Wrestling Observer WCW quotes

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:49 pm

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Post by **ROHFanAnthony** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:23 am

WCW was a fucked up company in it's last year in existence to say the least. Some say they were like that throughout, but in the last year especially.

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:08 pm

No company will ever be able to reach it. Not Russo's TNA. Not AWA. Not ECW. Not Sinclair's ROH. Nobody.

Post by **ROHWorld_Steven** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:47 pm

Man, I loved that company.

Nigel LikesGuinness · Post by **Nigel LikesGuinness** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:12 pm

I read all of these the other day......I miss WCW

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:10 am

Quote #433

WORST TELEVISION ANNOUNCER

1. Dusty Rhodes

3. Eric Bischoff

4. Lee Marshall

5. Larry Zbyszko

7. Bobby Heenan

8. Tony Schiavone

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 19, 1998

Quote #434

WORST MAJOR WRESTLING CARD

1. WCW NWO SOULED OUT

2. WCW World War III

4. WCW Road Wild

5. WCW Uncensored

6. WCW Halloween Havoc

Quote #439

"John Nord beat Barbarian with the camel clutch in 5:06. AWFUL. This made made the
crowd, which started out really hot, subdued for the rest of the show" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: January 19, 1998

Quote #443

"John Nord beat Lizmark Jr. The match must have been someone's idea of a practical
joke since Nord can't have a decent match with a guy who speaks his language and
works his style. Well, nobody exactly works his style but you get my drift" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 19, 1998

Quote #441

"One of the reasons Sting-Hogan didn't get a lot of heat at Starrcade was because there
was a rumor going around the building that it wasn't the real Sting" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: January 19, 1998

Quote #445

"Starrcade destroyed WCW's all-time gate records and also set the companies all time
one-night merchandise record. The paid attendance was a company record...The show
was bad" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #446

"It would turn a great phrase to say that 16 months of work was exposed about halfway
through Sting's walk down the aisle" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29,
1997

Quote #447

"(Sting vs. Hulk Hogan) saw boring chants two minutes in" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #448

"At this point the plan was for Nick Patrick to deliver a fast count and have Sting kick out
before three, but Patrick would rule it a pin, leading to Bret Hart avenging the wrong
done to him at Survivor Series and getting the match restarted and taking over as the ref
leading to Sting winning with the scorpion submission in the middle. A funny thing
happened. Patrick didn't count fast. Why is a bigger mystery than the weird gravitational
pull from the alignment of the stars that resulted in Kevin Nash, Royce Gracie and Huntrt
Hearst Helmsley all coming up injured within days of eachother just prior to to all having
to suffer either symbolic worked or realistic beatings. You can mistime a ref bump. You
can blow a move. But how do you blow a fast count? The only reasonable answer is that
Hogan changed the spot in the ring and Patrick didn't want to cross Hogan because of all
the power that he wields. Coming off of the Hart-Michaels deal which has been the
catalyst for everything in the business since, is Bischoff, Hogan and nobody else, perhaps
Sting, decided to do a non fast count when there was supposed to be a fast count (your
head spinning yet?), but that doesn't make sense either because why did they have the
announcers sell it as a fast count the next day when it obviously wasn't and if that was
the case the guy who got screwed and made a fool of would have been Hart, who if
anything, this company wasn't trying to portray in that matter after the last company
did" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #449

"With the finish from the previous night messed up and thus really unable to ever be
shown on television, it was decided after the dust settled to change directions once
again. A rematch was held on Nitro the next night in Baltimore, with the gimmick being
that the finish wouldn't be shown on television. So on Nitro the next night, about six
minutes into the rematch, the show abruptly went off the air. Naturally there were more
complaints about this the next day at Turner Broadcasting than anything WCW has ever
pulled in history" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #451

"This actually would be the earliest the show had gone off the air in recent memory
despite having nothing but the Nitro replay to follow on TNT and it being billed as the
biggest match in Nitro history" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #452

"Going into the match with what was said to have been a serious knee injury, perhaps a
broken knee cap that may require surgery, Bischoff did reasonably well for his first pro
wrestling match. However, it was nothing close to reasonably well for the semi-main
event of the biggest show in company history" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
December 29, 1997

Quote #453

"To make things worse, on a night where so much went wrong, in the finish, where
Bischoff was supposed to kick Zbyszko in the head with a loaded kick pad with Scott Hall
putting an object in the pad, the object went flying out of Bischoff's kick pad into the air
just before the kick made contact with Zbyszko's head. Zbyszko had to sell that blow as
a knockout" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #454

"As for the big question about Thursday, well, if you've got any good ideas for a Thursday
night show, email them to Eric quickly" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December
29, 1997

Quote #455

"Scott Hall came out and did the survey and then said that Kevin Nash wouldn't be there.
Hall gave no explanation at all. Earlier in the show the announcers said that Nash
wouldn't be on the show, but also gave no explanation. For whatever reason, Giant came
out and looked like he hadn't slept in a week" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
December 29, 1997

Quote #456

"On the pre-game show, Bobby Heenan and Tony Schiavone were running the show
down. This was probably taped a few weeks ago though in the commentary they made it
seem like they were doing it live across the street from the building. It was clearly taped
before Heenan turned NWO for a week. Heenan was cheerleading for WCW, running
down the NWO. He was also talking about doing commentary on the show (which he
didn't). It was one of those storyline snafus that are becoming more prevalent. The
Nash-Giant match was heavily pushed on the pre-game show despite word being out that
it wasn't taking place" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #457

"Randy Savage & Vincent & Scott Norton beat the Steiner Brothers & Ray Traylor. Match
was unusually bad" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #457

"Randy Savage & Vincent & Scott Norton beat the Steiner Brothers & Ray Traylor. Match
was unusually bad" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #460

"You haven't lived until you have seen McMichael and Hammer do a post match brawl" -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #462

"Then came the NWO take-over, and after 25 minutes of that we got yet another Bischoff
interview where he gave Hogan two motorcycles and a limo for Christmas" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #463

"They ended the show with yet another Bischoff & Hogan interview. This time someone
brought Hogan a present which he thought was from Bischoff, but Bischoff denied it. At
this point Bret Hart came out in the NWO limo, Hogan opened the present and it was a
(replica of) Hogan's head. Hogan freaked out, Hart laughed, and Sting came flying into
the ring (on a rope)" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 29, 1997

Quote #467

"Steve McMichael was supposed to wrestle Meng. Thankfully that never happened" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 22, 1997

Quote #468

"The show was supposed to end with the angle where Sting laid out every member of the
NWO except Bischoff and Hogan who escaped unscathed. Because so many fans were
hitting the ring, they ran out of time and Sting didn't make it to the ring on time. When
Bischoff in the ring realized the angle was blown, he very audibly swore, and then totally
freaked out in the ring not realizing that there was a live mic picking it up and it went
over the air since there was no seven second delay. He had his head in his hands when
the camera came back on him after the swearing" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
December 22, 1997

Quote #469

"During the show they plugged a cruiserweight title match with Guerrero defending the
title against Dragon, and for whatever reason with no explanation the match never took
place" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 22, 1997

Quote #476

"A Sting mannequin sped down from the ceiling. When they went to beat the doll up, it
was a real life human they dragged to the ropes that pretended to be the doll. As Hogan
made fun of the dummy, the dummy unmasked, revealing real Sting, and unable to
unhook himself while beating up the NWO (he) looked ridiculous" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: December 15, 1997

Quote #481

"Tenay and Schiavone then began extolling the virtues on Larry Zbyszko, who now that
he's retired has become a cross between Jack Brisco and Royce Gracie as a master
submission expert. They talked about him being a wrestler at Penn State (Well, when he
was in high school he once went to a wrestling clinic there) and beating Sammartino at
Shea Stadium (Well, at least he was actually in that match). I'm surprised they didn't
bring up how he tapped out Royce and shot on Thesz in a double cross if they are going
to make things up like that" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 15, 1997

Quote #483

"Glacier & Ernest Miller wrestled Harlem Heat and as Miller was pinned, Glacier didn't
even try to make the save. He then grabbed the house mic and said that it was payback
for being late to the airport earlier" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 08,
1997

Quote #485

"Hogan is trying to get Yokozuna into WCW. Remember, he still has a win he needs to
get back" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 08, 1997

BONUS NON-NUMBERED QUOTE

"Jim Herd was hosting a press conference at CNN Center and said he was trying to
negotiate the rights to use names of famous movie characters that Ted Turner owns and
introduce them as wrestling characters. An example he gave was if they could find a 6'5"
275 man with one leg, they could bring him in as Long John Silver. He also wondered if
Rhett Butler could pin Ric Flair" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 05, 1990

BONUS NON NUMBERED QUOTE

"There is a method to Jim Herd's madness about bringing in Long John Silver that no one
seems to realize. He's the perfect contender to Ric Flair's title, because Long John Silver
would be immune to the effects of the figure four leglock" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: March 26, 1990

