WCW World War III - Monday, November 26^th, 1995

By Bob

If you were watching the preceding Nitros, you would probably have concluded that only match on the pay per view would be the 60-man battle royal. But somehow WCW has managed to book three hours of wrestling with either feuds that have occurred for some two to three months that I guess they felt didn't need hype for WWIII, or matches that were simply not hyped up at all...
My guess for the final 4 people in the battle royal are Luger, Savage, Hogan and Giant, since they all get the hype on the weekly shows... Why not for the pay per views?
Let's get to the show.
We are LIVE from Norfolk, Virginia for WCW World War III!!
Tony and Bobby are doing the commentary tonight, Tony picks Hulk Hogan as the winner of the battle royal and Bobby picks Savage and Giant. Only one missing from my prediction of the final four.
The brand new US Champ Kensuske Sasaki defends against Chris Benoit... no hype.
Gene is standing with Hulk Hogan (mixed reaction), Sting and Randy Savage.
Hogan does his usual talking... He talks about going to the dark side and reveals that he is back to his red and yellow...
Savage then burns the dark side clothing in a conveniently placed trash can...
Savage says sorry for doubting Hogan...
Hogan says that Savage's right arm is not injured at all... It was all a plan.
Hogan makes reference to the internet getting all the scoops... but it didn't get the scoop of them going to steal the World Title...
Video package of DDP challenging Johnny B. Badd to a match at World War III and Diamond Doll sticking up for herself... She says that DDP is self-centered, basically.
For the WCW World Television Championship: DDP w/ Diamond Doll Vs ŠJohnny B. Badd
- DDP backs Badd into a corner and he chops Badd on the chest. They lock up and go to the mat where Badd begins to deliver right hands... DDP with right hands... Badd sends DDP into the ring post.
- Badd connects with a cross body, but DDP floats over for a cover... 2 count.
- Badd leapfrogs over DDP and connects with a Samoan Drop... 2 count.
- Side headlock by Badd, DDP rolls to his back a few times... both times getting 2 counts.
- DDP fights out of the hold and looks to take Badd down with a wrist lock, and takes Badd down by the hair...
- Badd gets up first and wrenches on DDP's arm... DDP drops Badd down and places Badd into an arm lock.
- Badd kips up and drops DDP down by the hair... DDP goes for a cross body but goes over the top to the floor... Badd connects with a cross body over the top to the floor onto DDP.
- DDP puts Doll in front of himself and shoves her into Badd... DDP sends Badd into the guard rail and back into the ring.
- DDP stomps on the hand of Badd and sends Badd chest first into a corner and connects with a back suplex.
- DDP reverses a head scissors into a tombstone pile driver... and doesn't go for the cover, he wants the 10 card from Doll... doesn't get it.
- DDP comes back with a clothesline... 2 count.
- Elbows in the corner by DDP, running shoulder block into a corner by DDP.
- Badd moves in another corner, sending DDP shoulder first into the turnbuckle... Badd trips DDP up after looking for a kick...
- DDP comes back with right hands... Badd kicks Page after coming off the ropes...
- Badd blocks a right hand, delivers an atomic drop, and begins delivering right hands. Badd blocks a boot, and he hits a clothesline and takes DDP down with a right hand... Badd calls for the 10+... and Doll gives it to him.
- Badd with a sit down power bomb... 2 count.
- Badd runs into a back elbow in the corner and DDP uses the ropes for leverage... 2 count.
- DDP with a tilt-a-whirl side slam... 2 count... Badd hooks DDP's arm... 2 count.
- Badd with a head scissors take down... Badd goes to the apron looking for the "Badd Mood", but DDP gets his knees up. DDP signals for the Diamond Cutter.
- Instead, DDP connects with a terrible looking gut buster... 2 count.
- Badd reverses another DDP attempt... but DDP back elbows Badd...
- Badd reverses a tombstone pile driver from DDP and connects with one of his own... 2 count.
- DDP goes to the floor after a hard left hand... Badd with a somersault splash to the floor. Badd with a leaping leg drop off the apron... 1-2-3.
- Your Winner: And still WCW Television Champion - Johnny B. Badd via pinfall following a leg drop.
- Since Badd won, he now has the managerial services of the willing Diamond Doll who cries in his arms.
- Johnny goes to Gene for an interview, and Badd says he just taught DDP about R-E-S-P-E-C-T... which is respect.
- Doll says she is very overwhelmed, and Badd tells her to take her time to making a decision on being his manager... Badd is ready for the 60-man battle royal.
Taped Fist Match: Big Bubba Rogers Vs Jim Duggan
- Rogers comes down to the ring only to get attacked from behind by Duggan. Duggan sends Rogers into the apron a few times... Right hand...
- Duggan blocks a right hand and knocks Bubba down...
- Duggan is about to hit Bubba with the 2x4 but doesn't...
