Sunny in a bikini tells us that some material on Raw is too hot to handle and that viewer discretion is advised. Our hosts as usual are Vince McMahon and Jerry "The King" Lawler.
The opening match is Jake "The Snake" Roberts taking on Isaac Yankem DDS. Lawler mentions how he does not want a snake around him and how he was eliminated from the Royal Rumble because of Roberts' snake.
Yankem gives Roberts a headlock only for Roberts to throw him in the ropes and hiptoss him. Yankem takes advantage by clubbing Roberts and choking him. Yankem goes for the DDS only for Roberts to block it. Roberts then hits him with the DDT to win the match. Roberts does not take his snake out of the match.
The Ultimate Warrior is shown to be coming soon back to the WWF possibly at WrestleMania XII.
Diesel takes on Bob "Spark Plug" Holly with Diesel dominating him with knees and elbows in the corner and the sidewalk slam. Diesel begins looking around for The Undertaker. Holly fights back with clotheslines and takes him down as we go to commercial. Back from the break, Diesel gives Holly the Jackknife to win the match.
Diesel leaves the ring as a gong is played. The lights go out and when they go back on, The Undertaker is standing in the ring. Diesel goes to the ring as the lights go out again. When they come back on, Diesel is in the ring but Undertaker is not. Then the lights go out a third time and there is a message saying he will play mind games with Diesel and will see him at WrestleMania.
Ahmed Johnson takes on the ninja known as "Shinobi" (I used to love that video game). Johnson takes care of Shinobi quick with the spinebuster and Pearl River Plunge. During the match, Goldust calls in on the phone to tell us he loves the thought Roddy Piper is called "Hot Rod" and would love to play his "bagpipes" sometime. I wonder what the hell that was all about?
Mankind is shown talking to his rat friend George about his mommy.
There is an eight-team tournament to determine the new WWF Tag Team Champions at WrestleMania as the tag team champions the Smokin' Gunns were forced to vacate the titles due to Billy Gunn suffering a neck injury and can't compete.
The first match of the tournament took place this past weekend on Superstars where The British Bulldog and Owen Hart defeated Hakushi and Barry Horowitz. Next week on Superstars, The New Rockers debut in the tournament and take on The Godwinns with the winner to take on Owen and Bulldog in the semifinals.
Vince McMahon is standing in the ring as he is going to interview both participants in the main event at WrestleMania XII: WWF Champion Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. Both men respect each other but Bret says he's better while Shawn says he's better. Fans don't seem to be behind Bret while they are cheering Michaels.
Interim WWF President Roddy Piper comes out and sends McMahon back to his seat to finish this interview. Piper tells the fans to cool it on Bret since he's the champion and beat Piper before. Since Piper wants to see a true winner and a clean finish and figures anybody can be lucky on any given night, Piper announces that the WrestleMania WWF Championship match will now be a 60-man Iron Man Match.
Bret and Shawn shake hands and leave the ring. That's awesome an Iron Man Match between these two. A cameraman tries to sneak into Camp Cornette's locker room, but Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith quickly chase him out. We are shown a cheap hotline plug with the heading "Are Roddy Piper and Goldust an item?"
It's time for the main event where Yokozuna takes on Owen and Davey Boy (w/ Jim Cornette) in a Handicap Match. Yoko takes out both men and works on Owen until he misses an avalanche in the corner and Owen hit a missile dropkick. Cornette distracts the referee as both men double team Yoko as we go to commercial break.
Back from the break, Owen and Davey Boy are still in control until Owen misses a flying headbutt. Owen tags in as Yoko beats on Davey Boy as Vader comes to the ring. What a shock!!! Cornette tries to hold Vader back but he can't as Vader runs right into the ring to attack Yoko getting Owen and Davey Boy disqualified.
Vader, Owen, and Davey Boy all beat up on Yoko 3-on-1 until Ahmed Johnson and Jake Roberts come to the ring to chase Owen and Davey Boy off. Vader wants to fight the two of them but Roberts pulls out his snake Revelations to chase Vader and Camp Cornette away.
It's time for another edition of Larry Fling Live with your host Larry Fling and his guests this week The Huckster and The Nacho Man. Larry asks "How's Liz doing?" and both answer simultaneously "Fine" as both look at each other since both are in it with Liz.
Huckster threatens to hit Larry with a steel chair as Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage keep using chairs on WCW and Larry holds up a red women's shoe as Huckster backs down making fun of Hogan getting beaten by a woman's shoe.
Nacho Man says they left the WWF because they could not keep up with the New Generation. Huckster tells Nacho Man he needs to beat him at WrestleMania to keep his merchandise sales up. Billionaire Ted calls in and Huckster goes wild hitting everyone with really fake chair shots as Larry is holding the women's shoe.
Next week on Raw, Bret Hart takes on Hunter Hearst Helmsley while Shawn Michaels battles the 1-2-3 Kid.
Tuesday, February 27, 1996
WCW Monday Nitro: February 26, 1996
Monday Nitro is live from Knoxville, TN with our hosts Eric Bischoff, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, and Steve "Mongo" McMichael. They talk about the six man tag team match between Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and The Booty Man against Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, and Kevin Sullivan.
They also mention Uncensored as right now the Belfast Bruiser takes on Lord Steven Regal and Konnan defends his U.S. title against fellow Mexican wrestler Eddie Guerrero (two Mexicans for the U.S. Title).
The opening match is Sting vs. Big Bubba. During Bubba's entrance, Bischoff gives away results of the "World Whiny Federation's" Raw as Yokozuna wins the handicap match between he and Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith by DQ, Jake Roberts beating Isaac Yankem, and Diesel beating Bob Holly since Raw is taped and Nitro is live.
Sting slaps Bubba in the face at the start. Bubba responds by attacking him, giving Sting the leap on his back while Sting is laying on the second rope as well as sliding to the outside to give Sting an uppercut. Sting gets out of a headlock only to run into a spinebuster. Bubba gives Sting an Avalanche and sends him outside. A "grandma" at ringside gets in Bubba's face allowing Sting to hit him.
Back in the ring, Sting gave Bubba a nasty looking piledriver. Bubba eats a boot in the corner. Sting goes for a middle rope splash only for Bubba to get his knees up. Sting is sent outside. Bubba goes up top where Sting shoves him off the top rope back into the ring. Sting climbs the top rope and hits Bubba with a flying crossbody for the 1-2-3.
After the commercial break, Gene Okerlund is standing with the WCW World Tag Team Champions Sting and Lex Luger. The Road Warriors interrupt the interview and challenge Sting and Luger for the titles in a "Chicago Street Fight" at Uncensored. Luger accepts the match on behalf of him and Sting.
Luger takes on The Renegade. Renegade beats on Luger until he missed a crossbody. Luger gives him a suplex only for The Renegade to get right back and no-sells Luger and hits him with a clothesline and then a powerslam for two. After hitting Luger with the handspring elbow in the corner, Renegade goes up top for the flying splash only for Jimmy Hart to push him off.
Luger then puts him in the Torture Rack as Renegade gives up as Luger wins. Sting comes out to yell at Luger for having Hart again interfere in his matches. Luger lifts Renegade up as a show of sportsmanship but Sting is not buying it as he continues to scold Luger.
The Road Warriors take on Harlem Heat with apparently the winner of this match will take on Sting and Luger for the tag team titles. Well since The Road Warriors already challenged the champs and they accepted at Uncensored, it's fair to say who will be winning.
Hawk and Booker T begin the match where they tag Animal and Stevie Ray, respectively after Hawk gave Booker a reverse neckbreaker. Stevie gives Hawk a Powerbomb and Booker T nails him with an axe kick for two. After a double suplex, Hawk eventually gets the tag to Animal, who gives both Harlem Heat a double clothesline.
Animal and Stevie fight outside while Booker T sets Hawk up for the Harlem Hangover as he climbs up the top rope. Booker nails him with it, but there is no referee. Animal kicks Booker in the head and Hawk pins him. The ref turns around and counts 1-2-3 in a rather weak finish. The Road Warriors are officially the number one contenders for the World Tag Team Titles.
It's time for the six-man tag team main event match between Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and The Booty Man vs. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, and Kevin Sullivan. The Booty Man starts the match attacking the heels and doing his strut like Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake.
Here comes The Diamond Doll Kimberly wearing a super short skirt making me drool as she is carrying flowers and is wondering who gave them to her? Perhaps its Booty himself. But she's Johnny B. Badd's girl formerly Diamond Dallas Page's girl. Boy does she get around. I'm only 14 but please sometime come my way!!
Anyway, Eric Bischoff mentions that Booty Man was actually a spy as Zodiac in the Dungeon of Doom sent in by Hogan to take them down from the inside. Sure whatever!! Savage gets beaten and chopped by Flair in the corner. Savage then throws Flair off the top rope and tags in Hogan.
Hogan and Booty Man gives a double big boot to Flair. Booty Man whipped all three men into Hogan as Hogan gave each man a big boot. Hogan gives Arn the Leg Drop and pins him for the 1-2-3. After the match, Flair knees Hogan into the corner where Elizabeth handcuffs Hogan to the corner as Flair begins whipping Hogan with a leather strap and the show goes off the air.
Nitro will not be on next week because of a stupid ass movie on TNT so Nitro will be back on in two weeks.
Back in the ring, Sting gave Bubba a nasty looking piledriver. Bubba eats a boot in the corner. Sting goes for a middle rope splash only for Bubba to get his knees up. Sting is sent outside. Bubba goes up top where Sting shoves him off the top rope back into the ring. Sting climbs the top rope and hits Bubba with a flying crossbody for the 1-2-3.
After the commercial break, Gene Okerlund is standing with the WCW World Tag Team Champions Sting and Lex Luger. The Road Warriors interrupt the interview and challenge Sting and Luger for the titles in a "Chicago Street Fight" at Uncensored. Luger accepts the match on behalf of him and Sting.
Luger takes on The Renegade. Renegade beats on Luger until he missed a crossbody. Luger gives him a suplex only for The Renegade to get right back and no-sells Luger and hits him with a clothesline and then a powerslam for two. After hitting Luger with the handspring elbow in the corner, Renegade goes up top for the flying splash only for Jimmy Hart to push him off.
Luger then puts him in the Torture Rack as Renegade gives up as Luger wins. Sting comes out to yell at Luger for having Hart again interfere in his matches. Luger lifts Renegade up as a show of sportsmanship but Sting is not buying it as he continues to scold Luger.
The Road Warriors take on Harlem Heat with apparently the winner of this match will take on Sting and Luger for the tag team titles. Well since The Road Warriors already challenged the champs and they accepted at Uncensored, it's fair to say who will be winning.
Hawk and Booker T begin the match where they tag Animal and Stevie Ray, respectively after Hawk gave Booker a reverse neckbreaker. Stevie gives Hawk a Powerbomb and Booker T nails him with an axe kick for two. After a double suplex, Hawk eventually gets the tag to Animal, who gives both Harlem Heat a double clothesline.
Animal and Stevie fight outside while Booker T sets Hawk up for the Harlem Hangover as he climbs up the top rope. Booker nails him with it, but there is no referee. Animal kicks Booker in the head and Hawk pins him. The ref turns around and counts 1-2-3 in a rather weak finish. The Road Warriors are officially the number one contenders for the World Tag Team Titles.
It's time for the six-man tag team main event match between Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and The Booty Man vs. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, and Kevin Sullivan. The Booty Man starts the match attacking the heels and doing his strut like Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake.
Here comes The Diamond Doll Kimberly wearing a super short skirt making me drool as she is carrying flowers and is wondering who gave them to her? Perhaps its Booty himself. But she's Johnny B. Badd's girl formerly Diamond Dallas Page's girl. Boy does she get around. I'm only 14 but please sometime come my way!!
Anyway, Eric Bischoff mentions that Booty Man was actually a spy as Zodiac in the Dungeon of Doom sent in by Hogan to take them down from the inside. Sure whatever!! Savage gets beaten and chopped by Flair in the corner. Savage then throws Flair off the top rope and tags in Hogan.
Hogan and Booty Man gives a double big boot to Flair. Booty Man whipped all three men into Hogan as Hogan gave each man a big boot. Hogan gives Arn the Leg Drop and pins him for the 1-2-3. After the match, Flair knees Hogan into the corner where Elizabeth handcuffs Hogan to the corner as Flair begins whipping Hogan with a leather strap and the show goes off the air.
Nitro will not be on next week because of a stupid ass movie on TNT so Nitro will be back on in two weeks.
Sunday, February 25, 1996
Best Buy Rate for an IYH PPV; Shawn Michaels Climbing His Way to the Top; Razor Ramon (Scott Hall) Signs Three-Year Deal with WCW and Is Immediately Suspended Six Weeks For Failing Drug Test; Diesel (Kevin Nash) Could Join Hall in WCW; Brian Pillman Appears in ECW; WWF Atty Says Ted Turner Tried Many Times to Buy the WWF and Was Turned Down
WWF's In Your House PPV drew a 0.65 buy rate, easily the best ever for a WWF In Your House PPV. Razor Ramon vs. 1-2-3 Kid, Shawn Michaels vs. Owen Hart, and the main event Steel Cage WWF Championship match between Bret Hart and Diesel were the major highlights.
The Undertaker came up through the bottom of the ring and pulled Diesel in the hole, costing him the WWF Title as Bret escaped the cage as these two will be likely facing at WrestleMania. Since Michaels beat Owen in a thrilling match to retain his WrestleMania title match with Bret. It is expected for Michaels to dethrone Bret for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania.
Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) announced he will be leaving the WWF to join WCW as he signed a three-year deal with a fully guaranteed contract. The contract will give Hall more money while working a lot fewer dates than he had in the WWF. Vince McMahon responded by suspending Hall without pay for failing a drug test and Hall will be off WWF TV in the coming weeks.
Hall was to face Goldust at WrestleMania in a "Miami Street Fight" but that won't be happening with the suspension. Reports are that Hall's best friend Kevin Nash (Diesel) will announce he too will leave the WWF to go with Hall to WCW for a very similar contract. Hulk Hogan apparently wants to work with Nash in WCW.
Hogan continues to lose matches on Nitro, this time to Arn Anderson as it widely speculated this is a response to the Billionaire Ted skits that Hogan "never loses." Chris Benoit signed a two-year contract extension to remain in WCW with his buddies Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko.
Brian Pillman showed up at the ECW Arena at Cyberslam where he mocks Eric Bischoff calling him "Eric Jerkoff" and calling the fans "smart marks" then threatens to whip out his Johnson and piss all over the ring in an attempt to make him look more crazier than he had been in WCW.
Paul Heyman, Tod Gordon, and Shane Douglas all come out to prevent this as Heyman yelled "this is not part of the deal." Pillman then hit Heyman with a "Bookerman" blast like he did to Kevin Sullivan at SuperBrawl. Pillman then "attacked" a fan and pulled out a fork to use on him as he was escorted out of the building by security.
Even though Pillman appears to be fired by WCW, he is still on the payroll as they are making this look like it's a shoot but it's a total work as they are working on a new contract. He is only supposed to appear twice more in ECW. Pillman's matches on syndicated WCW TV have been taken off the air.
WWF attorney Jerry McDevitt does an exclusive interview with Prodigy. He states that Ted Turner tried many times to buy the WWF from Vince McMahon from the late-1980s up until about 1993 or 1994 when McMahon turned him down each time.
Since McMahon refused to sell the company and it wasn't for sale, Turner vowed to put the WWF out of business.
The Undertaker came up through the bottom of the ring and pulled Diesel in the hole, costing him the WWF Title as Bret escaped the cage as these two will be likely facing at WrestleMania. Since Michaels beat Owen in a thrilling match to retain his WrestleMania title match with Bret. It is expected for Michaels to dethrone Bret for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania.
Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) announced he will be leaving the WWF to join WCW as he signed a three-year deal with a fully guaranteed contract. The contract will give Hall more money while working a lot fewer dates than he had in the WWF. Vince McMahon responded by suspending Hall without pay for failing a drug test and Hall will be off WWF TV in the coming weeks.
Hall was to face Goldust at WrestleMania in a "Miami Street Fight" but that won't be happening with the suspension. Reports are that Hall's best friend Kevin Nash (Diesel) will announce he too will leave the WWF to go with Hall to WCW for a very similar contract. Hulk Hogan apparently wants to work with Nash in WCW.
Hogan continues to lose matches on Nitro, this time to Arn Anderson as it widely speculated this is a response to the Billionaire Ted skits that Hogan "never loses." Chris Benoit signed a two-year contract extension to remain in WCW with his buddies Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko.
Brian Pillman showed up at the ECW Arena at Cyberslam where he mocks Eric Bischoff calling him "Eric Jerkoff" and calling the fans "smart marks" then threatens to whip out his Johnson and piss all over the ring in an attempt to make him look more crazier than he had been in WCW.
Paul Heyman, Tod Gordon, and Shane Douglas all come out to prevent this as Heyman yelled "this is not part of the deal." Pillman then hit Heyman with a "Bookerman" blast like he did to Kevin Sullivan at SuperBrawl. Pillman then "attacked" a fan and pulled out a fork to use on him as he was escorted out of the building by security.
Even though Pillman appears to be fired by WCW, he is still on the payroll as they are making this look like it's a shoot but it's a total work as they are working on a new contract. He is only supposed to appear twice more in ECW. Pillman's matches on syndicated WCW TV have been taken off the air.
WWF attorney Jerry McDevitt does an exclusive interview with Prodigy. He states that Ted Turner tried many times to buy the WWF from Vince McMahon from the late-1980s up until about 1993 or 1994 when McMahon turned him down each time.
Since McMahon refused to sell the company and it wasn't for sale, Turner vowed to put the WWF out of business.
ECW Hardcore TV: February 20, 1996
This week's episode of ECW Hardcore TV takes place from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia where we are shown highlights of Cyberslam. We start off with a promo by The Sandman and Missy Hyatt.
The first match is Judge Dredd and Badd Company (Ian and Axl Rotten) taking on Dino Sendoff, Don E. Allen, and the Dirt Bike Kid (sounds like my kind of wrestler given my love of dirt bikes and motocross). The match ends quickly as The Sandman comes in and canes everyone to start the show off.
After the intro is shown, Joey Styles is shown standing in the ring. The lights go out and when they come back on, BRIAN PILLMAN is standing in the ring!!! Pillman fires on Eric Bischoff for firing him from WCW and calling him a piece of shit repeatedly. The fans begin to chant "Bischoff takes it up the ass....DOO DA...DOO DA!" That's awesome!!! Probably takes it from Hulk Hogan and/or Ted Turner.
He then calls the fans "Smart marks" and explains what a mark is as it is each and every one of us fans out there. Pillman then threatens to "pull out his Johnson and urinate in the ring" when all of a sudden Paul Heyman and Tod Gordon come to the ring. They are basically yelling this is not part of the act that Pillman is in fact crazy. Pillman hits Heyman with a "Booker Man" blast like he did to Kevin Sullivan at SuperBrawl.
Heyman yells "Fuck you" to Pillman repeatedly as security is trying to escort Pillman from the building as he is fighting them off. Pillman spits at a fan and the fan swings at him. Pillman ducks and attacks the fan as he is getting arrested and tossed out of the building.
This is the Loose Cannon on steroids as this is much even for ECW!!! Shane Douglas comes to the ring and yells "get that blonde piece of shit out of WCW or I will beat his ass tonight!!" Not only is this the best promo for ECW, it's the best probably in the history of wrestling.
Joey Styles rants on Taz as we are shown Bam Bam Bigelow's debut last week. Taz and Bill Alfonso are in the ring as Fonzie trashes Bigelow and Rey Mysterio Jr. and mentions that this is not the WWF this is ECW. He does love Vince McMahon though for sending him to the Betty Ford Clinic. Taz then says ECW is 'his' promotion.
Mustafa Saed comes out to tell us that New Jack has been arrested down in Atlanta and will be out of action for some time. He says he will take on The Headhunters by himself. Damien Kane comes out with the ultra hot Lady Alexandra and offers Mustafa a job to shine his shoes and dance. Mustafa responds by attacking Kane. The Headhunters come out to attack Mustafa and easily take him out.
Then comes their opponents The Bruise Brothers (Ron and Don Harris) fresh off their stint in the WWF as The Blues Brothers where they beat up Shawn Michaels backstage before leaving. The match basically is a brawl in the crowd. Back in the crowd, one of the Headhunters delivers a moonsault onto one of the Bruise Brothers but the other Bruise Bro gave the other Headhunter a big boot for the win.
Next we shown highlights of the big Triple Dog Collar match between Francine and The Pitbulls against Stevie Richards and The Eliminators. Stevie Stevie-Kicks Francine right at the start of the match to take her out as their bad blood continues as its basically a 3-on-2.
