WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 7/3/99

By The Cubs Fan

• Hey...
• One Year Ago: World Champion Goldberg wins a squash in the main event. High Voltage beat the Villanos, back when IV was healthy. Bobby Blaze beat Tokyo Mangum (during Tokyo's "hanging with Disco and Alex" days). Lenny Lane won a squash and Marty Jannetty beat Vincent.
• Joining me, this week, is my buddy Mike. He's here to make comments (so I won't have to!)

• Tony: "Everyone's talking about the Hummer."
  • Mike: "Does Zybszko ever say anything that has a point?"
  • Back to Nitro, on June 21
  • We watch thrilling coverage of Macho and friends get out of the Hummer, and Nash chase after it.
  • Mike again: "[Madusa] a hottie."
  • On to Sid and Savage breaking up the Psi/Kidman match
    • Mike: "That was lame. And Sid's running boot sucks."
  • We show Sting making the 'save' and Nash confronting him a little later, about being in the Hummer the week before.
  • Flashback to Nitro 6/14, with Sting popping out of the Hummer to attack Rick Steiner
  • Back to 6/21, and the Sid/Sting 'main event'. We go right to the Savage run in...
  • Mike, "The ref flew like a dart! Do they teach that at the Power Plant?"
  • They show Savage and Sid killing time on the mic for some reason.
  • But they don't show Sting joining DX. Booo.
  • Mike: "Zybszko should be banned from TV."

• Mene Gene talks to Dean Malenko.
  • We FFWD, 'cause Dean didn't know about his match with Flair then.

• "I Hate Rap" vs the No Limit Soldiers
  • Back to Nitro, when Rey/Konnan were going for the tag team titles against the Triad
  • Mike: "That front facelock is putting ME to sleep. Why are we showing restholds?"
  • Nothing new here, so on to...

• Flair and Piper versus Bagwell and Malenko on Nitro
  • Tony calls Buff "The Buffer" as they head into the match.
  • Mike "I bet that Piper wins with a foreign object in his glove at BATB..."
  • Buff manages to pull off the worst clothesline Mike's ever seen...
    • Well, only if we don't count Karl Malone.

• BATB Card, according to Mene Gene:
  • Savage/Sid vs Sting/Nash
    • No mention of the world title being on the line, although they've said that at other points.
    • Konnan/Rey/Brad/Swoll vs I Hate Rap (Gene: "Big Bad Bobby Duncum")
    • DDP/Bam Bam (Gene: "the Jersey Connection") vs Benoit/Saturn

• Tony and Larry hype the 2 matches tonight.
  • Tony: "Young stars get to show their talent"
  • Larry: "This is where stars are made."
  • Suuuure.

• The Gambler vs Scotty Riggs
  • Mike "[Riggs] just needs the spray bottle, the shades, and Sherri."
  • Tenay, on Savage's Interviews:"I'm just trying to put 2+2 together, listening to Savage."
  • Hudson: "Good luck!"
  • Lockup, armdrag and a bodyslam by Riggs.
  • Riggs with the Greco-Roman stall.
  • And more stall.
  • Finally, a test of strength, but Gambler kicks Riggs instead, and connects on a few punches
  • Gambler with a whip and hiptoss.
  • Gambler with a body slam, followed by a clothesline, cover for 1.
  • Gambler with a whip, reversed by Riggs, and Gambler runs right into Riggs' dropkick
  • Riggs batters Gambler into the corner, where he chokes him with his boot.
  • Riggs with a corner whip and a running hip smash.
  • Ala Curt Hennig at recent house shows, Riggs does a Rick Rude hipswivel, and points to the sky.
    • Nice to see him acknowledge who he's ripping off.
  • Riggs with a fist drop.
  • Mike: "I miss the American Males. Especially the music."
  • Riggs looks in the mirror, to set himself perfectly up for a Gambler roll up. 2 count.
    • A blind man could have seen that one coming.
  • Riggs comes back, beats on Gambler, but misses a dropkick when the Gambler holds the ropes.
  • Gambler with a whip into a back elbow, 2 count.
  • Reversals of a whip end up with another Riggs dropkick.
  • Riggs hits a...
    • Mike: "Fame-sser!"
    • Hudson: "ShowStopper!"
    • Me: Rocker Dropper.
    • Ref: Enough for a three count.
  • Your Winner: Scotty Riggs

• Mene Gene talks to Booker T
  • Booker T "WCW is the hottest thing going on television."
    • I guess you can be really hot if you're going down in flames
  • Booker T "I want to be the Top Dog in WCW."
    • But wouldn't that mean feuding with Rick Steiner?

• Kaz Hayashi vs El Dandy
  • Neither man gets an entrance. We see Kaz entering the ring right as we come back.
    • Hudson (as he did last week for the Hayashi match) claims that the two were in such a hurry to fight, they didn't want to wait till the commercials were over.
    • Didn't look like Kaz was wearing his Glacier outfit. Hmm.
  • Armdrag by Kaz to start things off
  • Armbar by Kaz, but El Dandy cartwheels and flips out of it.
    • Yeow! We're both surprised to see Dandy with that much agility.
    • But then again, who are we to doubt El Dandy?
  • Kaz comes off the ropes, but ends right into an El Dandy Armbar.
  • Kaz keeps trying to flip out, but Dandy moves so he can't.
  • Kaz eventually reverses into an armdrag and escapes.
  • Kaz with an armbar, but El Dandy easily reversed.
  • Kaz with a 2 hand push. Oooh.
  • El Dandy with an open hand slap to the face.
  • Kaz with one back.
  • Tenay brings up Dandy's feared right hand.
  • After a whip and a reversals, Kaz ends up getting backdropped onto the apron and comes back with the slingshot DDT he used last week.
    • It's still a cool move.
  • Dandy with a hard kick to the stomach, and gets a 2 count.
  • Shoulderblock by Dandy gets another 2.
  • Dandy with a whipped, reversed, and Dandy pulls off a very slow crucifix for 2.
  • Both men up...and Dandy with the Right Hand of Stone!
  • Kaz gets knocked flat to the mat after one punch.
    • It's Butterbean vs Bart Gunn all over again.
  • Kaz is whipped into the corner but moves out of the way of a Dandy charge
  • Kaz tries to charge in himself, but gets a foot to the face.
  • Kaz recovers and hits a 'rana on Dandy.
  • Kaz tries to go to the top, but Dandy catches up to him up there and pulls him down with a super arm drag!
  • Dandy goes to the top...and misses a senton.
  • Kaz with a back breaker, to the top, and hits his own Senton for the three count.
  • Mike: "Weak finisher...He just hits him with his back. It's like Hogan's legdrop."
  • Your Winner: Kaz Hayashi

• Tony and Larry close with more thoughts about the Hummer.
  • Zybszko "Who was driving the Hummer?"
  • Mike "If I hear that one more time, I"m going blow my brains out."

• Next (or this, given how late this is) week, it's going be my two year mark of reporting for DDT Digest. If I get time, I'll pull something out good...you'll just have to wait to find out.

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