last night and calls himself the one true immortal. Okerlund tells Giant his "father" Andre the Giant would not approve of his actions as Giant replied saying Andre would have approved ending Hulkamania. I suppose Hogan is not here tonight.
The American Males (Marcus Bagwell and Scott Riggs) are supposed to take on The Blue Bloods (Bobby Eaton and Lord Steven Regal) to start the night. However, Harlem Heat attacked The Blue Bloods and challenged the Males to a match instead as apparently the WCW World Tag Team Championship is on the line.
Sherri was about to hit Bagwell with her shoe, but Col. Rob Parker came to the ring and Sherri sees him and jumps into his arms as he carries her to the back. Booker T picks up Bagwell for a pumphandle slam which Bagwell counters into a pin for the 1-2-3 as the American Males are new WCW World Tag Team Champions to the surprise of everyone.
Gene Okerlund calls Ric Flair out for an interview. Flair says Arn Anderson broke the code when he had Brian Pillman interfere on his behalf. Flair mentions how he will beat Pillman later tonight.
The supposedly new and improve "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff takes on Johnny B. Badd. Orndorff has this new soothing theme music as he's Mr. Wonderful. I like this new theme of Mr. Wonderful, better than stupid generic crap music you hear them play on infomercials. Badd tried to put Orndorff in a sunset flip, but Orndorff countered by holding Badd's legs and his knees were on Badd's shoulders, pinning him to the mat to win.
We are shown a clip of WCW wrestlers on the set of Baywatch. Randy Savage is shown lifting weights as Kevin Sullivan attacked him. Ric Flair helps Savage from the attack as apparently Flair is now a face.
Okerlund interviewed Savage and Savage declined Flair's help. Savage said he will take out Sullivan. Then he talks about Hogan, saying he was wrong for having Lex Luger on their team last night as Luger hit Savage, albeit accidentally.
Luger comes out to confront Savage and says he's sick of playing with children and wants to play with the big boys referring to leaving WWF for WCW. Savage has his own personal agenda to be the World Champion. Savage agrees but still trashes Luger and wants to fight him, but nothing happens except for Savage getting in a little slap to the face.
They show clips of Hogan getting his motorcycle being run over by The Giant driving a monster truck before the Fall Brawl PPV. Then they show The Giant breaking Hogan's neck at the end of the PPV.
Ric Flair took on Brian Pillman in the main event. Pillman is still "Flyin'" Brian and still comes out to the "Blondes Have More Fun" song but shows his new heel persona. Flair made Pillman submit to the Figure Four for the win. Flair then got on the microphone and calls out Arn Anderson for a fight as Anderson is not there. Flair says he'll kick Anderson's "ass" as we come to a close.
Next week on Nitro: Randy Savage takes on Kevin Sullivan, Alex Wright battles Disco Inferno, and Lex Luger takes on Meng.
WWF Monday Night Raw: September 18, 1995
We kickoff this edition of Monday Night Raw with The 1-2-3 Kid taking on his best friend Razor Ramon. We see the clip of the Kid defeating Razor back in May 1993 that jump started his career and turned him into the 1-2-3 Kid. Then they show the Kid challenging Razor to a match last week, only to be slapped in the face by "The Bad Guy."
The Kid attacks Razor as he enters the match before Razor could even get his jacket off. Razor soon got the advantage. Late in the match, Razor, Kid, and the referee would all be knocked down. Dean Douglas comes out and gives Razor a splash off the top rope. Both Kid and the ref come in as Kid pinned Razor and the ref counted 1-2-3 as the Kid gets another major victory over Razor.
It's time for the "Report Card" with Dean Douglas as Douglas gives The 1-2-3 Kid a 'D' for dumb as he thought he could actually beat Razor Ramon. He gives Razor an 'E' for elevate which is what he's going to have to do in order to beat Douglas. He gives himself an 'A' of course and will give himself an 'N' for his performance at In Your House because it will be a no-brainer. What does that spell? D-E-A-N!!
We are shown a clip from this past weekend on Superstars where Henry Godwinn slopped Ted DiBiase as he is battling his former manager. This sets up a match between Godwinn and DiBiase's top wrestler Sycho Sid Justice-Vicious this Sunday at In Your House. Also, Hunter-Hearst Helmsley was shown refusing to wrestle due to the stench of Godwinn's slop at ringside and went to the back.
DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation members Tatanka and Kama take on Savio Vega and Bob "Spark Plug" Holly. Tatanka and Vega clothesline each other and Holly tags in. Holly nails Kama with a drop kick for two. Holly goes up top for the high cross body, but Kama rolls through for the 1-2-3 and the win.
Razor Ramon is being interviewed about Dean Douglas and their upcoming match at In Your House in six days. He tells Douglas to forget about his "Ive League education" because it won't save him and he will carve him up.
They hype up a replay of Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow and Shawn Michaels taking on Diesel in a WrestleMania XI replay on Saturday night, September 30 and don't say which channel it's on but whatever.
Next up Jean-Pierre Lafitte takes on some scrub jobber in a total squash match. He is wearing Bret Hart's leather jacket as he stole it and was stealing Hart's sunglasses from kids at ringside. Hart is on the phone from the set of Lonesome Dove during the match talking about how he will put an end to Lafitte's problem with left.
For the main event, Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna, accompanied by Jim Cornette and Mr. Fuji, take on Men on a Mission in a non-title match. The end of the match saw Cornette distract the referee as Hart drop toeholds Mo as Yokozuna gives Mo a leg drop. Hart pins Mo for the win. Men on a Mission seem to be having problems as King Mabel leaves Mo behind.
The Two Dudes with Attitudes deliver us a prerecorded message about how they will be taking the Tag Team Titles away from Owen and Yokozuna this Sunday at In Your House.
Vince McMahon is now in the ring with the Tag Team Champions and their managers Cornette and Fuji. Cornette mentions how there was distrust between Diesel and Shawn Michaels the last time they were tag team partners and champions. He goes on about how "Camp Cornette" trust each other and that either Yokozuna or Owen will be either WWF World Heavyweight or Intercontinental Champion this Sunday.
Next week on Monday Night Raw, The Undertaker will take on The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith.
Six days from now, In Your House will be live on PPV and here's the rundown of the entire card:
The main event will have all three WWF titles on the line for the first time ever as WWF Champion Diesel and WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels will take on the WWF Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna.
Also, Razor Ramon takes on Dean Douglas, Bret Hart takes on the pirate Jean-Pierre Lafitte, Sycho Sid takes on Henry O. Godwinn, The British Bulldog squares off with Bam Bam Bigelow, and Savio Vegas faces Waylon Mercy.
The Kid attacks Razor as he enters the match before Razor could even get his jacket off. Razor soon got the advantage. Late in the match, Razor, Kid, and the referee would all be knocked down. Dean Douglas comes out and gives Razor a splash off the top rope. Both Kid and the ref come in as Kid pinned Razor and the ref counted 1-2-3 as the Kid gets another major victory over Razor.
It's time for the "Report Card" with Dean Douglas as Douglas gives The 1-2-3 Kid a 'D' for dumb as he thought he could actually beat Razor Ramon. He gives Razor an 'E' for elevate which is what he's going to have to do in order to beat Douglas. He gives himself an 'A' of course and will give himself an 'N' for his performance at In Your House because it will be a no-brainer. What does that spell? D-E-A-N!!
We are shown a clip from this past weekend on Superstars where Henry Godwinn slopped Ted DiBiase as he is battling his former manager. This sets up a match between Godwinn and DiBiase's top wrestler Sycho Sid Justice-Vicious this Sunday at In Your House. Also, Hunter-Hearst Helmsley was shown refusing to wrestle due to the stench of Godwinn's slop at ringside and went to the back.
DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation members Tatanka and Kama take on Savio Vega and Bob "Spark Plug" Holly. Tatanka and Vega clothesline each other and Holly tags in. Holly nails Kama with a drop kick for two. Holly goes up top for the high cross body, but Kama rolls through for the 1-2-3 and the win.
Razor Ramon is being interviewed about Dean Douglas and their upcoming match at In Your House in six days. He tells Douglas to forget about his "Ive League education" because it won't save him and he will carve him up.
They hype up a replay of Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow and Shawn Michaels taking on Diesel in a WrestleMania XI replay on Saturday night, September 30 and don't say which channel it's on but whatever.
Next up Jean-Pierre Lafitte takes on some scrub jobber in a total squash match. He is wearing Bret Hart's leather jacket as he stole it and was stealing Hart's sunglasses from kids at ringside. Hart is on the phone from the set of Lonesome Dove during the match talking about how he will put an end to Lafitte's problem with left.
For the main event, Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna, accompanied by Jim Cornette and Mr. Fuji, take on Men on a Mission in a non-title match. The end of the match saw Cornette distract the referee as Hart drop toeholds Mo as Yokozuna gives Mo a leg drop. Hart pins Mo for the win. Men on a Mission seem to be having problems as King Mabel leaves Mo behind.
The Two Dudes with Attitudes deliver us a prerecorded message about how they will be taking the Tag Team Titles away from Owen and Yokozuna this Sunday at In Your House.
Vince McMahon is now in the ring with the Tag Team Champions and their managers Cornette and Fuji. Cornette mentions how there was distrust between Diesel and Shawn Michaels the last time they were tag team partners and champions. He goes on about how "Camp Cornette" trust each other and that either Yokozuna or Owen will be either WWF World Heavyweight or Intercontinental Champion this Sunday.
Next week on Monday Night Raw, The Undertaker will take on The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith.
Six days from now, In Your House will be live on PPV and here's the rundown of the entire card:
The main event will have all three WWF titles on the line for the first time ever as WWF Champion Diesel and WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels will take on the WWF Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna.
Also, Razor Ramon takes on Dean Douglas, Bret Hart takes on the pirate Jean-Pierre Lafitte, Sycho Sid takes on Henry O. Godwinn, The British Bulldog squares off with Bam Bam Bigelow, and Savio Vegas faces Waylon Mercy.
Monday, September 18, 1995
WCW Fall Brawl 1995
We are live from Asheville, North Carolina for Fall Brawl 1995. Your hosts are Tony Schiavone and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. They show what happened on the Main Event just before the PPV where The Giant ran over Hulk Hogan's motorcycle with a monster truck and laughs maniacally and drives away. Hogan then foolishly pounds on the door of the monster truck.
The opening match is "Flyin" Brian Pillman vs. Johnny B. Badd with the winner to get a U.S. Title shot against Sting. A thrilling match where Pillman acts like a heel, yelling at the crowd, ends with several near falls.
Badd hit Pillman with the left hook he calls the "Tooty Fruity" as the referee only counted two as Pillman's foot was on the ropes. Pillman goes for a backslide for a two-count as the 20-minute time limit expires and the match is declared a draw.
However, there must be a winner and a number one contender for the U.S. Title so the match restarts. After another 10 minutes, both men hit each other simultaneously with cross body blocks, knocking each other out. Badd falls on Pillman and the referee counts three as Badd wins a thrilling match and is now the #1 contender for the U.S. Title.
Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan talks about the Ric Flair-Arn Anderson match and their problems in recent months. Of course Heenan blames all this on Hulk Hogan as Flair was obsessed with destroying Hulkamania ruining their friendship.
Flair is now being interviewed by "Mean" Gene Okerlund about Anderson and talks him up like this is really emotional what they are going through.
The next match is Sgt. Craig Pittman vs. Cobra. Cobra is in the ring while a man dressed in army fatigues comes out during Pittman's entrance music. Cobra is distracted and Pittman comes down from the ceiling all stealth, marines style and attacks Cobra from behind in a really cool move by the sarge. The match lasted over a minute as Pittman made Cobra give up to his Code Red arm submission move.
They recap what's been going on with "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff and his recent string of losses and his lack of confidence. I don't know why he has a lack of confidence especially after beating the shit out of Vader in a backstage fight. I know if I could beat up a 400-lb man, I would have absolutely no confidence problems, but that's me.
He is meeting with motivational speaker and psychic Gary Spivey and Spivey reminds Orndorff that he is indeed "Mr. Wonderful." Orndorff looks himself into the mirror and kisses his own reflection as apparently he is no longer bummed out.
Now it's on for the WCW World Television Championship between the champion The Renegade and Diamond Dallas Page. Jimmy Hart is still with The Renegade? I didn't know Renegade was still associated with Hulk Hogan and that bunch, but whatever. Page comes out with the super gorgeous Diamond Doll Kimberly, who I think is so hot, and his huge muscular bodyguard Maxx Muscle.
Anytime Page did a move on The Ultimate Warrior wannabe, he told Kimberly to hold up a sign with "10" on it for how great that move was. I think 10 is for her looks. Muscle interferes in the match late as Renegade is on the top rope about to give Page his splash, but jumps off and lands on Muscle.
As Renegade goes back into the ring, Muscle grabs his ankle, allowing Page to give Renegade the Diamond Cutter to win the match and the WCW World Television Championship. This is Page's first championship of any kind in WCW as he is slowly climbing his way to the top. Good for him, I like his character a lot.
Next match is the WCW World Tag Team Championship match between the champions Bunkhouse Buck and Dick Slater vs. the Harlem Heat. Sherri and Col. Rob Parker are making out in the second ring as the referee is distracted.
The Nasty Boys, who Buck and Slater cost a match to the American Males earlier, ran in and hit Slater with his own boot, knocking him out and allowing the Harlem Heat to beat them and win back the WCW World Tag Team Championship for the third time. Parker didn't seem to care that his team lost the titles as he wanted to get Sherri to be his.
Gene Okerlund is interviewing Arn Anderson about his upcoming match with the Nature Boy Ric Flair. Anderson, much like Flair earlier, was talking about their bonding over the years and is totally selling it like its a legitimate problem between the two as they seem upset they are in this match against one another.
It's time for the Flair vs. Anderson match. Several wrestlers are shown watching this match sitting in the front row as it should be a classic between the two best friends. A truly classic back-and-forth match ends when Anderson's knee appears to be too damaged from Flair's Figure Four as he collapses to the ground.
All of a sudden, Brian Pillman runs from the front row and climbs the ring apron and yells at Flair and then punches him. Flair punches him right back and when he turns his back, Pillman kicks Flair in the back of the head. Anderson then gives Flair the DDT to win the match. The fans in attendance boo Arn as it appears that he might be the heel.
They show a video again of The Giant running over Hulk Hogan's motorcycle with the monster truck and then play a video montage of Hogan, Randy Savage, Sting, and Lex Luger. The four are being interviewed by Gene Okerlund. They say there is no tension between the three and Luger and Hogan wants five minutes with Kevin Sullivan.
The WarGames Match starts with Sting and the artist formerly known as Earthquake/Avalanche "Shark." Hogan's team is dressed in camouflage fatigues since its "war games." They wrestle for five minutes as Sting puts Shark in the Scorpion Death Lock when it's time for the next entrant and it's Zodiac "The Barber" Beefcake form The Dungeon of Doom.
Sting locks Zodiac in the Scorpion Death Lock until being broken up by Shark as the two double-team him. Now it's time for the next guy to enter and it's Randy Savage, who helps Sting. The Ugandan Giant Kamala comes in and then it's Luger and then Meng before finally Hulk Hogan comes in as all eight men are in the match. Luger accidentally clotheslines Savage.
