WCW Monday Nitro - November 27, 2000

• Mark H. points out another individual who found success after leaving the WCW family:

  Hey look at that. Not only did WCW racer Jerry Nadeau get a strong showing on Sunday, he actually won! But like most WCW talent, he was released before he became good. The racing team continues with no wins...

• Mike T. notes a fine tribute of sorts from last week:

  I don't know if you noticed at all, but for a brief moment during his interview, when Jarrett flashed his guitar, it had a black band with the words "Joe C." in the middle. Nice of him to remember Joe C. from Kid Rock's band, who died last Friday. Or maybe it's because his music is a cheap "Cowboy" knock-off....

• Heinous Lee tells me why Rick Steiner looked bored during his Battle Dome beatdown:

  In the Nitro report for 11/20, you mentioned that "Rick Steiner didn't seem to thrilled about selling to the BD guys." I'm sure WCW fans are more interested in the WCW side, but as a one-time fan of American Gladiators, I actually like watching Battle Dome.

  The most recent show that I saw was 11/19 which was the second time the WCW guys (Steiner, Cat, Bagwell and Page) were on BD. BD is like American Gladiators crossed with wrestling. The contests are real, but the characters have gimmicks. At Nitro, I think there were four guys:

  1. Cuda — the white stripe on the face guy. He's the "African Warrior."
  2. T-Money — the African-American guy with the chains. He's some sort of a "street thug."
  3. DOA — the guy with the tattoo on his back. He is "evil incarnate."
  4. Bubba Ray — the plaid, sleeveless guy. He's a "redneck."

  There's one guy (the egotistical guy) named "O'Dell" who's married to Midajah (Steiner's ho).

  Anyway, Sunday featured a contest with Rick Steiner as the contestant versus T-Money. They both donned kickboxing gloves, chest and shoulder protectors and head protectors. Steiner had to get a ball through a hole which T-Money protected. Well, after a third failed attempt, Steiner threw the ball away and went after T-Money directly. T-money's "posse" (four big guys) pulled Steiner off and cornered him against a wall. T-Money ripped his gloves off and clocked Steiner through the guys around him. When I say clocked, I mean clocked. It looked legit. Steiner fell fast, kind of like the old "job to Tank Abbott's fist" fall or, probably more accurately (I hate to bring up WWF here) when Steve Williams got KO'ed by Bart Gunn. Well, Steiner got up and T-Money was gone, so Steiner blindsided the BD referee on his right eye when he wasn't looking, and the ref is no slouch either. He fell and after the commercial, the ref had an ice pack, the WCW guys were in the back with an ice pack on Steiner and they got mad at the BD interviewer (which was unintentionally funny).

  The shots, like I said before, looked legit. I think this started as a gimmick, but actually has some real heat behind it. This T-Money guy gets upset pretty easily, especially when people beat him and some of it is his gimmick, but I think he truly has a short fuse and it wouldn't surprise me if Steiner rubbed him the wrong way with that first attack. So I don't think this is a work, which doesn't surprise me as to why Steiner didn't want to sell to the BD guys. I've never seem him go down that fast before. He actually looked out of it for a good few seconds.

• Nathan C. has a differing opinion than a WCW announcer:

  Scott Hudson said on the Mayhem preview something to the effect of "In the year 2000, one word defines wrestling. Goldberg!"

  Damn! I was sure it was clusterf***!

Back in the early 1990's, probably the best known WWF announcing team consisted of Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. After a match, sometimes Gorilla would tell the TV viewers that he's switching the broadcast over to Sean Mooney in the control room. Heenan, being the wise-ass we all knew and loved, would simply respond with, "Who?"

On a side note, "Who" can also be referred to a masked wrestler played by Jim Neidhart that appeared in the WWF several years later, but let's not go there.

• Two Count is already in the ring.
• Before they can perform, the M. I. A. make their way out.
• The faces charge the ring and the bell sounds.
• Lash with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker on Shannon Moore.
• Shane Helms gets dumped.
• Chavo puts Shannon in a Boston Crab and Lash comes off the ropes with a dropkick to the face.
• Helms comes back in but doesn't come into play just yet.
• Chavo whips Moore into the corner and Lash splashes him with a bodypress.
• More doubleteaming in the form of holding Moore for a dropkick.
• Loud "3 Count Sucks" chant.
• Lash dumps into Helms on a whip, leading to a Famasser for two.
• Moore tags Helms while doing a backslide, then brings Lash to the mat for a guillotine legdrop, which gets two.
• Helms chokes Lash on the ropes.
• Helms whips Lash cross-corner and nails a sidekick on the rebound.
• Chavo gets knocked off the apron, leading to a double-team.
• Moore gets tagged in.
• Lash reverses a whip to the corner and hits a springboard facebuster.
• Tag to Chavo and Helms.
• Chavo's a Trooper-on-fire.
• Chavo goes for the pin on Helms but Moore makes the save.
• With Robinson distracted, Two Count hits a doubleteam suplex.
• Jamie Knoble and Evan Karagias appear with a ladder to ruin the match.
• Due to the distraction on the heels, Chavo gets a suplex for the win.
• YOUR WINNERS: Lash LeRoux and Chavo Guerrero, Jr. via suplex in 4:13.
• Decent spotfest, but I don't see the need for the 2 Count protection.
    

