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Week 3, March 1998
Club La Veda (Panama City Beach, Florida)
ATT: 4,000
TV: 29.34
Announce Team: Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan and Mike Tenay

.....ladies and gentleman it is spring break, and you know what that means.....it’s time for the annual WCW Nitro Spring Breakout, as we come to you live from Club La Veda.....and yes, that swimming pool is once again surrounding the WCW ring.....

.....we open up at the announce booth, where Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan and Mike Tenay are in high spirits.....and not just because of the party atmosphere.....but because he’s back.....and he has some matches to announce.....

.....who’s he you ask?.....

.....why Eric Bischoff of course.....and the public face of the WCW Championship committee has a few things to get off his chest.....

.....Bischoff gets a decent pop from the smaller than usual crowd (small venue, WCW never did worry about losing money on a unique venue) and he’s all smiles as he stands in the middle of the ring.....

.....Eric tells the crowd that it’s good to be back.....and while he’s still got a little bit of a headache (”.....that Con-Chair-To ‘totally sucked’ by the way.....”) he’s here on official Championship Committee business.....

”.....because we are less than a week away from UnCensored.....and by my reckoning, we still need a stipulation for our main event.....”

.....Eric says that UnCensored is the most unbridled, uncontrollable, unpredictable event in the WCW calendar year.....and since Shawn Michaels thinks himself to be quite the degenerate, it’s only fair that he gives him a match that follows suit.....

”.....and since where Shawn Michaels likes to get his little lapdogs to do most of his dirty work for him, we need to make sure that he is kept on a very short leash.....

.....or should I say, strap.....”

.....Eric says that there won’t be any cheap shots, or help from the outside, no fluke three counts.....if Shawn Michaels wants to win that WCW Championship, then he’s going to have to earn it.....because he’s going to have to drag his opponent to all four corners of the ring.....with a leaner strap secured to his wrist.....

.....which brings those aforementioned degenerates out from the back.....with Shawn Michaels looking just about as cocky as always.....as he asks Bischoff.....

”.....did these two totally awesome degenerates here scramble your brains a little bit too much a couple of weeks ago? Or do you actually think strapping Sting to old H.B (oh hey, I can’t say that) is going to stop me from kicking Mr. WCW’s ass?.....all you’re doing is making it nice and legal for me to whip that paint right off his face.....”

.....Bischoff says that it’s funny that Shawn should use the word legal.....because in the spirit of UnCensored that’s something else he wants to address.....because for all matches that DON’T already have a stipulation in place, they’re going to.....relax the rules just a little bit.....no easy count outs or disqualifications (”.....I’m looking at you Eddie Guerrero.....”) just some good old fashioned uncensored action.....

.....this puts Copeland and Cage in an even better mood, as they tell Bischoff that he totally just booked Big Ray-Ray a place at ringside for their tag team encounter with Randy Savage and the Warrior.....a statement that Bischoff quickly interrupts.....

”.....because I said all matches that DON’T currently have a stipulation attached.....”

“.....Bischoff! Dude!....I know we totally kicked your ass on Thunder, but we didn’t think we did permanent damage.....it’s a TAG TEAM match.....no stipulation.....Christian, spell it out for him.....”

“.....I can totally spell!......tag...team...match.....T, for totally awesome.....A, for awesome....totally awesome.....G, for....gee! That’s totally awesome......T again.....for.....”

“.....Bro.....seriously.....shut the hell up.....”

.....oh, it’s Vince Russo.....and he’s not alone.....he’s got the Warrior and Randy Savage with him.....and they both have steel chairs in hand.....

.....Russo starts to talk, but Savage is in no mood to stand idly by and listen, snatching the microphone from the boss and telling Copeland and Cage that he heard what they said last week.....

”.....that we wouldn’t fight ya in the back yeah.....something about ‘too many chairs’ huh.....well brother, brother, brother.....I got some bad news for ya.....because the Macho Man and the Warrior Man, we’ll fight you right now.....we’ll fight you in the back.....fight you in the front too, yeah.....we’ll even fight you in the water you dig.....”

.....Copeland tells Savage that they don’t need to worry about the back.....or the front.....OR the water.....in fact they don’t need to worry about them at all until Sunday.....

”.....so why don’t you two guys set those chairs up and totally sit down.....before you break a hip.....”

.....clearly Copeland and Cage have developed a little bit more of a snarky streak since aligning themselves with the King of Obnoxiousness Shawn Michaels, as the group break out in fits of laughter.....laughter which Russo tells them to enjoy.....because they won’t be laughing later.....and they won’t be laughing on Sunday.....

”.....because you DO need to worry about it tonight.....and you DO need to worry about it on Sunday.....because at UnCensored, your tag team match.....that’s gonna be a Street Fight bro.....so good luck.....”

.....the Totally Awesome Twosome don’t like that news.....and they protest loudly about it.....that wasn’t the news that was interesting Shawn Michaels though.....it was the ‘tonight’ part of the statement that caught his ear, as he asks Russo what he meant by that.....

