Enter the New South.  Kory Williams & Ashley Hudson were probably Prentice’s top tag team at the time and WCW used in random spots here and there. To the best of my knowledge, this was the one time they got to work in WCW as a tag team and they made the most of it. The strength of the team was their gimmick, though it wouldn’t work on a national basis (The New South deal was that Williams was a black dude and Hudson was from Australia (way, way down south), claiming to be Southerners in Tennessee).

I enjoyed the match itself quite a bit. The New South pretty much led the green Bull and questionable Vito through a decent match. The New South busted out a couple of neat double-teams and Williams in particular moved well. They also sprinkled in a couple of Johnny the Bull’s better spots, but in the right spots to where they’d mean something.  In particular, the Bull did this legsweep in the corner at one point where, if he had something good to transition into, would be a great spot.

To view the match in its entirety, click under the cut!

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-TOM. 

Today, we look at a bout from the February 5, 2000 episode of the show, as Three Count (Shannon Moore and Shane Helms in less dorky times) face the incredible duo of JC Ice and Wolfie D, better known as PG-13. The stooging spot at the beginning leading to Ice & Wolfie bumping into each other was both incredible and classic PG-13. Both teams busted out some very 2000 double-teams, but they both looked neat (especially PG-13′s tilt-a-whirl splash). Wolfie busted out the perfect wild redneck senton at one point. The finish was kind of bad, but the rest of the bout was pretty awesome and a good example of how, occasionally, the ridiculous boom-boom-boom style could work in a short television match.

Oh, and we get FULL musical performances by both teams!

(To see the match in its entirety, click under the cut!

-TOM. 

Last week, we brought you episode one of the short-lived Tom & Travis’ Infinite Podcast that oft-M&T guest Travis McNeill and I tried in the spring of 2009. On this lovely Sunday afternoon, we give you episode #2 from April 16, 2009. On this episode, we talked about the then-recent WWE Draft, WCW Saturday Night enhancement guys, and more! If you dig Travis on M&T, you should enjoy this!

Approximate time: 108 minutes.

(Note: This seems to be the beginning of an era, as Bobby Heenan made his debut at the Clash and was now doing color commentary on Saturday Night, replacing Jesse Ventura.)

Click under the jump for more…

PRETTY WONDERFUL (Paul Roma & Paul Orndorff) vs TERRY TAYLOR & ERIK WATTS
-Erik Watts used to stand awkwardly. I know that’s nitpicky, but he seriously would go into a fighting pose like he was pooping his tights.
-We’re seriously over a minute into the match without one tag on the good guy side, and all that Erik Watts has done are drop toe holds.
-Heenan just insinuated that Taylor and Watts practiced double-teaming while weight-lifting.
-Unique spot I’ve never seen before where Roma slammed Taylor to reverse a wristlock, Taylor took the bump but didn’t sell it and switched it to a front armbar while Roma stood there, selling it.
-It’s weird seeing Taylor selling for the heels while taking all of his Ric Flair Big Lots-brand bumps.
-Erik Watts threw freakin’ GREAT punches. He also threw a solid dropkick that I’m sure, while he was up in the air, he was flipping off the Shenunamake Post crew or whoever else would heckle him for sucking, going back to the infamous Starrcade ’92 dropkick.

-Orndorff ended up pinning Erik Watts by giving him a knee in the corner (there was the Assasain’s DREADED PIECE OF PAPER in the kneepad).
-Solid match. Between this and the Regal match from a couple of weeks prior, while Watts had some talented guys to carry him, he was really developing into his own after the rough start. It sucks he never got a chance to show his development beyond the rest of this run and the Tekno Team 2000 stuff in the WWF.

Brian Pillman, Sting and Dustin Rhodes cut a promo on the Equalizer and Harlem Heat for one of the main events this weekend. Sting threatened to kill a man with a crossbody, I think.

All three commentators (Tony, Bobby and Gene) shoot to a clip of Pillman/Col. Parker from the Clash. Tony looked SO uncomfortable while Heenan and Okerlund did their WWF schtick.

“Stunning” STEVE AUSTIN (w/ Col. Parker) vs BRADY BOONE
-If you haven’t listened to Episode 18 of the podcast with Rob Naylor, Brady Boone is awesome. He was a light heavyweight guy who was one of the first guys doing the Japanese high-flying and the karate kicks on WWF or WCW TV (he did jobs for both).
-He even did La Magistral (pictured below) where Austin obviously had no clue what Boone was doing, so he just stayed on all fours until he got the clue.

-Austin’s doing one heck of a job putting over Boone’s high-end offense. He’s selling far more than a guy who had been working with the top babyfaces regularly on TV really should’ve.
-Just as I say that, Boone tries a sunset flip out of the corner and fell right on his nose. Looked brutal.
-Austin DESTROYS poor Boone with the Stungun for the win.
-It was a fun match for Boone’s ahead-of-its-time offense, but definately not without its miscommunications.

CONTROL CENTER!

-They bothered buying Gene a desk and a green screen. This looks worlds ahead from the previous week’s “let’s set Gene in front of the tape machines” attempt to rip off what the WWF did with these segments.
-Gene claims that there are big announcements for Superbrawl forthcoming on this week’s episode. Why not just do the Control Center THEN?
-It was weird that Paul Orndorff was in the Thunderdome six-man tag at Superbrawl with Rude & Austin, considering he was getting the big tag push with Paul Roma and he didn’t have an issue with anyone on the face side.
-They blow the finish to the tag title match on this week’s episode by announcing the Nasties/Cactus Jack & Maxx Payne title match for Superbrawl.
-Gene teased the story on a Nasty Boys/Missy Hyatt split after the Clash for the Hotline (which was weird since she was with them on this episode of the show). Whoever wrote his verbiage for the spot (“Did Missy have a FALLING OUT with her duo?”) had a sense of humor, considering the reason she left.

Gene’s now at the interview set with Steve Austin (who still looks worn out after his match) and Col. Parker, who cuts one HELL of a promo on the concept of not wearing a chicken suit.

VADER (w/ Harley Race) vs.  CHRIS NELSON

-Poor Chris Nelson.
-Jim Cornette would be A-PISS’ at Vader for not snapping his head back while no-selling Nelson’s punches.
-Heenan: “Nelson should’ve learned something from his older brother…you know, Half Nelson.”
-You can tell Heenan isn’t familiar with this new crew, considering he was claiming Vader was “just giving Nelson some love taps, not even trying to hurt him” when he busted out the infamous open palm strikes in the corner.
-Vader wins. Duh.

-Harley Race is standing by with Gene. Harley claimed that January 27 was “90 days from the Starrcade” in December. Me thinks Harley did one too many flying headbutts. Vader offered to hump Ric Flair’s wife after he kills him in Thunderdome. I dig it.

We go to “somewhere backstage” where Nick Bockwinkel’s holding a press conference with Ricky Steamboat and Arn Anderson sitting at the table, in what had to be Anderson’s first appearance since the Sid stabbings. Nick Bockwinkel being so well-spoken made him a great Jack Tunney-type, but you could tell, like Heenan, he needed to learn the product, considering he referred to Starrcade as “the Clash of Champions”.