• As usual, Steiner brings out Midajah.
• Hudson says that Steiner is entering his thirteenth year in WCW. Hudson must be revising history, as I recall the Steiner Brothers working for the WWF in all of 1993.
• Steiner tells the fans to kiss his ass.
• Typical Steiner interview.
• Steiner says he came looking for a fight.
• Steiner points out that he's put Booker T and Sting in the hospital.
• Steiner claims Goldberg is still punch-drunk from their last encounter.
• Steiner offers to give the fans a treat.
• Steiner tells the crowd to kiss his ass again.
• "Theme From 2001" brings out C. E. O. Ric Flair (w/ a new TurnerTron video).
• Ric congratulates Steiner on his victory last night.
• Ric calls Steiner the flagship of WCW.
• Ric says he will build the greatest wrestling organization around the greatest world champion.
• Ric says Steiner cannot call his own shots, though.
• Ric says he has an opponent for Steiner at Starrcade.
• Ric says the opponent will come out tonight and explain himself.
• Ric says he will wish Steiner good luck for his match at PPV.
• Steiner says he kicked Steve Austin's ass when he was in WCW.
• Steiner also mocks The Rock and does his catchphrase. Way to make the company look second-rate there, Scotty.
• Ric claims this opponent is on the same level as the two men Steiner mentioned (Austin and The Rock).
• Ric says Booker is in a hospital and may not wrestle again.
• Stevie Ray walks out and Steiner goes into a conniption.
• Stevie Ray offers to get it on tonight, and he even says "FRUIT BOOTY"! Yeah!
• Stevie: "If this sad-ass fruit booty got the guts..."
• Stevie says fruit-booty again to make me happy, but Steiner rebutts.
• Steiner offers a title vs. career match tonight.
• Stevie accepts Scott "Fruit Booty" Steiner's challenge.
• Total Fruit-Booty Count: 4.

• Yang and Leia are already in the ring.
• Storm comes out with DDP Brand™ rib tape.
• Storm says he'll get Morrus down the line.
• Storm calls for The Anthem.
• Yang jumps Storm from behind and gets a quick two.
• Quick punches to the taped ribs.
• Yang flips out of an armdrag.
• Some flipping and flopping leads to a Storm sidekick.
• Storm with a side backbreaker for two.
• The crowd chants "U. S. A."
• Yang gets in a sunset flip off the ropes for two.
• Yang goes for the ribs and gets a sloppy urinage for two.
• Madden calls Yang "Kwang."
• Yang with a headscissors roll-through for two.
• Yang with some kicks and a whip to the corner.
• Storm floats over and gets nailed by a back elbow.
• Yang with a top rope moonsault (with Storm seeing the move three seconds in advance) for two.
• As Storm hits a piledriver, the women get into it on the apron.
• This allows Cat to make the run-in with a chair, allowing Yang to get the upset victory.
• YOUR WINNER: Yang via outside interference in 3:18.
• So, who the f*** was elevated there? Storm jobbed, and Yang was already beat from the piledriver earlier. I'm even willing to bet that the booking team won't capitalize on the ramifications of this match next week.
• No disrespect to Yang, who's pretty good for a Power Plant guy, but Storm deserves better than this.
• Like the last match, this was a good spotfest, but the pointless interference brings the rating down.
    

• Note to Bill: He must not be jobbing tonight.
• Luger announces the end of Goldberg's streak, career, etc.
• Luger says this is the biggest announcement in wrestling and that this announcement is better than any title he ever won.
• Luger says Goldberg lost by DQ last night for spearing the referee.
• Luger channels Chris Jericho circa 1998 and brings up The Rule Book™.
• The crowd couldn't give a shit.
• And frankly, neither do I.