Quote #414

"Still, this was only the second lamest announcing comment of the week, as nothing
could touch Stagger Lee Marshall's contention that the Lucha Libre style is very similar to
Jiu Jitsu on Thunder two nights earlier" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February
02, 1998

Quote #415

"At best, Luger vs. Savage was a distant fourth in interest level. Obviously it went on last
anyway because that was the match where Hogan was going to get involved" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 02, 1998

Quote #418

"As Zbyszko was laying there to get sympathy, a huge 'Larry Sucks' chant started again"
- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 02, 1998

Quote #419

"Nash actually tried a pescado, but his legs caught the top rope going over" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 02, 1998

Quote #421

"Liz's offense was better than half the guys in the promotion" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: February 02, 1998

Quote #423

"Mongo did an interview, leading to Davey Boy Smith coming out and issuing a challenge
for later in the show. Whose idea of a practical joke was that?" - The Wrestling Observer

Newsletter: February 02, 1998

Quote #427

"Davey Boy Smith pinned Mongo in 3:02 with what could loosely be described as a
powerslam. - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 02, 1998

Quote #432

"Lex Luger beat Scott Hall via DQ in a DUD match including the worst reverse atomic
drop of the past five years (usually Luger's miss by about a foot, but this missed by far
more)" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 02, 1998

Quote #387

"Ray Traylor clotheslined Scott Steiner into a pool. The people backstage were freaking
because the pool was supposed to be saved for Hall & Nash. Steiner came out of the pool
all wet and got into the ring and wrestled, leaving water spots everywhere" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 23, 1998

Quote #390

"Luger looks like a Greek statue, except a Greek statue has more wrestling moves" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 23, 1998

Quote #393

"The Giant challenged 8 men in the NWO to a handicap match. After head butting
everyone, he powerbombed Konnan in 1:23 for the DQ and was arrested and his hands
put in a chain. Nash came out and threw coffee in his face, so he broke the cuffs and ran
Nash off. The tried to sell this for the rest of the show as the greatest moment in sports
history" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 23, 1998

Quote #394

"Bischoff and Hogan did an interview saying that Savage brought his wife, now his ex-

wife, into the dressing room to be one of the boys, and she she was there she 'did' the
boys. Savage had already done a deal Thursday saying to Hogan if you want to know
who the real man is, 'ask your wife'. It got better later in the show when Hogan said that
he was the only reason Savage's mom and dad had a house and made some reference to
Savage's brother (Lanny Poffo) with a limp wrist as to indicate whatever a limp wrist is
supposed to indicate" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 16, 1998

Quote #395

"Despite rumors to the contrary, Bischoff has no interest in signing Ahmed Johnson.
Johnson did propose the idea of doing a program against Goldberg. Can you even
imagine that one?" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 16, 1998

Quote #396

"At one point Savage said that he was going to crush Brian Adams, and at that point
everyone couldn't stop laughing" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 16, 1998

Quote #397

"The entire show was built around Hogan and Savage trying to get the Harvard Lampoon
Man of the Year Award" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 16, 1998

Quote #400

"Bulldog is trying to break DiMaggio's streak for most consecutive horrible matches" -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 09, 1998

Quote #402

"In the leave your brain at the office match, Nash was DQ'd against Raven in a NO-DQ
match for giving two power bombs to Lodi and getting arrested" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: March 09, 1998

Quote #409

"As usual, McMichael was awful. DUD" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 02,
1998

Quote #410

"With the match at its most pathetic, Tony Schiavone screamed about how this was
Hogan at his best" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 02, 1998

Quote #412

"They had throughout the show teased a new member of the nWo. Out came a bearded
Ed Leslie" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 02, 1998

Quote #361

"Curt Hennig and Brian Adams beat Smith and Neidhart in 10:02. This was horrible on

many levels. Poor Tony Schiavone was pushing for all he was worth to sell the previous
match on Thunder, which was the worst match in the history of the show, as a classic.
Then the match started and it was as bad as the previous match. This was not a night to
be at the Miami Arena. By the grace of God they went to a long commercial break and we
had a choice of watching ads for a movie, hearing John Lithgow talk about dialing 10-321
to at least give us a tip on saving money, or watching Raw where Austin and McMahon
were drawing ratings records. The poor fans in Miami had to watch the match, which
consisted of one long headlock. When they came back, there was a ref bump, loud boring
chants, Bulldog's knee was out, Neidhart was hurt and mercifully they went to the finish"
- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 13, 1998

Quote #362

"Nash came out looking mighty fried with his brain obviously somewhere other than the
interview as he babbled on about almost nothing. He made a shoot comment, while
wearing a Savage t-shirt, that if he wears a shirt or anyone for too long they get fired" -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 13, 1998

Quote #363

"The Tampa show was a pay-per-listen which only attracted 700 buys" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: April 13, 1998

Quote #367

"To make it complete deja vu, Doug Dillinger then used the (handcuff) key to unlock
Neidhart. It was explained that Dillinger always keeps the spare key (in his pants). Try to
make logic out of that. Like WCW issues out handcuffs before every Nitro to Rude but
Dillinger always keeps a key. Everyone and everything about this angle is sinking like
they are working in quicksand" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 06, 1998

Quote #368

"Nash & Savage beat Sting & Luger in 6:26. Fairly bad" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: April 06, 1998

Quote #369

"After the commercial break, they showed back up and Piper beat Hogan in 5:05 of a
match that was horrible. The ring was filling with garbage" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: April 06, 1998

Quote #371

"God was Heenan bad, talking about how Iaukea had just gotten back from Japan where
he had gone undefeated (which was months ago, he has been on WCW every week as of
late) and called him Prince King" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 06, 1998

Quote #372

"Bulldog & Neidhart NC Hennig & Adams. More quicksand. The bell rang for no reason
and they all had a lousy brawl to the back. A worst match of the year candidate in
another year. This year maybe it is just the worst match of the week" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: April 06, 1998

Quote #373

"Rick Steiner pinned Scott Norton in a clumsy awful match. Scott Steiner came to
ringside and threw a dog collar to Norton. Rick got it away as he was supposed to, then
went to punch Norton, but froze realizing that wasn't the spot planned. It looked really
bad. He then clumsily let Norton pick him up for the back suplex where he could punch
Norton a few times to lead to the pin" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 06,
1998

Quote #376

"Hogan gets worse by the week. It's amazing to see a bout where it improved 200%
when Nash tagged in" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 30, 1998

Quote #379

"I'm just wondering who in power got caught with marital indiscretion that Prince Iaukea
has photos of" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 30, 1998

Quote #382

"Gene Okerlund interviewed J.J. Dillon who tried to give credibility to one of those
nonsensical WCW storylines. In this one, the powerbomb was ruled legal, but only for the

Giant vs. Nash match on the show. The reason? Because The Giant asked for it to be
legal. And of course as it turns out, the move was never used during the match" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 23, 1998

Quote #354

"Warrior got lost in mid thought and walked around silently for nearly one minute of dead
time, and then said something about patience being a virtue" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: August 31, 1998

Quote #356

"Luger beat Brian Adams. Match was so boring that if you look up boring in your
computer dictionary, they'll be playing round the clock tapes of it" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: August 31, 1998

Quote #358

"Hogan & Giant vs. Goldberg & Nash ended up with half the world interfering right in
front of the ref and a pinfall counted (anyway)" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
August 31, 1998

Quote #359

"Okerland was talking about Giant weighing 541 and Stevie Ray weighing 303, and then
mentioned Giant having a 190 pound weight advantage" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: August 31, 1998

Quote #310

"Eddie Guerrero did an interview and said he was going to wrestle because he didn't want
to get sued by Bischoff. He then did a match with Brian Adams where he laid on the
ground and covered up and basically did nothing, and began the systematic destruction
of the live TV show as he got pinned in 2:23. The crowd live hated this. But it got worse.
Ernest Miller pinned Scott Riggs in 2:38. Fans were booing this bad, especially when
Riggs was selling kicks that were badly missing. The finishing kick was so bad that Riggs
was smart enough to kick out of it and they went to the same finish about 15 seconds
later for the pin. Konnan, is his home town, beat Marty Jannetty in 9:07. Konnan sold
almost the entire match. The only thing notable is Jannetty got his first haircut in 18
years and looked like a new person. The problem is nobody recognized who this new
person was and the fans who were really into Konnan were not enjoying this aging gigolo
David Cassidy at 40 looking pretty boy whipping on their guy in a match that felt like it
lasted six weeks" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 07, 1998

Quote #314

"A bunch of steam came out so Warrior was supposed to come out, but the steam got
out too fast. The NWO guys came out, and right before we were going to see the Hogan
vs. Hart showdown, more steam came. When it cleared, Hart had disappeared" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 07, 1998

Quote #315

"Sting signed a new seven figure contract and no longer wants to work on Thursdays" -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 07, 1998