Vader busts into the room, being all Vader-like, after Bockwinkel announces the postponement of the Vader/Flair Thunderdome match at Superbrawl. Vader starts trouble with Steamboat as Flair magically appears in the melee (apparently he was there the whole time, but off-camera). Oddly enough, even though Flair was there, the whole mess seemed to revolve around Vader and Ricky Steamboat to set up a match there.

HARLEM HEAT (Kane & Kole) & THE EQUALIZER vs STING, “Flyin’” BRIAN PILLMAN, & “The Natural” DUSTIN RHODES
-It sucks that there’s SO much TV that WWE has to produce that they can’t do big tag matches as Pay-Per-View main events, just for the cool warm-up matches they could do on TV. Imagine John Cena, Randy Orton, and Daniel Bryan against Zack Ryder, Primo and Dolph Ziggler. That would be awesome.
-It’s amusing how easy the transition was for Dave Sullivan from being a Bruiser Brody ripoff to being mentally handicapped.
-I mentioned it last week, but it really is stunning how athletic Stevie Ray (Kane) was in 1994, considering what he became even a couple of years later.
-While I can put Stevie over for being in good shape, he absolutely is not a good actor. They did the criss-cross spot where the babyface tags out, then the heel keeps running and gets blown up…and Stevie completely no-sold it.
-Booker T. (Kole) was either the worst spot-caller in the world or needed to warm up his hands, judging by this spot.

-The faces are getting the heat on Stevie Ray in a way, but they’re being clever and doing lots of fast tags so the fans stay behind them since they’re being exciting and not doing any sort of cheating (or even using the five-count to their advantage). They’re just going over and over and over again on wristlock variations.
-This is exactly how you get over a team for a match like this. The babyfaces sell just enough to get a little bit of sympathy and give the heels credibility for when they (the faces) beat them, but dominate the majority of the bout so that people who buy the Pay-Per-View know that they’re going to see two good teams wrestle in this top match.
-That all being said, you can tell this type of match is better for TV purposes than for the live crowd, since they had to pipe in absurd-sounding canned heat.
-The good guys win with a cool combo of moves, where Pillman dropkicks Equalizer, Sting gives him the Stinger Splash, then shoves him right into a Dustin bulldog.
-Good match that served its purpose of making me want to see this team at Superbrawl.

Gene Okerlund is backstage, trying to confront Col. Rob Parker while he’s attempting to leave the building. Parker gets sent back inside the building by the Boss. You see, the Boss is a cop, and cops make you abide by the law, or something.

“Jungle” JIM STEEL vs BOB COOK
-Bobby, in his first night on the show, immediately gives the WWF lawsuit bait when, while speaking about the last segment, he says, “The Big Bo…that big goof”.
-Steel was a bad wrestler, but at least he was creative. He ripped some tinsel off of the entrance, so he jazzercised with it on the ropes.

-If Bob Cook’s son, who I know reads wrestling websites, ever reads this: I’d LOVE to interview your dad for “Mike & Tom Present…”
-Steel wins in seconds, like last week, with the Steel Trap (Thesz Press pin).

Gene Okerlund’s in the crowd, looking VERY amused with himself over big HOTLINE RUMORS…

After the commercial break, Gene is in the ring with Brian Pillman and his chicken suit. Col. Parker comes out to tease putting on the suit…but from behind, Tex Slashenger, Shanghai Pierce and Steve Austin jump Pillman. The locker room practically clears upon this grave chicken suit misjustice to make sure Col. Parker is left by his lonesome…

I hate to sound like certain people who cream over old wrestling because of people acting silly and getting great heat for it, but Col. Parker was AMAZING in this segment. It was absolutely like watching a human cartoon getting dressed. The best part? The SUIT DIDN’T FIT!

They finish it hot, as Pillman makes Parker dance the Funky Chicken. This segment was everything right with silly pro wrestling antics.

They preview next week’s show, which looks AWESOME, with Arn Anderson’s return, Terry Taylor versus Steve Austin, and Lord Steven Regal versus Sting.

“Beautiful” BOBBY EATON vs THE BOSS
-How depressing must it have been for Bobby Eaton to have to come out to the Midnight Express music, having to remember back to a time where he was in a good spot?
-It’s SO weird to hear the commentators say “World Wrestling Federation” (Heenan hyped his WCW Hotline segment by saying that he was going to reveal why he left the World Wrestling Federation).
-Of course, no one brought up Eaton & Boss’ past (Boss, as Big Bubba, was the Midnight Express’ bodyguard before his WWF run).
-WEIRD edit, as Bobby Eaton sent Boss into the corner, they cut to this shot:

…then Boss and Eaton are on the floor fighting.-Boss works a hammerlock pretty impressively, first by straight-up punching Eaton’s elbow joint, then wrapping Eaton’s arm around one knee so he could drop the other knee on the arm repeatedly.-Boss wins with the Bossman Slam. Pretty decent match where, amidst a little bit of weirdness based around the edit, there were some GREAT punches thrown and some shockingly good mat wrestling shown by Boss.

Boss is with Gene Okerlund. With these two together, Gene talking about him being a correctional officer in Cobb County, and Boss talking about his uniform in detail, it blows my mind that the WWF didn’t sue sooner.

Pierce’s Mask on the Line: JOHNNY B. BADD vs SHANGHAI PIERCE (w/Tex Slashenger)
-The stereotypical cowboy music that WCW used for these guys and for the 1996 Bunkhouse Buck/Mike Enos tag team was pretty awesome.
-Heenan kind of has a good, legitimate point, about how this match is stupid since Pierce put up his mask but Badd put up nothing.
-Tony: “It could be anyone in that mask!” Bobby: “Nope. It couldn’t be me or you!”
-It’s interesting that WCW had the guts to have their commentators go on TV and push the point home that their pay-per-view main event (which was still happening) was postponed for two months for an angle.
-This is some of the loudest crowd reaction I’ve ever heard for a mediocre match.
-Badd wins with a hurricarana where he rips the mask off as they go down.
-Bobby Heenan’s reaction to the unmasking: “Hey…I know him! That’s TEX!”

World Tag Team Titles: THE NASTY BOYS (Knobbs & Saggs, w/Missy Hyatt) vs. 2 COLD SCORPIO & MARCUS BAGWELL (w/Teddy Long)
-To show how awesome 1994 is, these people were chanting “WHOOP THERE IT IS!” at the Nasties:

-2 Cold Scorpio might’ve broken boundaries for African-American wrestlers. I can’t think of many black wrestlers before Scorpio who didn’t do the hard head gimmick.
-Scorpio doing the standing moonsault must have blown people’s minds back then, considering people went NUTS just a few years earlier for Muta doing it off of the top rope.
-Between this match and the match last week, the Nasties have really shown great ability for being bumping, stooging heels.
-Scorpio took a CRAZY bump over the top rope, kidney-first onto the apron that I wish I would’ve been able to either screencap or rip the footage of without it looking like garbage.
-When this match broke down, they did a spot where Bagwell went nuts and ran around the ring to tackle Knobbs off of the apron, stopping the Nasties from cheating after repeated illegal moves. It came off as an attempt to harden up Bagwell’s ridiculously soft image.
-They did a hot false finish where Knobbs legdropped Bagwell during a pin attempt on Saggs, so Scorpio did a slingshot splash at the VERY last second to break it up.-Bagwell ended up fisherman suplexing Knobbs, but the referee was distracted by Missy Hyatt on the apron, so Saggs broke it up and the Nasties ended up winning. The crowd was WHITE HOT at this point and, though we would’ve had to have gone without the great Nasties/Jack & Payne series, I wonder if the Center Stage heat would have translated to a pay-per-view crowd if they had decided to pull the switch and put Bagwell and Scorpio in the Superbrawl match. They would’ve had RIDICULOUS momentum coming off of how hot this ending was.

