Happy New Year everyone!! We are live on New Year's Day from Atlanta, GA with our hosts Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and Steve McMichael.
They discuss how Ric Flair won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Starrcade with Arn Anderson costing Savage the World Title against Flair. Flair will defend his title against Hulk Hogan in the main event. We will open up the show with Savage taking on Arn plus they mention Sting and Lex Luger.
Savage tries to get revenge on Arn for costing him the title against Flair. Arn gets the early advantage by attacking him at the start before Savage fights back as his right hands send Arn to the floor. Savage then goes outside and stomps Arn and sends him into the ring steps.
Bischoff spoils the RAW results by telling us that the Smoking Gunns won the RAW Bowl. Savage hits Arn with an atomic drop and then a flying double axe handle off the top rope for a two-count. Arn then hits Savage with a single-arm DDT on Savage's bad arm and soon gets the advantage by attacking his arm and even taking the tape off it.
Savage fights back with right hand punches. Arn throws a left-hand punch, Savage ducks but Arn catches him with the DDT. Savage rolls to the ropes as Arn covers him but Savage puts his foot on the ropes to break up the pin. Arn goes for another DDT, but is shoved into the referee by Savage, taking him down.
With the ref out of commission, Arn goes for the foreign object he used on Savage at Starrcade, but Savage hits him. He then picks up the object and nails Arn with it. Savage pins him and the ref gets up and counts 1-2-3. Brian Pillman and Chris Benoit come down to argue but to no avail.
It's time for Benoit to take on Lord Steven Regal. Eric Bischoff again tells us the Smoking Gunns won the RAW Bowl. Regal puts Benoit in an arm bar and hits him with several headbutts as Benoit gets back up each time. Benoit trips him up and gives him several headbutts of his own. We are shown MLB's all-time home run leader Hank Aaron sitting in the crowd.
Regal puts Benoit on the ground and applies several submission moves until Benoit hits him with a German Suplex. Regal hits Benoit with a Butterfly Suplex for a nearfall. Benoit tries to go for a Back Superplex off the top rope, but is knocked off by Regal. Benoit instead puts Regal on his shoulders and drops him to the mat.
Benoit goes to the top for the Flying Headbutt but misses. Benoit reverses a Tombstone Piledriver and hits Regal with one of his own. Regal rolls to the floor. Benoit tries to dive over the top rope onto Regal on the floor, but misses and lands hard on the floor, knocking him out. Regal rolls him back into the ring and pins him for the 1-2-3.
Gene Okerlund is standing in the ring with Horsemen members Benoit, Brian Pillman, and Arn Anderson. Pillman is upset that the Horsemen are 0-2 tonight as he calls out both Arn and Benoit for losing and says it would take sheer luck to beat him. Arn tells him their only job is to keep the World Title around Ric Flair's waist. The Dungeon of Doom come out to go after Pillman, but they are held back by The Giant and Jimmy Hart.
Up next, Sting and Lex Luger team up to take on The Super Assassins. On WCW Saturday Night, Arn and Pillman team up to take on The American Males and Luger takes on Cobra.
Sting and Luger come out to separate entrances as the announcers again play up the "can Sting trust Luger?" angle. Sgt. Craig Pittman comes out to ask Mongo McMichael if he will be his manager. Mongo declines the offer and tells him to basically man up and be a Marine!!
Sting gives both members of the Assassins Stinger Splashes. Sting is thrown out of the ring and is dropped onto the guardrail. The Assassins double-team Sting and hit him with a Suplex-Cross Body combination that only nets a two-count. One powerbombs Sting while the other climbs to the top to deliver a top rope splash, but Sting moves out of the way and tags in Luger.
Luger runs into the ring and hits both of them with right hands and running clotheslines. Luger puts one of them in the Torture Rack while Sting has the other in the Scorpion Death Lock. Both Assassins give up as Sting and Luger win.
Mean Gene is with Jimmy Hart and The Giant. Hart mentions the time on the road with Hulk Hogan. Hart wants the Four Horsemen to join forces with The Dungeon of Doom to rid Hulkamania. The Giant mentions how Hogan screwed him out of the title a couple weeks ago on Nitro.
It's time for the main event Ric Flair defending the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Hogan, returning from "suspension." First, how is this high-profile a match on free TV and not PPV? Second, how does Hogan who gets a free two week vacation, I mean suspension for the final two weeks of 1995, he was already not on the Starrcade card anyhow, for attacking referees and other wrestlers with steel chairs get a World Title match right off suspension?
Flair comes out first and Hogan comes out after to a mixed reaction. Hogan starts off by shoving Flair down and knocking him down a couple of times with shoulderblocks. Hogan puts Flair in the test of strength and shows us all how much stronger he is than Flair. Flair then chops Hogan in the corner.
Flair then chops Hogan more until Hogan begins to no sell it. Hogan hits Flair with several right hands until he runs into an elbow in the corner. Flair climbed to the top, but is slammed by Hogan off the top rope. Hogan then clotheslines Flair over the top rope. Flair sends Hogan into the guardrail, but he no-sells it and clotheslines Flair.
Back in the ring, Flair does his flip in the corner and onto the apron, where Hogan clotheslines him to the floor. Flair pokes Hogan in the eyes and clips his knee. Flair begins to work on the knee with several knee drops on his knee. Flair then puts Hogan in the Figure Four. Hogan soon reverses the hold as Jimmy Hart comes to ringside.
The move is broken up as Hogan begins to yell at Hart. Flair kicks him in the knee and then gives him a standing vertical suplex. Flair covers Hogan who kicks out at two and begins to "Hulk up!" Hogan no-sells Flair's attacks and then gives Flair three right hands, the big boot, and the leg drop. Hart jumps on the ring apron to distract Hogan and the ref. Hogan grabs Hart and knocks him down.
Arn Anderson runs into the ring and nails Hogan with the brass knuckles. Hogan gets right up and no-sells it and hits Anderson. He grabs the foreign object and shows it to the referee, who disqualifies Flair and gives the win to Hogan, but Flair retains the title.
Brian Pillman and Chris Benoit enter the ring, but Hogan hits them with the object and has all Four Horsemen members on their knees begging for mercy. The Giant runs in with a wooden stool. Savage comes in and grabs the stool from The Giant. Hogan nails the Giant with the object and sends him out of the ring as the Horsemen also left.
Up next on TNT, the movie Legend will be on starring Tom Cruise as Eric Bischoff says the WWF is a lot like the movie Legend.
Gene Okerlund is in the ring with Hogan and Savage. Hogan says he and Savage want Flair and Anderson next week on Nitro. Hogan mentions a "secret weapon" as it is the brass knuckles. Bischoff says the Hogan/Savage vs. Flair and Anderson match next week will happen and we are out.
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