The Pitbulls have Superbombed both members of The Eliminators and then give Stevie a Superbomb/neckbreaker combo allowing Francine to pin Stevie to win the match. The Eliminators attack The Pitbulls after the match and give both Pitbulls Total Elimination and then once again give Francine Total Elimination as well.
The Eliminators cut a promo and then highlights are shown of The Eliminators giving everyone Total Elimination. Bubba Ray Dudley takes on Mr. Hughes in a short match where Big Dick Dudley hits Hughes with his crutch. Bubba then hits Hughes with a splash off the top rope to win the match.
The Pitbulls promise revenge on The Eliminators. Tommy Dreamer and Beulah McGillicutty are in the ring for an interview. Dreamer acknowledges his shoulder was injured from Raven last show. Raven and his Flock (Stevie Richards, Blue Meanie, and Kimona Wanalaya) come to the ring to confront Dreamer.
Raven mentions how in other countries, they cut off body parts as punishment for things such as stealing and lying. Raven then says Dreamer should have his dick cut off and be prepared to "die" for getting his girlfriend pregnant. Shane Douglas and The Bruise Brothers come out to backup Dreamer. Douglas takes Beulah to the back to get her out of harms way.
Just as things could not get worse for Tommy, they do as the Bruise Brothers attack Dreamer from behind and beat him down as they aligned themselves with Raven and his Flock as Raven is always one step ahead of Dreamer. The Bruiser Brothers repeatedly run his dick into the ring post as punishment for what Dreamer did to Raven.
The first match is Judge Dredd and Badd Company (Ian and Axl Rotten) taking on Dino Sendoff, Don E. Allen, and the Dirt Bike Kid (sounds like my kind of wrestler given my love of dirt bikes and motocross). The match ends quickly as The Sandman comes in and canes everyone to start the show off.
After the intro is shown, Joey Styles is shown standing in the ring. The lights go out and when they come back on, BRIAN PILLMAN is standing in the ring!!! Pillman fires on Eric Bischoff for firing him from WCW and calling him a piece of shit repeatedly. The fans begin to chant "Bischoff takes it up the ass....DOO DA...DOO DA!" That's awesome!!! Probably takes it from Hulk Hogan and/or Ted Turner.
He then calls the fans "Smart marks" and explains what a mark is as it is each and every one of us fans out there. Pillman then threatens to "pull out his Johnson and urinate in the ring" when all of a sudden Paul Heyman and Tod Gordon come to the ring. They are basically yelling this is not part of the act that Pillman is in fact crazy. Pillman hits Heyman with a "Booker Man" blast like he did to Kevin Sullivan at SuperBrawl.
Heyman yells "Fuck you" to Pillman repeatedly as security is trying to escort Pillman from the building as he is fighting them off. Pillman spits at a fan and the fan swings at him. Pillman ducks and attacks the fan as he is getting arrested and tossed out of the building.
This is the Loose Cannon on steroids as this is much even for ECW!!! Shane Douglas comes to the ring and yells "get that blonde piece of shit out of WCW or I will beat his ass tonight!!" Not only is this the best promo for ECW, it's the best probably in the history of wrestling.
Joey Styles rants on Taz as we are shown Bam Bam Bigelow's debut last week. Taz and Bill Alfonso are in the ring as Fonzie trashes Bigelow and Rey Mysterio Jr. and mentions that this is not the WWF this is ECW. He does love Vince McMahon though for sending him to the Betty Ford Clinic. Taz then says ECW is 'his' promotion.
Mustafa Saed comes out to tell us that New Jack has been arrested down in Atlanta and will be out of action for some time. He says he will take on The Headhunters by himself. Damien Kane comes out with the ultra hot Lady Alexandra and offers Mustafa a job to shine his shoes and dance. Mustafa responds by attacking Kane. The Headhunters come out to attack Mustafa and easily take him out.
Then comes their opponents The Bruise Brothers (Ron and Don Harris) fresh off their stint in the WWF as The Blues Brothers where they beat up Shawn Michaels backstage before leaving. The match basically is a brawl in the crowd. Back in the crowd, one of the Headhunters delivers a moonsault onto one of the Bruise Brothers but the other Bruise Bro gave the other Headhunter a big boot for the win.
Next we shown highlights of the big Triple Dog Collar match between Francine and The Pitbulls against Stevie Richards and The Eliminators. Stevie Stevie-Kicks Francine right at the start of the match to take her out as their bad blood continues as its basically a 3-on-2.
The Pitbulls have Superbombed both members of The Eliminators and then give Stevie a Superbomb/neckbreaker combo allowing Francine to pin Stevie to win the match. The Eliminators attack The Pitbulls after the match and give both Pitbulls Total Elimination and then once again give Francine Total Elimination as well.
The Eliminators cut a promo and then highlights are shown of The Eliminators giving everyone Total Elimination. Bubba Ray Dudley takes on Mr. Hughes in a short match where Big Dick Dudley hits Hughes with his crutch. Bubba then hits Hughes with a splash off the top rope to win the match.
The Pitbulls promise revenge on The Eliminators. Tommy Dreamer and Beulah McGillicutty are in the ring for an interview. Dreamer acknowledges his shoulder was injured from Raven last show. Raven and his Flock (Stevie Richards, Blue Meanie, and Kimona Wanalaya) come to the ring to confront Dreamer.
Raven mentions how in other countries, they cut off body parts as punishment for things such as stealing and lying. Raven then says Dreamer should have his dick cut off and be prepared to "die" for getting his girlfriend pregnant. Shane Douglas and The Bruise Brothers come out to backup Dreamer. Douglas takes Beulah to the back to get her out of harms way.
Just as things could not get worse for Tommy, they do as the Bruise Brothers attack Dreamer from behind and beat him down as they aligned themselves with Raven and his Flock as Raven is always one step ahead of Dreamer. The Bruiser Brothers repeatedly run his dick into the ring post as punishment for what Dreamer did to Raven.
Tuesday, February 20, 1996
WCW Monday Nitro: February 19, 1996
We are live from Salisbury, MD with our hosts Eric Bischoff, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, and Steve "Mongo" McMichael. Bischoff talks about the big WCW World Heavyweight Championship rematch between Ric Flair and "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Also, Hulk Hogan tries to avenge his defeat to Arn Anderson last week on Nitro by taking him on again in a rematch this week.
Mongo says Hogan never lost to the same person twice. Maybe tonight is a first. Plus we are shown Steve Grissom driving the WCW Chevrolet Monte Carlo to victory in the NASCAR Busch Series season opener at Daytona with Sting (no face paint), Lex Luger, and Harlem Heat celebrating in victory lane with Grissom. Too bad Grissom did not do too well in yesterday's Daytona 500.
We kick off the show with the Hulk-Arn rematch. Hogan attacks Arn at the start and chokes him with his own jacket. He sends Arn to the floor and back into the ring several times. Hogan looks to be dominating this match as it doesn't appear Arn will get a second victory over Hulk in a row.
Eric Bischoff mentions an upcoming episode of Baywatch where Hulk, Randy Savage, Ric Flair, and Kevin Sullivan are on it and even mentions Vader's name for the first time since his departure as he too is on the show as this must have been filmed prior to his firing last fall.
Bischoff takes his usual shot at the WWF as well as Vader for leaving as he says Vader tucked his tail in between his legs to go to the WWF after his physical altercation with Paul Orndorff saw Vader get his ass beat. Bischoff also mentions during the match that there will be a new WCW Cruiserwieght Championship coming in the near future.
Hogan nails Arn with the big boot but instead of going for the Leg Drop, he puts Arn in the Figure Four just like last week. Sullivan comes down to the ring so does Savage, who attacks Sullivan in the ring. The referee doesn't see this and when he turns around, he sees Savage only in the ring and disqualifies Hogan, giving Arn his second victory in as many weeks over Hogan!!! I wish they did a better DQ finish though with Hogan shown holding a chair or brass knuckles or something.
Gene Okerlund is interviewing Steve Grissom on his win at Daytona Saturday in the WCW car. Sting, Lex Luger, and Harlem Heat were shown celebrating as it would have been awesome had they brawled since they are rivals but I guess they are showing WCW team unity.
Next up is Loch Ness (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs. Alex Wright. It's a shame they quickly demolish Wright, who is pretty good and went undefeated for about six months here. Nothing Wright does works and Ness just simply falls on him with an elbow drop in a lame finish just like last week against Scotty Riggs. It looks like it will be Loch Ness vs. Hulk Hogan due to the finish at SuperBrawl and trying to hype this guy up.
This week on WCW Saturday Night, Johnny B. Badd defends the WCW World Television Championship against Chris Benoit. U.S. Champion Konnan takes on one of the Armstongs. The Road Warriors will be in action. Plus Tag Team Champions Sting and Lex Luger take on The Public Enemy.
The Belfast Bruiser takes on Brad Armstrong in a rematch from WCW Saturday Night. The Blue Bloods tried to get at the Bruiser since he's here to take out Lord Steven Regal. Eric Bischoff mentions there will be a tournament to determine the new WCW Cruiserweight Championship and Armstrong is in it. Bruiser dominates this match virtually from start to finish and beats Armstrong with a Tombstone Piledriver.
Now it's time for the main event Ric Flair (w/ Woman and Miss Elizabeth) defending the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Randy Savage. Flair does his usual strut where Savage spits at him. Savage nails him with jabs and a backdrop. He goes for the ten punches in the corner only for Flair to hit him with an inverted atomic drop, sending Savage to the floor.
Flair sends Savage into the guardrail. Savage runs after Woman only to be hit in the face with an elbow from Flair. Woman then claws Savage's face. Savage throws Flair off the top rope and puts Flair in his Figure Four. Flair grabs the ropes to break the hold and then hits Savage in the balls.
After Flair gives Savage a delayed vertical suplex, Flair puts Savage in the Figure Four to show him how it's done. Savage reverses the hold to break it up. Savage fires back with punches and again goes for the 10-punch in the corner. Again Flair tries to do an inverted atomic drop only for Savage to counter it with a punch.
Savage whips Flair into the corner, where he does his usual flip to the ring apron, where he is met by a clothesline by Savage. Savage nails Flair with a Flying Double Ax Handle. Elizabeth climbs up on the apron to distract the referee. Woman then throws her shoe into the ring, where Savage pulls a Super Bowl MVP Larry Brown and intercepts the shoe.
Savage then nails Flair with the shoe as it looks like we will have a new WCW Champion. Kevin Sullivan runs down to the ring as does Hulk Hogan, who takes out Sullivan. Arn Anderson sneaks into the ring and gives Savage the DDT. Flair pins Savage for the 1-2-3 to retain the title.
It looks like Hogan and Savage are outnumbered when all of a sudden, Hogan's best friend Brutus Beefcake formerly Zodiac and is now, I don't know what the fuck he is now since he's had so many different names, helps Hogan and Savage attacking Flair, Arn, and Sullivan and forcing them out of the ring as they head over to the announce booth.
Hogan mentions the former Zodiac/Butcher/Barber/ the Baker and Candlestick Maker is now known as "The Booty Man." My head fell right into my palm as here we go again!!! It's the WWF of the 1980s vs. WCW of the 1980s when we are a few years away from the year 2000. Hogan then just says Booty about a thousand times.
Hogan then challenges Flair, Arn, and Sullivan to a six-man tag team match next week on Nitro and the match is on.
Mongo says Hogan never lost to the same person twice. Maybe tonight is a first. Plus we are shown Steve Grissom driving the WCW Chevrolet Monte Carlo to victory in the NASCAR Busch Series season opener at Daytona with Sting (no face paint), Lex Luger, and Harlem Heat celebrating in victory lane with Grissom. Too bad Grissom did not do too well in yesterday's Daytona 500.
We kick off the show with the Hulk-Arn rematch. Hogan attacks Arn at the start and chokes him with his own jacket. He sends Arn to the floor and back into the ring several times. Hogan looks to be dominating this match as it doesn't appear Arn will get a second victory over Hulk in a row.
Eric Bischoff mentions an upcoming episode of Baywatch where Hulk, Randy Savage, Ric Flair, and Kevin Sullivan are on it and even mentions Vader's name for the first time since his departure as he too is on the show as this must have been filmed prior to his firing last fall.
Bischoff takes his usual shot at the WWF as well as Vader for leaving as he says Vader tucked his tail in between his legs to go to the WWF after his physical altercation with Paul Orndorff saw Vader get his ass beat. Bischoff also mentions during the match that there will be a new WCW Cruiserwieght Championship coming in the near future.
Hogan nails Arn with the big boot but instead of going for the Leg Drop, he puts Arn in the Figure Four just like last week. Sullivan comes down to the ring so does Savage, who attacks Sullivan in the ring. The referee doesn't see this and when he turns around, he sees Savage only in the ring and disqualifies Hogan, giving Arn his second victory in as many weeks over Hogan!!! I wish they did a better DQ finish though with Hogan shown holding a chair or brass knuckles or something.
Gene Okerlund is interviewing Steve Grissom on his win at Daytona Saturday in the WCW car. Sting, Lex Luger, and Harlem Heat were shown celebrating as it would have been awesome had they brawled since they are rivals but I guess they are showing WCW team unity.
Next up is Loch Ness (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs. Alex Wright. It's a shame they quickly demolish Wright, who is pretty good and went undefeated for about six months here. Nothing Wright does works and Ness just simply falls on him with an elbow drop in a lame finish just like last week against Scotty Riggs. It looks like it will be Loch Ness vs. Hulk Hogan due to the finish at SuperBrawl and trying to hype this guy up.
This week on WCW Saturday Night, Johnny B. Badd defends the WCW World Television Championship against Chris Benoit. U.S. Champion Konnan takes on one of the Armstongs. The Road Warriors will be in action. Plus Tag Team Champions Sting and Lex Luger take on The Public Enemy.
The Belfast Bruiser takes on Brad Armstrong in a rematch from WCW Saturday Night. The Blue Bloods tried to get at the Bruiser since he's here to take out Lord Steven Regal. Eric Bischoff mentions there will be a tournament to determine the new WCW Cruiserweight Championship and Armstrong is in it. Bruiser dominates this match virtually from start to finish and beats Armstrong with a Tombstone Piledriver.
Now it's time for the main event Ric Flair (w/ Woman and Miss Elizabeth) defending the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Randy Savage. Flair does his usual strut where Savage spits at him. Savage nails him with jabs and a backdrop. He goes for the ten punches in the corner only for Flair to hit him with an inverted atomic drop, sending Savage to the floor.
Flair sends Savage into the guardrail. Savage runs after Woman only to be hit in the face with an elbow from Flair. Woman then claws Savage's face. Savage throws Flair off the top rope and puts Flair in his Figure Four. Flair grabs the ropes to break the hold and then hits Savage in the balls.
After Flair gives Savage a delayed vertical suplex, Flair puts Savage in the Figure Four to show him how it's done. Savage reverses the hold to break it up. Savage fires back with punches and again goes for the 10-punch in the corner. Again Flair tries to do an inverted atomic drop only for Savage to counter it with a punch.
Savage whips Flair into the corner, where he does his usual flip to the ring apron, where he is met by a clothesline by Savage. Savage nails Flair with a Flying Double Ax Handle. Elizabeth climbs up on the apron to distract the referee. Woman then throws her shoe into the ring, where Savage pulls a Super Bowl MVP Larry Brown and intercepts the shoe.
Savage then nails Flair with the shoe as it looks like we will have a new WCW Champion. Kevin Sullivan runs down to the ring as does Hulk Hogan, who takes out Sullivan. Arn Anderson sneaks into the ring and gives Savage the DDT. Flair pins Savage for the 1-2-3 to retain the title.
It looks like Hogan and Savage are outnumbered when all of a sudden, Hogan's best friend Brutus Beefcake formerly Zodiac and is now, I don't know what the fuck he is now since he's had so many different names, helps Hogan and Savage attacking Flair, Arn, and Sullivan and forcing them out of the ring as they head over to the announce booth.
Hogan mentions the former Zodiac/Butcher/Barber/ the Baker and Candlestick Maker is now known as "The Booty Man." My head fell right into my palm as here we go again!!! It's the WWF of the 1980s vs. WCW of the 1980s when we are a few years away from the year 2000. Hogan then just says Booty about a thousand times.
Hogan then challenges Flair, Arn, and Sullivan to a six-man tag team match next week on Nitro and the match is on.
WWF Monday Night Raw: February 19, 1996
As usual I enjoy Sunny wearing a black bikini at the beginning of Raw where tells us that Raw contains material too hot for some and that viewer discretion is advised. Raw is from Cincinnati, Ohio with our guests Vince McMahon and Jerry "The King" Lawler as we are shown The Undertaker pulling Diesel underneath the ring to cost him the Steel Cage WWF Championship match last night at In Your House.
They kick off Raw with an Intercontinental Championship rematch from the Royal Rumble between the champion Goldust w/ Marlena against Razor Ramon. Marlena tries to blow smoke in Razor's face as he throws his toothpick at her.
Razor attacks Goldust at the start of the match. Razor rips off Goldust's gold robe and is about to hit him with the title belt only for the referee to stop him. Razor knocks him to the floor with a clothesline where Goldust is in the arms of Marlena.
Back in the ring, Goldust does his usual gay tactics only for Razor to spit at him and then attack him by going after his arm and slamming him. He quickly goes for the Razor's Edge only to be backdropped out of the ring by Goldust as we go to commercial. We come back to see Goldust put Razor in a sleeper hold as Razor escapes.
Razor stops Goldust on the top rope and superplex him. Razor catches Goldust and gives him a Fallaway Slam with authority as it sends Goldust over the top rope and out of the ring. Razor throws Goldust back into the ring where Goldust swings wildly at Razor. Razor ducks and picks him up and sets him on the top turnbuckle to give him the Back Superplex.
You know what this means? Razor's Edge!!! However, Goldust quickly leaves the ring and leaves with Marlena as they head to the dressing room to get counted out. Razor wins the match, but Goldust retains the title since the title can't changes hands on a count out. This feud is not over.
In fact, Razor gets on the microphone after the match and says he doesn't care about the title anymore, he just wants Goldust's ass!! Ok!! I thought you didn't swing that way Razor? He then tells Roddy Piper to let him have a street fight Goldust as he doesn't want his kids watch Goldust on TV and that since Piper has six kids himself, he would understand. Ok?!
They show an Ultimate Warrior advertisement and Vince McMahon wonders what Piper is up to. Paul Bearer then lets The Undertaker out of a casket. Dok Hendrix then recaps In Your House last night.
Next up is supposed to be The Bodydonnas vs. Aldo Montoya and Barry Horowitz. However, the recently reinstated Vader along with Jim Cornette come out as Vader absolutely mauls both Montoya and Horowitz as this match does not get going. McMahon mentions that Vader will take on Yokozuna at WrestleMania XII.
More clips of The Ultimate Warrior and his return to the WWF. Sunny is shown wearing a sexy red dress signing Happy Birthday Mr. President for Presidents Day. We are shown Mr. Backlund campaigning to be the President of the United States in the audience.
The Ringmaster w/ Ted DiBiase takes on Marty Jannetty. The Ringmaster has shaved his head. Vince McMahon tells us Jannetty has a new tag team called "The New Rockers" and will be part of the vacant WWF Tag Team Championship Tournament on Superstars.
Jannetty hits Ringmaster with a crossbody for two. Ringmaster gives Jannetty the Stun Gun and we go to commercial. Back from commercial with Ringmaster putting his knees up as Jannetty tries to splash him. Ringmaster then puts Jannetty in a STF and another submission hold.
Jannetty fights back with a boot to the face and a bulldog. He then hits a flying elbow and a knee lift. Jannetty goes for a back suplex only for the Ringmaster to flip out of it and lock on the Million Dollar Dream for the submission victory. McMahon says the Ringmaster has a "stone cold" look on his face.
Mankind is shown sitting in some dark basement or something. Mankind believes he is normal while everyone else believes he's abnormal. Mankind then is shown petting a rat named George. There is a vote for the Slammys for Blue Light Special and Best Buns.
The Undertaker w/ Paul Bearer takes on Tatanka w/ Ted DiBiase. DiBiase distracts Undertaker as Tatanka tries to attack Undertaker, only for Undertaker to hit him with a clothesline. Undertaker then chokes Tatanka in the corner. Tatanka fights back with a Samoan Drop. Diesel then walks to the ring carrying an ax and takes a cameraman to the back with him as we go to commercial.
When we come back, we are shown Diesel backstage destroying the Undertaker's casket with the ax as the cameraman was filming this. The Undertaker Chokeslams Tatanka and then gives him the Tombstone Piledriver for the 1-2-3 and the victory. Bearer shows Undertaker the jumbo tron where Diesel is destroying his casket. It looks like their WrestleMania match will be a Casket Match.
