House Show Results from Shreveport, LA, Friday, July 31st, 1998
House Show Results from Shreveport, LA, Friday, July 31st, 1998
From George Bradley
- Before I typed myself to death, I read the Alexandria house show report and had
a sudden jolt of deja vu.
- Brad Armstrong vs Ernest (Cat) Miller
- This match looked just like the one that was performed here in January, earlier this year. The only difference "Cat" won with the spinning kick except he didn't jump on the top rope just in the middle of the ring.
- Silver King & Lizmark, Jr. vs Damien & Ciclope
- Another barnburner here, the usual lucha libre stuff jumping in and outside the ring. Lizmark did the suicide plancha onto the other two, then Silver King followed.
- Later, Damien pulled Lizmark's mask almost completely off, then everything went fuzzy not because of alcohol on my part because of some lost fool that couldn't find his seat. Ariba la Silver King & Lizmark won somehow probably the same way as Alexandria's show.
- I didn't hable what Damien yelled either. Probably asking which way to the border? Gorditas anyone?
- Fit Finley vs Chris Adams
- This one was so outstanding the only thing I remember is the fact that Adams won. Finley had a great moment giving an obviously svelte fan the Michelin man sign of rotating your tires. That cracked me up.
- Hacksaw vs Barry Darsow
- Duggan with the knee of death for the 123 Hooo!!!!! Is he still wrestling?
- Chris Jericho vs Dean Malenko
- Jericho talked to the ring announcer (not Penzer, some goof). Asked what city we were in (Shreveport) and is a completely dyslexic moment, he called it Shitport. Thanked everyone for coming to see him. Malenko came in wearing swimtrunks and hiking boots...guess he didn't have any quarters to clean his wrestling attire. Reminded
everyone what they came to see...Malenko kick Jericho's ass.
- Jericho charges with the belt and misses and drops it, Malenko picks it up and nails Jericho on top of the head. Here we go to the almost East Texas Clover leaf, uh oh WCW referees, break it up after a few minutes and escort Malenko backstage. A real ripoff, I was expecting an actual match.
- The 15 minute intermission, uh oh special announcement, Curt Hennig just couldn't make it. Sounds like January again. Buff subbed for him then, Hall came out for survey WCW, nWo, no wolfpack. Talked crap to Big Sexy, called himself Medium Sexy and then challlenged Nash. I really didn't care to see Mr. Perfect...his best move is the towel behind the back routine.
- Saturn vs Raven
- Raven claimed he and Saturn reunited, they embrace then Saturn nails him with the clotheline. They trade pinning predicaments. Raven gets upper hand nails Saturn with the live house mic. Great sound effects at this
moment. They go outside and Raven sets Saturn up on the announcers table. Hmmmm, here goes from the top rope, and Saturn crushes through the breakaway table. Evenflow , Raven wins. Stays around, flips Saturn crap, gets driven to Death Valley. Awesome move.
- Bret Hart vs Lex Luger
- Finally saw a great sign, "Bret Hart is a Big Nugget". Hart worked the crowd, gave his best...yadda, yadda speech. Hart dominated the match until Luger became a house of fire and landed the forearm for the prelude to the Rack. Out of nowhere came Hall, they whipped on him then Big Sexy came out to clear the ring. He grabbed the mic and asked the two faggots since they could handle two-on-one, how about a tag match. A few minutes of coaxing and golly gee we have a tag match...
- Kevin Nash and Lex Luger vs. Scott Hall and Bret Hart
- Nash and Hall to start. The toothpick trick, yuk, yuk, yuk.
- They trade punches then Nash tries to get him in the jacknife and Hall bails.
- Hart comes in and Hall is on the outside reacting to Hart getting the big knee in the corner and looking happy it wasn't him in there.
- Doubleteams from there always with the referee always oblivious.
- Finally Nash is tagged in while Hall is down. He gets up with his back turned to Wolfpack's corner. Hart yells and points behind him, he turns around to the big boot.
- Hart rushes into the torture rack. Nash gives the Wolfpack sign while setting up the Jacknife...1-2-3, Wolfpack wins.
- The best sign goes to the fan that came up with "Drunk 24:7".
- The biggest pop goes to Wolfpack.
- The best move of the night, WCW subbing Hall for Hennig helped make the show worth the money. No Goldberg or Sting, no surprise here but always hopeful.
- They improved the speakers a lot, just need to learn how to adjust the volume down a little. I am not at a Metallica concert where there is no volume, just a million decibels to make our eardrums bleed.