• Knoble and Karagias walk out.
• Their opponents — Disqo and Alex Wright.
• Disqo has his payment for their replacements tonight...
• The f***ing Harris Brothers.
• Actually, it will be Wright and Ron teaming.
• Ron controls the start of the match and slams Evan.
• Ron tags Wright for a two-count.
• Some heel offense in the corner.
• Wright with a corner whip into an overhead suplex.
• Evan makes the comeback, but Wright tags Ron.
• Evan tags Jamie in.
• Ron unloads on Knoble until he runs into a boot in the corner.
• Knoble with a top-rope clothesline for two.
• Ron with a big kick.
• Wright comes in for two.
• Knoble beats on Wright in the corner as Evan does the Norman Smiley SMBU.
• The faces argue, leading to a pier-four.
• During all of this, Don Harris comes in for an H-Bomb on Knoble.
• Wright covers for the victory.
• YOUR WINNERS: Alex Wright and Ron Harris via outside interference in 2:53.
  ¼  

• Ric has the official decision on the Goldberg/Luger match.
• Under normal circumstances, Goldberg spearing the referee would be a DQ win for Luger.
• But, Ric DQ's Luger for pulling the ref in his path.
• Ric orders a re-match at Starrcade.
• So, at the biggest WCW show of the year, they waste the promotion's most popular wrestler in a meaningless match with Lex Luger?

• Hudson brings up Nash and DDP's past history (but doesn't mention The Vegas Connection by name).
• DDP offers out a "Hey, yo" to a "special buddy."
• Loud "We Want Hall" chant.
• DDP even brings up his managership to Scott Hall.
• DDP talks about the Vegas Connection and how they sucked.
• DDP then brings up the Outsiders tandem.
• DDP calls his current team "The Insiders."
• DDP rambles some more and says he's got Nash's back.
• Nash does his "Two Sweet" and Wolfpac music plays.
• Coming out is Mike Sanders, Mark Jindrak and Sean O'Haire.
• Sanders with his cheese-whiz, trailer trash line.
• Sanders says DDP turned on the TV one night and saw the NBT as the hottest thing going.
• Sanders accuses DDP of riding Nash's coattails.
• Sanders says Ric Flair knew when to step aside so "seasoned veterans" can take over.
• Sanders says Nash and DDP will face Jindrak and O'Haire at Starrcade, but DDP wants a fight now.
• Jindrak and O'Haire charge the ring...

• We get a pier-four to start but it ends up with O'Haire and Nash in the ring.
• O'Haire gets some shots in, but Nash takes over.
• Nash with the usual in the corner.
• Clothesline in the other corner.
• Some framed elbows by Nash.
• Into the other corner, Nash runs into a boot.
• Tag to DDP, who gets a clothesline for two.
• O'Haire with a mule kick leading to a tag.
• Jindrak chokes DDP on the rope and O'Haire gets his licks in as the ref is distracted.
• Some doubleteaming in the heel corner.
• Jindrak whips DDP and tries a backbreaker but it gets turned into a headscissors.
• DDP covers for two when O'Haire makes the save.
• Nash enters the ring and takes out O'Haire.
• This leads to a Diamond Cutter on Jindrak.
• DDP covers... and gets two when Mike Sanders pull the ref out.
• Nash goes to powerbomb Sanders on the carpet but the rest of the NBT run-out to lay waste to Nash and DDP.
• The NBT steal the tag team titles at 4:30.
• I must admit, they find new and inventive ways for Kevin Nash to lose a belt without actually jobbing.
  

• Once again, Reno gets new entrance music. How hard is it to just pick a theme and stick with it?
• Look's like Reno Is Next.
• Say, I recall Goldberg doing Reno's own finisher on him a couple months back.
• Goldberg no-sells Reno's offense, and Reno goes down after one right.
• Goldberg with a clothesline off the ropes.
• Goldberg whips Reno into a gorilla-press drop.
• Reno blocks a front backbreaker and tries Roll The Dice but Goldberg escapes THAT and hits the backbreaker.
• Spear. Jackhammer. Splat. Pin.
• YOUR WINNER: Goldberg via Jackhammer in 1:38. (26-0)
• Post-match, Luger comes in with a chair.
• Luger hits Goldberg in the back, and it literally takes Goldberg a full second to react to the chairshot.
• Oh.  My.  God.
• Luger puts Goldberg in the Torture Rack as some referees beg him to stop.
• I was gonna give this a DUD, but due to Goldberg's bad acting this gets...
  

