WCW Worldwide - Saturday, June 20^th, 1998

By The Cubs Fan

• Warning: This week's show really sucked. No, I'm serious. This week's show was one of those you try to block out of your mind. Proceed with EXTREME caution.
• You know, I don't get this big fuss about Goldberg's 100 match "really" being on Tuesday of last week because of the tapings, but WCW holding off counting 100 till the PPV. There's a reason while this is all immaterial...WCW has been working the count all along. As Todd S. pointed out several weeks ago in a letter to this column weeks ago, they were already slowing down the count, by not counting all the house matches. The 100^th win was probably weeks ago...
• Mailbox (yea, I got mail this week...YEAH!)
  • Robert Ashe wrote

    I was at the worldwide taping for that last match, with Van Hammer and Mike whatever. They actually had to retape it, it sucked so bad, I dont know how it turned out on TV, but both matches sucked.

    I shudder to think of the unshown match...

  • Spike D. Punch

    Hey, I read Hyatte too. :)

    I just wanted to point out that someone caught the refernce :)

• A littile complaining...Chicago Cub Sammy Sosa has broke the ML record for most HRs in a month. Yet, because of the lack of press Sosa's got, until very recently, he's not going to start, because he doesn't have the votes. That's just wrong :(
• Oh yeah, wrestling....

• Glacier over Todd Griffin by standing side kick to the back of the head
  • Typical long entrance for Glacier.
    • You know, thinking back on it now, I really liked it when his enterance was longer than his matches. That way, I didn't have to see him as much.
  • Tony: "He swings at him with an open fist". Even Zbyszko got on him for that one.
  • Chops and kicks are all of Glacier's offense, until he sets up the side kick with a swinging neckbreaker
  • Wow. Glacier might have actually connected with the kick this time.
• Lee Marshall with Goldberg and the WCW/nWo Magazine. They talk, I ignore
• Promtional Considerations by Slim Jim, Super Soaker, AOL (SUCKS! :) and Push Pops...
• Wayne Bloom over Fidel Sierra by butterfly (double underhook) suplex
  • Hey, it's time for another round of that popular game "Learn a JTTS's finisher!"
  • During the match, I notice that Nick Patrick has his "evil" beard...this is kinda old, we must be digging the bottom of the barrel of the taped matches
  • Slooow and boring match...nothing interesting
  • Patrick and Bloom argue during the match to try to keep me interested, but it isn't enough...
  • The match seemed like it ended suddenly...I was expecting Sierra to kick out and the match to continue for a few more minutes...
• Kidman (w/Flock) over Bart Sawyer by Seven Year Itch
  • Tony: "There's no question, on a weekly basis, Nitro is the #1 wrestling program." Uh huh, Tony.
  • Zbyszko claims Kidman scratches 'cause of lice, which freaks Tony out and sidetracks him for the match.
  • Hey, Sawyer has Alex Wright's jacket!
  • Okay match, best of the night...I'd say more, but I can't read the notes I wrote for this match :(
  • I couldn't tell if Saturn was with the Flock at ringside. I think he might have, but I'm not sure. Lodi wasn't :(
• Johnny Swinger over Evan Kourageous by somersault legdrop
  • For those of you who liked Bloom/Sierra...one person must win!
  • Evan early...(like I cared)
  • Swinger starts a comeback with a stun gun...
  • Swinger hits a somersault legdrop and....a three count?!?
  • Again, it just seemed like they were starting to get comfortable and going when it ended...
• Bobby Eaton over Barry Horowitz by flying kneedrop
  • And you thought that warning was some silly joke...
  • This is a classic encounter by the JTTS legends from WCW and WWF. The world is waiting on the outcome...
  • Tony: "America is Apple Pie, Chevrolet and Pro Wrestling"
    • Tony is on a roll today!
      • Jelly roll, that is ;)
  • Um...nothing good here, I hoped for more and got little. A scoop slam sets up...a flying kneedrop?
    • Even Tony Clueless thought it was going to be an Alabama Jam when Eaton went up...
      • And shouldn't he already know the ending?
    • Maybe Eaton hasn't won in such a long time, he forget how to do his finisher.
• Bulldog over Barbarian (w/Jimmy Hart) by Running Powerslam
  • A fitting main event to this show, right?
  • DBS looks less in shape in WCW...at least to me
  • Like this show this week, this was a slow and boring match.
  • Jimmy Hart gets taken down, giving Barbarian a temporary advantage..
  • Which he promptly blows and Bulldog gives Barbarian the...
  • What the heck did Tony just say?!?!
  • Oh, now it makes sense. Tony called the running powerslam a "running Oklahoma Stampede" because, as we all know, DBS has strong roots in Oklahoma.
  • AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! The stupidity is hurting my head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Luckily for my head, on next week will be Ultimo Dragon (COOL!), Booker T (COOL!), Psychosis (COOL!) and Prince Iaukea (Better than anyone on the show this week)

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