Now it's time for another edition of Billionaire Ted as we are shown Larry Fling Live on the BNN (Billionaire News Network). Larry says hi to all his girlfriends out there. First call: Randy from Sarasota who says he needs to do something about his thinning hair. If you see Randy Savage it looks awful. My take is how about cut it really short because the longer he tries to grow it, it looks worse and more thinning.
Anyway next call Terry from Tampa (Huckster) says he needs next Monday off because he was hit by a size seven women's shoe. Last caller is Jane from Hanoi (Ted's wife) who quickly hangs up on her. Larry asks Ted all kinds of questions for illegal stuff he's been accused of such as misleading shareholders and such. Ted can't speak and is sweating and drinking water. Next week on Larry Fling Live: the Huckster and the Nacho Man.
The Undertaker and Paul Bearer are upset over what had happened to the casket. Next week on Raw, Yokozuna takes on Owen Hart and British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith in a Handicap match. Diesel will be action as well as Jake "The Snake" Roberts, who takes on Isaac Yankem DDS. Plus there will be an interview with the two in the main event at WrestleMania: Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels.
They kick off Raw with an Intercontinental Championship rematch from the Royal Rumble between the champion Goldust w/ Marlena against Razor Ramon. Marlena tries to blow smoke in Razor's face as he throws his toothpick at her.
Razor attacks Goldust at the start of the match. Razor rips off Goldust's gold robe and is about to hit him with the title belt only for the referee to stop him. Razor knocks him to the floor with a clothesline where Goldust is in the arms of Marlena.
Back in the ring, Goldust does his usual gay tactics only for Razor to spit at him and then attack him by going after his arm and slamming him. He quickly goes for the Razor's Edge only to be backdropped out of the ring by Goldust as we go to commercial. We come back to see Goldust put Razor in a sleeper hold as Razor escapes.
Razor stops Goldust on the top rope and superplex him. Razor catches Goldust and gives him a Fallaway Slam with authority as it sends Goldust over the top rope and out of the ring. Razor throws Goldust back into the ring where Goldust swings wildly at Razor. Razor ducks and picks him up and sets him on the top turnbuckle to give him the Back Superplex.
You know what this means? Razor's Edge!!! However, Goldust quickly leaves the ring and leaves with Marlena as they head to the dressing room to get counted out. Razor wins the match, but Goldust retains the title since the title can't changes hands on a count out. This feud is not over.
In fact, Razor gets on the microphone after the match and says he doesn't care about the title anymore, he just wants Goldust's ass!! Ok!! I thought you didn't swing that way Razor? He then tells Roddy Piper to let him have a street fight Goldust as he doesn't want his kids watch Goldust on TV and that since Piper has six kids himself, he would understand. Ok?!
They show an Ultimate Warrior advertisement and Vince McMahon wonders what Piper is up to. Paul Bearer then lets The Undertaker out of a casket. Dok Hendrix then recaps In Your House last night.
Next up is supposed to be The Bodydonnas vs. Aldo Montoya and Barry Horowitz. However, the recently reinstated Vader along with Jim Cornette come out as Vader absolutely mauls both Montoya and Horowitz as this match does not get going. McMahon mentions that Vader will take on Yokozuna at WrestleMania XII.
More clips of The Ultimate Warrior and his return to the WWF. Sunny is shown wearing a sexy red dress signing Happy Birthday Mr. President for Presidents Day. We are shown Mr. Backlund campaigning to be the President of the United States in the audience.
The Ringmaster w/ Ted DiBiase takes on Marty Jannetty. The Ringmaster has shaved his head. Vince McMahon tells us Jannetty has a new tag team called "The New Rockers" and will be part of the vacant WWF Tag Team Championship Tournament on Superstars.
Jannetty hits Ringmaster with a crossbody for two. Ringmaster gives Jannetty the Stun Gun and we go to commercial. Back from commercial with Ringmaster putting his knees up as Jannetty tries to splash him. Ringmaster then puts Jannetty in a STF and another submission hold.
Jannetty fights back with a boot to the face and a bulldog. He then hits a flying elbow and a knee lift. Jannetty goes for a back suplex only for the Ringmaster to flip out of it and lock on the Million Dollar Dream for the submission victory. McMahon says the Ringmaster has a "stone cold" look on his face.
Mankind is shown sitting in some dark basement or something. Mankind believes he is normal while everyone else believes he's abnormal. Mankind then is shown petting a rat named George. There is a vote for the Slammys for Blue Light Special and Best Buns.
The Undertaker w/ Paul Bearer takes on Tatanka w/ Ted DiBiase. DiBiase distracts Undertaker as Tatanka tries to attack Undertaker, only for Undertaker to hit him with a clothesline. Undertaker then chokes Tatanka in the corner. Tatanka fights back with a Samoan Drop. Diesel then walks to the ring carrying an ax and takes a cameraman to the back with him as we go to commercial.
When we come back, we are shown Diesel backstage destroying the Undertaker's casket with the ax as the cameraman was filming this. The Undertaker Chokeslams Tatanka and then gives him the Tombstone Piledriver for the 1-2-3 and the victory. Bearer shows Undertaker the jumbo tron where Diesel is destroying his casket. It looks like their WrestleMania match will be a Casket Match.
Now it's time for another edition of Billionaire Ted as we are shown Larry Fling Live on the BNN (Billionaire News Network). Larry says hi to all his girlfriends out there. First call: Randy from Sarasota who says he needs to do something about his thinning hair. If you see Randy Savage it looks awful. My take is how about cut it really short because the longer he tries to grow it, it looks worse and more thinning.
Anyway next call Terry from Tampa (Huckster) says he needs next Monday off because he was hit by a size seven women's shoe. Last caller is Jane from Hanoi (Ted's wife) who quickly hangs up on her. Larry asks Ted all kinds of questions for illegal stuff he's been accused of such as misleading shareholders and such. Ted can't speak and is sweating and drinking water. Next week on Larry Fling Live: the Huckster and the Nacho Man.
The Undertaker and Paul Bearer are upset over what had happened to the casket. Next week on Raw, Yokozuna takes on Owen Hart and British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith in a Handicap match. Diesel will be action as well as Jake "The Snake" Roberts, who takes on Isaac Yankem DDS. Plus there will be an interview with the two in the main event at WrestleMania: Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels.
Monday, February 19, 1996
WWF In Your House 6
We start the In Your House PPV on a killer not with Sunny in a bikini telling us "viewer discretion is advised!!" We are live from Louisville, KY with our hosts Vince McMahon and Jerry "The King" Lawler.
First up is the Crybaby Match between Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid where the winner will put a diaper on the loser. The Kid comes to the ring pushing a stroller with a Razor Ramon teddy bear in it. Kid tries to rip the head off of the bear but can't!! HAHA Wimp!! So he throws the bear at Razor. Razor throws his toothpick at him and punches him to the floor.
Kid drop's Razor's throat across the top rope. Kid then gives Razor some kicks in the corner as well as a spinning heel kick. Razor fights back with a clothesline in the corner and then the Fallaway Slam. He goes for the Razor's Edge only for the Kid to roll out of the floor. Kid's manager Ted DiBiase throws some baby powder in Razor's eyes right in front of the referee but no DQ?!?! Sure why not!?!?
Kid hits Razor with a missile dropkick off the top rope for two. Kid puts Razor in a sleeper hold and after almost putting Razor to sleep, Razor fights back and drops Kid crotch-first on the top rope. Razor does his thing taking down the Kid. He put Kid on the top rope for the back superplex, but Kid elbows out of it.
Kid then hits the reverse moonsault that he used to beat Razor the first time ever. However, Razor rolled through the move and picked up Kid. He climbs to the second rope and does a Super Fallaway Slam. Razor sets up for the Razor's Edge. However, DiBiase is distracting Razor and the referee.
The Kid grabs the bottle of baby powder and is about to throw it in Razor's face, but Razor counters by kicking the powder in Kid's face. Razor gives Kid the Razor's Edge and covers him 1-2-but pulls Kid up. He gives Kid a second Razor's Edge for good measure for the 1-2-3. Razor puts the diaper on the Kid and dumps some more baby powder on his face for more embarrassment. The Kid cries and throws a tantrum.
Next up is Hunter Hearst Helmsley with some hot blonde chick named Elizabeth Hilden escorting him to the ring against Duke "The Dumpster" Droese albeit with shorter hair than before. Helmsley attacked Droese a few weeks ago on Superstars and Pedigreed him on Droese's own trash can and then proceeded to cut Droese's long hair.
Droese attacks Helmsley at the start punching him and throwing him around by his long hair. He gets Helmsley in the corner and does the 10-punch corner thing when Helmsley dropped him face-first onto the top turnbuckle. Helmsley goes for the Pedigree but Droese it into a reverse atomic drop. Droese charges at Helmsley but Helmsley backdropped him over the top rope.
Helmsley threw Droese into the steel steps. Jerry Lawler is interviewing Miss Hilden as he is enamored with her. Back in the ring, he nailed Droese with a knee drop for two. Droese puts up a big boot when Helmsley charged at him in the corner. Droese fights back with a spinebuster and then hits him with his finisher the "Trash Compactor."
Great idea let's have a wrestling garbage man yeah that's so cool let me tell you! Droese does not go for the cover. Instead he brings in his trash can and attempts to inflict more punishment on Helmsley. However, the referee tosses the can outside and Helmsley grabbed the trashcan lid and wacks Droese in the head with it for the 1-2-3 and the win.
They show a highlight video of Yokozuna's face turn two weeks ago on Raw. Yokozuna comes out for his match and he's on the microphone and apparently can speak English other than "Banzai!" He mentions how Jim Cornette treated him poorly over the last few years and taking money from him. He also says the only reason Owen Hart won a title was because he hid behind him.
The match between Yokozuna and Davey Boy Smith is on as Yoko attacks Davey but missed an elbow drop. Davey hits him with several clotheslines to knock him off his feet. Cornette hits Yoko in the throat with his tennis racket. Yoko reverses an Irish Whip into the corner and squashes Davey. Yoko goes for the Banzai drop but Cornette pulls Davey out of the ring.
Davey moves out of the way as Yoko tries to splash him into the corner as Yoko hits the ring post. Davey brings Yoko back into the ring and hits him with a flying double ax handle. He covers Yoko as he throws Davey off of him after a two-count. Yoko soon fights back as he gives Davey a Samoan Drop and then a belly-to-belly suplex.
He again goes for the Banzai Drop when Cornette runs into the ring and whacks Yoko with the tennis racket but it has no affect. Yoko goes after Cornette only for Vader, who I thought was suspended?, runs down to beat down Yoko along with Davey. They handcuff Yoko to the ropes and beat him down until officials run in to stop this.
We are shown Intercontinental Champion Goldust with Marlena in the back hanging out the WWF.com area answering your questions. He is fondling the person in charge of this and he's totally getting creeped out.
It's time for Shawn Michaels vs. Owen Hart. Michaels is putting his WrestleMania WWF Title shot on the line to get his hands on Owen, who was bragging that he is the one who nearly ended Shawn's career and will look to do so tonight. Whoever wins this match will face the WWF Champion at WrestleMania.
Michaels is on top of the "house" as he ziplines all the down to the ring as Vince McMahon is having an orgasm. Michaels immediately attacks Owen as Owen was trying to go after him and knocks him to the floor so Shawn can finishing undressing himself.
The match officially starts with the two shoving each other and trading side headlocks and shoulderblocks. Shawn slides underneath Owen and heads to the floor where he high-fives his fans or "The Kliq" all around ringside. Back in the ring, Owen slides out like Shawn and goes to high-five fans but no one does. Michaels climbs the top turnbuckle and delivers a flying crossbody onto the floor.
Michaels hits Owen with a flying double ax handle for two. He put Owen in a side headlock. He throws Michaels into the ropes and hip tosses him. Both men kip up at the same time and Michaels gives Owen a Hurricanarana and punches Owen while on top of him. Owen then hit Michaels with a Belly-to-Belly Suplex and then worked on his back with a back breaker.
Owen hits Shawn with the Rude Awakening reverse neckbreaker for two. He goes for the Sharpshooter but Shawn fights out of it. Owen then gets Shawn in a modified camel clutch and a chinlock. Michaels elbowed out of it but runs into a spinning heel kick from Owen which sends Michaels to the floor.
Shawn counters a suplex attempt by Owen on the apron and sends him to the floor. Michaels jumps onto Owen but Owen countered it into a powerslam on the floor. Back into the ring, Owen nails him with a missile dropkick for two.
Michaels gets whipped into the corner and does his usual upside down bump in the corner to come back into a big clothesline by Owen. Owen puts him into the Sharpshooter, but Michaels manages to fight his way to the ropes to break up the hold. Shawn mounts some offense but Owen stops that nailing him with the Enziguri Kick to send Shawn to the floor. Is that it? Is Shawn's career over?
I would sure love another Bret vs. Owen match at WrestleMania for the title as they had amazing matches at WrestleMania and SummerSlam two years ago. I believe Shawn though is going to be the champion so that cancels that.
I wouldn't hate Shawn vs. Diesel as they had a great match at last year's WrestleMania. I think it is going to be Shawn vs. Bret and obviously that's awesome with the two best wrestlers in the company battling for the title at the premier event.
Owen brings him back into the ring, why he didn't let him stay outside and get counted out I don't know? It's a win it's not a title match it's a match for a title match. Anyway Owen goes for the cover but Shawn kicks out at two. Hey it didn't kill him or end his career. Owen charges at Shawn in the corner only for Michaels to move out of the way.
Shawn gives Owen an inverted atomic drop following by a flying forearm and then kips up!! Shawn gives him another flying forearm. He then goes to the top and hits Owen with a Flying Elbow Drop and is setting up for Sweet Chin Music and going to headline WrestleMania. However, Jim Cornette is on the apron only for Michaels to knock him off the apron.
Michaels goes for Sweet Chin Music only for Owen to duck. Owen then goes for the Enziguri only for Michaels to duck the move. Michaels then hits Owen with Sweet Chin Music for the 1-2-3 and going to WrestleMania to meet the winner of the Bret Hart-Diesel cage match and face him for the title.
This match was one hell of a match and I don't want the feud to be over as this story was excellent and so too was the match, but Shawn looks to be the WWF Champion. Maybe and hopefully he will give Owen a championship match somewhere down the line.
Next we go to Todd Pettingill who has interim WWF President "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Piper first tells us what we already know that Shawn Michaels is the number one contender to the WWF Championship and will face the winner of tonight's Steel Cage match at WrestleMania. He does say that there must be a legitimate winner at WrestleMania.
Next Piper mentions Vader and says he will be reinstated from his suspension for his attack on WWF President Gorilla Monsoon last month. He then puts Vader in a match with Yokozuna at WrestleMania XII to settle the score between the two giant men.
Jim Cornette and his "lawyer" Clarence Mason come out to confront Piper. Before Cornette can get a word in, Roddy tells him to "Shut up!" and show him some respect. Cornette does not do that and tells Piper than he is afraid of Vader. Piper then says if Vader loses his match to Yokozuna at WrestleMania, Yokozuna will then get his hands on Cornette.
Now it's time for the main event WWF Championship Steel Cage Match between the champion Bret "The Hitman" Hart and the former champion Diesel. The Undertaker will no doubt be involved. A steel cage will not keep the deadman out and prevent him from screwing Diesel out of the WWF Title like Diesel had done to him.
Diesel uses his size and power over Bret to gain the early advantage. Diesel tries to leave the cage but Bret hits him with a shot to the crotch and headbutts his balls. Hart does what Hart always does against Diesel and that's attack his knee. Diesel fights back with the sidewalk slam but misses an elbow drop.
Bret goes right back to the knees. Too bad he can't go outside and do what he did at Survivor Series and tie Diesel's legs up to the ringpost. Diesel reverses Bret sending him hard chest-first into the corner. Diesel then gives Bret several knees in the corner only for Bret to attack Diesel's knee.
Bret climbs up the cage and even gets onto the other side only for Diesel to grab him by the hair and brings him back into the cage, where he sends Bret face-first into the cage. Bret then does another chest-first bump into the corner. Bret is lying on the second rope where Diesel slowly and limps and does his jump on the back of an opponent.
Diesel tries to Snake Eyes Bret but Bret sends him face-first into the steel cage. Bret goes for the Sharpshooter, but Diesel thumbs him in the eyes to get out of it. Bret then attacks Diesel's lower back and gives him the Side Russian Leg Sweep.
Bret climbs the cage only for Diesel to grab his leg, but Bret kicks him down. Hart then hits Diesel with the Flying Elbow Drop. Hart again climbs the cage but Diesel gives him a shot to the nuts. That's not cool for a giant man to hit a smaller man in the nuts.
Diesel then crawls to the cage door where Bret grabs his foot. Diesel kicks him off of him and again goes through the door when all of a sudden, The Undertaker comes from underneath the ring and grabs Diesel's leg and pulls him underneath the ring. Bret is climbing the cage and touches the floor to win the match and retain his title and will face Shawn Michaels in the main event at WrestleMania.
Since Diesel escaped the cage albeit with help from The Undertaker and I assume touched the floor, shouldn't he be the champion? I guess the rules are you must exit through the door or over the top of the cage and going through the ring is not an option.
Diesel comes from under the ring all scared as to what happened. This will no doubt set up their match at WrestleMania. This has probably been the best of the In Your House PPVs so far in my opinion. Can't wait until WrestleMania but that's still a month and a half away.
First up is the Crybaby Match between Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid where the winner will put a diaper on the loser. The Kid comes to the ring pushing a stroller with a Razor Ramon teddy bear in it. Kid tries to rip the head off of the bear but can't!! HAHA Wimp!! So he throws the bear at Razor. Razor throws his toothpick at him and punches him to the floor.
Kid drop's Razor's throat across the top rope. Kid then gives Razor some kicks in the corner as well as a spinning heel kick. Razor fights back with a clothesline in the corner and then the Fallaway Slam. He goes for the Razor's Edge only for the Kid to roll out of the floor. Kid's manager Ted DiBiase throws some baby powder in Razor's eyes right in front of the referee but no DQ?!?! Sure why not!?!?
Kid hits Razor with a missile dropkick off the top rope for two. Kid puts Razor in a sleeper hold and after almost putting Razor to sleep, Razor fights back and drops Kid crotch-first on the top rope. Razor does his thing taking down the Kid. He put Kid on the top rope for the back superplex, but Kid elbows out of it.
Kid then hits the reverse moonsault that he used to beat Razor the first time ever. However, Razor rolled through the move and picked up Kid. He climbs to the second rope and does a Super Fallaway Slam. Razor sets up for the Razor's Edge. However, DiBiase is distracting Razor and the referee.
The Kid grabs the bottle of baby powder and is about to throw it in Razor's face, but Razor counters by kicking the powder in Kid's face. Razor gives Kid the Razor's Edge and covers him 1-2-but pulls Kid up. He gives Kid a second Razor's Edge for good measure for the 1-2-3. Razor puts the diaper on the Kid and dumps some more baby powder on his face for more embarrassment. The Kid cries and throws a tantrum.
Next up is Hunter Hearst Helmsley with some hot blonde chick named Elizabeth Hilden escorting him to the ring against Duke "The Dumpster" Droese albeit with shorter hair than before. Helmsley attacked Droese a few weeks ago on Superstars and Pedigreed him on Droese's own trash can and then proceeded to cut Droese's long hair.
Droese attacks Helmsley at the start punching him and throwing him around by his long hair. He gets Helmsley in the corner and does the 10-punch corner thing when Helmsley dropped him face-first onto the top turnbuckle. Helmsley goes for the Pedigree but Droese it into a reverse atomic drop. Droese charges at Helmsley but Helmsley backdropped him over the top rope.
Helmsley threw Droese into the steel steps. Jerry Lawler is interviewing Miss Hilden as he is enamored with her. Back in the ring, he nailed Droese with a knee drop for two. Droese puts up a big boot when Helmsley charged at him in the corner. Droese fights back with a spinebuster and then hits him with his finisher the "Trash Compactor."
Great idea let's have a wrestling garbage man yeah that's so cool let me tell you! Droese does not go for the cover. Instead he brings in his trash can and attempts to inflict more punishment on Helmsley. However, the referee tosses the can outside and Helmsley grabbed the trashcan lid and wacks Droese in the head with it for the 1-2-3 and the win.
They show a highlight video of Yokozuna's face turn two weeks ago on Raw. Yokozuna comes out for his match and he's on the microphone and apparently can speak English other than "Banzai!" He mentions how Jim Cornette treated him poorly over the last few years and taking money from him. He also says the only reason Owen Hart won a title was because he hid behind him.
The match between Yokozuna and Davey Boy Smith is on as Yoko attacks Davey but missed an elbow drop. Davey hits him with several clotheslines to knock him off his feet. Cornette hits Yoko in the throat with his tennis racket. Yoko reverses an Irish Whip into the corner and squashes Davey. Yoko goes for the Banzai drop but Cornette pulls Davey out of the ring.
