WCW Monday Nitro - Monday, 03/09/98
- Well it's Monday Nitro time and the "Triple Threat" is back in the house.
- Sorry we missed last week, Chan is on some serious medication, and I dislocated my thumb 45 minutes prior to Nitro last week while rough-housing with my pops.
- Also, sorry the report is late. The Internet didn't cooperate and we thought Bill had gotten the report Monday night. And, as you might guess, that same problem was preventing me from getting Bill's messages asking "Where's your #(*%ing report?!"
- By the way, we extend a thank you to Wade, WCWSN Reporter, for subbing last week.
- Wade will do the report again next week, because we are going to a Hooter's Nitro Party.
- Don't worry, we'll send in a report with all the BIG and JUICY details.
- WCW was in Johnson City, TN Sunday afternoon for a house show.
- We decided to make the 2 and a half hour drive 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES before the program began. Thanks to my successful 80mph driving, we made it to our destination in 1 hr 45 minutes.
- Unfortunately the show was sold out, but we hung out backstage and saw many of the stars, and we also stayed to see the take down of the ring.
- See the report Bill will be posting for us for more details on our experience.
- According to WCW's website, WCW will make a run through Knoxville on May 28. You can expect a report from us.
- WCW loves giving us a big break after Nitros in Knoxville.
- Nitro in K-ville on Dec 30, 1996. House show on May 25, 1997
- Nitro in K-ville on Dec 1, 1997. Scheduled house show for May 28, 1998
- I told my girlfriend and she doesn't sound interested in going, but she expects me to go see "Grease" when it is re-released in theatres this spring.
- Something tells me that she won't be my girlfriend for long.
- Someone asked Chan for some info on Billy Kidman.
- It will either be posted with our Hooter's report or it will be posted on the report 2 weeks from now.
- Many of you have dropped me and Chan some lines this week and we promised to mention them in the report.
- Chan wishes to inform you that he is saving all of these lines and they will be printed in the next report when he makes his presence felt.
- There are a few that I felt should be mentioned right away.....
- Mike 3:16 mdaustin@engin.umich.edu is forming a U of M Nitro Club and is wondering if anyone is interested.
- SalandRei informed me that he went to a WCW license owner's breakfast in NY about 3 weeks ago and had some interesting results...
- Mean Gene, Flair, and DDP missed the Nitro in El Paso because they were in New York for an annual toy fair.
- When asked if the Horsemen would be reformed, Flair responded, "that's what they tell me, but not yet."
- While talking to the art directors of the license company he was informed that Syxx would NOT be back as a wrestler because the injury was too serious, but he would probably return as a manager. Of course, Scoops is now reporting today that Syxx has been fired.
- There was a 4 way tie for last week's "Question of the Week."
- We received only 4 votes and they were all different...Goldberg, Sunny, Crush, and Saturn.
- Come on people we wouldn't be distracted by Sunny's tattoo, but by her...... :-)
- Question of the Week
- What would be the ideal theme music for Charlie and Matt when they break into the wrestling business?
- Suggestions: We are interested in something resembling "Santeria" by Sublime or anything similar to Eddie Guerrero's music. Lenny Kravitz also has the groove we're looking for.
- Matt is currently working on writing a song. He began mixing some music similar to the Undertaker's, then adding a Caribbean beat, and finally picking up
his guitar and playing a little Carlos Santana. Somehow he'll work in a sax line for me.
- It sounds bitchin' right now
- On to the show........
- Footage of Macho Man's verbal confrontation with Hogan from Thunder
- We are live from Winston-Salem, NC
- Yesterday, a fan asked Goldberg where he would be today and he had no idea so he asked Double A.
- Looks like there may be some video difficulties tonight.
- A thunderstorm passed through Knoxville last night, so it must be in Winston-Salem tonight
- Really loud "Larry" chants which draws Larry out of his seat to acknowledge the fans
- They show more of the same footage shown at the opening of the program
- Macho tells Hogan that members of the nWo want to kick Hogan out of the nWo.
- Liz tells Macho that he's the real man.
