- Buffer's early appearance foreshadowed early doom for this program as he generally announces only main events. There was no main event on this program, and Buffer's early appearance should have triggered that to the perceptive viewer.
- Rodzilla is, of course, Dennis Rodman.
- It is ironic that Buffer would introduce Rodman as Rodman plays for the Chicago Bulls who have a 2-1 advantage on the Utah Jazz in the NBA Finals. Buffer has done his schtick in Salt Lake City during the finals in support of the Jazz.
- Rodman does not play again until Wednesday in the finals, making his appearance almost justifiable. Almost.
- It is also interesting to note that Rodman looks incredibly large during NBA games, but standing next to the Disciple and Hogan, he looked almost frail.
- I didn't write the S-word.
- The Disciple and Eric Bischoff are also present.
- Disciple held a "Hogan is God" sign. If it is possible, to ineffectively carry a sign, Ed Leslie managed to do it in this segment. Lodi should teach a class.
- Hogan set up Rodman saying, "Rodzilla, love the way you throw Malone around. They still can't handle you in Detroit."
- This comment may also fuel speculation that Malone may pursue wrestling. He has recently done radio segments with Bill Goldberg and is a close friend of Diamond Dallas Page. Page's alliance obviously swinging towards the Wolf Pack, this might be the beginning of a Rodman-Malone war.
- If nothing else, it adds to speculation.
- Rodman, cigar in hand, takes awhile to reply. Though this did add dramatic fact, due to Rodman history and the look in his eyes, the better bet is that he was inebriated.
- When Rodman did reply he said, "Come on Detroit, this is my home right? I won my first championship in Detroit, right? You have no choice but to love me!"
- For those who do not follow the NBA, Rodman began his career in Detoit and won two World championships playing for the local Pistons.
- Rodman was almost playing the face to Hogan's heel in this segment of the show. Hogan was angered by Scott Hall and Kevin Nash doing this earlier in the year. The situation may have been brought to Rodman's attention as he was a strong heel in the numerous other times he appeared on this program.
- As the show went to commercial, Rodman said, "I started in black, there's no turning back." He then did the "4 Life" hand gesture. Though he rarely does it, he is already more proficient at copying Hall/Nash tag lines than Hogan himself.
- Konnan is wearing the exact same aqua boxers he has worn for weeks. He is also wearing a N.C. State Wolf Pack hat. He looks exactly as he did when we saw him after a house show last week at the Hyatt Regency. For a picture, check out Stephen's Goldberg page.
- Nash is wearing a beret and hogging the microphone.
- Nash is from Detroit, though no mention is made of this fact.
- Nash then challenges DDP to make up his mind as to his affiliation. He notes that Page talked him out of quitting wrestling about five years ago.
- Nash claims that almost unanimously, "We got a home for you in the Wolf Pack, brother." The only member who objected was obviously Randy Savage.
- Nash reviews Page's history rejecting the nWo White and black and says, "in retrospect, looking back, you made the right decision."
- This demonstrates Nash's knowledge of the wrestling fans...he quickly assessed that they would have no clue what the word "retrospect" meant.
- Nash refers to the Wolf Pack as the Dream Team. This could be another reference to Malone as he was a member of the first and best Dream Team. Okay, it probably doesn't.
- Nash was interrupted by Hogan's second appearance of the night as he got on the microphone from a "luxury box."
- Rodman, Bischoff and Bret Hart were with him.
- Hogan allowed Rodman to start the pyros and cut the light off in the building to assert his power over the situation.
- Unfortunately, this would not be the last of Hogan on this evening.
- J.J. Dillon being looked to as a savior demonstrated that this would not be the night for the Wolf Pack to howl.
- Why does Konnan go to Dillon? He is supposedly working for a rival organization. That's funny. I assumed WCW's booking to have some logic in it. I should know better.
- The only noteworthy incident was Dillon casually referring to Konnan as "K-Dawg" which for some reason just did not seem kosher.
