The night before Halloween has us listening to Todd Pettengill give an awful Dracula impersonation while describing the events of last week's episode of Raw. This week on Raw, our hosts Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler are dressed in Halloween costumes as Vince is a prisoner (fittingly enough) and Lawler as a doctor perhaps as a tribute to Dr. Isaac Yankem.
Goldust makes his Raw debut as he takes on Savio Vega. Goldust is fitting on Halloween. Goldust has his own "fan club" of Goldust wannabes in the stands. Goldust works on Vega's arm and shoulder. McMahon says Goldust looks like a "masculine Rupaul." Sure. Vega misses a spinning heel kick. Goldust put him in a hammerlock and rolled him up into a pin for the win in his broadcast television debut.
Pumpkin face Dok Hendrix gives us an update on the Diesel-Bret Hart World Title main event at Survivor Series. Given the finishes or non-finishes of the last two PPVs between these two, this match will have No Disqualification, No Count Out, and No Time Limit as there must be a winner.
We see Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid arguing backstage. Barry Horowitz defeats his friend Hakushi in Karate Fighters. Marty Jannetty takes care of a jobber with the Flying Fist Drop. Vince McMahon tells us that Jannetty will face The British Bulldog next week on Raw. McMahon also mentions that Jerry Lawler will team with Isaac Yankem to take on Hakushi and Bret Hart as well.
McMahon is in the ring interviewing Jim Cornette, Bulldog, and attorney Clarence Mason. Cornette says Bulldog is denied the world championship as part of a conspiracy set up by WWF President Gorilla Monsoon. He claimed Monsoon went back on his word and Bret Hart screwed him out of the title because Hart did not want to face Bulldog at Survivor Series as he's afraid of him.
Cornette hires Mason to try and get the decision overturned and have the belt turned over to Bulldog. Mason uses a bunch of random mumbo jumbo like Kramer on Seinfeld's lawyer Jackie Chiles uses on the show. Cornette then rips on Monsoon for Survivor Series putting Bulldog in a match where he teams with a bunch of guys he can't trust.
Bulldog talks about his match next week with Marty Jannetty as Jannetty runs into the ring to dropkick Bulldog out of the ring and attacks Cornette in retaliation of what Bulldog did to him last week. Jannetty then threatens Mason.
The WWF Tag Team Champions Smoking Gunns take on a pair of jobbers. They show the temper tantrum The 1-2-3 Kid threw during their match at In Your House. The Kid comes on split screen to apologize to the Gunns for his actions. The Smoking Gunns easily win this match.
Bret Hart has a message to deliver to Diesel about how he will beat him for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Jerry Lawler was mad that Hart did not mention him once and claims he's overlooking him next week for their match.
Next is the WWF Intercontinental Championship match as Razor Ramon defends the title against Owen Hart, who won the battle royal last week on Raw for the right to take on Razor for the title. Vince McMahon tells us that Shawn Michaels will return to the ring this Friday night in Cincinnati.
Razor tries to give Hart the back superplex, but Hart counters it into a pin, but Razor rolls him over for a pin, but only for two. Razor sets up Owen for the Razor's Edge as Yokozuna comes into the ring and pulls Owen off of Razor's shoulders. Owen and Yokozuna attack Razor as Owen is disqualified. The 1-2-3 Kid runs in for the save, but is attacked by Yokozuna as he gives him a leg drop.
In comes Ahmed Johnson for his WWF debut. He gives the 600-lb. Yokozuna a body slam. The British Bulldog comes in to challenge Johnson, but the two stare at each other as the show goes off the air.
Tuesday, October 31, 1995
WCW Monday Nitro: October 30, 1995
We are live from Dayton, Ohio one night after Halloween Havoc. Eric Bischoff mentions how Lex Luger attacked "Macho Man" Randy Savage last night and promises us still photos of what happened last night. Savage was supposed to face Sgt. Craig Pittman tonight, but he is not here tonight and presumably Hulk Hogan also is not here as well.
Pittman would end up facing Eddie Guerrero instead. Pittman sends Guerrero in the ropes and Guerrero comes out with a body scissors into a rollup and a pin for the 1-2-3. Bischoff calls this an "upset" victory which I do not agree, but whatever.
We are shown how Shark cost Scott Norton a match against Randy Savage on the Sept. 11 episode of Nitro. Last week, Shark and Norton were fighting backstage and now these two will take on each other. During the match, Bobby Heenan is shown dining with Sonny Oono. The match ends in a double count out as both men fought to the back.
Oono gives Heenan an envelope and Heenan explains to Oono all the WCW programming. Tony Schiavone is shown standing in the ring as he is replacing Mean Gene Okerlund tonight.
He shows us still photos of last night where Ric Flair turned on Sting as he joined Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman in attacking Sting. Flair, Arn, and Pillman come to the ring for an interview. Basically they tease a Four Horsemen return as they would need one more member.
Next Sabu takes on Disco Inferno. Sabu defeats Disco with a somersault leg drop. Sabu sends Disco out of the ring and hits him with a splash. Sabu then puts Disco on a table and is about to hit him with a moonsault through the table, but Disco moves out of the way and Sabu hits the table, but it doesn't break. Disco runs away.
New members of the Dungeon of Doom Lex Luger with his new manager Jimmy Hart teams with Meng to take on The American Males. The Males lost the tag team titles to the Harlem Heat over the weekend on WCW Saturday Night. Meng hits Scotty Riggs with a super kick as Luger put Marcus Bagwell in the Torture Rack for the win.
We are shown footage of what transpired last night at Halloween Havoc where Hart turned on Hulk Hogan and Luger turned on both Hogan and Randy Savage by attacking both. We also see The Yeti make his debut and attack Hogan along with The Giant as the Dungeon of Doom destroyed Hogan and Savage.
Tony Schiavone is in the ring with Kevin Sullivan, The Giant with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt, Luger, and Hart. Hart says he'll tell us the reason why he turned on Hogan next week on Nitro. The Giant acts like he is the champion and says he'll defend the belt next week on Nitro.
Eric Bischoff hypes up next week's episode of Nitro which will be interactive. Fans will get to call in and pick one wrestler from the "blue locker room" and one from the "red locker room" and the winners of both will face off against each other in the main event.
Tonight is Halloween so happy trick-or-treating!! I know I will be. Hell I'm still 13 years old and I still love this shit!!
Pittman would end up facing Eddie Guerrero instead. Pittman sends Guerrero in the ropes and Guerrero comes out with a body scissors into a rollup and a pin for the 1-2-3. Bischoff calls this an "upset" victory which I do not agree, but whatever.
We are shown how Shark cost Scott Norton a match against Randy Savage on the Sept. 11 episode of Nitro. Last week, Shark and Norton were fighting backstage and now these two will take on each other. During the match, Bobby Heenan is shown dining with Sonny Oono. The match ends in a double count out as both men fought to the back.
Oono gives Heenan an envelope and Heenan explains to Oono all the WCW programming. Tony Schiavone is shown standing in the ring as he is replacing Mean Gene Okerlund tonight.
He shows us still photos of last night where Ric Flair turned on Sting as he joined Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman in attacking Sting. Flair, Arn, and Pillman come to the ring for an interview. Basically they tease a Four Horsemen return as they would need one more member.
Next Sabu takes on Disco Inferno. Sabu defeats Disco with a somersault leg drop. Sabu sends Disco out of the ring and hits him with a splash. Sabu then puts Disco on a table and is about to hit him with a moonsault through the table, but Disco moves out of the way and Sabu hits the table, but it doesn't break. Disco runs away.
New members of the Dungeon of Doom Lex Luger with his new manager Jimmy Hart teams with Meng to take on The American Males. The Males lost the tag team titles to the Harlem Heat over the weekend on WCW Saturday Night. Meng hits Scotty Riggs with a super kick as Luger put Marcus Bagwell in the Torture Rack for the win.
We are shown footage of what transpired last night at Halloween Havoc where Hart turned on Hulk Hogan and Luger turned on both Hogan and Randy Savage by attacking both. We also see The Yeti make his debut and attack Hogan along with The Giant as the Dungeon of Doom destroyed Hogan and Savage.
Tony Schiavone is in the ring with Kevin Sullivan, The Giant with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt, Luger, and Hart. Hart says he'll tell us the reason why he turned on Hogan next week on Nitro. The Giant acts like he is the champion and says he'll defend the belt next week on Nitro.
Eric Bischoff hypes up next week's episode of Nitro which will be interactive. Fans will get to call in and pick one wrestler from the "blue locker room" and one from the "red locker room" and the winners of both will face off against each other in the main event.
Tonight is Halloween so happy trick-or-treating!! I know I will be. Hell I'm still 13 years old and I still love this shit!!
Monday, October 30, 1995
WCW Halloween Havoc
We are live from Cobo Hall in Detroit, MI for Halloween Havoc 1995 with your hosts Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan. Hulk Hogan and The Giant are already driving their monster trucks around in a circle on top of the arena as we will have the Monster Truck Challenge later.
Schiavone reports to us that Ric Flair has been attacked backstage by Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman. Who knows if Flair will be ready for tonight's match where he teams with Sting to take on Arn and Pillman? If not it will be Sting on his own against Arn and Pillman.
The opening contest for Fall Brawl is the WCW World Television Championship where Diamond Dallas Page defends the title against Johnny B. Badd. They show footage of Page slashing Badd's tires on his car, causing him to miss his United States Championship match against Sting.
During the match, The Diamond Doll Kimberly reluctantly gave Page the "10" sign for his moves. She seemed to be more in Badd's corner than in Page's. One time she held up the "10" sign for Badd after he did some really good moves on Page. I wish Kimberly gave me a 10!!
Page went out of the ring and was talking to Maxx Muscle when Badd jumped over the top rope and hit both men with the Badd Day. He rolled Page back into the ring and gave him the Badd Day but only for a two count. Muscle held Badd and Page accidentally hit Muscle.
At the end of the match, Page held Badd for Muscle to clothesline him, but Badd ducked and Muscle hit Page instead, knocking him out. Badd then gave Muscle the Tootie Fruity and then pinned Page for the 1-2-3 for the win and win the WCW World Television Championship for the second time in his career. Kimberly appears to be happy Badd won.
Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan hype up the big stupid Monster Truck battle between Hulk Hogan and The Giant later tonight.
Next we see "Macho Man" Randy Savage taking on Zodiac. If Savage wins this match and Lex Luger wins his match with Meng later, Savage and Luger will fight each other later tonight. Gee I wonder who will win those matches?
Anyways, a crazed fan jumps into the ring to get at Savage as soon as the bell rings. Referee Randy Anderson is trying to hold the fan back as security runs in to take the fan away. The match goes to the floor where Savage dominates. Savage hit Zodiac with the Flying Elbow Drop for the easy win.
Mean Gene Okerlund is talking to the new WCW World Television Champion Johnny B. Badd. Badd mentions that "dreams do come true."
Road Warrior Hawk takes on Kurasawa and wants revenge after Kurasawa breaks his arm at Clash of the Champions XXXI as we are shown the footage. Hawk takes it right to him as the bell sounds. Col. Rob Parker interferes and is taken out by Hawk. Kurasawa sends Hawk injured arm first into the steel post. Kurasawa gives Hawk the Samoan Drop and pins him for the 1-2-3 with Kurasawa's feet on the ropes as the referee did not see that.
Gene Okerlund is standing with Randy Savage as Savage says he wants Hulk Hogan in the ring. Savage then talks about his interest in the Monster Truck Challenge for some reason.
Now we are on to Sabu with his uncle The Original Sheik taking on Mr. JL. Sabu hits JL with a split-ligged moonsault for the 1-2-3 and the win. After the match, The Sheik threw a fireball into JL's face. Kevin Sullivan and his "father" are just rambling on and on about nonsense in the aisle way.
Next we have Lex Luger facing off against Meng and if Luger wins, he'll face Randy Savage later on this telecast. Tony Schiavone mentions how Luger might be a member of the Dungeon of Doom. Meng dominates the match as it goes a lot longer than Savage's match earlier.
Luger goes for the Torture Rack, but Meng hits him with the golden spike. Meng goes for the cover but Kevin Sullivan kicks Luger as Meng is disqualified as Luger will now face off against Savage later as Savage will be a lot fresher than Luger.
Gene Okerlund is backstage with The Giant as Giant talks about their Monster Truck battle. Giants says he's going to shove Hogan off the roof.
Next it's supposed to be Ric Flair and Sting taking on Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman. However, Flair does not show up as he's still injured from the attack by Arn and Pillman earlier. Sting takes on Arn and Pillman by himself. As you would figure, Sting spent most of the match being double-teamed.
Eventually, Flair comes from the back with his head bandaged from the attack earlier. Eventually after minutes of taking a serious beating, Sting manages to tag Flair in and here comes Flair and the place goes nuts. Flair runs to the ropes and all of a sudden, nails Sting with a hard right-hand punch.
Flair, Arn, and Pillman triple-team and beat the tar out of Sting as this was a major swerve as Flair took off his bandages to show it was all a setup. Flair grabs a microphone and says don't mess with Flair, Arn and Pillman as the three are now united. Sting should have been aware of this as Flair has screwed him and others before.
Mike Tenay is interviewing Lex Luger backstage. Luger says he's not 100% but will take out Randy Savage.
Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan talk about the big Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant match. We are shown footage of the events between Hogan and Giant leading up to this match. We now go to the Hogan-Giant Monster Truck Challenge with Eric Bischoff doing the announcing outside the arena.
This monster truck battle is basically a sumo wrestling match as the whoever pushes the other truck out of the circle is the winner. Hogan eventually wins an uneventful match. This should have been a typical Monster Truck battle where they race each other by crushing cars or maybe they should try and crush each other.
The Giant gets out of his truck and attacks Hogan. Giant is choking Hogan at the edge of the roof, but Hogan fights him off and Giant ends up falling off the roof and plunging into the river. Hogan is all disturbed and upset at what happened.
Next up it's Lex Luger vs. Randy Savage. Tony and Bobby of course are shocked and upset over the events that had just conspired. Luger offers a handshake to Savage, but Savage refused and kicks Luger in the stomach. Luger fights back as Jimmy Hart makes his way down to the ring.
Savage tries to hit Luger with a double axe handle off the top rope, but is hit with a clothesline to the stomach. Luger tries to pin Savage with his feet on the ropes, but is unsuccessful. Hart is distracting the referee. Savage throws Luger into Hart and Savage hit Luger with the Flying Elbow Drop for the win.