• Lock-up, Bigelow wrestles Morrus into the corner and lays into him.
• Morrus comes back but eats an eyerake.
• Morrus evades a corner charge and works the left arm.
• Morrus with a legdrop on the arm.
• Bigelow works Morrus over in the corner.
• Note Hugh's outfit tonight: he has the old question marks on his singlet.
• Bigelow with a chinlock.
• The crowd is just dead during Morrus' comeback.
• Bigelow whips Morrus, who takes The Beast From The East down with two clotheslines.
• Morrus with a suplex.
• Morrus goes up top but misses the diving elbow.
• Bigelow powerbombs Morrus.
• Bigelow goes outside to look for wood and finds a table underneath the ring.
• The table gets set up, and Bigelow re-enters the ring.
• We see that The Wall has the table.
• As Bigelow is distracted, Hugh takes over with knees and kicks.
• Morrus goes up top and hits the moonsault for the win.
• YOUR WINNER: Hugh Morrus via moonsault in 4:41.
  ³/₄  

• Jarrett refers to the prank the Animals pulled on him earlier tonight.
• Jarrett runs down the Animals.
• Rey peppers Jarrett from behind and whips him.
• Rey with a springboard facejam for two.
• Jarrett hits a short-arm clothesline.
• Jarrett whips Rey to the corner but eats boot.
• Jarrett has a pinning predicament but Konnan distracts the ref.
• Kidman trips Jarrett, allowing a Rey top-rope legdrop for two.
• Jarrett catches Rey on a floatover, but Rey slips out and hits a spinning heel kick.
• Rey goes for the bronco buster but the foot catches him in "the horn."
• Jarrett with a back elbow and the "splash while face is on ropes" spot.
• The Animals get on the apron, and Konnan gets a clothesline in.
• Rey tries a split-legged moonsault but hits knee.
• Jarrett goes for one of the Animals on the apron but misses.
• Rey gets a springboard Thesz Press and moonsault for two.
• Konnan interferes some more, allowing Tygress and Rey to get a Bronco Buster in.
• Rey with the Tiger Mask Fake Out off a whip.
• Rey goes to the apron and tries a springboard frankensteiner but gets powerbombed.
• Stroke leads to a pin for two when Kidman pulls Jarrett out of the ring.
• The Animals batter Jarrett outside.
• Back inside, Rey with a headscissors, but Jarrett readies his guitar.
• Rey goes off the top rope and meets a guitar head on. Fight fire with fire, I guess.
• Charles Robinson sees that and calls for the DQ.
• YOUR WINNER: Rey Mysterio, Jr. via DQ in 4:30.
• Post-match, the Animals run Jarrett out of the ring.
• That was just one big mess.
  

• Our Patron Saint enters first.
  
• Scott Steiner is heading out there.
• A black limo pulls up. Supposedly, Steiner's opponent at Starrcade is in here.
• Commercials.
• Steiner walks out and threatens a fan, allowing Stevie an opening.
• Stevie chokes Steiner on the rail until Midajah beans the Patron Saint with her pipe.
• Steiner with some offense.
• They finally go inside and the bell sounds.
• Stevie reverses a whip and hits a scissor kick.
• Steiner retaliates with an inverted atomic drop and a clothesline.
• Steiner slaps Stevie in the head.
• More boring offense in the corner.
• Steiner with a loud chop.
• Stevie turns it around and unloads, but it doesn't last long.
• Does Steiner mean "no-sell" in some foreign language?
• Outside, Steiner jabs Stevie a few times with a chair.
• Steiner sends Stevie inside and follows suit.
• Hudson mentions that Booker T will be out for a while to repair his knee.
• Stevie nails Steiner from behind with a clothesline.
• Stevie with a waistlock from behind but Steiner elbows out and gets in a belly-to-belly suplex for two.
• Steiner with a corner whip but he runs into a back elbow.
• Side kick by Stevie.
• Stevie with a kneelift and a DDT.
• Midajah grabs Stevie's leg, allowing a suplex by Steiner.
• Steiner applies a backbreaker.
• Steiner goes to the middle rope but gets caught in the Book-End!
• Stevie with a lazy cover for two.
• Stevie whips Steiner and goes for a kick which was supposed to be blocked, but Steiner misses the cue.
• They go outside and Stevie brains Steiner with a chair.
• Stevie goes for a corner charge but eats boot.
• Exploder by Steiner gets two.
• Stevie gets whipped to the ropes and lazily kicks Steiner on a back bodydrop.
• Stevie hits the Pedigree but picks Steiner up at one.
• Stevie goes up top but Steiner catches him for an Ocean Cyclone suplex.
• Steiner puts on the Recliner, and it's all over for Stevie Ray's career. Bastard.
• YOUR WINNER: Scott Steiner via Steiner Recliner in 6:55.
• Bad, bad match. Both guys looked blown up after five minutes and it showed with missed cues and blown moves.
• Anyway, Steiner celebrates after the match.
• The lights dim and familiar music brings out Steiner's opponent at Starrcade...
• Sid Vicious.
• Either softball season is over, or this is someone's idea of a colossal rib.
    

Just wanted to pass along this note. I don't know if you noticed, but as Sid was out on the stage and Tony said we're out of time, the next thing I heard after the fade to black was "Your watching Bull." I thought to myself — so true.

Truer words were never spoken.