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WCW Spring Stampede 4/11/99
Blitzkrieg vs Juventud Guerrera
Fuck yeah. I'm pretty hyped for this show. Blitz has a new swanky mask. The winner will get a Cruiserweight Championship match tomorrow. Juvi still looks like an ugly woman. Juvi works over a hammer lock. Blitz gets out and they both roll around. They trade wacky roll ups. Tiltawhirl back breaker from Blitz. Head scissors from Juvi. Handspring elbow from Blitz. Springboard dropkick in Blitz's new mask. Headbutt suicida. Brainbustaa. Romero special. Blitz wiggles out into a pin. Spin kick from Blitz. Tiger Mask walk up in the corner and a dropkick sends Juvi to the floor. He tries a cross body and is flattened with a dropkick. Juvi gets sent back to the floor. Crazy springboard moonsault from Blitz. Juvi gets out of a powerbomb. Blitz gets out of a Juvi Driver. Juvi gets out of a reverse suplex and does an inverted DDT thing. They botch what I assume was to be a reverse superplex. Phoenix Splash is missed. Juvi Driver is countered with a small package. Super victory roll thing. SUPER JUVI DRIVER KILLS BILTZKRIEG. Right on his head. Juvi gets a title shot tomorrow night on Nitro.
Hak vs Bam Bam BAGalow
YO! Tony really wants to fuck Chastity. Plundah everywhere! It starts in the aisle and is already up at the stage coach area. Bam Bam is put on a table. Sandman flips off the stage coach and puts Bam Bam through the table! Bam Bam is now in charge and hits Sandman with all kinds of things. They make it into the ring. Garbage all over the place. A table is bridged between the railing and ring. Bam Bam crushes a trash can on Sandman's face. They botch a suplex hard. I don't know what the fuck happened. A ladder comes into play. Sandman dropkicks it into Bam Bam. He puts the ladder on Bammer and does a senton on it. Well, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Bulldog on the ladder. A section of the guard rail is thrown in the ring. Sandman climbs up the ladder and gets thrown off and through the bridged table. Bam Bam is put on the guard rail that is on the ropes. Sandman tries a leg drop and misses. Bam Bam then throws the railing on Sandman while Chastity fumbles around with a fire extinguisher. Bam Bam sprays her up her skirt. Is that sexual assault? White Russian leg sweep on the guard rail. Bam Bam wins with what I think was supposed to be a super Greetings From Asbury Park through a table, but ended up looking more like a super Northern lights bomb through a table. Which is kind of weird since the previous finish was a super Juvi Driver. YO!
Scotty Riggs vs Mikey Whipwreck
What the fuck? Riggs now comes out with a mirror and looks like Mason Ryan. What a random ass PPV match. Now Riggs thinks he's Rick Rude. I'd feel so cheated to pay for a PPV and get Scotty Riggs. The only thing of note was Mikey taking a rough bump back first from the apron to the guard rail. Riggs won with a flying forearm.
Konnan vs Disco Inferno
Fuck. I like Disco getting a PPV pay day, but fuck Konnan. The best part of the match was Disco coming out in a truly garish shirt and cowboy hat that looked to be made from discarded disco balls. Konnan pinned Disco with the Last Dance. Bullshit.
Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Kidman WCW Cruiserweight Championship
This is unique in the sense that it is a match between tag team champions, but they aren't feuding. Rey wins the opening exchange with a spinning head scissors. Rey is back dropped to the floor. Pescado. Rey is dropped on the guard rail and Kidman does a slingshot leg drop over it. It goes back to the floor and Rey does a standing moonsault off the apron. Kidman catches him. Rey reverses it and does a spinning headscissors, clipping his face on the steps during the rotation. Springboard senton back in the ring. A walk up rana is countered into a falling powerbomb. BK Bomb. Rey is sent back to the floor. Apron SSP, which Tenay calls a running moonsault for some reason. Rey comes back with a super bulldog, which is what he won the title with. Kidman kicks out. Back to the floor. Springboard seated senton. Kidman catches Rey coming off the top with a lariatoo. Rey goes shoulder first into the ring post. Pop up X-Factor. Sit out pedigree. Man, that move looks weak as shit. Rey catches Kidman going up top, but Kidman turns it into a sunset bomb. Super wheelbarrow bulldog from Kidman. He kicked out again! They trade some moves, including YOU CAN'T POWERBOMB KIDMAN, but Rey ends up winning with a super rana.
