Match # 106: Scott Hall/Giant vs. Sting/Kevin Nash (Nitro 7/20/98) This match exemplifies the reasons I began to hate WCW in 1998. I’m not even talking about the match itself, but simply the contextual set up. Nash and Sting come out. They’re the WCW tag champs. Champs despite the fact Sting was the resistance to [...]
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Match # 92: Hollywood Hogan/Scott Hall/Kevin Nash vs. Sting/Giant/Randy Savage (Nitro 3/9/98) The big guns from the NWO against a bunch of WCW main event babyfaces. Cool with me. I like the personalities, not to mention Sting’s epic entrance music. Somehow Sting is the champ, the Giant has a neck brace, and Macho is back [...]
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Match # 85: The Steiner Brothers vs. The Outsiders (Nitro 1/12/98) The Steiners, just passed their consensus primes, versus the always entertaining Outsiders. Lets see how much Hall and Nash are actually willing to give and/or participate. Gimpy Hogan walks out with his much cooler cohorts, trying to maintain the rub I guess.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Match # 72: The Steiner Brothers vs. Scott Hall and Syxx (Nitro 10/13/97) From a work rate standpoint, adding Syxx to Hall meant a better match than the outsiders. I always liked the idea that the three were the new Freebirds, and wished more was done with it. But politics are politics, and WCW was [...]
Monday, August 10, 2009
Match # 64: Lex Luger and DDP vs. The Outsiders (Nitro 8/18/97) Kim Page comes out for the intro of the faces. DDP had some good qualities other than working hard, and one of those was Kim. Outsiders totally out cool the inspirational goof and the body builder. This may or may not be for [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Match # 59: Ric Flair and Roddy Piper vs. The Outsiders (Nitro 6/9/97) This match takes place in Boston a the Fleet Center in front of the same crazy hot crowd as our last match (Match # 58 – Hogan vs Luger). As I recall Piper and Nash got into a real fight after this [...]
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Match # 57: Ric Flair vs. Scott Hall (Nitro 6/2/97) This match was the highest rated TV segment for a pro wrestling match to this point during the Monday Night Wars. Whether it’s a good match or not is an entirely different matter.
Friday, October 9, 2009
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