We are supposed to have the WCW World Heavyweight Championship match between Hulk Hogan and The Giant, but we are shown footage of Giant falling off the top of the arena and into a river. Hogan comes out and says what happened earlier was not supposed to happen. All of a sudden, The Giant's music played as he came to the ring with Kevin Sullivan as he's alive!!!
Hogan takes off his bandana to show how evil he is as he's wearing paint on his forehead like Sullivan. Hogan fires a few right-hand punches and tries for a bodyslam, but Giant blocks it and hits Hogan in the back.
Much like Hogan's battle with Andre the Giant at WrestleMania III, Giant uses blows to Hogan's back and bearhugs him to overpower Hogan. Except, Giant was much younger and healthier than Andre was in their WrestleMania match.
After another bearhug, the referee raised Hogan's hand once, twice, and on the third, it didn't come down as Hogan fought out of the bearhug by repeatedly punching The Giant. Hogan then goes to the ropes and walks into The Giant's chokeslam as it looks like we have a new champion.
However, Hogan kicks out and "Hulks up", no selling Giant's attacks and wags his finger at Giant. Hogan then hits him with three right-hand punches and the big boot, but The Giant still won't go down. Hogan picks up Giant for a bodyslam and slams him just like he did to Andre. Hogan hits Giant with the leg drop and covers him.
However, Jimmy Hart hits referee Randy Anderson in the back of the head with Hogan's title belt, knocking him out. Hogan wonders what the heck is going on as he and Hart pick up the referee. As Hogan had his back turned, Hart nailed him with the title belt as he turns on Hogan.
Hogan no sells the attack and goes to beat up Hart. The Giant grabbed Hogan and put him into another bearhug as Kevin Sullivan runs into the ring and hits Hogan. Lex Luger and Randy Savage run down to the ring to presumably help Hogan.
Hart nails Savage in the head with the belt, knocking him out. All of a sudden, Luger attacks Savage by kicking him as the worst kept secret comes out as he joined the Dungeon of Doom. Then the giant Yeti comes down to the ring dressed like a mummy who literally is covered from head-to-toe in toilet paper.
The Yeti gives Hogan a hug as well as they are double bear hugging Hogan. Luger then put Hogan in the Torture Rack and he would give Savage the Torture Rack as well. Luger and Hart are celebrating in the middle of the ring while Hogan and Savage are laid out in the ring.
The referee disqualified Hogan for Hart hitting him with the belt as The Giant won the match, but not the title since the title cannot change hands on a DQ. Giant picks up the WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt and celebrates like he won it. He leaves the ring with the belt.
We go off the air as Hogan and Savage are helped to the back by officials. Tonight's PPV was an event full of all kinds of twists and turns and we will find out more tomorrow night on Nitro.
Schiavone reports to us that Ric Flair has been attacked backstage by Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman. Who knows if Flair will be ready for tonight's match where he teams with Sting to take on Arn and Pillman? If not it will be Sting on his own against Arn and Pillman.
The opening contest for Fall Brawl is the WCW World Television Championship where Diamond Dallas Page defends the title against Johnny B. Badd. They show footage of Page slashing Badd's tires on his car, causing him to miss his United States Championship match against Sting.
During the match, The Diamond Doll Kimberly reluctantly gave Page the "10" sign for his moves. She seemed to be more in Badd's corner than in Page's. One time she held up the "10" sign for Badd after he did some really good moves on Page. I wish Kimberly gave me a 10!!
Page went out of the ring and was talking to Maxx Muscle when Badd jumped over the top rope and hit both men with the Badd Day. He rolled Page back into the ring and gave him the Badd Day but only for a two count. Muscle held Badd and Page accidentally hit Muscle.
At the end of the match, Page held Badd for Muscle to clothesline him, but Badd ducked and Muscle hit Page instead, knocking him out. Badd then gave Muscle the Tootie Fruity and then pinned Page for the 1-2-3 for the win and win the WCW World Television Championship for the second time in his career. Kimberly appears to be happy Badd won.
Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan hype up the big stupid Monster Truck battle between Hulk Hogan and The Giant later tonight.
Next we see "Macho Man" Randy Savage taking on Zodiac. If Savage wins this match and Lex Luger wins his match with Meng later, Savage and Luger will fight each other later tonight. Gee I wonder who will win those matches?
Anyways, a crazed fan jumps into the ring to get at Savage as soon as the bell rings. Referee Randy Anderson is trying to hold the fan back as security runs in to take the fan away. The match goes to the floor where Savage dominates. Savage hit Zodiac with the Flying Elbow Drop for the easy win.
Mean Gene Okerlund is talking to the new WCW World Television Champion Johnny B. Badd. Badd mentions that "dreams do come true."
Road Warrior Hawk takes on Kurasawa and wants revenge after Kurasawa breaks his arm at Clash of the Champions XXXI as we are shown the footage. Hawk takes it right to him as the bell sounds. Col. Rob Parker interferes and is taken out by Hawk. Kurasawa sends Hawk injured arm first into the steel post. Kurasawa gives Hawk the Samoan Drop and pins him for the 1-2-3 with Kurasawa's feet on the ropes as the referee did not see that.
Gene Okerlund is standing with Randy Savage as Savage says he wants Hulk Hogan in the ring. Savage then talks about his interest in the Monster Truck Challenge for some reason.
Now we are on to Sabu with his uncle The Original Sheik taking on Mr. JL. Sabu hits JL with a split-ligged moonsault for the 1-2-3 and the win. After the match, The Sheik threw a fireball into JL's face. Kevin Sullivan and his "father" are just rambling on and on about nonsense in the aisle way.
Next we have Lex Luger facing off against Meng and if Luger wins, he'll face Randy Savage later on this telecast. Tony Schiavone mentions how Luger might be a member of the Dungeon of Doom. Meng dominates the match as it goes a lot longer than Savage's match earlier.
Luger goes for the Torture Rack, but Meng hits him with the golden spike. Meng goes for the cover but Kevin Sullivan kicks Luger as Meng is disqualified as Luger will now face off against Savage later as Savage will be a lot fresher than Luger.
Gene Okerlund is backstage with The Giant as Giant talks about their Monster Truck battle. Giants says he's going to shove Hogan off the roof.
Next it's supposed to be Ric Flair and Sting taking on Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman. However, Flair does not show up as he's still injured from the attack by Arn and Pillman earlier. Sting takes on Arn and Pillman by himself. As you would figure, Sting spent most of the match being double-teamed.
Eventually, Flair comes from the back with his head bandaged from the attack earlier. Eventually after minutes of taking a serious beating, Sting manages to tag Flair in and here comes Flair and the place goes nuts. Flair runs to the ropes and all of a sudden, nails Sting with a hard right-hand punch.
Flair, Arn, and Pillman triple-team and beat the tar out of Sting as this was a major swerve as Flair took off his bandages to show it was all a setup. Flair grabs a microphone and says don't mess with Flair, Arn and Pillman as the three are now united. Sting should have been aware of this as Flair has screwed him and others before.
Mike Tenay is interviewing Lex Luger backstage. Luger says he's not 100% but will take out Randy Savage.
Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan talk about the big Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant match. We are shown footage of the events between Hogan and Giant leading up to this match. We now go to the Hogan-Giant Monster Truck Challenge with Eric Bischoff doing the announcing outside the arena.
This monster truck battle is basically a sumo wrestling match as the whoever pushes the other truck out of the circle is the winner. Hogan eventually wins an uneventful match. This should have been a typical Monster Truck battle where they race each other by crushing cars or maybe they should try and crush each other.
The Giant gets out of his truck and attacks Hogan. Giant is choking Hogan at the edge of the roof, but Hogan fights him off and Giant ends up falling off the roof and plunging into the river. Hogan is all disturbed and upset at what happened.
Next up it's Lex Luger vs. Randy Savage. Tony and Bobby of course are shocked and upset over the events that had just conspired. Luger offers a handshake to Savage, but Savage refused and kicks Luger in the stomach. Luger fights back as Jimmy Hart makes his way down to the ring.
Savage tries to hit Luger with a double axe handle off the top rope, but is hit with a clothesline to the stomach. Luger tries to pin Savage with his feet on the ropes, but is unsuccessful. Hart is distracting the referee. Savage throws Luger into Hart and Savage hit Luger with the Flying Elbow Drop for the win.
We are supposed to have the WCW World Heavyweight Championship match between Hulk Hogan and The Giant, but we are shown footage of Giant falling off the top of the arena and into a river. Hogan comes out and says what happened earlier was not supposed to happen. All of a sudden, The Giant's music played as he came to the ring with Kevin Sullivan as he's alive!!!
Hogan takes off his bandana to show how evil he is as he's wearing paint on his forehead like Sullivan. Hogan fires a few right-hand punches and tries for a bodyslam, but Giant blocks it and hits Hogan in the back.
Much like Hogan's battle with Andre the Giant at WrestleMania III, Giant uses blows to Hogan's back and bearhugs him to overpower Hogan. Except, Giant was much younger and healthier than Andre was in their WrestleMania match.
After another bearhug, the referee raised Hogan's hand once, twice, and on the third, it didn't come down as Hogan fought out of the bearhug by repeatedly punching The Giant. Hogan then goes to the ropes and walks into The Giant's chokeslam as it looks like we have a new champion.
However, Hogan kicks out and "Hulks up", no selling Giant's attacks and wags his finger at Giant. Hogan then hits him with three right-hand punches and the big boot, but The Giant still won't go down. Hogan picks up Giant for a bodyslam and slams him just like he did to Andre. Hogan hits Giant with the leg drop and covers him.
However, Jimmy Hart hits referee Randy Anderson in the back of the head with Hogan's title belt, knocking him out. Hogan wonders what the heck is going on as he and Hart pick up the referee. As Hogan had his back turned, Hart nailed him with the title belt as he turns on Hogan.
Hogan no sells the attack and goes to beat up Hart. The Giant grabbed Hogan and put him into another bearhug as Kevin Sullivan runs into the ring and hits Hogan. Lex Luger and Randy Savage run down to the ring to presumably help Hogan.
Hart nails Savage in the head with the belt, knocking him out. All of a sudden, Luger attacks Savage by kicking him as the worst kept secret comes out as he joined the Dungeon of Doom. Then the giant Yeti comes down to the ring dressed like a mummy who literally is covered from head-to-toe in toilet paper.
The Yeti gives Hogan a hug as well as they are double bear hugging Hogan. Luger then put Hogan in the Torture Rack and he would give Savage the Torture Rack as well. Luger and Hart are celebrating in the middle of the ring while Hogan and Savage are laid out in the ring.
The referee disqualified Hogan for Hart hitting him with the belt as The Giant won the match, but not the title since the title cannot change hands on a DQ. Giant picks up the WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt and celebrates like he won it. He leaves the ring with the belt.
We go off the air as Hogan and Savage are helped to the back by officials. Tonight's PPV was an event full of all kinds of twists and turns and we will find out more tomorrow night on Nitro.
Halloween Havoc A Disaster and Nearly Draws As Much as Last Week's In Your House; ECW "Fire Incident" Between Cactus Jack and Terry Funk
After the WWF's In Your House PPV drew a disastrous 0.4 buy rate last week, WCW's Halloween Havoc was a similar disaster as it only drew a similar 0.6. The event was headlined by the disastrous Monster Truck battle between Hulk Hogan and The Giant on the roof of Cobo Hall. The night saw Jimmy Hart turn on Hogan and Lex Luger turn on Hogan and Randy Savage and saw the nearly "8 ft tall" mummy wrapped in toilet paper called "The Yeti." Ric Flair also did his expected heel turn as well as he turned on Sting and joined Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman to reform the Four Horsemen. They are teasing a Diamond Doll-Diamond Dallas Page breakup as she clearly favored Johnny B. Badd in their match.
WCW will send a bunch of their wrestlers to Japan to take part in a New Japan Pro Wrestling show on November 13 and 14. Sting is expected to drop the United States Title to Kensuke Sasaki at the event, setting up the WCW vs. New Japan inter promotional show at Starrcade. Sting is expected to win the title back at Starrcade after dropping shortly after an angle that made him look like a dummy where he was fooled by Ric Flair.
A famous incident took place at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia as Cactus Jack tries to hit Terry Funk with a chair that had a burning towel on it. The towel lands on Funk and he is immediately engulfed in flames. Jack tries to extinguish the flame as Funk manages to get it off him. Funk and two fans were taken to the hospital and were treated for second degree burns. As this was going on, the lights went out as Raven was "crucifying" Tommy Dreamer at the "Eagle's Nest" above the arena.
WCW will send a bunch of their wrestlers to Japan to take part in a New Japan Pro Wrestling show on November 13 and 14. Sting is expected to drop the United States Title to Kensuke Sasaki at the event, setting up the WCW vs. New Japan inter promotional show at Starrcade. Sting is expected to win the title back at Starrcade after dropping shortly after an angle that made him look like a dummy where he was fooled by Ric Flair.
A famous incident took place at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia as Cactus Jack tries to hit Terry Funk with a chair that had a burning towel on it. The towel lands on Funk and he is immediately engulfed in flames. Jack tries to extinguish the flame as Funk manages to get it off him. Funk and two fans were taken to the hospital and were treated for second degree burns. As this was going on, the lights went out as Raven was "crucifying" Tommy Dreamer at the "Eagle's Nest" above the arena.
Sunday, October 29, 1995
WCW Halloween Havoc Preview
Road Warrior Hawk vs. Kurasawa (w/Col. Rob Parker)
The feud between these two dated back to Clash of the Champions XXXI. After Road Warrior Hawk teamed with Sting to defeat Kurasawa and Meng, Kurasawa attacked Hawk and broke his arm with his seated armbar arm breaker finisher. Hawk has just come back from the injury and looks for payback against Kurasawa tonight.
Sabu (w/The Original Sheik) vs. Mr. JL
There is a thrilling match between two of WCW's young high-flyers. These two met on the October 9 episode of WCW Monday Nitro where Sabu defeated JL in a thrilling high-flying match. After the match, Sabu performed a somersault powerbomb on JL through a table as is Sabu's custom after winning a match, he puts his opponent through a table.
WCW World Television Championship match - WCW TV Champion Diamond Dallas Page (w/The Diamond Doll and Maxx Muscle) vs. Johnny B. Badd
World TV Champion Diamond Dallas Page has been on a major role as of late, finding a fortune and winning his first WCW Championship at the last PPV. He started a feud a with Johnny B. Badd few weeks ago on WCW Saturday Night when Badd was supposed to take on Sting for the WCW U.S. Championship after defeating Brian Pillman at Fall Brawl.