Gene Okerlund ends the show at the interview set with Vader & Harley Race. Vader in the mask and his slummy street clothes always amused me…

I wanted to smack Gene for just doing wacky annoyed faces while Vader was freaking out with a chair in hand.

So anyway, this episode had some gold on it. The main event had the crowd up on ridiculous highs, Eaton/Boss was a really fun little match, the six-man was fun for the concept they went in with, and the chicken suit segment was great wrestling ridiculousness.

However, like I said earlier, next week’s show should kick every other show’s butt I’ve seen so far. That line-up looks ridiculous. But, until then…

-TOM.

With the way these two clicked, it’s weird that they didn’t end up against each other more often in WCW, especially considering how much TV time they filled with thrown-together matches. These two wrestled extremely similar styles, but just different enough to create a unique little clash, plus physically, they seemed to click extremely well movement-wise. It really makes you think about the cool stuff that happens when Regal gets the chance to join the agents down at the roll-arounds before WWE TV tapings.

Also, the finish was good enough that they worked the sound guy. This isn’t a lost Match of the Decade candidate, but if you have eight minutes and want to watch some really good grappling, there are MUCH worse ways to spend your time.

(BONUS: Dusty Rhodes sings!)

To view the match, click under the cut.

-TOM.

TONIGHT ON THE SHOW! PILLMAN VERSUS AUSTIN! PRETTY WONDERFUL VERSUS SALT & PEPPER REMATCH! JOHNNY B. BADD VERSUS TEX SLASHENGER! ERIK WATTS…still has a job? AND HE’S FACING LORD REGAL FOR THE TV TITLE!

(more after the jump…)

Rematch for Manhood: PRETTY WONDERFUL (Paul Roma & Paul Orndorff) vs 2 COLD SCORPIO & MARCUS BAGWELL

Schiavone claimed that sign said “Paulina”. Me thinks they don’t teach reading comprehension at the WCW School of Talking Into Microphones Loudly. Now, the whole crowd is chanting “Paulina”. Well, that’s one way to clear up the Benoit/Jericho-like Paul mess.
The opening of this match had one of the most creative covers for a botch ever, as Scorpio went for a running high crossbody on Orndorff, but something happened where Orndorff was either a step ahead or Scorpio was a step behind, because Orndorff was just hittng the ropes as Scorpio flew, so Scorpio landed on his face. But, instead of getting an “OH…DUH!” face like most guys, Orndorff ran over Scorpio like it was a dropdown and they started running a new spot.

The match gets awkward like two seventh graders making out when Bagwell walks over for the hot tag like nothing had happened to him during the heat, then Roma showed as much grace during Scorpio’s comeback as a fat kid boxing (including a HIDEOUS rolling cradle attempt where Scorpio somehow gave himself an ugly Storm Cradle driver). The afformentioned botched cradle got Scorpio the win, but post-match, Orndorff clotheslined Scorpio out of his boots (he seriously took the most ridiculously graceful flip bump you’ll EVER see) and Roma dropped his ugly top rope elbow. Hopefully next week, we get Scorpio/Orndoff in a singles match.

Brian Pillman had to cut a 30-second promo with that thing on his hand. But hey, at least he gets in a hip Dire Straits quote.

RON SIMMONS vs SCOTT STUDD

Studd, if you didn’t know, ended up being Scotty Riggs. Studd, much like Bill Payne last week, showed a high proficiency for eating shit on the turnbuckle catapult. Question: how the hell does Simmons’ old gorilla press gutbuster where he dropped the opponent on his own head do anything but break his own neck? It just looks awkward.

After doing that manuever, Simmons looks at his adoring ghetto kid fans in the cheap seats (WCW didn’t want ugly poor people up front, so they moved all the poor people, most of whom were African-American, into the shadowy bleachers) and yelled, “THIS IS HOW YOU KICK A MAN’S ASS!”. One of them, upon hearing Ron’s demandment, took notes, studied the tape over and over to observe how exactly to kick a man’s ass, and that poor black child grew up to be UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre.

Promo with Ron Simmons at ringside. Ice Train strolled out, wearing the SINGLE MOST HIDEOUS LEATHER JACKET EVER. It looked like a trash bag blouse. Simmons keeps trying to get his protege, Train, to drop out of their match at the Clash since, in Ron’s words, “he’s not ready”. Ron then slapped the Train, who sold it in the single most incredulous way possible.

CONTROL CENTER!!! Gene claims he was the expert who told Ric Flair that, if you beat a 450-pound madman for his World Title, he will want a rematch. Oh, Gene. Sting claimed during a pretaped promo in this segment that he and Ric Flair will face Vader and Rick Rude in the “single most important match in history” at the Clash. There was an eight-page chapter in the WWE Encyclopedia dedicated to it, that’s how important it was. HUGE! Gene’s big hotline scoop this week was slightly less scandalous than two wrestlers doing it; it was about the Superbrawl main event. WHO CARES? I demand to know where Koko B. Ware is dipping his pen!

“The Natural” DUSTIN RHODES vs THE GAMBLER

The Gambler, unfortunately, did not have the game cards just yet. But, he did have some sweet backwards kickpads. Dustin did NOT eff around; he won with the bulldog after just the announcers’ fifth Kenny Rogers reference. (Side-note: judging by the replay, apparently WCW recorded an instrumental version of Rhodes’ fantastic “Natural” entrance song.)

CACTUS JACK & MAXX PAYNE vs BOB COOK & THE SHEIK

They aired clips of the Nasty Boys running in during a Maxx & Jack/Pretty Wonderful match on Worldwide, but that’s not important. What IS important is that a man RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT teamed up with an evil Middle-Easterner who wanted to bring down the all-American nutjobs…

Thunder and/or Lightning’s too-high dropkick from last week is even more impressive, seeing Cook stand a couple of inches over the huge Cactus Jack. Maxx Payne, if you don’t know me, is my favorite wrestler ever who wrestled in pajamas. Dude was this awesome suplex machine who was shockingly great at applying his amateur wrestling background into worked matches, especially just looking at him. Payne & Jack win when Payne puts the Sheik in his Payne Killer (Fujiwara armbar). It was especially badass since Cook ran in to break it up, kicked Payne RIGHT in the face, and Maxx just looked at him like, “Once I let up, your head is getting ripped the hell off”.  Oh, and for those of you wondering who the Sheik was?