.....Russo smiles, telling Shawn that he hates to spoil all the surprises......but let’s just say that he hopes they all have their wrestling boots with them.....because Shawn, JPL and the Totally Tiresome Two, they have a little eight man tag team match booked for later this evening.....against who you ask? Well (as Russo looks at Macho and Warrior wielding their chairs) you’re just going to have to wait and see.....

.....mystery main event?.....

.....I think it’s safe to say that Randy Savage and The Warrior are two of the opponents.....

.....but who are the other two?.....

.....the suspense is going to kill Tony Schiavone.....

.....let’s air an UnCensored promo package ahead of our first match.....

Rating: A*

.....our first match of the evening sees Curt Hennig facing off against Konnan.....and a win against a man of Hennig’s standing would certainly do wonders for Konnan.....after all, his last high profile feud WAS with Jimmy Hart’s First Family.....

.....of course getting that victory is going to be easier said than done.....it’s not like you get to BE a man of Hennig’s standing by losing matches easily.....although with that being said, it would be easy for Curt to be looking past his opponent here this evening, with a view to his match with Jeff Hardy at UnCensored.....

.....and as our announcers say, that COULD play to Konnan’s advantage.....

.....I mean, it doesn’t.....but it could have done.....

.....as it was it was Curt Hennig that picked up the victory.....it was a solid effort from Konnan (who is slowly climbing the ladder here in WCW) but try as he might, he simply couldn’t kick out of the Hennig Plex.....which means that a one, two, three count later, it was Curt Hennig that had his hand raised.....

Winner: Curt Hennig
Rating: B

.....a Hawaiian shirt wearing Mean Gene makes his way out (clearly enjoying the spring break shenanigans....dirty old man) to grab a few words with the victor.....he spends a few minutes shilling the hotline (1-900-909-9900) telling the fans that all the last minute news around WCW UnCensored, airing live on PPV this coming Sunday.....

”.....option 2 for all the latest news.....

.....speaking of Uncensored, you Curt Hennig will be going one on one with one of the hot new talents here in World Championship Wrestling, a very fired up Jeff Hardy....and he is gunning for you Mr. Hennig.....”

.....Hennig scoffs at that, telling Gene that the important word there in that statement is “new”.....

”.....because that’s exactly what Jeff Hardy is Okerlund.....nothing more than a punk kid, stepping into the ring with an eighteen year veteran.....and eighteen year veteran who has beat more “hot new talent” than anybody.....”

.....Curt says that Jeff Hardy can be as ‘fired up’ as he wants, all that’s going to do is ensure that his inexperience shines though.....and one mistake is all that Hennig will need to put that pretty boy in his place.....

”.....and all these idiots in the crowd that cheer for him, all those braying teenage girls that scream when he pulls that tatty shirt off over that raggedy haired head, they’re going to be screaming alright.....screaming at the sight of Jeff Hardys face, when I’ve finished scraping my boots all over it.....”

.....Curt says that last week (thanks to Eddie Guerrero) he had to fight both Jeff Hardy AND that Neanderthal Bill Goldberg singlehandedly.....

”.....but on Sunday night, it’s just you and me kid.....no tag teams.....you won’t have that big gorilla Goldberg to hide behind.....and like Eric Bischoff said earlier, the referee isn’t gonna save you.....”

.....I guess we’ll find out at Uncensored, whether all the hype surrounding Jeff Hardy is actually worth it or not.....

.....least go to commercial.....

Rating: B+

.....and we’re back.....and apparently Jeff Hardy did not take kindly to the comments made by Curt Hennig.....because we come back to a shot (with the words ‘during the commercial break’ in the bottom corner of the screen) to Curt Hennig walking through the curtain backstage, only to get ambushed by his UnCensored opponent.....

.....we see a brief scuffle (as the announcers inform us that this all happened the moment Curt Hennig stepped backstage following the interview with Mean Gene) before we go to live action, as the two wrestlers battle through the backstage and production area, all the way to the outside of the building.....

.....they brawl about around the production trucks, company vehicles, as well as the countless equipment that gets transported from arena to arena.....Jeff Hardy might just be a ‘punk kid’, but he’s fighting like a wild animal here as he bounces Hennig off every available surface going, before sweeping a bunch off equipment off the top of a nearby table, rolling Hennig on top.....and then staring up at the top of the production truck.....

.....Bobby Heenan loses his mind saying that Jeff Hardy might be a fool.....but he isn’t that foolhardy (pun intended I’m sure) surely.....

.....it looks like he is though.....because with Hennig in position, Hardy climbs, and climbs, and climbs some more.....until he’s right up there at the top.....

.....and that’s a long way down.....

.....Jeff strips off his shirt (cue screams from the girls in the arena watching on the TurnerTron) before making his way to the edge of the truck.....

.....fortunately for Curt, the time it took for Hardy to reach the top was ample time to regain his senses.....and he groggily rolls off the table, staring up at Jeff, before giving him the universal ‘up yours’ gesture, waving off the battle and telling Hardy that this can wait until Sunday.....

.....nothing but a punk kid? There might be more to Jeff Hardy that that after all huh Curt.....

Rating: A

.....time for some in ring action now, and we see Diamond Dallas Page (accompanied to the ring by the gorgeous Kimberly) putting his Television Title on the line, against First Family member Hugh Morris.....