However, Badd did not make it to the arena as it was revealed that Page slashed Badd's tires on his car. Page believed he should be the number one contender to Sting's U.S. Title. On the October 16 episode of Nitro, Page was supposed to defend the TV Title against Badd, but knocked him out with the title belt before the match started and the match did not take place.
Randy Savage vs. Zodiac and Lex Luger vs. Meng (Possibly Savage vs. Luger if both win their respective matches)
For some weird reason, Randy Savage and Lex Luger have to take on members of the Dungeon of Doom in separate matches and if they both win, they'll take on each other later to try and settle their score. Why can't they just let them wrestle each other without these lame matches? Savage does not like and trust Luger ever since Luger came back to WCW in September and wants to take him out.
Ric Flair and Sting vs. Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman
Ric Flair and Arn Anderson have been best friends, closer than brothers for many, many years. Their feud goes back to Clash of the Champions XXXI in August when Flair blamed Anderson for a loss in their match against Vader. The two fought at Fall Brawl with Anderson winning thanks to interference from Brian Pillman.
Flair has been trying to get at both Anderson and Pillman and has been asking several wrestlers such as old foes Randy Savage and Sting to help him in his battles against Arn and Pillman. Savage without a doubt rejected Flair and Sting did so at first.
Flair had taken on Arn on episodes of WCW Monday Nitro where he was attacked by Pillman and lost a Steel Cage match thanks to Pillman. Two weeks ago on Nitro, Flair took on Arn and Pillman by himself until Sting came out and helped Flair defeat them and announced he would team with Flair to take on Arn and Pillman at Halloween Havoc.
Monster Truck Challenge and WCW World Heavyweight Championship match - WCW Champion Hulk Hogan (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. The Giant (w/Kevin Sullivan)
First, there will be a Monster Truck Challenge on top of the roof of Cobo Hall between Hulk Hogan and The Giant. Then in the main event, Hogan will defend his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against The Giant in what will no doubt be Hogan's toughest challenge to date.
The Giant has been a thorn in Hogan's side since confronting Hogan before the Bash at the Beach PPV in July and threw Andre the Giant's shirt in Hogan's face much to Hogan's shock to reveal that he is the "son" of Andre. Giant is back to avenge his father against Hogan.
Giant revealed he was a member of the Dungeon of Doom at Clash of the Champions XXXI in August when he attacked and choked out Hogan. Then at Fall Brawl, Giant first ran over Hogan's prized motorcycle with a monster truck. Then later that night, Giant "broke" Hogan's neck after the WarGames match.
A couple weeks later on Monday Nitro, Giant again attacked Hogan and again broke his neck as Kevin Sullivan shaved off Hogan's trademark mustache. The next week on Nitro, Hogan came out no longer wearing yellow-and-red but wearing all black as he now found the "dark side."
On a side note, the WCW World Tag Team Championships will not be defended on this card as Harlem Heat, who defeated The American Males to win back the titles last night on WCW Saturday Night, are not even on the PPV. I don't know why Harlem Heat is not on as it seems the tag team division in WCW is getting a little stale.
The feud between these two dated back to Clash of the Champions XXXI. After Road Warrior Hawk teamed with Sting to defeat Kurasawa and Meng, Kurasawa attacked Hawk and broke his arm with his seated armbar arm breaker finisher. Hawk has just come back from the injury and looks for payback against Kurasawa tonight.
Sabu (w/The Original Sheik) vs. Mr. JL
There is a thrilling match between two of WCW's young high-flyers. These two met on the October 9 episode of WCW Monday Nitro where Sabu defeated JL in a thrilling high-flying match. After the match, Sabu performed a somersault powerbomb on JL through a table as is Sabu's custom after winning a match, he puts his opponent through a table.
WCW World Television Championship match - WCW TV Champion Diamond Dallas Page (w/The Diamond Doll and Maxx Muscle) vs. Johnny B. Badd
World TV Champion Diamond Dallas Page has been on a major role as of late, finding a fortune and winning his first WCW Championship at the last PPV. He started a feud a with Johnny B. Badd few weeks ago on WCW Saturday Night when Badd was supposed to take on Sting for the WCW U.S. Championship after defeating Brian Pillman at Fall Brawl.
However, Badd did not make it to the arena as it was revealed that Page slashed Badd's tires on his car. Page believed he should be the number one contender to Sting's U.S. Title. On the October 16 episode of Nitro, Page was supposed to defend the TV Title against Badd, but knocked him out with the title belt before the match started and the match did not take place.
Randy Savage vs. Zodiac and Lex Luger vs. Meng (Possibly Savage vs. Luger if both win their respective matches)
For some weird reason, Randy Savage and Lex Luger have to take on members of the Dungeon of Doom in separate matches and if they both win, they'll take on each other later to try and settle their score. Why can't they just let them wrestle each other without these lame matches? Savage does not like and trust Luger ever since Luger came back to WCW in September and wants to take him out.
Ric Flair and Sting vs. Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman
Ric Flair and Arn Anderson have been best friends, closer than brothers for many, many years. Their feud goes back to Clash of the Champions XXXI in August when Flair blamed Anderson for a loss in their match against Vader. The two fought at Fall Brawl with Anderson winning thanks to interference from Brian Pillman.
Flair has been trying to get at both Anderson and Pillman and has been asking several wrestlers such as old foes Randy Savage and Sting to help him in his battles against Arn and Pillman. Savage without a doubt rejected Flair and Sting did so at first.
Flair had taken on Arn on episodes of WCW Monday Nitro where he was attacked by Pillman and lost a Steel Cage match thanks to Pillman. Two weeks ago on Nitro, Flair took on Arn and Pillman by himself until Sting came out and helped Flair defeat them and announced he would team with Flair to take on Arn and Pillman at Halloween Havoc.
Monster Truck Challenge and WCW World Heavyweight Championship match - WCW Champion Hulk Hogan (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. The Giant (w/Kevin Sullivan)
First, there will be a Monster Truck Challenge on top of the roof of Cobo Hall between Hulk Hogan and The Giant. Then in the main event, Hogan will defend his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against The Giant in what will no doubt be Hogan's toughest challenge to date.
The Giant has been a thorn in Hogan's side since confronting Hogan before the Bash at the Beach PPV in July and threw Andre the Giant's shirt in Hogan's face much to Hogan's shock to reveal that he is the "son" of Andre. Giant is back to avenge his father against Hogan.
Giant revealed he was a member of the Dungeon of Doom at Clash of the Champions XXXI in August when he attacked and choked out Hogan. Then at Fall Brawl, Giant first ran over Hogan's prized motorcycle with a monster truck. Then later that night, Giant "broke" Hogan's neck after the WarGames match.
A couple weeks later on Monday Nitro, Giant again attacked Hogan and again broke his neck as Kevin Sullivan shaved off Hogan's trademark mustache. The next week on Nitro, Hogan came out no longer wearing yellow-and-red but wearing all black as he now found the "dark side."
On a side note, the WCW World Tag Team Championships will not be defended on this card as Harlem Heat, who defeated The American Males to win back the titles last night on WCW Saturday Night, are not even on the PPV. I don't know why Harlem Heat is not on as it seems the tag team division in WCW is getting a little stale.
Tuesday, October 24, 1995
WCW Monday Nitro: October 23, 1995
We are live from Huntsville, Alabama for this week's episode of WCW Monday Nitro as we are just six days away from Halloween Havoc.
We jump right into the action as Randy Savage takes on Kurasawa. Kurasawa dominates the Macho Man with chops and kicks. Kurasawa goes for a kick on the outside, but hits the ring post. It doesn't phase Kurasawa however. He goes for the arm breaker submission, but Savage drops him throat first on the rope. Savage hits him with the Flying Elbow Drop for the win, but Savage had to sweat it out.
Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and Steve "Mongo" McMichael are shown talking about the Sting, Savage, and Lex Luger problems when the lights go out and the arena is pitch black.
The "father" of the Dungeon of Doom appears and tells us that there's someone who will appear at Halloween Havoc that will end Hulkamania. He is shown inside a big block of ice and his name appears to be the "Yeti."
Kevin Sullivan and The Giant appear with Gene Okerlund as Sullivan mentions the guy's name as the Yeti. Sullivan says Hulk Hogan is nothing but evil and vows to destroy him. The Giant says he will take the World Heavyweight Championship from Hogan and calls himself the "Immortal Giant."
After the commercial break, Okerlund calls out Hogan and Jimmy Hart. Hogan is still dressed in all black and says he fears no evil and fears no man. He says he knows what evil someone can do with black gloves and black bandana.
Hogan then says he's tired of licking his wounds and rips off his neck brace as he's truly "Immortal" as he can have his neck broken not once but twice and can continue without being dead or paralyzed. Hogan then says he doesn't believe Sting, Randy Savage, and Lex Luger are his friends and challenges all three of them to separate matches.
On WCW Saturday Night, The American Males defend the WCW World Tag Team Championship against Harlem Heat. Lex Luger takes on Shark. Hulk Hogan will again make an appearance and much more.
Eddie Guerrero was supposed to team up with Alex Wright to take on Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko. But Wright comes out with crutches as he has a knee injury and he will be replaced by Mr. JL as Wright will be in their corner. For some reason, we are shown Shark and Scott Norton fighting in the back, who the hell cares?
This was a thrilling match as all four men always seem to put on a great show whenever they are in the ring. Guerrero hits both men with a drop kick and takes down Benoit with a flying headscissors and takes Malenko down with an arm drag.
Both Guerrero and Benoit were brawling outside the ring as Malenko was climbing the ropes. Wright knocked Malenko off the ropes with his crutch as JL rolls Malenko for the 1-2-3. After the match, Brian Pillman comes out of nowhere and DDT's Guerrero on the floor, knocking him out as Pillman continues to be one of the company's top heels.
We are ready for the main event as Sting teams with Lex Luger to take on the Harlem Heat. Mongo makes fun of the WWF's In Your House PPV calling it "In Your Outhouse." Sister Sherri would be shown looking at pictures of her and Col. Rob Parker.
Sting would hit both members of Harlem Heat with Stinger Splashes and then locked Booker T into the Scorpion Death Lock. Stevie Ray kicks Sting and both give Luger a double suplex. Sting comes off the top rope and hits Booker T with a flying clothesline for the 1-2-3.
The Giant runs down and Chokeslams both Sting and Luger. Randy Savage comes down as does Hulk Hogan. Savage tells Hogan not to do anything but Hogan says he wants Giant and runs into the ring. The entire Dungeon of Doom comes out.
Hogan hits Giant with a few right hands, but Giant is unphased by the attack. Giant then nails Hogan with some big shots to Hogan's back as Hogan begins to "Hulk Up" and punches Giant some more and then smashes his head into the top turnbuckle twice. The Giant retreats as Hogan and Savage fight off the entire Dungeon of Doom.
All of a sudden, there was some shaking and the ice was breaking as the Yeti breaks free. The video cuts out and the show is over. I guess we will wait until Halloween Havoc.
We jump right into the action as Randy Savage takes on Kurasawa. Kurasawa dominates the Macho Man with chops and kicks. Kurasawa goes for a kick on the outside, but hits the ring post. It doesn't phase Kurasawa however. He goes for the arm breaker submission, but Savage drops him throat first on the rope. Savage hits him with the Flying Elbow Drop for the win, but Savage had to sweat it out.
Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and Steve "Mongo" McMichael are shown talking about the Sting, Savage, and Lex Luger problems when the lights go out and the arena is pitch black.
The "father" of the Dungeon of Doom appears and tells us that there's someone who will appear at Halloween Havoc that will end Hulkamania. He is shown inside a big block of ice and his name appears to be the "Yeti."
Kevin Sullivan and The Giant appear with Gene Okerlund as Sullivan mentions the guy's name as the Yeti. Sullivan says Hulk Hogan is nothing but evil and vows to destroy him. The Giant says he will take the World Heavyweight Championship from Hogan and calls himself the "Immortal Giant."
After the commercial break, Okerlund calls out Hogan and Jimmy Hart. Hogan is still dressed in all black and says he fears no evil and fears no man. He says he knows what evil someone can do with black gloves and black bandana.
Hogan then says he's tired of licking his wounds and rips off his neck brace as he's truly "Immortal" as he can have his neck broken not once but twice and can continue without being dead or paralyzed. Hogan then says he doesn't believe Sting, Randy Savage, and Lex Luger are his friends and challenges all three of them to separate matches.
On WCW Saturday Night, The American Males defend the WCW World Tag Team Championship against Harlem Heat. Lex Luger takes on Shark. Hulk Hogan will again make an appearance and much more.
Eddie Guerrero was supposed to team up with Alex Wright to take on Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko. But Wright comes out with crutches as he has a knee injury and he will be replaced by Mr. JL as Wright will be in their corner. For some reason, we are shown Shark and Scott Norton fighting in the back, who the hell cares?
This was a thrilling match as all four men always seem to put on a great show whenever they are in the ring. Guerrero hits both men with a drop kick and takes down Benoit with a flying headscissors and takes Malenko down with an arm drag.
Both Guerrero and Benoit were brawling outside the ring as Malenko was climbing the ropes. Wright knocked Malenko off the ropes with his crutch as JL rolls Malenko for the 1-2-3. After the match, Brian Pillman comes out of nowhere and DDT's Guerrero on the floor, knocking him out as Pillman continues to be one of the company's top heels.
We are ready for the main event as Sting teams with Lex Luger to take on the Harlem Heat. Mongo makes fun of the WWF's In Your House PPV calling it "In Your Outhouse." Sister Sherri would be shown looking at pictures of her and Col. Rob Parker.
Sting would hit both members of Harlem Heat with Stinger Splashes and then locked Booker T into the Scorpion Death Lock. Stevie Ray kicks Sting and both give Luger a double suplex. Sting comes off the top rope and hits Booker T with a flying clothesline for the 1-2-3.
The Giant runs down and Chokeslams both Sting and Luger. Randy Savage comes down as does Hulk Hogan. Savage tells Hogan not to do anything but Hogan says he wants Giant and runs into the ring. The entire Dungeon of Doom comes out.
Hogan hits Giant with a few right hands, but Giant is unphased by the attack. Giant then nails Hogan with some big shots to Hogan's back as Hogan begins to "Hulk Up" and punches Giant some more and then smashes his head into the top turnbuckle twice. The Giant retreats as Hogan and Savage fight off the entire Dungeon of Doom.