Promo at ringside with Payne & Jack where Cactus Jack somehow manages to bring Flintstones analogies into this promo about murdering the Nasty Boys and ends his portion with, “We’ll have a yabba dabba, gay ol’ time!”. THEN THEY GO TO COMMERCIAL PLAYING THE FLINTSTONES THEME SONG. I SHIT YOU NOT. HOLY CRAP.

World TV Title: ERIK WATTS vs “Lord” STEVEN REGAL

To show how detailed logic was, even in ridiculous 1994 WCW, Tony Schiavone goes WAY out of his way to explain why a Sir (Sir William, aka Bill Dundee) is valeting for a Lord (the story being that William lost a bet). Schiavone even acknoledges Dundee was a wrestler, as he says that, if Regal lost the bet, William would’ve wrestled in WCW and Regal would be the valet. Jesse Ventura responds to this by asking if he got the info from Alfred Hayes (who was still with the WWF, I believe).

The story of the match is that Watts knows he can win with his STF and CONSTANTLY goes for it, but Regal makes sure to never leave ropeside and therefore can consistantly get rope breaks. The great thing about the ten-minute time limit TV Title matches is, when you have a heel like Regal whose schtick is that he’s the TV champion who constantly gets out of title matches by the skin of his teeth, it gives you this ready-made story for each match where the babyface can do his best stuff, run wild, get some hot nearfalls, and it can’t overstay its welcome. It’s a super-simple match that Arn Anderson perfected during his run with the belt, but Regal came in, made it his own, and I think might have somehow been more of a master at it than Arn. Regal won with the Regal Roll (abdominal stretch cradle) in a darned good little match.

TEX SLASHENGER (w/ Shanghai Pierce) vs. JOHNNY B. BADD

I think they had announced the short-lived Badd/Michael Hayes team by this point, so this was to set up their only feud, with Pierce & Tex (who were later The Godwinns and Southern Justice in the WWF). Really short match where Johnny did some basic armdrags and such, and then…he just won. Simple as that. Shanghai Pierce jumps in after the match for a big schmozz that ends up being boot-centric. Tony claims that “anybody could be under the mask”. Really? Big chubby white dude with a mullet, you take the mask off, and it’s El Gigante? C’mon, bud.

Promo with Badd & Mean Gene. He calls out Shanghai, then this awkwardness goes down…

“Stunning” STEVE AUSTIN (w/ Col. Rob Parker) vs “Flyin’” BRIAN PILLMAN

To think they planted most of these signs (Pillman was the face)…

Pillman comes out, literally doing puppetry with the chicken head from the promo earlier. Tony pitched to a commercial…then they just kept rolling until the bell rang. It literally took them over half of a minute to go to this damned commercial.

When they come back, they come back to one hell of a match. Pillman goes for a Figure Four early and it caused me to think of how weird the Figure Four has been used throughout the years. It’s associated with unarguably the face of the NWA/WCW, yet it seemed like most everyone with some sort of push in that company had it in their moveset. It’s not like you see Primo doing the F-U on Superstars as a transition to his heat.

The announcers start speculating about who the Commissioner will be when he’s announced at the Clash (after last week hyping it’d be Red Bastien, this week it was Sir William and Ray Stevens for the second week in a row…I mean, seriously? I understand underhyping, but get people’s hopes ridiculously low?). They even allude that they won’t follow the stips of the Parker/Pillman “chicken suit” match at the Clash in some sort of bizarre way to hype the match. This is ridiculous.

People compare Dolph Ziggler to Mr. Perfect a LOT (I mean, the dude’s entrance song is even called “Perfection”), but after watching some old Stunning Steve lately, that’s the dude that I see influencing Ziggler’s style WAY more. Dolph’s offense is way more similar to Austin’s and Austin was an underrated big bumper who was way closer to Dolph’s huge bumps than Perfect’s were to Dolph. Dolph was an Ohio kid, but by the time he was young, WCW had already gone national too, so I doubt, if he was watching wrestling, he was territorial at all. Plus, I’m sure they shove Austin down the wrestlers’ throats in developmental since he was an international mega-star who knew how to draw money in the WWF/WWE style, and Hennig is a guy who fans remember fondly, but WWE doesn’t really push as that level of legend.

Pillman won with a cool-looking swinging small package reversal of an Austin bodyslam, and for some reason, they cut to a little kid giving the thumbs-down to the babyface triumphing. This show is so weird. Show ends with Dustin Rhodes saving Pillman from a post-match beatdown to set up the main event for the next night’s Main Event.

So, that does it…I enjoyed this episode slightly less than the previous one almost exclusively because of the main event tag on the last show, but I loved Regal/Watts and Austin/Pillman and the ridiculousness quotient was way higher this week.

-TOM.

So, we’ll get to see together. You and me. There’s just one issue: I watched the first episode before I even thought about doing this. Instead of ruining the point of the concept and just re-watching it, here’s a recap: Sting & Brian Pillman had a schmozz with Rick Rude & Steve Austin after a bitchin’ Austin/Sting match, Brian Pillman thinks Col. Robert Parker is a chicken, and Lord Steven Regal defended the TV belt successfully in a good match against Terry Taylor. Got it?

(Editor’s note: I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to do these…probably not daily, maybe not even weekly, but I’m going to try and push through until I get every single episode for 1994 in the books…or blog, rather. Also, big ups to Jae at http://www.http://jaedmc.blogspot.com for the inspiration to try this, with his awesome WWF New Generation blog.)

Let’s go!

January 8, 1994

THUNDER & LIGHTNING vs BOB COOK & BOB STARR

I *LOVE* Bob Cook. Best right-handed punch ever and he was shockingly incredible for a guy that looked like your mom with a beard (screencap above). Bob Starr is probably most notorious for being part of a rib described on an Ian Rotten shoot interview, where Ian called (I believe) Virgil under the name “Hollywood Bob Starr”, then proceeded to bust out every racist term in the book. One of the Thunder & Lightning gents, Jeff Farmer, went on to be nWo Sting. Thunder & Lightning were the stereotypical muscleheads that the big companies would bring in right out of training in the mid-90′s and try to push due to the size of their biceps. The difference between these guys and the others were that they looked like VERY normal guys, just with huge muscles. They had REALLY well-combed hair, actually. The match itself was highlighted by a REALLY high dropkick (Bob Cook was probably slightly over six feet tall and Warner went OVER HIS HEAD) and their finish was this double-team Dominator/clothesline that looked like it KILLED poor “Hollywood Bob”.

Promo from Sting & Brian Pillman, hyping up the big main event against Rick Rude & Steve Austin. Sting really is the most over wrestler of all-time to wear a band-leader jacket.

Before the next match, they go to the announcers for a stand-up, which is only notable for Jesse Ventura wearing a nicely put-together three-piece suit. I think this was around the time he decided he was going to run for US Senate, so he cut out the wacky bandanas and such.