.....with DDP set to put the gold on the line once more on Sunday evening against Chris Benoit, it would put quite the spanner in the works should he lose here against the Laughing Man.....

............

......who are we kidding right? That was never going to happen......

.....Hugh put on a decent showing, but he was never winning here......and with Page always looking to find new and innovative ways to apply the Diamond Cutter, he pulled a new on out of the bag here tonight, popping back to his feet in time to catch hold of a Moonsaulting Morris.....using his own momentum to drive his head into the mat for the one, two, three......

Winner: ....and Still WCW Television Champion......Diamond Dallas Page
Rating: B

.....apparently Jimmy Hart was not happy with that.....and as such, sent the rest of his family in to try and pick the bones of a fatigued Dallas Page.....

.....granted (outside of a devastating rear chin lock) VK Wallstreet is never going to be a major challenge to most people.....but when you throw in the combined might of Meng and The Barbarian (as well as Hugh Morris.....once he regained his senses) then it wasn’t long before Page was utterly overwhelmed by his attackers.....

....and it looked like things were about to go from bad to worse.....

.....as Chris Benoit and Lance Storm come running out from the back to join the assault.....

.....except they don’t.....

.....in fact (rather surprisingly) they begin to fight off the First Family long enough for Dallas to mount a resurgence.....and before long the three men have vanquished Jimmy Hart’s men, who quickly scarper to the back.....

.....Dallas turns to face his rescuers, fully anticipating another fight.....but it’s a fight that doesn’t come......

.....instead Storm hands Benoit a microphone, which the Crippler uses to tell Page that he’s not here to fight him.....

”.....I just wanted to make sure that you’re 100% for UnCensored.....because when I beat you, for the WCW TV Title.....and I will beat you for the WCW TV Title.....I don’t want there to be ANY doubt, as to exactly who.....the best man really is.....”

.....and as quickly as they arrived, Benoit and Storm leave again.....

.....let’s go to the back.....

Rating: A

.....where we appear to be in some undisclosed location, as Mean Gene joins Eddie (and Chavo) Guerrero for a rather clandestine interview......clandestine because (as Gene tells us) Eddie Guerrero is desperately trying to keep out of Bill Goldbergs way for as long as possible.....

”.....woah! Hey esè!.....what are you trying to say holmes?.....the only reason I’m staying out of that big goof’s way, is because the last two times I bumped into him backstage, he would up in the hospital esè.....he don’t want none of the Papi of Perfection.....”

.....Gene disagrees, stating that Bill Goldberg very much wants some of Eddie Guerrero.....he wants that United States Title that’s around his waist too.....but all that withstanding, just why has Eddie asked for this interview time?.....

.....Eddie says that it’s not interview time.....it’s announcement time.....he says that Bill Goldberg has a match coming up next, and (since Eric Bischoff has apparently relaxed the rules for UnCensored) in order to make sure that he’s FULLY prepared to face a wrestler as powerful as Eddie Guerrero, Eddie has handpicked an opponent guaranteed to toughen Goldberg up a little bit......

”.....because everyone wants a piece of that winning streak esè, it wasn’t hard to find someone.....and sure holmes, he’s not QUITE as much of a man as me.....but then, not many people are.....”

.....Eddie tells Gene to go and watch the match.....

.....let’s go and do the same.....

Rating: B+

.....oh what a rush.....Eddie really wasn’t joking.....if anyone is going to give Goldberg a run for his money, it’s going to be Road Warrior Hawk.....

.....it looks like Eddie was right about everyone wanting to be the one to end the streak too.....because fan favourite and heel alike are clearly queuing up to have their chance of marking their names in the history as the one to PUT the one in Goldbergs loss column.....

.....of course that’s easier said than done.....

.....otherwise someone would have done it already.....

.....anyway.....this was ugly.....

.....it was two big stiffs who have no idea about the concept of selling, beating the crap out of each other.....

.....in the end though, did you really think we’d break the streak with a tag team guy?.....

.....granted Hawk is a main event caliber opponent.....but he’s still mainly known as a tag team wrestler.....and frankly, hardly in his prime.....

.....in the end it came down to two things.....one spear.....and one Jackhammer.....

.....Goldberg gets the win.....

.....Goldberg goes 65-0.....

.....Goldberg is coming for Eddie Guerrero.....

Winner: Bill Goldberg
Rating: B+

.....rather predictably, Hawk isn’t down for long.....in fact he’s up quicker than Hulk Hogan after a Randy Savage elbow drop.....his partner soon joins him in the ring, and it could spell trouble for our undefeated rookie.....

....instead, Hawk offers a fist for his opponent to bump, showing a rare display of effect, before Goldberg exits to the back.....

.....the fun doesn’t stop there though.....because (after giving Goldberg plenty of time to get to the back) Eddie Guerrero (with Chavo in tow) makes his way out from the back, where he instantly begins berating Hawk for his loss.....

.....now Hawk might have been magnanimous in defeat, but that doesn’t mean he was happy with the loss.....so obviously it doesn’t take much to set him off.....and it’s after a misjudged slap on the part of Eddie that the Road Warriors explode.....