All of a sudden, there was some shaking and the ice was breaking as the Yeti breaks free. The video cuts out and the show is over. I guess we will wait until Halloween Havoc.
WWF Monday Night Raw: October 23, 1995
We kickoff this week's episode of Monday Night Raw live from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada with a special 20-man battle royal with the winner to receive a WWF Intercontinental Championship match next week with new champion Razor Ramon.
Owen Hart and Marty Jannetty are the final two. Jim Cornette tries to hit Jannetty with his tennis racket, but Jannetty chases after him. The British Bulldog attacks Jannetty and throws him back into the ring, where Owen easily throws Jannetty over the top rope to win the battle royal.
As we come back from commercial break, Owen and Cornette are talking with Jerry "The King" Lawler in the ring. Owen promises to beat Razor for the Intercontinental title next week, just like when he beat his brother Bret.
Dok Hendrix gives us the Survivor Series report. The main event will be Diesel defending the WWF World Heavyweight Championship against Bret "The Hitman" Hart. Plus, there will be a special eight-man tag team Survivor Series "Wildcard" elimination match.
Shawn Michaels, assuming he's healthy enough to wrestle, will be paired up with his old enemy Sycho Sid, The British Bulldog, and newcomer Ahmed Johnson following a random draw to take on Razor Ramon, his arch nemesis Dean Douglas, Yokozuna, and Owen Hart.
We are back as newcomer Avatar, a ninja easily squashes a jobber not much else to report.
Now on to the main event where Alundra Blayze attempts to win back the WWF Women's Championship from the big girl Bertha Faye. Faye attacks Blayze at the start. We come back from a commercial to show that Blayze kicked out of a sit down powerbomb. Faye collides with Harvey Wippleman and Blayze gives her a bridging German Suplex for the 1-2-3 and reclaim the Women's Title.
Before the show ends, Jim Ross has an emotional sit down interview with Shawn Michaels. He asks Michaels how it felt to forfeit the title to Dean Douglas. Michaels says it was the hardest thing he ever had to to but is glad Razor Ramon won the title.
Ross asks Michaels about his thoughts on the upcoming wacky Survivor Series match he's involved in and whether or not he's healthy enough to participate. He says he has to go to the doctor on Wednesday for tests. Michaels says he can either sit at home and cry or come to work and be in pain and he said he's all cried out.
Next week on Monday Night Raw, Goldust makes his Raw debut taking on Savio Vega. Plus Razor Ramon defends the Intercontinental Title against Owen Hart.
Owen Hart and Marty Jannetty are the final two. Jim Cornette tries to hit Jannetty with his tennis racket, but Jannetty chases after him. The British Bulldog attacks Jannetty and throws him back into the ring, where Owen easily throws Jannetty over the top rope to win the battle royal.
As we come back from commercial break, Owen and Cornette are talking with Jerry "The King" Lawler in the ring. Owen promises to beat Razor for the Intercontinental title next week, just like when he beat his brother Bret.
Dok Hendrix gives us the Survivor Series report. The main event will be Diesel defending the WWF World Heavyweight Championship against Bret "The Hitman" Hart. Plus, there will be a special eight-man tag team Survivor Series "Wildcard" elimination match.
Shawn Michaels, assuming he's healthy enough to wrestle, will be paired up with his old enemy Sycho Sid, The British Bulldog, and newcomer Ahmed Johnson following a random draw to take on Razor Ramon, his arch nemesis Dean Douglas, Yokozuna, and Owen Hart.
We are back as newcomer Avatar, a ninja easily squashes a jobber not much else to report.
Now on to the main event where Alundra Blayze attempts to win back the WWF Women's Championship from the big girl Bertha Faye. Faye attacks Blayze at the start. We come back from a commercial to show that Blayze kicked out of a sit down powerbomb. Faye collides with Harvey Wippleman and Blayze gives her a bridging German Suplex for the 1-2-3 and reclaim the Women's Title.
Before the show ends, Jim Ross has an emotional sit down interview with Shawn Michaels. He asks Michaels how it felt to forfeit the title to Dean Douglas. Michaels says it was the hardest thing he ever had to to but is glad Razor Ramon won the title.
Ross asks Michaels about his thoughts on the upcoming wacky Survivor Series match he's involved in and whether or not he's healthy enough to participate. He says he has to go to the doctor on Wednesday for tests. Michaels says he can either sit at home and cry or come to work and be in pain and he said he's all cried out.
Next week on Monday Night Raw, Goldust makes his Raw debut taking on Savio Vega. Plus Razor Ramon defends the Intercontinental Title against Owen Hart.
Monday, October 23, 1995
WWF In Your House 4
We are live from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada for In Your House 4. Your hosts are Vince McMahon, Jerry Lawler, and Jim Ross.
Interim WWF President Gorilla Monsoon says Shawn Michaels will not be able to wrestle tonight due to a severe concussion he received from the attack outside a bar in Syracuse, NY last week. Michaels will forfeit the title to Douglas, who will have to defend that title against Razor Ramon. Razor will look to win two titles tonight as he's booked in the Tag Team Title match later.
Our first match is Fatu against Hunter Hearst Helmsley. We are shown this weekend on Superstars where Helmsley spraying cologne in Fatu's face. Helmsley tries it again, but Fatu gets the better of him. Fatu goes for the Flying Splash off the top rope, but missed. Helmsley hits the Pedigree for the win as he remains unbeaten. Henry O. Godwinn chases Helmsley to the back with his slop bucket.
Next up is the WWF World Tag Team Championship match between the champions the Smoking Gunns against Razor Ramon and the 1-2-3 Kid. Both teams resort to double-teaming one another and even resort to cheating despite both being faces. Dean Douglas is shown in the back watching the match and taking notes as he will have to take on his old nemesis for the Intercontinental Title later.
Razor gives Billy Gunn the Razor's Edge as Razor and the Kid look to become tag team champions. The Kid really wants to make the pin so Razor tags him in. Kid cockily lays on top of Billy for the pin, but Billy rolls him up for the 1-2-3 to retain the tag team titles. The Kid blew it for he and Razor and he knows it as he throws a tantrum after the match.
Kid hits the Gunns and steals the belts for himself. The Gunns attempt to go after Kid, but are stopped by Razor, who attempts to calm everyone down. He gives the belts back to the Gunns and everything is cool I guess. Razor is 0-1 in his attempt at winning championship gold but he has a chance later against Douglas.
Next is the WWF TV debut of Goldust as he takes on Marty Jannetty. Vignettes had been shown of Goldust for some time and he comes out for his debut to one of the coolest entrances I ever seen. There is gold lighting and gold glitter falling from the rafters.
Goldust takes his blonde wig off which I thought was real for some reason. It's basically Dustin Rhodes in drag with gold-and-black face paint. Goldust takes it Jannetty before Jannetty fights back. He hits Goldust(in) with the Rocker Dropper and goes up for the Flying Fist Drop.
Goldust moves out of the way, but Jannetty lands on his feet and clotheslines Goldust. He goes for the Flying Fist Drop again, but Goldust hits him with a boot to the face. Goldust gives Jannetty a front suplex for the 1-2-3 as Goldust wins in his WWF debut.
Now it's on to Yokozuna taking on King Mabel as this was supposed to be The Undertaker vs. Mabel before both men sat on Undertaker's face repeatedly and crushed it. This match is basically who can out-fat who and both men are counted out. Both look to fight but hug it out instead.
Ok, next we have the WWF Intercontinental Championship match between newly crowned champion Dean Douglas vs. Razor Ramon. Before the match, Shawn Michaels appears in street clothes all beat up and sad looking and reluctantly hands the belt over to Douglas as Douglas is now officially the new Intercontinental Champion.
Now it's time for Douglas to defend the title against Razor. Douglas elbows Razor as Razor tries to back superplex him off the top rope. Douglas hits him with a flying cross body, but Razor rolls him over for a two-count.
Razor gives Douglas a back suplex and pins him for the 1-2-3 to become the WWF Intercontinental Champion for a record-fourth time. Douglas' foot was on the ropes, but the referee did not see it and his decision is final.
Bret Hart joins the announce booth to provide commentary for the WWF Championship main event between Diesel and The British Bulldog. Hart will be given a title shot against the winner at Survivor Series. Hart nearly gets involved as Diesel is nearly shoved into by Bulldog.
Bulldog begins working on Diesel's leg and even puts him in the Sharpshooter to mock Bret. Diesel powers out of it. Bulldog tried not one but two powerslams only for Diesel to shove him into the ropes and hit him with the big boot. Jim Cornette gets thrown into the ring and is accidentally hit by Bulldog.
The action soon spills over to the floor where Diesel is shoved into the ring post by Bulldog. Bulldog begins celebrating and then walks over to where Bret is sitting and slaps him in the face. An irate Brer runs into the ring and attacks Bulldog, getting Diesel disqualified, but retaining the title.
An angry Diesel gets into Bret's face for costing him the match and the two have to be separated by officials as they go after each other as the show comes to an end. It looks like Diesel vs Bret for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at Survivor Series.
Interim WWF President Gorilla Monsoon says Shawn Michaels will not be able to wrestle tonight due to a severe concussion he received from the attack outside a bar in Syracuse, NY last week. Michaels will forfeit the title to Douglas, who will have to defend that title against Razor Ramon. Razor will look to win two titles tonight as he's booked in the Tag Team Title match later.
Our first match is Fatu against Hunter Hearst Helmsley. We are shown this weekend on Superstars where Helmsley spraying cologne in Fatu's face. Helmsley tries it again, but Fatu gets the better of him. Fatu goes for the Flying Splash off the top rope, but missed. Helmsley hits the Pedigree for the win as he remains unbeaten. Henry O. Godwinn chases Helmsley to the back with his slop bucket.
Next up is the WWF World Tag Team Championship match between the champions the Smoking Gunns against Razor Ramon and the 1-2-3 Kid. Both teams resort to double-teaming one another and even resort to cheating despite both being faces. Dean Douglas is shown in the back watching the match and taking notes as he will have to take on his old nemesis for the Intercontinental Title later.
Razor gives Billy Gunn the Razor's Edge as Razor and the Kid look to become tag team champions. The Kid really wants to make the pin so Razor tags him in. Kid cockily lays on top of Billy for the pin, but Billy rolls him up for the 1-2-3 to retain the tag team titles. The Kid blew it for he and Razor and he knows it as he throws a tantrum after the match.
Kid hits the Gunns and steals the belts for himself. The Gunns attempt to go after Kid, but are stopped by Razor, who attempts to calm everyone down. He gives the belts back to the Gunns and everything is cool I guess. Razor is 0-1 in his attempt at winning championship gold but he has a chance later against Douglas.
Next is the WWF TV debut of Goldust as he takes on Marty Jannetty. Vignettes had been shown of Goldust for some time and he comes out for his debut to one of the coolest entrances I ever seen. There is gold lighting and gold glitter falling from the rafters.
Goldust takes his blonde wig off which I thought was real for some reason. It's basically Dustin Rhodes in drag with gold-and-black face paint. Goldust takes it Jannetty before Jannetty fights back. He hits Goldust(in) with the Rocker Dropper and goes up for the Flying Fist Drop.
Goldust moves out of the way, but Jannetty lands on his feet and clotheslines Goldust. He goes for the Flying Fist Drop again, but Goldust hits him with a boot to the face. Goldust gives Jannetty a front suplex for the 1-2-3 as Goldust wins in his WWF debut.
Now it's on to Yokozuna taking on King Mabel as this was supposed to be The Undertaker vs. Mabel before both men sat on Undertaker's face repeatedly and crushed it. This match is basically who can out-fat who and both men are counted out. Both look to fight but hug it out instead.
Ok, next we have the WWF Intercontinental Championship match between newly crowned champion Dean Douglas vs. Razor Ramon. Before the match, Shawn Michaels appears in street clothes all beat up and sad looking and reluctantly hands the belt over to Douglas as Douglas is now officially the new Intercontinental Champion.
Now it's time for Douglas to defend the title against Razor. Douglas elbows Razor as Razor tries to back superplex him off the top rope. Douglas hits him with a flying cross body, but Razor rolls him over for a two-count.
Razor gives Douglas a back suplex and pins him for the 1-2-3 to become the WWF Intercontinental Champion for a record-fourth time. Douglas' foot was on the ropes, but the referee did not see it and his decision is final.
Bret Hart joins the announce booth to provide commentary for the WWF Championship main event between Diesel and The British Bulldog. Hart will be given a title shot against the winner at Survivor Series. Hart nearly gets involved as Diesel is nearly shoved into by Bulldog.
Bulldog begins working on Diesel's leg and even puts him in the Sharpshooter to mock Bret. Diesel powers out of it. Bulldog tried not one but two powerslams only for Diesel to shove him into the ropes and hit him with the big boot. Jim Cornette gets thrown into the ring and is accidentally hit by Bulldog.
The action soon spills over to the floor where Diesel is shoved into the ring post by Bulldog. Bulldog begins celebrating and then walks over to where Bret is sitting and slaps him in the face. An irate Brer runs into the ring and attacks Bulldog, getting Diesel disqualified, but retaining the title.
An angry Diesel gets into Bret's face for costing him the match and the two have to be separated by officials as they go after each other as the show comes to an end. It looks like Diesel vs Bret for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at Survivor Series.
In Your House Was a Complete Disaster and Vince McMahon Mad; Fans Turn on Diesel, Heel Turn on the Way? Could Hulk Hogan Turn Heel? WCW Releases Vader, Could He Go to the WWF?
Last night's In Your House PPV was a complete disaster with a lowly 0.4 buyrate and is the least profitable PPV in the history of the company. Vince McMahon reportedly threw down his headset immediately after the show goes off the air and yells "terrible." The fans turned on Diesel and cheered for Bret Hart, which frustrated McMahon, who has been building up Diesel as the top babyface for a year now. Now it might be time to turn him heel.
Even though Bill Watts left the WWF before the PPV started, his booking was still in effect with the screwjob finishes. None was worse than Shawn Michaels having to vacate the WWF Intercontinental Championship to Dean Douglas because of the injuries he suffered from the attack in Syracuse. He was forced to immediately face Razor Ramon and dropped the title to him. This appears to be more work done by The Kliq.
Hulk Hogan teased a heel turn by coming out and wearing all black and using O.J. Simpson murder references. That's a bit much. Well they are working on maybe having Hogan work an injury angle to get him off TV for a couple of months so he can make another movie.
