- As Konnan steps off the bus, Shane Douglas tells him that he's in charge.
- Konnan tells Douglas off, and the two get into it.
- The New Blood fights amongst themselves, then the Millionaire's Club and Misfits In Action join in the melee.
- Hulk Hogan finds the keys to the bus and walks off.
- Schiavone talks about how Ric Flair is the 15-time heavyweight champion.
- They talk about the Russo/Ric Flair feud.
- Hogan says he took the keys to the bus of the New Blood.
- Hogan addresses Douglas by saying whatever is going on tonight isn't happening.
- Hogan says that the Millionaire's Club is booking tonight's show.
- The "Perfect Strangers" knockoff brings out Douglas and the New Blood.
- Douglas reiterates that he is in charge.
- Douglas addresses Hogan as "Terry."
- Douglas invites Hogan to try and take over the show.
- Hogan talks to Kidman and notes how he's been talking about how Kidman took him out.
- Hogan brings up Kidman's win-loss record against him.
- Hogan challenges Kidman to a match at GAB, with the condition that Hogan gets a title shot at the July PPV if he wins.
- Kidman accepts, but not until after calling Hogan a "mark."
- Hogan then speaks to "Hor-ass," saying that the little nephew will get his ass kicked by the big uncle.
- Jeff Jarrett walks out and claims the world title is stolen property.
- Jarrett calls out Ric Flair.
- Flair jumps Jarrett from behind with the title belt.
- The New Blood respond with a mudhole stomp.
- The face factions rush the entryway and it's a big schmozz.
- The Animals get YET another entrance theme.
- Juvy does his quasi-Rock schtick again.
- Konnan gets on the stick.
- Out come the Misfits In Action.
- The Misfits are waving out "Major Guns." No comment.
- Oh, for the record, I am not referring to the Misfits by their new names.
- Disco kicks away on Lash but gets whipped to the corner.
- Van Hammer and Hugh get splashes in as well.
- As Major Guns hits the ring, we go to a crowd shot.
- It's Hammer against Juvy now.
- Juvy mounts Hammer up top and hits a Frankensteiner.
- Hammer comes back with some chops in the corner.
- Hammer mounts Juvy up top, hits some punches and sets up for a superplex.
- Superplex hits for two when Disco saves.
- Hugh gets tagged in and misses an elbowdrop.
- Tag to Rey.
- Rey with some kicks in the corner.
- Rey then hits a Bronco Buster but Hugh brings Rey to mid-ring.
- Rey fires back with punches, which cause Hugh to fall forward, slamming Rey to the mat.
- Tags to Chavo and Konnan.
- Chavo is on fire here.
- Shawn Stasiak walks to ringside.
- Konnan goes for a rolling clothesline, but Chavo ducks.
- Stasiak pulls the top rope as Chavo approaches, causing him to fall onto the rampway.
- Stasiak connects with some blows, sounding the DQ.
- YOUR WINNERS: The Misfits in Action via DQ in 3:16. Oh, hell yeah.
- Post-match, it's a five-on-four beatdown until Booker makes the save.
- Chavo is laid out mid-ring but Major Guns gives him CPR.
- Tenay attributes Major Guns' "large lungs" toward her ability to revive her friends. Cute.
- The Misfits celebrate as...
- Hulk in the second match? I don't think this has happened since 1980.
- We see Horace's turn from Nitro.
- Hulk talks about Horace's problems when his father died.
- Hulk says that he is going to kick Horace's ass.
- Horace, Kidman, Torrie and Stasiak watch on a monitor.
- Kidman tries to hit the ring, but Horace stops him.
- Horace and Kidman get into it until Horace decks Kidman.
- Horace grabs Torrie and rushes to ringside.
- Horace hits the ring and gets beat down by Hulk.
- Hulk tosses Horace out of the ring.
- Horace gets sent to the steps, then the rail.
- Hulk begins to set up a table, but Horace strikes from behind.
- Hulk comes back with punches.
- Hulk readies the table outside the ring.