“THE NATURAL” DUSTIN RHODES vs BILL PAYNE

The above screenshot represents everything right with studio wrestling. Some little girl probably made that sign and felt the pressure to get her entire message out to Dustin Rhodes, but couldn’t afford a big enough piece of posterboard to make a full sign. Do not fret, little girl, for Center Stage is cozy enough that they WILL find you and they WILL get your sign on TV.  I hate Bill Payne just because of his name. Bull Pain’s not a WWE Hall of Fame-level guy, but he went a ton of places and got his name out. I’m sure he was in Puerto Rico by this point, so people within wrestling knew who he was, including Bill. Don’t ape the dude.

That being said, Bill knows how to eat crap on missed avalanches in the corner. Right as I say that, he took a VICIOUS bump on his head for a lariat. OH-EM-GEE, they’re literally hyping a Lord Steven Regal TV Title match tonight against LARRY SANTO and acting like there’s a real shot that Santo, who’s never won a match in his life, could go to Clash of the Champions to face Dustin for the belt. #ILoveWrestling. Dustin wins with a great bulldog, which is a move that more guys should do in 2011 (especially the Pounce-style version where Dustin would run catty-corner from the guy. That version looked easy and killer.

“A Battle For Manhood”: 2 COLD SCORPIO & MARCUS BAGWELL vs PRETTY WONDERFUL (Paul Orndorff & Paul Roma)

That’s literally how they billed it. A BATTLE FOR MANHOOD. The winner takes home a penis, I guess. I tried for almost five minutes to screencap this shot of a dude who looks like the assistant from “Arli$$” doing the Scorpio dance in the crowd, but it comes out all blurry. So, stop reading for a second, imagine that dude in a denim shirt dancing, then come back. The Assasain (Jody Hamilton) is at ringside, managing Pretty Wonderful. When I was little, I thought he was Japanese since he was evil, wore a mask, and his fat squished up his eyes in the mask to where his eyes looked very Asian-like (I swear, I’m not racist).

Scorpio gets credit (and rightfully so) for being a tremendous high-flier in the mid-90′s (some of his stuff, like the somersault standing legdrop, still looks beautiful and great compared to modern high-flying). But that sadly overshadows some of his other great aspects, such as the fantastic punches he busted out in this match. It absolutely blows that his WWE run in ’06 didn’t work out because he’d be the best Smackdown veteran in the history of life. This match also featured what I’ll dub “The Fantastically Awful White Dude Elbow Drop Challenge”, where Paul Roma and Marcus Bagwell both dropped some of the ugliest damned elbow drops in history in succession. Some would say Bagwell’s elbows were “handsomely strange”.

Orndorff pins Bagwell when the Assasain headbutts Bagwell with something in his mask. How the hell did the physics of that ever make sense? If I wear a headband with a metal plate and headbutt you in the forehead with it, it’s not going to hurt much more than a straight-up headbutt, let alone the piece of folded-up paper that Hamilton put in his mask. Nonetheless, the match was actually quite decent and Paul Orndorff was shockingly great at showcasing Scorpio’s offense.

THE SHOCKMASTER vs OTIS APOLLO

This was during the point where Shockmaster was silly “Uncle Fred” the construction worker, making light of the Shockmaster blunder from September. Every time I see Shockmaster/Typhoon, it blows my mind how tall he is. He’s so round that I always envision him being a short dude, but he was probably 6’7ish. Early in the match, Shockmaster busts out this RIDICULOUS Beale toss where he barely tossed Apollo, but the dude FLEW and spun like he was Pat Tanaka throwing the flying forearm. Shockmaster finishes Apollo off with a bearhug slam.

Shockmaster cuts a promo with Gene Okerlund after the match, where Gene introduces him as “The guy who’s been practicing his moves in the ring, but needs work on the guitar”. Shockmaster and J.T. Southern performing dueling guitars would be amazing. We go to a via-satellite promo for the SUPER SHOCKMASTER, which is regular Shockmaster in a Power Ranger costume.

ICE TRAIN vs JOHNNY STEVENS

Ice Train was effin’ OVER with the folks at Center Stage. I can never hate the man for one reason, and it’s this:

Ice Train unfortunately wins too quickly for it to be funny. But hey, he’s shaped like a milk dud. That’s chuckle-worthy, eh?

We go to WCW Control Center, which is one of the best ideas WCW stole from the WWF, especially once Gene Okerlund jumped. If you’re going to hire Mean Gene, he HAS to do a Control Center. When God put the man on this planet, he deemed him the only man able to properly do a Control Center. It’s how it is. The best line of the segment was Gene deeming that the upcoming Ron Simmons/Ice Train match at the Clash was “for the very astute wrestling fan”.

Well, that is until his hotline plug. “A prominent female wrestler was recently seen in Atlanta with a prominent male wrestler and…let’s just say THINGS GOT STEAMY!” So, we have to call the hotline so Gene can read us Greg Valentine/Madusa literotica? “Madusa opened up her Blayze and Valentine SLID IN THE HAMMER SLOWLY! For the rest of the details, call back next week! 1-900-909-9900!”

HARLEM HEAT (Kane & Kole, aka Stevie Ray & Booker T.) vs JASON JOHNSON & BOBBY WALKER

Yep, that’s “Hard Work” Bobby Walker. I really hope, on one of these three-hour Raws with the wacky retro skits, Booker T. busts out the tied-off flame shirt and fire skull cap. It’s funny that I write the joke about Gene dealing smut on the Hotline because Jesse goes off on a rant about how creepy it was during this match.

The Harlem Heat deal was weird because they always hyped them as being these thugs from the streets who brawled, yet most of their offense consisted of more savate and thrust kicks than a Glacier/1-2-3 Kid Ironman Match. Stevie Ray in 1993 will blow your mind if all you remember is fat Stevie Ray from 1999, because the dude was kind of athletic. Booker T. also threw the most effortless superkick EVER during this match. He BARELY moved and it connected perfectly. Harlem Heat finished off Johnson with the EXACT SAME MOVE as Thunder & Lightning used for their finisher. Mumble-mumble-ROH needs more road agents-mumble-mumble.

A Harlem Heat promo with Gene after the match. Booker shoved in far too many Harlem street references and rap lyrics for this promo to be anything but goofy. Also, you know that deal that white people do when they scream “WHAT? YEAH!” during the generic white person goofy ghetto-dweller impersonation that all white people do? Booker T. did this without a hint of sarcasm and irony during this promo.

WCW WORLD TV TITLE: “Lord” STEVEN REGAL vs LARRY SANTO

If Larry Santo and Bob Cook ever teamed up (and I know they have, since I’ve seen plenty of tag squashes of both on Youtube), they should have called themselves the Soccer Moms.

For some reason, Santo decided to wear these tights that were an awkward combination of Cruel Connection and the Christmas Monster gimmick that Glen Jacobs did in Smoky Mountain. He also jumps REALLY high for a guy who can’t do a dropdown without almost killing himself. I will always praise Regal for being tremendous at the little things, like most people, but he did this cravate during the match that I’m sure was barely different than any cravate ever, but the way he applied it made it look like it MURDERED the poor guy. Of course, Regal follows it up with the worst dropkick ever and it was like someone telling a kid that Santa Claus is fake. Regal wins in short order with an abdominal stretch into a cradle that Schiavone called “The Regal Roll”, so I’m guessing he used it as a finisher for a while. It’s a really cool, simple move that, like the bulldog, more guys should use these days.

