WCW Saturday Night - Saturday, 01/16/99
WCW Saturday Night - Saturday, 01/16/99
- Welcome to Saturday Night! Tonight's main event is Bobby Eaton and Kaos
vs. Bobby Duncum, Jr. and Mike Enos in a non-tournament match.
- A couple of quick notes from last week: Jason wrote in to mention that
Blaze's move was actually a Northern Lights suplex, and Dave W. from
Lynchburg, VA wrote in to point out Sullivan and Dinsmore's music was the same
as Chris Jericho's old music, available at Jericho's web site.
- Barry Horowitz vs. Wrath
- Wrath shoves Horowitz down a couple of times to begin.
- Horowitz responds with uppercuts against the cables.
- Wrath sends Horowitz down with a shoulderblock.
- Wrath delivers several knees and chops.
- Horowitz rolls up Wrath for two.
- Horowitz continues with a jawbreaker and elbow.
- Wrath flattens Horowitz with a lariat.
- Wrath delivers more knees and elbows.
- Horowitz lands another jawbreaker.
- Wrath recovers and executes the Death Penalty.
- Wrath follows with Meltdown for the win.
- Scott and Mike ramble.
- Dave Sierra vs. Chad Fortune
- Sierra begins with a hip toss.
- Fortune counters with his own hip toss.
- Fortune begins to control, and Sierra retreats outside.
- Back in, Fortune applies a wristlock.
- Sierra breaks the hold and delivers a few shots.
- Fortune elbows Sierra, then backdrops him.
- Coming off the turnbuckles, Fortune executes a single leg sweep.
- Fortune pins Sierra for the win.
- Flair promo
- Nitro highlights
- Hotline plug
- More Nitro highlights
- Mike Tolbert vs. Meng
- As soon as Meng enters, Tolbert blasts him with forearms.
- Meng begins to no-sells Tolbert's attack.
- Meng lands a few chops.
- Meng executes the Kick of Fear.
- Meng applies the Tongan Death Grip for another quick squash.
- Gene chats with Konnan, who talks about his contest with Lex at Souled Out.
- Another dose of Nitro highlights
- Jeff Warner vs. Disco Inferno
- Warner starts off with a face slam.
- Warner delivers elbows and a shoulderblock.
- Disco counters with a hip toss.
- Disco lands kicks to the face and an axehandle from the middle turnbuckle.
- Warner lands a hip toss to regain control.
- Warner executes a clothesline and vertical suplex.
- Warner chokes Disco, then lands a full slam.
- Disco lands a sunset flip for two.
- Disco executes a swinging neckbreaker.
- Out of nowhere, Warner lands a powerslam.
- Warner misses a dropkick.
- Disco takes advantage by landing a Chartbuster for the win.
- Hogan and Nash segment re-airs
- Another set of Nitro highlights
- Goldberg's interview re-airs.
- Chris Adams vs. Chip Minton
- Adams comes out in a judo outfit.
- Highlights air of Chip Minton's upset of Adams on the 12/5/98 WCWSN. Afterwards, Adams asks, "What is happening to me?" Thus, wrestling logic says wearing a judo outfit will fix everything. It's another WCWSN-exclusive angle!
- Minton begins with a few shots.
- Adams counters with a quick takedown.
- Minton gets up, and Adams sends him back down with a leg takedown.
- Adams lands a shoulderblock.
- Minton lands a hip toss and suplex.
- Minton lands two leg drops.
- Minton misses a dropkick.
- Adams lands a lariat, then executes a powerbomb.
- Adams superkicks Minton.
- Adams applies a headscissors-type submission hold for the win.
- Gene chats with Scott Hall, who talks about Goldberg and threatens Gene a couple of times with the cattle prod.
- The entire Bischoff/Flair segment from Nitro re-airs.
- More Nitro highlights. The new formula seems to be less wrestling, more highlights.
- Gene has news on HBK on the hotline.
- Scotty Riggs vs. Scott Putski
- Riggs is without his eye patch for the first time in over a year.
- The two trade chops to begin.
- Putski lands a lariat and bodyslam.
- Putski continues with an elbow and a backdrop.
- Riggs clips Putski's legs.
- Riggs draps a leg across the apron and slams it down.
- Riggs continues to concentrate on the leg.
- Riggs applies a half-crab.
- Putski gets up and lands a belly-to-back.
- Putski lands several forearms.
- Putski blocks a suplex attempt, then lands a front suplex.
- Out of nowhere, Riggs lands a flying forearm and gets the pin.
- Scott and Mike say that the nWo has been protesting the WCW Tag Tournament, so this main event will not be a tag tournament match as promised on Thunder.
- Bobby Eaton and Kenny Kaos vs. Bobby Duncum, Jr. and Mike Enos
- Tenay has a "big annoucement." He announces the four-way cruiserweight matchup, which was actually mentioned by Gene earlier in the show.
- Duncum is a heel tonight.
- Bobby Eaton starts off on Enos.
- Eaton lands a hip toss.
- Enos fights back, then tags Duncum.
- Duncum lands a shoulderblock.
- Duncum follows with elbows.
- Bobby lands a neckbreaker.
- Eaton tags Kaos.
- Duncum slams Kaos.
- From the apron, Enos chokes Kaos with Duncum's rope.
- Enos is tagged in, then slams Kaos.
- Kaos lands a lariat and slams Enos.
- Kaos tags Eaton, who delivers an elbow.
- Eaton tags Kaos.
- Enos slams Kaos, then tags Duncum.
- Duncum lands a lariat.
- Rage is at ringside, watching the match.
- Duncum lands a leg drop for the win at 4:06.
- Gene makes one last pitch as we go.
- The following matches were found on Ultimo Wrestling as part of the results on the Gainesville, FL, TV taping where this week's show and last week's show were taped but were not broadcast. There were a number of matches that were broadcast that had one of the combatants named incorrectly, so take these results with a grain of salt. Plus, for those of you keeping track, some of these matches may eventually be broadcast on WCWSN or, more likely, Worldwide.
- Brian Adams and Vincent defeated Border Patrol.
- Jerry Flynn defeated Lenny Lane.
- Horace defeated Prince Iaukea.
- Kendell Windham defeated Mike Sullivan.
- Juventud Guerrera and Psychosis vs. Kidman and Rey Mysterio, Jr. resulted in a No-Contest, after Mysterio and Kidman began to fight each other.
- Konnan defeated Johnny Swinger.
- Villano V defeated Saturn, with help from Chris Jericho.
- MAIN EVENT DARK MATCH: Lex Luger pinned The Giant (in street clothes) when Giant just laid down, and took the pin. Both laughed the entire time, and crowd wasn't pleased, as they threw bottles into the ring.