- Horace no-sells an eyerake and hits one of his own.
- They go back into the ring.
- Hulk whips out the weightlifter's belt and smacks Horace with it.
- Hulk chokes Horace out.
- Hulk goes to the rope and clotheslines Horace with the belt.
- Hulk puts Horace on the top rope groin-first.
- Hulk turns his attention to Torrie (on the apron), which allows Horace to talk control with punches and stomps.
- Horace and Torrie embrace and kiss.
- Kidman hits the ring and beats the hell out of Horace.
- Hulk re-enters the ring with a chair and slams it into Horace's back.
- Hulk tosses Kidman out of the ring and on the table.
- Hulk then pins his nephew for the win.
- YOUR WINNER: Hulk Hogan via pinfall in 3:52.
- Post-match, Hogan threatens to hit Torrie but plants a big kiss on her instead. That was kind of cool, actually.
- Whereas Hulk acts disgusted, Torrie acts like she enjoyed the smooch.
- Lex Luger walks up and tells the spotter to take a hike.
- Luger helps Palumbo with his bench presses then beats him with a pipe.
- Luger hammers away on Palumbo some more.
- Luger puts a garbage can on Palumbo's head and takes some more shots with the pipe.
- Luger then uses a weightlifter's belt on Palumbo.
- Palumbo then shoves him into a dirty laundry bin.
- Luger then beats on Palumbo with a fake 45-pound weight plate. The thing BOUNCED about forty feet when Luger slammed it on the carpet.
- Luger then pours a protein drink on Palumbo.
- Personally, I liked it better when Barbarian and the Warlord used the weights on the Road Warriors.
- Next Monday, Nitro will be on an hour earlier than usual.
- My ears may be tricking me, but did Schiavone just refer to Funk's belt as a "cruiserweight belt?"
- Funk tells The Cat to dance his silly ass out there.
- Funk is giving Cat a chance for the title tonight.
- Cat walks out and talks trash as Funk meets him at the entryway.
- Funk wails away and hits a DDT for two.
- Funk with a reverse neckbreaker for two.
- That's two more wrestling moves than the last match!
- Cat comes back with a kick.
- They go backstage and Funk nails Cat with a trash can.
- Funk nails Cat with a computer laptop.
- Cat sends Funk into a bunch of empty water bottles on a table.
- Funk gets tossed onto another table.
- Funk sends Cat into a garbage can.
- Funk nails Cat with a trash can.
- Cat whips out THE POPCORN BAG OF DEATH!
- Cat slams Funk's head into a steel door.
- Cat knocks Funk underneath the door and kicks the door onto his chest.
- They go outside and Funk gets sent into a set of pipes.
- Funk throws a pipe at Cat.
- They brawl toward the bootleg shirt stand.
- Funk trashes the table as Smiley bitches him out.
- Funk then beats up the car with a chair.
- Cat beans Funk from behind.
- Cat brings Funk onto the top of the car for some punishment.
- Cat tosses Funk on the top of the trunk and off the car.
- Smiley tries to sell Cat a shirt.
- Cat responds by shoving Smiley into a fence.
- Cat and Ralphus opens the trunk door for Funk to go into.
- Smiley chairs Cat from behind and Funk covers for the pin.
- YOUR WINNER: Terry Funk via pinfall in 5:36.
- This started well but got too goofy at the end.
- Awesome gets a mic in the ring.
- Awesome with that old standby, "shut your mouths for a minute."
- Awesome talks about crippling Kanyon.
- Awesome talks about his PPV match with Diamond Dallas Page.
- Sign: "Diamond Dallas Page!" Spell-checkers are lost on these people.
- Awesome issues an open challenge.
- Police sirens bring out Midajah, Shakirah and Scott Steiner.
- Steiner calls Awesome a boy and says he can't beat him.
- Steiner says his only alliance is to his freaks nationwide.
- Steiner threatens to put Awesome in the ambulance and tells him to tell Russo who kicked his ass on Thunder.