- Macho's 2nd reference is Mrs. Bollea
- Ernest "The Cat" Miller vs Damian
- Ernest seems to be a legit bad-ass
- Mark Curtis is the ref
- He doesn't look so hot, but at least he's back
- Ernest is wearing gloves and trunks rather that the kickin' pants
- Tenay lets us know that Ernest wants to go for the Mui-Tai look.
- Thank you Mike
- The Cat wins with that top rope kick thing he does.
- Hollywood Hogan w/Easy E for an interview
- That BenGay sure does make Hogan's body shine
- Hogan is sporting his new morbid-looking shirt.
- A skull with wings.
- Similar to an old music video, but I can't remember which one it was
- Bischoff tells Hogan that no one will ever become one-half of what Hogan has become and has made this business to be.
- Someone is flyin' a rebel flag
- Give it up for the Dukes boys...Yee-Haaaawwww
- Hogan says that it was Savage's idea to bring his wife into the business.
- Hogan also said that it was Macho's fault that she did the boys in the locker room
- That hurt
- Hogan claims to be the real Macho Man, the big cahoona
- Rambles about how Savage will job at Uncensored
- Sorry, but I missed half of the interview b/c Chan called.
- I'm sure I caught it all b/c Hogan, unfortunately, can successfully turn a 2 minute interview into a 10 minute interview.
- Non-wrestling point: East Tennessee weather sucks.
- Yesterday it reached a high of 65. Today, the temperature didn't make it to the 40's.
- It's supposed to be in the teens later this week.
- Sign: "Get Well Syxx"
- Syxx shirts are a hot commodity. I tried to buy one last night, but they were sold out.
- Gene and The Nitro Girls are Live from Duke University
- Sign: "Co-Ed Naked Wrestling"
- Man I love Chae.
- The new girl ain't bad either
- Sick Boy vs Lenny Lane
- Larry: "This is the only town where you can have a cigarette and not be condemned to death"
- I guess Larry smokes.
- We learned last night that Mickey J smokes
- Mickey J is the ref
- "Duh!" is painted on Lodi's chest and "Go Heels" is painted on his back
- Heels could be referring to the Flock as heels, but I'd put my money on it as a reference to UNC Tar Heels
Lodi Sign: "Heels Rule the ACC"
- I guess that put a damper on my joke
- Shock! Tony acknowledged the match.
- He said that Sick Boy was very impressive in this match
- Sick Boy wins with "The Cure"
- Mike Tenay interviews The Giant
- He was supposed to fight Nash last night in Johnson City, but no-showed.
- Green flames as Paul signals the chokeslam?
- Giant is talking about how Nash is a coward
- There is legit heat between the two
- Wouldn't you be pissed if your opponent no-showed b/c he did not want to job. Then he forgets to lift weights, messes up his move along with your neck.
- Giant brings out Macho Man and Sting
- OK, I missed something. There was a phone call for my brother.
- All I see is Sting circling the ring pointing his bat
- Macho wants a six-man tag match from hell to face Hogan and 2 members of the nWo.
- Gee, do you think they will be Nash and Hall to hype this weekend's pay-per-view?
- Non-Wrestling point:
- Me and Matt are pissed. We were supposed to see Fiona Apple in concert this Thursday, but she cancelled. Even worse, UT won't give cash refunds. They'll give us University checks. Oh well, maybe that can be credit to the Eric Clapton concert on April 23.
- Bill Goldberg vs Barry Darsow
- I wonder if Goldberg knows where he is?
- Cool, they both have shaved heads, but Darsow is lacking a goatee
- Sign: "Give Goldberg the Gold"
- Last night someone asked him when he would get a title shot. He replied with, "Soon!"