Hogan comes in and throws white powder in the face of every member of the Dungeon. Hogan then rams every member of the Dungeon's face into the cage and then locks Zodiac in a camel clutch. As Zodiac keeps saying "yes" and "no" over and over again like his gimmick, the referee believes its a submission so Hogan's team wins.
Now Hogan gets five minutes with "The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan as Sullivan tries to escape, only to be stopped by security who throws him back into the cage. Hogan easily beats on Sullivan by throwing him into the cage, punching him, and choking him out.
All of a sudden, The Giant runs and enters the cage by picking up referee Randy Anderson rather easily with one hand. Giant chokes Hogan before Hogan fights back with right hands, but The Giant no-sells the attack. He again chokes Hogan and then grabs his neck and twists it, "breaking" Hogan's neck as the show went off the air. The Giant shows he's literally the biggest threat to Hogan.
I guess Giant running over Hogan's motorcycle wasn't the worst thing he did to him.
The opening match is "Flyin" Brian Pillman vs. Johnny B. Badd with the winner to get a U.S. Title shot against Sting. A thrilling match where Pillman acts like a heel, yelling at the crowd, ends with several near falls.
Badd hit Pillman with the left hook he calls the "Tooty Fruity" as the referee only counted two as Pillman's foot was on the ropes. Pillman goes for a backslide for a two-count as the 20-minute time limit expires and the match is declared a draw.
However, there must be a winner and a number one contender for the U.S. Title so the match restarts. After another 10 minutes, both men hit each other simultaneously with cross body blocks, knocking each other out. Badd falls on Pillman and the referee counts three as Badd wins a thrilling match and is now the #1 contender for the U.S. Title.
Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan talks about the Ric Flair-Arn Anderson match and their problems in recent months. Of course Heenan blames all this on Hulk Hogan as Flair was obsessed with destroying Hulkamania ruining their friendship.
Flair is now being interviewed by "Mean" Gene Okerlund about Anderson and talks him up like this is really emotional what they are going through.
The next match is Sgt. Craig Pittman vs. Cobra. Cobra is in the ring while a man dressed in army fatigues comes out during Pittman's entrance music. Cobra is distracted and Pittman comes down from the ceiling all stealth, marines style and attacks Cobra from behind in a really cool move by the sarge. The match lasted over a minute as Pittman made Cobra give up to his Code Red arm submission move.
They recap what's been going on with "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff and his recent string of losses and his lack of confidence. I don't know why he has a lack of confidence especially after beating the shit out of Vader in a backstage fight. I know if I could beat up a 400-lb man, I would have absolutely no confidence problems, but that's me.
He is meeting with motivational speaker and psychic Gary Spivey and Spivey reminds Orndorff that he is indeed "Mr. Wonderful." Orndorff looks himself into the mirror and kisses his own reflection as apparently he is no longer bummed out.
Now it's on for the WCW World Television Championship between the champion The Renegade and Diamond Dallas Page. Jimmy Hart is still with The Renegade? I didn't know Renegade was still associated with Hulk Hogan and that bunch, but whatever. Page comes out with the super gorgeous Diamond Doll Kimberly, who I think is so hot, and his huge muscular bodyguard Maxx Muscle.
Anytime Page did a move on The Ultimate Warrior wannabe, he told Kimberly to hold up a sign with "10" on it for how great that move was. I think 10 is for her looks. Muscle interferes in the match late as Renegade is on the top rope about to give Page his splash, but jumps off and lands on Muscle.
As Renegade goes back into the ring, Muscle grabs his ankle, allowing Page to give Renegade the Diamond Cutter to win the match and the WCW World Television Championship. This is Page's first championship of any kind in WCW as he is slowly climbing his way to the top. Good for him, I like his character a lot.
Next match is the WCW World Tag Team Championship match between the champions Bunkhouse Buck and Dick Slater vs. the Harlem Heat. Sherri and Col. Rob Parker are making out in the second ring as the referee is distracted.
The Nasty Boys, who Buck and Slater cost a match to the American Males earlier, ran in and hit Slater with his own boot, knocking him out and allowing the Harlem Heat to beat them and win back the WCW World Tag Team Championship for the third time. Parker didn't seem to care that his team lost the titles as he wanted to get Sherri to be his.
Gene Okerlund is interviewing Arn Anderson about his upcoming match with the Nature Boy Ric Flair. Anderson, much like Flair earlier, was talking about their bonding over the years and is totally selling it like its a legitimate problem between the two as they seem upset they are in this match against one another.
It's time for the Flair vs. Anderson match. Several wrestlers are shown watching this match sitting in the front row as it should be a classic between the two best friends. A truly classic back-and-forth match ends when Anderson's knee appears to be too damaged from Flair's Figure Four as he collapses to the ground.
All of a sudden, Brian Pillman runs from the front row and climbs the ring apron and yells at Flair and then punches him. Flair punches him right back and when he turns his back, Pillman kicks Flair in the back of the head. Anderson then gives Flair the DDT to win the match. The fans in attendance boo Arn as it appears that he might be the heel.
They show a video again of The Giant running over Hulk Hogan's motorcycle with the monster truck and then play a video montage of Hogan, Randy Savage, Sting, and Lex Luger. The four are being interviewed by Gene Okerlund. They say there is no tension between the three and Luger and Hogan wants five minutes with Kevin Sullivan.
The WarGames Match starts with Sting and the artist formerly known as Earthquake/Avalanche "Shark." Hogan's team is dressed in camouflage fatigues since its "war games." They wrestle for five minutes as Sting puts Shark in the Scorpion Death Lock when it's time for the next entrant and it's Zodiac "The Barber" Beefcake form The Dungeon of Doom.
Sting locks Zodiac in the Scorpion Death Lock until being broken up by Shark as the two double-team him. Now it's time for the next guy to enter and it's Randy Savage, who helps Sting. The Ugandan Giant Kamala comes in and then it's Luger and then Meng before finally Hulk Hogan comes in as all eight men are in the match. Luger accidentally clotheslines Savage.
Hogan comes in and throws white powder in the face of every member of the Dungeon. Hogan then rams every member of the Dungeon's face into the cage and then locks Zodiac in a camel clutch. As Zodiac keeps saying "yes" and "no" over and over again like his gimmick, the referee believes its a submission so Hogan's team wins.
Now Hogan gets five minutes with "The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan as Sullivan tries to escape, only to be stopped by security who throws him back into the cage. Hogan easily beats on Sullivan by throwing him into the cage, punching him, and choking him out.
All of a sudden, The Giant runs and enters the cage by picking up referee Randy Anderson rather easily with one hand. Giant chokes Hogan before Hogan fights back with right hands, but The Giant no-sells the attack. He again chokes Hogan and then grabs his neck and twists it, "breaking" Hogan's neck as the show went off the air. The Giant shows he's literally the biggest threat to Hogan.
I guess Giant running over Hogan's motorcycle wasn't the worst thing he did to him.
Sunday, September 17, 1995
WCW Fall Brawl 1995 Preview
Here's a look at tonight's Fall Brawl PPV card.
Sgt. Craig Pittman vs. Cobra
Sgt. Craig Pittman was Cobra's "commanding officer" during the Gulf War. Pittman "abandoned" him in the desert during battle and went back to camp and reported Cobra "AWOL." Cobra lost all rank and respect and came to WCW to get his revenge on Pittman.
"Flyin" Brian Pillman vs. Johnny B. Badd
This is a match with two faces facing off with the winner to become the number one contender for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship.
