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WCW Thunder 4/22/99
Flair is no longer president because he's now in a loony bin. However, he still has a match at Slamboree against Piper for control of WCW. I'm not sure how that works since he isn't in control of WCW right now. Tonight, we'll have Goldberg and Raven/Saturn vs Benoit/Malenko. And Buff!
Hugh Morrus vs Hak
YO! Hugh goes right to work with Sandman's own cane. Trash can. It goes to the floor. Sandman flip bump into the railing and another cane shot. Dude is getting his ass kicked. Sandman comes back with a bulldog on a chair. Hanging leg drop. Here comes a table. And another. Are they from Japan? And now a ladder.Hugh stops that spot and the fans hate it. Moonsault. The tables are stacked. Sandman is put in between them. Hugh climbs the ladder. Sandman follows him up and knocks Hugh through the tables. One was Japanese. VERY-VERY-VERY BREAKY-BREAKY-BREAKY BISHI-BISHIIIIIIIIIIII!! White Russian leg sweep for the win. YO!
DDP/Nash hype video
Recap of the B Team beating up Konnan
Konnan vs Scotty Riggs
Fuck both of these guys.
Recap of Hypnosis winning the Cruiserweight Championship
Al Greene vs El Vampiro
The main event is now Kidman/Benoit/Malenko vs Saturn/Raven/Rey. Flair did this. But he's not in charge. He's at a mental hospital and a court found him mentally unsound to be in control of WCW. Al Greene sucks. I'll assume Nash was just doing his old buddy a solid. Vamp won with a leg lace roll up.
Booker T. vs Bobby Duncum Jr. WCW TV Championship
Booker never played any organized sports in school. Tenay said this was the most amazing factoid he had ever presented on WCW television. Why, because a black dude didn't play sports? Are you fucking serious? Dude liked to play the tuba. He was a band geek. Tenay just can't believe Booker wasn't playing football or basketball because black guys MUST play sports. Fucking prick. Bobby used to have to lift a baby cow every day and as it got bigger, he ended up carrying cows around the farm. Book won with the missile dropkick. Remember when he said he was bringing the Harlem Hangover back? He used it once, against Disco, and hasn't even teased it since.
Recap of Buff challenging Steiner and Scotty's homophobic promo in response.
Fit Finlay vs Buff Bagwell
Finlay spends the opening moment being a dick head. Buff responds by being a dick head. A guy in the front row looks like a dick head. Dick heads everywhere. Buff makes a brief comeback that ends in the Blockbuster.
Recap of Piper getting David to sign paper work to send his dad to the funny farm. Then Piper serving the papers to Flair. Then Flair being loaded in the white van.
Disco Inferno vs Rick Steiner
Rick is mean to Disco. I don't like that. Steinerlines and punches to the back of the head. Just a big meanie. Disco makes his come back, but it doesn't last very long. Bulldog and a deathlock/chinlock combo for the win. Almost a complete squash. That makes me sad.
Recap of the end of Nitro.
The Cat vs Goldberg
Cat cheap shots during his 5 count. Once Goldberg recovered, he fucked Cat up. Sonny gets in the ring. He is press slammed into Cat, and then Goldberg does a double spear. Damn. I was hoping to see Sonny get speared by himself. Probably would have legit shoot killed the guy. Jackhammer for the win.
Kidman/Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko vs Rey Mysterio Jr./Raven/Saturn
These three teams will face each other for the titles at Slamboree. Dean and Rey start out. Rey gets the better of the exchange and tags Kidman in. Rey tags out to Raven. Kidman is put on the ropes and Saturn drop kicks him off. Rey prevents Saturn from diving on Kidman. Horsemen double team Saturn and tag Kidman back in. YOU CAN'T POWERBOMB KIDMAN! Raven prevents the SSP. Gargoyle superplex. Rey is getting double teamed as we head to break. Saturn stole a wig from someone in the front row. Rey is still being double teamed. Kidman tries to help Rey up, but inadvertently pulls him back into the Horsemen corner, and is then tagged out. Rey reverses a back superplex. Saturn gets the hot tag, only to tag right back out to Rey. Kidman attacks his own tag partners to save his real partner. Arn comes in and gives Rey a spinebuster. Dean knocks Kidman on top of Rey and Charles Robinson gives a fast count. Dean/Kidman/Benoit win.
DQ Count: 0 out of 8 matches.
I'm confused on this Flair stuff. He was put in a mental institution for 72 hours of observation. But he was also deemed unfit to stay on control of WCW. But he still is in control of WCW and is making matches. They way I took it, Flair was incompetent regardless of the 72 hour observation period. They were separate, though over lapping issues. He also fired Roddy Piper, but Piper is still booked to face him in a match for control of WCW anyway. Even if the 72 hour observation period went well, Flair was still removed from power. However, Tenay and Larry both referred to Flair as president and Piper as commissioner. At Superbrawl, a fired commissioner vs and out of power president for the control of WCW.