- Scott Dickinson is your referee.
- Yuji sported a new white robe with Japanese letters on the back. If anybody knows the meaning, e-mail Chan.
- Flynn did have some offense. He hit a sloppy DDT at the 2:24 point.
- At the 4:44 point he hit a solid kick and followed with a submission Tenay referred to as a "Cross armbreaker" although Nagata quickly reached the ropes.
- Nagata turned the tide and won less than 30 seconds later with the Nagatalock.
- Where Gene Okerlund was I do not know. It is amazing that on a record-setting night for interviews, Okerlund was absent. It was odd not hearing a plug about the WCW hotline.
- Jericho was wearing a Monday Jericho shirt.
- For all the Jericholics out there, he wore his watch on his left wrist, implying that he is right-handed. A really true Jerichoholic would have known that from the one-armed match your paragon of virtue fought aginst Nick Patrick.
- He brought with him a registered letter from Ted Turner which he read to Schiavone.
- Before reading he did the "beep beep beep" sound of a news flash coming across the screen.
- The letter said that Turner vacationed in Jericho's native Canada, was a fan of his NHL-playing father and that his wife Jane Fonda sent her regards.
- Jericho even stopped at one point and said, "This is where it gets good."
- Though the majority of the letter was complimentary, Turner concluded "However your incessant whining and complaining has sickened me..." and he eventually sided with WCW to keep Dean Malenko as cruiserweight champion.
- As the segment concluded Jericho whined screaming, What about Jane?"
- This was a good segment, but Jericho's worst in recent memory. It was, of course, still far and away the best of the show, which is not saying a whole lot. It would be like being the best player on the 1962 Mets.
- As Hammer and Juvi came to the ring, Hammer said, "That's one angry Mexican." Insert your own joke there.
- Mark Curtis is the referee.
- What does Juvi spit out of his mouth at the beginning of every match. If anybody knows, e-mail Chan.
- Larry Zbyszko alluded to Hammer's impeccably poor workrate in a dialogue with Mike Tenay.
- Zbyszko: "Is Hammer a luchador now?"
- Tenay: "The luchadors have adopted him for this match.
- Zbyszko (sarcastically): "He can keep up with them"
- Zbyszko completely buried Guerrera in the commentary saying at different points in the match "He caught Reese sleeping but doesn't have the size to do anything" and "I don't care how big his heart is, he can only do so much."
- This poor booking is almost identical to the WWF's use of TAKA Michinoku. They also paired him with a big man nobody cares about (Justin Bradshaw) accentuating his lack of height. Also, they set him up in a program with wrestlers nobody cares about (Kainentai). If Juvi/Hammer can't take Horace/Reese, how can anyone take them seriously against Raven/Saturn if the feud progresses that far?
- For the record, only "Juice," as opposed to "Juvi Juice" was written on Guerrera's tights for this match.
- Guerrera worked the majority of the match for his team before giving Hammer the hot tag at the 7:02 point.
- All four men became involved until the aforementioned ending.
- This was a match of necklaces as Horace, Hammer and Lodi all wore them. Boulder never even took off his ring vest.
- Lodi signs were:
- "Raven Rules"
- "Juvy: The Next Spice Girl"
- "J. Boy & Billy Need Lodi on the Nig Show."
- "What is AFX?" Good question. If anybody knows, e-mail Chan.
- Bret Hart was there, but out of camera view during most of the segment. I have a feeling that was by choice.
- Hogan referred to Nash as "skinny legs" to which the entire crowd burst out laughing. I hope they were drunk and not just naturally that idiotic.
- Rodman accidentally got cigar ashes on one girl's leg and rubbed them off. The girl responded "higher, higher" as he was rubbing and he eventually he kissed her breasts.
- Hogan told Rodman, "Thanks for bringing the talent" in reference to the women.
- Hogan then concluded, "There are some things worth missing practice for!" That comment almost saved this segment.