WCW World Television Championship match - TV Champion The Renegade w/ Jimmy Hart vs. Diamond Dallas Page w/ The Diamond Doll and Maxx Muscle
Really not much of a story between these two. DDP has been on a role lately as he went from living in a trailer to driving a beat up old car to just being down on his luck, he recently come across a fortune in a lucky streak. He looks to continue his lucky streak as he will try to win his first WCW Title against the Ultimate Warrior wannabe ripoff.
WCW World Tag Team Championship match - Tag Team Champions Bunkhouse Buck and Dick Slater w/ Col. Rob Parker vs. Harlem Heat w/ Sister Sherri
There has been some history between these two teams especially involving both of the managers. On the Main Event shown right before The Great American Bash PPV, Sherri punched out Parker. Harlem Heat lost the titles to Bunkhouse Bunk and Dick Slater on the July 22, 1995 edition of WCW Saturday Night and want the titles back. Col. Rob Parker tried to being a romance with Sister Sherri, but she refused. They took on each other at the Clash of the Champions in August with Sherri joining Harlem Heat to take on Bunkhouse Bunk and Dick Slater and Parker in a six-person tag team match with Harlem Heat and Sherri winning to win a rematch for the titles at Fall Brawl. Sherri hit her head and was briefly knocked unconscious. When she got back up, she began going after Parker by dragging him to the ground and kissing him. Parker was very uncomfortable and began running away only for Sherri to chase after him as she now was in love with him.
Ric Flair vs. Arn Anderson
The two best friends who might even be closer than brothers are now feuding and will take on each other in what will hopefully be a classic match. This stems from back from last month at Clash of the Champions XXXI where Flair and Anderson lost to Vader in a Handicap match. Flair blamed Anderson for the loss and the two friends have been at odds ever since. Hopefully this will settle the score.
WarGames Match - Hulk Hogan, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Sting, and Lex Luger vs. The Dungeon of Doom (Shark, Kamala, Zodiac, and Meng) w/ "The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan
Outside of Sting, the one true WCW competitor, this match is filled with all former WWF guys, including Lex Luger, who literally joined WCW two weeks ago from the WWF. I can't believe Kamala is still wrestling. This would have been a great match say 4-5 years ago, but not today. Hulk Hogan has been feuding with "The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan as Sullivan put together The Dungeon of Doom stable to end "Hulkamania." Vader was originally supposed to be on Hogan's team but he is fired from WCW for a backstage fight with Paul Orndorff, so Luger came back and replaced him. If Hogan's team wins, he gets five minutes alone with Sullivan.
Sgt. Craig Pittman vs. Cobra
Sgt. Craig Pittman was Cobra's "commanding officer" during the Gulf War. Pittman "abandoned" him in the desert during battle and went back to camp and reported Cobra "AWOL." Cobra lost all rank and respect and came to WCW to get his revenge on Pittman.
"Flyin" Brian Pillman vs. Johnny B. Badd
This is a match with two faces facing off with the winner to become the number one contender for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship.
WCW World Television Championship match - TV Champion The Renegade w/ Jimmy Hart vs. Diamond Dallas Page w/ The Diamond Doll and Maxx Muscle
Really not much of a story between these two. DDP has been on a role lately as he went from living in a trailer to driving a beat up old car to just being down on his luck, he recently come across a fortune in a lucky streak. He looks to continue his lucky streak as he will try to win his first WCW Title against the Ultimate Warrior wannabe ripoff.
WCW World Tag Team Championship match - Tag Team Champions Bunkhouse Buck and Dick Slater w/ Col. Rob Parker vs. Harlem Heat w/ Sister Sherri
There has been some history between these two teams especially involving both of the managers. On the Main Event shown right before The Great American Bash PPV, Sherri punched out Parker. Harlem Heat lost the titles to Bunkhouse Bunk and Dick Slater on the July 22, 1995 edition of WCW Saturday Night and want the titles back. Col. Rob Parker tried to being a romance with Sister Sherri, but she refused. They took on each other at the Clash of the Champions in August with Sherri joining Harlem Heat to take on Bunkhouse Bunk and Dick Slater and Parker in a six-person tag team match with Harlem Heat and Sherri winning to win a rematch for the titles at Fall Brawl. Sherri hit her head and was briefly knocked unconscious. When she got back up, she began going after Parker by dragging him to the ground and kissing him. Parker was very uncomfortable and began running away only for Sherri to chase after him as she now was in love with him.
Ric Flair vs. Arn Anderson
The two best friends who might even be closer than brothers are now feuding and will take on each other in what will hopefully be a classic match. This stems from back from last month at Clash of the Champions XXXI where Flair and Anderson lost to Vader in a Handicap match. Flair blamed Anderson for the loss and the two friends have been at odds ever since. Hopefully this will settle the score.
WarGames Match - Hulk Hogan, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Sting, and Lex Luger vs. The Dungeon of Doom (Shark, Kamala, Zodiac, and Meng) w/ "The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan
Outside of Sting, the one true WCW competitor, this match is filled with all former WWF guys, including Lex Luger, who literally joined WCW two weeks ago from the WWF. I can't believe Kamala is still wrestling. This would have been a great match say 4-5 years ago, but not today. Hulk Hogan has been feuding with "The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan as Sullivan put together The Dungeon of Doom stable to end "Hulkamania." Vader was originally supposed to be on Hogan's team but he is fired from WCW for a backstage fight with Paul Orndorff, so Luger came back and replaced him. If Hogan's team wins, he gets five minutes alone with Sullivan.
WCW Monday Nitro Beats WWF Monday Night Raw in Ratings in First Head-to-Head Meeting; Eric Bischoff Gives Away Raw Results on Air; Sabu Wins WCW Debut; Dustin Runnels as Goldust
This was the first time WCW Monday Nitro and WWF Monday Night Raw went head-to-head as Raw was not on last week because the U.S. Open. Nitro still eeked out a 2.6 to 2.5 win over Raw. It must be noted that Nitro was not held at a mall and held in an arena.
Hulk Hogan defended the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in the main event against Lex Luger. Eric Bischoff mentioned several times that Luger walked out on the WWF. Luger apparently jumped ship from the WWF to WCW for a "more lucrative" and guaranteed contract with less working dates then he had in the WWF. Luger might be the fourth member of the Four Horsemen.
Bischoff then used his platform to give away the taped results of that week's Raw, saying Shawn Michaels superkicked Sid for the win. Bischoff also called the WWF "bush league" and said WWF Champion Diesel was nothing but mid card in WCW. Sabu made his WCW debut by defeating Alex Wright. Afterwards, Sabu put Wright through a table as this is not ECW.
Speaking of Lex Luger, he was supposed to be on WWF Superstars to interview about his situation with King Mabel and his former tag team partner Davey Boy Smith at SummerSlam and then take him on the following week on Superstars. There was to be a program where Luger would team with Diesel to take on Mabel and The British Bulldog, likely to have been at this upcoming In Your House but now that is changed to Diesel and Shawn Michaels taking on Tag Team Champions Yokozuna and Owen Hart with all three WWF men's titles on the line.
Shane Douglas made his in-ring debut as Dean Douglas on this past weekend's episode of WWF Superstars where he took on The 1-2-3 Kid. The Kid and Razor Ramon look to have a feud coming up with The Kid turning heel.
The WWF is taking their time with Dustin Runnels (Dustin Rhodes) and his new character Goldust to build it up to be more complex and strange as if the look isn't strange enough.
Hulk Hogan defended the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in the main event against Lex Luger. Eric Bischoff mentioned several times that Luger walked out on the WWF. Luger apparently jumped ship from the WWF to WCW for a "more lucrative" and guaranteed contract with less working dates then he had in the WWF. Luger might be the fourth member of the Four Horsemen.