Ric Flair wants to turn heel and turn on Sting to create the Four Horsemen with Arn Anderson, Brian Pillman, and a fourth mystery wrestler. Sting originally agreed to this but has since turned it down since it would make him look stupid. WCW doesn't want Flair to turn since he's over with the fans.
WCW released Vader from his contract so will the WWF pick him up?
Even though Bill Watts left the WWF before the PPV started, his booking was still in effect with the screwjob finishes. None was worse than Shawn Michaels having to vacate the WWF Intercontinental Championship to Dean Douglas because of the injuries he suffered from the attack in Syracuse. He was forced to immediately face Razor Ramon and dropped the title to him. This appears to be more work done by The Kliq.
Hulk Hogan teased a heel turn by coming out and wearing all black and using O.J. Simpson murder references. That's a bit much. Well they are working on maybe having Hogan work an injury angle to get him off TV for a couple of months so he can make another movie.
Ric Flair wants to turn heel and turn on Sting to create the Four Horsemen with Arn Anderson, Brian Pillman, and a fourth mystery wrestler. Sting originally agreed to this but has since turned it down since it would make him look stupid. WCW doesn't want Flair to turn since he's over with the fans.
WCW released Vader from his contract so will the WWF pick him up?
Sunday, October 22, 1995
WWF In Your House 4 Preview
Fatu vs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley
Not much really going on except ex-savage Fatu taking on the WWF's blue blood snob.
Goldust vs. Marty Jannetty
The "Bizarre One" Goldust makes his WWF debut tonight vs. former Intercontinental Champion Marty Jannetty.
Yokozuna (w/Jim Cornette and Mr. Fuji) vs. King Mabel (w/Sir Mo)
The two gigantic heavyweight heels (well over a half-of-ton of girth in this ring at one time) battle. WWF President Gorilla Monsoon punished both men by having Yokozuna replace The Undertaker in this match against King Mabel after both men injured and broke Undertaker's face a couple of weeks ago on Monday Night Raw.
WWF World Tag Team Championship match - Tag Team Champions The Smoking Gunns vs. Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid
Razor Ramon and the 1-2-3 Kid have had their problems in recent weeks with both men costing each other's matches to the point where they fought not once, but twice in the last month on Raw. After their second match up a couple weeks ago, Razor and the Kid patched things up and now they will challenge the WWF Tag Team Champions the Smoking Gunns for the titles.
WWF Intercontinental Championship match - Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels vs. Dean Douglas
Shawn Michaels is supposed to defend his Intercontinental Championship against Dean Douglas. However, an incident with Michaels getting attacked by a bunch of men outside a bar in Syracuse could leave his title defense in jeopardy. More on this at the PPV.
WWF World Heavyweight Championship match - WWF Champion Diesel vs. The British Bulldog (w/Jim Cornette)
The British Bulldog turned on Diesel on the Monday Night Raw six days before SummerSlam. Diesel agreed to team with the Bulldog to take on Men on a Mission, but Bulldog attacked Diesel proving it was a setup as Bulldog turned heel. Bulldog was named number one contender to Diesel's WWF World Heavyweight Championship at In Your House. Two weeks ago on the October 9 edition of Raw, Bulldog pinned Diesel following a leg drop from Yokozuna during a six-man tag team match.
Not much really going on except ex-savage Fatu taking on the WWF's blue blood snob.
Goldust vs. Marty Jannetty
The "Bizarre One" Goldust makes his WWF debut tonight vs. former Intercontinental Champion Marty Jannetty.
Yokozuna (w/Jim Cornette and Mr. Fuji) vs. King Mabel (w/Sir Mo)
The two gigantic heavyweight heels (well over a half-of-ton of girth in this ring at one time) battle. WWF President Gorilla Monsoon punished both men by having Yokozuna replace The Undertaker in this match against King Mabel after both men injured and broke Undertaker's face a couple of weeks ago on Monday Night Raw.
WWF World Tag Team Championship match - Tag Team Champions The Smoking Gunns vs. Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid
Razor Ramon and the 1-2-3 Kid have had their problems in recent weeks with both men costing each other's matches to the point where they fought not once, but twice in the last month on Raw. After their second match up a couple weeks ago, Razor and the Kid patched things up and now they will challenge the WWF Tag Team Champions the Smoking Gunns for the titles.
WWF Intercontinental Championship match - Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels vs. Dean Douglas
Shawn Michaels is supposed to defend his Intercontinental Championship against Dean Douglas. However, an incident with Michaels getting attacked by a bunch of men outside a bar in Syracuse could leave his title defense in jeopardy. More on this at the PPV.
WWF World Heavyweight Championship match - WWF Champion Diesel vs. The British Bulldog (w/Jim Cornette)
The British Bulldog turned on Diesel on the Monday Night Raw six days before SummerSlam. Diesel agreed to team with the Bulldog to take on Men on a Mission, but Bulldog attacked Diesel proving it was a setup as Bulldog turned heel. Bulldog was named number one contender to Diesel's WWF World Heavyweight Championship at In Your House. Two weeks ago on the October 9 edition of Raw, Bulldog pinned Diesel following a leg drop from Yokozuna during a six-man tag team match.
Tuesday, October 17, 1995
WWF Monday Night Raw: October 16, 1995
We kick off tonight's episode of Monday Night Raw with Hunter-Hearst Helmsley taking on Doink "The Clown." Vince McMahon announces that The Undertaker has a crushed face from the attack by King Mabel and Yokozuna last week and who knows if Undertaker will be able to wrestle. Helmsley makes quick work of Doink and beats him following the Pedigree,
Barry Horowitz is shown with his new best friend Hakushi talking baseball. He asks Hakushi who is the best home run hitter for the New York Yankees was. Hoping he would say Babe Ruth, Hakushi says Hank Aaron, as he is the all-time home run leader even ahead of Ruth. Horowitz hugs him.
Next up, the USWA Tag Team Champions PG-13 finally get their hands on the WWF World Tag Team Champions the Smoking Gunns. During the match, WWF President Gorilla Monsoon was on the split screen and forces Yokozuna to replace The Undertaker to take King Mabel at In Your House due to both men playing a part in taking The Undertaker out.
Jerry Lawler mentions an incident involving WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels in Syracuse but does not go into much detail about it. The Smoking Gunns hit Wolfie D with the Sidewinder for the 1-2-3.
They show us an interview aired over this past weekend with Dok Hendrix, British Bulldog, and Jim Cornette. They brag about Bulldog pinning Diesel last week and Hendrix tells him the only reason he pinned him was because of Yokozuna leg dropping Diesel. Bulldog gets mad at Hendrix and vows to beat Diesel for the WWF Title at In Your House.
Next we are shown a promo with newcomer Ahmed Johnson.
Dean Douglas takes on jobber "Hot Bod" Joe Dorgan as Vince McMahon mentions Douglas will take on Shawn Michaels for the Intercontinental Championship in six days at In Your House. McMahon then mentions the Michaels-Syracuse incident again. Jerry Lawler wants to tell us about the incident.
McMahon says Michaels was attacked unprovoked by 10 thugs outside a bar in Syracuse, NY. Lawler says Michaels ran his mouth too much, but McMahon says that's not what happened. Michaels is on the phone with them telling us that he doesn't look or feel good but he will be at In Your House this Sunday. Douglas wins with a "Perfectplex."
We are on to the main event with Bret "The Hitman" Hart taking on Isaac Yankem DDS in a Steel Cage match. Lawler changed the lock on the cage door so Hart could not leave. Hart locks Yankem in the Sharpshooter, but there is no submission so Hart climbs the cage, only to be punched by Lawler.
Gorilla Monsoon comes down and points his finger at Lawler. Hart knocks Lawler down with a punch where officials put Lawler into a shark cage and raised it above the steel cage. Hart eventually climbs out of the cage and wins the match.
The WWF presents In Your House from Winnipeg, Canada live this Sunday on PPV. Here are the matches:
Main Event: Diesel defends the WWF World Heavyweight Championship against The British Bulldog
Shawn Michaels, assuming he's able to go, defends the WWF Intercontinental Championship against Dean Douglas.
Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid appear to have patched things up and will take on The Smoking Gunns for the WWF World Tag Team Championship
Yokozuna replaces the injured Undertaker to take on King Mabel
Fatu vs. Hunter-Hearst Helmsley
Goldust makes his WWF debut as he takes on Marty Jannetty
Next week on Raw: Alundra Blayze looks to regain the WWF Women's Championship from Bertha Faye
Barry Horowitz is shown with his new best friend Hakushi talking baseball. He asks Hakushi who is the best home run hitter for the New York Yankees was. Hoping he would say Babe Ruth, Hakushi says Hank Aaron, as he is the all-time home run leader even ahead of Ruth. Horowitz hugs him.
Next up, the USWA Tag Team Champions PG-13 finally get their hands on the WWF World Tag Team Champions the Smoking Gunns. During the match, WWF President Gorilla Monsoon was on the split screen and forces Yokozuna to replace The Undertaker to take King Mabel at In Your House due to both men playing a part in taking The Undertaker out.
Jerry Lawler mentions an incident involving WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels in Syracuse but does not go into much detail about it. The Smoking Gunns hit Wolfie D with the Sidewinder for the 1-2-3.
They show us an interview aired over this past weekend with Dok Hendrix, British Bulldog, and Jim Cornette. They brag about Bulldog pinning Diesel last week and Hendrix tells him the only reason he pinned him was because of Yokozuna leg dropping Diesel. Bulldog gets mad at Hendrix and vows to beat Diesel for the WWF Title at In Your House.
Next we are shown a promo with newcomer Ahmed Johnson.
Dean Douglas takes on jobber "Hot Bod" Joe Dorgan as Vince McMahon mentions Douglas will take on Shawn Michaels for the Intercontinental Championship in six days at In Your House. McMahon then mentions the Michaels-Syracuse incident again. Jerry Lawler wants to tell us about the incident.
McMahon says Michaels was attacked unprovoked by 10 thugs outside a bar in Syracuse, NY. Lawler says Michaels ran his mouth too much, but McMahon says that's not what happened. Michaels is on the phone with them telling us that he doesn't look or feel good but he will be at In Your House this Sunday. Douglas wins with a "Perfectplex."
We are on to the main event with Bret "The Hitman" Hart taking on Isaac Yankem DDS in a Steel Cage match. Lawler changed the lock on the cage door so Hart could not leave. Hart locks Yankem in the Sharpshooter, but there is no submission so Hart climbs the cage, only to be punched by Lawler.
Gorilla Monsoon comes down and points his finger at Lawler. Hart knocks Lawler down with a punch where officials put Lawler into a shark cage and raised it above the steel cage. Hart eventually climbs out of the cage and wins the match.
The WWF presents In Your House from Winnipeg, Canada live this Sunday on PPV. Here are the matches:
Main Event: Diesel defends the WWF World Heavyweight Championship against The British Bulldog
Shawn Michaels, assuming he's able to go, defends the WWF Intercontinental Championship against Dean Douglas.
Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid appear to have patched things up and will take on The Smoking Gunns for the WWF World Tag Team Championship
Yokozuna replaces the injured Undertaker to take on King Mabel
Fatu vs. Hunter-Hearst Helmsley
Goldust makes his WWF debut as he takes on Marty Jannetty
Next week on Raw: Alundra Blayze looks to regain the WWF Women's Championship from Bertha Faye
WCW Monday Nitro: October 16, 1995
We are live from the Civic Center in Albany, NY for this week's edition of WCW Monday Nitro. We are shown footage from WCW Pro this past Saturday morning where Ric Flair asks his old arch nemesis Sting to team with him for tonight's match against Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman.
It's strange for Sting to even consider teaming with him considering their past and Flair betraying him several times before. What would be different this time? Sting agrees anyhow and if Flair swerves him anyway that he will leave Flair for dead.
Our first match is for the WCW World Television Championship as champion Diamond Dallas Page takes on Johnny B Badd. We are shown a clip from two weeks ago on WCW Saturday Night where Badd was supposed to get a U.S. Title match against Sting, but did not show up.
It was revealed by Maxx Muscle that Page slashed his tires, preventing him from appearing at the arena. Badd saw that Page was caught in a web of lies and knocked Page out with the left hook he calls the "Tootie Fruity." Page believed he should get the U.S. Title shot.
Out comes Page with the super hot Diamond Doll. Eric Bischoff announces that Page will defend his TV Title against Badd at Halloween Havoc. Page nails Badd with the TV belt to knock him out before the match even starts as there will be no match tonight. The Diamond Doll was not happy with Page as he lays on top of Badd and counts 1-2-3 for himself. Page then shoots off Badd's confetti gun.
Next up is Chris Benoit in his return to WCW after a two-year absence and takes on Eddie Guerrero. These two have had classic matches in ECW and other promotions in the world. These two put on a classic match as they match move-for-move and counter-for-counter.
Benoit gives Guerrero a big time powerbomb, but only gets a two-count. He goes for another, which Guerrero counters into a roll up. Benoit gets Guerrero in a full nelson and does a bridge suplex for the 1-2-3 to win a really thrilling match. Eric Bischoff announces that there might be a Cruiserweight Title coming to WCW soon.
Mean Gene Okerlund is in the ring first representing the WCW Hotline by saying there's a WWF official (Bill Watts) that got fired and a WWF wrestler that was beat up by a "fan." That's Shawn Michaels being attacked by several men outside a bar in Syracuse.
$1.49 a minute kids get your parents' permission. If you have internet, you don't have to worry about the hotline. This internet fad could put hotlines out of business. I guess it serves you right for trying to give away your competition's inside information and trying to profit off it.
Okerlund calls down Kevin Sullivan and The Giant to the ring to interview them. Sullivan says he knew since berth that he was evil and it was Hulk Hogan who created him. He brags about shaving off Hogan's mustache.
Sullivan then goes on and says the Hulkamaniacs will give up on Hogan and become "children of the Dungeon of Doom." The Giant then talks and says he wants to push Hogan off the top of Cobo Hall during their Monster Truck battle and take the World Heavyweight Championship from him.
WCW Saturday Night will feature Hacksaw Jim Duggan taking on V.K. Wallstreet. Alex Wright battles Disco Inferno. Randy "Macho Man" Savage takes on newcomer Hugh Morris (sounds like humorous get it?) and Hulk Hogan will also be there.
Meng battles Duggan as Meng takes it Duggan early on. Meng misses a cross body off the second rope. Duggan gives Meng a poweslam and sets up for his three-point stance running clothesline. However, Meng hits him with a superkick. Meng pulls out the golden spike and jams it in the side of Duggan's neck for the win.