- Give Hogan almost an entire three hours on camera and even he might say something witty. Although, admittedly I'm still a tad surprised.
- Why does Dillon always knead his hands together. Is this normal? If anybody else does this either:
- a. E-mail Chan.
- b. Seek professional help.
- Eddie claimed, "Looks like I'm gonna have Sunday off."
- This may be in reference to Chavo Guerrero Jr., Eddie's opponent for Sunday, having a match with Bill Goldberg later on the card.
- Mickey Jay was the referee.
- Schiavone labeled Putski a "good looking young man with a powerful physique." This culminated with his constant references to Nash as "Big Sexy" make you wonder...
- Putski appeared to be wearing batting gloves and Easton wrist bands. If anyone knows what this was, e-mail Chan.
- Putski could clear be heard saying, "You suck! You suck!" to Eddie as the match began.
- Nobody said Scott was original, after all he's currently with Missy Hyatt and who in the wrestling business hasn't done that previously? On a professional level, of course...
- At the 3:49 there was nice sequence as Putski attempted a gorilla press slam, Guerrera countered witha a sleeperhold which Guerrero flipped out of before nailing a dropkick to Putski's face.
- When are WCW wrestlers going to realize that unless you wear a kilt, the sleeper is ineffective?
- Probably the same time WWF wrestlers realize to run from Kane when the lights go off...
- Chavo Guerrero Jr. soon ran in and for the second time in as many weeks caused a disqualification without ever actually touching anyone.
- After the match, Chavo sucker-punched Putski.
- Chavo walked up the aisle pointing to his shirt and claiming, "Don't hate me Eddie. I need you!"
- We have a sneaky suspicion this was taped as Konnan wore the same outfit later in the show that he wore in its opening segment, yet here he dressed differently.
- Nash referred to Hogan's entourage as "15 skeezers sharing one bottle of Dom."
- In regards to Hogan's comments about Nash's legs: "You've been checking me out awful hard, talking' bout my skinny legs."
- In regards to Hogan wanting money from him: "We've got it in a Swiss bank account down there!"
- In regards to Rodman's association with Hogan: "Hey, Rodman, why you hanging out with white boys 'r' us?"
- Nash wore shades during this segment and we have a sneaking suspicion that Rodman was not the only one at this show who was not completely sober.
- Hogan should quit matching wits with Nash because it only more clearly demonstrates how poor he is on the microphone and he can hardly compensate in the ring.
- Bischoff claimed, "I was born not far from here, not that long ago!"
- He told Giant, "I know you haven't eaten anything in four days so you'll have one hell of an appetite..."
- Sorry, I wanted to see if that comment was as idiotic on paper as it was in words. It was.
- Giant then claimed to be 510 pounds and said his size advantage would be too much for Sting on Sunday. Just think if he had eaten recently...
- Somebody please teach Bischoff how to properly wear a hat backwards.
- Not even the beautiful women with the group could come close to saving this segment. By the way, if anybody knows who these women were, e-mail Chan.
- Hennig and Rude analyzed Bill Goldberg in their portion of this interview. Rude, referred to Goldberg as "a human steamroller."
- Rude has gotten a bad George Clooney haircut and is growing out his beard again.
- Konnan was then interviewed and did his "Arriba La Raza" schtick. What is it he says prior to that line? If anybody knows, e-mail Chan.
- This portion only made it more obvious that Hennig/Rude simply due not mesh with the Wolf Pack as they play heels while the rest of the group are babyfaces.
- Booker proclaimed, "I'm ready! I'm gonna knock you out sucka!"
- One of the stars of "I'm gonna get you sucka," Keenan Ivory Wayans turned 40 today. That had nothing to do with much of anything but it was still more interesting than most of Hogan's interviews on this show.
- Signs: "Benoit Wins in 7" and "Give Benoit The Belt."
- Billy Silverman refereed this bout.
- Silverman has the best initials of any WCW official.