Bischoff then used his platform to give away the taped results of that week's Raw, saying Shawn Michaels superkicked Sid for the win. Bischoff also called the WWF "bush league" and said WWF Champion Diesel was nothing but mid card in WCW. Sabu made his WCW debut by defeating Alex Wright. Afterwards, Sabu put Wright through a table as this is not ECW.
Speaking of Lex Luger, he was supposed to be on WWF Superstars to interview about his situation with King Mabel and his former tag team partner Davey Boy Smith at SummerSlam and then take him on the following week on Superstars. There was to be a program where Luger would team with Diesel to take on Mabel and The British Bulldog, likely to have been at this upcoming In Your House but now that is changed to Diesel and Shawn Michaels taking on Tag Team Champions Yokozuna and Owen Hart with all three WWF men's titles on the line.
Shane Douglas made his in-ring debut as Dean Douglas on this past weekend's episode of WWF Superstars where he took on The 1-2-3 Kid. The Kid and Razor Ramon look to have a feud coming up with The Kid turning heel.
The WWF is taking their time with Dustin Runnels (Dustin Rhodes) and his new character Goldust to build it up to be more complex and strange as if the look isn't strange enough.
Tuesday, September 12, 1995
WWF Monday Night Raw: September 11, 1995
Finally, after two weeks off because of Tennis preempting Raw as it usually does this time of year on the USA Network, Raw is back on one week after WCW made a triumphant debut with its Monday Nitro program. If you watched Monday Nitro, Eric Bischoff gave away the results of tonight's show as Raw was taped somewhere "two or three weeks ago" and he's not that far off.
They have an unusual new intro as the new "fall season" according to announcers Vince McMahon and Jerry "The King" Lawler even though there are no seasons in wrestling. The intro features WWF Superstars wrestling on top of a building and HBK Shawn Michaels was dancing on top of the giant RAW entranceway. Police run in to stop the madness as Michaels jumps off the top into the ring.
McMahon and Lawler take us back to SummerSlam where Dean Douglas was "critiquing" Razor Ramon's performance against Michaels in the ladder match by giving him a poor letter grade. Razor confronts Dean and ends up knocking him down with a punch.
The opening match of the night was Razor taking on The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith. Bulldog turned heel when he attacked Diesel three weeks ago on Raw when Raw was last on. Bulldog was accompanied to the ring by his new manager Jim Cornette, who Bulldog joined forces after his heel turn. Bulldog is sporting a new short hair cut and it looks a lot better than that mangy rats nest he had before.
Razor looked to have Bulldog beaten when he gave him the Razor's Edge. However, the referee was knocked out as Dean Douglas jumped off the top rope onto Razor. 1-2-3 Kid ran in but Douglas attacked him. Bulldog gave Razor his running powerslam and covered him. The Kid climbs the top rope and jumps off, but Bulldog moved out of the way and Kid nailed Razor by accident. The referee saw this and disqualified Razor.
After the match, Vince McMahon entered the ring and interviewed both Razor and Kid. Kid then basically rips Razor for treating him like crap and even mentions how Razor cost him his match against Douglas this past weekend on Superstars. Kid then challenges him to a match next week on Raw saying he beat him before and will do it again. Razor accepts and the match is set for next week.
Next up, The Smoking Gunns took on The Brooklyn Brawler and Rad Radford. A quick match came to an end when the Gunns hit Brawler with the Sidewinder to win the match. The creepy Goldust (Dustin Rhodes I presume) is shown wearing a gold top hat in a vignette. Isaac Yankem DDS quickly takes out Scott Taylor in a squash match.
We are on to the main event where Shawn Michaels defends the Intercontinental Championship against "Pyscho" Sid. This is a main event that's long overdue in the making after Sid turned on Michaels the night after WrestleMania back in April where Michaels was out for six weeks due to a back injury due to being powerbombed three times.
This match was finally supposed to happen at SummerSlam, but oddly enough, the match was changed to Michaels vs. Razor Ramon in a WrestleMania X Ladder rematch, where Michaels won. Thanks to Eric Bischoff giving away the results on Nitro, we know Michaels won and retained the title not that I am surprised.
Well let's still get to the recap even though you know who won. Ted DiBiase interferes on Sid's behalf of course. Sid hits his Chokeslam and then set up to give him the Powerbomb, but Michaels back drops Sid out of it. Michaels goes on the offense with right hand punches and hits him with his flying clothesline and more punches then a flying cross body for the two-count.
Sid kicks him in the gut and throws him into the ropes, but misses a clothesline as Michaels gives him Sweet Chin Music to the gut. Michaels then gives him Sweet Chin Music to the face and one more time for good measure to get the big man off his feet to defeat him and retain the Intercontinental Title like Eric Bischoff said as he's apparently psychic.
Michaels celebrates with his buddy "Big Daddy Cool" Diesel as Dok Hendrix interviews them about their upcoming match against the WWF Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna at In Your House with all three WWF Men's Championships on the line.
If Diesel and Michaels win, they get the Tag Team titles to go along with their respective titles. If Diesel is pinned, then he loses the WWF Championship, same for Michaels if he's pinned then he loses his Intercontinental Championship to whoever pins him.
Diesel ends the interview by saying their not just Two Dudes with Attitudes, but "two chaps with all the straps."
They have an unusual new intro as the new "fall season" according to announcers Vince McMahon and Jerry "The King" Lawler even though there are no seasons in wrestling. The intro features WWF Superstars wrestling on top of a building and HBK Shawn Michaels was dancing on top of the giant RAW entranceway. Police run in to stop the madness as Michaels jumps off the top into the ring.
McMahon and Lawler take us back to SummerSlam where Dean Douglas was "critiquing" Razor Ramon's performance against Michaels in the ladder match by giving him a poor letter grade. Razor confronts Dean and ends up knocking him down with a punch.
The opening match of the night was Razor taking on The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith. Bulldog turned heel when he attacked Diesel three weeks ago on Raw when Raw was last on. Bulldog was accompanied to the ring by his new manager Jim Cornette, who Bulldog joined forces after his heel turn. Bulldog is sporting a new short hair cut and it looks a lot better than that mangy rats nest he had before.
Razor looked to have Bulldog beaten when he gave him the Razor's Edge. However, the referee was knocked out as Dean Douglas jumped off the top rope onto Razor. 1-2-3 Kid ran in but Douglas attacked him. Bulldog gave Razor his running powerslam and covered him. The Kid climbs the top rope and jumps off, but Bulldog moved out of the way and Kid nailed Razor by accident. The referee saw this and disqualified Razor.
After the match, Vince McMahon entered the ring and interviewed both Razor and Kid. Kid then basically rips Razor for treating him like crap and even mentions how Razor cost him his match against Douglas this past weekend on Superstars. Kid then challenges him to a match next week on Raw saying he beat him before and will do it again. Razor accepts and the match is set for next week.
Next up, The Smoking Gunns took on The Brooklyn Brawler and Rad Radford. A quick match came to an end when the Gunns hit Brawler with the Sidewinder to win the match. The creepy Goldust (Dustin Rhodes I presume) is shown wearing a gold top hat in a vignette. Isaac Yankem DDS quickly takes out Scott Taylor in a squash match.
We are on to the main event where Shawn Michaels defends the Intercontinental Championship against "Pyscho" Sid. This is a main event that's long overdue in the making after Sid turned on Michaels the night after WrestleMania back in April where Michaels was out for six weeks due to a back injury due to being powerbombed three times.
This match was finally supposed to happen at SummerSlam, but oddly enough, the match was changed to Michaels vs. Razor Ramon in a WrestleMania X Ladder rematch, where Michaels won. Thanks to Eric Bischoff giving away the results on Nitro, we know Michaels won and retained the title not that I am surprised.
