WCW Monday Nitro 9/21/98
TO THE BACK. Hall comes in with a bag full of booze, clearly drunk, complaining to Doug Dillinger that someone has wrecked his car. Hall/Stevie Ray vs Nash/Luger is the feature bout tonight.
The ring fills with smoke. It's THE RENEGADE! Jk, it's just the Disciple laying in the ring. The nWo come out to get their guy back. These seems like a trap. The ring fills up with smoke again. Now the lights flicker. The Disciple is gone! Warrior appears in the rafters with Beefcake at his side. Hogan says Warrior is afraid of Hogan. Warrior says the OWN revolution will broaden its scope tonight. Hulk is going to rip Warrior's lungs out.
Barry Darsow vs Fit Finlay
Finlay's been gone for awhile. Good to see him back. Finlay knocks the shit out of Repo Man for a bit. He easily wins with the tombstone. Poor Smash.
Wrath vs Nick Dinsmore
It's Eugene! Uncle Eric got him a job guy spot on Nitro. What a great uncle. Meltdown. Two total squashes in a row.
Rick Fuller vs Rick Steiner
Man, is this Thunder? Scott has new gear and music. Too bad he's still Rick Steiner. Another total squash, even shorter than the prior two. Come on, WCW, get your shit together. Rick calls Buff a little girl and says he's 9000-0 against Scott. The maniacal laughing starts up again.
Hogan, Bischoff, Stevie, and Virgil come out. 3 squashes and 2 Hogan promos in the first half hour. Shit. He calls Warrior out. Warrior comes to the ramp and says if Hulk has any courage, he'll have to follow Warrior. The nWo head up the ramp, but can't seem to find the steps to get to the back. He finally finds his footing and we head to the back. In Hulk's locker room is the Warrior's logo with road flares stuck on the wall. Hulk sees some open doors and finds Beefcake on the bathroom floor. Suddenly, someone obviously shoots a fire extinguisher right under the camera and Beefcake vanishes. Lol. That is so bad, but definitely in the so bad it's good territory.
Villanos vs Raven/Kanyon
Oh man, this must be the match where one of the Villanos break their neck on a powerbomb/neck breaker combo. Raven is going to make these mysterious masked men pay for what the Flock have done to him. It's pretty much the first move, too. Raven immediately knows it's serious and actually braces Villano's head when he tried to move. Everything comes to a halt and trainers come out. Of course, being WCW, they show the injury multiple times in slow-mo from every angle they had. He does end up walking from the ring with help.
EARLIER TONIGHT. Disco was weighing in for his Cruiserweight championship match. He was over weight and had 2 hours to make weight. He hopped on the bike and started to ride.
Alex Wright comes out yelling in German and talking about stupid Americans. He's sick of this country, he's sick of these people, and he's sick of WCW. But there is one wrestler that disgusts him the most. And that person is DDP. He challenges DDP to a match with DDP's title shot on the line. "Has Germany ever won a challenge?"
DDP vs Alex Wright
Alex jumps DDP as he slides in the ring. Huge missile dropkick. Kanyon Cutter! BANG! All it takes is one move.
TO THE MEAN GENE. Gene came to the ring to get some words with DDP. DDP is going to bring all of his heart to Halloween Havoc and they're taking thing to the next level.
Lenny Lane vs The Cat
Cat gives Lenny the 5 seconds to leave. Lenny leaves, then Cat asks him to come back in. Lenny says that Cat is a 3 time karate champion and it would be silly to fight him. Cat kicks him anyway. Scott Hall stumbles out. Dusty follows him out to get him under control and back to the locker room. Cat wins with the Feliner.
TO THE BACK. Disco is still exercising trying to make weight. It appears he made it.
More maniacal laughter.
A recap of Jericho beating MiniBerg and then an exclusive online back stage interview from last week's Nitro. WCW really was way ahead of WWE when it comes to internet stuff. All the stuff they do now, WCW was trying it a decade earlier.