Gene interviewed Pretty Wonderful (including Paul Roma wearing his Young Stallions jacket…how did he get away with it? Was he too poor to buy another one?).  Orndorff, at one point, called Scorpio and Bagwell, “Salt & Pepper”. How do I word it…um…that’s kind of racist.

STUNNING STEVE & RICK RUDE vs STING & BRIAN PILLMAN

Before the match began, a WCW Hotline commercial aired where Missy Hyatt said, and I quote, “Let’s do some name-calling…and other fun stuff too!”. So, you dial one for Uncle Gene’s Sex Talk and two for Missy Kinks It Up.

One thing that this match blatantly points out is that there’s an art to making things seem fast and chaotic. I don’t mean to go into a “Guys these days…” rant, but modern wrestlers go REALLY REALLY fast and do lots of neat things, but the way these guys are moving around makes this match seem one-hundred times more action-packed than it is. For a dude that seemed to be pretty much crippled by pain at this point, Rick Rude got some air whenever either babyface tossed him in this match.

Of course, Tony Schiavone says right after I said that, that “the referees these days enforce the rules a LOT less strict than they did in my day”. They’re hyping up who the new WCW Commissioner would be on commentary and, while they were great and really over in their day, how the HELL could these guys think that hyping Red Bastien and Ray Stevens as candidates would get people excited?
Right before the heat starts, Austin takes this RIDICULOUS jumping bump on the edge of the apron that I’m surprised didn’t destroy his spine right then. A super-subtle little thing that I enjoyed was when they did the “face makes the tag, but the heel in the corner distracts the referee so he doesn’t see it” spot, Austin snuck out of the corner VERY slowly and subtly so the camera didn’t see him until after the tag and you didn’t see it coming. There’s a freakin’ AWESOME nearfall where Austin tries knocking Sting down with a punch from the corner after Sting escapes Rude’s clutches, but it knocks Sting down on top of Rude for a pin. The kickout leads to a SUPER HOT TAG to Pillman, but it gets cut off short after interference from Col. Parker and the heels get the win. GREAT match that makes me hopeful for the rest of the project.

I should be back soon with the next week’s edition of WCW Saturday Night. I hope you all enjoyed this and, until next time…

TOM.

Lex Luger vs. Jim Corbett
• Luger wins
- With a power move of some sort, though I’m really just speculating

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Doom vs. Tommy Angel & Harry Bronson
• Ron Simmons & Butch Reed win

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The Steiner Brothers vs. Italian Stallion & Cruel Connection
• Steiners win

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Z-Man vs. Chuck Coates
• Z-Man wins

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The Fabulous Freebirds vs. Bob Holly & Dave Johnson
• Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin win
- Yes, this is THAT Bob Holly, obviously a rising star in 1991

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Tommy Rich vs. Mark Kyle
• Rich wins

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Ricky Morton vs. Bill Ford
• Morton wins

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El Gigante vs. Joe Cazana
• Gigante wins
- This was Gigante’s return to the ring after months of inactivity

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Master Blaster Blade vs. David Isley
• Blade wins

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Terry Taylor, Brad Armstrong & Tim Horner vs. Rip Rogers, Pat Rose & “Master Blaster” Kevin Nash
• Armstrong, Taylor & Horner win when Armstrong hits Rogers with a Russian Legsweep
- The commentators (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin for some reason and someone else named Lance – possibly Lance Russell) talk about an altercation earlier in the show between Ric Flair and El Gigante. No details in the historyofthewwe results, and obviously no video from any of this, so we’ll always have to wonder what we missed! The remorse already eating away at me!
- Instead of referring to him as “Steel”, he’s announced as “Master Blaster Nash”, and “Kevin Nash” is on the graphic. Obviously the Master Blasters team was dissolved, but both men kept the same gimmick for a few more weeks, oddly. He’s lost the face paint, though.
- Rip Rogers is a ridiculous-looking man
- This would be Tim Horner’s final WCW appearance, if you can believe it. Oh you can? Oh, alright.

Tommy Rich, Junkyard Dog & Ricky Morton vs. Rip Rogers, Jeff Hendrick & Steve Sax
• Rich, JYD & Morton win
- This match would be the first step towards WCW reviving their short-lived Six-Man Tag Team Championships. Because what better way to add prestige to titles than to invent more of them?

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Lex Luger vs. Lou Fabiano
• Luger wins
- I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this yet, but Luger was the WCW U.S. Champion. It doesn’t seem to matter to anyone else at this time, but I thought I should state that as a fact.

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Terry Taylor vs. Dave Diamond
• Taylor wins
- This was taped prior to Clash of the Champions, but I’m unsure of whether or not Taylor’s joining the York Foundation was acknowledged

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The Steiner Brothers vs. Ray Hammer & Paul Lee
• The Steiners win

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Arn Anderson & Barry Windham vs. Tim Horner & Brad Armstrong
•  Armstrong & Windham win

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The Fabulous Freebirds vs. Reno Riggins & Rick Hardrock
• Freebirds win

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Sid Vicious vs. Phillip Parrish
• Sid wins

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Bobby Eaton vs. Tim Parker
• Eaton wins

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Brian Pillman vs. Cruel Connection
• Pillman wins
- I’d love to hear more about Cruel Connection, and why a guy would give himself a name more suited for a tag team. It’s like if Scott Steiner called himself “The Steiner Brothers”.

Ricky Morton vs. Rip Rogers
• Morton wins
- WCW is back after a 2 week hiatus, and they sure are back with a bang! A little Rip Rogers action is all you need!

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Sid Vicious vs. Greg Sawyer
• Vicious wins

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Tim Horner vs. Sheik Ali Shikar
• Horner wins

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Michael Wallstreet (w/ Alexandra York) vs. Scott Allen
• Wallstreet wins with the Stock Market Crash
- And with that, we’ve seen the last of Michael Wallstreet in WCW for now.

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Doom (w/ Teddy Long) vs. Mike Hart & Mike Samples
• Ron Simmons & Butch Reed defeat Hart & Samples

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Brian Pillman vs. Cajun Predator
• Pillman wins
- Cajun Predator might be the lamest badass name I’ve ever heard

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The Fabulous Freebirds vs. John Faulkner & David Isley
• Michael hayes & Jimmy Garvin defeat Faulkner & Isley

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Scott Steiner vs. John Peterson
• Steiner wins
- We have our first Steiner sighting of 1991. This, of course, was before Scotty became the mess that we know him as today.

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Jack Victory & Rip Morgan vs. Keith Hart & Larry Santo
• Victory & Morgan win

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Arn Anderson & Barry Windham vs. Rick Ford & Carl Robinson
• Anderson & Windham win

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Bobby Eaton vs. Brett Wayne
• Eaton wins.
- The jobbers were 0-11 tonight. You’ll get ‘em next week, boys.