Well let's still get to the recap even though you know who won. Ted DiBiase interferes on Sid's behalf of course. Sid hits his Chokeslam and then set up to give him the Powerbomb, but Michaels back drops Sid out of it. Michaels goes on the offense with right hand punches and hits him with his flying clothesline and more punches then a flying cross body for the two-count.
Sid kicks him in the gut and throws him into the ropes, but misses a clothesline as Michaels gives him Sweet Chin Music to the gut. Michaels then gives him Sweet Chin Music to the face and one more time for good measure to get the big man off his feet to defeat him and retain the Intercontinental Title like Eric Bischoff said as he's apparently psychic.
Michaels celebrates with his buddy "Big Daddy Cool" Diesel as Dok Hendrix interviews them about their upcoming match against the WWF Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna at In Your House with all three WWF Men's Championships on the line.
If Diesel and Michaels win, they get the Tag Team titles to go along with their respective titles. If Diesel is pinned, then he loses the WWF Championship, same for Michaels if he's pinned then he loses his Intercontinental Championship to whoever pins him.
Diesel ends the interview by saying their not just Two Dudes with Attitudes, but "two chaps with all the straps."
WCW Monday Nitro: September 11, 1995
This week's Monday Nitro is live from the Knight Center in Miami, Florida. This is quite different from the Mall of America last week's inaugural broadcast was held, but this is probably how Nitro will look from arenas all over the country. This week, Nitro will officially go against Raw as Raw
Sabu attacks Wright after the match and lays him across a table. Sabu jumps off the top rope and leg drops Wright through the table. Referee Nick Patrick reverses his decision and gives Wright the win via disqualification. This isn't ECW Sabu where you can put your opponents through tables even though "This is where the big boys play."
After the commercial break, Mean Gene Okerlund is interviewing the Nature Boy Ric Flair. Flair was bashing Arn Anderson about being a family man instead of partying with the Nature Boy. Lex Luger came out and simply said "Some things never change" and then leaves.
Next up, Sting defends the United States Heavyweight Championship against Michael (V.K.?) Wall Street, the artist formerly known as IRS from the WWF. Eric Bischoff decides to give away the Shawn Michaels vs. Sid results from Raw as Raw was taped 2-3 weeks ago while Nitro is live. Sting won when he hit Wall Street with a flying cross body off the top rope.
Randy Savage took on Scott Norton as the big man dominated Savage during the match. Eventually Savage got the upper hand when the Dungeon of Doom interfered. The Shark (the artist formerly known as Earthquake and Avalanche) ran in and accidentally fell on Norton's legs, causing him not to get up. Savage climbed the top rope and hit Norton with his flying elbow drop to win the match.
Now for the main event between Hulk Hogan and Lex Luger. Hogan and Luger start the match shoving one another before trading moves. Eventually, Luger got the upper hand and eventually put Hogan in his finisher, the Torture Rack. Luger for some reason let go of the hold as he thought he won until he realized Hogan did not give up.
Luger pinned Hogan and Hogan kicked out at two and began to "Hulk Up" and you know what happens next. Hogan would "no sell" Luger's punches before he throws three right-hand punches himself and then hits him with the big boot and finally the leg drop. The Dungeon of Doom ran in and attacked Hogan, but not Luger. Sting and Randy Savage ran in to help Hogan and run off the DOD.
Mean Gene came into the ring to interview Hogan. Hogan said his match was the "match of his life time." Both Hogan and Savage accuse Luger of being a part of the Dungeon of Doom and Luger says he's not. Sting then wants his buddy Luger to join them on their team for Fall Brawl in six days to replace Vader, who is "AWOL." Vader was fired because of a backstage fight with Paul Orndorff.
Savage vehemently did not want Luger as part of their team. Savage asked why Sting and Jimmy Hart weren't attacked by the Dungeon of Doom along with Luger? Hogan asked the fans what they think. After a positive response, Hogan officially welcomed Luger to their team.
Luger accepted and will join Hogan, Savage, and Sting to take on the Dungeon of Doom in a WarGames match in six days at Fall Brawl.
This week's episode will have Sabu making his WCW debut, IRS returning to WCW as the "Million Dollar Man" wannabe, Michael Wall Street, Scott Norton, also in his return to WCW, taking on "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and the main event featuring Hulk Hogan defending the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against the returning Lex Luger.
Let's get right to it and we start with Sabu taking on "Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright in Sabu's WCW debut. A lot of hype I've read about Sabu and his flying aerial assault during his time in ECW and in Japan. Sabu catches Wright on the top rope and gets on his shoulders and rolls him up from the top rope to win in his WCW debut.
Sabu attacks Wright after the match and lays him across a table. Sabu jumps off the top rope and leg drops Wright through the table. Referee Nick Patrick reverses his decision and gives Wright the win via disqualification. This isn't ECW Sabu where you can put your opponents through tables even though "This is where the big boys play."
After the commercial break, Mean Gene Okerlund is interviewing the Nature Boy Ric Flair. Flair was bashing Arn Anderson about being a family man instead of partying with the Nature Boy. Lex Luger came out and simply said "Some things never change" and then leaves.
Next up, Sting defends the United States Heavyweight Championship against Michael (V.K.?) Wall Street, the artist formerly known as IRS from the WWF. Eric Bischoff decides to give away the Shawn Michaels vs. Sid results from Raw as Raw was taped 2-3 weeks ago while Nitro is live. Sting won when he hit Wall Street with a flying cross body off the top rope.
Randy Savage took on Scott Norton as the big man dominated Savage during the match. Eventually Savage got the upper hand when the Dungeon of Doom interfered. The Shark (the artist formerly known as Earthquake and Avalanche) ran in and accidentally fell on Norton's legs, causing him not to get up. Savage climbed the top rope and hit Norton with his flying elbow drop to win the match.
Now for the main event between Hulk Hogan and Lex Luger. Hogan and Luger start the match shoving one another before trading moves. Eventually, Luger got the upper hand and eventually put Hogan in his finisher, the Torture Rack. Luger for some reason let go of the hold as he thought he won until he realized Hogan did not give up.
Luger pinned Hogan and Hogan kicked out at two and began to "Hulk Up" and you know what happens next. Hogan would "no sell" Luger's punches before he throws three right-hand punches himself and then hits him with the big boot and finally the leg drop. The Dungeon of Doom ran in and attacked Hogan, but not Luger. Sting and Randy Savage ran in to help Hogan and run off the DOD.
Mean Gene came into the ring to interview Hogan. Hogan said his match was the "match of his life time." Both Hogan and Savage accuse Luger of being a part of the Dungeon of Doom and Luger says he's not. Sting then wants his buddy Luger to join them on their team for Fall Brawl in six days to replace Vader, who is "AWOL." Vader was fired because of a backstage fight with Paul Orndorff.
Savage vehemently did not want Luger as part of their team. Savage asked why Sting and Jimmy Hart weren't attacked by the Dungeon of Doom along with Luger? Hogan asked the fans what they think. After a positive response, Hogan officially welcomed Luger to their team.
Luger accepted and will join Hogan, Savage, and Sting to take on the Dungeon of Doom in a WarGames match in six days at Fall Brawl.
Sunday, September 10, 1995
Lex Luger's Secret Return to WCW; Vader Suspended by WCW; HBK Told to "Tone Down His Act"; WCW's Nitro Successful Debut; Hulk Hogan Says New Guys are "Too Small"
The debut episode of WCW Monday Nitro was pretty successful. Nitro drew a pretty successful 2.9 yet it did not compete against Monday Night Raw as Raw has been off the air due to the U.S. Open.