.....they start laying into the Guerrero’s.....or rather Guerrero.....singular.....because after taking a couple of right hands, Eddie quickly scarpers to the back, leaving Chavo to take the punishment.....

.....and punished he is.....

.....Hawk and Animal beat on the youngster like he’s a jobber, before finally nailing the Doomsday Device to leave him flat.....

.....oh.....did I say finally?.....

.....not quite.....

.....because not content with that, Hawk tosses him to the outside.....

.....where Animal presses Chavo high over head.....

.....and dumps him in the pool.....

.....come on, we all knew someone was going in the drink tonight.....

.....let’s go to commercial.....

Rating: A

…..and on return we head back to the locker room of Shawn Michaels and his band of degenerates…..and while I’m sure an egomaniac like Shawn would have a private locker room written into his contract perks, let’s face it, who really wants to share with these jackasses…..

…..we’ll actually, right now…..probably quite a few folks…..because as the Totally Awesome Trinity enter the room, Michaels and Levesque are surrounded by a bevy of half naked ladies and embarking in what is clearly an EPIC game of strip poker…..and it looks as though the ladies are losing…..

…..Copeland and Cage come to a halt at the sight (with Cage remarking that this is ‘totally awesome’) and even Big Ray-Ray goes as far as pulling his aviators from his eyes to take in the sight, before Copeland remembers why they are there…..telling Shawn that totally couldn’t find out who Randy Savage and The Warriors partners were tonight…..

”…..and we totally asked everyone, right Christian?…..”

“…..totally everyone…..even Mike Tenay…..”

“…..and we HATE Mike Tenay…..”

“…..we totally hate Mike Tenay…..”

“…..SHUT UP MIKE TENAY!…..”

“…..Big Ray-Ray even slapped a few of those production monkeys around…..”

“…..they must know who right? They’ve gotta play their music…..”

“…..and it totally reeks in those trucks…..”

“…..totally…..”

“…..like pizza and ass…..”

“…..but nobody knows…..”

…..Cage tells Shawn that he knows he is worried about who the Titans are going to pick, but no one is talking…..

…..Shawn slams his cards down on the table, looking briefly annoyed…..before slipping back into his usually confident self (shit eating grin plastered firmly on his face) as he tells Cage that Shawn Michaels has absolutely nothing to worry about…..especially from a roster of Souther Fried dubbya see dubbya wannabes…..

”…..so ladies, if you’ll excuse us for a minute…..why don’t you walk those long legs down to catering, and pick Mr. Wrestling up a snack or two…..”

…..the ladies leave the room (much to the apparent dismay of Copeland and Cage) and Michaels waits for them to leave the room, before turning to the Trinity and screaming at them to get back out there and find out who the damn partners are going to be…..

…..he says that there is an entire locker room worth of idiots back here, who would LOVE the chance to take a piece of Shawn Michaels less than a week before he faces Sting for the WCW Title…..Shawn would at least like to know WHO was coming for him…..

…..Copeland and Cage look a little taken aback by Shawn’s outburst, but Levesque pats his good friend on the back, telling him not to worry…..

”…..I mean come on, it’s Savage and Warrior for one…..we’ve kicked their asses more times than Warrior has walked out on companies…..and who, who’s gonna team with them? People round here might not like us, but the Titans aren’t exactly flavour of the month either……Bagwell, he’s already got a match…..that big goof the Giant, haven’t you already kicked his teeth down his throat once before?…..

…..I’m telling you now, it’s Savage, Warrior, the Giant…..and…..who cares who else…..you’re Shawn freaking Michaels man, who cares which scrub they talk into teaming with them…..”

…..Michaels let’s out a deep breath and nods his head, repeating what JPL just said…..he IS Shawn freaking Michaels…..he IS the Icon…..he IS the main event…..and on Sunday night, he IS going to be the WCW Champion…..

…..clearly the pep talk did its job…..and the mood returns to its previous jovial atmosphere…..

…..so much so that Christian HAS to ask…..

”…..so, can we get the girls back now? Because they were totally hot…..”

…..okay, let’s go down to ringside…..before we objectify the ladies anymore than we have to…..

…..over to you Tony Schiavone…..

Rating: A*

…..where we have the rather unusual pairing of Brian Lawler and Psychosis facing off against everyone’s favourite dancing morons, Alex Wright and the Disco Inferno…..

…..I say unusual because Lawler and Psychosis are partners tonight, they are actually going to be opponents on Sunday evening, when they both bid to capture the WCW Cruiserweight Championship from Hayabusa…..in a triple treat match…..

…..so with that being said, they won here tonight right? To gain some momentum going into the Pay Per View? And because let’s face it, it’s Alex Wright and Disco Inferno…..no one expects them to win right?…..

…..wrong…..I expect them to win…..I love those dancing idiots…..

…..okay, bias withstanding, Wright and Disco did win here tonight…..

…..it’s called story telling people…..

…..Lawler and Psychosis are enemies…..of course they don’t gel well here…..

…..Lawler spends a good portion of the match showboating and refusing to tag his partner in……

…..the two men eventually get into a shoving match…..