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Ricky Morton vs. Bill Irwin
• Morton wins with a crucifix [7:29]
- Bill Irwin’s final WCW appearance

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Renegade Warriors vs. Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker & Lt. James Earl Wright
• Mark Youngblood pins Parker after a double tomahawk chop
- During the match, it is announced that next week’s program will be pre-empted
- After the match, Paul E. Dangerously interviews the Youngbloods at ringside about their match against Arn Anderson & Barry Windham at Clash of the Champions, when Anderson & Windham come out to confront them, which leads to a brawl

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Footage of Lex Luger (w/ Lawrence Taylor) vs. Big Cat
• Lex Luger defeated Big Cat, with help from New York Giant Lawrence Taylor

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Z-Man vs. Tom Burke
• Z-Man wins with a missile dropkick [4:33]
- After the match, Paul E. Dangerously interviews Zenk about all of his recent TV Title challengers, when Bobby Eaton interrupts to talk about their upcoming match at Clash of the Champions. Then Terry Taylor interrupts and convinces Eaton to wrestle him for the title shot that Eaton already has. The logic of pro wrestling storylines has never been very intelligent.

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Footage of Ric Flair vs. Sting
• Ric Flair defeated Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Title at an untelevised live event in New Jersey on January 11th

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Sid Vicious vs. Trucker Norm
• Vicious wins with a legdrop after sending Norm face first into the ringpost
- This would end up being Trucker Norm’s final WCW appearance

Sid Vicious vs. Pablo Crenshaw
• Vicious wins with a Powerbomb [2:46]
- During the match, Vicious cut an insert promo about facing Lex Luger for the WCW U.S. Title at Clash of the Champions
- Sid was kind of just floating around the roster at this point in his WCW career as a generic monster without direction

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Rip Rogers Interview by Paul E. Dangerously
• Rogers says that he will outlast Brian Pillman tonight, because he is a “marathon man”
- Rip Rogers’ WCW debut, fresh from working a homosexual gimmick in AJPW; it seems like that’s been toned down just a bit

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Rip Rogers vs. Brian Pillman
• Pillman wins with a top-rope sunset flip [7:29]
- Stipulations say that any pinfalls in the first 5 minutes of the bout will not count, so of course both guys attempted to pin eachother in those first five minutes. Not only that, but the referee still counted the pins for them.
-During the match, Pillman cuts an insert promo about Rip Rogers

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Z-Man Backstage Promo
• Footage is shown of Zenk defeating Arn Anderson for the TV Title this past week
- Z-Man talks about the possibility of an Anderson rematch

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Bobby Eaton vs. Reno Riggins
• Eaton wins with an Alabama Jam [4:15]
- During the match, Eaton cuts an insert promo about facing Tom Zenk for the WCW TV Title at Clash of the Champions, and mentions that he defeated Zenk at Starrcade

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Renegade Warriors vs. Ed Brock & Chuck Coates
• Chris Youngblood pins Brock after a sitdown splash from the top rope [3:36]
- After the match, it is announced that The Youngbloods will be facing Arn Anderson & Barry Windham at Clash of the Champions

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Minotaur vs. Mountain Man Bailey
• Minotaur wins with an elbow drop [2:27]
- Debut of Minotaur‘s brief WCW career

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Lex Luger vs. Mike Sample
• Luger wins with a tackle from the middle turnbuckle [2:21]
- During the match, Big Cat cuts an insert promo on Luger about facing him January 13th in a football match, where NFL player Lawrence Taylor will be in Luger’s corner

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Michael Wallstreet (w/ Alexandra York) vs. Gregg Sawyer
• Wallstreet wins the the Stock Market Crash [3:05]
- After the match, Missy Hyatt interviews Wallstreet about appearing in USA Today recently
- Paul Dangerously confronts Hyatt about why she is doing the interviews instead of him

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Tom Zenk vs. Dr. X
• Zenk wins with a missile dropkick [4:19]
- During the match, Terry Taylor comes out to the announce booth to talk about wanting a TV Title Match because it should have been his match against Arn Anderson tonight

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Trucker Norm Backstage Promo
• Norm talks about facing Sid Vicious next week on Saturday Night

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The Fabulous Freebirds vs. Keith Hart/Jimmy McKinon
• Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin DDT both men and pin them at the same time [3:43]

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Arn Anderson vs. Terry Taylor
• Anderson rolls through a crossbody by Taylor, and puts his feet on the ropes for leverage during his pin [6:22]

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Lawrence Taylor Pre-Taped Interview by Jim Ross
• Jim Ross interviews Taylor about being in Lex Luger’s corner against Big Cat next week at the Meadowlands

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Tim Horner vs. George South
• Horner wins with a rollup [2:53]
- During the match, it is announced that Konnan will appear next week

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Paul E. Dangerously & Missy Hyatt Interview by Jim Ross
• Ross interviews Dangerously & Hyatt about their arm wrestling match at Clash of the Champions, and Missy slaps Paul E.
- What a thrilling end to the program! They always seemed to know how to end on a high note.

WCW lost around 62 Million dollars during the year 2000.

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I ran out of Tegretol on Friday night without realising it so that, on Saturday night, I suddenly had none and had to go through two days without it.

This shouldn’t have made much difference to my life but it did.

On Sunday night I was very twitchy and odd and couldn’t sleep. I had the runs and felt odd. I kept smelling a strange ‘old fashioned’ metallic type smell which I can only presume was an aura… It smelt like one of those smells you have smelt before. It wasn’t anything I could pin down.

I couldn’t sleep or stay in bed very long and I started to feel panicky. I finally slept at 7.30am until 10.30am when I woke up even more agitated and soaked with sweat.

I was distressed and couldn’t talk slowly or clearly or look any one in the eye for more than a split second.

I had no calling credit and my phone was off for anything other than emergencies but, luckily someone had lent me a car so I drove down to the surgery and asked to speak to the receptionists privately. They let me through into the back room and I sat, sweating and mumbling about my pills and feeling weird.

They got me into see the doctor whose name I have forgotten already and she has arranged for me to see my doctor on Wednesday morning.

My blood pressure was 163 over 90 which was what it dropped down to before I left hospital in December 2006 after my heart attack.

I wasn’t on any other drugs at the time.

This episode seems to have been caused solely by the stress of my upcoming tribunal and the removal of Tegretol – a mood stabiliser and anti seizure drug which was added to my list of drugs a few years back when it was found that the Epilim on it’s own did not stop my fits… A friend pointed out that the sort I take is not the time release variety I asked for a few years back when this same problem kept cropping up because of my, then, worse state of mental health.

I took 600mg of Tegretol straight away (my normal evening dose – it was initially set at 1800mg when first prescribed but my head felt so bad I had to cut it down to the dose that makes me fit free without feeling ill) and went and sat with a friend and had a hot drink.

Within an hour I was at the other end of the scale and talking non stop – hyper. But feeling much better. Three hours later my physical side crashed and I am now at home resting… my mind is still racing but is slowing down.

18:39:28

Woke up after a sleep feeling muggy, drained and tired.

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Tommy Rich vs. Jack Victory
W: Rich • DQ / Run-In by Rip Morgan
- As Victory & Morgan beat up Rich, a fan runs in to make the save. That would turn out to be Big Josh’s WCW debut.