- For some reason in this match, Bobby Heenan asked Schiavone, "Did you ever wrestle in college?...You were a male cheerleader." Bobby was on tonight. Bobby would later comment about someone "He has more video equipment than Bob Crane".
- At the 8:01 point, Benoit hit his flying head butt.
- At the 8:23 point Stevie Ray came to ringside wearing sunglasses and dressed in all white yelling, "You gotta fight this guy!" With those inspiring words how could Booker lose?
- Stevie also was wearing his watch on his left hand, indicating right-handedness. If anybody cared about that, e-mail Chan.
- At the 9:30 point, Benoit scored a two-count via German suplex. He did not attempt his combination of three in this match.
- Booker retaliated hitting a spin-wheel kick at the 9:51 point and a sidewalk slam 24 seconds later. Stevie Ray could be heard saying, "Now you're cooking!" With great advice like this it makes you wonder why Harlem Heat always had a manager...
- Heenan: "There's so many different things in this match you didn't see in the last five." True, including the finish.
- Booker won the match as Benoit missed a move in the corner and Benoit responded with a spinning sunset flip roll-up which was a nice finish to the longest match of the evening.
- Benoit kicked Benoit after the match was over and Booker sold an injured leg. Benoit also spit on him.
- Stevie Ray made the save after a quick beating.
- His rebuttal: "Nice party room." Hogan's had the nWo logo draped in the background which I suppose made him feel superior.
- He saw said, "K-Dawg, don't be dropping no bar of soap." In addition to being the double negative, Hogan merely copied Nash's homosexual innuendo showing once again how hopeless Hogan is in a battle of wits as he simply copies Nash.
- As to why the women were no longer present: "What Hollywood giveth, Hollywood taketh away."
- Hogan then brought out Elizabeth, kissed her and "took her away" from Savage. If you will remember, she was gift for Savage's joining the nWo.
- To his credit, Hart seemed completely disinterested in the entire angle. We don't blame him. Elizabeth has been passed around from every wrestler in the company and Hogan has even alluded to that in past interviews.
- Hogan's stealing of Elizabeth shows once again that the only way his nWo can do anything even remotely interesting is by copying something that the Four Horsemen originated.
- Since Piper brought the subject up recently, Hitman once again did not wear an nWo shirt. He did however wear the latest Hogan shirt.
- Hart's jump to WCW is second only to Davey Boy Smith's as the worst career move in the history of wrestling.
- As the segment closed, Schiavone said, "Can you believe what we've just seen?"
- Is he the most nauseating man on the planet?
- If you can think of anyone worse, e-mail Chan.
- The nWo theme played in the arena as they cut to commercial despite not having actually appeared in the arena.
- Prior to the match they showed a sign: "JYD RIP, We will miss you!" We belive that is DDT Digest reader BFPisBuff who informed Charlie he would bring that sign.
- Charles Robinson is the referee.
- Smiley flexed his pecs a la Lex on the way to the ring.
- That was probably a bad move as it reminded viewers that they were watching him and not somebody else.
- For those whose have never seen Smiley, he has a muscular African-American jobber who has appeared on WCW's weekend programming.
- He's like Vincent with hair.
- Vincent was conspicuously absent, in Smiley's lone Nitro appearance. Coincidence? I think not.
- Smiley is also an independent wrestler from the Florida area. If anyone knows any other information regarding him, e-mail Chan.
- As Finley walked to the ring, Heenan said, "He's fit for any fight. That's Fit Finley." You could almost feel the sarcasm ooze from the television.
- Smiley has pink trunks with "Magic" written on the behind. Nobody wears trunks anymore. Heenan and Schiavone had an entertaining dialogue on the subject of Smiley's message:
- Heenan: "He got those trunks from Magic Johnson."
- Schaivone: "No he didn't."
- Heenan: "You think he got them from Houdini?"
- Schiavone: "Next time write me a note!"
- Heenan: "I'll write one right now."
- Schiavone: "How dare you write that!"
