WCW Saturday Night - Saturday, 07/03/99
WCW Saturday Night - Saturday, 07/03/99
- Welcome to Saturday Night! Tonight's main event is Psychosis vs. Eddy Guerrero.
- Scott, Dusty and Mike ramble to begin the show. It's nice to see Dusty as a regular host again.
- Silver King vs. "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan
- Duggan wears Silver King's cowboy hat for a bit, then bats it with his stick.
- Silver King begins with a flurry of punches.
- Duggan fights back with an elbow and a lariat.
- Duggan continues with an atomic drop.
- Silver King answers with a few kicks.
- Duggan responds with an elbow.
- Silver King attacks Duggan vicariously by nailing his flag.
- Duggan goes berserk, tossing Silver King outside and into the rails.
- Back in, Duggan slams Silver King, then lands a running lariat.
- Duggan executes the Old Glory kneedrop for the win.
- Gene plugs the hotline.
- Adrian Byrd vs. Kidman
- Byrd begins with a series of punches, but Kidman flattens him with a dropkick.
- Kidman continues with a boot.
- Byrd lands a powerslam, but the entire crowd is distracted by something going on in the stands.
- Kidman lands a sunset flip.
- Byrd controls with a lariat, suplex, and shoulderblock.
- Kidman fights back with some right hands.
- Byrd misses a splash, allowing Kidman to land a bulldog.
- Kidman reverses Byrd's powerbomb attempt into a face slam.
- Kidman lands the Shooting Star Press for the win.
- Gene covers live dates.
- Ciclope vs. Fit Finlay
- Ciclope lands a boot, but Finlay quickly answers with a shoulderblock.
- Finlay continues with a lariat, but Ciclope responds with a boot.
- Ciclope lands a dive to the outside.
- Back in, Ciclope executes a missile dropkick from the top.
- Finlay fights back with a roll-through slam and a toss outside.
- Finlay sends Ciclope into the apron.
- Ref Nick Patrick prevents Finlay from going for a chairshot.
- Back in, Finlay controls with a lariat, a hotshot, and a slam.
- Ciclope misses a splash attempt.
- Finlay takes advantage by landing the Tombstone for the win.
- Barry Darsow vs. Brian Knobbs (w/ Jimmy Hart)
- Knobbs begins with an axehandle and some right hands.
- Knobbs continues with elbows and a leg drop.
- Darsow responds with an elbow and a slam.
- Barry lands a lariat but misses a splash.
- Outside, Knobbs sends Barry into the steps.
- Hart gets in his mandatory kick, then Knobbs sends it back inside.
- Barry takes a pit stop, but recovers in time to land a boot.
- Knobbs fights back with a splash.
- Knobbs lands a basic splash from the top, but Dusty calls it "a hurricanrana!"
- Knobbs gets the three count for the win.
- Mean Gene chats with Disco Inferno about his match against the Cat. The loser may no longer dance during matches, so Disco starts singing "I'm never going to dance again" from a old Wham song.
- "Rap is Crap" video
- Evan Karagias vs. Lash LeRoux
- It appears WCW will never be consistent with the spelling of Lash's last name.
- The two spend a long time locking up.
- Lash lands a headscissors takeover.
- Evan answers with an arm drag, a dropkick, and a slam.
- Lash responds with an elbow, but Evan counters with a headscissors takeover.
- Lash lands a one-armed powerbomb.
- Dusty predicts that Hammer will beat Steiner at the next PPV.
- Lash continues with a lariat and a belly-to-belly.
- Karagias fights back with a backdrop and a dropkick.
- Karagias controls with another headscissors takeover and a powerslam.
- Evan lands a springboard crossbody.
- Evan executes a corkscrew body press from the top for the win.
- Nitro highlights
- Bobby Eaton vs. Chavo Guerrero, Jr.
- Chavo begins with armdrag and a shoulderblock.
- Dusty says Chavo is a "ti-rade generation" wrestler, whatever that is.
- Chavo continues with boots and uppercuts.
