House Show Results from Fairfax, VA, Saturday, 09/26/1998
House Show Results from Fairfax, VA, Saturday, 09/26/1998
with pictures by Bill
Tonight's house show sponsored by the Association of Virginia Tobacco Farmers
- WCW came back for its second house show (third if you count a Thunder) in Fairfax, VA, Saturday night, and I made the trek down from Delaware to see it.
- I'm quite proud that I resisted the urge to pull over once I crossed the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and kiss Virginia soil. Viva Virginia!
- I met up at the show with some Bill guy, who runs some website.
- Dave Penzer comes out
- He pumps up the crowd, and goes over the card. The main event tonight is Sting vs. Goldberg for the World title.
- Loud pops for the Wolfpac and Goldberg when he mentions them, big boos for nWo-Hollywood.
- Penzer runs down the rules: No throwing stuff, no crossing the barriers, and no laser pens.
- Match 1: Sick Boy vs. Riggs
- Sick Boy comes out to no music.
- Riggs, however, gets both music (some "Rage Against The Machine) and a surprising face pop.
- He ruins the latter, though, by getting on the mic (!!) and running down Fairfax.
- Riggs tells Sick Boy that they don't have to wrestle tonight, and this is all Raven's fault. Raven apparently wants them to fight.
- Riggs runs Fairfax down some more, and then he and Sick Boy start to leave.
- Sick Boy moves to go with him, and then attacks Riggs.
- Riggs quickly comes back with a swinging neckbreaker, followed by a VERY sloppy back-elbow.
- Riggs unloads with a huge dropkick.
- The former Flockers brawl in the aisle, and Riggs runs Sick Boy back-first into the apron.
- In the ring, Riggs connects with a running knee in the corner.
- Riggs mounts the buckles to deliver some punches, but gets Hotshotted on the turnbuckle.
- Sick Boy gets the advantage, and hits a fistdrop.
- Sick Boy stomps a mudhole in Riggs in the corner.
- Sick Boy slingshots Riggs under the ropes, and hits his springboard back-elbow.
- They double-clothesline each other.
- Riggs starts a comeback, connecting with a dropkick on Sick Boy. I've said it before, and it bears repeating - Riggs has probably the best dropkick in the business, along with his former partner, Buff Bagwell.
- Sick Boy hits a jawbreaker, and goes for a pin with his feet on the ropes.
- The ref stops the count.
- Sick Boy hits a suplex.
- Riggs ducks a clothesline, hits the ropes, and connects with the Flying Forearm to get the win.
- Penzer plugs Nitro and Thunder.
- Match 2: Barbarian (w/o Jimmy Hart) vs. Steve McMichael
- It's fun to hear Zamfir live and in person.
- Jimmy Hart is not in the house with Barbarian.
- Mongo comes out to the old Horseman music.
- Mongo makes the rounds of the fans at ringside.
- The two take turns playing to the crowd: Barbarian will pose to boos, and Mongo will give the Four Fingers to mad cheers.
- Barbarian attacks Mongo from behind to start.
- Barbarian has the early advantage in the brawl, and chops Mongo in the corner.
- Mongo avoids Barbarian charging into the corner, and rolls him up from behind for the pin! Jeez! What a ripoff!
- Bill sums it up: "Wow. That sucked."
- Match 3: Villano IV, Villano V, and Silver King vs. Psychosis, Super Calo, and Juventud Guerrera
- Incredible. After the horrible-looking injury on Nitro, Villano IV is back wrestling. Shows what conditioning, luck, and an incredibly strong neck will do for you, I guess....
- I think the biggest treat of all tonight was listening to Bill tell the kids in front of us, as the rudos came out, "See that guy, Silver King? Well, don't be fooled by his stocky physique!" Mike Tenay, look out for your job.
- Silver King, in an attempt to bridge the gap between different cultures with different languages, communicates with the crowd using an internationally known gesture.
- Psychosis, playing the human ping-pong ball of heel/face status, comes out as a face.
- The crowd is incredibly behind the tecnico team.
- I can barely get Lucha matches down when I'm typing, so I'm not even going to TRY to do it longhand. Thus, just a few highspots on this match.