- Later, Heenan commented that Smiley "landed on his magic."
- With the quality of tonight's program, the fans are more interested in starting the wave.
- On this subject, Heenan claimed, "See all those people standing up, I installed electric shocks in those seats at noon..."
- Admittedly WCW announcers rarely talk about the match in progress, but when they revert to calling the action in the stands over the action in the ring, that says something.
- Finley toyed with Smiley before winning with a Tombstone Piledriver
- After the match, Heenan told Smiley, "Good night Norm. Pull a rabbit out of your hat, Magic! Nothing at all can help you now!"
- It is ironic that Heenan would refer to pulling a rabbit out of his Magic as that was on his butt and that's pretty much where WCW pulled this match from.
- Why was Heenan so focused on Smiley's butt anyway? For a new idea, if anyone knows e-mail Chan.
- No, not WWF trainee Darren Drosdov, just vomit. Drosdov would be better just watching him vomit on Kevin Kelly...
- As long as Tony doesn't dance coming out to the Wolfpack rap tune...
- Heenan regarding Sting's new face paint: "With that red and black, he looks a little bit like a junebug."
- Actually the red face culminated with the black tights make Sting look even more fruity than he did before. If he would just lose the tights...
- Nah. That red face paint just doesn't work.
- If that is face paint... Maybe he is just embarrassed about the tights. You decide for yourself.
- Note to WCW cameramen: Avoid shots of Tony's gut. Have you noticed how all wrestling announcers are short and fat to make the wrestlers look that much better.
- Wow, Tony is really fat.
- Sting lets out a very weak "Owwwwww" He told Schiavone, "That is what you call an official Wolf Pack howl."
- "Giant, don't let your mouth override your big fat a...., booty." He tried to stop but was too late.
- He referred to first Great American Bash when he was blonde and a "kind of a brat. But still as a brat, I was beating up big guys just like you".
- Going back to his old interview style, he was very cocky, yet over with the crowd.
- He commented that the Giant was "looking a little bit out of shape."
- Maybe that's the real reason why the Giant hadn't eaten in four days.
- You heard it hear first. After all, who would know better than Sting why "The Real Reason Men Commit Crimes."
- If anybody has seen Stinger's new movie and would like to comment on it, e- mail Chan.
- Sting finishes the segment by repeatedly doing thigh chops and telling Tony "It's nice to be able to talk again"..
- His old personality just doesn't fit his new image.
- Heenan to Tenay: "Everybody's fighting everybody. I think you and I should jump Schiavone." We second and third the motion.
- Heenan on Piper's bagpipe music: "Oh yeah, get down with that music." After hearing the rap Wolfpack theme, Heenan gets down to that?
- If anyone has any info on the group that performs the nWo theme, e-mail Chan.
- Among Schiavone's opening statements: "And then you have agreed to get it on one-on-one (with Savage) after it's all over with."
- Well I figured Savage would take losing Elizabeth hard but this is ridiculous.
- Piper had to get himself over by saying that Detroit was "the home of the Stanley Cup," "I'm gonna put more move on them than Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions football player 1989-present" and "They're gonna think they've been playing hockey with the Detroit Red Wings." Piper draws more cheap heat than anybody in the business.
- The fans totally ignore this segment (I don't blame them) as they chant, "Let's go Red Wings"
- Piper: "Tell me Rodman, have you been getting any male lately?"
- Piper rags on Savage and Savage makes his way to the ring
- Tony is trying to act like he's scared, covering his mouth but we think he's really yawning. We don't blame him one bit.
- Piper says that he will tag with Savage to face Hogan and Hart, but afterwards Savage's ass belongs to Piper. Uhhhh, no.
- Savage wants to do it tonight........Hogan interrupts. That's five appearances for those of you scoring at home.
- This is the point where Charlie, who was too sick to write this report in the first place, ask me to shoot him.