The all-black wearing Hulk Hogan is shown with Jimmy Hart cutting a promo where he talks about joining the "dark side." He says Hulkamania is bigger than a certain wrestling promotion (WWF for those who don't know). Hogan says he's indeed evil and will take out the entire Dungeon of Doom. He says he will "bury" The Giant alongside his "father."
It's time for the main event where Ric Flair teams with Sting to take on Arn Anderson and "Not so Flyin" Brian Pillman. I guess he's no longer Flyin. Well it will be Flair taking on the two in a Handicap match as Sting has not shown up. Perhaps Sting screwed Flair before Flair had the chance to screw him.
Flair does his best to fight off the duo, but they frequently double-team him. Arn hits Flair with a spinebuster as Sting finally comes to the ring. After more double-teaming, Pillman missed a drop kick and Flair gets the tag to Sting.
Sting comes in like a house of fire taking out both Arn and Pillman. He takes both men out with clotheslines and then one double clothesline.After clotheslining Arn out of the ring and throwing Pillman off the top rope, Arn and Pillman had enough and leave the ring and get counted out, giving the win to Sting and Flair.
Gene Okerlund meets Sting and Flair in the ring. Sting says Flair earned his respect for taking on Arn and Pillman by himself and is convinced Flair is changed for the better. He agrees to team with Flair to take on Arn and Pillman at Halloween Havoc. Sting and Flair high-five as the event comes to an end.
Next week on Nitro: Sting and Lex Luger take on The Harlem Heat. Chris Benoit teams with Dean Malenko to battle Alex Wright and Eddie Guerrero. Hulk Hogan will also be at Nitro.
It's strange for Sting to even consider teaming with him considering their past and Flair betraying him several times before. What would be different this time? Sting agrees anyhow and if Flair swerves him anyway that he will leave Flair for dead.
Our first match is for the WCW World Television Championship as champion Diamond Dallas Page takes on Johnny B Badd. We are shown a clip from two weeks ago on WCW Saturday Night where Badd was supposed to get a U.S. Title match against Sting, but did not show up.
It was revealed by Maxx Muscle that Page slashed his tires, preventing him from appearing at the arena. Badd saw that Page was caught in a web of lies and knocked Page out with the left hook he calls the "Tootie Fruity." Page believed he should get the U.S. Title shot.
Out comes Page with the super hot Diamond Doll. Eric Bischoff announces that Page will defend his TV Title against Badd at Halloween Havoc. Page nails Badd with the TV belt to knock him out before the match even starts as there will be no match tonight. The Diamond Doll was not happy with Page as he lays on top of Badd and counts 1-2-3 for himself. Page then shoots off Badd's confetti gun.
Next up is Chris Benoit in his return to WCW after a two-year absence and takes on Eddie Guerrero. These two have had classic matches in ECW and other promotions in the world. These two put on a classic match as they match move-for-move and counter-for-counter.
Benoit gives Guerrero a big time powerbomb, but only gets a two-count. He goes for another, which Guerrero counters into a roll up. Benoit gets Guerrero in a full nelson and does a bridge suplex for the 1-2-3 to win a really thrilling match. Eric Bischoff announces that there might be a Cruiserweight Title coming to WCW soon.
Mean Gene Okerlund is in the ring first representing the WCW Hotline by saying there's a WWF official (Bill Watts) that got fired and a WWF wrestler that was beat up by a "fan." That's Shawn Michaels being attacked by several men outside a bar in Syracuse.
$1.49 a minute kids get your parents' permission. If you have internet, you don't have to worry about the hotline. This internet fad could put hotlines out of business. I guess it serves you right for trying to give away your competition's inside information and trying to profit off it.
Okerlund calls down Kevin Sullivan and The Giant to the ring to interview them. Sullivan says he knew since berth that he was evil and it was Hulk Hogan who created him. He brags about shaving off Hogan's mustache.
Sullivan then goes on and says the Hulkamaniacs will give up on Hogan and become "children of the Dungeon of Doom." The Giant then talks and says he wants to push Hogan off the top of Cobo Hall during their Monster Truck battle and take the World Heavyweight Championship from him.
WCW Saturday Night will feature Hacksaw Jim Duggan taking on V.K. Wallstreet. Alex Wright battles Disco Inferno. Randy "Macho Man" Savage takes on newcomer Hugh Morris (sounds like humorous get it?) and Hulk Hogan will also be there.
Meng battles Duggan as Meng takes it Duggan early on. Meng misses a cross body off the second rope. Duggan gives Meng a poweslam and sets up for his three-point stance running clothesline. However, Meng hits him with a superkick. Meng pulls out the golden spike and jams it in the side of Duggan's neck for the win.
The all-black wearing Hulk Hogan is shown with Jimmy Hart cutting a promo where he talks about joining the "dark side." He says Hulkamania is bigger than a certain wrestling promotion (WWF for those who don't know). Hogan says he's indeed evil and will take out the entire Dungeon of Doom. He says he will "bury" The Giant alongside his "father."
It's time for the main event where Ric Flair teams with Sting to take on Arn Anderson and "Not so Flyin" Brian Pillman. I guess he's no longer Flyin. Well it will be Flair taking on the two in a Handicap match as Sting has not shown up. Perhaps Sting screwed Flair before Flair had the chance to screw him.
Flair does his best to fight off the duo, but they frequently double-team him. Arn hits Flair with a spinebuster as Sting finally comes to the ring. After more double-teaming, Pillman missed a drop kick and Flair gets the tag to Sting.
Sting comes in like a house of fire taking out both Arn and Pillman. He takes both men out with clotheslines and then one double clothesline.After clotheslining Arn out of the ring and throwing Pillman off the top rope, Arn and Pillman had enough and leave the ring and get counted out, giving the win to Sting and Flair.
Gene Okerlund meets Sting and Flair in the ring. Sting says Flair earned his respect for taking on Arn and Pillman by himself and is convinced Flair is changed for the better. He agrees to team with Flair to take on Arn and Pillman at Halloween Havoc. Sting and Flair high-five as the event comes to an end.
Next week on Nitro: Sting and Lex Luger take on The Harlem Heat. Chris Benoit teams with Dean Malenko to battle Alex Wright and Eddie Guerrero. Hulk Hogan will also be at Nitro.
Sunday, October 15, 1995
Tough Week for HBK Backstage Fight and Real Life Fight in Syracuse; Bill Watts Leaves WWF After Disagreements with Vince McMahon; The Undertaker's Face Legitimately Injured by Mabel; The Ultimate Warrior in the News
If you think you had a bad week, Shawn Michaels may have you beat not that this is a contest or anything. First at a house show at Madison Square Garden, Michaels would be confronted backstage by Ron and Don Harris (Jacob and Eli Blu). They threw Michaels into a dressing room and roughed him up a little bit, but did not do a lot of damage. The twins put their notice in with the WWF and they had enough of Michaels' shit and took it out on him before they leave.
That was nothing compared to what happened the next night in Syracuse, NY. Michaels along with The 1-2-3 Kid and Davey Boy Smith at a bar where they got into an altercation with a group of Marines. As the wrestlers were trying to leave in their car, the Marines yell stuff at them prompting Michaels to get out of the car to confront them. Several of the Marines brutally attack Michaels by slamming his head into the hood of the car, ripped his earrings off his ears and kicked and punched him. The other Marines held the doors of the car shut so Smith and Kid could not get out. Eventually, Smith and Kid get out of the car and attack the Marines. Eventually police show up and the Marines leave. Michaels had both of eyelids swollen shut and suffered a ruptured eardrum.
Not more than two weeks after officially being named head booker of the WWF, Bill Watts announces he has quit the WWF after several disagreements with him and Vince McMahon. Watts and McMahon had differences of opinions of having Bret Hart being the long-term WWF Champion while McMahon wants that belt to eventually go to Shawn Michaels. Watts and McMahon also have contrasting opinions over Watts' old school philosophy of not having babyfaces and heels not associating with each other outside the ring and fining wrestlers steeply for being late. McMahon does not share these views and it wasn't going to work.
The Undertaker legitimately broke his orbital bone in a match against King Mabel at a house show. It appears that both Undertaker and Shawn Michaels will not be at this upcoming In Your House PPV.
The Ultimate Warrior had a match scheduled with Jim Neidhart in an independent promotion in Las Vegas. However, the Warrior no-showed the event much to the disappointment of the fans.
That was nothing compared to what happened the next night in Syracuse, NY. Michaels along with The 1-2-3 Kid and Davey Boy Smith at a bar where they got into an altercation with a group of Marines. As the wrestlers were trying to leave in their car, the Marines yell stuff at them prompting Michaels to get out of the car to confront them. Several of the Marines brutally attack Michaels by slamming his head into the hood of the car, ripped his earrings off his ears and kicked and punched him. The other Marines held the doors of the car shut so Smith and Kid could not get out. Eventually, Smith and Kid get out of the car and attack the Marines. Eventually police show up and the Marines leave. Michaels had both of eyelids swollen shut and suffered a ruptured eardrum.
Not more than two weeks after officially being named head booker of the WWF, Bill Watts announces he has quit the WWF after several disagreements with him and Vince McMahon. Watts and McMahon had differences of opinions of having Bret Hart being the long-term WWF Champion while McMahon wants that belt to eventually go to Shawn Michaels. Watts and McMahon also have contrasting opinions over Watts' old school philosophy of not having babyfaces and heels not associating with each other outside the ring and fining wrestlers steeply for being late. McMahon does not share these views and it wasn't going to work.
The Undertaker legitimately broke his orbital bone in a match against King Mabel at a house show. It appears that both Undertaker and Shawn Michaels will not be at this upcoming In Your House PPV.
The Ultimate Warrior had a match scheduled with Jim Neidhart in an independent promotion in Las Vegas. However, the Warrior no-showed the event much to the disappointment of the fans.
Tuesday, October 10, 1995
WCW Monday Nitro: October 9, 1995
We are live from the Rosemont Horizon from Rosemont, Illinois near Chicago. Eric Bischoff, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, and the "emmy award winning" Steve "Mongo" McMichael are all shown wearing Chicago Bears jerseys. Mongo is wearing his old #76 jersey. Bischoff is wearing #1 and Brain is wearing ? on his jersey.
Sting comes to the announce table and says he will fix the problems between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Lex Luger. Sting goes to the ring as he defends his U.S. Heavyweight Title against Shark. There is no Kevin Sullivan, The Giant, and Zodiac as they are not allowed in the building to there being a restraining order against them by Hulk Hogan, who is in the building tonight. Sting defeats Shark with a flying cross body off the top rope to win the match and retain the title.
They show footage of The Giant and Sullivan attacking Hogan last week where Giant ripped off the neck brace off Hogan and "broke" his neck again. Then they show Sullivan shaving off Hogan's mustache.
Next up, Sabu takes on Mr. JL. Sabu hits JL with a somersault leg drop and a springboard leg drop. Sabu pulls out a steel chair and runs up on it and delivers a flying leg drop onto JL on the guardrail. Sabu nails JL with a split-legged moonsault and locks him into the Camel Clutch, only for JL to grab the ropes.
Sabu climbs the top rope, only to be knocked down by JL as Sabu lands on his crotch. JL jumps up and gives Sabu a DDT off the top rope, but only gets a two-count. Sabu stops JL on the top rope and tries a Frankensteiner, but JL holds on and Sabu lands.
JL tries a flying dropkick, but Sabu catches him and gives him a powerbomb. Sabu locks JL in the camel clutch as JL submits. After the match, Sabu gives JL a sunset powerbomb onto the floor as the crowd goes nuts.
In the ring, Gene Okerlund has Sting, Lex Luger, and Randy Savage in the ring. Savage says he doesn't question Luger anymore and instead asks why Sting has not been Chokeslammed by The Giant? Sting tells him to "shut his mouth." Is Sting a member of the Dungeon of Doom? Is this perhaps the turning of heel for Sting?
Sting then says he has a brilliant idea if Luger beats Meng and Savage beats Kamala in their matches at Halloween Havoc, Luger and Savage will fight each other later that night. Luger doesn't seem to be down with that as Sting tells him maybe he's not the Total Package. Luger finally agrees and the challenge is on. Why the hell don't they just have Luger vs. Savage?
Chris Benoit enters WCW Monday Nitro in a limousine.
Road Warrior Hawk takes on Big Bubba Rogers as Disco Inferno is out dancing to his music during both men's entrances. Hawk scares Disco away. This is Hawk's first match since his arm was broken by Kurasawa at Clash of the Champions two months ago. Disco appears dancing on the apron. Hawk grabs his shirt and rips it and attacks him up the aisleway and Hawk is counted out.
Gene Okerlund calls out Hulk Hogan and Jimmy Hart to the ring for an interview. Hogan is not wearing his legendary red-and-yellow. Instead he's wearing all black, even his neck brace is black. Hart is also wearing all black as well. He tells Gene and Jimmy not to talk.
Hogan mentions how he defeated Andre the Giant in Detroit and will do the same to The Giant there at Halloween Havoc. Hogan then basically rips Vince McMahon and the WWF. There's all this commotion as The Giant is driving a monster truck with Kevin Sullivan and Zodiac in it.
The police won't let them into the building since they are banned from entering the arena tonight. Hogan says he's going out there to fight The Giant, only to be separated by police.
There's not much time left for our main event which is the Steel Cage match between Ric Flair and Arn Anderson. Flair and Anderson took turns throwing each other in the cage. Brian Pillman comes down and climbs the cage, but Flair knocks him off.
Anderson pulls out the brass knuckles. Flair puts Anderson in the Figure Four, only for Anderson to nail him with the brass knuckles, knocking Flair out and Anderson pinned him for the win. Pillman raises Anderson's arm and the two walk to the back in victory.
An irate Flair runs to the announce booth and rips Eric Bischoff's headset off of him and yells saying he wants Anderson and Pillman at the same time next week. We are out of time so hopefully it will be Flair vs. Anderson/Pillman next week.
Sting comes to the announce table and says he will fix the problems between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Lex Luger. Sting goes to the ring as he defends his U.S. Heavyweight Title against Shark. There is no Kevin Sullivan, The Giant, and Zodiac as they are not allowed in the building to there being a restraining order against them by Hulk Hogan, who is in the building tonight. Sting defeats Shark with a flying cross body off the top rope to win the match and retain the title.
They show footage of The Giant and Sullivan attacking Hogan last week where Giant ripped off the neck brace off Hogan and "broke" his neck again. Then they show Sullivan shaving off Hogan's mustache.