- Really loud chants of "Goldberg"
- Huge pop for the spear and jackhammer
- Yes, a Phone Patrol commercial with Ed O'Neil
- You can't beat the combo of wrestling and Al Bundy
- They plotted wrestling in several episodes of "Married...with Children"
- King Kong Bundy was a guest star on one
- Gene is at the party at Duke University
- He plugs the hotline: A former world champion who was forced to retire last year wants to return....I bet it's Madusa
- Kimberly is plugging WCW's site by graciously letting us know that they will carry something about the girls in bikini's
- Survey Time
- My good friend Joyce Crash69696@aol.com thinks that Scott Hall is the sexiest wrestler alive
- Sorry if I embarassed you Joyce
- I snuck into the arena last night to cast my vote for the good guys
- Excuse me so I can do the fist pump
- I'm back...Are you done Matt?
- ..and Bill?
- Hall says that there's no time for the survey b/c he's gotta solve some problems
- Hall inducts himself into the main event
- Hall now addresses his match with Sting at Starrcade....calls him the scary man
- If you've seen Dark City, you know what I'm talking about.....
- ..you'll walk out thinking, "The Crow, Sting, Dark City, what's the deal with this?"
- No survey? Come on!
- "Big Sexy, Giant Killer" Kevin Nash interview
- He's got a Hollywood Hogan shirt to show his support to the "Bald Guy"
- Big Kev just inducted himself into the match also.
- Nash says that he still feels the pain in his back from the powerbomb delivered by The Giant last week on Nitro
- Legit. It has been reported that he was dropped HARD!!!
- "Scratch Myself" Kidman vs Dean Malenko
- Konnan, Piper, and Kidman should form a three-man tag team.
- Their ring music could be a rip-off of ZZ Topp's "She's Got Legs"
- "I got crabs, and I don't know how to lose 'em....."
- Riggs just showed over 3 million households his new tongue ring.
- This is a slow paced match for the usual working ability of these athletes
- I guess they'll slack until Bischoff gives them the push they deserve
- Chan would kill me if I didn't let you know that Nick Patrick is the ref
- After an impressive bulldog delivered by Kidman, Jericho comes to ringside.
- Malenko just send Kidman from a fireman's carry on the top rope into a gutbuster
- Malenko wins with the Texas Cloverleaf
- Jericho yells at the flock for not interfering
- They follow Jericho to ringside and then start to beat the hell out of him.
- He crawls under Riggs and when he sees Malenko he screams like Smokey in the movie "Friday"
- Hogan w/Easy E comes out to begin hour #2
- Eric wants to address Macho Man again
- "Macho, we knew you weren't the smartest man in the world, but we never knew that you were the dumbest man in the world!"
- Hogan just wanted us to know that he picked Hall and Nash to be his partners tonight
- He says that he knows that they'll never stab him in the back
- "..blood will flow like wine tonight."
- I thought wrestlers skipped wine and went for the hard stuff
- Oh Billllllll, the deadline for the Bruise Cruise is March 24. You haven't emailed your staff letting us know that we're onboard for the time of our lives.
- This is tempting, MTV is showing the All-Time Top 10 Beastie Boy videos
- Speaking of Beastie Boys, DX is on RAW now
- The DX theme sounds like music by Rage Against the Machine and vocals by Beastie Boys
- Gene and The Girls are partying at Duke
Goldberg and Disco made an appearance at Duke today
- I wanna dance with the Nitro Girls
- Well, next week I'll be dancing with Hooter girls so I guess that's good enough.
- Man, if Chae and Spice worked at Hooters in Knoxville.........
- Brian Adams vs Kaos w/Rage
- How convenient, next week's Hooter's party is the same time as Nitro from Club La Vela
- Do you see the connection?
- High Voltage has been in Japan as of late and reportedly they're improving.
- I hope they get a push soon
- Man, Kaos looks like Pillman
- He could be doing wrestling a good thing with that resemblance
- Sign on RAW: "Who Farted?"
- Zack Morris-look alike, Charles Robinson is the ref
- Brian Adams wins with the tilt-a-whirl
- Then he gives Rage a tilt-a-whirl and makes the ref give the 3-count
- Slow match, but if you're working with Brian Adams it's gonna be a slow match
- Konnan interview
- Sign: "Dusty fears SlimFast"
- K-Dawg: "Holalale, Arriba la Raza"
- Taunting Juvy
- K-Dawg says that he will bring out a contender for Juvy and if Juvy wins, he has a shot at Konnan
- Juventud Guerrera vs Scott Norton
- At least he's still getting a reaction
- Mickey J is the ref
- Konnan is doing the Scott hall strut
- Juvy attempts a splash with no effect on Norton
- If you can't knock him down, gouge his eyes.