- Bubba with right hands to the gut... Duggan comes back off the ropes and sends Bubba over the top to the floor. "USA" chants... Um, they're both American...
- They're in ring #2 and Duggan has Bubba's head between two ring posts... Duggan misses an axe handle off the apron and lands on the guard rail.
- Bubba baseball slides to the outside and uppercuts Duggan down... More right hands by Rogers...
- Rogers begins to choke Duggan. Trading right hands... Bubba with a step up kick to the back of Duggan's head...
- Rogers with another right hand... Rogers tapes up his fist even more and delivers more right hands...
- Shoulder block, Duggan goes down and Bubba falls to the outside.
- Rogers gets his tape and begins to tape Duggan on the top rope... Dugan is trying to fight back but Rogers delivers more right hands.
- Rogers charges towards Duggan who simply puts his fist out and Rogers goes down. Duggan backdrops Rogers over the top to the floor... Duggan is free...
- More right hands on the floor... Duggan with a scoop slam in the ring... Duggan is in his stance and connects with a running clothesline... VK Wallstreet is here and he has a chain and looks to knock Duggan out... But Duggan knocks Wallstreet down...
- Rogers gets the chain from Wallstreet and knocks Duggan out... Referee begins the 10-count.
- Duggan couldn't get up...
- Your Winner: Big Bubba Rogers via knock out
Tony and Bobby hype up the 60-man battle royal... and Ric Flair vs. Sting is tonight...
Gene is standing with Flair... Flair is going to "Style and Profile"... Flair says he is back one more time... "WHOOO!!!"
Flair says he is the best thing going today...
Flair says he is going to win the battle royal here tonight... This is a part of his master plan to have Savage/Hogan/Luger and Sting all in the ring at once... "WHOOO!!!"
Cutie Suzuki & Mayumi Ozaki Vs Bull Nakano & Akira Hokuto w/Sonny Ono
- Nakano and Hokuto attack the other two women... Nakano takes Ozaki down viciously by the hair... Hokuto with an axe handle off the top rope... Mocks a tag to Cutie...
- Both women begin to bite the hands of Ozaki.
- Nakano comes in and bites again... Nakano has Ozaki's hair... and drops her down again.
- Nakano chokes Ozaki into the air and Hokuto clotheslines Ozaki down... splash by Nakano.
- Ozaki comes back with right hands but Nakano no-sells... Ozaki is now on the apron getting chokes...
- Ozaki takes Hokuto down with a DDT and tags in Cutie who connects with a drop kick... 2 count.
- Cutie tries for a Boston Crab... and Ozaki takes Nakano down... And now there is a double Boston Crab on...
- Cutie with more kicks onto Hokuto... Cutie goes back to the half Boston Crab... Nakano comes in and takes Cutie off.
- Cutie goes off the ropes and looks to dropkick Nakano but Nakano moves and she hits Ozaki...
- Nakano goes up top and looks for a moonsault but Cutie moves... Ozaki and Cutie begin to deliver a few double stomps off the top onto Nakano... 2 count.
- Nakano snap suplexes both women... Hokuto misses a splash...
- Both women place Hokuto onto the top turnbuckle... Nakano comes in and drags them off... Hokuto with a flying cross body...
- Cutie and Ozaki come back with hurricanranas.... both go to the top rope and take both of their opponents down with a clothesline... 2 count.
- Ozaki with a half nelson suplex on Hokuto... 2 count.
- Hokuto with an exploder suplex... Nakano comes in with a clothesline... 2 count.
- Nakano misses a double clothesline... but Hokuto connects with a missile dropkick onto both women who then fall to the outside...
- Hokuto goes to the top turnbuckle and connects with a senton splash to the floor...
- Ozaki is sent back into the ring and is on Nakano's shoulders for a Doomsday type move... 2 count.
- Scoop slam onto Ozaki and Nakano leaps off the top turnbuckle and connects with a leg drop... 1-2-3.
- Your Winners: Bull Nakano and Akira Hokuto via pinfall after a leg drop.
Lex Luger is now with Gene... Luger is facing Randy Savage here tonight... Jimmy Hart rambles...
Luger is flexing, Luger is looking down to something like he is reading off cue cards or something... Says he is going to be World Champion.
For the WCW US Heavyweight Championship: Chris Benoit Vs ŠKensuke Sasaki w/Sonny Ono
- Sasaki won the US Title from Sting in Tokyo, Japan just under two weeks ago...
- Brief lockup and Benoit gains control in a corner and chops and kicks and snap mares Sasaki down...
- Sasaki with chops in a corner on Benoit and he snap mares Benoit down.
- Go behind by Benoit, Benoit with a drop toe hold and he places Sasaki into an arm lock. Front face lock... Sasaki powers out with a back drop.
