WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 5/6/00

By The Cubs Fan

Bobby Heenan and Scott Hudson are your announcers.

David Arquette is whatever, but first, let's go to the arena.

Mike Awesome in an (AWESOME?) Handicap match.
Let's hear from the man.

He doesn't care about the two guys he's going to face
He talks about himself a lot.
Apparently, he was in Japan for a long time, and then he came to WCW.

Nothing in between.
I did not know that.

He doesn't care about Chris Kanyon either.

Also, the Misfits are in action, in an 8-man tag match

Tenay and Hudson seem to want to call them "the Crew"

Back to the studio, and DDP's life

Okay, this is kinda funny.
Hudson talks about the divorce, referring to DDP and Kim
Heenan, of course, goes of on a different tangent, saying that it was just traffic that caused him to come home late last night.
Hudson: "If we can might stick to pro-wrestling for a change...."
How right you are.
Anyway, they talk, we see clips from Nitro 4/24

The interview...
Bischoff/Arquette, including the worm.

In fact, the match is clipped so that, besides the finish, it is the only action shown.
Interesting choice.

JJ/DDP and DDP winning the title

Bobby hypes all the press picking up on the next title change...

Now, someone else is champ.

Thunder 4/26 shown.

The New Blood and the Millionaire's Club don't get along.

Heenan's happy that Kidman's beating up Hogan.
Back to Nitro, for more clips.

It's time for Ask WCW

This week's question if from Mark Witham, from Wells, Maine
He wants to know who inspired Vampiro to wrestle, and how he learned to wrestle.
Bobby expresses his displeasure that we aren't playing "Stump the Brian"
Vampiro (courtesy of taped interview) says:

He started wrestling 16 years ago, in Montreal, for International Wrestling, which was run by Dino Bravo and Rick Martel.
He sold programs and set up the ring, and learned how to take bumps in between shows. He traveled with them around the country.
Then, he went to Mexico, with no formal training,
He was a fan of rock and Vampires, so they came up with the Vampiro gimmick.
He spent sometime in Japan learning submission wrestling, then back to Mexico, then to WCW.
His main influences were Tiger Mask, Dynamite Kid and the Road Warriors

Slamboree card hype.

Shane Eden and P.W. Douglas vs Mike Awesome.

Douglas is fat.
Eden is not.
Neither is that important
Awesome attacks both, but they take control.
Double whip, duck under clothesline, flying clothesline on both.
Eden thrown to the outside.
Punches for Douglas, clothesline, and then he throws Douglas out.
Springboard lariat to the outside on both.
Douglas gets whipped into the guardrail.
Douglas gets a padded chair, then Eden is thrown into the steps.
Awesome throws Eden back in, corner whip, running corner clothesline.
Awesome with a running splash, cover, Douglas breaks it up.
Douglas with a corner whip, and then whips Eden, who eats boot.
Clothesline for Douglas, then a slam, up top, Frog Splash.
Cover, 2 count as Eden breaks it up.
Awesome with a whip, split legged powerbomb on Eden.
Awesome goes to the outside and throws in two tables.
Powerbomb through a table for Douglas.
Powerbomb through a table for Eden.
Nice overhead shot for this.
One handed cover on each, and that's three.
Your Winner: Mike Awesome

Cory Williams/Cassidy Reilly/Rick Michaels/James Storm vs Chavo Guerrero/Van Hammer/Hugh Morrus/Lash LeRoux

The first team gets no graphic, so I'm guessing on spellings
Wow. Hammer's wearing a Toryumon T-Shirt.

Toryumon is ex-WCW wrestler Ultimo Dragon's promotion.
Although I've never got my hands on a tape, I've heard that it features a lot of quick, face paced action.
Which goes to show, that even though Van Hammer can't wrestle good himself, he does appreciate those who do.
Or, he just grabbed this T-Shirt out of a box someplace.

The announcers really want to call them the Motley Crew.
That must have been turned down by the WCW legal department
Hammer and Reilly start.
Hammer with the pushdown from a lockup.
Reilly ducks under a clothesline, punches to the back, dropkick to the back, but the handspring elbow is avoided.
Hammer with punches, put Reilly on the second turnbuckle, delayed superplex.
2 count, Cory Williams in to break it up, and Chavo ejects him from the ring.
Lash is in, punches, whip, backdrop on Rick Michaels.
Lash with a punch, punch, and Bourbon Street Blues.
Tag to Chavo, chop, European Uppercut, whip, and Michaels tags to Cory Williams.
Williams gets a hiptoss, missed a clothesline and eventually gets hit by one from Chavo
Chavo with a drop-kick, Williams tag in James Storm, who gets put in armbar and into the Misfits' corner.
Tag to Hugh, who kicks Storm in the corner.
Whip, press slam by Hugh.
Hugh gets tripped up into the non-Misfits corner, and what Dusty would call "Clubbering" commences.
The rest of the Misfits make the save, knocking everyone who's not James Storm to the floor.
Storm with a corner whip, but it's reversed and Hugh hits an avalanche splash.
Hugh asks the fans if they want one more. They do, and he gives them another splash.
He asks again, they agree, so he sets up for another splash, but Lash comes into to talk to him.
Ahh, Lash wants to do it. So, Hugh whips him into Storm, with a flying hipblock.
Hammer in with a big boot.
Storm's up, and staggers right into the Chavo Tornado DDT.
The misfits clear out the rest, and that's good enough for the win.
Your Winners: The Misfits.

Scott and Bobby talk about Arquette, and we're done.

WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 5/6/00

By The Cubs Fan

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