Jerry Flynn vs Saturn
They have a short strike battle. Saturn hits an atomic drop and catches a kick into an ankle lock. He followed it up with a Thesz press. Saturn got a huge pop coming out, since the show was in Boston. Super kick from Saturn. Saturn sets up a table on the floor. Flynn kicks him off the apron and hits a dive. Saturn hits some suplexes and a lariatooo. Then another suplex. Flynn accidentally kicks the ring post. They continue to fight on the floor and they redo kicking the post. Saturn does a splash through the table. I was hoping he'd do a DVD again. Instead, he hits it in the ring for the win. Not sure why the table spot wasn't a DQ.
Scott Steiner comes to the ring. Steiner is amazed that the Boston fans have the nerve to boo Big Poppa Pump. Bill Buckner reference. Bottom line is, BOSTON SUCKS. He goes on to talk about Bret Hart and wants to know where he stands. He calls Bret to the ring. Bret hobbles out. They attack Bret's bad leg. Scott chokes him with an nWo shirt. Sting runs out to make the save. As Scott and Buff are walking up the aisle, they run into Rick Steiner.
Disco Inferno vs Kidman WCW Cruiserweight Championship
Disco isn't even dancing on his way to the ring. He's drinking water. Kidman has music now, but it is what would become Vampiro's entrance music. Hey, remember that one Nitro Vampiro showed up on and hasn't been heard of since? Poor Disco. He's got nothing left. Lol, Kidman tries to get a criss cross going just to wear Disco out more. This is basically another squash since Disco has zero energy to even run the ropes. Lodi comes out with various signs about being sad he isn't with Raven anymore. This distracts Kiidman and allows Disco to hit a piledriver. He was too tired to make the cover right away. He gets a second wind of sorts. He hits the first drop, but misses a diving elbow. Kidman hits a tornado bulldog, but Disco still kicks out. Neckbreaker. 2 count. Disco tries a powerbomb, but as we all know, you can't powerbomb Kidman (Unless you're Saturn, Vampiro, Nash, or Hogan). BK Bomb. SSP for the win. More maniacal laughing.
Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs Konnan
Chavo tries to out Spanish Konnan. He asks to join the Wolfpac. Konnan says no. Chavo is just going to ask Nash instead. Chavo has to turn himself over for the Sunrise because Konnan sucks at everything.
Bischoff and Liz come to the ring. He's going to Japan tomorrow and, after building the biggest wrestling promotion in the world, he's going to build the biggest promotion in Japan. He says Flair won't be on the show tonight, even though he had been advertised. Flair has a contract, but that doesn't give him the right to wrestle on Eric's show. This brings the Horsemen out. Security stops them from getting too close to the ring. Dillinger steps aside. ABUSE OF POWER. Bischoff tries to bait Ric into punching him. Flair talks about Bischoff telling Ric he can't go to his 10 year old son's wrestling competition. SUCK IT! Lol. "No, I didn't save my money! I spent it when I made it!" Clearly. Flair and the Horsemen were selling out buildings while Eric was in the bathroom buying his first condom. Bischoff claims that Flair isn't anything compared to what Hogan has been to wrestling. He can't believe that a guy who cut out half way through the show so he could beat traffic could be the real world champion. Bischoff attempts to cut Flair's mic off. Doesn't really work. He just keeps talking and says he'll be in Norfolk next week.
Scott Hall/Stevie Ray vs Kevin Nash/Lex Luger
Giant has replaced Hall for this match. Lex and Stevie start out. Hall joins the announcers. He wants to know why everyone wants to see he and Nash wrestle, but Dusty wouldn't let him wrestle. "Tony, there is no alcohol policy." The camera goes back to focusing on the ring. Hall apparently fell while he was up there. Hall comes to the ring and everything stops. He throws Nick Patrick out and wants Nash. Hall takes a swing as Kevin and falls when Nash backed up. He gets down to check on Scott, but Giant jumps him. Hall runs at Nash and falls to the floor. Nash gets on the mic. He's lost his best friend. He challenges Hall for a match at Halloween Havoc.
Hogan and Bischoff come out again. He calls Warrior out one more time. Warrior comes out. The Disciple is out with him. He turns around to show an OWN vest on. SWERVE. WE'RE OUTTA TIME.
Wow. What a shitty show and drop off from last week. This Hall stuff is such a bummer. When he's screaming about his life falling apart and how he's lost everything, you can see and hear the pain. I don't like that at all.