- Test of strength... Sasaki pulls Benoit down and lands on the thighs of Benoit... Benoit gets up and drops Sasaki down and places Sasaki into an arm lock.
- Benoit now has Sasaki choking himself with his arms around Sasaki's own throat... Like a mummy of sorts.
- Sasaki gets control with boots and a scoop slam... Another scoop slam... 1 count.
- Side headlock by Sasaki, Sasaki goes off the ropes with a shoulder block... Sasaki with a gorilla press slam... Benoit powers out of an attempted Boston Crab... which sends Sasaki to the outside.
- Benoit dives through the middle rope and connects with a suicide dive. Benoit sends Sasaki into the apron back first.
- Benoit with a snap suplex in the ring... 1 count.
- Benoit wraps his legs around the head of Sasaki... Sasaki gets up and connects with a power slam off the ropes... 2 count.
- Benoit reverses a vertical suplex into two German suplexes... Sasaki fights out of a third attempt and connects with a running clothesline...
- Sasaki looks for a tombstone pile driver... but Benoit reverses into one of his own...
- Benoit now goes up top and connects with a flying head butt... 2 count.
- Chops by Benoit and he places Sasaki onto the top turnbuckle and connects with a hurricanrana... 2 count.
- Sasaki blocks a kick and connects with a one-arm spine buster... Sasaki places Benoit into a head/arm submission hold... Benoit gets to the ropes.
- Sasaki absorbs a clothesline and connects with one of his one..
- Sasaki with a brain buster... 1-2-3.
- Your Winner: And still US Heavyweight Champion- Kensuke Sasaki via pinfall following a brain buster.
We go back to Gene who is now with Giant, Kevin Sullivan and Jimmy Hart.
Sullivan says they will take no prisoners... Giant is the "uncrowned champion".
"Hogan! Hogan!" chant.
Hart says that they are not going to worry that Hogan is back to wearing red and yellow...
Sullivan says the Dungeon will prevail.
Giant says he will throw Hogan out of the ring...
Video package of Luger and Savage issues over the past three months.
Gene is with Randy Savage who says that Luger will find out that he (Savage) is the "Total Package"... Savage says that his arm is a "million percent".
Randy Savage Vs Lex Luger w/Jimmy Hart
- Savage quickly attacks Luger with right hands and chokes him on the top rope.
- More right hands in the corner by Savage...
- Savage runs into a big boot... Savage ducks a clothesline by Luger and connects with one of his own...
- Savage with a Boston Crab and Luger easily reaches the rope.
- Savage sends Luger to the outside and begins to send him into the guard rail a few times.
- Back in the ring Savage connects with a scoop slam and goes to the top for the elbow drop and connects, but Hart is on the apron distracting the referee.
- Savage sends Luger into Hart to the floor. Savage sends Luger into the railing few more times...
- Luger sends Savage back first into the apron.
- Luger has the Torture Rack on the floor... Luger sends Savage back into the ring... Luger places Savage into an arm lock on Savage's bad arm... and it's over... WHAT!?!?
- Your Winner: Lex Luger via Savage being unable to answer the "three drop test" during a submission move.
- Luger has the hold on Savage after the bell and Sting comes down and talks Luger into releasing the weak-looking hold.
Video package of the Flair/Sting feud over the months.
Ric Flair Vs Sting
- Stare down, and Sting delivers a hard right, which makes Flair run to the outside and go to the second ring.
- Sting with a right hand and a gorilla press slam. Flair begs off...
- Flair pokes the eye of Sting... Flair with right hands in the corner... Flair with chops...
- Sting comes back with a running clothesline and ten punches in the corner, hip toss and dropkick... Flair rolls into the third ring...
- Sister Sherri and Col. Robert Parker are out here for some reason.
- Sting no-sells some chops... Comes back with right hands...
- Sting clotheslines Flair to the floor. Flair struts up the aisle way but comes back to the ring... Flair comes back with chops and Sting no-sells and comes back with a gorilla press slam...
- Flair goes to the floor and Sting looks for a Stinger Splash but Flair moves and Sting lands on the guard rail...
- Flair with chops... And he gouges the eyes of Sting... Sting no-sells another chop... And chokes Flair... Flair drops down and low blows Sting...
- Flair with more boots to the gut of Sting...
- Knee drop by Flair... Flair taunts the crowd... Flair goes to work on the legs of Sting...
- Sting is sent over the top rope to the floor... Boots and chops on the floor by Flair...
- Chop block by Flair to the right knee of Sting... Flair begins to tear open the mouth of Sting.
- Back suplex by Flair and Flair quickly places Sting into the Figure Four in the middle of the ring... Sting begins to turn over the Figure Four and does so.
- Sting comes back with a backslide... 2 count... Sting no-sells another chop...
- Flair runs to the second ring... Sting with ANOTHER gorilla press slam and a few clotheslines...
