WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 12/26/98

By The Cubs Fan

• Running really late this week, so let's do this real quick...
• In the mail
  • Chocobo adds to the Clothesline vs Lariat:

    I'm not an expert on the subject, but I always understood that a clothesline is where the wrestler holds him arm out the whole time, and a lariat is where the arm is brought from the back and swung forward,
    like a punch that hits with the arm instead of the fist. Like, Lex Luger and Jim Duggan used clotheslines... Rocky Maivia always does a lariat. I could be wrong, of course...

  • And now, for something completely different. From someone calling himself Spike D. Punch (and probably for good reason):

    Re: Doc Dean's Heel Click

    Please forgive my attempt to salvage something of this topic. It is Christmas night, and I've never been this wasted in my entire life. I had something to say, but it got lost, somewhere. I think.

• While writing this header up, I just saw Steve Austin on TV. He's guest starring on the new V.I.P. show, the one with Pamela Lee. He was on the show for about 5 minutes, being protected by the bodyguards on the show from kidnappers. He showed one of them how to do a piledriver, which she used in the following fight scence. Funny thing was...when was the last time he actually pulled one of them off in a match?

  And another thing. Pamela's character is a rich, surgically enhanced, ditz. Always a good idea to play to your strenghts, I say.

• Ok, on with the program

• Oh no, the set's been taken over by Holiday decorations.
  • Tony's wearing a Santa hat. Well, he's got the belly too, but...
  • Larry's acting anti-Christmas spirit. Good for him.
• Of course, the topic of the moment : Flair's "Heart Attack"
  • He will be at Starrcade, according to Tony
  • Tony promises an update on Flair's condition
  • Larry's talking it up like he just fainted from exertion.
  • Back to 12/14 Nitro, and the Eric/Ric non-confrontation
    • No way you send out Eric if Ric's really hurt. You send out a babyface, Benoit, Malenko, Mongo, Tony, somebody who's a face and with the Horseman. You don't send out his archrival.
  • "Ric didn't suffer an actual heart attack, as orginally thought"
  • "Some people are saying that he suffered a panic attack and just passed out"
  • "Flair is at 100% and will wrestle at Starrcade"
• Gene with Ernest Miller
  • Gene says Tony made off good at Christmas.
  • Oh no, God help me, not him.
  • Well, better clothes then he was wearing on Nitro and Thunder.
  • Miller says Gene talks too much and accuses Gene of being Saturn's father
• Goldberg vs Nash
  • Tony "No one can stop Goldberg...can Kevin Nash do it?"
  • Highlights of the triangle match II, the Worldwide Match of the week, from the 12/14 Nitro
  • We start in with Goldberg and Nash fighting, and Bam Bam on the ground.
  • Larry "Most anticpated match of this century"
    • Most anticipated match of this year, maybe.
• Starrcade lineup
  • Now Tony says "If Flair is ready to wrestle, he'll take on Eric Bischoff"
  • We go to Thunder 12/17, and watch Ric's wife and sons enter, then get beat up.
• Goldberg/Nash Promo
• Closed Captioning is sponsored by the Club. Apparently, they didn't pay enough, because there is none.
• Tony and Larry talk about the decorations some more, pointing out that they both have nothing in their stockings.
• Then they talk about Starrcade some
  • Larry's hoping that Ric breaks Eric's legs. I'd enjoy that.
  • Gene runs down the rest of the lineup
    • Saturn vs The Cat
    • Chirs Jericho vs Konnan
    • Kidman vs Juventued Guerrera vs Rey Mysterio Jr.
    • The Giant vs DDP
    • Ric Flair vs Eric Bischoff
    • Kevin Nash vs Goldberg
• This has to do with nothing, but like that's new...
  • These Phillip Morris Anti-Smoking ads are bugging the heck out of me. I mean, they're saying there's nothing wrong with not smoking...but they never say that smoking is bad for you, it's just a lifestyle choice. They don't want to hurt thier business, but they'll let people get lung cancer, because it's just a lifestyle choice.
  • End Rant.
• Back to wrestling, Mene Gene interviews the Giant
  • Giant thinks DDP is a gambler, and he's taken one heck of a risk.
  • Giant think this is going be an easy payday. Make your own WWF joke.
  • He doesn't do the Chokeslam roar. He talks like a normal person. This is not the same Giant I know.