Quote #317

"Page did an interview claiming he brought in Rodman and Leno. Warrior said he didn't.
Reminds of when Cactus Jack did that stupid angle where he had amnesia. He knew it
was so lame that he finally did an interview saying of course he didn't have amnesia and
it was all to fool whoever he was fueding with. For the next six months after the
interview, Schiavone would still bring up how he had amnesia" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: September 07, 1998

Quote #318

"Goldberg vs. Giant was advertised as the main event of both Terre Haute and Peoria.
Some time back, Goldberg had asked for those days off and and J.J. Dillon gave him the
days off. Somehow, with the typical great communication internally, the promotions
department never knew and continued to advertise him. Nobody knew there was a
problem until the day of the Terre Haute show when they realized the only match
advertised was Goldberg vs. The Giant and Goldberg wasn't there. The deal turned into a
disaster as the original thinking was that maybe 40 percent of the 7,000+ who paid
would actually go to the box office the week after the show and ask for refunds. As it

turned out, all but 1,800 got refunds so the idea of doing what they did in Providence
was ruled out although WCW again didn't do itself any favors by booking a secure return
date that fans could use those tickets for instead of refunding them. So instead, the
decision was made to not inform the crowd in Terre Haute about Goldberg not being
there, and to basically warm up all the cars and all sprint out of the building like Earl
Hebner in Montreal the minute the Page-Hennig match was over and before anyone in
the crowd realized what was up and started throwing furniture" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: September 07, 1998

Quote #322

"The cage lowered. The steam came flying and when it cleared, Giant was asleep,
Warrior was sitting in a chair in the ring and Hogan ran away, although not before
Warrior hit Hogan with a chair shot that looked right out of a bad first day of wrestling
school" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 14, 1998

Quote #323

"Benoit is about four week from being ready to wrestle again. He was at Nitro and very
unhappy since he was flown in for the show and then told he wasn't going to be a part of
it" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 14, 1998

Bonus Non-Numbered Quote

"A popular Cincinnati radio station ran a contest where the 13th caller would win free
tickets to Thunder. There was no winner, as the station didn't receive 13 calls" -
Wrestling Observer Live (Bad News Allan episode)

Quote #337

"Jericho was supposed to wrestle Wrath, but he got lost and locked out of the building.
Two major problems. Someone forgot to lock the door so when Jericho tried to open it, it
actually opened and he had to close it fast and pound on it again. When Wrath got there
and chased Jericho, the camera stayed on for too long and you could actually see Wrath
not only catch Jericho, but run right by him and pass him without touching him" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 21, 1998

Quote #338

"Mongo was carried out on a stretcher. Unfortunately, they didn't take him to a wrestling
school" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 21, 1998

Quote #344

"Nitro was so bad, and granted Nitro is bad a lot of weeks, but this came off as a show
that will start the erosion of the business over the long haul" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: September 28, 1998

Quote #345

"Nitro opened with Hall showing up acting like he was loaded and Doug Dillinger trying to
sober him up. They went to the ring. It filled with steam. Disciple was there when the
ring cleared asleep on the mat. Hogan and the NWO B&W showed up trying to recapture
the prisoner but the dreaded, and I do mean dreaded, steam came. It must not have
been the crippling variety of the nerve gas since nobody else fell asleep this time. The
Disciple was gone when the smoke cleared. Warrior was then in the rafters with this
blow-up doll dressed up like the Disciple. This was lame. We were supposed to think,
since they didn't do close ups, that this doll was the same Disciple that was just in the
ring...Actually I think at this point Bischoff was using the show as a model for his new
book 'How to Kill the most rabid live crowd" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
September 28, 1998

Quote #346

"Hogan went to his dressing room. Warrior had it spray painted and there were small
fires everywhere. Disciple was passed out in the bathroom. At this point, Bischoff was
retitling his book 'How to Kill the Biggest Wrestling Company in the World" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 28, 1998

Quote #347

"Alex Wright came out and said he was sick of WCW. At this point, he's not exactly
alone" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 28, 1998

Quote #349

"At this point I was trying to find some form of entertainment out of this show so I
decided to count the moves Ernest Miller would miss in this match. So he picks this night
not to miss any. There was no way to have fun watching this show" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: September 28, 1998

Quote #350

"Main event saw Nash & Luger no decision with Giant & Stevie Ray. Can somebody get
Bobby Walker to drop his lawsuit so we don't have to watch Stevie Ray in the main
events. Beyond terrible" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 28, 1998

Quote #352

"Warrior came out with Disciple,who at this time was awake and wearing an OWN
insignia on his jacket. After the show went off the air, they finished with Disciple hitting
the ring and beating up Hogan while the crowd booed both guys and chanted 'Nitro
sucks'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 28, 1998

Quote #353

"WCW Saturday Night was taped on 9/22. All the results are elsewhere and it was so bad
it isn't even worth wasting space on" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September
28, 1998

Quote #244

"The Giant was paying so much attention at one point that he forgot to kick out of a near
fall" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 11, 1998

Quote #248

"Alex Wright vs. Barry Horowitz went 3:32 with no finish as the Wolfpac just showed up,
Wright left, and Nash patted Horowitz on the back" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
November 16, 1998

Quote #249

"Eric (Bischoff) and Elizabeth did an interview. If you thought the Hogan segment was
bad, this was all time bad, ranking up with the segment where Roddy Piper fought his
buddies for 18:00. They hired three stunt men to act as nerdy execs for Eric to bully. Eric
ended up punching one and kicked the other two. The blows looked horrible and their
selling of the those was blows was like all-time worst in history" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: November 16, 1998

Quote #251

"Let's see, they've (Scott Steiner & Biff Bagwell) got a title shot right there live for the
tag titles against a 55 year-old woman who went into the ring in street clothes and
wearing earings, and they walked out. Judy then cut this terrible promo. Anyway, they're
going to do a tag title match on the PPV with Rick & Rudy defending the belts, being that
the only one of the four who is actually healthy enough to wrestle is Judy" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 16, 1998

Quote #254

"Just five days before the World War III PPV in Auburn Hills, MI, there are only two
matches announced for the show with no episodes of Nitro left to promote them" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 23, 1998

Quote #255

"You haven't lived until you've seen Saturn and Hector Garza's attempts at brawling" -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 23, 1998

Quote #256

"Buff & Scott Steiner brought out a guy in drag as Rick & Scott's mom. Buff started
beating her up. Scott said it would be okay. Rick came out and said it wasn't his Mom,
and pulled the wig and dress off" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 23,
1998

Quote #257

"Hogan came out still running for President. They brought out a chunky Monica Lewinsky
lookalike as Hogan's 'intern' and she pulled a cigar out of her bra. She went to leave and
Bobby Heenan made a remark about having to roll her out in a wheelbarrow" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 23, 1998

Quote #258

"Bret Hart nearly gave up his Calgary Sun column which everyone found so perversely
entertaining because he tried to make sense out of his own character's storylines in
WCW" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 23, 1998

Quote #258

"Bret Hart nearly gave up his Calgary Sun column which everyone found so perversely
entertaining because he tried to make sense out of his own character's storylines in
WCW" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 23, 1998

Quote #260

"Glacier did the Asiatic Spike and none of the announcers had a clue what to say.
Eventually Lee Marshall named it the 'choked out by Glacier hold'." - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: November 23, 1998

Quote #261

"Stevie Ray vs. Van Hammer was so horrible that it really has to be seen to be believed"
- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 30, 1998

Quote #264

"Warrior showed up without the steam, as I hope they've learned that nerve gas kills
ratings. Unfortunately, as this reaction showed, it wasn't the nerve gas, it's Warrior
himself. He immediately was being booed out of the place with loud "Warrior Sucks"
chants. A fan hit the ring in the middle of his interview and again he forgot what he was
supposed to say" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 05, 1998

Quote #266

"Hogan and Hart laughed together. Luger & Konnan came out for the save but it just got
weird and fell apart at this point. The lights went out. Warrior was supposed to do a run-
in. They never got him in the ring to begin with due to massive miscommunication. The
show just went off the air three minutes early" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
October 05, 1998

Quote #266

"Hogan and Hart laughed together. Luger & Konnan came out for the save but it just got
weird and fell apart at this point. The lights went out. Warrior was supposed to do a run-
in. They never got him in the ring to begin with due to massive miscommunication. The
show just went off the air three minutes early" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
October 05, 1998

Quote #272

"In the United Kingdom, they are now airing Thunder right after Nitro on Friday Nights.
It's about a four-and-a-half hour nightly block of WCW which is said at this point to be
pure torture" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 05, 1998

Quote #275

"The only report we had from Erie is that WCW forgot to get plane tickets for the Mexican
wrestlers" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 05, 1998

Quote #279

"Nitro on 10/5 in Columbia, SC drew a sellout. Fans live hated the show and were booing
heavily at the end. The show opened with laughter. Laughter (which) is part of a cross
promotion for the "Bride of Chuckie" movie" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
October 12, 1998