- Psychosis hits his big left-handed clothesline, and follows it up with a spinwheel kick from the top.
- IV gets the advantage on Calo, but Calo hits a nice baseball-slide dropkick.
- Juvi gets in, and headscissors King.
- IV with a nice DDT on Juvi.
- Silver King hits a nadshot on Psychosis.
- The rudos work over Psychosis, who is playing "Ricky Morton - Face in Peril" to a tee.
- Psychosis finally tags Calo, who gets low-blowed by the King.
- The rudos triple-team Calo behind the referee's back.
- Calo, though, takes out the rudos with matching enziguris.
- The rudos regain the advantage. Silver King comes back with a slam.
- Psychosis comes off the top with a bodypress on both Villanos.
- Juvi with a springboard dropkick on the King.
- King tries a powerbomb, but Juvi slides out and hits a DDT.
- Juvi reverse-superfrankensteiners Silver King, and then hits the JuviDriver for the win!
- A BIG pop for the finish.
- Post-match, Silver King gets on the mic, tells the crowd to shut up, and then leaves.
- Penzer plugs the souvenir stand.
- Match 4: Vincent vs. Konnan
- Vincent comes out, announced as Hailing From Pittsburgh, PA. That's the first time I've heard his hometown.
- This is a good time to point out how braindead the people in the sound booth have been tonight. Penzer has had a horrible time signaling them when to start and stop the music, and it's led to pretty significant delays between entrances. The record, as we saw it, was Penzer having to cue the music guy five times before he started one guy's music.
- Vince gets on the mic, and does some sort of incomprehensible trash-talking.
- Konnan comes out to some rap music - not the Wolfpac theme.
- [INSERT STANDARD KONNAN SCHTICK HERE]
- Konnan: "If you ain't down with the Wolfpac, I've got two words for you:" The crowd answers "Suck it."
- Konnan starts right away with his rolling clothesline, and then dropkicks the seated Vincent.
- Vincent tries a walkout, but decides better of it.
- Vince grabs a fan's drink as he walks back to the ring.
- Vincent goes to drink the drink on the apron, but Konnan hits him, sending Coke into the first few rows. This exact same spot used to happen with Konnan holding the beer some six months ago at the house show.
- Konnan sends Vince into the steps on the outside.
- Vincent starts a comeback, and crotch-chops the crowd. This theme would be carried over throughout the night.
- Vince pounds Konnan on Penzer's table.
- Vincent uses eyerakes to nullify Konnan's offense.
- Vincent uses a wrestling move - a clothesline.
- Vince charges the corner, but eats boot.
- Konnan badly blows what appeared to be, in theory, a bulldog, but Vincent like a trouper sells it nonetheless.
- Konnan hits a carpetmuncher, and then locks on the Tequila Sunrise for the win.
- There is now a 15-minute intermission.
- Match 5: Stevie Ray and Giant vs. Kevin Nash and Lex Luger
- nWo music brings out Stevie Ray and Big Tobacco, who is smoking a cigarette. Our section gets a laugh, if nobody else does.
- Stevie Ray gets the mic, but Giant takes it to deride a fan in the front row: "Hey, chubby, in the front row. Why don't you go on home? Isn't it time to make the donuts or something?"
- Stevie and Giant do some "We Hate Fairfax" stuff.
- Rap music brings out Nash and Luger, and I swear, these pre-teen girls in the aisle behind me nearly soil themselves with excitement, not to mention rupturing my eardrums with their squeals of joy.
- Nash informs Fairfax, VA, that the Wolfpac is in the house.
- Giant crotch-chops Nash.
- Nash gets the mic, and says: "You've got it wrong. This is how it's done."
- Nash then does a few DX-style crotch chops.
- Nash rips his Wolfpac shirt off, a-la Hogan, and does some Hoganesque "listen-for-the-cheers" motions.
- The pre-match discussion makes referee Charles Robinson look like a midget.
- Lots of stalling to start.
- Stevie and Luger get into a posedown.
- Luger shows off his abs, prompting Giant to pull his trunks down, unleashing his mighty gut.
- Stevie gets the early advantage on Luger in the corner.
- Luger, though, gets his boots up on a corner charge, and goes to work on Stevie.