Davey moves out of the way as Yoko tries to splash him into the corner as Yoko hits the ring post. Davey brings Yoko back into the ring and hits him with a flying double ax handle. He covers Yoko as he throws Davey off of him after a two-count. Yoko soon fights back as he gives Davey a Samoan Drop and then a belly-to-belly suplex.
He again goes for the Banzai Drop when Cornette runs into the ring and whacks Yoko with the tennis racket but it has no affect. Yoko goes after Cornette only for Vader, who I thought was suspended?, runs down to beat down Yoko along with Davey. They handcuff Yoko to the ropes and beat him down until officials run in to stop this.
We are shown Intercontinental Champion Goldust with Marlena in the back hanging out the WWF.com area answering your questions. He is fondling the person in charge of this and he's totally getting creeped out.
It's time for Shawn Michaels vs. Owen Hart. Michaels is putting his WrestleMania WWF Title shot on the line to get his hands on Owen, who was bragging that he is the one who nearly ended Shawn's career and will look to do so tonight. Whoever wins this match will face the WWF Champion at WrestleMania.
Michaels is on top of the "house" as he ziplines all the down to the ring as Vince McMahon is having an orgasm. Michaels immediately attacks Owen as Owen was trying to go after him and knocks him to the floor so Shawn can finishing undressing himself.
The match officially starts with the two shoving each other and trading side headlocks and shoulderblocks. Shawn slides underneath Owen and heads to the floor where he high-fives his fans or "The Kliq" all around ringside. Back in the ring, Owen slides out like Shawn and goes to high-five fans but no one does. Michaels climbs the top turnbuckle and delivers a flying crossbody onto the floor.
Michaels hits Owen with a flying double ax handle for two. He put Owen in a side headlock. He throws Michaels into the ropes and hip tosses him. Both men kip up at the same time and Michaels gives Owen a Hurricanarana and punches Owen while on top of him. Owen then hit Michaels with a Belly-to-Belly Suplex and then worked on his back with a back breaker.
Owen hits Shawn with the Rude Awakening reverse neckbreaker for two. He goes for the Sharpshooter but Shawn fights out of it. Owen then gets Shawn in a modified camel clutch and a chinlock. Michaels elbowed out of it but runs into a spinning heel kick from Owen which sends Michaels to the floor.
Shawn counters a suplex attempt by Owen on the apron and sends him to the floor. Michaels jumps onto Owen but Owen countered it into a powerslam on the floor. Back into the ring, Owen nails him with a missile dropkick for two.
Michaels gets whipped into the corner and does his usual upside down bump in the corner to come back into a big clothesline by Owen. Owen puts him into the Sharpshooter, but Michaels manages to fight his way to the ropes to break up the hold. Shawn mounts some offense but Owen stops that nailing him with the Enziguri Kick to send Shawn to the floor. Is that it? Is Shawn's career over?
I would sure love another Bret vs. Owen match at WrestleMania for the title as they had amazing matches at WrestleMania and SummerSlam two years ago. I believe Shawn though is going to be the champion so that cancels that.
I wouldn't hate Shawn vs. Diesel as they had a great match at last year's WrestleMania. I think it is going to be Shawn vs. Bret and obviously that's awesome with the two best wrestlers in the company battling for the title at the premier event.
Owen brings him back into the ring, why he didn't let him stay outside and get counted out I don't know? It's a win it's not a title match it's a match for a title match. Anyway Owen goes for the cover but Shawn kicks out at two. Hey it didn't kill him or end his career. Owen charges at Shawn in the corner only for Michaels to move out of the way.
Shawn gives Owen an inverted atomic drop following by a flying forearm and then kips up!! Shawn gives him another flying forearm. He then goes to the top and hits Owen with a Flying Elbow Drop and is setting up for Sweet Chin Music and going to headline WrestleMania. However, Jim Cornette is on the apron only for Michaels to knock him off the apron.
Michaels goes for Sweet Chin Music only for Owen to duck. Owen then goes for the Enziguri only for Michaels to duck the move. Michaels then hits Owen with Sweet Chin Music for the 1-2-3 and going to WrestleMania to meet the winner of the Bret Hart-Diesel cage match and face him for the title.
This match was one hell of a match and I don't want the feud to be over as this story was excellent and so too was the match, but Shawn looks to be the WWF Champion. Maybe and hopefully he will give Owen a championship match somewhere down the line.
Next we go to Todd Pettingill who has interim WWF President "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Piper first tells us what we already know that Shawn Michaels is the number one contender to the WWF Championship and will face the winner of tonight's Steel Cage match at WrestleMania. He does say that there must be a legitimate winner at WrestleMania.
Next Piper mentions Vader and says he will be reinstated from his suspension for his attack on WWF President Gorilla Monsoon last month. He then puts Vader in a match with Yokozuna at WrestleMania XII to settle the score between the two giant men.
Jim Cornette and his "lawyer" Clarence Mason come out to confront Piper. Before Cornette can get a word in, Roddy tells him to "Shut up!" and show him some respect. Cornette does not do that and tells Piper than he is afraid of Vader. Piper then says if Vader loses his match to Yokozuna at WrestleMania, Yokozuna will then get his hands on Cornette.
Now it's time for the main event WWF Championship Steel Cage Match between the champion Bret "The Hitman" Hart and the former champion Diesel. The Undertaker will no doubt be involved. A steel cage will not keep the deadman out and prevent him from screwing Diesel out of the WWF Title like Diesel had done to him.
Diesel uses his size and power over Bret to gain the early advantage. Diesel tries to leave the cage but Bret hits him with a shot to the crotch and headbutts his balls. Hart does what Hart always does against Diesel and that's attack his knee. Diesel fights back with the sidewalk slam but misses an elbow drop.
Bret goes right back to the knees. Too bad he can't go outside and do what he did at Survivor Series and tie Diesel's legs up to the ringpost. Diesel reverses Bret sending him hard chest-first into the corner. Diesel then gives Bret several knees in the corner only for Bret to attack Diesel's knee.
Bret climbs up the cage and even gets onto the other side only for Diesel to grab him by the hair and brings him back into the cage, where he sends Bret face-first into the cage. Bret then does another chest-first bump into the corner. Bret is lying on the second rope where Diesel slowly and limps and does his jump on the back of an opponent.
Diesel tries to Snake Eyes Bret but Bret sends him face-first into the steel cage. Bret goes for the Sharpshooter, but Diesel thumbs him in the eyes to get out of it. Bret then attacks Diesel's lower back and gives him the Side Russian Leg Sweep.
Bret climbs the cage only for Diesel to grab his leg, but Bret kicks him down. Hart then hits Diesel with the Flying Elbow Drop. Hart again climbs the cage but Diesel gives him a shot to the nuts. That's not cool for a giant man to hit a smaller man in the nuts.
Diesel then crawls to the cage door where Bret grabs his foot. Diesel kicks him off of him and again goes through the door when all of a sudden, The Undertaker comes from underneath the ring and grabs Diesel's leg and pulls him underneath the ring. Bret is climbing the cage and touches the floor to win the match and retain his title and will face Shawn Michaels in the main event at WrestleMania.
Since Diesel escaped the cage albeit with help from The Undertaker and I assume touched the floor, shouldn't he be the champion? I guess the rules are you must exit through the door or over the top of the cage and going through the ring is not an option.
Diesel comes from under the ring all scared as to what happened. This will no doubt set up their match at WrestleMania. This has probably been the best of the In Your House PPVs so far in my opinion. Can't wait until WrestleMania but that's still a month and a half away.
Sunday, February 18, 1996
Elizabeth Turns on the Macho Man; Brian Pillman Outs Kevin Sullivan as Booker; ECW Cans Blood in the Wake of Tommy Morrison Testing Positive for HIV; Rumors Are That Razor Ramon and Diesel Are Leaving the WWF for WCW; Billy Gunn Suffers Injury, Tag Team Titles Vacated; ESPN Airing Sportscenter Commercial with Several WWF Wrestlers
Last week was WCW's annual SuperBrawl PPV. Miss Elizabeth turned on her ex-husband Randy Savage and cost him his WCW World Heavyweight Championship to Ric Flair. Elizabeth aligned herself with Flair and the Four Horsemen shortly after Woman betrayed Savage and joined Flair and the Horsemen.
Also at SuperBrawl, the saga of "The Loose Cannon" Brian Pillman continues as he outed Kevin Sullivan as WCW's head booker. During their brief "I Respect You" strap match, Pillman yelled out "I Respect You Bookerman" and abruptly walked out of the ring to the dressing room and out of the arena.
Sullivan stood in the ring stunned. Eric Bischoff yelled at him in the back and then fired him. This is made to be a work or a worked-shoot instead of a shoot as Bischoff even mentioned Pillman by name and his actions the night after SuperBrawl on Nitro. Wrestling companies never acknowledge the wrestler that leaves their company on TV.
ECW owner Paul Heyman bans blood in ECW, the promotion that made its name by blood, over the recent announcement that heavyweight boxer Tommy Morrison tested positive for HIV. Meanwhile, the WWF and WCW switched to promote blood on their events in order to sell more and be more realistic and less cartoony.
There are reports that Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) and Kevin Nash (Diesel) will be going to WCW after their WWF contracts expire in a few months. Sherri Martel has been fired from WCW after she appeared on a live Nitro two weeks ago in no condition to do so.
Billy Gunn of the WWF Tag Team Champion Smokin' Gunns had neck surgery for a disc problem he suffered back at the Royal Rumble. He will be out of action for 4-6 weeks. The Gunns will be forced to vacate the WWF World Tag Team Championship and a tournament will be held to determine the new champions.
ESPN began using WWF wrestlers in their "Sportscenter" commercials.
Also at SuperBrawl, the saga of "The Loose Cannon" Brian Pillman continues as he outed Kevin Sullivan as WCW's head booker. During their brief "I Respect You" strap match, Pillman yelled out "I Respect You Bookerman" and abruptly walked out of the ring to the dressing room and out of the arena.
Sullivan stood in the ring stunned. Eric Bischoff yelled at him in the back and then fired him. This is made to be a work or a worked-shoot instead of a shoot as Bischoff even mentioned Pillman by name and his actions the night after SuperBrawl on Nitro. Wrestling companies never acknowledge the wrestler that leaves their company on TV.
ECW owner Paul Heyman bans blood in ECW, the promotion that made its name by blood, over the recent announcement that heavyweight boxer Tommy Morrison tested positive for HIV. Meanwhile, the WWF and WCW switched to promote blood on their events in order to sell more and be more realistic and less cartoony.
There are reports that Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) and Kevin Nash (Diesel) will be going to WCW after their WWF contracts expire in a few months. Sherri Martel has been fired from WCW after she appeared on a live Nitro two weeks ago in no condition to do so.
Billy Gunn of the WWF Tag Team Champion Smokin' Gunns had neck surgery for a disc problem he suffered back at the Royal Rumble. He will be out of action for 4-6 weeks. The Gunns will be forced to vacate the WWF World Tag Team Championship and a tournament will be held to determine the new champions.
ESPN began using WWF wrestlers in their "Sportscenter" commercials.
WWF In Your House 6 Preview
Hunter Hearst Helmsley vs. Duke "The Dumpster" Droese
This feud started back at the Royal Rumble when they faced each other in a match during the Free For All prior to the PPV where the winner got to enter the Royal Rumble 30th and the loser had to enter first. Hunter Hearst Helmsley used brass knuckles to defeat Duke "The Dumpster" Droese but replay was used to show Helmsley cheating and he was DQ'd as he was forced to enter the Rumble first while Droese got to enter last.
The next weekend on Superstars, Helmsley attacked Droese knocking him out with his own trashcan and then Helmsley cut off Droese's long hair. Also the resident WWF blue blood snob Helmsley detests the garbage man Droese.
Crybaby Match - Razor Ramon vs. The 1-2-3 Kid (w/ Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase)
This stems all the way back to last fall as the former best friends began arguing a lot and botching interfering in each other's matches. The 1-2-3 Kid felt Razor Ramon disrespected him. Despite looking to have things patched up, the Kid was the referee in Razor's match with Sycho Sid when the Kid cost Razor the match and the Kid turned heel and joined forces with the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase.
Razor had been trying for a couple of months to get to the Kid. Then at the Royal Rumble last month, the Kid cost Razor his WWF Intercontinental Championship against Goldust. The Kid would openly mock Razor by calling him a "crybaby" for whining about costing him the match.
The Kid would even bring strollers and a giant baby bottle to the ring with him. A couple of weeks ago on Superstars, Kid attacked Razor with the stroller and then Kid broke one of Jeff Jarrett's guitars over Razor's back as he was about to give Jarrett the Razor's Edge on yesterday's episode of Superstars.
This will be the first ever "Crybaby Match" where the winner puts the loser in a giant diaper after the match.
Yokozuna vs. Davey Boy Smith (w/ Jim Cornette)
In a last-minute match, Yokozuna takes on his former ally Davey Boy Smith as a couple of weeks ago on Raw, the long-awaited babyface turn of Yokozuna finally happened. After months of teasing a face turn, Yokozuna finally turned face after yet costing Camp Cornette another match and Cornette blamed him for the loss. He yelled at Yokozuna and slapped him in the face as Yokozuna had enough and attacked Cornette and even his former allies Davey and Owen Hart.
Yokozuna also had taken a back seat to Camp Cornette's newest addition: the former WCW World Heavyweight Champion Vader.
Winner Gets the WWF Championship Match at WrestleMania XII - Shawn Michaels vs. Owen Hart (w/ Jim Cornette)
Shawn Michaels had been dealing with a real-life attack after he was attacked by several men outside a bar in Syracuse in October. Michaels returned from the attack the following month to compete at the Survivor Series and take on Owen Hart the following night on Raw.
During the match, Owen kicked Michaels in the back of his head with his Enziguri Kick. While it was nothing at first, Shawn collapsed in the middle of the ring to bring an impromptu end to the match. Shawn was even taken out of the ring on a stretcher and taken to the local hospital.
It was revealed that the attack in Syracuse along with the kick to the back of his head caused Michaels to have "Post Concussion Syndrome" and it appeared that his career was in total jeopardy. In January, however, Michaels announced he was returning to the WWF at the Royal Rumble and went on to win the Royal Rumble for the second year in a row and will be facing the WWF Champion at WrestleMania XII.
Owen had been bragging and taking credit for nearly ending Michaels' career. Michaels wanted a piece of Owen to settle the score. However, Michaels would only be able to fight Owen if he put his WrestleMania title shot on the line. Michaels decided that he had no other choice and agreed to do so to get his hands on Owen so the winner of this match will face the WWF Champion in the main event at WrestleMania.
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Steel Cage match - WWF World Heavyweight Champion Bret "The Hitman" Hart vs. Diesel
Bret Hart defends his WWF World Heavyweight Championship against Diesel in a Steel Cage match in the main event. Bret won the title against Diesel in November at the Survivor Series where he ended Diesel's year-long reign as WWF Champion. Diesel was upset over the loss that he attacked Bret and gave him several Jackknife Powerbombs.
Diesel changed his attitude after that loss as he declared that the old "Big Daddy Cool" was back and he was no longer a "Corporate Puppet." This is the fourth time these two locked up for the WWF Championship for the fourth time in the last 20 months.
The first two matches ended in DQ finishes and the last match saw Bret win the Championship in a No DQ match and now a Steel Cage match. Diesel helped Bret retain the title against The Undertaker at the Royal Rumble and again a couple of weeks later on Raw so that he could face Bret instead of The Undertaker.
The winner of this match will face the winner of the Shawn Michaels-Owen Hart match in the main event at WrestleMania 12 for the WWF Title.
This feud started back at the Royal Rumble when they faced each other in a match during the Free For All prior to the PPV where the winner got to enter the Royal Rumble 30th and the loser had to enter first. Hunter Hearst Helmsley used brass knuckles to defeat Duke "The Dumpster" Droese but replay was used to show Helmsley cheating and he was DQ'd as he was forced to enter the Rumble first while Droese got to enter last.
The next weekend on Superstars, Helmsley attacked Droese knocking him out with his own trashcan and then Helmsley cut off Droese's long hair. Also the resident WWF blue blood snob Helmsley detests the garbage man Droese.
Crybaby Match - Razor Ramon vs. The 1-2-3 Kid (w/ Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase)
This stems all the way back to last fall as the former best friends began arguing a lot and botching interfering in each other's matches. The 1-2-3 Kid felt Razor Ramon disrespected him. Despite looking to have things patched up, the Kid was the referee in Razor's match with Sycho Sid when the Kid cost Razor the match and the Kid turned heel and joined forces with the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase.
Razor had been trying for a couple of months to get to the Kid. Then at the Royal Rumble last month, the Kid cost Razor his WWF Intercontinental Championship against Goldust. The Kid would openly mock Razor by calling him a "crybaby" for whining about costing him the match.
The Kid would even bring strollers and a giant baby bottle to the ring with him. A couple of weeks ago on Superstars, Kid attacked Razor with the stroller and then Kid broke one of Jeff Jarrett's guitars over Razor's back as he was about to give Jarrett the Razor's Edge on yesterday's episode of Superstars.
This will be the first ever "Crybaby Match" where the winner puts the loser in a giant diaper after the match.
Yokozuna vs. Davey Boy Smith (w/ Jim Cornette)
In a last-minute match, Yokozuna takes on his former ally Davey Boy Smith as a couple of weeks ago on Raw, the long-awaited babyface turn of Yokozuna finally happened. After months of teasing a face turn, Yokozuna finally turned face after yet costing Camp Cornette another match and Cornette blamed him for the loss. He yelled at Yokozuna and slapped him in the face as Yokozuna had enough and attacked Cornette and even his former allies Davey and Owen Hart.
Yokozuna also had taken a back seat to Camp Cornette's newest addition: the former WCW World Heavyweight Champion Vader.
Winner Gets the WWF Championship Match at WrestleMania XII - Shawn Michaels vs. Owen Hart (w/ Jim Cornette)
Shawn Michaels had been dealing with a real-life attack after he was attacked by several men outside a bar in Syracuse in October. Michaels returned from the attack the following month to compete at the Survivor Series and take on Owen Hart the following night on Raw.
During the match, Owen kicked Michaels in the back of his head with his Enziguri Kick. While it was nothing at first, Shawn collapsed in the middle of the ring to bring an impromptu end to the match. Shawn was even taken out of the ring on a stretcher and taken to the local hospital.
It was revealed that the attack in Syracuse along with the kick to the back of his head caused Michaels to have "Post Concussion Syndrome" and it appeared that his career was in total jeopardy. In January, however, Michaels announced he was returning to the WWF at the Royal Rumble and went on to win the Royal Rumble for the second year in a row and will be facing the WWF Champion at WrestleMania XII.
Owen had been bragging and taking credit for nearly ending Michaels' career. Michaels wanted a piece of Owen to settle the score. However, Michaels would only be able to fight Owen if he put his WrestleMania title shot on the line. Michaels decided that he had no other choice and agreed to do so to get his hands on Owen so the winner of this match will face the WWF Champion in the main event at WrestleMania.
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Steel Cage match - WWF World Heavyweight Champion Bret "The Hitman" Hart vs. Diesel
Bret Hart defends his WWF World Heavyweight Championship against Diesel in a Steel Cage match in the main event. Bret won the title against Diesel in November at the Survivor Series where he ended Diesel's year-long reign as WWF Champion. Diesel was upset over the loss that he attacked Bret and gave him several Jackknife Powerbombs.
Diesel changed his attitude after that loss as he declared that the old "Big Daddy Cool" was back and he was no longer a "Corporate Puppet." This is the fourth time these two locked up for the WWF Championship for the fourth time in the last 20 months.
The first two matches ended in DQ finishes and the last match saw Bret win the Championship in a No DQ match and now a Steel Cage match. Diesel helped Bret retain the title against The Undertaker at the Royal Rumble and again a couple of weeks later on Raw so that he could face Bret instead of The Undertaker.
The winner of this match will face the winner of the Shawn Michaels-Owen Hart match in the main event at WrestleMania 12 for the WWF Title.
ECW Hardcore TV: February 13, 1996
This week's episode of ECW Hardcore TV is from Queens, New York with your host Joey Styles. The Eliminators are being shown with John Kronus shaving off his hair much like his partner Saturn did last week.
Styles is in the ring with Taz and Bill Alfonso. Fonzie says 911 is done wrestling and Taz is responsible. Rey Mysterio Jr. confronts Taz saying he's not afraid of him. Fonzie slaps him in the face telling him to show him respect only for Rey to give Fonzie a spinning heel-kick. He then hits Taz with a Hurricanarana but Taz catches him and lays him out with a couple of Tazplexes.