Quote #281

"They taped a Warrior interview. Warrior was there, but after the previous week they
didn't dare put him before a live crowd so everyone could see him get booed out of the
place. Even taped and pre-produced, his interview still sucked" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: October 12, 1998

Quote #282

"Hogan ran around backstage looking for his estranged Disciple. He wound up in his
dressing room and saw Warrior in the mirror. Hogan started talking to him. Now we all
saw Warrior in the mirror as well, even though it was supposed to be Hogan's dream.
Bischoff couldn't see him and thought Hogan was going nuts. Warrior disappeared, but
Hogan still saw him" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 12, 1998

Quote #285

"The show ended with Sting vs. Hart. The entire match took place backstage which
infuriated the crowd as they didn't have any bigscreens in the building" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: October 12, 1998

Quote #286

"The worst part was when Sting finally got the scorpion on Hart and Zbyszko started

claiming it wasn't being applied properly, so he and Schiavone had this discussion about
the finer points of the Scorpion while Bret Hart was selling it like it was the end of his
career" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 12, 1998

Quote #287

"The main event on the 9/27 show in Erie, PA wound up as Hall vs. Nash, and it barely
took place as Nash refused to wrestle Hall while he was drunk and walked off for the
count out" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 12, 1998

Quote #289

"Barry Darsow (doing his golfer gimmick) was supposed to wrestle Hammer, and blew it
off saying that he had an early tee time and left. ...Scott Steiner then yelled over the p.a.
at the crowd 'Blow me'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 12, 1998

Quote #290

"Finale saw a rematch with Bulldog and Wright going to a double count out in 2:00. It
was supposed to go longer and have a different finish, but they ran out of tape and just
signaled for the guys to go home" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 12,
1998

Quote #291

"Dale Torborg came out wearing a race car driver pit crew outfit which might as well
have had the word 'jobber' written on it. Poor Torborg in his Nitro debut not only got
booed out of the building as a babyface against Kendall Windham, but looked terrible and
then blew out his knee doing his finisher. Mike Tenay praised him as one of the best
wrestlers to come out of the Power Plant. That's a recommendation the facility certainly
didn't need" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 19, 1998

Quote #292

"Warrior came out, and was booed out of the place, and asked Sting to let him be his
partner in a tag team match. Sting never even accepted before the segment ended, but
they just pretended that he did" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 19, 1998

Quote #293

"Judy Bagwell has clearly gotten carried away with her TV stardom as she had a make-
over and a new look. Scott Steiner gave him (Buff) a low blow and dropped him throat
first on the top rope. This should have gotten super heat considering Bagwell's injury but
it got no heat at all because by this time nobody actually believes Bagwell was even hurt
in the first place. Judy did the angle no favors by laughing right into the camera as
Marcus was doing a great sell job" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 19,
1998

Quote #295

"In the high point of the show, Gene Okerlund interviewed Rick Steiner, who had a verbal
duel with the puppet Chucky. Poor Steiner having to be put in a position to challenge a
puppet to fight" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 19, 1998

Quote #296

"Warrior nerve gassed all of them. For whatever reason, they didn't sell the nerve gas.
So Sting came out with two baseball bats to clean house while Warrior was laying on the
floor trying to catch his breath after all that exertion" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: October 19, 1998

Quote #300

"Disciple did the funniest interview of the year. He tried to be a face but nobody cheered
him. He let people in on the big secret. Hogan gets guys who have no business in the
company jobs because they are his friends. He mentioned he wasn't one of them,
because as we all know, he was a big enough star without anyone's help. But he pointed
out that Hogan's nephew Horace and challenged him. You could have heard a pin drop.
Disciple got the pin with the world's slowest stunner in 1:46. Horace jumped him after
the match. Hold off your votes for feud of the year" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
October 26, 1998

Quote #302

"The announcers were paying to much attention to the match that they didn't even
realize La Parka had turned on his teammates" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
October 26, 1998

Quote #305

"Nash was pretending to be drunk, as was Hall. When finally tagged in, Nash acted as if
being drunk was all an act, and then just as the match was getting heat, the bell rang for
absolutely no reason" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 26, 1998

Quote #306

"Both Hogan and Warrior merchandise can't even be given away" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: October 26, 1998

Quote #233

"Leno asked Hogan if he had any Presidential campaign issues ("flat tax brother"). Leno
asked him what the flat tax should be. Hogan stuttered before coming up with 16
percent. When Leno asked him how he got that number, he stuttered again and
mumbled something about 16 percent being higher than 15 percent" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: December 7, 1998

Quote #235

"Scott Steiner showed up to plead guilty to terroristic threats. Paul Kaspereen, a worker
with the Georgia Department of Transportation, was directing traffic and wouldn't let
Steiner's car into a closed lane. Steiner climbed out of his truck and said "Move or I will
run you over". Steiner got back in the car and drove it, hitting Kaspareen lightly. He then
told him again to move or he'd run him over, and then hit him a second time. Steiner's
attorney told the judge that he plead guilty only because he thought the jury might
convict him because of his wrestling heel character" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: December 7, 1998

Quote #239

"At one point, Scott Hall wrecked three cars in a month and two within 24 hours" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 14, 1998

Quote #241

"Misterio beat Villano V. With Mike Tenay not out there, Tony Schiavone and Lee Marshall
didn't know if it was Villano IV or Villano V. As if the roman numeral on the trunks isn't a
dead giveaway" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 14, 1998

Quote #242

"Tupelo show was a mess as they were stalling for Giant to be released from Prison. They
had Silver King & Lizmark Jr. vs. Ciclope & Damian go 20:00, then Prince Auekea vs. Lodi
go 20:00 and then did a 30:00 intermission. They wound up having Ciclope come out
again without his mask as Elvis Gonzalez and do a job for Chris Adams" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: December 14, 1998

Quote #79

"There was a ton of heat on Luger and Giant for the deal they pulled at the 1/5 tapings in
Gainesville, GA. Giant came out in his jeans, not even getting dressed, for his main event
with Luger. They got in the ring and Giant just lied down and both laughed." - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 18, 1999

Quote #83

"Michael Buffer came out for absolutely no reason. See, he was there to announce the
main event. But get this, there was no main event. Flair, at this moment, fell out of the
turnip truck, grabbed a hoe and kept falling down" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

February 22, 1999

Quote #92

"Goldberg was originally scheduled against Bigelow., who is out with minor elbow
surgery. They had planned to do the first ever Goldberg vs. (Bret) Hart match as a
replacement however things got screwed up. Hart was in Toronto doing promotion for
Nitro and was supposed to get picked up and taken to the airport. His ride never came." -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 05, 1999

Quote #93

"There will be an open change on WCW Saturday Night to go along with all the visual
changes on Nitro. The changes in Nitro remind me of putting a nice, fresh coat of paint
on a house that had just been hit by a Tornado" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
April 12, 1999

Quote #97

"Chris Benoit was on FAN in Toronto and asked if he thought that there was a conspiracy
to destroy the company from within. He said 'It appears that way'." - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: April 12, 1999

Quote #101
"Flair was committed (to a mental hospital on Nitro Monday). On Thursday's Thunder
they announce he's out of the mental hospital and backstage making changes on the
card. On Sunday he wrestles in Minneapolis. But on Monday, one week later, he's been in
the nut house for the entire week and still there, running around in the same underwear
like he never left" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 03, 1999

Quote #103
"WCW is coming out with Goldberg, Hogan, Savage and Sting Air Fresheners. And Nash.
The company that is marketing them wanted the first four. WCW begged them to include
Nash." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 10, 1999

Quote #103
"WCW is coming out with Goldberg, Hogan, Savage and Sting Air Fresheners. And Nash.
The company that is marketing them wanted the first four. WCW begged them to include
Nash." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 10, 1999

Quote #111

"In an employees meeting the week before the Vegas show, Bischoff told everyone that
because of the new set, graphics, open and music, Nitro would do a 7.0" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: April 19, 1999

Quote #112

"They are going to send DJ Ran to house shows thinking it will help attendance" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 7, 1999

Quote #117

"Hogan came back and suggested doing an old vs. new angle, largely because he wants
to shoot on the new guys for never drawing money"- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
June 7, 1999

Quote #120

"WCW announced the signing of rap star Master P. P will appear at major television
tapings including the Nitro at the Georgia Dome and The New Orleans Superdome. P
bragged in a conversation that his appearing would sell out both shows." - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: June 14, 1999

Quote #122

"Bischoff said the Higher Power was initialed VM and that on the other station they just
keep recycling the same crap. Bischoff figured it was VM, but didn't know. Backstage
when Raw was on and so many people were watching Raw instead of paying attention to
their own live show, he was relieved that it was VM so he didn't look bad" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: June 14, 1999

Quote #126

"Savage's girls seduced Savage. Stupid Nash jumped into the limo and they slammed the
door. Savage drove it a few yards and jumped out and a Hummer ran into the limo. They
spent $100,000 to get a 2.7 quarter" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 14,
1999

Quote #127

"Ted Dibiase, who is still under contract although he is never used, was asked to come
back and manage Van Hammer" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 14, 1999