Next up, Sabu takes on Mr. JL. Sabu hits JL with a somersault leg drop and a springboard leg drop. Sabu pulls out a steel chair and runs up on it and delivers a flying leg drop onto JL on the guardrail. Sabu nails JL with a split-legged moonsault and locks him into the Camel Clutch, only for JL to grab the ropes.
Sabu climbs the top rope, only to be knocked down by JL as Sabu lands on his crotch. JL jumps up and gives Sabu a DDT off the top rope, but only gets a two-count. Sabu stops JL on the top rope and tries a Frankensteiner, but JL holds on and Sabu lands.
JL tries a flying dropkick, but Sabu catches him and gives him a powerbomb. Sabu locks JL in the camel clutch as JL submits. After the match, Sabu gives JL a sunset powerbomb onto the floor as the crowd goes nuts.
In the ring, Gene Okerlund has Sting, Lex Luger, and Randy Savage in the ring. Savage says he doesn't question Luger anymore and instead asks why Sting has not been Chokeslammed by The Giant? Sting tells him to "shut his mouth." Is Sting a member of the Dungeon of Doom? Is this perhaps the turning of heel for Sting?
Sting then says he has a brilliant idea if Luger beats Meng and Savage beats Kamala in their matches at Halloween Havoc, Luger and Savage will fight each other later that night. Luger doesn't seem to be down with that as Sting tells him maybe he's not the Total Package. Luger finally agrees and the challenge is on. Why the hell don't they just have Luger vs. Savage?
Chris Benoit enters WCW Monday Nitro in a limousine.
Road Warrior Hawk takes on Big Bubba Rogers as Disco Inferno is out dancing to his music during both men's entrances. Hawk scares Disco away. This is Hawk's first match since his arm was broken by Kurasawa at Clash of the Champions two months ago. Disco appears dancing on the apron. Hawk grabs his shirt and rips it and attacks him up the aisleway and Hawk is counted out.
Gene Okerlund calls out Hulk Hogan and Jimmy Hart to the ring for an interview. Hogan is not wearing his legendary red-and-yellow. Instead he's wearing all black, even his neck brace is black. Hart is also wearing all black as well. He tells Gene and Jimmy not to talk.
Hogan mentions how he defeated Andre the Giant in Detroit and will do the same to The Giant there at Halloween Havoc. Hogan then basically rips Vince McMahon and the WWF. There's all this commotion as The Giant is driving a monster truck with Kevin Sullivan and Zodiac in it.
The police won't let them into the building since they are banned from entering the arena tonight. Hogan says he's going out there to fight The Giant, only to be separated by police.
There's not much time left for our main event which is the Steel Cage match between Ric Flair and Arn Anderson. Flair and Anderson took turns throwing each other in the cage. Brian Pillman comes down and climbs the cage, but Flair knocks him off.
Anderson pulls out the brass knuckles. Flair puts Anderson in the Figure Four, only for Anderson to nail him with the brass knuckles, knocking Flair out and Anderson pinned him for the win. Pillman raises Anderson's arm and the two walk to the back in victory.
An irate Flair runs to the announce booth and rips Eric Bischoff's headset off of him and yells saying he wants Anderson and Pillman at the same time next week. We are out of time so hopefully it will be Flair vs. Anderson/Pillman next week.
WWF Monday Night Raw: October 9, 1995
We kick off this week's edition of Monday Night Raw with a PPV-caliber main event with Diesel, Shawn Michaels, and The Undertaker taking on The British Bulldog, Owen Hart, and Yokozuna.
There are clips shown of Michaels at an inner city school ceremony where Shawn is shown all choked up. Owen and Michaels start the match off and both show off their excellent athletic skills. Diesel brawls with Bulldog as Undertaker does so with Yokozuna.
Waylon Mercy is shown watching the match from the entry way and Dean Douglas is out there taking notes. The heels have been beating on Michaels. After Owen misses a flying heat butt, Michaels tags in Diesel, who takes care of the trio.
Owen hits Diesel from the outside as Diesel walks right into the running powerslam by the Bulldog. The Undertaker breaks up the count. As the referee is busy with Undertaker, Yokozuna sneaks in a gives Diesel a leg drop. Bulldog pins Diesel for the 1-2-3 to give him a psychological advantage heading into their title match at In Your House.
After the match, King Mabel comes down to join the heels in attacking The Undertaker as he and Yokozuna go back-and-forth dropping leg drops onto Undertaker's face. Bulldog and Owen beat down on Diesel and Dean Douglas comes out to attack Michaels. Douglas gives Michaels a front suplex, sending him face and body first into the steel steps.
This was a good old fashioned ass whipping by the heels. After commercials, the faces were still down in the ring, selling the vicious attack as result of the heels.
Last week on Raw, Jerry Lawler tried to goad Bret Hart into a fight after Hart defeated Jean-Pierre Lafitte. Isaac Yankem DDS ran out to save Lawler and gave Hart the DDT(S) onto the floor. Vince McMahon announced a Steel Cage match between Hart and Yankem next week on Raw. If Lawler interferes, he will be lifted high above in a small cage. They show us highlights from their match at SummerSlam, where Lawler helped Yankem choke out The Hitman.
Next up the former savage now turned street guy Fatu taking on Skip with the ever lovely Sunny. Just show Sunny please!! Lawler says that King Mabel is trying to get into the Undertaker's dressing room.
Although no longer the savage, you still can't hit Fatu in the head as he no-sells it like his Headshrinker days. Well, he can get hit in the head with steel as he goes down like everyone else. Skip can't superplex Fatu as he knocks Skip down and hits Skip with a big splash off the top rope for the win.
There are clips shown of the six-man tag team match shown earlier. Dok Hendrix is trying to get an interview with the Two Dudes with Attitudes, but Vince McMahon tells him that's not a good idea.
Meanwhile, Jim Ross goes into Camp Cornette's dressing room and interviews Cornette, who is all giddy over what they had done earlier. British Bulldog is flexing and says he will bring the WWF Championship back with him to England. King Mabel walks in and calls Bulldog his "homey." Mabel then vows to bury The Undertaker under a mountain of snow in Winnipeg at In Your House.
Next week on Raw: Bret Hart vs. Isaac Yankem in a Steel Cage match.
There are clips shown of Michaels at an inner city school ceremony where Shawn is shown all choked up. Owen and Michaels start the match off and both show off their excellent athletic skills. Diesel brawls with Bulldog as Undertaker does so with Yokozuna.
Waylon Mercy is shown watching the match from the entry way and Dean Douglas is out there taking notes. The heels have been beating on Michaels. After Owen misses a flying heat butt, Michaels tags in Diesel, who takes care of the trio.
Owen hits Diesel from the outside as Diesel walks right into the running powerslam by the Bulldog. The Undertaker breaks up the count. As the referee is busy with Undertaker, Yokozuna sneaks in a gives Diesel a leg drop. Bulldog pins Diesel for the 1-2-3 to give him a psychological advantage heading into their title match at In Your House.
After the match, King Mabel comes down to join the heels in attacking The Undertaker as he and Yokozuna go back-and-forth dropping leg drops onto Undertaker's face. Bulldog and Owen beat down on Diesel and Dean Douglas comes out to attack Michaels. Douglas gives Michaels a front suplex, sending him face and body first into the steel steps.
This was a good old fashioned ass whipping by the heels. After commercials, the faces were still down in the ring, selling the vicious attack as result of the heels.
Last week on Raw, Jerry Lawler tried to goad Bret Hart into a fight after Hart defeated Jean-Pierre Lafitte. Isaac Yankem DDS ran out to save Lawler and gave Hart the DDT(S) onto the floor. Vince McMahon announced a Steel Cage match between Hart and Yankem next week on Raw. If Lawler interferes, he will be lifted high above in a small cage. They show us highlights from their match at SummerSlam, where Lawler helped Yankem choke out The Hitman.
Next up the former savage now turned street guy Fatu taking on Skip with the ever lovely Sunny. Just show Sunny please!! Lawler says that King Mabel is trying to get into the Undertaker's dressing room.
Although no longer the savage, you still can't hit Fatu in the head as he no-sells it like his Headshrinker days. Well, he can get hit in the head with steel as he goes down like everyone else. Skip can't superplex Fatu as he knocks Skip down and hits Skip with a big splash off the top rope for the win.
There are clips shown of the six-man tag team match shown earlier. Dok Hendrix is trying to get an interview with the Two Dudes with Attitudes, but Vince McMahon tells him that's not a good idea.
Meanwhile, Jim Ross goes into Camp Cornette's dressing room and interviews Cornette, who is all giddy over what they had done earlier. British Bulldog is flexing and says he will bring the WWF Championship back with him to England. King Mabel walks in and calls Bulldog his "homey." Mabel then vows to bury The Undertaker under a mountain of snow in Winnipeg at In Your House.
Next week on Raw: Bret Hart vs. Isaac Yankem in a Steel Cage match.
Sunday, October 8, 1995
Vince McMahon Announces He Will Step Down as Head Booker and Officially Turn the Role Over to Bill Watts; WWF Will Use Less "Gimmickry" ; WWF Hires Tony Norris; Bret Hart Serious Candidate to Become Next WWF Champion
Vince McMahon called a meeting with all WWF personnel to announce that he was stepping down as head booker of WWF to focus his time on being a corporate executive. He officially announced Bill Watts as his replacement as head booker. McMahon announced he signed Texas independent wrestler Tony Norris under the name "Ahmed Johnson" and said he will give him a major push due to the lack of an African American babyface.
McMahon also hinted at putting the WWF World Heavyweight Championship on Bret Hart. McMahon also announced that the WWF will not be so cartoony and gimmicky and start to lean a little towards real-life stories and will feature clips of the taped upcoming episodes of RAW to facilitate a "soap opera-like atmosphere." McMahon and Watts ripped WCW but did say there were several wrestlers they would like to work with.
McMahon also hinted at putting the WWF World Heavyweight Championship on Bret Hart. McMahon also announced that the WWF will not be so cartoony and gimmicky and start to lean a little towards real-life stories and will feature clips of the taped upcoming episodes of RAW to facilitate a "soap opera-like atmosphere." McMahon and Watts ripped WCW but did say there were several wrestlers they would like to work with.
Tuesday, October 3, 1995
WWF Monday Night Raw: October 2, 1995
We are shown highlights of the Smoking Gunns defeating Owen Hart and Yokozuna to win back the WWF World Tag Team Championship last week on Monday Night Raw.
We kickoff this week's edition of Raw with a rematch between Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid as Razor can not beat the Kid on Raw. Vince McMahon tells us in the main event tonight it will be a rematch from eight days ago as Bret Hart takes on Jean-Pierre Lafitte. McMahon also mentions whether or not the Kid has been talking to Ted DiBiase.
Razor is taking it to the Kid at the start as Dean Douglas comes out to observe the match and take notes. The Kid comes back but misses a spinning heel kick and is nailed with a big clothesline as Razor pins him for the 1-2-3.
The Kid wants another match and slaps Razor in the face and Razor gives him another match right now. While we were in commercial break, it was mentioned that Razor pinned the Kid again for the 1-2-3 as Razor turned a headscissors into a powerbomb for the pin.
Again, the match restarts as McMahon tells us we're getting three matches in one night. Ok this is stupid just end it. Razor gives Kid a back superplex off the top rope. Instead of going for the Razor's Edge, Razor shows the Kid mercy and pins him with an inside cradle.
Finally this match is over, or is it? The Kid sneaks up behind Razor with a roll up and the referee counts two. What the hell is going on? Kid turns his back to Razor and wants him to give him the Razor's Edge. Razor won't do it and the two hug and embrace and look to put everything behind them, so we think.
Vince McMahon and Jerry "The King" Lawler run down the upcoming In Your House PPV. WWF World Heavyweight Champion Diesel takes on The British Bulldog. Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels defends his title against Dean Douglas. The Undertaker takes on King Mabel and Goldust debuts against Marty Jannetty.
They show us last week on Raw where Mabel and Davey Boy Smith attack The Undertaker until Diesel and Michaels run in to make the save.
Tonight, Raw is doing an O.J. Simpson trial voteline where you can call and either vote yes or no on whether or not you think Simpson is guilty of double murder. 50 cents per call and the proceeds go to the National Exchange Club Foundation for the Prevention of Child Abuse. I don't get why they want everyone to vote OJ guilty or not but it is going to a good cause I guess. Anyone else sick of the damn OJ trial?
Next the WWF's blueblood snob Hunter Hearst Helmsley will take on Barry Horowitz. Horowitz does the job for Helmsley, who beats him with the Pedigree. Does this mean that Horowitz will be back to being a jobber?
Next up, two white dudes who pretend they are rappers: JC Ice and Wolfie D as PG-13 as they are taking on two jobbers. Vince McMahon says they are the USWA Tag Team Champions and PG-13 does an interview where they make fun of the Smoking Gunns and want to take their WWF World Tag Team Championship from them. PG-13 wins in a squash.
The main event has Bret "The Hitman" Hart taking on Jean-Pierre Lafitte in a rematch from In Your House. During the match, Jerry Lawler is trashing Hart throughout the match as he is still not over their feud from earlier. Ugh, can we move on from Lawler and Hart.
Hart and Lafitte have had another very good match here like their match at the PPV. I'm seriously digging this pirate character as he's really good in the ring. Don't look for main event status much after this however. Hart gives Lafitte the superplex and makes him give up to the Sharpshooter.
After the match, Lawler talks shit to Hart, prompting Hart to go after him. Lawler is saved by his dentist Isaac Yankem, who gives Hart the DDT or I should say DDS onto the floor, knocking Hart out. Crap, we are still on Hart vs. Lawler and Isaac Yankem?
Next week's main event on Monday Night Raw: Diesel, Shawn Michaels, and The Undertaker will take on The British Bulldog, Owen Hart, and Yokozuna in a six-man tag team match. We hear interviews from both sides.
The verdict is in and 51% voted O.J. Simpson not guilty. Good night!!
We kickoff this week's edition of Raw with a rematch between Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid as Razor can not beat the Kid on Raw. Vince McMahon tells us in the main event tonight it will be a rematch from eight days ago as Bret Hart takes on Jean-Pierre Lafitte. McMahon also mentions whether or not the Kid has been talking to Ted DiBiase.
Razor is taking it to the Kid at the start as Dean Douglas comes out to observe the match and take notes. The Kid comes back but misses a spinning heel kick and is nailed with a big clothesline as Razor pins him for the 1-2-3.