Woman comes out and tells Styles she wants him to go with her to WWF but he wants to stay here. The Sandman comes out and she wants him to come with him but he refuses saying she's been a bitch her whole life. 2 Cold Scorpio comes to the ring and picks her up and carries her all the outside and puts her in a limo and tells the limo driver to "Take that bitch to Atlanta!"
Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie come to the ring to tell The Sandman to back out of his ECW Championship match with Raven. Sandman of course refuses and Stevie threatens him to back out or else he'll Stevie-kick him. Meanie offers to do so and tries to do only to be caned by Sandman who also canes Stevie before leaving the ring.
Raven then enters the ring and slaps Stevie around and mocks both Stevie and Meanie calling Stevie a "moron" and says Stevie was supposed to give Beulah her pill but could not even do that. Raven continues to smack Stevie around as Stevie sucks up to Raven. Stevie reaches into Meanie's pocket to pull out a letter.
The letter is Stevie suing Missy Hyatt for "sexual harassment." Missy enters the ring and calls Stevie a joke. Raven says it can all go away if she joins up with Raven but Missy mocks him saying Tommy Dreamer knocked up his ex-girlfriend. Raven tries to go after her only for Sandman to run in and attack Raven. Sandman and Missy celebrate by drinking beer.
Joey Styles highlights what happened already on this show and calls Taz "offensive" to the wrestling industry. A bunch of highlights are shown from ECW home video. Next up, Tommy Dreamer teams with former rival Shane Douglas to take on Raven and Stevie Richards.
Stevie is wearing a Razor Ramon t-shirt and throws a toothpick at Douglas only for Douglas to attack Stevie and choke him with his Razor Ramon shirt. He then wipes his ass with it and then sticks it in Stevie's face before firing away at him. Obviously this was a jab at Douglas for losing the Intercontinental Championship to Razor in the WWF before he left to return to ECW.
Douglas and Dreamer beat on Stevie for a while with Dreamer even smashing a phone in Stevie's face and using other weapons from the fans. Dreamer gives Stevie a number of shots to the nuts before Raven gives Dreamer a shot to the nuts. Raven hits Dreamer with his title belt and then gives him a piledriver but only for two.
Raven was about to hit Dreamer with a chair but Dreamer dropkicks the chair into his face and then gives Stevie a DDT before making the tag to Douglas. Douglas takes down both Raven and Stevie while The Sandman enters and canes anyone and everyone in sight.
There would be wild brawls all around with Dreamer fighting Raven, Raven fighting Douglas, Douglas fighting Richards, and Richards ending up in the ring with Dreamer. Stevie holds Dreamer down so The Blue Meanie and deliver his "Meaniesault" (moonsault), but Dreamer knocks Stevie down and Meanie hits Stevie instead. Douglas knocks Raven out of the ring and hits him with a somersault onto the floor.
Meanwhile, Beulah duct tapes a frying pan to Dreamer's foot. Dreamer kicks Stevie in the face with the frying pan to win the match in a totally weird and crazy and unpredictable ending. Raven leaves the ring and with Stevie out cold, Meanie is in the ring by himself with Dreamer and Douglas to beat on him. Douglas hits Meanie in the head with the pan.
Taz takes on the Shark Attack Kid. Joey Styles rips John Tenta for his Shark character in WCW. I don't know if Shark Attack Kid is to mock him or not. Taz easily defeats him with various submission holds and suplexes and finishes him off with the Tazzmission. Crowd chants "Sabu!!"
After the match, Taz calls out 911 but Tod Gordon comes out to tell him 911 left the building and doesn't want to fight him. Bill Alfonso then challenges Gordon to a fight. Alfonso and Gordon fight until Taz begins to choke Gordon out.
All of a sudden, Bam Bam Bigelow makes his way to the ring and chases Taz and Alfonso out. The crowd chants "Bam Bam" as Bigelow challenges Taz to a fight and we are out.
Styles is in the ring with Taz and Bill Alfonso. Fonzie says 911 is done wrestling and Taz is responsible. Rey Mysterio Jr. confronts Taz saying he's not afraid of him. Fonzie slaps him in the face telling him to show him respect only for Rey to give Fonzie a spinning heel-kick. He then hits Taz with a Hurricanarana but Taz catches him and lays him out with a couple of Tazplexes.
Woman comes out and tells Styles she wants him to go with her to WWF but he wants to stay here. The Sandman comes out and she wants him to come with him but he refuses saying she's been a bitch her whole life. 2 Cold Scorpio comes to the ring and picks her up and carries her all the outside and puts her in a limo and tells the limo driver to "Take that bitch to Atlanta!"
Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie come to the ring to tell The Sandman to back out of his ECW Championship match with Raven. Sandman of course refuses and Stevie threatens him to back out or else he'll Stevie-kick him. Meanie offers to do so and tries to do only to be caned by Sandman who also canes Stevie before leaving the ring.
Raven then enters the ring and slaps Stevie around and mocks both Stevie and Meanie calling Stevie a "moron" and says Stevie was supposed to give Beulah her pill but could not even do that. Raven continues to smack Stevie around as Stevie sucks up to Raven. Stevie reaches into Meanie's pocket to pull out a letter.
The letter is Stevie suing Missy Hyatt for "sexual harassment." Missy enters the ring and calls Stevie a joke. Raven says it can all go away if she joins up with Raven but Missy mocks him saying Tommy Dreamer knocked up his ex-girlfriend. Raven tries to go after her only for Sandman to run in and attack Raven. Sandman and Missy celebrate by drinking beer.
Joey Styles highlights what happened already on this show and calls Taz "offensive" to the wrestling industry. A bunch of highlights are shown from ECW home video. Next up, Tommy Dreamer teams with former rival Shane Douglas to take on Raven and Stevie Richards.
Stevie is wearing a Razor Ramon t-shirt and throws a toothpick at Douglas only for Douglas to attack Stevie and choke him with his Razor Ramon shirt. He then wipes his ass with it and then sticks it in Stevie's face before firing away at him. Obviously this was a jab at Douglas for losing the Intercontinental Championship to Razor in the WWF before he left to return to ECW.
Douglas and Dreamer beat on Stevie for a while with Dreamer even smashing a phone in Stevie's face and using other weapons from the fans. Dreamer gives Stevie a number of shots to the nuts before Raven gives Dreamer a shot to the nuts. Raven hits Dreamer with his title belt and then gives him a piledriver but only for two.
Raven was about to hit Dreamer with a chair but Dreamer dropkicks the chair into his face and then gives Stevie a DDT before making the tag to Douglas. Douglas takes down both Raven and Stevie while The Sandman enters and canes anyone and everyone in sight.
There would be wild brawls all around with Dreamer fighting Raven, Raven fighting Douglas, Douglas fighting Richards, and Richards ending up in the ring with Dreamer. Stevie holds Dreamer down so The Blue Meanie and deliver his "Meaniesault" (moonsault), but Dreamer knocks Stevie down and Meanie hits Stevie instead. Douglas knocks Raven out of the ring and hits him with a somersault onto the floor.
Meanwhile, Beulah duct tapes a frying pan to Dreamer's foot. Dreamer kicks Stevie in the face with the frying pan to win the match in a totally weird and crazy and unpredictable ending. Raven leaves the ring and with Stevie out cold, Meanie is in the ring by himself with Dreamer and Douglas to beat on him. Douglas hits Meanie in the head with the pan.
Taz takes on the Shark Attack Kid. Joey Styles rips John Tenta for his Shark character in WCW. I don't know if Shark Attack Kid is to mock him or not. Taz easily defeats him with various submission holds and suplexes and finishes him off with the Tazzmission. Crowd chants "Sabu!!"
After the match, Taz calls out 911 but Tod Gordon comes out to tell him 911 left the building and doesn't want to fight him. Bill Alfonso then challenges Gordon to a fight. Alfonso and Gordon fight until Taz begins to choke Gordon out.
All of a sudden, Bam Bam Bigelow makes his way to the ring and chases Taz and Alfonso out. The crowd chants "Bam Bam" as Bigelow challenges Taz to a fight and we are out.
Tuesday, February 13, 1996
WCW Monday Nitro: February 12, 1996
We are live from Tampa, Florida 24 hours after the SuperBrawl VI PPV with our hosts Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and Steve "Mongo" McMichael. Bischoff talks SuperBrawl and says how Johnny B. Badd is now $6.6 million richer and maybe more since he gets to keep the lovely Kimberly as he beat Diamond Dallas Page yet again.
I don't know why they have Page losing all the time to Badd? I think Page has gotten so much better in the last year and deserves better and I don't know but this could kill his career sadly. It's hard for him to get a serious run as he is what nearly 40 and got a really late start in wrestling.
Perhaps they have him off TV for a couple of months and say he's down on his luck and somehow comes back that could resurrect his career. I'm hoping whatever happens he stays in wrestling even if he's not a wrestler as he could be a manager or announcer like he was before because he's very good at those. He's been getting really good in the ring and hopefully give him one last shot.
Anyway we are shown still photos of last night's SuperBrawl PPV with Miss Elizabeth handing her shoe to Ric Flair and her betraying Randy Savage causing Flair to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, his 13th world title. Then Hulk Hogan is shown destroying and taking out the entire Dungeon of Doom.
The opening match features an angry Savage, irate over being screwed out of his WCW World Title and being betrayed by his ex-wife Liz and joining his mortal enemy, taking on the Dungeon of Doom's Hugh Morris. Savage ditches the cowboy hat for a bandana as he is pissed at what happened last night and means business tonight.
Savage and Morris just eye rake and choke each other. Savage throws Morris outside and sends him into the ring post. Morris tries for No Laughing Matter (moonsault) but misses as Savage gets out of the way. Savage then gives Morris not one but two Flying Elbow Drops to win the match.
Savage is not done yet as he climbs the top rope and looks to go for a third Flying Elbow Drop but the referees stop him as Morris rolls out of the ring. Savage then gets on the microphone and wants a piece of Ric Flair. Well he'll get his chance next week as he will face Flair for the World Title in a rematch next week on Nitro.
We come back from a commercial break as Gene Okerlund is talking to NASCAR driver Steve Grissom, who will be driving the WCW car in the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series this season.
NASCAR opens their season this weekend at Daytona for the Busch Series 300-mile race on Saturday, which Grissom will be driving the WCW car, followed by Sunday's Daytona 500 for the premier NASCAR Winston Cup Series, where Grissom will also be racing as he will be driving the Cartoon Network Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
The Dungeon of Doom's Loch Ness, who made his debut at the end of the PPV last night, accompanied by Jimmy Hart will face Scotty Riggs. While Loch Ness is really fat, he is not 700 lbs. like Eric Bischoff keeps saying he is. Loch Ness catches Riggs attempt at a cross body and falls on top of him. Loch Ness gives Riggs two elbow drops to win the match.
Gene Okerlund is with Miss Elizabeth and Woman, who are wheeling out a bed. New WCW Champion Ric Flair comes from underneath the sheets to cut an awesome promo on Randy Savage on how he beat him for the title and took Liz from him.
Flair then does his usual space mountain and grabs the ladies. Liz mentions how Savage treated her and always made her stand behind him. She took half of everything from him in the divorce and now took everything by taking the title away from him and giving it to Flair. All three then let out a giant WOOOOO!!!!
United States Champion Konnan is defending his title against newcomer Devon Storm. Storm takes it to Konnan early on by dropkicking him to the floor. Storm grabs a steel chair and sets it up in the ring. He then runs and jumps onto the chair and does a somersault onto Konnan on the floor in an awesome move!!!
Storm sits Konnan in a chair on the floor and jumps off the steel steps, but Konnan catches him and powerbombs him on the floor. We are shown New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner sitting in the audience. Konnan nails Storm with some headscissors takedowns. Storm tries a Frankensteiner off the middle rope but its countered into a powerbomb and Konnan gets the 1-2-3 to retain the title.
Eric Bischoff apologizes for joking that the WWF had something to do with the power going off during last week's Nitro.
It's time for the main event with Hulk Hogan taking on Arn Anderson with Woman in his corner. Hogan gains the early advantage with clotheslines and choking Arn with his wrist tape. Hogan also takes off his eye patch only to be hit by an elbow by Arn on the eye.
Here comes Ric Flair and Elizabeth down to ringside. Arn gives Hogan his Spinebuster as Arn goes for the cover. 1-2-and a kick out and Hogan begins to "Hulk up!" He gives Arn three right hand punches and the big boot and the leg dr---wait a minute! He doesn't go for the leg drop instead he notices Flair and goes for the Figure Four.
Flair runs in to try and stop Hogan only to be cradled up by Hogan. The referee is preoccupied as Woman throws white powder in Hogan's bad eye. The referee notices Woman and is distracted by her. Flair gives Arn Liz's shoe and he nails Hogan with it and covers him for the 1-2-3 for a shocking win!!! I would never imagine in a million years Arn would beat Hogan!!! I'm very excited!!!
Despite losing, Hogan gets right up and attacks both Arn and Flair. Randy Savage runs in with a steel chair and hits both Arn and Flair with it sending them running from the ring. Flair and Arn run over to the announce booth and Flair rips the headset off of Eric Bischoff and bashes both Hogan and Savage. Arn challenges Hogan to a rematch next week on Nitro saying he could beat him again.
Hogan and Savage chase Arn and Flair away from the broadcast booth as Gene Okerlund meets them over there. Hogan wants the rematch with Arn and Savage is ready to get his hands on Flair next week in the championship rematch. Next week should be a good show.
I don't know why they have Page losing all the time to Badd? I think Page has gotten so much better in the last year and deserves better and I don't know but this could kill his career sadly. It's hard for him to get a serious run as he is what nearly 40 and got a really late start in wrestling.
Perhaps they have him off TV for a couple of months and say he's down on his luck and somehow comes back that could resurrect his career. I'm hoping whatever happens he stays in wrestling even if he's not a wrestler as he could be a manager or announcer like he was before because he's very good at those. He's been getting really good in the ring and hopefully give him one last shot.
Anyway we are shown still photos of last night's SuperBrawl PPV with Miss Elizabeth handing her shoe to Ric Flair and her betraying Randy Savage causing Flair to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, his 13th world title. Then Hulk Hogan is shown destroying and taking out the entire Dungeon of Doom.
The opening match features an angry Savage, irate over being screwed out of his WCW World Title and being betrayed by his ex-wife Liz and joining his mortal enemy, taking on the Dungeon of Doom's Hugh Morris. Savage ditches the cowboy hat for a bandana as he is pissed at what happened last night and means business tonight.
Savage and Morris just eye rake and choke each other. Savage throws Morris outside and sends him into the ring post. Morris tries for No Laughing Matter (moonsault) but misses as Savage gets out of the way. Savage then gives Morris not one but two Flying Elbow Drops to win the match.
Savage is not done yet as he climbs the top rope and looks to go for a third Flying Elbow Drop but the referees stop him as Morris rolls out of the ring. Savage then gets on the microphone and wants a piece of Ric Flair. Well he'll get his chance next week as he will face Flair for the World Title in a rematch next week on Nitro.
We come back from a commercial break as Gene Okerlund is talking to NASCAR driver Steve Grissom, who will be driving the WCW car in the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series this season.
NASCAR opens their season this weekend at Daytona for the Busch Series 300-mile race on Saturday, which Grissom will be driving the WCW car, followed by Sunday's Daytona 500 for the premier NASCAR Winston Cup Series, where Grissom will also be racing as he will be driving the Cartoon Network Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
The Dungeon of Doom's Loch Ness, who made his debut at the end of the PPV last night, accompanied by Jimmy Hart will face Scotty Riggs. While Loch Ness is really fat, he is not 700 lbs. like Eric Bischoff keeps saying he is. Loch Ness catches Riggs attempt at a cross body and falls on top of him. Loch Ness gives Riggs two elbow drops to win the match.
Gene Okerlund is with Miss Elizabeth and Woman, who are wheeling out a bed. New WCW Champion Ric Flair comes from underneath the sheets to cut an awesome promo on Randy Savage on how he beat him for the title and took Liz from him.
Flair then does his usual space mountain and grabs the ladies. Liz mentions how Savage treated her and always made her stand behind him. She took half of everything from him in the divorce and now took everything by taking the title away from him and giving it to Flair. All three then let out a giant WOOOOO!!!!
United States Champion Konnan is defending his title against newcomer Devon Storm. Storm takes it to Konnan early on by dropkicking him to the floor. Storm grabs a steel chair and sets it up in the ring. He then runs and jumps onto the chair and does a somersault onto Konnan on the floor in an awesome move!!!
Storm sits Konnan in a chair on the floor and jumps off the steel steps, but Konnan catches him and powerbombs him on the floor. We are shown New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner sitting in the audience. Konnan nails Storm with some headscissors takedowns. Storm tries a Frankensteiner off the middle rope but its countered into a powerbomb and Konnan gets the 1-2-3 to retain the title.
Eric Bischoff apologizes for joking that the WWF had something to do with the power going off during last week's Nitro.
It's time for the main event with Hulk Hogan taking on Arn Anderson with Woman in his corner. Hogan gains the early advantage with clotheslines and choking Arn with his wrist tape. Hogan also takes off his eye patch only to be hit by an elbow by Arn on the eye.
Here comes Ric Flair and Elizabeth down to ringside. Arn gives Hogan his Spinebuster as Arn goes for the cover. 1-2-and a kick out and Hogan begins to "Hulk up!" He gives Arn three right hand punches and the big boot and the leg dr---wait a minute! He doesn't go for the leg drop instead he notices Flair and goes for the Figure Four.
Flair runs in to try and stop Hogan only to be cradled up by Hogan. The referee is preoccupied as Woman throws white powder in Hogan's bad eye. The referee notices Woman and is distracted by her. Flair gives Arn Liz's shoe and he nails Hogan with it and covers him for the 1-2-3 for a shocking win!!! I would never imagine in a million years Arn would beat Hogan!!! I'm very excited!!!
Despite losing, Hogan gets right up and attacks both Arn and Flair. Randy Savage runs in with a steel chair and hits both Arn and Flair with it sending them running from the ring. Flair and Arn run over to the announce booth and Flair rips the headset off of Eric Bischoff and bashes both Hogan and Savage. Arn challenges Hogan to a rematch next week on Nitro saying he could beat him again.
Hogan and Savage chase Arn and Flair away from the broadcast booth as Gene Okerlund meets them over there. Hogan wants the rematch with Arn and Savage is ready to get his hands on Flair next week in the championship rematch. Next week should be a good show.
Monday, February 12, 1996
WCW SuperBrawl VI
We are live from St. Petersburg, FL. for SuperBrawl VI with our hosts Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan, and "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes. There is a video highlighting all the matches as the three hype up the two Steel Cage matches: Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant.
The opening match is The Nasty Boys vs. The Public Enemy in a Street Fight. This is where 1994 WCW Nasty Boys meets ECW in what should be a thrilling match. The match quickly goes to the floor where members of The Public Enemy use tables and The Nasty Boys use steel chairs.
Rocco Rock wants to splash Brian Knobbs through the table, but Knobbs picks him up and slams him through the table instead. Knobbs pins him but Grunge breaks it up with a chair. Jerry Saggs brings a trash can in and hits Grunge several times with the lid. He then piledrives Grunge onto the trashcan and covers him, but Grunge puts his foot on the rope to break up the pin.
Knobbs and Rock head over to the entrance way where Knobbs suplexes Rock through a table. Saggs and Grunge make their way over to the entrance way as well. The Public Enemy continue to beat on the Nasties with chairs and trashcan lids. Grunge gives Saggs a bulldog onto a chair. They set Knobbs up on a table and Rock leaps off a balcony, but Knobbs moves out of the way and Rock crashes through the table. Knobbs pins him for the 1-2-3.
Gene Okerlund mentions his hotline and says two former WWF champions are coming to WCW. U.S. Heavyweight Champion Konnan comes out for an interview.
It's time for the WCW World Television Championship match between champion Johnny B. Badd with The Diamond Doll Kimberly vs. Diamond Dallas Page. This match was literally for everything: Badd's TV title AND Kimberly for the remainder of Page's $13 million winnings from bingo he stole from Kimberly which is about $6.6 million. Page even had one of those giant novelty checks written out and brought to the ring.
Page also brought roses and gave them to Kimberly only for Badd to attack Page from behind. Badd flips Page over the top rope which is not a DQ for some reason. Badd hits him with a double-ax handle off the apron and then brings him back into the ring where Badd performs his slingshot leg drop over the top rope onto Page for a two-count.
Page lowblows Badd and gets the advantage. He hits Badd with a gutbuster but instead of going for a cover, he tells Kimberly to give him a "10" for the move, but she refuses to do so. Badd attempts a sunset flip as Page kneels on Badd's shoulders only for Badd to complete the sunset flip for two.
Badd attempts a hiptoss only for Page to counter it into an awesome looking DDT. Again Page doesn't cover Badd and wants another "10" from Kimberly and again she does not give it to him (maybe her not giving it to him is what led to the breakup in the first place LOL). Instead she gives him a "0" and then "whacks" with the card allowing Badd to roll him from behind but only got two.