- Steiner starts out with a shot to the groin and some punches in the corner.
- Steiner hits a belly-to-belly suplex and some push-ups.
- Awesome tosses a chair into the ring, which Steiner catches.
- Steiner throws the chair at Awesome, but misses.
- Back inside, Steiner with a clothesline and an elbowdrop for two.
- Steiner rams Awesome's head into the turnbuckle until a mule kick hits the Little Poppa Pump.
- Awesome with a slam.
- Awesome goes up top and hits a diving clothesline for two.
- Awesome sets up for an Awesomebomb but Steiner counters with a backbody drop.
- Steiner hits a suplex.
- Steiner puts on the Steiner Recliner but Goldberg's music hits.
- Steiner lets go and tosses Awesome onto the rampway.
- Tank Abbott walks out of the locker room with his security.
- Steiner watches the screen as Tank walks.
- Tank sets up on the entryway and waves his sparklers.
- Steiner blitzes Tank until Rick Steiner jumps in.
- It's a three-on-one as Tank decks Scott.
- Some monster truck noises can be heard, which means the Goldberg truck enters the arena.
- Steiner gets his second wind and tosses Rick and Tank on the truck, which drives away.
- Awesome hightails it into the ambulance and drives off.
- Scott Steiner is your winner at 4:54.
- YOUR WINNER: Read the above line!
- Glad to see that Scott Steiner still knows some wrestling moves.
- Tenay talks about Kanyon suffering severe trauma on his spine.
- Kanyon says it is real weak from the waist down.
- Kanyon talks about how he wanted to be a wrestler when he was young and how he doesn't think about wrestling now.
- Kanyon still wants to wrestle but his main goal is to be healthy again.
- Tenay asks Kanyon why he got involved at the Slamboree main event.
- Kanyon meant to just watch the match saw what Awesome was going to do to DDP and had to get involved.
- Kanyon talks about how DDP supported him.
- Tenay talks about how Kanyon credits DDP to his success.
- Tenay mentions that DDP is out walking while Kanyon is confined to a bed. Seeds for another heel turn?
- Kanyon hammers home of the point of how he respects Page.
- Kanyon fears that DDP will make this situation personal.
- Kanyon says that he will survive this.
- Douglas answers his cellular phone and it's Kronic.
- Apparently, they want a three-way dance with Douglas tonight.
- Douglas tells Kronic to kiss his ass and hangs up.
- Douglas tells his boys to close and lock the doors.
- The New Blood then walk away telling Douglas to fight his own battles.
*silence*
Thought so.
- Kronic bring Douglas into the ring and the bell sounds.
- Douglas hits Clarke with something in his hand.
- Douglas with some shots on Adam, but Kronic doubleteam him in the corner.
- Clarke then hits the Meltdown.
- Adams puts Douglas in a fireman's carry and hits a sloppy TKO.
- Kronic doubleteam-clothesline Douglas out of the ring.
- Douglas grabs the tag belts and walks toward the back.
- The Wall stops this by running at Douglas with a table.
- Wall sets up the table and chokeslams Douglas on it.
- Wall press-slams Douglas into the ring.
- Douglas makes some motions at Wall but gets met with High Time.
- Kronic gets the pin.
- YOUR WINNERS: Kronic via High Time in 3:07.
- Call me a mark, but seeing Ric Flair walk out with the belt is a good image.
- I'm sure Jeff Jarrett wouldn't agree with me, though.
- From Nitro: Ric gets the belt but gets plastered with the statuette.
- Flair looks like he's about to break down but regains control and thanks the crowd.
- Flair says he never dreamt that this would happen again.
- Flair puts over Jarrett and says he got lucky but he got the belt.
- Flair respects Jarrett and his old-school mentality.
- But Jarrett doesn't have the belt and Flair does, whoo!
- Flair says that his son is confused and mindboggled by Vince Russo.
- Flair gives his take on Russo: he is a skinny little Italian kid growing up in the Bronx.
- Flair talks about how everyone in New York wanted to be like WWWF Champion Bruno Sammartino.