…..Psychosis shoves Lawler right back towards Disco…

…..who rolls him up for a surprise one, two, three…..

…..the dancing fools win!…..

…..yay!…..

Winner(s): Alex Wright and Disco Inferno
Rating: B-

…..Disco and Alex Wright dance their way to the back, leaving Lawler and Psychosis alone in the ring…..and predictably, Lawler isn’t happy about being the one to take the loss…..

…..the two men have an exchange of words (although I doubt either man has an idea of what the other is saying) before a second shoving match breaks out…..a shoving match that only halts when James Vandenberg and his disciples make their way out from the back…..

…..Vandenberg comes to a halt at ringside, telling the two Cruiserweight challengers that in tag team action, cohesion is key to victory…..and during times of war, it’s all about the numbers…..

…..with that he motions towards the ring, as Hayabusa, Shinzaki and Mortis climb through the ropes and rush Lawler and Psychosis…..

…..and much like Vandenberg said, cohesion is key to victory…..and the numbers definitely help…..as the trio go to work as a unit, dismantling Hayabusa’s two UnCensored opponents, leaving the joint number one contenders down on the mat, before Vandenberg speaks again……

…..he tells the two men that the final key to victory in times of war…..is that you have to be willing to do whatever it takes to take the win…..

”…..and with Mr. Bischoff being so kind as to relax the rules at UnCensored…..believe me when I say…..there is nothing that we won’t do…..to keep this Cruiserweight Championship that we hold so dear within the flock…..

…..WE will see you gentlemen on Sunday…..

…..and I do mean WE…..”

…..looks like that triple threat match is going to have a few additional spectators at ringside…..

…..I guess we’ll find out on Sunday…..

Rating: C+

…..next up it’s time for Buff Bagwell to face off against Lex Lugers mystery opponent, ahead of Bagwell and The Giants clash with the Total Package and Rowdy Roddy Piper at UnCensored……in what is billed as being Roddy Pipers retirement match…..

…..obviously The Giant joins Buff at ringside for this one…..as Lex makes his way out to announce the other participant in the match…..

…..the two sides jackjaw for a few moments, with the two Titan men mocking Piper in his absence, while Luger tells them that they will be laughing on the other side of their faces when Roddy slaps the taste out of their mouths……

…..I could write up a whole segment here..…leading up to the surprise announcement of tonight’s opponent…..but let’s be honest…..it’s a Lex Luger promo, with Buff posing and Giant spraying spittle everywhere…..so honestly why bother…..

…..the opponent is Sid…..

…..ring the bell already…..

Rating: A

…..so it’s Buff Bagwell against Sid Vicious…..real barnburner right?…..

…..in fairness, Sid has a bit of history with the other big man at ringside (The Giant) so his involvement here does have some logic to it…..

…..Bagwell isn’t so happy about his (much) larger opponent here…..and honestly gets his ass handed to him for the longest time…..until he’s finally able to distract the official long enough for Giant to nail he rival big man with a hard rabbit punch to the back of the skull…..

…..Luger does his best to keep the Giant at bay for the rest of the match as Bagwell tries his hardest to keep Big Sid grounded without the assistance of his Titan Teammate…..

…..he does pretty well too…..even looking like he’s going to pick up the victory as the match comes to a close, mounting the ropes and looking for that Blockbuster…..

…..before he can leap however, the bagpipes begin to play, as the theme music of the Hot Rod blares through the arena…..clearly it’s all a case of mind games however, because while Piper doesn’t appear, the action does distract Bagwell long enough for Sid to regain his senses, grab the mounted Bagwell by the throat…..and crash him into the mat with a massive choke slam for the one, two, three…..

…..advantage Piper…..

…..just when you think you know all the answers……

…..he changes the question…..

…..let’s take a commercial break…..

…..our main event is next…..

Winner: Sid Vicious
Rating: B+

…..and when we do return, it’s to the arrival of Shawn Michaels and his band of Merry degenerates…..

…..it’s an eight man tag match coming up, but obviously, where Copeland and Cage go, Big Ray-Ray isn’t far behind…..as all five men make their way out…..

…..despite his less than collected outburst earlier, Shawn Michaels has clearly got his mojo back…..and is back to his gum chewing, obnoxious gesture making, sh!t eating grin wearing best as he trades barbs with the fans at ringside, waiting for he announcement of their opponents……

…..they don’t have to wait long…..because Savage and Warrior (along with a microphone wielding Vince Russo) are out next…..and Vinnie Ru wastes no time in telling everyone that they just might have, the most electrifying partner…..in all of sports entertainment…..

…..:::::!!!!!IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLLL……WHAT THE ROCK…..IS COOKING!!!!!:::::…..

…..as the Great One himself comes marching out from the back……

…..JPL was cool as a cucumber in his prediction that the two Titans would struggle in finding a partner this evening…..but not only have they found a partner…..they’ve found a partner in Levesque’s UnCensored opponent…..The Rock…..

…..Rocky stands in the aisle way for a moment, soaking in the cheers of the crowd in attendance…..

…..before holding up his hands…..