Badd soon fights back with several right and left hand punches and then a double ax handle off the top rope which Kimberly gives him a "10." Badd then gives him a flying sunset flip off the top rope only for two. Page rolls out of the ring and drops Badd's throat onto the top rope. Page gives him a Pancake Slam but only gets two.
Page puts him in a sleeper hold only for Badd to break it up with a jawbreaker. Badd then goes for the sleeper as Page backs him up into the corner to break it up. Page goes for another tilt-a-whirl Pancake Slam but Badd reverses it into a Tombstone Piledriver for the 1-2-3 to retain the title and Kimberly and win the $6.6 million for the bingo winnings.
Gene Okerlund is now standing with Harlem Heat as they would head to the ring for their WCW World Tag Team Championship match against the champions Sting and Lex Luger. The winner of this match will face The Road Warriors for the titles later in the show.
Harlem Heat wants a piece of Luger after Luger knocked Booker T out with a roll of silver dollars to win the titles a few weeks ago. This match saw Sting really be the babyface and Luger be the heel and Harlem Heat would be the opposite of whoever was in the ring. Sting did his heroic moves and take his beating while Luger would do some dirty moves on whoever and work the heel angle such as leave the ring and take his time before getting back in.
The match would see all four men brawl in the ring with Sting and Booker T fighting on the outside with the referee going to the floor to stop both men from fighting outside. Meanwhile, Stevie Ray tried to give Luger a powerbomb only for The Road Warriors to run in and hit Stevie with some kind of metal pipe, knocking him out. Luger fell on top of Stevie for the 1-2-3 to retain the tag team titles.
Now it's time for Konnan to defend the United States Heavyweight Title against the man he beat for the title in One Man Gang. Konnan connects on a somersault onto the floor. Then he hits Gang with a Frankensteiner and tries for a drop kick only to miss.
Gang connects on a 747 Splash but pulls him up before the referee counted three. Gang climbs to the middle rope to try a 747 Splash but missed. Konnan hits him with a Flyinh Somersault to win the match and retain the U.S. Title. Gene Okerlund then interviews The Road Warriors.
Next up is the "I Respect You" Leather Strap match between Kevin Sullivan, accompanied by Jimmy Hart, against Brian Pillman. This is not your typical leather strap match if I can say even that. Unlike previous strap matches where you must touch all four corners to win, this one however the only to win is to make your opponent say "I Respect You" just like an "I Quit" match.
Both Sullivan and Pillman take turns whipping the hell out of each other as you would expect. Sullivan got the upper hand and was beating on Pillman only for Pillman to grab the microphone from the referee and yell "I Respect You, Booker Man!" and left the ring after wrestling for not even a minute. Pillman headed straight to the dressing room as this doesn't look like it was supposed to happen as Sullivan looks confused.
Arn Anderson runs to the ring and I thought was going to beat the hell out of Pillman. He doesn't and instead takes Pillman's place in the strap match as it will be Arn vs. Sullivan. These two would beat the hell out of each other as well. Ric Flair then comes to the ring to get these two to stop fighting.
He tells them both that they need to band together to destroy Hulk Hogan and "Macho Man" Randy Savage and says "United We Stand, Divided We Fall!" Arn and Sullivan then shake hands as it appears there will be an alliance between the Four Horsemen and the Dungeon of Doom. The Giant then was being interviewed backstage by Gene Okerlund.
It's WCW World Tag Team Championship match part 2 with Sting and Lex Luger defending the titles against The Road Warriors in a match that would be awesome for 1989. Luger again really played his mega heel role where he took forever walking in and out of the ring to stall the match as he didn't want anything to do with The Road Warriors.
Sting would hit Animal with a Stinger Splash and try to put him into the Scorpion Death Lock only for Hawk to attack Sting as Luger would come in and dispatch Hawk. The match ended with all four men brawling on the outside as the match was thrown out and Sting and Luger retaining the titles.
This definitely won't be the last of these two teams that's for sure. Gene Okerlund is backstage with Ric Flair and Woman as Flair's match with Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship is next.
We are shown the steel cage being lowered to the ring. A video is then shown promoting the next PPV WCW Uncensored on March 24th. If it's anything like last year's inaugural Uncensored PPV well save your money that was terrible. Then again it can't be worse can it? Okerlund is backstage with both Savage and Elizabeth.
It's time for the first half of the double main event steel cage matches this one for the WCW World Title between Savage (w/ Elizabeth) and Flair (w/Woman) as I guess the terrible Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant will be last as Hogan gets what Hogan wants just like what Woman wants Woman gets. Michael Buffer is doing the intro like he does every WCW PPV main event.
Flair was trying to get a kiss from Liz only for Savage to go nuts and attack Flair at the start of the match. Flair gives Savage a low blow and begins to take charge by throwing Savage into the cage. Flair then hits the referee and knocks him down for some reason.
Savage gives Flair a backslide as the ref suddenly gets back up to count only two. Savage then gives Flair a backdrop and two clotheslines again for only two. Flair then sends Savage again into the cage and begins to beat on Savage. That is until he climbs the top rope and is bodyslammed off the top rope.
Savage then puts Flair in Flair's own Figure Four. Flair is in the hold until he grabs the hold and Savage is forced to let the hold go for some reason despite this being a No DQ cage match but whatever. Savage then goes to the top but is hit with a punch to the gut by Flair.
Flair gives Savage his delayed vertical suplex only for two as he tries to pin him again and again but still only for two. Flair again sends Savage into the cage as Savage hangs on the top rope doing some damage to his knee and ultimately setting up for Flair's Figure Four.
Now Flair goes for the Figure Four and does his usual holding onto the bottom rope for more leverage yet this is No DQ so it shouldn't matter right? Savage then gets to the rope and the referee forces him to break the hold again what the fuck?!?! It's No DQ but if you don't break the hold it's a DQ?!?! I guess it's just a force of habit and of course you can't put the Figure Four on all night.
Flair tries for the Figure Four again but Savage counters it into a small package for two. Savage fires back as he beats on Flair and sends him into the cage a few times and then grinds his face into the cage causing Flair to bleed heavily like usual.
Savage then goes for the corner ten-punch move only for Flair to give him an inverted atomic drop out of the corner. Flair begins to climb the cage despite the fact this isn't the WWF and you don't win cage matches in WCW by escaping the cage.
Savage prevents this as he pulls Flair's pants down like Flair always has his pants pulled down in every match. This also sends Flair crotch-first onto the top rope as Savage goes for the pin but only gets two. Savage again sends Flair into the cage as this breaks the cage door open.
Woman then grabs white powder and tries to throw it in Savage's eyes, but Savage ducks. All of a sudden, Elizabeth takes her shoe off and hands the shoe over to Flair!?!?! What the hell?!?! This is not accidental as she intended to do it as Flair uses the shoe to knock Savage out and pinned him for the 1-2-3 to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, his 13th reign as world champion!!!
As if you needed more fuel on the fire to the Flair-Savage feud with Flair beating up his 80-year-old father last year, Flair now has Savage's ex-wife Liz on his side as this will add to some amazing storylines.
I felt the WWF missed the boat on this a few years ago when there was that Savage-Flair feud and Flair claimed to have an affair with Liz while she was still Savage's wife in both storyline and real life. Of course, Savage and Liz were going through their divorce shit so it wouldn't happen as Liz left the WWF shortly after WrestleMania VIII. Now WCW can have their fun with this and capitalize on it.
Flair is back as world champion that's cool it was about to happen. Anything is better than Hulk Hogan wearing the world title but I'm afraid Flair is holding onto the belt for Hogan to take it back in a month or two. I wish The Giant would get a run as world champion or dare I say Sting who is the Franchise of WCW. Of course Hogan is keeping Sting down and will likely let his WWF buddies win the belt before Tsing.
Speak of the devil, here comes Hogan wearing his eye patch with a still damaged eye, getting ready for his cage match with The Giant as Hogan is carrying a steel chair to chase Flair, Arn Anderson, and anyone else in the ring out of the ring.
The Giant attacks Hogan early on before Hogan fights back with right hand punches and biting. Hogan signals for a bodyslam, but The Giant blocks it and attacks Hogan. Giant puts Hogan in a bearhug before Hogan literally claws his way out. Hogan tries to send Giant into the steel cage, but Giant blocks it and sends Hogan face-first in the cage.
Giant attacks Hogan's "injured" eye and chokes him with Hogan's own t-shirt. He goes for an elbow drop but misses. Hogan fights back and again goes for a bodyslam, but The Giant falls on top of Hogan but only got a two-count. The Giant works the back of Hogan for a while and then shoves Hogan's face into the cage a few times.
The Giant gives Hogan a huge vertical suplex and then heads out the cage door. I guess I was wrong earlier saying WCW does not have cage matches decided by escaping the cage. Now you can leave the cage in addition to a pinfall or a submission whereas the WWF is just escape the cage only. Hogan stops Giant from leaving the cage.
The Giant gives Hogan a backbreaker and again throws Hogan into the cage. Hogan should bleed or something right? Giant again puts Hogan into a bearhug and forces Hogan to pass out before Hogan gets a second wind and fights his way out of the hold.
Hogan then goes to the ropes only for The Giant to kick him in the gut and Giant gives Hogan the Chokeslam. Cover 1-2-and Hogan kicks out and begins to No-sell and "Hulk Up!" Hogan then sends The Giant into the steel cage several times and then gives him the Big Boot.
After "summoning" super human strength from the Hulkamaniacs, Hogan went for the bodyslam and managed to pick up and slam the Giant. Hogan then gave Giant three Leg Drops and then Hogan climbs the cage despite not walking out the door which is right there.
The Giant quickly pops up and catches Hogan and prevents him from leaving the cage. The Giant begins to climb the cage as the two trade blows before Hogan gets the better of him with several right hands. With The Giant all wobbly, Hogan manages to boot Giant in the face sending him crashing to the mat. Hogan then climbed over the top of the cage and both feet hit the floor to win the match.
As soon as Hogan hits the floor, Kevin Sullivan hits him with a steel chair to the back but Hogan no-sells it. Hogan grabs the chair and chases Sullivan back into the cage. Soon the entire Dungeon of Doom enter the cage as Hogan attacks each and every member with the chair.
Out comes this nearly 500-lb. slob looking guy that the Dungeon of Doom calls "Loch Ness." Everyone in the Dungeon of Doom prevents Loch Ness from entering the cage as Hogan ended the PPV by celebrating in typical Hulk Hogan fashion.
The opening match is The Nasty Boys vs. The Public Enemy in a Street Fight. This is where 1994 WCW Nasty Boys meets ECW in what should be a thrilling match. The match quickly goes to the floor where members of The Public Enemy use tables and The Nasty Boys use steel chairs.
Rocco Rock wants to splash Brian Knobbs through the table, but Knobbs picks him up and slams him through the table instead. Knobbs pins him but Grunge breaks it up with a chair. Jerry Saggs brings a trash can in and hits Grunge several times with the lid. He then piledrives Grunge onto the trashcan and covers him, but Grunge puts his foot on the rope to break up the pin.
Knobbs and Rock head over to the entrance way where Knobbs suplexes Rock through a table. Saggs and Grunge make their way over to the entrance way as well. The Public Enemy continue to beat on the Nasties with chairs and trashcan lids. Grunge gives Saggs a bulldog onto a chair. They set Knobbs up on a table and Rock leaps off a balcony, but Knobbs moves out of the way and Rock crashes through the table. Knobbs pins him for the 1-2-3.
Gene Okerlund mentions his hotline and says two former WWF champions are coming to WCW. U.S. Heavyweight Champion Konnan comes out for an interview.
It's time for the WCW World Television Championship match between champion Johnny B. Badd with The Diamond Doll Kimberly vs. Diamond Dallas Page. This match was literally for everything: Badd's TV title AND Kimberly for the remainder of Page's $13 million winnings from bingo he stole from Kimberly which is about $6.6 million. Page even had one of those giant novelty checks written out and brought to the ring.
Page also brought roses and gave them to Kimberly only for Badd to attack Page from behind. Badd flips Page over the top rope which is not a DQ for some reason. Badd hits him with a double-ax handle off the apron and then brings him back into the ring where Badd performs his slingshot leg drop over the top rope onto Page for a two-count.
Page lowblows Badd and gets the advantage. He hits Badd with a gutbuster but instead of going for a cover, he tells Kimberly to give him a "10" for the move, but she refuses to do so. Badd attempts a sunset flip as Page kneels on Badd's shoulders only for Badd to complete the sunset flip for two.
Badd attempts a hiptoss only for Page to counter it into an awesome looking DDT. Again Page doesn't cover Badd and wants another "10" from Kimberly and again she does not give it to him (maybe her not giving it to him is what led to the breakup in the first place LOL). Instead she gives him a "0" and then "whacks" with the card allowing Badd to roll him from behind but only got two.
Badd soon fights back with several right and left hand punches and then a double ax handle off the top rope which Kimberly gives him a "10." Badd then gives him a flying sunset flip off the top rope only for two. Page rolls out of the ring and drops Badd's throat onto the top rope. Page gives him a Pancake Slam but only gets two.
Page puts him in a sleeper hold only for Badd to break it up with a jawbreaker. Badd then goes for the sleeper as Page backs him up into the corner to break it up. Page goes for another tilt-a-whirl Pancake Slam but Badd reverses it into a Tombstone Piledriver for the 1-2-3 to retain the title and Kimberly and win the $6.6 million for the bingo winnings.
Gene Okerlund is now standing with Harlem Heat as they would head to the ring for their WCW World Tag Team Championship match against the champions Sting and Lex Luger. The winner of this match will face The Road Warriors for the titles later in the show.
Harlem Heat wants a piece of Luger after Luger knocked Booker T out with a roll of silver dollars to win the titles a few weeks ago. This match saw Sting really be the babyface and Luger be the heel and Harlem Heat would be the opposite of whoever was in the ring. Sting did his heroic moves and take his beating while Luger would do some dirty moves on whoever and work the heel angle such as leave the ring and take his time before getting back in.
The match would see all four men brawl in the ring with Sting and Booker T fighting on the outside with the referee going to the floor to stop both men from fighting outside. Meanwhile, Stevie Ray tried to give Luger a powerbomb only for The Road Warriors to run in and hit Stevie with some kind of metal pipe, knocking him out. Luger fell on top of Stevie for the 1-2-3 to retain the tag team titles.
Now it's time for Konnan to defend the United States Heavyweight Title against the man he beat for the title in One Man Gang. Konnan connects on a somersault onto the floor. Then he hits Gang with a Frankensteiner and tries for a drop kick only to miss.
Gang connects on a 747 Splash but pulls him up before the referee counted three. Gang climbs to the middle rope to try a 747 Splash but missed. Konnan hits him with a Flyinh Somersault to win the match and retain the U.S. Title. Gene Okerlund then interviews The Road Warriors.
Next up is the "I Respect You" Leather Strap match between Kevin Sullivan, accompanied by Jimmy Hart, against Brian Pillman. This is not your typical leather strap match if I can say even that. Unlike previous strap matches where you must touch all four corners to win, this one however the only to win is to make your opponent say "I Respect You" just like an "I Quit" match.
Both Sullivan and Pillman take turns whipping the hell out of each other as you would expect. Sullivan got the upper hand and was beating on Pillman only for Pillman to grab the microphone from the referee and yell "I Respect You, Booker Man!" and left the ring after wrestling for not even a minute. Pillman headed straight to the dressing room as this doesn't look like it was supposed to happen as Sullivan looks confused.
Arn Anderson runs to the ring and I thought was going to beat the hell out of Pillman. He doesn't and instead takes Pillman's place in the strap match as it will be Arn vs. Sullivan. These two would beat the hell out of each other as well. Ric Flair then comes to the ring to get these two to stop fighting.
He tells them both that they need to band together to destroy Hulk Hogan and "Macho Man" Randy Savage and says "United We Stand, Divided We Fall!" Arn and Sullivan then shake hands as it appears there will be an alliance between the Four Horsemen and the Dungeon of Doom. The Giant then was being interviewed backstage by Gene Okerlund.
It's WCW World Tag Team Championship match part 2 with Sting and Lex Luger defending the titles against The Road Warriors in a match that would be awesome for 1989. Luger again really played his mega heel role where he took forever walking in and out of the ring to stall the match as he didn't want anything to do with The Road Warriors.
Sting would hit Animal with a Stinger Splash and try to put him into the Scorpion Death Lock only for Hawk to attack Sting as Luger would come in and dispatch Hawk. The match ended with all four men brawling on the outside as the match was thrown out and Sting and Luger retaining the titles.
This definitely won't be the last of these two teams that's for sure. Gene Okerlund is backstage with Ric Flair and Woman as Flair's match with Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship is next.
We are shown the steel cage being lowered to the ring. A video is then shown promoting the next PPV WCW Uncensored on March 24th. If it's anything like last year's inaugural Uncensored PPV well save your money that was terrible. Then again it can't be worse can it? Okerlund is backstage with both Savage and Elizabeth.
It's time for the first half of the double main event steel cage matches this one for the WCW World Title between Savage (w/ Elizabeth) and Flair (w/Woman) as I guess the terrible Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant will be last as Hogan gets what Hogan wants just like what Woman wants Woman gets. Michael Buffer is doing the intro like he does every WCW PPV main event.
Flair was trying to get a kiss from Liz only for Savage to go nuts and attack Flair at the start of the match. Flair gives Savage a low blow and begins to take charge by throwing Savage into the cage. Flair then hits the referee and knocks him down for some reason.
Savage gives Flair a backslide as the ref suddenly gets back up to count only two. Savage then gives Flair a backdrop and two clotheslines again for only two. Flair then sends Savage again into the cage and begins to beat on Savage. That is until he climbs the top rope and is bodyslammed off the top rope.
Savage then puts Flair in Flair's own Figure Four. Flair is in the hold until he grabs the hold and Savage is forced to let the hold go for some reason despite this being a No DQ cage match but whatever. Savage then goes to the top but is hit with a punch to the gut by Flair.
Flair gives Savage his delayed vertical suplex only for two as he tries to pin him again and again but still only for two. Flair again sends Savage into the cage as Savage hangs on the top rope doing some damage to his knee and ultimately setting up for Flair's Figure Four.
Now Flair goes for the Figure Four and does his usual holding onto the bottom rope for more leverage yet this is No DQ so it shouldn't matter right? Savage then gets to the rope and the referee forces him to break the hold again what the fuck?!?! It's No DQ but if you don't break the hold it's a DQ?!?! I guess it's just a force of habit and of course you can't put the Figure Four on all night.
Flair tries for the Figure Four again but Savage counters it into a small package for two. Savage fires back as he beats on Flair and sends him into the cage a few times and then grinds his face into the cage causing Flair to bleed heavily like usual.
Savage then goes for the corner ten-punch move only for Flair to give him an inverted atomic drop out of the corner. Flair begins to climb the cage despite the fact this isn't the WWF and you don't win cage matches in WCW by escaping the cage.
Savage prevents this as he pulls Flair's pants down like Flair always has his pants pulled down in every match. This also sends Flair crotch-first onto the top rope as Savage goes for the pin but only gets two. Savage again sends Flair into the cage as this breaks the cage door open.
Woman then grabs white powder and tries to throw it in Savage's eyes, but Savage ducks. All of a sudden, Elizabeth takes her shoe off and hands the shoe over to Flair!?!?! What the hell?!?! This is not accidental as she intended to do it as Flair uses the shoe to knock Savage out and pinned him for the 1-2-3 to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, his 13th reign as world champion!!!
As if you needed more fuel on the fire to the Flair-Savage feud with Flair beating up his 80-year-old father last year, Flair now has Savage's ex-wife Liz on his side as this will add to some amazing storylines.
I felt the WWF missed the boat on this a few years ago when there was that Savage-Flair feud and Flair claimed to have an affair with Liz while she was still Savage's wife in both storyline and real life. Of course, Savage and Liz were going through their divorce shit so it wouldn't happen as Liz left the WWF shortly after WrestleMania VIII. Now WCW can have their fun with this and capitalize on it.
Flair is back as world champion that's cool it was about to happen. Anything is better than Hulk Hogan wearing the world title but I'm afraid Flair is holding onto the belt for Hogan to take it back in a month or two. I wish The Giant would get a run as world champion or dare I say Sting who is the Franchise of WCW. Of course Hogan is keeping Sting down and will likely let his WWF buddies win the belt before Tsing.
Speak of the devil, here comes Hogan wearing his eye patch with a still damaged eye, getting ready for his cage match with The Giant as Hogan is carrying a steel chair to chase Flair, Arn Anderson, and anyone else in the ring out of the ring.