It was mostly known for the surprise return of Lex Luger to WCW. Luger had been working for several weeks in the WWF without a contract. He convinced Vince McMahon that he would re-sign with him and the WWF only to be negotiating with Eric Bischoff and his best friend Sting and WCW behind McMahon's back. Luger had wrestled at all the WWF house shows the weekend before Nitro and flew immediately to Minneapolis Sunday Night. Sean Waltman, The 1-2-3 Kid, saw Luger at a party and Waltman called McMahon to tell him he was heading to Nitro.
A spot opened for Luger in WCW when they suspended indefinitely Vader for a backstage fight with "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff at a WCW Saturday Night TV taping just before the inaugural Monday Nitro. Insults were traded and Vader hit him and sent him to the ground. Orndorff got back up and punched Vader and sent him to the floor where he kicked Vader several times. Vader was bruised and bloodied. Vader found him later and attacked him before the two were separated. Despite his high salary, Eric Bischoff could still fire Vader due to the fact Orndorff was a high-ranking backstage official. It appears Luger will take Vader's place at Fall Brawl.
Shawn Michaels said in an interview with Mark Madden from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette where he unleashed some backstage info and said he was told by Vince McMahon to tone down his act so he doesn't upstage the other wrestlers. Michaels said Luger "punched like a girl" a couple of weeks ago. Michaels even called Ric Flair overrated in his prime.
Hulk Hogan goes to WCW management to tell them he thinks newcomers Sabu, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Eddie Guerrero are "too small."
It was mostly known for the surprise return of Lex Luger to WCW. Luger had been working for several weeks in the WWF without a contract. He convinced Vince McMahon that he would re-sign with him and the WWF only to be negotiating with Eric Bischoff and his best friend Sting and WCW behind McMahon's back. Luger had wrestled at all the WWF house shows the weekend before Nitro and flew immediately to Minneapolis Sunday Night. Sean Waltman, The 1-2-3 Kid, saw Luger at a party and Waltman called McMahon to tell him he was heading to Nitro.
A spot opened for Luger in WCW when they suspended indefinitely Vader for a backstage fight with "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff at a WCW Saturday Night TV taping just before the inaugural Monday Nitro. Insults were traded and Vader hit him and sent him to the ground. Orndorff got back up and punched Vader and sent him to the floor where he kicked Vader several times. Vader was bruised and bloodied. Vader found him later and attacked him before the two were separated. Despite his high salary, Eric Bischoff could still fire Vader due to the fact Orndorff was a high-ranking backstage official. It appears Luger will take Vader's place at Fall Brawl.
Shawn Michaels said in an interview with Mark Madden from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette where he unleashed some backstage info and said he was told by Vince McMahon to tone down his act so he doesn't upstage the other wrestlers. Michaels said Luger "punched like a girl" a couple of weeks ago. Michaels even called Ric Flair overrated in his prime.
Hulk Hogan goes to WCW management to tell them he thinks newcomers Sabu, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Eddie Guerrero are "too small."
Tuesday, September 5, 1995
WCW Monday Nitro: September 4, 1995
WCW created a new live, Monday night show to compete and hopefully overtake the struggling WWF. There's a bizarre introduction where they show buildings and streets explode and are on fire with wrestlers Hulk Hogan and Sting shown on the buildings. Ok.
WCW Monday Nitro is a live, one-hour show and this week's inaugural episode takes place oddly enough from the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's definitely different but pretty cool and different. This probably is not going to happen every week but this is the first edition so it will be much different to stand out.
Nitro is live whereas WWF Monday Night Raw is live on Monday one week and then tape up to a month's worth of shows. Eric Bischoff, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, and former Chicago Bears football player Steve McMichael are the commentators.
For some reason, Bischoff keeps saying "WCW, this is where the big boys play!" as this must be WCW's new slogan for their new Monday Night program.
The WWF has really been struggling this year with really poor matches and stories and even characters. WCW has not been a whole lot better with the Dungeon of Doom (self explanatory) and Hulk Hogan holding onto the WCW World Heavyweight Championship among many things.
WWF Raw has not been shown this week and last week because of stupid Tennis preempting Raw on the USA Network. I hate this time of the year. Nitro looks to be off to a good start with Raw not being shown until next week.
The first match on the very first episode of Nitro, live from the Mall of America, is between "Flyin" Brian Pillman (The Hollywood Blonde if you will) vs. Japanese wrestling sensation Jushin "Thunder" Liger. These two had a feud three years ago and had some thrilling matches when Liger was in WCW when I first started watching.
I wonder if WCW is bringing in Japanese wrestlers from time-to-time to help steal the thunder (no pun intended) from the WWF since WCW has had a relationship with New Japan Pro Wrestling for some time. WCW has even signed wrestlers from Mexico and from Japanese promotions and even some from ECW.
This was a great high-flying match like these two have had before. Pillman drop kicks Liger as Liger was coming off the top rope. Liger gives Pillman a Frankensteiner off the top rope. Pillman rebounded by giving him a DDT off the second rope.
Pillman won a thrilling match, the best match on the card as far as I'm concerned, when he reversed Liger's German Suplex attempt into a roll up for the win. Pillman shakes Liger's hand and they raise their arms in celebration. What a way to kick off Monday Nitro. Pillman is getting ready for his upcoming match with Johnny B. Badd at Fall Brawl.
Eric Bischoff interviewed WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan in the food court area earlier in the day as we come back from commercial break. Hogan referred to his fans in the foot court as "Pasta Maniacs" (ok whatever lame) and talks about his upcoming match with Big Bubba Rogers.
WCW United States Champion Sting defends his title against rival Ric Flair in another high caliber match on the inaugural Nitro. If they keep showing these type of PPV main event type matches, the WWF and Monday Night Raw could be in serious trouble if they haven't already. Of course this is the first Nitro so each week may not have these high profile matches and they might not want to take away from their PPV to show it "free" on TNT.
Anyway, back to the match. As if the night wasn't big enough, here comes oh my god Lex Luger!! Luger is dressed in a white dress shirt and dress pants. What is this 1989-1991 with Flair, Sting, and now Luger? Wait! I thought Luger was in the WWF? I just saw him two weeks ago at SummerSlam helping Diesel beat King Mabel in the main event.
The way Eric Bischoff and everyone is talking it looks like he was not supposed to be there and he's still an employee of the WWF. Could you imagine if that were the case? I doubt it, I think he is now back in WCW and they are just playing this up like he's invading WCW. It's a good work though for sure.
You can tell Luger given his past success and with other WWF superstars coming into WCW and being put into the main event spotlight. It was a lot better than his end of the WWF stint where he was mid card at best teaming with Davey Boy Smith as "The Allied Powers" and feuding with Tatanka.
Back to the Sting-Flair match, Sting keeps gorilla press slamming Flair. Arn Anderson makes his way to the ring as he is feuding with his "former" best friend Flair. Flair had Sting in the Figure Four and Sting tries to turn him over but Flair has the ropes. Flair refuses to let go of the ropes and is disqualified. Anderson ran in and attacked Flair, setting up their match at Fall Brawl.
Scott "Flash" Norton made his way to the commentator booth and is yelling at Eric Bischoff for some reason. "Macho Man" Randy Savage came out and challenged Norton to a match next week on Nitro, Norton accepted.
Next they showed highlight clips of Sabu from his time in ECW and in Japan as he will be making his WCW TV debut next week on Nitro. Then they hype up this week's episode of WCW Saturday night featuring Johnny B. Badd vs Dick Slater and Sting and Randy Savage taking on the Blue Bloods.
IRS is shown as he is now "Michael Wallstreet" as he rips the WWF about the New Generation as well as the "IRS." Much like Lex Luger, Mike Rotunda has also left the WWF to come back to WCW.
