WCW World War 3

We are live from The Scope in Norfolk, VA for the first ever World War 3 PPV with your hosts Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan. They hype up tonight's 60-man, 3-ring battle royal with the winner to become the new WCW World Heavyweight Champion.

Gene Okerlund interviews Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Sting. Hogan takes off his dark clothes and shows he's back to wearing yellow and red and throws the black clothes in a garbage can and they light it on fire. Hogan then references how the internet community (Dave Meltzer) says Savage won't wrestle because of the arm injury, but Hogan says the injury was a plan and puts a piece of paper saying Savage won't wrestle into the fire.

The opening match is for the WCW World Television Championship between Johnny B. Badd and Diamond Dallas Page with the winner to get both the title AND The Diamond Doll Kimberly. Badd tries to hit Page with the Tootie Frootie, but he puts Kimberly in front of him so Badd won't hit him. Page cowardly punches Badd. Page does a move and tells Kimberly to give him a "10" and hold up the sign, but she refuses.

Badd then gives Page a clothesline and she holds up a "10+" sign. Badd would give Page the Tootie Frootie and knocks him out of the ring. Badd then gives Page a somersault over the top rope onto Page. Badd puts Page back into the ring as Badd would slingshot over the top rope on the apron and into the ring with a leg drop to pin Page for the 1-2-3 to retain the title and gain the services of Kimberly.

Next up is the lame ass Taped Fist match between Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Big Bubba Rogers. The match was ridiculously long as V.K. Wallstreet (I.R.S.) interfered and looked to hit Duggan with a chain. Duggan nailed him with his 2x4, but the chain ends up in Rogers' hand and he nails Duggan with it. Duggan can not get up before the count of 10 as Rogers won.

Gene Okerlund interviews Ric Flair as Flair says he will win the battle royal tonight and plans to have Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Sting all in the same ring.

It's time for the Japanese women's tag team match featuring Cutie Suzuki (and a cutie she is) & Mayumi Ozaki (also a cutie as I like asian women) vs. Bull Nakano & Akira Hokuto (who I don't think are too cute). You may remember Nakano for challenging Alundra Blayze last year for the WWFs Women's Championship.

This was a thrilling match as Nakano has Ozaki on her shoulders as Hokuto jumps off the top rope and they deliver a Road Warriors Doomsday Device, but they only get a two-count thanks to Cutie making the save. Hokuto takes care of Cutie as Nakano delivers a leg drop off the top rope onto Ozaki (ouch!) for the 1-2-3 and the win.

Gene Okerlund is talking to Lex Luger and Jimmy Hart. Luger says he will beat Macho Man and then win the battle royal later to become the new WCW World Heavyweight Champion.

Kensuke Sasaki, w/Sonny Oono, defends his newly won United States Heavyweight Championship against new Four Horsemen member Chris Benoit. Oono joins the broadcast team for commentary as Benoit gives Sasaki two German Suplexes and tried a third before Sasaki avoided it and gives Benoit a clothesline.

Benoit reverses a Tombstone attempt into a Tombstone of his own and then gives Sasaki a flying headbutt off the top rope for a two-count. A flying Hurricanrana off the top rope by Benoit also only gives him a two-count.

Sasaki blocks a kick and gives him a Spinebuster and locked Benoit in a head/arm submission, but Benoit gets to the ropes to break the hold. Sasaki gives Benoit a Brainbuster for the 1-2-3 to retain the title.

Gene Okerlund is with Kevin Sullivan, The Giant, and Jimmy Hart. Hart says he is not worried about Hulk Hogan going back to yellow and red. Sullivan says a member of the Dungeon of Doom will win tonight and Giant says he will throw Hogan over the top rope and win back his title that he did not lose.

Next we are shown a video package highlighting the feud between Randy Savage and Lex Luger. Okerlund is with Savage. Savage says Luger will find out that Savage is "The Total Package" and says his arm is a "million percent." Sure whatever.

It's time for the Savage-Luger match as Savage quickly attacks him with right hands and choking him. Savage dominates as he took him outside and beat him out there and brought him back into the ring, where he gave Luger a scoop slam and the Flying Elbow Drop. However, Jimmy Hart is on the apron distracting the referee, preventing him from counting three.

Savage throws Luger onto Hart on the outside. Savage throws Luger into the guardrail before Luger counters by slamming Savage back first into the ring apron. Luger then puts Savage into the Torture Rack on the outside.

Luger throws Savage back into the ring and gives him an armbar on his bad arm. Savage is out cold as the referee raises his hand three times to signal that Luger has won the match. Luger holds onto the hold on Savage until Sting runs down and whispers something to Luger, like Luger did a few weeks ago to Sting, and Luger releases the hold.

Up next is the Sting-Ric Flair match as a highlight video between these two was shown highlighting their feud. Sting attacks Flair with right hands and a gorilla press slam. Sting would then no-sell Flair's chops and give him more right hands and gorilla press slams.

For some reason, Sister Sherri and Col. Rob Parker are out here and smooching. Flair works on Sting's knee as he clips him, gives him a back suplex and applies the Figure Four on Sting. Sting gains adrenaline and turns over the move.

Sting gets a backslide for a two-count and no sells another chop. Sting gives Flair yet another press slam and some clotheslines. Flair climbs the top rope and Sting slams him off the top rope. Flair does the usual Flair flip and Sting hits him with a clothesline to the floor.

Sting gives Flair punches in the corner until Flair tries to atomic drop him, only to miss and Sting to punch him to take him down. Sting gives Flair a Superplex and locks him in the Scorpion Death Lock. Flair submits as Sting wins.

Now it's time for the main event: the 60-man, 3-ring over-the-top-rope battle royal with the winner to win the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship. I don't even know 60 WCW wrestlers as they get some jobbers and some random guys for one night only to fill out the roster which makes it weaker.

Surprisingly, the nearly "8-ft-tall" Yeti was the first eliminated barely 30 seconds in. WCW has three different sets of announcers at each ring as they go to each ring for a little while to call the action. Soon it goes from three rings, to two, to finally just one. Hawk is eliminated by Hulk Hogan who then eliminates Kensuke Sasaki to leave just 10 men in the ring.

Hogan eliminates Paul Orndorff. Arn Anderson throws Eddie Guerrero over the top rope while Hogan and Sting team up and pound on Ric Flair. Sting throws Flair over the top rope while Hogan eliminates Anderson at roughly the same time, leaving just six men.

Hogan helps Randy Savage try to throw One Man Gang over the top rope as Sting and Lex Luger work on The Giant by hitting him with a double clothesline him over the top rope. They try and throw Giant over the top while Hogan comes over to throw them all out over the top rope just as Savage eliminates Gang.

While the attention is on Savage eliminating Gang, the refs all miss The Giant pulling Hogan out of the ring underneath the ropes, which means he is not eliminated. However, the refs only see Savage in the ring and assume Hogan was eliminated so Savage is declared winner and new WCW World Heavyweight Championship.

This is the first of his WCW career as he joins Hogan and Ric Flair as the only wrestlers to win both the WCW and WWF World Championships. Hogan insists he was not eliminated as Savage says he'll look at the footage later. Hogan says he and Savage are cool right now.