- The fans are distracted by something. I guess we'll never know b/c the announcers are not addressing it
- Tenay makes a big deal about "No Surrender" on Juvy's tights b/c he has not surrendered to a number of holds this match
- What the hell? Juvy attempted to pick up Norton
- Scott Norton wins via shoulder-breaker
- Tony and Tenay continue to address that he did not surrender
- DDP/Benoit/Raven promo
- Raven/Saturn vs Benoit/DDP
- DDP and Benoit make separate entrances to their own themes
- Wow, those girls can be Charlie Girls, uh, I mean Nitro Girls
- Benoit starts out against Saturn
- I think we'll see a suplexfest between Saturn and Benoit
- Nick Patrick is the ref
- Quick tags to DDP and Raven
- Benoit tags himself in to take on Raven
- WCW takes a commercial break
- Back from a commercial we find a 3-way brawl with Raven/Saturn/DDP
- Bobby: "Look at these 3 guys, all wearing Levi's"
- Come on Bobby, don't you know that DDP is a Guess man?
- He may have been a Wrangler man after he lost $6.6 million in that match with Johnny B. Badd
- Saturn misses a moonsault from the second turnbuckle
- Not bad for a guy with a bum knee from the 2nd turnbuckle
- Benoit puts the Crossface on Raven and DDP delivers a Diamond Cutter on Saturn from the second rope onto Benoit which breaks the hold
- Benoit and DDP duke it out through the back
- Footage of Disco and Goldberg at a Duke Hospital
- Gene, the Girls, and some drunken Duke students at the Nitro Party
- Domino's Pizza? Come on, I work for Papa John's
- I wouldn't mind delivering not only the pizza, but a few other things to the Nitro Girls! :-)
- Fireworks start hour #3
- Konnan w/Vincent vs British Bulldog
- It's reported that Vincent was handed his 30-day notice
- I guess The Disciple will take the weekly beatings from now on
- If Konnan doesn't
- Poor Bulldog. He's never going to get a reaction if they keep booking him the way they have been as of late.
- Mark Curtis is the ref
- Bulldog wins via Powerslam
- Sign on RAW: "Mike Tyson is a Puss!"
- Yeah, but let's not forget that he's the "byaddest myan on the plyanet"
- It's Ric Flair time
- WHOOOOOOO!!!!
- Tenay mentions that the last time WCW was in Winston-Salem, Curt Hennig turned on Flair and slammed his head in the cage.
- Flair is pumped
- He's not here tonight to style and profile, but to give Hennig an ass-whoopin
- Disco Inferno vs "LyinHeart" Chris Jericho
- Nice disco ball.
- I've got one in my bedroom
- Jericho is sporting his new "WCW Monday Jericho"
- Disco's got dirt on his face
- Wait a minute, that's stubble. He's going for a beard
- Mickey J is the ref
- Jericho is awesome
- I think he's the next Shawn Michaels
- Who was once rumored to be the next Ric Flair
- Disco and the announcers are teasing the Cruiserweight belt changing hands tonight
- Jericho wins via Lyintamer
- That's great, Jericho makes the ref put the belt back around his waist
- Gene and the Girls from Duke
- Some dude and a big girl are trying to dance with the Nitro Girls
- Chavo Guerrero Jr vs Booker T
- Eddie follows Chavo to the ring
- Eddie is supposed to fight Booker T this Sunday
- Eddie is cheering on Chavo as he beats on Booker T
- Tony just referred to Eddie as Chavo's valet
- Nick Patrick is the ref
- Booker T wins via Missile Dropkick
- Eddie comes in and gives Chavo a brainbuster suplex
- Curt Hennig w/Rick Rude vs Ric Flair
- Rude is starting to look like Bischoff
- Huge pop for the Nature Boy
- Mark Curtis is the ref
- Flair: "This is gonna be for Winston-Salem, for WCW, and for every Horseman there ever were"
- If Flair jobs again in North Carolina, Bischoff has his head stuck up his ass further that I thought it already was
- Flair missed the apron on his flop in the corner over the top rope.