…..and pointing at the sky……

…..as a helicopter flys over Club La Veda…..

…..and Tony Schiavone loses his mind…..

…..as Sting climbs out of the side of the rotary aircraft…..

…..and begins his descent into the makeshift arena…..

…..the degenerates in the ring are beside themselves at the partners the Titans have chosen…..

…..well…..Shawn and JPL are beside themselves……Copeland and Cage are doing their comical best to stay upright as the backdraft from the helicopter blasts over the ring……

…..we have our mystery partners…..

…..we have all our competitors…..let’s get to the match……

…..my god what an entrance by the WCW Champion……

Rating: A*

…..so it’s main event time…..and damn if it ain’t a biggie…..

…..not only do we have a preview of three of our upcoming UnCensored matches, but we also have eight of the biggest names in WCW in the ring at one time…..not to mention the fact that for the first time since it’s inception, you have the Titans of Wrestling WILLINGLY teaming up with WCW…..

…..and that (as Tony Schiavone point out) speaks volumes about everyone’s opinion of Shawn Michaels and his Merry Men…..that even two sides who have been at war for close to two years are even willing to set aside their differences against a common enemy…..

…..the match (as you would expect) garnered a massive reaction from this crowd…..even Savage and The Warrior were cheered as they traded blows with Copeland and Cage…..it was a wild affair from the start, with the official finding it close to impossible to gain any measure of control…..

…..eventually the match settles into a standard tag team encounter, with the WCW/ToW alliance gaining the control early on…..it’s not long until the degenerate collective bends the rules to gain the advantage though, as they manage to isolate Randy Savage, cut the ring in half, and all four members of the heel team go to work with quick tags in and out of the match……

…..Copeland and Cage in particular take great pleasure in beating down on the Macho Man…..even tossing him to the outside, where Big Ray-Ray gets his licks in too…..eventually though, you knew this was all going to break down again…..and that’s exactly what happens when Savage is able to make the tag to the WCW Champion…..

…..the Stinger his the ring hot, and fires off on all four members of the opposing team, before branching out to focus his attack on his UnCensored opponent Shawn Michaels…..

…..from there all eight men break out into an all out war, brawling all around the ring and ringside area…..so much so that the official finally gives up trying…..he throws this one out, throws his hands up in the air…..and heads to the back, leaving the eight men to kill each other for all he cares……

Winner(s): No Contest
Rating: A

…..the action doesn’t stop there though…..as these eight men (with the added addition of Big Ray-Ray too) continue to brawl all over the ringside area…..

…..dangerously close to the water that surrounds the ring…..

…..it doesn’t take long for security to come rushing out from the back…..with Dangerous Doug leading his crack team out to try and break up the war…..

…..although they are quickly stopped by Vince Russo…..who follows closely behind them with a microphone…..

…..he tells Doug Dillinger to call off his team…..

”…..because bro, we are six days away from Uncensored…..we’re throwing the rules out of the window there…..so we may as well start right now…..”

…..orders received, security heads to the back and leaves the brawl to continue…..

…..much to the delight of the fans…..

…..and since we are getting uncensored, it seems like it’s time to break out the plunder, as one by one the degenerate side gets nailed with chair shots left and right…..

…..Savage and The Warrior light up Copeland and Cage with shots to the back that leaves them teetering over the safety rail…..

…..so the Titan pair tips them right into the pool…..

…..an angry Big Ray-Ray charges at Savage…..

…..and gets backdropped right into the pool…..

…..Rocky and JPL trade blows on the outside, until The Rock gains the upper hand, landing right hand after right hand after right hand…..before delivering one final open handed blow that sends Levesque staggering backwards……

…..right into the pool…..

…..and then there was one…..

…..THE one…..

…..the one that everybody wants a piece of…..

…..and all four men circle Shawn Michaels…..

…..with a pissed off Sting pointing that black baseball bat right at him…..

…..Michaels assesses the situation and sees that he is severely outnumbered…..never one nit to have a plan though, Michaels spots his opportunity, drops to his back, and manages to scramble to the outside before anyone can lay a hand (or bat) on him…..

….Shawn scrambles backwards and climbs onto the safety rail…..throws a crotch chop towards the ring…..tells all four men to suck it…..

…..and jumps in the pool out of harms way…..

…..the crowd laps it up as the degenerates swim to safety…..leaving the four men to celebrate in the ring…..Randy Savage even goes so far as to hand the WCW title to Sting (but not until after giving it a long hard look) and telling him that he’d better let Shawn Michaels nowhere near it…..

…..which brings the show to a close…..with an excited Tony Schiavone revelling in Shawn Michaels humiliation…..before imploring us to tune in in six days time, for more Uncensored action…..

…..enjoy the rest of your spring break folks…..

Rating: A*

Final Rating: A

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Rikishi & The SST vs. The Lumana’i

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Week 3, March 1998
Portland Memorial Coliseum (Portland, Oregon)
ATT: 12,900
TV: 28.52
Announce Team: Tony Schiavone, Dusty Rhodes and Larry Zbyszko

”.....!!!IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLLLLLL......WHAT THE ROCK.....IS COOKING!!!.....”