Quote #130

"The Great American Bash can be summed up in five words: This one was real bad" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 21, 1999

Quote #132

"Thursday was supposed to be a grudge Flair vs. Benoit lumberjack match. However,
WCW forgot to tell Flair he was booked. Jason Hervey was in Charlotte at request of
management and they gave Flair off Thunder because they were producing an upcoming
Flair home video, but never informed the people writing the show about Flair having the
day off. When they panicked since Flair wasn't there at 6pm, they called him and told
him to get to Syracuse. At the cost of thousands of dollars, they chartered a flight from
Charlotte to Syracuse to get Flair to Thunder, but due to the weather problems it couldn't
get off the ground until 7pm. The show was put together with the idea that Flair would do
several interviews building to the Benoit match. So virtually the entire Thunder show was
filling time. Flair finally arrived at 9:55pm, but they had already changed plans for the
show because they had to be off the air at 10:03pm because TBS decreed that the Chimp
movie had to start on time. When Flair got there, they told him he wasn't needed and to
go right back home. So, as a panic move, the decision was made to turn the Kanyon-
Saturn singles match into a tag title match. However, Bam Bam Bigelow wasn't there
either, so Kanyon defended the titles with Page with zero explanation given to have this
make sense. It wasn't even announced as a title match until about a minute left" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 21, 1999

Quote #135

"There will be a Nitro Girls in bikinis PPV on 8/2. It makes perfect sense to put a PPV on a
Monday Night" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 28, 1999

Quote #136

"Bret Hart is planning on returning at the (big Georgia Dome show). In WCW's infinite
wisdom on Nitro this week, they never once mentioned Hart was coming back but did do

an angle to build for the Ernest Miller vs. Jerry Flynn match for the show" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: June 28, 1999

Quote #141

"Also on the show is Disco Inferno vs. Ernest Miller with the loser not being able to dance
anymore. The plan is that Miller would win but that Disco would still dance anyway and
they'd just ignore the stipulation" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: July 12, 1999

Quote #142

"Buff has got to be the geekiest babyface in the business. He was kissing up to the crowd
unmercifully. At the end, Buff told them to hit his music, and they didn't" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: July 12, 1999

Quote #145

"A ridiculously brutal Hardcore Battle Royal cost more than $100,000 to produce, was
hyped so poorly it didn't result in one added buy, was so poorly lit it was nearly
impossible to watch on television, and resulted in several needless injuries for wrestlers
taking crazy bumps that didn't even get over because of how it was shot" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: July 19, 1999

Quote #147

"Judy Bagwell chased Ric Flair around the ring" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: July
19, 1999

Quote #151

"I had (a conversation) pointing out to someone in WCW that something on the last PPV
made no sense in the storyline, and the response was 'with our buyrates, nobody sees
the PPVs anyway'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 02, 1999

Quote #154

"Lash Leroux wrestled Prince Iaukea for 50 seconds. Those 50 seconds were enough for
1.2 million households to switch over (to Raw)" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
August 02, 1999

Quote #157

"On a radio show this week, the host brought up that the Nitro main event lost to the
Raw main event by a full four ratings points. Hogan's response was that it was Benoit,
Malenko, Saturn and Douglas that brought the rating down and he had to make up for
lost ground" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 02, 1999

Quote #158

"For the record, the quarter with Benoit, Malenko, Saturn and Douglas drew a 3.3
quarter. The final quarter (Hogan vs. Sid) did a 2.9" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: August 02, 1999

Quote #181

"Sid is now 55-0, even though he loses nearly every house show match and has been on
the losing side of tag team matches nearly every week on Nitro" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: August 23, 1999

Quote #182

"Lash Leroux and Juventud Guerrera were having a good match until Sid beat both guys
up and said that he'd going to do so all night long until Hogan gave him a title match.
They already announced the title match at the start of the show" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: August 23, 1999

Quote #182

"Lash Leroux and Juventud Guerrera were having a good match until Sid beat both guys
up and said that he'd going to do so all night long until Hogan gave him a title match.
They already announced the title match at the start of the show" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: August 23, 1999

Quote #189

"After seeing (swollen) Bigelow's face, I think I'd rather get in a street fight than have a
nice worked match with Stevie Ray" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 23,
1999

Quote #194

"Christian York & Joey Matthews were told they didn't have to move to Atlanta or start
going to the Power Plant yet, but they'll probably have to start going in six months. For
now they are getting paid for doing nothing" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
August 6, 1999

Quote #196

"WCW bought those rights (to the Gorgeous George name) to give to Lanny Poffo years
ago but they never wound up using him. Poffo is still under a $75,000 per year contract
with the company" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 6, 1999

Quote #197

"In this weeks edition of the sins coming home to roost, Nitro drew only 3,818 paid to
the 16,483-seat Miami Arena for the fourth Anniversary of Nitro. In honor of it being the
fourth anniversary, WCW put on a show that when it was over, made you feel like you'd

been watching this show alone for about two years. Suffice to say, it was one of the
worst Nitros ever. The fans watching the show were like those Pom Pom girls in the
Starburst commercial whose football players got beat up by the other school's mascot" -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 13, 1999

Quote #198

"Vampiro put Karagias in something resembling a hypnotic trance and Evan stood there
and got beat" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 13, 1999

Quote #199

"At least when WWF does a nutty stalker in the crowd gimmick, they have an idea where
they are going with it" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 13, 1999

Quote #200

"At this point in the show, the guy on the 1-800-CALL-ATT commercial was the most
charismatic performer on the show" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 13,
1999

Quote #203

"The piano man played. The fat lady was singing, although she's been doing that for a
few weeks now" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 13, 1999

Quote #205

"Booker T's contract earns him more per year than Ric Flair's" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: August 13, 1999

Quote #206

"Stevie Ray tried to get the crowd to chant 'nine times' over and over. They wouldn't" -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 13, 1999

Quote #207

'Schiavone kept calling Blitzkrieg 'Psicosis'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August
13, 1999

Quote #208

"Late in the week they decided to make this a War Games match. Unfortunately, they
had already sold tickets for a normal, as opposed to a two ring set-up, and these kinds of
changes can't be made last minute" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 13,
1999

Quote #211

"Shane Douglas now is claiming that he'll put up his entire annual salary as a bet if he
and Flair both get interview time to build it up, that their match would beat Raw in the
quarters. For his sake, nobody better take him up on that bet" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: August 13, 1999

Quote #213

*****************************
WCW FALL BRAWL FINAL POLL RESULTS

Thumbs up - 0
Thumbs Down - 67

- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 20, 1999

Quote #214

"Shane Douglas said 'Saginaw, Michigan, are you ready?'. They were in Winston-Salem" -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 20, 1999Quote #215

"The Demon vs. Vampiro feud was scheduled to go like this. Demon was to be revealed
as the Son of the Devil, I swear I'm not making this up, who had turned good because he
turned his back on his father. Vampiro would be revealed to have been sent down, or up,
however the geography goes, to garner revenge. On the New Years Eve PPV, Demon
would toss Vampiro into a vat of holy water, and when he got out, he'd change to a new
character" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 20, 1999

Quote #216

"The (promotional) subtitle for the next WCW PPV, 'watch the horror unfold'." - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 27, 1999

Quote #219

"Hall and Nash showed up and Gene interviewed them. (Hall) had a line about how Nash
is working a retirement angle and said he'd be back wrestling when it was fun, and when
Okerlund said it was fun, Hall told Okerlund that he hadn't been in the dressing room
lately" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 18, 1999

Quote #224

"Knobs beat Stevie Ray in a street fight in 3:53. Not as bad as it sounded on paper. Then
again, decapitation sounds better than that match" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
September 18, 1999

Quote #226

"Bagwell then came out, without his gimmick, wearing an 'I'm doing a job' face, wrestling
La Parka in a grudge match from Thursday, visibly showing he wasn't allowed to do
anything on offense, and making La Parka look like an idiot, then laying down for the pin,
getting right up and saying something to the effect of 'Russo, did I do the job right?'." -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 25, 1999

Quote #230

"It was apparent within five minutes that we can add color commentator to the list of
things (wrestling, doing interviews and booking) that Kevin Nash can't handle. He started
by saying that everyone said he was a bad booker but he was smart enough to book
himself into a retirement angle so he doesn't have to take any bumps and still makes big
money. He spent the rest of his show doing his 'I'm too cool for wrestling' gimmick,
which would work if he was funny. Nash spent the rest of the show mocking Tenay's call
of Duggan's finisher as the 'old glory' by calling Misterio's move an 'old glory huricanrana'
and the like so many times that Tenay even told Nash he wore the joke out. Nash
continued with the line the rest of the show" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
September 25, 1999

Quote #232

"Nash noted how whenever there's a (video) package on somebody before the match, it's
almost a sure bet that guy is going to win" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
September 25, 1999

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:10 am

Quote #7

"Oklahoma then threw BBQ sauce in Madusa's eyes to set up Madusa vs. Oklahama in a
feud over the cruiserweight title" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 10, 2000.