- Rude takes advantage
- Flair gives his chops
- Hennig was swinging at the air as Flair casually backed up and Flair pulls out a veteran move...
- ...he kicks Hennig in the family jewels
- Flair brings the chair in the ring and hangs Hennig upside down in the corner. Lays the chair on Hennig's face and Konnan and Vincent rush the ring to pearl harbor Flair
- Flair is hooked upside down in the corner the same way and as Hennig runs to kick the chair into flair, Bret Hart runs in to make the save.
- Loud "buh's" for each punch, getting louder each time.
- Dammit Bischoff...What the hell are you doing to your most loyal employee?
- The Scotts (Steiner and Norton) vs Rick Steiner/Lex Luger w/Ted DiBiase
- Rick brings out his pitbull
- Bobby: "He brought his sister. The missing third Steiner"
- Tenay referring to tonight's main event: "There's never been another six-man tag match this great in the history of wrestling."
- Don't you remember Clash of the Champions XIV-----The Freebirds and Badstreet vs The Young Pistols and Z-man
- Insert your own jokes for that one
- Mickey J is the ref
- The announcers can't believe that Scott Steiner is running from Rick
- Have they failed to notice the way WWF stars run from Chyna?
- Scott Steiner pushes Rick off the top rope into Scott Norton
- Luger begins to nail Scott Steiner.
- Two stiffs brawling, somebody's gonna get hurt
- There is no winner due to the fastest double countout I have ever seen
- Sting/Savage/Giant vs Hall/Nash/Hogan w/Easy E
- Notice that I didn't put Hogan first
- Why do they cut off VooDoo Child and cut into the nWo theme?
- Just for you Matt...
- When you run out of bleach and neon face paint and they can't afford the rights to the crow so they give you a vulture instead and since I forgot to hit the weight room on my year and a half off I have to wear a ballerina outfit minus the tootoo to hide my not-so-built frame......
- Sting now has a scorpion on his "gear"
- The men have paired off against their opponents for this weekend's pay-per-view except for Nash and the Giant who just stand in their corners
- Charles Robinson is the ref
- We had to wait a year to see Hogan and Sting on ppv and now we see it every week on Nitro
- Sting's "Owwwww" was audible on TV this time
- Sting tags in The Giant and Hogan falls into Nash for a tag
- Hogan and hall attack The Giant from behind and he picks them up in a double bearhug
- Nash begins to take advantage with elbows to the back of the neck
- Sting just hocked a big one on Bischoff
- It won't bother me if The Giant wears jeans for his matches, b/c I was getting sick of seeing his tights ride up his big butt
- The Giant tags in Macho who goes straight for Hogan
- The Giant chases Nash backstage
- As Macho has Hogan stooped down in the corner, Sting nails Hall with 2 stinger splashes
- Hall and Sting go to the outside as the Disciple attacks Savage and gives him the Stunner/Chartbuster
- Hogan pins Savage for the 1-2-3
- We fade to black as Sting is kneeling over Savage
- Damn, that was a really good Nitro.
- Sorry I missed last week, ala Jericho, "It will never, ever, happen again!"
- See you next week with a Hooter's Report
- Let your mind wander on what next week's wrestling vittles will be. :-)
Big Kev sends the following arena report:
I was present at Nitro on the 9th in Winston Salem. Not much to tell but that Ric Flair is still the man. He got the biggest pop of the night next to
Goldberg and Macho. No dark matches and no big fight after they went off the air, but for only 20 bucks it was a pretty good show. Bret Hart t-Shirts are on sale and Hogan has a new one coming out soon. The one he has been wearing on TV lately with Hogan 4 Life on it and a long paragraph on the back about why he is the man.
I know you don't listen to rumors and I respect that but, if Hogans new line of shirts want be avaliable untill April, he ain't going back to Vince's no time soon.