- Eaton lands a few shots, but Chavo sends it outside.
- Chavo sends Eaton into the posts, then dropkicks him.
- Back in, Eaton lands a few more shots.
- Chavo lands a Tornado DDT out of nowhere for the win.
- Gene chats with Lodi and Lenny Lane. Lane calls Lodi his "soulmate."
- Thunder highlights (yawn)
- Disorderly Conduct vs. Jerry Flynn and Hugh Morrus (w/ Jimmy Hart)
- DC is robbed of a televised entrance.
- A two-on-two brawl begins the match, with the First Family getting the upperhand.
- Flynn begins work on Tuff Tom, nailing him with kicks and a lariat.
- Tag to Morrus, who holds Tom as Flynn lands a roundhouse kick.
- Morrus lands some elbows but misses an elbow splash from the top.
- DC takes advantage by double teaming on Hugh.
- DC lands their axehandle/neckbreaker combo.
- DC follows up with an axehandle/hotshot combo.
- Tom lands a jawbreaker.
- Morrus lands a double lariat, then tags Flynn.
- Flynn lands some kicks, then whips Morrus into Mean Mike.
- Morrus lands two more corner splashes, then climbs the ropes.
- Morrus lands the No Laughing Matter for the win as Flynn puts Tom into an armbreaker.
- Hotline plug
- Villano V vs. Disco Inferno
- Disco lands some armdrags to begin.
- Disco continues with some elbows and a slam.
- Disco lands his standard axehandle.
- Villano hotshots Disco, then leg drops Disco across the ropes.
- Outside, Villano hotshots Disco across the rail.
- Villano continues with a backsplash onto the floor.
- Back in, Villano lands a slam but misses a splash.
- Disco lands an inverted atomic drop and a lariat.
- Disco continues with a neckbreaker and the Last Dance for the pin.
- Nitro highlights
- Scott Armstrong vs. the Cat (w/ Sonny Onoo)
- The Cat blesses us with some dance moves prior to the match.
- The Cat also entertains us by grabbing the microphone and talking smack.
- The Cat and Armstrong shake hands, then the Cat misses a roundhouse.
- Scott lands some punches and kicks, sending the Cat outside.
- Scott tries a little dance.
- Back in, the Cat lands some kicks, then tosses Scott to Onoo, who lands some kicks of his own.
- Back in, Scott is flattened by a slam.
- The Cat lands the People's Chop followed by a sidekick.
- Armstrong fights back with a jawbreaker.
- Scott continues with elbows and forearms.
- Onoo puts a dancing shoe on the Cat, who delivers a kick to the face of Armstrong.
- The Cat covers for the win.
- Gene covers live dates.
- Psychosis vs. Eddie Guerrero
- It appears WCW will never be consistent with the spelling of Eddy's first name.
- Psychosis enters.
- Ads.
- Eddy enters.
- Eddy begins with an armdrag.
- Psychosis trips Eddy, who responds with an armbar.
- Psychosis lands a shoulderblock.
- Psychosis continues with a lariat and a headscissors takeover.
- Eddy lands a dropkick, then lands a splash on a leg of Psychosis.
- Outside, Eddy sends the leg into a post.
- Dusty says Nitro is the hottest weekly three hour wrestling show. Well, I guess you can't argue with that.
- Back in, Guerrero lands a dropkick across the leg, followed by an elbow.
- Eddy lands a springboard backsplash across the leg.
- Eddy continues to work on the leg. After all of these monotonous WCWSN matches, it's great to see a master at work.
- Eddy slams Psychosis down.
- Psychosis fights back with some right hands.
- Psychosis lands a top rope hurricanrana, but only gets two.
- Psychosis continues with a spinning leg whip.
- Eddy gets Psychosis in the position for the hangman's noose neckbreaker, but starts spinning him around before finally executing the move. Great stuff.
- Eddy lands the Frog Splash for the win.
- A clip of a Megadeath video airs as we go. I liked "Symphony of Destruction" back in the day, but what is this drivel?