Quote #10

"If you thought Starrcade was bad in English, it was worse in German. The German crew
was in Washington DC live. The regular commentators were joined by comedian Tom
Gerhardt, who was popular in Germany ten years ago because he used to go on stage
dressed as a giant penis and pretend to ejaculate on the audience. He was doing heel
commentary to get himself over, calling Disco Inferno gay, talking about Madusa having
nice tits, and stood when Benoit made the open challenge to anyone and challenged him.
This was all done to build a match where Gerhardt will wrestle Berlyn in Oberhausan,
Germany on the WCW house show. German wrestler Ulf Hermann, upon hearing this
news, issued a grandstand challenge." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 10,
2000.

Quote #23

"The Dog got loose from Knobbs and apparently he was drinking out of the toilet. I just
saw him on his knees in the bathroom with Knobbs telling him to stop. It took several
minutes before it was explained what he was actually doing. Dog wrestled Smiley. Smiley
spanked the Dog before the match. After the match, Dog went after Scott Dikinson, with
Mark Madden mentioning that Scott Dinkinson's full time job is a mailman (which is true).
Dog tried to tree Smiley backstage after the match" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
March 20, 2000.
(This week's Wrestlecrap induction)

Quote #28

"Madden was at this point told to get over about how WCW doesn't do schmazz finishes
and cheap DQ's. Except for Wall vs. Awesome up to that point, there had been nothing
but schmazz finishes" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 29, 2000

Quote #29

"Jarrett introduced Russo as the guy who turned the WWF around and called him Vince
McMahon's best kept secret. Russo came out to the Road Warriors music. He talked
about getting screwed by the good ol' boys while a great percentage of both the live and
TV audience had no clue what he was talking about. Bischoff came out to tease a
confrontation, but they hugged. They announced that all of the titles were vacated. When
Sid was teasing he was going to hit Bischoff, Bischoff made a comment about Sid not
having scissors. Bischoff was so clearly stunned that the crowd didn't react to the
scissors line that he must have thought that they didn't hear it the first time, so he said it
again, also to no reaction." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 17, 2000.

Quote #32

"They (DDP and Mike Awesome) were having a good match when Mark Madden said in
the new WCW they were going to have winners and losers and the refs aren't going to be
calling DQ's. Literally seconds later, Billy Silverman called the DQ." - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: April 17, 2000

Quote #33

"Crowbar & Leroux & Moore beat Candido & Guerrera & Artist in 6:30. The Guerrera team
kept having the match won, but a partner would break up the pin and cost his own team

the match. This actually happened time after time. The announcers clearly weren't clued
in, because nobody said a word nor were telling the story of the match. Sometimes when
a partner made the save it was presented as if it was a member of the opposing team.
Finally they came up with the explanation that the wrestlers are trying so hard to impress
Russo and Bischoff that they are trying to make sure their team doesn't win. Crowbar
pinned Candido after a gordbuster that was set up by Artist costing his team the match"
- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 24, 2000

Quote #37

"When they made the stip where Flair got five minutes with Russo, Russo didn't sell it,
and then said 'this is where I'm supposed to play chicken shit heel' to zero pop" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 08, 2000

Quote #41

"Madusa vs. Liz were supposed to have a cage match but Luger came out dressed as a
cage repair man and saved Liz. Russo came out and hit Luger with a low blow, but he
was wearing a cup so he no sold it and rubbed the cup in Russo's mouth. The security
maced Luger. Palumbo attacked Luger with that 60's comic book twister deal. Awesome
attacked Nash. Nash called him Eddie Money, who was a rock star probably when Nash
was in college, and challenged him to an ambulance match. Scott Steiner went outside
for a street fight with Tank and Rick. The Goldberg monster truck made the save. Nash
nearly killed Awesome with the greatest power bomb in the sport. Just before Awesome
faced sure paralysis, DDP made the save to help Nash do the move before he dropped
the guy on his head. The (ambulance) match ended with Awesome never put in the
ambulance." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 22, 2000

Quote #42

"It has been made clear to everyone that Hogan is 'the man' and in all angles has to be
treated as such...Hogan vs. Hogan (Horace vs. Hulk) started with Kidman yelling at
Horace about (Torrie) Wilson, who he came out with. Horace beat up Kidman and went to
the ring with Wilson. Horace went to kiss Wilson when Kidman came out again. Hulk then
throws Kidman over the top rope through a table and pins Horace. Hulk then kissed
Torrie Wilson. Of course she liked it and walked out on both Kidman and Horace." - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 22, 2000

Quote #43

"During the commerical, they soaked the ropes with gasoline. Sting came out, then
Vampiro came out and called him Steve, and said they would have an inferno match on
the PPV. Sting said that's nuts and he isn't going to do it. At this point the ropes were
supposed to set on fire but they didn't. The fans started laughing and booing," - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 22, 2000

Quote #45

"They built to a spot where Vampiro acted like he was going to bite the head off Sting's
crow but Sting made the save. After being beaten up, Vampiro started laughing. Vampiro
was making reference to 'Steve Borden' not wanting to work. When Sting pounded on
him, he called Vampiro 'Ian'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 22, 2000

Quote #46

"David (Flair) did an interview. It was weird because he was bragging about his long-
legged blonde girlfriend and having a Corvette to show he hasn't done badly for himself
(his real-life fiancé is Stacy Keibler), which was strange since Daffney was right there as
a medium-legged brunette who is supposed to be his girlfriend, but not only that, earlier
in this very same show he asked her to marry him." - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: May 22, 2000

Quote #47

"Russo then came out to confront Nash, and basically tried to take 100% of the credit for
creating the 'Diesel' character that made Nash a star. Blood fell from the ceiling, most of
which fell several feet to the side of Nash and much of which fell on front row
spectators." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 22, 2000

Quote #49

"Russo wanted to be dragged behind the (monster) truck through the desert by Goldberg
but the higher ups nixed the angle. Russo was very upset about this" - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: September 11, 2000

Quote #51

"Some notes from 9/12 in Roanoke for the Thunder tapings. Hayabusa was there but was
only going to be put on World Wide against The Frog." - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: September 11, 2000

Quote #53

"In a meet and greet in Sydney, Australia, Chae (Nitro girl) was asked if she was dating
Kevin Nash. She said that she was. Kevin Nash a few weeks back on TV said he was
going out after the show to 'eat a little Korean' so I guess that publicly puts one and one
together" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 16, 2000

Quote #54

"A fan hit Goldberg with a cardboard Star of David" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
October 16, 2000

Quote #55

"In a segment said to be hilarious live, (Elix) Skipper was talking trash and challenging
Goldberg. Goldberg came out behind Skipper. Skipper keeps turning and Goldberg keeps
adjusting his position so Skipper can't see him. All of this is on the big screen, which
Skipper is looking right at, and can see Goldberg behind him, but because they didn't
consider this when making the angle, he had to pretend" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: October 23, 2000

Quote #56

"CNN ran a special on Goldberg on 10/22. They showed Vince Russo and the booking
team talking about a Nitro where Bill Goldberg would get revenge on Scott Steiner. Russo
had an idea that Steiner would be in the dressing room bleaching his mustache and
Goldberg would pour Clorox down Steiner's throat. Ed Ferrara noted that you don't
bleach a mustache with Clorox. He then said they could use bleach instead."- The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 30, 2000

Quote #57

"This (Awesome vs. Vampiro) was the most blown spots in a PPV match dating back to
the legendarily bad Sandman vs. Sabu match on the ECW show in Pittsburgh a few years

back. The match fell apart in the crowd. They were brawling, and Vampiro grabbed a
crutch from someone at ringside. The guy who they took the crutch from then attacked
Awesome and tried to head fanny him. Vampiro and Awesome threw punches at him and
both were so freaked out that the match completely fell apart." - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: November 06, 2000

Quote #62

"DDP asked Sanders to deliver the line in a promo saying DDP may be 45, but he looks
35 and wrestles like he's 25. The line wasn't delivered, because it makes no sense for a
heel to say that. However, it has been repeated backstage as a source of comedy." - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 25, 2000

Quote #63

"The 12/18 Nitro was supposed to practically be built around Rick Steiner as the surprise
guy, but he wasn't there because they forgot to tell him" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: January 01, 2001

Quote #67

"Beginning this week, Nitro is going head-to-head with Thunder in Australia" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 22, 2001

Quote #71

"In a TV commercial in the Nashville market for the 2/18 PPV, the voiceover really says
'expect a night of run-ins'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 12, 2001

Quote #75

"The main event on the show, believe it or not, was Flair kissing a donkey" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 26, 2001

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:11 am

THE BEST SHIT

Quote #384

"Hulk Hogan went to a no decision with Randy Savage in 16:21 in a cage match. This
was a different cage than in the Hogan-Piper match. And if that match was nicknamed
"Age in the Cage", I'd hate to think what this would have to be called. Lack of suspense
in a fence? Crowd silence for poor violence? Yawner en la juela? Living proof that Geritol
and steroids are a deadly combination?" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 23,
1998