- Are we watching "The Golden Girls?" All four of the guys involved in this angle wrestled for the WWF at the time of the first WrestleMania 13 years ago. Enough said.
- Bischoff lays a big kiss on Liz. Lucky guy, but as you all know..."a peach is a peach, a plum is a plum, a kiss ain't a kiss without some tongue, so open your mouth and close your eyes and give your tongue some exercise."
- Savage claims to be over Liz, but not over Piper, leading to a suckerpunch. Piper gets up and nails Savage. Cameras alternate to see Hogan laughing.
- During this segment, Piper said, "You @$$ is mine!" and Savage said "damn." They start losing in the ratings and Turner' sethical code goes out the window. As noted previously Sting also used profanity.
- I have no problem, with WCW showing footage of Jericho, but they cut the portion of Monday's show where he spoke to the homeless person about his predicament which was the highlight of the segment.
- Jericholics remember that due to Chapter 11, Section 5, Colossal 8 of the 1934 NWA rulebook, Jericho is still our cruiserwight champion!
- Tommy Rich also quoted from a similar non-existant rulebook within the past three years. If anyone remembers this interview or when it was or what promotion it was given in, e-mail Chan.
- I'm not even describing Disco's attire tonight...
- Regarding his new tights, Heenan said: "It's obvious to me that some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain."
- Charles Robinson is the referee
- Malenko has a continuous advantage from the start
- Disco takes a slight advantage and has gone back to his dancing routine
- Malenko applies a Texas Cloverleaf to a very hesitant Disco Inferno for the win
- Malenko screams, "Jericho, right here" into the camera. Heenan replied, "That's the most emotion I have ever seen from Dean Malenko". Sad, but true.
- The women repeatedly laughed at everything Hogan said throughout the night. This is the old case of laughing at him, not with him.
- Video clip of Hogan, Scott Steiner, and Carl Weathers (aka Apollo Creed from the Rocky series). Hogan professes to be promoting Scott's acting career.
- Weathers is now making his third movie with Hogan (Rocky III, Assault on Devil's Island and its sequel). So that's why his career went downhill...
- He compliments Scott. He must not have seen the infamous "Steiners of Hazzard" video...
- Scott Steiner joins Hogan and the vixens in a pointless segment. We'll count this as #7 since he came back from video.
- Hogan said that when viewing Steiner's acting ability, "I thought of Clark Gable. I thought of Carey Grant. I thought of me." Yep, all four of them will never make a good movie again.
- No, Scotty did not play Tommy Gunn in Rocky V, that was Tommy Morrison although they do have similar appearances and habits ...
- Heenan sums it up with: "They're having more fun than us three..."
- Chavo, like Elmer Fudd, "Be very quiet. I'm hunting Goldberg."
- Sign: "Kervorkian can't stop Goldberg"
- We are going to laugh if the time comes when Goldberg catches on fire standing amidst the pyros.
- On a positive note tonight, there was a major babe spotted at ringside. I love this cameraman
- Nick Patrick is the referee
- Spear, Jackhammer, squash.........99-0
- Eddie is at ringside cheering on Goldberg.
- Man, K-Dawg can dance
- Nash and the Pack invite DDP to join them. What most fans don't know is that DDP joined at a house show on Sunday, similar to Sting joining at the Tuesday house show in Memphis before officially joining on Thursday Thunder.
- DDP comes out in, arrgh, nut-huggin' redneck jeans
- DDP stops before making his way to the ring to be joined by Tony
- DDP acts like the "talent" that Nash has brought into the Wolfpack has given him chills. He says that he can't believe he is about to do this.....
- Hogan and Rodman attack DDP with 7 chairshots in this order: Rodman-Hogan-Hogan-Rodman-Hogan-Rodman-Hogan.
- Hogan is so egotistical, he actually had to get in more chairshots than Rodman.
- Sting is the first to arrive to DDP's aid. It took him long enough.
- Page obviously says "Oh Shit" as several of the shots given by Rodman appeared to be legit.