• Tony and Larry decide to talk about DDP vs Giant, setting up...
• Jim Powers vs Hugh Morrus (w/Jimmy Hart)
  • Err, I was sort of expecting the clip from Nitro
  • MORRUS is still here? With Hart? I haven't seen him in forever. Wasn't he involved in that whole Barbarian/Meng/Duggan thing around Road Wild?
  • As usual, Rocky King is the ref
  • Lockup, Powers with a headlock., bounces off the ropes, Morrus takes him down with a shoulderblock
  • Morrus with a punch. King warns him about closed fists and Morrus fakes to punch King.
  • Morrus with forearms to the back and a rope choke.
  • Morrus whips Powers, Power slide under Morrus, and gives him 3 kicks to the midesciton
  • Powers whips, reveresd, Powers with a crossbody for 2
  • Powers whips, Morrus with a kick to the head and a clothesline 2
  • Reverse chinlock by Morrus. Powers elbows out eventually.
  • Powers off the ropes, Morrus with a knee to midsection, revese chinlock
  • Jimmy Hart hasn't been mentioned much by Lee/Mike much. Probably just because they spent all the time talking about Starracde, but with Hogan gone, who knows...
  • Powers elbows out, whips Morrus, but gets revesed into the corner.
  • Powers with an elbow when Morrus charges in. Morrus tries again, and gets kicked in the head.
  • Powers smashes Morrus's face into tuunbuckle 10 tmes, goes across the ring and gives him one more.
  • Powers with a clothesline, whip, dropkick, 2
  • Powers with a chop and whips Morrus into corner
  • Morrus reverses, and runs off the ropes to give Powers a bulldog when he boucnes out of the corner.
  • Morrus goes up top and hits the No Laughing Matter on to Powers's legs. Close enough, 3 count.
  • Your Winner: Hugh Morrus
• Starla Saxton vs Malia Hosaka
  • What the heck, again?
  • Gee, I have NO idea how this one turns out.
    • If you haven't caught on yet, Malia and Starla have fought in every single woman's match in WCW this year. And every time, Malia wins and Starla loses. And they all have no point, since the title hasn't been defended in WCW at all. Check back on the 9/19 Worldwide if you don't believe me.
    • Oh well. They at least give good matches.
  • Hosaka is a former WCW Women's World Champion.
  • Starla was last seen jobbing in the WWF, to Jackie while she was still Women's champ, I think.
  • Lockup, whip, they swap mat reversals till Hosaka uses a Greco-Roman hair pull, kick
  • Hosaka whips, Starla with a sunset backslide for 2
  • Starla with an armbar, but Hosaka's feet clamp onto the ropes
  • Starla with a what looks like a hammerlock. Lee/Mike are talking more about DDP/Giant than the match, of course.
  • Hosaka with an eye gouge to escape, and another, just because she could
  • Hosaka with a whip, and a spinwheel kick for 2
  • Hosaka sits on Starla's throat with one knee and argues the last count with Charles Robinson.
  • Hosaka with a whip and a flying clothelsine
  • Tenay mentiones that while Hosaka has been wrestling for a few years, this is Strala's first year. Didn't know that, but Starla does look a little green at parts, and that makes as much sense as any.
  • Hosaka chokes Starla, then steps out her throat with a boot and argues that two count some more.
  • Hosaka with a kick to the inside of Starla's leg, then drops both legs Starla's midsection. And does it again.
  • Hosaka with another knee choke, lets Starla up and hits some throat chops.
  • Hosaka whips, but Starla takes her down with a flying headcissors
  • Hosaka off the ropes, and badly misses a crossbody block on Starla. From Starla's reaction, I don't think that's the way the spot was supposed to happen.
  • Starla with a gutwrench suplex, 2 count.
  • Starla with a vertical suplex, but Hosaka drops behind and hits an inverted DDT for 2.
  • Hosaka whips Starla, hits a kick and 'rana.
  • Hosaka with an arrogant cover for 2.
  • Hosaka with another cover with more weight on Starla, but Starla bridges out at 2.
  • Starla with a forward roll, 3 count!
  • Your Winner: Starla Saxton
  • I can't believe it, Starla can't believe it, and Hosaka sure as heck can't believe it.
  • You know, that's got to be her first win in the Big 2...that's a nice Christmas gift to be seeing it on TV.
• Tony and Larry wrap it up, with a little more Starracade talk
  • "Ric Flair will wrestle..."
• Next week, Tony talks about a recap that vaguely sounds like a Year In Review program. Yipee.

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