Raven/Saturn vs Dean Malenko/Chris Benoit
A table is set up before the match. Benoit and Saturn start out. It quickly goes to the floor. The Horsemen are thrown into each other. Raven is tagged in and they do a lariatoo Total Elimination. Gourdbuster/splash combo. Raven is knocked to the floor where Arn and Dean put the boots to him. Raven gets double teamed for quite a while. Saturn makes the hot tag and takes out everyone. Doomsday crossbody device. Saturn gets Dean up for the DVD. Benoit breaks it up. Dean dropkicks Saturn into a German suplex. Raven and Benoit go to the floor. Dean locks in the Cloverleaf. Saturn gets to the ropes. DVD! Benoit breaks the pin with a diving headbutt. Dean has Saturn in a grounded sleeper. Raven tries to break it up. Dean lets go and Benoit knocks Raven off the apron. Northern lights suplex. Hot tag to Raven. Out goes Dean. Drop toe hold on a chair. Saturn tried to splash Dean through the table. Arn pulled him off. Back in the ring, Evenflow on Dean. Arn wouldn't allow the ref to count the pin. He put a chair on Raven's face. Benoit then did a diving headbutt on it. Horsemen win.
Booker T. vs Scott Steiner WCW US Championship
Finals of the tournament that had 7 people and one guy losing twice. I swear Steiner picked the least attractive woman to let rub all over him in front of her ugly man. He also got right in the face of this 120 pound kid, who didn't back down at all. He stalled for a good 4 minutes before the match, and then jumped into the crowd once it started. They finally get started and go to the mat. Steiner drops a series of forearms to the back of the neck. Book shows his speed and Steiner bails to the floor. He gets back in and stiffs the fuck out of Book, but it goes back to the floor. Scott took a swing at a fan. It goes back in the ring with Booker on the offense until Scott dumps him dick first on the ropes. Back to the floor. Scott uses a chair right in front of the ref, twice, with the ref not having a problem with it. Spinning belly to belly. Low blow right in front of the ref, who again doesn't seem to have a problem with it. Bear hug. As if Scott wasn't ripping off Billy Graham enough. Book tries to get out and is instead dumped on his head/shoulder with a belly to belly. Book gets out of a suplex and hits a DDT. Kick combo. Series of lariatoos. Ref bump. Ax kick. Harlem side kick. Booker gets the visual pin, but the ref is out. Book picks him up, only to get sandwiched again. Scott tries a frankensteiner, but is caught in the spinewalkslambuster. Super Frankensteiner! He makes the ref count, but Book kicks out anyway. Scott has an international object. He hit Book with it while he was on the way down from a vertical suplex. Scott drags the ref over. New champion!
Goldberg vs Kevin Nash
The big rematch from Starrcade. Too bad they basically ignored this feud for 3 months. Goldberg basically has had nothing to do for 3 months instead of feuding with the nWo or anyone really. That was the original reason for the Finger Poke Of Doom, but instead Hogan worked himself into being the top baby face and Goldberg did nothing for a while. And then this match was made on the Nitro before the show. So was the main event, actually. Lex and Liz were out with Nash. Nash backs Goldberg into the corner and unloads with knees and elbows. Liz distracts the ref so Nash can kick him in the dick. No need. Dick kicks are legal in WCW. Side slam. Goldberg has had no offense. He comes back with a flying shoulder block. Front chancery suplex. Nash misses a boot and gets kicked himself. Nash leap frogs the spear, which took the ref out. Lex hits Goldberg with a chair. Goldberg gets out of the jackknife by squeezing those Big Sexy balls. Lex gets disposed of. Spear. Jackhammer. Goldberg gets his revenge.
Ric Flair vs Hollywood Hogan vs Sting vs DDP WCW Championship Special Guest Referee: Randy Savage
Macho has his new look and new music. He also has Gorgeous George. Does anyone else find it weird that gorgeous is used when it is totally referring to something engorging genitals? Boner inducing sounds better to me. They pair off. Hogan and Flair are on the floor. Stinger splash. Flair breaks it up. Flair is already thrown off the top. Sting has DDP in the Deathlock. Hogan hits the leg drop on Flair. Sting breaks the hold and the pin. Flair now has the figure four on Hogan. Hulk reverses it. DDP with the ring post figure four on Hogan. Sting breaks it. The match stops and a trainer comes out to check on Hogan. He's taken to the back. Bischoff came out as well. I think it's really dumb they keep having him out when Flair is the one who is supposed to be on charge. They're trying to portray both the Flair power angle and Bischoff SHOOT power angle at the same time. DDP watches Flair vs Sting for a bit. He takes both guys out and Savage is the slowest counter of all time. Kanyon Cutter is countered. Tombstone on Sting. Sting hits a superplex on Flair. Double sleeper spot. Double jaw breaker. They try to double team Sting, who no sells both of these fools. Deathdrop on DDP! He couldn't make the pin. Flair puts him in the figure four. Sting gets to the ropes. Savage kicks his hand away and drags Flair to the center of the ring. Flying elbow to Flair! SWERVE! Kanyon Cutter on Flair. New champion! DDP is the champ! Only a year and a half late, with a ref putting Flair out first, and as a heel for no reason.
DQ Count: 0 out of 9 matches.
This show was pretty awesome. An all time great WCW PPV. And probably the last good PPV they'd ever have. Hogan getting taken out of the match so he wouldn't have to lose was hilarious. Savage costing Flair the match didn't make any sense, especially since the last time we saw him it was HELPING Flair win a match.