This Week In The WCW

• Great start tonight, but where's Kevin Nash?
• I would guess that the main event tonight is a direct result of Raw defeating Nitro in the 9:45 - 10:00 slot last week.

• Alex Wright's dancing as a heel is a riot. I was laughing out loud. He even does it during the match. My girlfriend pointed out that Alex Wright seems to have taken over Disco Inferno's role. I don't quite agree as Disco Inferno never took himself as seriously as Alex Wright does.
• Glacier's been borrowing some of Ric Flair's hair bleach.
• Vandenburg came to the ring with Glacier's helmet after the match. Mortis and Wrath came out of separate places in the crowd and began to double team Glacier. When Alex Wright came to, he wanted a place of Glacier. He got a few kicks in and was holding Glacier for Mortis to kick him and guess what happened? Glacier ducked and Alex Wright went down faster than a flight attendant in Frank Gifford's hotel room. Eventually, Glacier fought Mortis and Wrath off and Nitro went to commercial.

• Bagwell got some help from Scott Norton outside the ring during the match.
• The best thing I can say about this match is that there was no run in by the Renegade afterwards.

I'd just like to share some info with you that you may not know about. Ernest Miller has already trained to become a wrestler, and two weeks ago on World Wide Wrestling (TV syndication showing OLD matches), Ernest Miller beat Disco Inferno in a near squash. The match must have taken place before Disco Inferno got fired. Actually, he looked pretty damn good, for he was using Syxx-style wrestling; martial arts combined with high-risk moves, and he wrestled like a five-year veteran! So he's not a newcomer in the least bit. Therefore, inform all readers of your web page about this info, and they can e-mail me if they have concerns, or just wanna shoot the bull.

• Morrus got about three steps out of the entranceway for the match and got cracked over the head by Konnan with a broom. Dazed and confused, well, more than usual, anyway, he continued to the ring. The pre match attack enabled Iaukea to score the quick and easy win.

• Believe it or not, Scott Steiner actually sold some of his opponents' moves tonight.
• After the match, J.J. Dillon confronted the Harlem Heat about their actions and said the match would be reviewed. Also, how Harlem Heat do later in the show would have an effect. Sherri then went into a screaming fit.

• In a weird ending, Jarrett (accompanied by Debra) came to ringside and hooked Malenko's ankle as he was suplexing Wallstreet. It looked like Wallstreet got the three count but Nick Patrick seemed a little confused and said it was only a two-count. Malenko then hooked the Texas Cloverleaf on Wallstreet and Patrick sort of got in the way of Wallstreet reaching the ropes and Wallstreet tapped out.
• End result of all this...Jarrett will get a rematch with Malenko for the U.S. Title on Nitro next week.
• Mongo came out and told Jarrett said this kind of stuff should be cleared with one's partner. Jarrett said he is on his own and walked off and said "Let's go, Debra". Mongo kept Debra with him and talked trash about Kevin Greene.

• In the grand Ciclope "bad bump" tradition, Ciclope came very close to legitimately hurting himself again towards the end of the match when his leg got stuck between the edge of the canvas and the top of the apron. Man, that guy must slip on the soap in the bathtub.
• I thought this was really odd booking. I would think that if someone was going to get a big upset win over Harlem Heat, albeit a screw job, you'd give it to a jobber team that pairs regularly so that they could use it as a "feather in their cap", like Prince Iaukea's TV title reign. Better candidates might have been the High Voltage, the Armstrong Brothers, or ever Jim Powers and Hardwork Walker.

• Benoit came out alone tonight. Woman must be on sabbatical with her husband.
• Oddly enough, Benoit came out to Horseman music tonight.
• One particularly vicious move by Barbarian was a belly-to-belly suplex over the head from the top turnbuckle practically across the entire ring diagonally.
• The Barbarian jobbing via submission? Yup, the rumors may be true. Barbarian's probably going to the WWF.
• So, after the match, Hart is now dragging out the angle of "getting to Sullivan" ad infinitum. Now, tonight's victory over Barbarian wasn't enough. In addition to never putting his hands on Hart again, Benoit must face Meng in a rematch Death Match at the Bash and fulfill an as yet unnamed requirement to get to Sullivan. This "gauntlet" thing to get to Sullivan is pretty lame considering they've already fought all over the country. It's now gotten to the point where Sullivan is starting to hold Benoit back.

• Crappy ending for a good match.
• The nice thing about Flair being a face is that the Flair Flop actually works. Tonight, Ric did the Flair Flop into a choke on Syxx on the apron.
• Schiavone kept making a big deal about how Piper couldn't help Flair tonight because he was making a movie. Hmm, where's this going?
• Eventually, Mongo came running out with the Haliburton to make the save. Jarrett came out afterwards, but by then the carnage had stopped. I was half expecting something to happen between Mongo and Jarrett at that point since they'd just broken up as a team, but no dice.

• Seeing this made me really wonder where Kevin Nash was tonight. He has always been the one portrayed as having the most hate for WCW, vowing to fight WCW until "his dying breath". He would have been better than Savage in this angle, imho. Plus, Savage already played the "crazy guy" role last year.

• Either Gomez is huge or J.L. is tiny (or both) as Gomez made J.L. look like a little kid.

• Ice Train seems like a nice guy who genuinely enjoys his job. However, he is definitely lost in the shuffle in WCW. They're not doing anything with him.

• Scott Hudson made his first quantifiable contribution as co-host of {Pro}. He let us know that the dance that everyone does when Public Enemy comes in is "Cabbage Patching".
• After the match, Public Enemy went up into the crowd to do some Cabbage Patchin'. Even before they did that, I was ruminating on the fact that Dean and Brookside were very much the heels and Public Enemy were very much the faces in this match. It's ironic as all the house show reports I get have the Public Enemy playing mega-heels at the house shows.

• The June 9th Nitro is being billed as Luger's title shot against Hogan that he earned in that Four Corners match with Giant and Harlem Heat some time ago. It's been widely reported on the Web that Sting is supposedly going to interfere and cost Luger the title. It will not be a "turn" for Sting, rather payback for the three title shots that Luger has blown for Sting over the years.
• Lee Marshall interviewed Woman and Benoit about Benoit's match with Barbarian tomorrow. Another widely reported rumor has Barbarian on his way to the WWF.

• The high point of the match was Rougeau attempting to display his delicate prowess by walking the ropes like Bobby Walker. Powers gave the ropes a shake to crack open a couple of pistachios.

• As if the match wasn't exciting enough, Renegade, who now uses the same barber as Jim "Juice" Powers, made a run in after the match to beat on his former partner, Joe Gomez. Meng put Renegade in the Goozle for his trouble.
  • A run in by Renegade?! Too much excitement! Quick, someone get me a nitroglycerine tablet to put under my tongue!

• Although Jimmy Hart escorted Meng to the ring for the previous match, Hart did not escort Morrus to the ring for this one. Morrus may be making a complete face turn.

• Sonny Ono is now managing Psychosis and escorting him to the ring.
• Ono claims he is going to use Psychosis to teach Ultimo Dragon a lesson.

• Alex Wright is having about as much luck since his heel turn as The Renegade did.