- Luger with a WEAK clothesline, drawing boos from our group.
- Giant tags in. The crowd wants Nash, so Luger obliges.
- Nash pushes Giant into the corner, and gives him several knees to the gut. Giant goes down hard.
- Giant reverses an Irish whip, and hits an avalanche clothesline on Nash.
- Giant follows it with a big side kick.
- Stevie tags in.
- Big "Wolfpac" chant.
- Giant tags in, and he and Nash double-big-boot each other.
- Both men tag out.
- Luger with clotheslines, and the loaded forearm, and signals for the Rack.
- Giant prevents the Rack, but Nash sends Giant to the floor.
- Luger then racks Stevie for the submission win.
- Giant quickly leaves the ring area, looking to be in pain. Stevie follows after him. It looked like Giant's ribs were bothering him.
- Bill comments that if Dean Malenko is the Man of 1000 Holds, then that was the Match of 5 Moves.
- Penzer plugs Halloween Havoc.
- Match 6: Scott Hall (w/drink) vs. Bret Hart (w/limp)
- Scott Hall comes out to "Ready or Not" by the Fugees.
- Hall is carrying a bottle in a paper bag, and drinking from it.
- It's survey time: WCW gets big boos, nWo gets big cheers.
- In the sub-survey, nWo Hollywood gets the big boos, and the Wolfpac gets a crazy pop.
- Hart comes out, favoring his right leg.
- Hart gets on the mic, and says he has no desire to kick the crap out of a stumbling drunk. Hall is not impressed.
- Hart tells Hall to go on back to the locker room.
- Hall attacks Hart, kicking his injured leg.
- Hall sends the action to the floor, crotching Hart on the guardrail.
- Hall comes back in the ring to take a drink.
- Hall goes for a Sharpshooter, but Hart kicks him away.
- Hart hits a Russian legsweep.
- Hart locks on the Sharpshooter, and Hall submits IMMEDIATELY.
- Sheesh! That was another more-or-less non-match.
- Hall sells the effects of the Sharpshooter for about five minutes before slowly making his way to the back, bottle in hand.
- Penzer officially announces that Starrcade will be back at the MCI Center in Washington, DC, on December 27, 1998. At the time that show was run, it was the highest-grossing WCW show to date. It think it has since surpassed by a couple of shows, and the Georgia Dome show where Goldberg beat Hogan may now be number one.
- Match 7: Sting vs. WCW World Heavyweight Champion Bill Goldberg
- Sting comes out first to Wolfpac music, and gets a good crowd reaction.
- Of course, the roof comes off when Goldberg comes out.
- Curiously, Goldberg does NOT get a big police escort here.
- The world heavyweight title will be on the line tonight.
- The two shake hands to begin, and the crowd approves of the sportsmanlike gesture.
- Goldberg starts off with knees to the gut.
- Goldberg with a big powerslam.
- Sting tries for an early Scorpion, but Goldberg turns it into an anklelock.
- Sting hits a vertical suplex, but Goldberg completely no-sells it.
- Sting decides discretion is the better part of valor, and hits the floor to regroup.
- Back in the ring, Goldberg takes Sting down, and applies another anklelock.
- Sting is stuck in the hold for a while, but makes it to the ropes.
- Goldberg hits a type of superkick.
- They go outside, where Goldberg tries to run Sting into the post. Sting, though, slips out, and ends up posting the Champ instead.
- Sting whips Goldberg into the guardrail.
- Sting tries a Stinger Splash against the rail, but Goldberg moves.
- Goldberg rolls Sting back into the ring.
- Sting misses a dropkick, and Goldberg quickly scoots around behind him.
- Sting turns around, and gets flattened with the spear.
- Goldberg lifts Sting up in the Jackhammer, and it looks like a strobe light in the Patriot Center, with all of the flashbulbs going off.
- Goldberg plants Sting with the Jackhammer, and gets the pin to a HUGE ovation.
- Post-match, Goldberg helps Sting to his feet, and holds the ropes open for him.
- Sting does a point to Goldberg to a big pop, and Goldberg applauds Sting.
- Both men leave the ring together.
- And that's the show! Two and a half hours of I-95 later, and I'm back home!