The Kid wants another match and slaps Razor in the face and Razor gives him another match right now. While we were in commercial break, it was mentioned that Razor pinned the Kid again for the 1-2-3 as Razor turned a headscissors into a powerbomb for the pin.
Again, the match restarts as McMahon tells us we're getting three matches in one night. Ok this is stupid just end it. Razor gives Kid a back superplex off the top rope. Instead of going for the Razor's Edge, Razor shows the Kid mercy and pins him with an inside cradle.
Finally this match is over, or is it? The Kid sneaks up behind Razor with a roll up and the referee counts two. What the hell is going on? Kid turns his back to Razor and wants him to give him the Razor's Edge. Razor won't do it and the two hug and embrace and look to put everything behind them, so we think.
Vince McMahon and Jerry "The King" Lawler run down the upcoming In Your House PPV. WWF World Heavyweight Champion Diesel takes on The British Bulldog. Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels defends his title against Dean Douglas. The Undertaker takes on King Mabel and Goldust debuts against Marty Jannetty.
They show us last week on Raw where Mabel and Davey Boy Smith attack The Undertaker until Diesel and Michaels run in to make the save.
Tonight, Raw is doing an O.J. Simpson trial voteline where you can call and either vote yes or no on whether or not you think Simpson is guilty of double murder. 50 cents per call and the proceeds go to the National Exchange Club Foundation for the Prevention of Child Abuse. I don't get why they want everyone to vote OJ guilty or not but it is going to a good cause I guess. Anyone else sick of the damn OJ trial?
Next the WWF's blueblood snob Hunter Hearst Helmsley will take on Barry Horowitz. Horowitz does the job for Helmsley, who beats him with the Pedigree. Does this mean that Horowitz will be back to being a jobber?
Next up, two white dudes who pretend they are rappers: JC Ice and Wolfie D as PG-13 as they are taking on two jobbers. Vince McMahon says they are the USWA Tag Team Champions and PG-13 does an interview where they make fun of the Smoking Gunns and want to take their WWF World Tag Team Championship from them. PG-13 wins in a squash.
The main event has Bret "The Hitman" Hart taking on Jean-Pierre Lafitte in a rematch from In Your House. During the match, Jerry Lawler is trashing Hart throughout the match as he is still not over their feud from earlier. Ugh, can we move on from Lawler and Hart.
Hart and Lafitte have had another very good match here like their match at the PPV. I'm seriously digging this pirate character as he's really good in the ring. Don't look for main event status much after this however. Hart gives Lafitte the superplex and makes him give up to the Sharpshooter.
After the match, Lawler talks shit to Hart, prompting Hart to go after him. Lawler is saved by his dentist Isaac Yankem, who gives Hart the DDT or I should say DDS onto the floor, knocking Hart out. Crap, we are still on Hart vs. Lawler and Isaac Yankem?
Next week's main event on Monday Night Raw: Diesel, Shawn Michaels, and The Undertaker will take on The British Bulldog, Owen Hart, and Yokozuna in a six-man tag team match. We hear interviews from both sides.
The verdict is in and 51% voted O.J. Simpson not guilty. Good night!!
WCW Monday Nitro: October 2, 1995
We are live from Denver, Colorado for the best one hour wrestling in the world. What a night ahead of us with a double main event with Randy Savage taking on Lex Luger with Luger leaving WCW if he loses and the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair taking on his former best friend Arn Anderson.
Flair comes to the broadcast booth to tell us he's taking on Anderson later tonight. WOOOOO!! The last couple of weeks on WCW Saturday Night, Flair has asked and even begged Sting to team up with him to take on Arn and Brian Pillman and Sting repeatedly tells him no and says he doesn't trust him for good reasons saying he's trusted him before only to be betrayed.
We kick off tonight's Nitro with one of the main events with Savage taking on Luger. As the match is going back-and-forth, Eric Bischoff tells us that Hulk Hogan is on his way to the arena to address his "Hulkamaniacs." Savage accidentally sends Luger into referee Randy Anderson, knocking him out.
Savage scoop slams Luger and hits him with the Flying Elbow Drop. But there's no referee to make the count. Savage goes and wakes up Anderson as The Giant enters the ring. He Chokeslams Savage and does not even lay a finger on Luger as he leaves. Luger picks up an unconscious Savage and puts Savage in the Torture Rack as the referee gets up and calls for the bell. Luger wins and won't have to leave WCW.
Next up is Dean Malenko taking on Eddie Guerrero in Malenko's WCW Nitro debut. Disco interrupts Guerrero's entrance to the ring by dancing to his own music when its supposed to be Guerrero coming out.
Before the match starts, they show us a clip of Guerrero defeating Jushin "Thunder" Liger with the Frog Splash on the Main Event last night. In the middle of a thrilling match between these two WCW newcomers and former ECW members who had great matches there, they show Hulk Hogan entering the arena in a limo.
Back to this match, Guerrero nails Malenko with a brain buster and goes for the Frog Splash off the top rope, but Malenko gets the knees up. After switching waist locks, Guerrero reverses Malenko's roll up into his own for the 1-2-3 in what was a truly thrilling match. Malenko demands a rematch which Guerrero gladly will provide and the two shake hands.
This past weekend on WCW Saturday Night, Johnny B. Badd was supposed to take on Sting for the U.S. Championship following his win against Brian Pillman at Fall Brawl. The week before on Saturday Night, Badd was confronted by WCW TV Champion Diamond Dallas Page saying he was the No. 1 contender to Sting's U.S. Title.
Badd did not show up for his scheduled match against Sting last weekend. Pillman instead took Badd's place and Sting beat Pillman to retain the title. Badd finally showed up at the end of the program saying he had a flat tire. Maxx Muscle made fun of his four flat tires. Badd realized Page was behind this and knocked Page out.
We come back from commercials as Mean Gene Okerlund introduces Hulk Hogan to the ring for their interview. Hogan comes down to the ring wearing the neck brace as Jimmy Hart is with him. Hogan talks about a Hulkamaniac named Jason who needs a double lung transplant. Jason tells Hogan to put down The Giant for good as Hogan vows to do just that.
As Hogan leaves following his interview, Hogan is shown outside the ring high-fiving several fans. All of a sudden, an old lady throws white powder in Hogan's eyes as it turns out its Kevin Sullivan in old lady drag as he beats both Hogan and Hart with a cane.
The Giant and Zodiac come down to the ring and grabs Hogan, rips off his neck brace, and twists his neck just like he did at Fall Brawl. Hogan is down and out as Sullivan takes out some clippers and shaves off Hogan's signature mustache.
The American Males and The Nasty Boys run out to help, but they are all Chokeslammed by The Giant. The American Males and The Nastys were supposed to have a World Tag Team Title match, but that's not happening now.
Now its time for the second main event as Ric Flair takes on Arn Anderson in a rematch from Fall Brawl. This match is exiting as its back-and-forth just like their classic match a few weeks ago at the PPV. Anderson gives Flair a spine buster for a two-count. Flair blocks a DDT attempt by holding onto the top rope.
Flair nails Anderson with punches to the head and his patented chops. Anderson tries a double ax handle off the second rope, only to be met by a chop by Flair. Flair puts Anderson in the Figure Four. Brian Pillman comes out and splashes Flair off the top rope, getting Anderson DQ'd. Anderson and Pillman double-team Flair, leaving him lying in the middle of the ring.
Next week on Monday Nitro: Flair gets a chance at revenge on Anderson as they will square off in a Steel Cage match. Sting takes on Shark. Sabu returns as he faces Mr. JL. Road Warrior Hawk returns from his broken arm he suffered at the Clash of the Champions two months ago as he takes on Big Bubba Rogers.
Flair comes to the broadcast booth to tell us he's taking on Anderson later tonight. WOOOOO!! The last couple of weeks on WCW Saturday Night, Flair has asked and even begged Sting to team up with him to take on Arn and Brian Pillman and Sting repeatedly tells him no and says he doesn't trust him for good reasons saying he's trusted him before only to be betrayed.
We kick off tonight's Nitro with one of the main events with Savage taking on Luger. As the match is going back-and-forth, Eric Bischoff tells us that Hulk Hogan is on his way to the arena to address his "Hulkamaniacs." Savage accidentally sends Luger into referee Randy Anderson, knocking him out.
Savage scoop slams Luger and hits him with the Flying Elbow Drop. But there's no referee to make the count. Savage goes and wakes up Anderson as The Giant enters the ring. He Chokeslams Savage and does not even lay a finger on Luger as he leaves. Luger picks up an unconscious Savage and puts Savage in the Torture Rack as the referee gets up and calls for the bell. Luger wins and won't have to leave WCW.
Next up is Dean Malenko taking on Eddie Guerrero in Malenko's WCW Nitro debut. Disco interrupts Guerrero's entrance to the ring by dancing to his own music when its supposed to be Guerrero coming out.
Before the match starts, they show us a clip of Guerrero defeating Jushin "Thunder" Liger with the Frog Splash on the Main Event last night. In the middle of a thrilling match between these two WCW newcomers and former ECW members who had great matches there, they show Hulk Hogan entering the arena in a limo.
Back to this match, Guerrero nails Malenko with a brain buster and goes for the Frog Splash off the top rope, but Malenko gets the knees up. After switching waist locks, Guerrero reverses Malenko's roll up into his own for the 1-2-3 in what was a truly thrilling match. Malenko demands a rematch which Guerrero gladly will provide and the two shake hands.
This past weekend on WCW Saturday Night, Johnny B. Badd was supposed to take on Sting for the U.S. Championship following his win against Brian Pillman at Fall Brawl. The week before on Saturday Night, Badd was confronted by WCW TV Champion Diamond Dallas Page saying he was the No. 1 contender to Sting's U.S. Title.
Badd did not show up for his scheduled match against Sting last weekend. Pillman instead took Badd's place and Sting beat Pillman to retain the title. Badd finally showed up at the end of the program saying he had a flat tire. Maxx Muscle made fun of his four flat tires. Badd realized Page was behind this and knocked Page out.
We come back from commercials as Mean Gene Okerlund introduces Hulk Hogan to the ring for their interview. Hogan comes down to the ring wearing the neck brace as Jimmy Hart is with him. Hogan talks about a Hulkamaniac named Jason who needs a double lung transplant. Jason tells Hogan to put down The Giant for good as Hogan vows to do just that.
As Hogan leaves following his interview, Hogan is shown outside the ring high-fiving several fans. All of a sudden, an old lady throws white powder in Hogan's eyes as it turns out its Kevin Sullivan in old lady drag as he beats both Hogan and Hart with a cane.
The Giant and Zodiac come down to the ring and grabs Hogan, rips off his neck brace, and twists his neck just like he did at Fall Brawl. Hogan is down and out as Sullivan takes out some clippers and shaves off Hogan's signature mustache.
The American Males and The Nasty Boys run out to help, but they are all Chokeslammed by The Giant. The American Males and The Nastys were supposed to have a World Tag Team Title match, but that's not happening now.
Now its time for the second main event as Ric Flair takes on Arn Anderson in a rematch from Fall Brawl. This match is exiting as its back-and-forth just like their classic match a few weeks ago at the PPV. Anderson gives Flair a spine buster for a two-count. Flair blocks a DDT attempt by holding onto the top rope.
Flair nails Anderson with punches to the head and his patented chops. Anderson tries a double ax handle off the second rope, only to be met by a chop by Flair. Flair puts Anderson in the Figure Four. Brian Pillman comes out and splashes Flair off the top rope, getting Anderson DQ'd. Anderson and Pillman double-team Flair, leaving him lying in the middle of the ring.
Next week on Monday Nitro: Flair gets a chance at revenge on Anderson as they will square off in a Steel Cage match. Sting takes on Shark. Sabu returns as he faces Mr. JL. Road Warrior Hawk returns from his broken arm he suffered at the Clash of the Champions two months ago as he takes on Big Bubba Rogers.
Sunday, October 1, 1995
Steve Austin Debuts in ECW; WrestleMania Special on Fox Draws a Strong Rating; Starrcade Could Be WCW Vs. New Japan Pro Wrestling
Steve Austin, a free agent following his release from WCW, made an unannounced debut in ECW, vowing to win Mikey Whipwreck's ECW Heavyweight Championship. He also does a parody of Hulk Hogan.
In Your House 3 draws similar numbers to the In Your House PPV in July. The main event has Owen Hart not showing up for the event as The British Bulldog replaced him. The story had Hart missing because of the berth of his child. He showed up at the end of the event when he jumped off the top rope, only for Diesel to hit him and give him the Jackknife Powerbomb. The referee allowed the pin despite Hart not being in the matchup. This was obviously a screwjob finish as they did not want Diesel and Shawn Michaels to be the Tag Team Champions in addition to their respective singles championships but they did not want them to lose the match since they were over with the fans. This also setup to have fans tune into Raw the next night to see what was going to happen. The WWF returned the tag team titles to Owen and Yokozuna, only for them to lose them to the Smokin' Gunns. Bret Hart took on Jean Pierre Lafitte in a thrilling match, the best on the card as Lafitte could be buried after his run-in with Diesel and Michaels.
The WWF aired a WrestleMania XI special on FOX that featured the Diesel vs. Michaels and Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow matches in their entirety. The special drew a really strong 3.8 rating.
Starrcade '95 will likely feature a rivalry with New Japan Pro Wrestling as the show will feature WCW wrestlers vs. New Japan Pro Wrestling wrestlers in a series of matches.
In Your House 3 draws similar numbers to the In Your House PPV in July. The main event has Owen Hart not showing up for the event as The British Bulldog replaced him. The story had Hart missing because of the berth of his child. He showed up at the end of the event when he jumped off the top rope, only for Diesel to hit him and give him the Jackknife Powerbomb. The referee allowed the pin despite Hart not being in the matchup. This was obviously a screwjob finish as they did not want Diesel and Shawn Michaels to be the Tag Team Champions in addition to their respective singles championships but they did not want them to lose the match since they were over with the fans. This also setup to have fans tune into Raw the next night to see what was going to happen. The WWF returned the tag team titles to Owen and Yokozuna, only for them to lose them to the Smokin' Gunns. Bret Hart took on Jean Pierre Lafitte in a thrilling match, the best on the card as Lafitte could be buried after his run-in with Diesel and Michaels.
The WWF aired a WrestleMania XI special on FOX that featured the Diesel vs. Michaels and Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow matches in their entirety. The special drew a really strong 3.8 rating.
Starrcade '95 will likely feature a rivalry with New Japan Pro Wrestling as the show will feature WCW wrestlers vs. New Japan Pro Wrestling wrestlers in a series of matches.
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