Quote #385

"The television cameras were outside rather than inside, so we got nothing but shots of
foggy guys wrestling badly through wire. This was a totally pathetic match, made worse
by both guys blading the hell out of themselves in an attempt to get a crowd reaction.
This got no heat which only made it worse. Savage gigged himself three times, until he
was covered with blood, and still nobody cared. For no reason, Mikey Jay simply unlocked
the cage door so both could go outside and try to brawl there. That didn't work either.
When Savage went to the top of the cage, Ed Leslie showed up to save the day, beating
up Mikey Jay and taking the key. Couldn't he have just politely asked and Mikey would
have opened the door? With Leslie in the ring, he dared Savage to jump. He climbed
down. Luckily Sting had enough time to get up to the rafters and make the save. The
four guys had a stare down with nobody moving for what seemed like minutes. I've seen
more exciting wrestling among at the figures at a Wax Museum. Finally Savage jumped
Sting and gave him a piledriver, but there was almost no reaction to the turn. Savage
then spit at Hogan and left. Then the show went off the air. Hogan had better be thankful
that he and Savage did that two on eight triple decker cage match at Uncensored a few
years back, because if he hadn't, people might remember this as the worst match of both
mens career" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 23, 1998

Quote #324

"WCW FALL BRAWL POLL RESULTS

Thumbs up - 1 (00.8%)

Thumbs down - 112 (99.2%)

In the middle - 0 (00.0%)

- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 21, 1998

Quote #325

"Whether Fall Brawl set a new standard for awful in PPV is a debatable issue. What isn't
debatable is that it was near the top of any list of the worst wrestling PPV shows ever" -
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 21, 1998

Quote #326

"Fall Brawl featured a main event so bad it was even worse then people's imaginations
would have been of the Jay Leno match going in. With the possible exception of the
Triple Decker cage match a few years back on Uncensored and perhaps some Andre the
Giant matches towards the end of his career, this may have been the worst PPV main
event of all time, about 20 minutes of bad wrestling made worse by a finish that simply
defied description. Unlike previous WCW shows with bad main events, they didn't have
anything on the undercard with the exception of the Raven match that remotely saved it,
and featured four other matches that would have won worst match on any normal 'bad'
PPV show" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 21, 1998

Quote #327

"Rick Steiner went to a no-contest with Scott Steiner...Bagwell collapsed as if he'd re-
injured his neck...The poor announcers had to sell it even though NOBODY in the crowd
was buying it. They then had to do this long angle of the match ending, everyone acting
concerned and Bagwell being immobilized and put on a stretcher and taken to the
ambulance. It was torture because the crowd was booing rather than acting concerned.
Since nobody bought it, nobody cared when when Scott and Bagwell jumped out of the
ambulance and attacked Rick -*"- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 21,
1998

Quote #329

"Konnan beat Scott Hall in 12:03. Hall was doing a drunk gimmick, with Vincent holding a
drink and Hall frequently taking swigs of it... Hall tried a hair pull on Konnan but there
wasn't any...At another point, Hall held Konnan in an abdominal stretch and grabbed the
drink from Vincent and began drinking...DUD" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
September 21, 1998

Quote #330

"After the main event, the live crowd was pissed about the match, the Warrior gimmick
which is dying in every city, and the night in general, booing heavily and throwing things
at the announcers. This was one for the record books. -****" - The Wrestling Observer
Newsletter: September 21, 1998

Quote #334

"Warrior took disciple under the ring. After hearing about Curt Hennig two weeks ago
(went to the bathroom under the ring which was so gross it made two of the wrestlers
hiding under the ring with him throw up) I don't even want to think about what Hellwig
and Ed Leslie were doing down there. Probably they brought their portable VCR so they
could study the latest Japanese moves to incorporate into their future matches" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 21, 1998

Quote #336

"Davey Boy Smith pinned Barbarian in 3:43. No worse than you would think, but no
better either. Jim Neidhart came out for no reason. Then came the smoke. Warrior
showed up with the Disciple, who was asleep" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
September 21, 1998

Quote #340

"Luger racked Neidhart. Neidhart was so unbalanced on Luger's shoulders that he nearly
dropped him, and he needed an MRI on his shoulder. There was concern the next day
that he might not be able to wrestle in War Games. As the joke goes, he asked the
doctor if he'd be able to wrestle a good match in two days. The doctor said the injury
wasn't that bad and there is no reason he couldn't. You know the punch line from there,
especially if you saw the match" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 21,
1998

Quote #341

"Normal Smiley, who was never identified, had a confrontation with Ernest Miller. Real
good. Just kidding. It was awful" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 21,
1998

Quote #342

"When the show ended, the crowd was furious and chanting 'refund'." - The Wrestling
Observer Newsletter: September 21, 1998

Quote #343

"WCW (produced) two PPV shows where the card itself literally wasn't known by virtually
anyone until the day of the show" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 28,
1998

Quote #243

"Hogan pinned Warrior. Warrior came out to 'Warrior Sucks' chants. He was acting like
they were cheering him...Warrior came back with a series of mistimed punches. After
more messed up looking spots, Hogan pulled this bag out of his trunks. It looked like
drug paraphernalia but it was flash paper. Hogan was supposed to throw a fireball at
Warrior, but after attempting to light the paper in slow-motion, he threw the fireball and
nothing happened. The whole place groaned. Poor Warrior, who didn't have a clue to
begin with, really didn't know what to do. Somehow the paper then ignited, nearly
setting Hogan's hand on fire. He was supposed to throw a fireball and somehow Dave
Penzer was supposed to put his jacket on Warrior, and somehow Warrior was supposed
to make a comeback. Warrior improvised. Hogan sliced his forehead open and threw a
messed up clothesline. Warrior came back with three mistimed clotheslines. Horace hit
Warrior with a chair and Hogan got the pin. Horace poured lighter fluid on Warrior and
they teased they were going to set him on fire. Hogan told Horace he'd passed the NWO
initiation. -***** " - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 11, 1998

Post by **ROHFanAnthony** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:44 am

supersonic wrote:Quote #433

WORST TELEVISION ANNOUNCER

1. Dusty Rhodes

3. Eric Bischoff

4. Lee Marshall

5. Larry Zbyszko

7. Bobby Heenan

8. Tony Schiavone

I wouldn't have put Larry and the Brain on that list. I think Bobby was just unmotivated working with the dreadful Tony Schiavone. He said that he didn't like working with Tony numerous times. Zybiszko was/is very knowledgeable about wrestling and was good to listen to imo. Lee Marshall as an intreviewer was fine, but he wasn't good when doing commentating on matches. Like Joey Styles once said, the only reason Eric got a headset was because he was in charge of the company.

Mark Madden should be on that list. He was terrible and I'm not just saying that because of what he said about ROH recently.

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:02 am

That list is from the 1997 WON Awards.

Post by **ROHFanAnthony** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:49 am

I know, but I don't agree with it. I didn't think it was your list.

syxxpakk · Post by **syxxpakk** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:10 pm

ROHFanAnthony wrote:I know, but I don't agree with it. I didn't think it was your list.

Mark Madden didn't do commentary in '97.

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:21 pm

syxxpakk wrote:
ROHFanAnthony wrote:I know, but I don't agree with it. I didn't think it was your list.
Mark Madden didn't do commentary in '97.

Don't blame him - the fed was such a blur those last few years.

Post by **ROHFanAnthony** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:53 pm

Well before you told me it was a 1997 list, I didn't know what year that list was from. Just knew it wasn't supersonic's. Hence why I mentioned Madden. Anyway reading these quotes is making me LOL.

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 6:50 pm

With the PPV access on the Network, this is an appropriate bump.

JTCole · Post by **JTCole** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 9:52 am

"Thursday was supposed to be a grudge Flair vs. Benoit lumberjack match. However,
WCW forgot to tell Flair he was booked. Jason Hervey was in Charlotte at request of
management and they gave Flair off Thunder because they were producing an upcoming
Flair home video, but never informed the people writing the show about Flair having the
day off. When they panicked since Flair wasn't there at 6pm, they called him and told
him to get to Syracuse. At the cost of thousands of dollars, they chartered a flight from
Charlotte to Syracuse to get Flair to Thunder, but due to the weather problems it couldn't
get off the ground until 7pm. The show was put together with the idea that Flair would do
several interviews building to the Benoit match. So virtually the entire Thunder show was
filling time. Flair finally arrived at 9:55pm, but they had already changed plans for the
show because they had to be off the air at 10:03pm because TBS decreed that the Chimp
movie had to start on time. When Flair got there, they told him he wasn't needed and to
go right back home. So, as a panic move, the decision was made to turn the Kanyon-
Saturn singles match into a tag title match. However, Bam Bam Bigelow wasn't there
either, so Kanyon defended the titles with Page with zero explanation given to have this
make sense. It wasn't even announced as a title match until about a minute left" - The
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 21, 1999

If I were Flair I would have quit the company right then and there, damn what my contact said.