…..it’s Thursday night folks, we are 3 days away from the most unpredictable event of the WCW Calendar year…..we are three days away from WCW UnCensored……and we are coming in hot…..because WCW Thunder belongs to one man…..

…..The Rock…..

…..the people’s champ makes his way out to a thunderous (pun intended) ovation and soaks up the adoration of the crowd before grabbing a microphone, telling the crowd that it’s Thursday night, it’s the Rocks night, the Rocks show, and the Rock is here tonight for one reason and one reason only…..

”…..and that is to take this size 16 boot, turn it sideways, and shove it straight up Jipple the Nipple’s candy ass…..

…..so the Rock says this…..tonight, it’s as simple as the letters that Ray Traylor writes to his fat momma in crayon…..The Rock is here alllllllll night….and he’s not hard to find…..Jipple, The Rock knows it’s hard, he knows that…..but if you can just pull that monstrosity that you call a nose out of Shawn Michaels ass for one night, The Rock will be happy to give the millions (and millions) of the Rocks fans a little preview of the uncensored smack down that the great one is going to be delivering on Sunday night…..”

…..Rocky says that he’s got all night, so all the jabroni’s in the back (Jumping Joey, Mean Mike, Tough Tom, Candy-Ass Cletus, and whoever the hell else is back there) may as well kick off their wrestling boots, because this is The Rock’s show, The Rock’s People and The Rock’s night…..

…..although apparently someone disagrees…..two someone’s actually…..as the Dancing Fools, Alex Wright and the Disco Inferno come strutting down the aisle…..

…..the two men climb into the ring, where Disco tells Rocky that he has it all wrong…..this isn’t the Rock’s show and these people aren’t HERE for a rock show……

”…..they’re here to shake their booty to the sweet sound of disco baby…..so music man, play my song…..and let’s give these people what they really want…..”

“……woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, WOAH…..hold on a minute there John Travolta…..just who in the blue hell are you?…..”

“…..Disc…..”

“…..IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU ARE……

……it doesn’t matter who you are, and the Rock says this…..first of all, you two come out here shaking your little hips, interrupting the Rock and looking like Liberace and the Gimp would look if they lived in their mothers basements…..”

…..the Rock says that second of all, no one wants to hear their god awful music either……

…..but what they do want to hear, is the sound of The Rock slapping the taste out of both their mouths…..

…..so that’s exactly what he does…..

…..Rock takes it to both men simultaneously, before levelling Disco with a huge right hand and Rock Bottoming Wright hard to the mat…..

…..Rocky unceremoniously boots Alex Wright to the floor and turns around just in time to catch a charging Disco Inferno with a Spine Buster that plants him firmly in the centre of the ring…..

…..he looks at the people for a moment, before kicking Discos arms into position by his sides and then running the ropes……pausing just at the last second to hit some sweet disco dance moves straight out of Saturday Night Fever…..and nails Inferno with a huge People’s Elbow…..

…..Rocky grabs the mic one more time, telling the crowd that it looks like JPL doesn’t have the grapefruits to come down here this evening…..so it looks like The Rock will have to go to him…..

…..I guess the Hunter is about to become the Hunted…..

…..game on…..

Rating: A*

…..our first match this evening sees Chris Benoit facing off against VK Wallstreet……a bit of a strange one on paper, but it actually stems from this past Monday Nitro, which saw Chris Benoit thwart the First Family’s assault on Diamond Dallas Page…..Jimmy Hart clearly took offence to this and thus tonight’s match was born…..

…..the match itself was as you would expect…..Wallstreet is nothing if not reliable, while Benoit is arguably one of the most consistent workers in the company…..so yes, this match is decent…..

…..Wallstreet gets some some decent offence in, but this is more of a showcase for the man that’s going to be challenging for the Television Title in three days time, which is why it’s Chris Benoit that picks up the victory…..

……it could quite easily have gone the other way (when Hugh Morrus attempted to interfere) but Lance Storm was on hand to ensure that the First Family didn’t get involved, leaving Benoit to lock on the Crossface for the victory.

Winner: Chris Benoit
Rating: B

…..Lance Storm climbs into the ring to congratulate his…..I guess friend is the right word, since Chris Benoit is still not an official member of the Sovereignty…..and raises his hand in victory…..which is when the current Television Champion (and Benoit’s Uncensored opponent) Diamond Dallas Page makes his way out…..

…..Page comes to a halt on the entrance way and asks Benoit if this is what’s we are going to see at Uncensored…..

”…..what’s it gonna be Chris? Is it gonna be Chris Benoit vs. DDP?….or is it gonna be DDP vs. The Sovereignty?…..should I be watching my back now bro?…..is Regal gonna jump me from behind now while I got my back to the curtain?…..”

…..as if to emphasise his point, Page stops talking for a moment and outstretches his arms, waiting for an assault that doesn’t come…..

…..Dallas says that one thing he’s always had for Benoit, is respect…..that’s why he chose him as a brother in arms against the Titans of Wrestling…..and that’s why he chose him to be his tag team partner when they won the straps from Copeland and Cage…..