The Giant attacks Hogan early on before Hogan fights back with right hand punches and biting. Hogan signals for a bodyslam, but The Giant blocks it and attacks Hogan. Giant puts Hogan in a bearhug before Hogan literally claws his way out. Hogan tries to send Giant into the steel cage, but Giant blocks it and sends Hogan face-first in the cage.
Giant attacks Hogan's "injured" eye and chokes him with Hogan's own t-shirt. He goes for an elbow drop but misses. Hogan fights back and again goes for a bodyslam, but The Giant falls on top of Hogan but only got a two-count. The Giant works the back of Hogan for a while and then shoves Hogan's face into the cage a few times.
The Giant gives Hogan a huge vertical suplex and then heads out the cage door. I guess I was wrong earlier saying WCW does not have cage matches decided by escaping the cage. Now you can leave the cage in addition to a pinfall or a submission whereas the WWF is just escape the cage only. Hogan stops Giant from leaving the cage.
The Giant gives Hogan a backbreaker and again throws Hogan into the cage. Hogan should bleed or something right? Giant again puts Hogan into a bearhug and forces Hogan to pass out before Hogan gets a second wind and fights his way out of the hold.
Hogan then goes to the ropes only for The Giant to kick him in the gut and Giant gives Hogan the Chokeslam. Cover 1-2-and Hogan kicks out and begins to No-sell and "Hulk Up!" Hogan then sends The Giant into the steel cage several times and then gives him the Big Boot.
After "summoning" super human strength from the Hulkamaniacs, Hogan went for the bodyslam and managed to pick up and slam the Giant. Hogan then gave Giant three Leg Drops and then Hogan climbs the cage despite not walking out the door which is right there.
The Giant quickly pops up and catches Hogan and prevents him from leaving the cage. The Giant begins to climb the cage as the two trade blows before Hogan gets the better of him with several right hands. With The Giant all wobbly, Hogan manages to boot Giant in the face sending him crashing to the mat. Hogan then climbed over the top of the cage and both feet hit the floor to win the match.
As soon as Hogan hits the floor, Kevin Sullivan hits him with a steel chair to the back but Hogan no-sells it. Hogan grabs the chair and chases Sullivan back into the cage. Soon the entire Dungeon of Doom enter the cage as Hogan attacks each and every member with the chair.
Out comes this nearly 500-lb. slob looking guy that the Dungeon of Doom calls "Loch Ness." Everyone in the Dungeon of Doom prevents Loch Ness from entering the cage as Hogan ended the PPV by celebrating in typical Hulk Hogan fashion.
Sunday, February 11, 1996
Davey Boy Smith Found Not Guilty; More WWF vs. WCW Legal Problems; Eric Bischoff Signs Three-Year Contract Extension; Brian Pillman Likely on His Way Out of WCW; WCW Universal TV Tapings; Yokozuna Turns Face; Pierre Oulette Signs with WCW, Jacques Rougeau Might Be Joining Him; Public Enemy's Johnny Grunge Suspended
The Davey Boy Smith trial in Calgary where he alleged to have beaten then 20-year-old Kody Light and given him permanent brain damage back in July 1993 after he made some sexual advances to Smith's wife Diana Smith (nee Hart) is over. The verdict is in as Smith was found not guilty. Had he been found guilty, the maximum sentence would have been 14 years in prison.
The prosecution witnesses could not get their story straight about how Smith attacked and damaged Light. The rest of the witnesses said they saw Smith grab Light and bring him over to the bouncers and that Light went back over to Smith, but slipped on the wet floor and hit his head and knocked himself out.
Smith and other wrestlers testified saying that the moves that Mr. Light had accused Smith of doing to him to injure him (such as suplexes and powerbomb) were virtually impossible to do without the cooperation of the other individual as Smith even claimed on the witness stand everything they did was fake.
WCW threatens the WWF with more legal action in reference to the Billionaire Ted skits, this time over the use of the "Huckster", "Nacho Man", and "Billionaire Ted" characters. WCW is further attempting to gain a restraining order on the WWF for not having the planned Huckster vs. Nacho Man match at WrestleMania.
The WWF responded by putting an ad in both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times warning share holders of Time Warner that Ted Turner lost $40 million of share holder money since Turner bought the company from Jim Crockett in 1988.
Also, the WWF sends a threatening letter to WCW stating that the skits are just a response to WCW saying disparaging remarks about the WWF on their shows and WCW Hotline as well as how WCW steals their ideas and how they tampered with WWF contracted talent in Lex Luger and Madusa.
Eric Bischoff signed a three-year contract extension to continue as Executive Vice President of WCW.
SuperBrawl might be the final event for Brian Pillman, if he even appears that is. On Nitro last week, Pillman and Kevin Sullivan no sold each other's attacks and kept from fighting each other during their tag team match. Pillman's actions both in and out of the ring looked very concerning to the wrestlers as he was out of control.
Sullivan hit him with a leather strap as they are both scheduled to take on each other in a "I Respect You" strap match later tonight at SuperBrawl assuming Pillman shows. Reports were that Pillman stormed out of the building without saying a word on Nitro believing he in fact quit the company.
However, he showed up the next morning for TV Tapings in Orlando but that doesn't mean he'll be there for the long haul. Eric Bischoff's comments on TV makes it look like his time in WCW is over. Speaking of the Orlando tapings, everyone except Randy Savage showed up without their title belts as they are planning on last-minute title changes and not having it 13 weeks in advance like previous.
The Giant and Zodiac (Ed Leslie) were shown to become babyfaces at the tapings which means they are going to leave the Dungeon of Doom. Zodiac will go back to his old barber character in the WWF as "The Clipmaster", who shaves the heads of jobbers. The Four Horsemen will remain as is through April as will Sting and Lex Luger still teaming up.
For the first time in his WWF career, Yokozuna turned babyface after being a heel for his three-plus years in the WWF. The storyline has him turning on and feuding with Jim Cornette, Owen Hart, and Davey Boy Smith.
Former Quebecer Carl Oullette (Jean Pierre Lafitte) is supposed to come back from hernia surgery and will leave the WWF and join WCW. He is trying to convince his former tag team partner Jacques Rougeau to come out of retirement and join him as a tag team in WCW.
Not long after joining WCW, The Public Enemy will be off TV for a while after SuperBrawl. Johnny Grunge has been suspended for taking a WCW van and arrested for driving under the influence (DUI). Grunge has no prior arrests in Florida so it is likely his DUI will be a slap on the wrist.
The prosecution witnesses could not get their story straight about how Smith attacked and damaged Light. The rest of the witnesses said they saw Smith grab Light and bring him over to the bouncers and that Light went back over to Smith, but slipped on the wet floor and hit his head and knocked himself out.
Smith and other wrestlers testified saying that the moves that Mr. Light had accused Smith of doing to him to injure him (such as suplexes and powerbomb) were virtually impossible to do without the cooperation of the other individual as Smith even claimed on the witness stand everything they did was fake.
WCW threatens the WWF with more legal action in reference to the Billionaire Ted skits, this time over the use of the "Huckster", "Nacho Man", and "Billionaire Ted" characters. WCW is further attempting to gain a restraining order on the WWF for not having the planned Huckster vs. Nacho Man match at WrestleMania.
The WWF responded by putting an ad in both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times warning share holders of Time Warner that Ted Turner lost $40 million of share holder money since Turner bought the company from Jim Crockett in 1988.
Also, the WWF sends a threatening letter to WCW stating that the skits are just a response to WCW saying disparaging remarks about the WWF on their shows and WCW Hotline as well as how WCW steals their ideas and how they tampered with WWF contracted talent in Lex Luger and Madusa.
Eric Bischoff signed a three-year contract extension to continue as Executive Vice President of WCW.
SuperBrawl might be the final event for Brian Pillman, if he even appears that is. On Nitro last week, Pillman and Kevin Sullivan no sold each other's attacks and kept from fighting each other during their tag team match. Pillman's actions both in and out of the ring looked very concerning to the wrestlers as he was out of control.
Sullivan hit him with a leather strap as they are both scheduled to take on each other in a "I Respect You" strap match later tonight at SuperBrawl assuming Pillman shows. Reports were that Pillman stormed out of the building without saying a word on Nitro believing he in fact quit the company.
However, he showed up the next morning for TV Tapings in Orlando but that doesn't mean he'll be there for the long haul. Eric Bischoff's comments on TV makes it look like his time in WCW is over. Speaking of the Orlando tapings, everyone except Randy Savage showed up without their title belts as they are planning on last-minute title changes and not having it 13 weeks in advance like previous.
The Giant and Zodiac (Ed Leslie) were shown to become babyfaces at the tapings which means they are going to leave the Dungeon of Doom. Zodiac will go back to his old barber character in the WWF as "The Clipmaster", who shaves the heads of jobbers. The Four Horsemen will remain as is through April as will Sting and Lex Luger still teaming up.
For the first time in his WWF career, Yokozuna turned babyface after being a heel for his three-plus years in the WWF. The storyline has him turning on and feuding with Jim Cornette, Owen Hart, and Davey Boy Smith.
Former Quebecer Carl Oullette (Jean Pierre Lafitte) is supposed to come back from hernia surgery and will leave the WWF and join WCW. He is trying to convince his former tag team partner Jacques Rougeau to come out of retirement and join him as a tag team in WCW.
Not long after joining WCW, The Public Enemy will be off TV for a while after SuperBrawl. Johnny Grunge has been suspended for taking a WCW van and arrested for driving under the influence (DUI). Grunge has no prior arrests in Florida so it is likely his DUI will be a slap on the wrist.
WCW SuperBrawl VI Preview
Street Fight - The Nasty Boys vs. The Public Enemy
These two brawling tag teams have started a feud back at Clash of the Champions a couple weeks ago when these two teams fought to a double disqualification when they used tables on one another. The Public Enemy have been using tables much like they did back in ECW. Now it's time to see these two teams fight in a lawless street fight.
WCW World Television Championship and Everything on the Line match - WCW TV Champion Johnny B. Badd (w/ Kimberly) vs. Diamond Dallas Page
Diamond Dallas Page has lost the WCW TV Title and his precious Diamond Doll Kimberly to Johnny B. Badd at Halloween Havoc and World War 3, respectively. Now Page is putting up everything he has left which is $7 million from the bingo winnings, that was actually Kimberly's that Page fooled, against Badd to win back his TV Title and girl.
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship match - WCW U.S. Champion Konnan vs. One Man Gang
Newcomer Konnan defeated One Man Gang on a match after Monday Nitro a couple of weeks to win the U.S. Heavyweight Championship. Now Gang wants to win it back from him.
"I Respect You" Strap match - Kevin Sullivan (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs. Brian Pillman
Problems between Kevin Sullivan and Brian Pillman have stemmed from late 1995 when Pillman insulted Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom and Sullivan has had a problem with him since. Pillman has been a giant nut lately as he is dubbed the "Loose Cannon." Sullivan and his Dungeon of Doom tried to have an alliance with the Four Horsemen but his problems with Pillman have prevented this.
He believes Pillman doesn't respect him or the Dungeon of Doom. Now he wants Sullivan to "respect him" and the two will fight in a leather strap match where the winner makes the other say "I respect you." The last two episodes of Nitro, Sullivan has actually whipped Pillman with the strap.
WCW World Tag Team Championship match - WCW Tag Team Champions Sting & Lex Luger vs. Harlem Heat with the winner to face The Road Warriors later in the show
Sting and Lex Luger won the WCW World Tag Team Championship on the January 22 edition of Monday Nitro. Luger used a roll of quarters from Jimmy Hart to knock out Booker T to win the titles for he and Sting. Now Harlem Heat wants a championship rematch.
The returning Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) returned to WCW at Clash of the Champions a couple weeks ago and challenged Sting and Luger for the titles. They faced off against each other last Monday Night, where Sting and Luger retained the titles again due to Luger's cheating as he used a metal object on Animal.
The Road Warriors were angry and want another shot at the title so they challenged the winner of the Sting/Luger-Harlem Heat match. The winner of the match will defend the titles against The Road Warriors later in the show.
WCW World Heavyweight Championship Steel Cage match - WCW World Heavyweight Champion "Macho Man" Randy Savage (w/ Elizabeth) vs. Ric Flair (w/ Woman)
This feud stems from their days in the WWF back in 1992 and ironically, it originally centered around Randy Savage's then wife and now current valet Miss Elizabeth, who returned to Savage's side a few weeks ago.
Savage and Ric Flair's feud in WCW started way back last year at Uncensored when Flair dressed like a woman and ran from the crowd and into the ring attack Savage. Their feud heated up at last May's Slamboree PPV when Flair attacked Savage's father Angelo Poffo and put him in the Figure Four.
Flair then defeated Savage the next month at The Great American Bash when Flair again attacked Savage's father and used his cane on Savage. Savage defeated Flair at Bash at the Beach in a "Lifeguard match" to temporarily end the feud.
The feud picked back up at the end of 1995 when Savage defended his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Flair at Starrcade in December. Flair won the title from Savage after Arn Anderson interfered and hit Savage with brass knuckles.
Savage won the title back from Flair on the January 22 edition of Nitro when Anderson accidentally hit Flair with the brass knuckles originally intended for Savage. Also that night, Savage brought Woman back to WCW to be in his corner. Then the next night at Clash of the Champions, he brought Elizabeth to WCW and back in professional wrestling for the first time in four years.
Flair has had momentum on his side. First, he and The Giant defeated Savage and Hulk Hogan at Clash of the Champions. Then on the January 29 episode of Nitro, Flair defeated Hogan in a singles match when he used Liz's high heel shoe, stolen from Jimmy Hart and Arn Anderson, and hit Hogan in the eye with it, damaging it.
Then last week on Nitro, Flair again attacked Hogan in his bad eye and Woman turned on Savage by attacking him and joining Flair and the Four Horsemen. Now it's time for Savage to defend the title against Flair inside a steel cage at SuperBrawl.
Steel Cage match - Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant (w/ Kevin Sullivan & Jimmy Hart)
The longtime feud between Hulk Hogan and The Giant started all the way back last July at Bash at the Beach when the newcomer Giant threw Andre the Giant's shirt at Hogan and basically blaming him for the death of Andre. At Clash of the Champions in August, The Giant attacked and choked out Hogan in the Dungeon of Doom as he revealed he joined Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom after Sullivan tricked Hogan into entering his lair.
Then at Fall Brawl next month, The Giant attacked Hogan after the WarGames match by again choking him out and then snapping his neck. A couple weeks later on Nitro, The Giant again twisted Hogan's neck and Sullivan shaved off Hogan's mustache. Also, The Giant would destroy Hogan's prized Harley Davidson motorcycle with a monster truck.
Hogan met The Giant at Halloween Havoc first in a monster truck battle on the roof of Cobo Hall and again in the main event with Hogan defending his WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Hogan defeated Giant in the monster truck battle with Giant getting out of the truck and attacking Hogan. Hogan fought back and Giant ended up falling off the roof and down into the river.
Hogan was upset with what happened as Giant miraculously made his way to the ring for their title match later. Hogan's then manager Jimmy Hart turned on Hogan and got Hogan disqualified as he joined forces with The Giant and the Dungeon of Doom. The Dungeon of Doom attacked and laid Hogan and Randy Savage out.
The Giant left the ring with the World Title belt as he won the match but by DQ as Hogan should have retained the title. However, Hart further screwed Hogan out of the title by putting a clause in the contract by saying he would lose the title if he got disqualified. Hogan's record reign as WCW Champ ended at 469 days.
The title would be vacated by WCW due to the controversial finish and would be up for grabs at the inaugural World War 3 PPV in the World War 3 battle royal. Hogan eliminated Giant by throwing him over the top rope as Hogan and his friend Randy Savage were the final two left.
The Giant pulled Hogan out of the ring by the bottom rope. Hogan was not eliminated but the refs did not see that as they only saw Savage in the ring and awarded him the WCW World Heavyweight Championship as The Giant again screwed Hogan out of the title.
The rest of 1995 going into 1996, Hogan and The Giant would continue to attack one another on episodes of Monday Nitro as they will settle the score inside a steel cage.
These two brawling tag teams have started a feud back at Clash of the Champions a couple weeks ago when these two teams fought to a double disqualification when they used tables on one another. The Public Enemy have been using tables much like they did back in ECW. Now it's time to see these two teams fight in a lawless street fight.
WCW World Television Championship and Everything on the Line match - WCW TV Champion Johnny B. Badd (w/ Kimberly) vs. Diamond Dallas Page
Diamond Dallas Page has lost the WCW TV Title and his precious Diamond Doll Kimberly to Johnny B. Badd at Halloween Havoc and World War 3, respectively. Now Page is putting up everything he has left which is $7 million from the bingo winnings, that was actually Kimberly's that Page fooled, against Badd to win back his TV Title and girl.
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship match - WCW U.S. Champion Konnan vs. One Man Gang
Newcomer Konnan defeated One Man Gang on a match after Monday Nitro a couple of weeks to win the U.S. Heavyweight Championship. Now Gang wants to win it back from him.
"I Respect You" Strap match - Kevin Sullivan (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs. Brian Pillman
Problems between Kevin Sullivan and Brian Pillman have stemmed from late 1995 when Pillman insulted Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom and Sullivan has had a problem with him since. Pillman has been a giant nut lately as he is dubbed the "Loose Cannon." Sullivan and his Dungeon of Doom tried to have an alliance with the Four Horsemen but his problems with Pillman have prevented this.
He believes Pillman doesn't respect him or the Dungeon of Doom. Now he wants Sullivan to "respect him" and the two will fight in a leather strap match where the winner makes the other say "I respect you." The last two episodes of Nitro, Sullivan has actually whipped Pillman with the strap.
WCW World Tag Team Championship match - WCW Tag Team Champions Sting & Lex Luger vs. Harlem Heat with the winner to face The Road Warriors later in the show
Sting and Lex Luger won the WCW World Tag Team Championship on the January 22 edition of Monday Nitro. Luger used a roll of quarters from Jimmy Hart to knock out Booker T to win the titles for he and Sting. Now Harlem Heat wants a championship rematch.
The returning Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) returned to WCW at Clash of the Champions a couple weeks ago and challenged Sting and Luger for the titles. They faced off against each other last Monday Night, where Sting and Luger retained the titles again due to Luger's cheating as he used a metal object on Animal.
The Road Warriors were angry and want another shot at the title so they challenged the winner of the Sting/Luger-Harlem Heat match. The winner of the match will defend the titles against The Road Warriors later in the show.
WCW World Heavyweight Championship Steel Cage match - WCW World Heavyweight Champion "Macho Man" Randy Savage (w/ Elizabeth) vs. Ric Flair (w/ Woman)
This feud stems from their days in the WWF back in 1992 and ironically, it originally centered around Randy Savage's then wife and now current valet Miss Elizabeth, who returned to Savage's side a few weeks ago.
Savage and Ric Flair's feud in WCW started way back last year at Uncensored when Flair dressed like a woman and ran from the crowd and into the ring attack Savage. Their feud heated up at last May's Slamboree PPV when Flair attacked Savage's father Angelo Poffo and put him in the Figure Four.
Flair then defeated Savage the next month at The Great American Bash when Flair again attacked Savage's father and used his cane on Savage. Savage defeated Flair at Bash at the Beach in a "Lifeguard match" to temporarily end the feud.
The feud picked back up at the end of 1995 when Savage defended his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Flair at Starrcade in December. Flair won the title from Savage after Arn Anderson interfered and hit Savage with brass knuckles.
Savage won the title back from Flair on the January 22 edition of Nitro when Anderson accidentally hit Flair with the brass knuckles originally intended for Savage. Also that night, Savage brought Woman back to WCW to be in his corner. Then the next night at Clash of the Champions, he brought Elizabeth to WCW and back in professional wrestling for the first time in four years.
Flair has had momentum on his side. First, he and The Giant defeated Savage and Hulk Hogan at Clash of the Champions. Then on the January 29 episode of Nitro, Flair defeated Hogan in a singles match when he used Liz's high heel shoe, stolen from Jimmy Hart and Arn Anderson, and hit Hogan in the eye with it, damaging it.
Then last week on Nitro, Flair again attacked Hogan in his bad eye and Woman turned on Savage by attacking him and joining Flair and the Four Horsemen. Now it's time for Savage to defend the title against Flair inside a steel cage at SuperBrawl.
Steel Cage match - Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant (w/ Kevin Sullivan & Jimmy Hart)
The longtime feud between Hulk Hogan and The Giant started all the way back last July at Bash at the Beach when the newcomer Giant threw Andre the Giant's shirt at Hogan and basically blaming him for the death of Andre. At Clash of the Champions in August, The Giant attacked and choked out Hogan in the Dungeon of Doom as he revealed he joined Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom after Sullivan tricked Hogan into entering his lair.