Now on to the main event, Hulk Hogan is defending his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Big Bubba Rogers. It's nice to see the World Heavyweight Championship being defended on Monday Night instead of only at a PPV as Raw rarely has a world title match. Again, this is the debut episode of Nitro so big things are going to happen.
This isn't the super high caliber World Title main event, but Hogan and Rogers (going back to their days as Hogan and Big Boss Man in the WWF) are still very big names, mostly Hogan but still. Rogers hits his finisher on Hogan and gee Hogan kicked out. Now he's "Hulking Up", who could have seen this coming?
Let me guess what happens: Hogan gives Rogers three right-handed punches, a big boot, and the leg drop for the win. Here's the play-by-play. Three right-handed punches, a big boot, and the leg drop for the win. How did I guess that? I'm psychic ladies and gentlemen.
Here's a shock, the Dungeon of Doom run in and attack Hogan. Randy Savage and Sting run in to help Hogan as does Lex Luger, who helps the trio run off the Dungeon of Doom. As Hogan and Luger have their backs turned to each other and bump into each other, they turn around and are about to punch one another as they restrain themselves.
Hogan demands to know why Luger is here. Luger basically trashes the WWF and says he's back in WCW and challenges Hogan for a World Title match the next week on Nitro. Savage is suspicious of Luger being here as Sting seems supportive as they are friends.
Hogan shakes Luger's hand and the World Title match will be on live next week on Nitro. Wow, another World Championship match in the main event. This will be the first actual head-to-head Nitro vs. Raw, although Raw starts at 9 as Nitro starts at 8 and will be over by then.
WCW Monday Nitro is a live, one-hour show and this week's inaugural episode takes place oddly enough from the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's definitely different but pretty cool and different. This probably is not going to happen every week but this is the first edition so it will be much different to stand out.
Nitro is live whereas WWF Monday Night Raw is live on Monday one week and then tape up to a month's worth of shows. Eric Bischoff, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, and former Chicago Bears football player Steve McMichael are the commentators.
For some reason, Bischoff keeps saying "WCW, this is where the big boys play!" as this must be WCW's new slogan for their new Monday Night program.
The WWF has really been struggling this year with really poor matches and stories and even characters. WCW has not been a whole lot better with the Dungeon of Doom (self explanatory) and Hulk Hogan holding onto the WCW World Heavyweight Championship among many things.
WWF Raw has not been shown this week and last week because of stupid Tennis preempting Raw on the USA Network. I hate this time of the year. Nitro looks to be off to a good start with Raw not being shown until next week.
The first match on the very first episode of Nitro, live from the Mall of America, is between "Flyin" Brian Pillman (The Hollywood Blonde if you will) vs. Japanese wrestling sensation Jushin "Thunder" Liger. These two had a feud three years ago and had some thrilling matches when Liger was in WCW when I first started watching.
I wonder if WCW is bringing in Japanese wrestlers from time-to-time to help steal the thunder (no pun intended) from the WWF since WCW has had a relationship with New Japan Pro Wrestling for some time. WCW has even signed wrestlers from Mexico and from Japanese promotions and even some from ECW.
This was a great high-flying match like these two have had before. Pillman drop kicks Liger as Liger was coming off the top rope. Liger gives Pillman a Frankensteiner off the top rope. Pillman rebounded by giving him a DDT off the second rope.
Pillman won a thrilling match, the best match on the card as far as I'm concerned, when he reversed Liger's German Suplex attempt into a roll up for the win. Pillman shakes Liger's hand and they raise their arms in celebration. What a way to kick off Monday Nitro. Pillman is getting ready for his upcoming match with Johnny B. Badd at Fall Brawl.
Eric Bischoff interviewed WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan in the food court area earlier in the day as we come back from commercial break. Hogan referred to his fans in the foot court as "Pasta Maniacs" (ok whatever lame) and talks about his upcoming match with Big Bubba Rogers.
WCW United States Champion Sting defends his title against rival Ric Flair in another high caliber match on the inaugural Nitro. If they keep showing these type of PPV main event type matches, the WWF and Monday Night Raw could be in serious trouble if they haven't already. Of course this is the first Nitro so each week may not have these high profile matches and they might not want to take away from their PPV to show it "free" on TNT.
Anyway, back to the match. As if the night wasn't big enough, here comes oh my god Lex Luger!! Luger is dressed in a white dress shirt and dress pants. What is this 1989-1991 with Flair, Sting, and now Luger? Wait! I thought Luger was in the WWF? I just saw him two weeks ago at SummerSlam helping Diesel beat King Mabel in the main event.
The way Eric Bischoff and everyone is talking it looks like he was not supposed to be there and he's still an employee of the WWF. Could you imagine if that were the case? I doubt it, I think he is now back in WCW and they are just playing this up like he's invading WCW. It's a good work though for sure.
You can tell Luger given his past success and with other WWF superstars coming into WCW and being put into the main event spotlight. It was a lot better than his end of the WWF stint where he was mid card at best teaming with Davey Boy Smith as "The Allied Powers" and feuding with Tatanka.
Back to the Sting-Flair match, Sting keeps gorilla press slamming Flair. Arn Anderson makes his way to the ring as he is feuding with his "former" best friend Flair. Flair had Sting in the Figure Four and Sting tries to turn him over but Flair has the ropes. Flair refuses to let go of the ropes and is disqualified. Anderson ran in and attacked Flair, setting up their match at Fall Brawl.
Scott "Flash" Norton made his way to the commentator booth and is yelling at Eric Bischoff for some reason. "Macho Man" Randy Savage came out and challenged Norton to a match next week on Nitro, Norton accepted.
Next they showed highlight clips of Sabu from his time in ECW and in Japan as he will be making his WCW TV debut next week on Nitro. Then they hype up this week's episode of WCW Saturday night featuring Johnny B. Badd vs Dick Slater and Sting and Randy Savage taking on the Blue Bloods.
IRS is shown as he is now "Michael Wallstreet" as he rips the WWF about the New Generation as well as the "IRS." Much like Lex Luger, Mike Rotunda has also left the WWF to come back to WCW.
Now on to the main event, Hulk Hogan is defending his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Big Bubba Rogers. It's nice to see the World Heavyweight Championship being defended on Monday Night instead of only at a PPV as Raw rarely has a world title match. Again, this is the debut episode of Nitro so big things are going to happen.
This isn't the super high caliber World Title main event, but Hogan and Rogers (going back to their days as Hogan and Big Boss Man in the WWF) are still very big names, mostly Hogan but still. Rogers hits his finisher on Hogan and gee Hogan kicked out. Now he's "Hulking Up", who could have seen this coming?
Let me guess what happens: Hogan gives Rogers three right-handed punches, a big boot, and the leg drop for the win. Here's the play-by-play. Three right-handed punches, a big boot, and the leg drop for the win. How did I guess that? I'm psychic ladies and gentlemen.
Here's a shock, the Dungeon of Doom run in and attack Hogan. Randy Savage and Sting run in to help Hogan as does Lex Luger, who helps the trio run off the Dungeon of Doom. As Hogan and Luger have their backs turned to each other and bump into each other, they turn around and are about to punch one another as they restrain themselves.
Hogan demands to know why Luger is here. Luger basically trashes the WWF and says he's back in WCW and challenges Hogan for a World Title match the next week on Nitro. Savage is suspicious of Luger being here as Sting seems supportive as they are friends.
Hogan shakes Luger's hand and the World Title match will be on live next week on Nitro. Wow, another World Championship match in the main event. This will be the first actual head-to-head Nitro vs. Raw, although Raw starts at 9 as Nitro starts at 8 and will be over by then.
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