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The Steiner Brothers vs. Bill Baker & Ron Cumberledge
W: Steiner Bros • Pin

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Danny Spivey vs. Chris Hann
W: Spivey • Pin

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Sid Vicious & Stan Hansen vs. Scott Allen & Jeff Anderson
W: Vicious & Hansen • Pin

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Z-Man vs. Bobby Eaton
W: Z-Man • Pin

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Barry Windham vs. Ricky Nelson
W: Windham • Pin

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Sting & Lex Luger vs. Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker & Lt. James Earl Wright
W: Sting & Luger • Pin

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Dustin Rhodes vs. Rip Rogers
W: Rhodes • Pin
- Dustin Rhodes’ WCW debut, welcome to the show kid.

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Brian Pillman vs. Randy Starr
W: Pillman • Pin

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Doom vs. Mark Mero & Gregg Sawyer
W: Doom • Pin

- Good news is that this is the last un-detailed Saturday Night show for about a month, so next week I can get a little more descriptive with the matches.

Lex Luger vs. Jim Corbett
W: Luger • Pin
- With a power move of some sort, though I’m really just speculating

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Doom vs. Tommy Angel & Harry Bronson
W: Doom • Pin

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The Steiner Brothers vs. Italian Stallion & Cruel Connection
W: Steiners • Pin

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Z-Man vs. Chuck Coates 
W: Z-Man • Pin

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The Fabulous Freebirds vs. Bob Holly & Dave Johnson
W: Freebirds • Pin
- Yes, this is THAT Bob Holly, obviously a rising star in 1991

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Tommy Rich vs. Mark Kyle
W: Rich • Pin

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Ricky Morton vs. Bill Ford
W: Morton • Pin

***El Gigante vs. Joe Cazana 

W: Gigante • Pin
- This was Gigante’s return to the ring after months of inactivity

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Master Blaster Blade vs. David Isley
W: Blade • Pin

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Terry Taylor, Brad Armstrong & Tim Horner vs. Rip Rogers, Pat Rose & “Master Blaster” Kevin Nash
W: Armstrong, Taylor & Horner • Pin / Russian Legsweep
- The commentators (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin for some reason and someone else named Lance – possibly Lance Russell) talk about an altercation earlier in the show between Ric Flair and El Gigante. No details in the historyofthewwe results, and obviously no video from any of this, so we’ll always have to wonder what we missed! The remorse is already eating away at me!
- Instead of referring to him as “Steel”, he’s announced as “Master Blaster Nash”, and “Kevin Nash” is on the graphic. Obviously the Master Blasters team was dissolved, but both men kept the same gimmick for a few more weeks, oddly. He’s lost the face paint, though.
- Rip Rogers is a ridiculous-looking man
- This would be Tim Horner’s final WCW appearance, if you can believe it. Oh you can? Oh, alright.

Tommy Rich, Junkyard Dog & Ricky Morton vs. Rip Rogers, Jeff Hendrick & Steve Sax
W: Rich, JYD & Morton • Pin
- This match would be the first step towards WCW reviving their short-lived Six-Man Tag Team Championships. Because what better way to add prestige to titles than to invent more of them?

***

Lex Luger vs. Lou Fabiano
W: Luger • Pin
- I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this yet, but Luger was the WCW U.S. Champion. It doesn’t seem to matter to anyone else at this time, but I thought I should state that as a fact.

***

Terry Taylor vs. Dave Diamond
W: Taylor • Pin
- This was taped prior to Clash of the Champions, but I’m unsure of whether or not Taylor’s joining the York Foundation was acknowledged

***

The Steiner Brothers vs. Ray Hammer & Paul Lee
W: Steiners • Pin

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Arn Anderson & Barry Windham vs. Tim Horner & Brad Armstrong
W: Anderson & Windham •  Pin

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The Fabulous Freebirds vs. Reno Riggins & Rick Hardrock
W: Freebirds • Pin

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Sid Vicious vs. Phillip Parrish
W: Vicious • Pin

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Bobby Eaton vs. Tim Parker
W: Eaton • Pin

***

Brian Pillman vs. Cruel Connection
W: Pillman • Pin
- I’d love to hear more about Cruel Connection, and why a guy would give himself a name more suited for a tag team. It’s like if Scott Steiner called himself “The Steiner Brothers”.

Ricky Morton vs. Rip Rogers
W: Morton • Pin
- WCW is back after a 2 week hiatus, and they sure are back with a bang! A little Rip Rogers action is all you need!

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Sid Vicious vs. Greg Sawyer
W: Vicious • Pin / Powerbomb

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Tim Horner vs. Sheik Ali Shikar
W: Horner • Pin

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Michael Wallstreet (w/ Alexandra York) vs. Scott Allen
W: Wallstreet • Pin / Stock Market Crash
- And with that, we’ve seen the last of Michael Wallstreet in WCW for now.

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Doom (w/ Teddy Long) vs. Mike Hart & Mike Samples
W: Doom • Pin

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Brian Pillman vs. Cajun Predator
W: Pillman • Pin
- Cajun Predator might be the lamest badass name I’ve ever heard

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The Fabulous Freebirds vs. John Faulkner & David Isley
W: Freebirds • Pin

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Scott Steiner vs. John Peterson
W: Steiner • Pin
- We have our first Steiner sighting of 1991. This, of course, was before Scotty became the mess that we know him as today.

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Jack Victory & Rip Morgan vs. Keith Hart & Larry Santo
W: Victory & Morgan • Pin

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Arn Anderson & Barry Windham vs. Rick Ford & Carl Robinson
W: Anderson & Windham • Pin

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Bobby Eaton vs. Brett Wayne
W: Eaton • Pin
- The jobbers were 0-11 tonight. You’ll get ‘em next week, boys.

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Ricky Morton vs. Bill Irwin
W: Morton • Pin/Crucifix/7:29
- Bill Irwin’s final WCW appearance

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Renegade Warriors vs. Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker & Lt. James Earl Wright
W: Warriors • Pin/Double Tomahawk Chop
- During the match, it is announced that next week’s program will be pre-empted
- After the match, Paul E. Dangerously interviews the Youngbloods at ringside about their match against Arn Anderson & Barry Windham at Clash of the Champions, when Anderson & Windham come out to confront them, which leads to a brawl

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Footage of Lex Luger (w/ Lawrence Taylor) vs. Big Cat
• Lex Luger defeated Big Cat, with help from New York Giant Lawrence Taylor

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Z-Man vs. Tom Burke
W: Z-Man • Pin/Missile Dropkick/4:33
- After the match, Paul E. Dangerously interviews Zenk about all of his recent TV Title challengers, when Bobby Eaton interrupts to talk about their upcoming match at Clash of the Champions. Then Terry Taylor interrupts and convinces Eaton to wrestle him for the title shot that Eaton already has. The logic of pro wrestling storylines has never been very intelligent.

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Footage of Ric Flair vs. Sting
• Ric Flair defeated Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Title at an untelevised live event in New Jersey on January 11th

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Sid Vicious vs. Trucker Norm
W: Vicious • Pin/Legdrop after sending Norm face first into the ringpost
- This would end up being Trucker Norm’s final WCW appearance