Match # 142: War Games 2000 Cage Match (Nitro 9/4/00) Great. The Russo era takes an awesome once a year gimmick match that has roots in the Horseman, Dusty Rhodes superpowers, and gang warfare, and uses it as a Russo-pervert gimmick match on free TV. Looking at the line up we’ve got Sting, Booker T, [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Match # 141: Booker T vs. Lance Storm (Nitro 8/7/00) Storm is a triple champion at this point, trying to get the quad crown – if you weilllll – by facing the babyface Booker T for the world title. This was during Booker’s prime, which really came into view as a singles star in 1998. [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Match # 140: Scott Steiner vs. Goldberg (Nitro 7/18/00) Talk about having to lower my standards for this disk of wrestling. Steiner was the walking wounded at this point, and was more gimmick than wrestler as he gutted out a main event push here. TNA and the last year of WCW have A LOT in [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
Match # 139: Lance Storm vs. Mike Awesome (Nitro 7/18/00) Finally, and shining light from the brutal death year of WCW. Lance Storm was someone I grew to enjoy from my time watching him in ECW as a Triple Threat member, his feud with Candido, and finally his run as half of the Impact players. [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
Match # 138: Ric Flair vs. Jeff Jarrett (Nitro 5/29/00) Oh good, a rematch of our # 139 match, because we weren’t tortured enough the first time. I hope this is a straight up wrestling match, though I have a feeling it’s gonna involve run-ins and ref bumps.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Match # 137: Ric Flair vs. Jeff Jarrett (Flair wins his last World Title) (Nitro 5/15/00) Right away I’m not sure how I feel about this because Vince Russo is coming out wearing Ric Flair’s robe to horribly fake “Iron Man” rip off music. David Flair (was he forever against his dad once he started [...]
Friday, November 6, 2009
Match # 136: DDP vs. Mike Awesome (Stretcher Match) (Nitro 5/8/00) Awesome was fun when Paul Heyman booked him as a big man in the later years of ECW, but he was hiding a lot of flaws. I don’t remember his WCW run being much fun past a lame Russo gimmick of “That 70s Guy”, [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Ballot After 13 Disks 1. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 7/8/96) 2. Eddie Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 12/23/96) 3. Juventud Guerrera vs. Billy Kidman (Nitro 11/16/98) 4. DDP vs. Bret Hart (Nitro 10/26/98) 5. DDP vs. Sting (Nitro 3/23/98) 6. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Juventud Guerrera (Nitro 2/24/97) 7. Rey Mysterio vs. [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Disk 13 Rankings 1. Bret Hart vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 10/4/99) 2. Raven/Perry Saturn vs. Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko (Nitro 5/17/99)
Monday, November 2, 2009
Match # 135: Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan (Nitro 2/14/00) This I remember. Nitro was struggling and spiraling out of control. They had a big show in the shadow of New York City, out in Long Island, and went back to basics. 80s Hogan versus 80s heel Flair. I’ll make a prediction: If you’ve seen [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Match # 134: Bret Hart vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 10/4/99) Harley Race introduced arguably the most famous and pimped Nitro match ever, the Owen Hart tribute match from Kansas City, the building where Owen died.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Match # 133: Sting vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 9/20/99) Okay, we have officially entered the era where I was giving up and barely watching, but still following online. I don’t remember this match or it’s context in the slightest. Sting had apparently turned heel, which you’d think was a big deal, but there were almost [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
Match # 132: Hollywood Hogan/Sting/Goldberg vs. Kevin Nash/Sid/Scott Steiner (Nitro 8/9/99) Nash, Sid, and Steiner is the oddest team I’ve seen in some time. Why did Sid have a job, why did Nash bother to show up, and isn’t that the wrong Steiner for 1999 WCW? The faces all get separate entrances because they’re bigger [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
Match # 131: Hollywood Hogan vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 7/12/99) Hogan is out to the NWO Wolfpack theme with an NWO T-shirt I don’t remember. At this point they could be anywhere with on the NWO timeline. I didn’t even think they were still together at this point, but Eric Bischoff is out with gray [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Match # 130: La Parka/Silver King vs. Damian/Ciclope (Mexican Hardcore Match) (Nitro 6/7/99) La Parka rules, especially with the pro get-up he wears to the ring now that he’s had a few big contract years in WCW. Silver King, never got the love that Dave Meltzer and others put on him. On the other side [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Match # 129: Raven/Perry Saturn vs. Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko (Nitro 5/17/99) Raven and the dress wearing Saturn are babyfaces at this point. Benoit and Malenko are dastardly heels, and part of a forgotten Four Horseman incarnation of which I think I was the only big fan. The Horseman theme with the horse gallop at the [...]
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Ballot After 12 Disks 1. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 7/8/96) 2. Eddie Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 12/23/96) 3. Juventud Guerrera vs. Billy Kidman (Nitro 11/16/98) 4. DDP vs. Bret Hart (Nitro 10/26/98) 5. DDP vs. Sting (Nitro 3/23/98) 6. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Juventud Guerrera (Nitro 2/24/97) 7. Rey Mysterio vs. [...]
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Disk 12 Rankings 1. DDP vs. Sting (Nitro 4/26/99) 2. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Billy Kidman (Nitro 3/15/99) 3. DDP vs. Goldberg (Nitro 4/19/99) 4. Billy Kidman vs. Psicosis (Nitro 4/12/99) 5. Raven and Saturn vs. Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko (Nitro 3/22/99) 6. Psicosis vs. Juventud Guerrera vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Blitzkrieg (Nitro [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Match # 128: DDP vs. Sting (Nitro 4/26/99) Sting is still really over as a Crow-like babyface, and DDP is coming off a good heel turn with an even better heel persona. Plus, he’s got the big gold belt. Let’s hope Sting feels like working hard and selling, because his whims make matches very good [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Match # 127: DDP vs. Goldberg (Nitro 4/19/99) This match has a big feel to start, even by hyperbolic Nitro standards. Both men have an intensity at the start and DDP uses movement and bumps at the beginning to get across that while he won’t back down from Goldberg, he’s going to have to find [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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