Then at Fall Brawl next month, The Giant attacked Hogan after the WarGames match by again choking him out and then snapping his neck. A couple weeks later on Nitro, The Giant again twisted Hogan's neck and Sullivan shaved off Hogan's mustache. Also, The Giant would destroy Hogan's prized Harley Davidson motorcycle with a monster truck.
Hogan met The Giant at Halloween Havoc first in a monster truck battle on the roof of Cobo Hall and again in the main event with Hogan defending his WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Hogan defeated Giant in the monster truck battle with Giant getting out of the truck and attacking Hogan. Hogan fought back and Giant ended up falling off the roof and down into the river.
Hogan was upset with what happened as Giant miraculously made his way to the ring for their title match later. Hogan's then manager Jimmy Hart turned on Hogan and got Hogan disqualified as he joined forces with The Giant and the Dungeon of Doom. The Dungeon of Doom attacked and laid Hogan and Randy Savage out.
The Giant left the ring with the World Title belt as he won the match but by DQ as Hogan should have retained the title. However, Hart further screwed Hogan out of the title by putting a clause in the contract by saying he would lose the title if he got disqualified. Hogan's record reign as WCW Champ ended at 469 days.
The title would be vacated by WCW due to the controversial finish and would be up for grabs at the inaugural World War 3 PPV in the World War 3 battle royal. Hogan eliminated Giant by throwing him over the top rope as Hogan and his friend Randy Savage were the final two left.
The Giant pulled Hogan out of the ring by the bottom rope. Hogan was not eliminated but the refs did not see that as they only saw Savage in the ring and awarded him the WCW World Heavyweight Championship as The Giant again screwed Hogan out of the title.
The rest of 1995 going into 1996, Hogan and The Giant would continue to attack one another on episodes of Monday Nitro as they will settle the score inside a steel cage.
ECW Hardcore TV: February 6, 1996
The show starts with new ECW World Heavyweight Champion Raven doing a promo with Kimona Wanalaya. He wants to introduce to us his prized possession. Raven then tosses Kimona aside as he shows off the title belt.
This is from Queens, NY as the opening match tonight is Rey Mysterio Jr. taking on fellow Luchador Juventud Guerrera, making his ECW debut. They cut to a commercial break and then they plug a "Fonzie Must Die" t-shirt when we come back.
The match starts with Guerrera giving him a fireman's carry into a slam. Mysterio counters with a side headlock that Guerrera escapes but Mysterio takes him down with an arm drag only for Guerrera to counter with an arm drag of his own. Announcer Joey Styles says both men are only 21 years old.
Guerrera hits a spine buster only for two. The two start slapping each other in the face with Rey giving him a huge slap in the face. Mysterio hits a flying Hurricanarana and then a flying headscissors. Mysterio then hits a springboard Hurricanarana and then somersaults onto Guerrera on the floor. Mysterio puts a chair on Guerrera's neck and rams him into the post.
Guerrera fights back with a dropkick, a German suplex. and tigerbomb for only two. Mysterio comes back with a Hurricanarana for two. He hits a powerslam and goes up top, but is caught by Guerrera. He tries to go for a flying variation of the Razor's Edge when Mysterio catches him with a Hurricanarana for the 1-2-3 and the win.
They are now promoting an Enter the Sandman t-shirt.
Joey Styles does a promo on Shane Douglas vs. Cactus Jack how they were once friends now bitter rivals. Douglas came back from the WWF, Cactus is heading to the WWF. Cactus is shown in the back with his reluctant tag team partner Mikey Whipwreck. Cactus is hyping up Mikey and then asks him if he wants to go to the WWF with him, but Mikey wants to stay in ECW.
It's time for Cactus and Mikey to defend their ECW World Tag Team Titles against The Eliminators. Cactus takes off his shirt and underneath it is a "WW F'N F" t-shirt mocking the "EC F'N W" shirt as Cactus is heading to the WWF.
Mikey as usual starts the match off with Kronus and takes Kronus down with a side headlock. Saturn tags in as Mikey catches him with an arm drag and a headlock. Cactus wants in and goes on the microphone saying that Cactus has won the titles all by himself.
Cactus and Mikey are having problems working together as a team as The Eliminators work over Mikey. Kronus gives Mikey a powerbomb and Saturn hits a flying knee drop off the top rope only for two. Eventually, Mikey gets the tag to Cactus as Jack gives Saturn the Cactus clothesline over the top rope. Cactus then hits the flying elbow drop off the ring apron and then gives him a piledriver in the ring, but does not cover Saturn.
Instead he sees a glass bottle in the ring and is about to nail Saturn but Mikey prevents him from doing so and dropkicks his own partner. Saturn grabs the bottle but Mikey superkicks him. Cactus accidentally bumps Mikey as The Eliminators hit Total Elimination on Mikey and pin him to win the ECW World Tag Team Championship.
Raven runs into the ring to attack Mikey until Cactus throws Raven off of him and yells at Raven in the corner. However, he clotheslines Mikey and turns on his partner. Raven grabs a steel chair and hits Mikey with it then Cactus double-arm DDT'd Mikey on the chair.
The Eliminators come back out and cut a promo when Francine comes in. Despite being taken out by Total Elimination, Francine says she wants to manage them now that they are the champs. However it was a setup as The Pit Bulls run and attack the new champs. Francine manages to hang Saturn with a dog collar while they beat on Kronus and give him the Superbomb. She then manages to give Saturn a terrible hair cut.
It's Pulp Fiction promo time with The Gangstas ripping on The Pit Bulls, followed by Tommy Dreamer and Beulah ripping on Raven, Cactus Jack and Raven with Cactus bashing Mikey Whipwreck, Shane Douglas is just laughing, Taz and Bill Alfonso ranting about New York with Taz promising to choke out all comers, Beulah says she faked it with Raven, Raven under the stairs, 2 Cold Scorpio on women and his title, The Pit Bulls and Francine bashing The Eliminators, and finally The Eliminators.
The show ends with Saturn shaving off the rest of his hair.
This is from Queens, NY as the opening match tonight is Rey Mysterio Jr. taking on fellow Luchador Juventud Guerrera, making his ECW debut. They cut to a commercial break and then they plug a "Fonzie Must Die" t-shirt when we come back.
The match starts with Guerrera giving him a fireman's carry into a slam. Mysterio counters with a side headlock that Guerrera escapes but Mysterio takes him down with an arm drag only for Guerrera to counter with an arm drag of his own. Announcer Joey Styles says both men are only 21 years old.
Guerrera hits a spine buster only for two. The two start slapping each other in the face with Rey giving him a huge slap in the face. Mysterio hits a flying Hurricanarana and then a flying headscissors. Mysterio then hits a springboard Hurricanarana and then somersaults onto Guerrera on the floor. Mysterio puts a chair on Guerrera's neck and rams him into the post.
Guerrera fights back with a dropkick, a German suplex. and tigerbomb for only two. Mysterio comes back with a Hurricanarana for two. He hits a powerslam and goes up top, but is caught by Guerrera. He tries to go for a flying variation of the Razor's Edge when Mysterio catches him with a Hurricanarana for the 1-2-3 and the win.
They are now promoting an Enter the Sandman t-shirt.
Joey Styles does a promo on Shane Douglas vs. Cactus Jack how they were once friends now bitter rivals. Douglas came back from the WWF, Cactus is heading to the WWF. Cactus is shown in the back with his reluctant tag team partner Mikey Whipwreck. Cactus is hyping up Mikey and then asks him if he wants to go to the WWF with him, but Mikey wants to stay in ECW.
It's time for Cactus and Mikey to defend their ECW World Tag Team Titles against The Eliminators. Cactus takes off his shirt and underneath it is a "WW F'N F" t-shirt mocking the "EC F'N W" shirt as Cactus is heading to the WWF.
Mikey as usual starts the match off with Kronus and takes Kronus down with a side headlock. Saturn tags in as Mikey catches him with an arm drag and a headlock. Cactus wants in and goes on the microphone saying that Cactus has won the titles all by himself.
Cactus and Mikey are having problems working together as a team as The Eliminators work over Mikey. Kronus gives Mikey a powerbomb and Saturn hits a flying knee drop off the top rope only for two. Eventually, Mikey gets the tag to Cactus as Jack gives Saturn the Cactus clothesline over the top rope. Cactus then hits the flying elbow drop off the ring apron and then gives him a piledriver in the ring, but does not cover Saturn.
Instead he sees a glass bottle in the ring and is about to nail Saturn but Mikey prevents him from doing so and dropkicks his own partner. Saturn grabs the bottle but Mikey superkicks him. Cactus accidentally bumps Mikey as The Eliminators hit Total Elimination on Mikey and pin him to win the ECW World Tag Team Championship.
Raven runs into the ring to attack Mikey until Cactus throws Raven off of him and yells at Raven in the corner. However, he clotheslines Mikey and turns on his partner. Raven grabs a steel chair and hits Mikey with it then Cactus double-arm DDT'd Mikey on the chair.
The Eliminators come back out and cut a promo when Francine comes in. Despite being taken out by Total Elimination, Francine says she wants to manage them now that they are the champs. However it was a setup as The Pit Bulls run and attack the new champs. Francine manages to hang Saturn with a dog collar while they beat on Kronus and give him the Superbomb. She then manages to give Saturn a terrible hair cut.
It's Pulp Fiction promo time with The Gangstas ripping on The Pit Bulls, followed by Tommy Dreamer and Beulah ripping on Raven, Cactus Jack and Raven with Cactus bashing Mikey Whipwreck, Shane Douglas is just laughing, Taz and Bill Alfonso ranting about New York with Taz promising to choke out all comers, Beulah says she faked it with Raven, Raven under the stairs, 2 Cold Scorpio on women and his title, The Pit Bulls and Francine bashing The Eliminators, and finally The Eliminators.
The show ends with Saturn shaving off the rest of his hair.
Tuesday, February 6, 1996
WCW Monday Nitro: February 5, 1996
We are live from Lakeland, FL. for this week's episode of Monday Nitro with your hosts Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and Steve McMichael. Tonight, Chris Benoit gets a World Title shot against Randy Savage. Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman take on Kevin Sullivan and Hugh Morris. Ric Flair battles Marcus Bagwell. Also, the WCW World Tag Team Titles are on the line as Sting and Lex Luger take on The Road Warriors, who are back together again.
We're on to the opening match as Savage defends his World Title against Four Horsemen member Benoit. Can Benoit win the title to screw with Horsemen leader Ric Flair or will he just soften Savage up for Flair this Sunday at SuperBrawl? Elizabeth and Woman again accompany the champ to ringside.
Benoit takes the early advantage beating on Savage and sends him to the floor, where Benoit continues his assault. Back in the ring, Benoit nails Savage with an intense looking clothesline. Benoit chops Savage and hits him with various suplexes. Benoit then nails Savage with the diving headbutt off the top rope but doesn't cover him.
Benoit then goes for a dive on the outside, but Savage moves out of the way and Benoit crashed into the guardrail, knocking him out. Savage throws him into the ring and then goes up top for the Flying Elbow Drop and lands it. Ric Flair comes out and hits on the women, especially going after Elizabeth.
Savage goes after Flair as Flair cowardly puts Liz in front of him to protect him from Savage. All of sudden, Woman chokes Savage from behind with her scarf as she turns on Savage and aligns herself with the Four Horsemen. Arn Anderson comes out and attacks Savage as Hulk Hogan runs down with a steel chair and cleans house.
Hogan is being interviewed by Gene Okerlund with Liz standing by him. All of sudden, Flair sucker punches Hogan in his bad eye. The Giant and Zodiac come to the ring as Giant nails Hogan with a steel chair. He wants to hit him again but Zodiac stops him as he keeps trying to prevent The Giant from attacking Hogan.
Savage then takes the steel chair and forces everyone to flee. Savage then checks on Hogan, who's eye is bleeding really bad. Savage then asks Liz why didn't she tell Hogan Flair was standing right behind him?
Savage has a rematch with Chris Benoit it is announced for this Saturday's edition of WCW Saturday Night. Johnny B. Badd will take on Diamond Dallas Page yet again for the WCW TV Title at SuperBrawl. The Nasty Boys-Public Enemy match will indeed be a Street Fight.
It's time for Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman to take on Kevin Sullivan and Hugh Morris. We are shown Sullivan and Morris attacking their opponents last week on Nitro. Arn and Pillman will also be in tag team action this Saturday Night. Pillman chops Morris who simply laughs them off.
He gives both Pillman and Arn press slams. Sullivan tags in and slaps Pillman around. Pillman knees Morris in the back on the apron and Arn gives Morris the spinebuster. The Horsemen double-team Morris until Morris fights back and tags in Sullivan. Sullivan hammers on Pillman and puts him in the Tree of Woe, where he does his running knee on Pillman.
Sullivan the bites Pillman's face until Arn attacks him. Arn takes Sullivan over to the Nitro set and attempts a piledriver on the floor, but Arn is hit from behind with a broomstick by a mysterious person. Sullivan returns to the ring with a strap as the match is thrown out. Morris nails Pillman with No Laughing Matter and Sullivan whips on Pillman.
Ric Flair takes on Marcus Bagwell as Woman is now accompanying Flair to the ring. Paul Orndorff comes to the broadcast and mentions payback as it appears he's the one who hit Arn Anderson with the broom. They announce Hulk Hogan had been taken to the hospital. Flair attacks Bagwell with his chops and right hands while Bagwell hits with clotheslines and dropkicks. Bagwell reverses a Figure Four into an inside cradle for two.
Bagwell slams Flair off the top rope for two. Bagwell then blocks a suplex attempt and puts Flair on the top rope and delivers a superplex again for two. Bagwell goes for a splash off the apron, but Flair puts the knees up. Flair locks in the Figure Four and Bagwell submits. Flair keeps the hold on and even decks the ref for telling him to let go. Randy Savage runs in and Flair runs away.
Sting and Lex Luger are defending the WCW World Tag Team Championships against The Road Warriors. Sting and Animal starts off as Animal takes it to Sting. Sting fights back with a face slam and a flying clothesline off the middle rope.
Luger and Hawk then tag in. Luger gives Hawk a piledriver but Hawk stands right up. Hawk hits him with a clothesline, a jumping shoulderblock, and a fist drop. Sting tags in and hits Hawk with the Stinger Splash and then puts him in the Scorpion Death Lock, but Animal runs in for the save.
Sting throws Animal into the ropes as Luger pulls the rope down to send Animal to the floor. Sting does like that Luger did that. Luger then kicks and elbows Animal in the back and then bodyslams him. The power goes out for a split second as Eric Bischoff blames the WWF for that.
Sting then puts Animal in a front facelock. Jimmy Hart comes down to the ring with something in his hand. Luger tags back in and powerslams Animal and is going for the Torture Rack. Animal counters the Torture Rack and hits him with a back suplex. Animal pins Luger, Sting runs in to break up the count as Hawk comes in and attacks Sting and sends him to the floor.
Luger gives Animal a suplex and Animal gets right up. He gives Luger a powerslam as Hart distracts the referee on the apron. Animal attacks Hart as Luger nails Animal in the back with a metal object that Hart brought with him. Luger pins him for the 1-2-3 to retain the titles. Sting does not look too pleased with how they won as this turns out to be a fascinating combination of a babyface and heel tag team.
Gene Okerlund is in the ring with The Road Warriors. Already, Hawk is demanding another title match as they want to face the winner of the Sting/Luger vs. Harlem Heat match at SuperBrawl VI later that night at SuperBrawl. It looks like that is going to happen.
Eric Bischoff mentions the Hulk Hogan injury and the two Steel Cage matches at SuperBrawl this Sunday as we are out.
We're on to the opening match as Savage defends his World Title against Four Horsemen member Benoit. Can Benoit win the title to screw with Horsemen leader Ric Flair or will he just soften Savage up for Flair this Sunday at SuperBrawl? Elizabeth and Woman again accompany the champ to ringside.
Benoit takes the early advantage beating on Savage and sends him to the floor, where Benoit continues his assault. Back in the ring, Benoit nails Savage with an intense looking clothesline. Benoit chops Savage and hits him with various suplexes. Benoit then nails Savage with the diving headbutt off the top rope but doesn't cover him.
Benoit then goes for a dive on the outside, but Savage moves out of the way and Benoit crashed into the guardrail, knocking him out. Savage throws him into the ring and then goes up top for the Flying Elbow Drop and lands it. Ric Flair comes out and hits on the women, especially going after Elizabeth.
Savage goes after Flair as Flair cowardly puts Liz in front of him to protect him from Savage. All of sudden, Woman chokes Savage from behind with her scarf as she turns on Savage and aligns herself with the Four Horsemen. Arn Anderson comes out and attacks Savage as Hulk Hogan runs down with a steel chair and cleans house.
Hogan is being interviewed by Gene Okerlund with Liz standing by him. All of sudden, Flair sucker punches Hogan in his bad eye. The Giant and Zodiac come to the ring as Giant nails Hogan with a steel chair. He wants to hit him again but Zodiac stops him as he keeps trying to prevent The Giant from attacking Hogan.
Savage then takes the steel chair and forces everyone to flee. Savage then checks on Hogan, who's eye is bleeding really bad. Savage then asks Liz why didn't she tell Hogan Flair was standing right behind him?
Savage has a rematch with Chris Benoit it is announced for this Saturday's edition of WCW Saturday Night. Johnny B. Badd will take on Diamond Dallas Page yet again for the WCW TV Title at SuperBrawl. The Nasty Boys-Public Enemy match will indeed be a Street Fight.
It's time for Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman to take on Kevin Sullivan and Hugh Morris. We are shown Sullivan and Morris attacking their opponents last week on Nitro. Arn and Pillman will also be in tag team action this Saturday Night. Pillman chops Morris who simply laughs them off.
He gives both Pillman and Arn press slams. Sullivan tags in and slaps Pillman around. Pillman knees Morris in the back on the apron and Arn gives Morris the spinebuster. The Horsemen double-team Morris until Morris fights back and tags in Sullivan. Sullivan hammers on Pillman and puts him in the Tree of Woe, where he does his running knee on Pillman.
Sullivan the bites Pillman's face until Arn attacks him. Arn takes Sullivan over to the Nitro set and attempts a piledriver on the floor, but Arn is hit from behind with a broomstick by a mysterious person. Sullivan returns to the ring with a strap as the match is thrown out. Morris nails Pillman with No Laughing Matter and Sullivan whips on Pillman.
Ric Flair takes on Marcus Bagwell as Woman is now accompanying Flair to the ring. Paul Orndorff comes to the broadcast and mentions payback as it appears he's the one who hit Arn Anderson with the broom. They announce Hulk Hogan had been taken to the hospital. Flair attacks Bagwell with his chops and right hands while Bagwell hits with clotheslines and dropkicks. Bagwell reverses a Figure Four into an inside cradle for two.
Bagwell slams Flair off the top rope for two. Bagwell then blocks a suplex attempt and puts Flair on the top rope and delivers a superplex again for two. Bagwell goes for a splash off the apron, but Flair puts the knees up. Flair locks in the Figure Four and Bagwell submits. Flair keeps the hold on and even decks the ref for telling him to let go. Randy Savage runs in and Flair runs away.
Sting and Lex Luger are defending the WCW World Tag Team Championships against The Road Warriors. Sting and Animal starts off as Animal takes it to Sting. Sting fights back with a face slam and a flying clothesline off the middle rope.
Luger and Hawk then tag in. Luger gives Hawk a piledriver but Hawk stands right up. Hawk hits him with a clothesline, a jumping shoulderblock, and a fist drop. Sting tags in and hits Hawk with the Stinger Splash and then puts him in the Scorpion Death Lock, but Animal runs in for the save.
Sting throws Animal into the ropes as Luger pulls the rope down to send Animal to the floor. Sting does like that Luger did that. Luger then kicks and elbows Animal in the back and then bodyslams him. The power goes out for a split second as Eric Bischoff blames the WWF for that.
Sting then puts Animal in a front facelock. Jimmy Hart comes down to the ring with something in his hand. Luger tags back in and powerslams Animal and is going for the Torture Rack. Animal counters the Torture Rack and hits him with a back suplex. Animal pins Luger, Sting runs in to break up the count as Hawk comes in and attacks Sting and sends him to the floor.
Luger gives Animal a suplex and Animal gets right up. He gives Luger a powerslam as Hart distracts the referee on the apron. Animal attacks Hart as Luger nails Animal in the back with a metal object that Hart brought with him. Luger pins him for the 1-2-3 to retain the titles. Sting does not look too pleased with how they won as this turns out to be a fascinating combination of a babyface and heel tag team.
Gene Okerlund is in the ring with The Road Warriors. Already, Hawk is demanding another title match as they want to face the winner of the Sting/Luger vs. Harlem Heat match at SuperBrawl VI later that night at SuperBrawl. It looks like that is going to happen.
Eric Bischoff mentions the Hulk Hogan injury and the two Steel Cage matches at SuperBrawl this Sunday as we are out.
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