- Flair says that Russo didn't want to be like Bruno but his father thinks otherwise.
- Flair talks about how Russo turned on TBS one day and wanted to be like him.
- Flair says that Russo's parents didn't want him to be like Flair and mentioned that Vince has no girls, limousines or muscles, and can't be like The Nature Boy.
- Flair calls Russo a skinny punk with no muscles and a checkbook.
- Flair says that Russo couldn't control Luger, Sting or Hogan.
- Flair calls Russo is a kid who wants to be like The Nature Boy.
- Flair says that Russo is a skinny boy with no muscles who couldn't get the girl.
- Flair says that Russo doesn't have the world title and that the title belongs to the old generation.
- Flair talk about how Russo is living his life vicariously through his own son.
- Jarrett makes his way out.
- Jarrett calls Ric a deadbeat dad and says that he has stolen property.
- Jarrett hits the ring and gets into it with Ric.
- The Badlanders hit the ring and it's three-on-one.
- Horsemen music brings in Arn Anderson with a big stick!
- Arn gets a mic and says that he's old-school too.
- Arn says that Russo took a sleeping dog and woke him up.
- Arn says that he is grumpy in the morning.
- Arn says that he considered himself retired and did menial tasks.
- Arn says that he is a wrestler.
- Arn says that when he finds his kids playing with matches, he doesn't worry about women's groups or neighbors, he takes off his belt and tears his kid's ass up.
- Arn talks about the New Blood dissension in the back.
- Arn whips out the Four Horsemen sign.
- Arn tells Jarrett that in ten minutes they are going to get a dose of Anderson and Flair, Horsemen style!
- Arn then does the traditional thumb-across-the-throat.
- Great interview. I'm still a little iffy on Arn getting back into the ring, but he knows his body better than I do.
- Too bad Tully is retired, I would love to see a Brainbuster reunion at this point.
- I wonder if Sting's theme was taken from a Napster user account.
- Sting says he has talked the talk and walked the walk for ten years.
- Sting says he's been nice but is close to blowing a gasket on Vampiro.
- Sting says he will take Vamp out tonight.
- Vamp hits the entryway.
- Vamp asks Sting why he didn't finish the job on Monday.
- Vamp says if he won the match, they would still be picking Sting's facial fragments on the front row.
- Vamp says that there's a bit of Sting that likes him and wants to be with him.
- Vamp says he's going to take Sting to hell.
- Vamp wants Sting in an Inferno Match -- the winner must light his opponent on fire.
- Sting calls Vamp a psycho bonehead.
- Sting says there will be no Inferno Match.
- Vamp says Sting doesn't have a choice.
- The ring ropes then catch on fire.
- That explains it. Vampiro was The Black Scorpion before Starrcade '90!
- As Flair walks to the ring, we see Arn getting beat down by The Badlanders.
- Jarrett hits the entryway and beats down Flair.
- Flair fights back with punches.
- As Flair takes Jarrett to the corner, David and Crowbar hit the ring for a three-on-one.
- Jarrett goes for the figure four but Ric pokes the eyes.
- David lays into his father with punches.
- David gives a "Whoo" and puts the figure four on Ric.
- Wolfpac music brings on Kevin Nash.
- As Nash hits the ring, Ric scores a pinfall on Daffney for the win as she taunts him.
- YOUR WINNER: Ric Flair via small package in 1:21.
- Post-match, Nash cleans house as Ric puts Daffney in the figure four.
- Nash gets hit with a chair by Jarrett but he gets back up.
- Nash walks to the back after Jarrett.
- As the heels flee, Ric, who looks like he's winded, needs Charles Robinson's help to get out of the ring. More on this in the closer.
- We quickly cut to another scene as Ric collapses.
- Members of the Millionaires and Misfits then walk to the bus and lift it on its side.
- As the closing credits air, we see the Goldberg monster truck in the background.
- The truck charges at the bus as we fade.
My hope is that Ric Flair will be well soon. Thanks for reading.