- Flair goes to the top rope and Sting slams him down... Flair flip in the corner and Sting clotheslines him down...
- Flair misses an atomic drop... Sting with a superplex off the top rope and he places Flair into the Scorpion Death Lock... Flair gives up...
- Your Winner: Sting via submission with the Scorpion Death Lock.
Hogan comes over to Gene and talks about the battle royal... He'll do anything to win the battle royal...
For the Vacant World Title: 60 man 3-ring Battle Royal
- The following exact results and details were sent in by Richard from Dayton/McMinnville,OR:
  1. The Yeti 0:17 by Brian Pillman, DDP, and Chris Kanyon
  2. Mike Winner 0:45 by Steven Regal
  3. Steve Armstrong 1:42 by Steven Regal
  4. Dave Sullivan 2:58 by Steven Regal
  5. Mark Starr 5:51 by Brian Knobs
  6. Lieutenant James Earl Wright 5:59 by Cobra
  7. Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker 6:03 by Cobra
  8. Cobra 6:03 by Sgt Buddy Lee Parker
  9. Bunkhouse Buck 6:56 by Randy Savage
  10. Marcus Alexander Bagwell 7:56 by Hugh Morrus
  11. Chris Kanyon 8:58 by Diamond Dallas Page
  12. Big Train Bart 9:40 by Steven Regal
  13. Super Assassin 1 10:02 by Hulk Hogan
  14. Max Muscle 10:12 by Shark
  15. Fidel Sierra 10:40 by Steven Regal
  16. Scott Armstrong 10:44 by Paul Orndorff
  17. Bobby Walker 11:06 by Sgt. Craig Pittman
  18. Ricky Santana 11:26 by Eddie Guerrero
  19. Mr. JL 11:27 by Super Assassin 2
  20. Stevie Ray 11:32 by Brian Knobs
  21. Brian Knobbs 11:33 by The Giant
  22. Scotty Riggs 11:57 by Booker T
  23. Pez Whatley 11:58 by Alex Wright
  24. Alex Wright 11:58 by Pez Whatley
  25. Super Assassin 2 12:31 by One Man Gang
  26. Earl Robert Eaton 12:57 by Randy Savage
  27. Dick Slater 13:00 by Hulk Hogan
  28. VK Wallstreet 14:22 by Randy Savage
  29. Scott Norton 14:32 by Randy Savage
  30. Shark 16:02 by Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Hawk, and Jerry Saggs
  31. Joey Maggs 17:17 by Sgt. Craig Pittman
  32. Big Bubba Rogers 18:33 by Hacksaw Jim Duggan
  33. Hacksaw Jim Duggan 18:52 by Big Bubba Rogers
  34. Disco Inferno 19:26 by Hawk
  35. Dave Taylor 19:48 by Sgt. Craig Pittman
  36. Jerry Saggs 20:32 by Hulk Hogan
  37. Booker T 20:32 by Hulk Hogan
  38. The Taskmaster 21:00 by Hulk Hogan
  39. Steven Regal 21:27 by Arn Anderson
  40. DDP 21:52 by Johnny B. Badd
  41. Johnny B. Badd 21:52 by DDP
  42. Sgt. Craig Pittman 22:02 by Hugh Morrus
  43. Chris Benoit 22:18 by Kurasawa
  44. Kurusawa 22:37 by Meng
  45. Meng 23:02 by One Man Gang
  46. Zodiac 23:38 by Hugh Morrus
  47. Hugh Morrus 23:52 by Kensuke Sasaki
  48. Brian Pillman 24:19 by Hawk
  49. Hawk 24:48 by Hulk Hogan
  50. Kensuske Sasaki 24:48 by Hulk Hogan
  51. Paul Orndorff 25:19 by Hulk Hogan
  52. Eddie Guerrero 26:58 by Arn Anderson
  53. Ric Flair 28:17 by Sting
  54. Arn Anderson 28:21 by Hulk Hogan
  55. One Man Gang 29:12 by Randy Savage
  56. Sting 29:14 by Hulk Hogan
  57. Lex Luger 29:14 by Hulk Hogan
  58. Giant 29:14 by Hulk Hogan
  59. Hulk Hogan was pulled under the ropes at 29:20 by The Giant; however, when the referee saw Hogan on the floor, he assumed Hogan was thrown over the top, so Hogan was declared eliminated.
- Your Winner: And NEW WCW World Heavyweight Champion: Randy Savage
- Savage claims to have not seen what happened... The crowd agrees with Hogan that he got pulled under the ropes... Savage wants to the see the film... We'll see the film on Nitro.
The Good: Women's match was good, along with the US Title match.
The Bad: Taped Fist Match, Sting/Flair.
The Ugly: Luger/Savage.

WCW World War III - Monday, November 26th, 1995

By Bob

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