Indynut · Post by **Indynut** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:00 pm

I think Jim Herd should have been caled Jim Terd.

JSP · Post by **JSP** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 5:48 pm

Old Oratory forumite Jay Bower put this together. Still a great read.

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:12 am

11/3/1997

WCW HALLOWEEN HAVOC POLL RESULTS

WORST MATCH POLL

Hulk Hogan vs. Roddy Piper 71

Alex Wright vs. Steve McMichael 30

Disco Inferno vs. Jacquelyn 19

In an era where fan behavior at wrestling has led to problems often more than weekly at wrestling matches, WCW decided to encourage the problem with a lame fan out of the audience angle as the closing scene in its Halloween Havoc PPV show.

There really wasn't much to say about the show other then the new cage used for the first time in the Hulk Hogan vs. Roddy Piper match looked to legitimately be about 20 feet high, which would make it as high a cage as wrestling has ever seen. The typical pro wrestling "15 foot cage" is eight feet high, and the monstrous cage used by AAA in Los Angeles noted for the spectacular dive by Mascarita Sagrada onto Jake Roberts, was probably no more than 12 feet. As awesome as the height of the cage was, it was incredible that Randy Savage, just weeks before his 45th birthday and coming off a serious ankle injury just a few months ago, did a leap off the top of the cage to set up the finish of the Hogan-Piper match. The fact that he actually missed Hogan, who he was supposed to hit to set up Piper's sleeper hold finish, can be forgiven for the combination of guts and insanity it took to even consider doing such a move. It was largely like watching two PPVs in some way. The first three matches, largely with wrestlers who learned their trade in other countries and announced by Mike Tenay, were the beginnings of an excellent show. Starting with match four, it was among the worst PPV shows in years with only the Savage vs. Diamond Dallas Page match as a saving grace.

After the match was over and the NWO group of Hogan, Savage and Eric Bischoff had Piper handcuffed to the cage as if they were going to crucify him, a plant fan with Sting make-up hopped the advance in an incredibly lame attempt as a shoot angle. The fan got away from one of the fake Stings (who appeared to be Bobby Walker) and ended up being attacked by Savage and Hogan, with Hogan throwing his lame work punches that weren't even hitting the guy as the cameras focused on that, as security stood there and did nothing and as the fan was pulled from the cage as the show went off the air. Last year, when fans began throwing garbage at the NWO during PPV shows, it created a ripple effect to where fans thought buying a ticket to live shows gave them the license to hurl garbage at the wrestlers when the show was over. While no wrestlers have been seriously injured by this trend, fans at arenas have been hit and cut with bottles. One of the draws of Nitro itself, along with the PPV shows, Raw and ECW tapings, is for fans themselves to get on television with their antics and signs and get their five seconds of fame. There is nothing wrong with this trend so long as nobody gets hurt and perhaps, so long as fan behavior doesn't reach the stage of being lewd. But when it is glorified that a fan hits the ring to attack the heels, in the atmosphere we're in now, you can guarantee it'll happen again. It's already happened a few times on Nitro. It's just been lucky so far that the fans have been people who small referees are able to snatch. Some day a guy the size of Roadblock (who actually got into the pro wrestling business based on an incident where he took down and was beating up One Man Gang--he was actually trying to get at Hogan but Gang was a closer target) will be the one wanting to impress his friends, or a drunk college football lineman on a dare from his teammates, and on live television, the situation could be dangerous, not only with the guy ruining a match or perhaps popping a wrestler, but a wrestler perhaps having to protect himself and breaking his hand in the process, and if nobody who runs wrestling today has figured it out yet, the injury rate in this business is alarming enough to begin with.

There were a lot of fans who left the matches before the Hogan-Piper match started, and fans were leaving in droves during the post-match angle while Piper was still getting annihilated. Another bad sign is that one of the reasons Hogan-Piper has such little heat was because fans were waiting for Sting to do a run-in at the end since they used his name and teased it in the interviews earlier in the show and were looking around for it, and left even more disappointed when the real Sting never showed up.

4. Alex Wright pinned Steve McMichael in 6:31 so Debra McMichael didn't have to leave WCW. A disaster in every way, shape and form. McMichael had to sell early and looked really bad doing so. One blown clumsy spot after another. And then it got worse. McMichael went for the tombstone but dropped Wright in the transition. He then had to do it again. Bill Goldberg did a run-in doing his Jackhammer (suplex slam) on McMichael while Debra distracted the referee and then dropped Wright on top of Steve for the pin. The ref was really clumsy here and Goldberg's spot took forever to do and the ref had to act distracted by Debra for way too long, and he kept looking behind him trying to be nonchalant about it in not turning around until Goldberg left the ring. After the match Debra gave Goldberg Steve's 1985 Super Bowl ring. As Wright went to thank Goldberg, he decked Wright and gave him the Jackhammer as well. -*1/2

5. Jacquelyn (Jacquelyn Moore) pinned Disco Inferno (Glen Gilbertti) in 9:39 of a non-title match. Conceptually this was a disaster, but the work of both involved, which not making it salvageable, was at least enough to make it not the worst match on the show. Mainly Disco ran away and in between the running, the two executed a few very good spots. Finally he ran away again, but she caught him in the aisle and beat him up again. She ended up suplexing him on the floor and giving him two stiff clotheslines and a float over DDT. She came off the top with a crossbody but Disco rolled through for a near fall. After the kick out, Jacquelyn scored the pin using a schoolboy (or in this case, should it be a schoolgirl?). This sure adds to the credibility of the TV title. 1/4*

6. Curt Hennig beat Ric Flair (Richard Fliehr) via DQ in 13:57. Hennig was okay here, but nowhere near the level he's been in his recent Nitro matches, and Flair threw some hard chops, but looked slow in reactions. Overall a decent match, but no better, ending with Flair hanging Hennig upside down and putting the U.S. belt on his face. Flair stomped the belt into his face as a retribution spot for the last show, and then decked the ref for the DQ. *3/4

7. Lex Luger (Larry Pfohl) beat Scott Hall in 13:02 total time with Larry Zbyszko as referee. This wasn't much of a match. Luger didn't do a thing and Hall just did enough to keep the match going, as it was really just a backdrop to working with Zbyszko. Hall did a few moves and got two counts and yelled about the slow counts. The two started arguing and at one point Hall charged at Zbyszko, who backdropped him over the top rope. Bischoff came out and Zbyszko kicked him off the apron. They teased a double count out but both made it in on time, and Luger kept giving Hall those reverse atomic kneedrops that are sold like crotch shots but actually miss by a lot. As Bischoff distracted Zbyszko, Syxx kicked Luger in the head (that whiffed as well) and Zbyszko turned around and very slowly counted three. Zbyszko was mad about Hall winning and said he wanted to watch the replay on the video wall (this should set a nice precedent since all referees being confused about finishes on TV shoots should do the same). Seeing the outside interference, he ordered the match re-started. Syxx then attacked Zbyszko, but Zbyszko was on the bottom doing his Jiu Jitsu (of course that term can't be used although they tried to portray Zbyszko's submissions as being learned from Gene LeBelle, which, since he was a pro wrestler in the 60s, I guess is a name they're allowed to use for shoot moves) trying an armbar and then clamping on a front guillotine which Syxx sold as if his neck was re-broken. Hall and Zbyszko then argued, Zbyszko shoved Hall and was picked up in Luger's torture rack for the submission 20 seconds after the re-start. Hall and Bischoff then attacked Zbyszko after the match and Zbyszko kicked him in the head, and then gave him a stomp worthy of a green valet on an independent show, and stood over him while Hall counted as Bischoff stepped on Zbyszko's chest. 3/4*

9. Roddy Piper (Roderick Tombs) beat Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea) in a non-title cage match in 13:37. The fact this was non-title must not have been gotten across well because after the matches, virtually the entire crowd live and it appears the majority of the TV viewers couldn't understand why Piper hadn't won the title. This was a slow-motion battle of should-be-extinct dinosaurs who can come across great on Nitro doing interviews but when they were put in the ring, with all the hype, the lack of heat showed they are having a harder time fooling the public that they can still wrestle. Another cage match where tons of guys get in, and both guys get out during the course of the match. A million Stings came out, all to no reaction. Hogan juiced at one point. He used two legdrops and somehow Randy Anderson got into the cage (there was no ref in the cage up to this point and it was billed as a no referee match), and counted the pin but Piper kicked out. Anderson stayed in there for the finish, as Savage supposedly hit Hogan with his flying leap, and Piper used the sleeper for the win. Then came the post-match angle with the fan. Really bad stuff. DUD

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:03 am

A thought for the day. It took Steve McMichael 15 years of pro football to play in something like 220 consecutive games. It took him less than ten minutes this past Monday night on Nitro in a match with Stevie Ray to mistime 220 consecutive moves.

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