”…..you were like a brother to me Chris…..but THIS guy…..THIS Chris Benoit…..him I don’t know…..you never needed nothing from nobody, and yet here you are week in and week out following Lance Storm around like a schmuck…..so who am I fighting Sunday?…..

…..Chris Benoit? Or the whole freaking Sovereignty bro?…..”

…..Storm goes to speak, but Benoit cuts him off…..he tells Page not to worry about Lance Storm…..Steven Regal…..or any other members of the Sovereignty…..

”…..see Dallas…..I always respected you too…..but not more than I respect myself…..the reason I saved you last week, was because I want you at 100% on Sunday night…..yeah you beat me to win that belt…..but you only beat 50% of me…..at Uncensored…..you’re going to get all of me…..no excuses, no injuries…..and you don’t have to worry aboot Lance…..you don’t have to worry aboot Regal…..the Blue Bloods…..Jacques or Carl……I give you my word as a man, not one of them will be anywhere near ringside when I make you tap out to the Crossface…..

…..all you have to worry aboot Dallas…..is me taking that title from you…..I’ll see you Sunday…..”

…..and that should be quite some match…..

…..speaking of matches, we should probably have another one…..

…..after this brief intermission…..

Rating: B+

…..an intermission which sees The Rock pacing back and forth in the parking area…..

…..he said he wasn’t leaving here tonight until he got a piece of JPL, but apparently Levesque isn’t here yet…..

…..the announcers say that neither JPL, Shawn Michaels, OR the Totally Awesome Trinity are scheduled to be here tonight, but as Schiavone points out, when has that ever stopped those degenerate clowns from doing whatever they want…..

…..will they show?…..

…..the Rock clearly thinks so…..

…..let’s go back down to ringside…..

Rating: B+

…..where it’s time for a family feud to conclude, as the Samoan SWAT Team faces off against Kokina’s Lumina’i group of Ekmo, Kimo and LA Smooth…..

…..yes not all feuds must make it to pay per view…..and just as Thunder is the perfect playground for the lesser rivalries that serve to elevate some of our younger talent, it’s the perfect place for this particular rivalry to end…..particularly since it has all played out here…..

…..there’s no denying that Rikishi, Fatu and Samu have the experience advantage…..in fact these three were a regular unit about a decade ago here in WCW (back when it was still marketed as the NWA) so to say they had the edge there against their greener than green family members would be an understatement…..

…..the Lumana’i are lead by a bonafide former world champion in Kokina though, and the big man from the islands is ready to lead his group into the future…..and he’s gonna lead them from right there at ringside…..

…..now arguably we could have booked Kokina in this match (having him replace any one of his young protégés) but we really don’t need to get the former WWF Champion over, he’s already a star…..no it’s the three rookies that we are looking to make names for here tonight…..

…..and that’s exactly what we did with the booking…..

…..the match was ugly to say the least…..a flat out brawl, with the SST getting plenty of offence in against these young upstarts…..in the end though, the Lumana’i were hungrier for the victory…..and with ‘Kina on the outside running interference, victory was just what they got, after Ekmo picked up the three count with a top rope splash to Fatu…..

Winner(s): The Lumana’i
Rating: C+

…..not content with just a victory however, Kokina doesn’t want his boys stopping just there…..and he orders the three samoans to continue the assault…..which is exactly what they do……

…..Fatu is already down from that big splash, which leaves Samu and Rikishi fighting off three men…..Ekmo is able to get the better of Samu and beats him unmercifully down to the mat……Kimo and Smooth go to work double teaming Rikishi, and they’re doing a damn good job of it too, until the big man gets his second wind and starts pinballing them with lefts and rights…..

…..which is when Kokina climbs into the ring and nails his one time partner in the back of the head……

…..and with Kishi down all four men put the boots to him, before Smooth drags him over to the corner, where Kokina mounts the second turnbuckle and crushes the life out of him with a massive Samoan Squat (Banzai Drop)…..

…..still sitting on the chest of the broken Rikishi, Kokina is handed a microphone by Ekmo, which he uses to tell the crowd that what they are seeing right now is the future of the Samoan dynasty…..

”…..not the past, or even the present…..but what you’re going to be seeing going forward from this day and every other day that comes…..WE are the future…..WE are the Lumana’i…..and WE cannot be stopped…..”

…..Kokina says that they have had their fun on Thunder…..but now it’s time to bring the future to Nitro…..they want the glory…..they want the gold…..and they WILL be seen…..

…..there are a lot of big pairings in the tag team division right now…..

…..it sounds like that division is about to get a whole lot bigger…..

…..let’s go to the back…..

Rating:

…..where Disco Inferno and Alex Wright are licking their wounds after their run in with The Rock earlier this evening…..

…..I’m keeping the write ups deliberately shorter tonight, so this won’t be an exception…..

…..the two men appear to be giving each other a pep talk, with Alex saying that he’s fed up of being disrespected by these stupid loud mouth Americans…..he says that he’s Das Wünderkind…..he deserves to be treated in the manner he expects…..

…..Disco agrees, saying that they are treated by second class citizens week in and week out…..

”…..no one appreciates us Alex, just like no one appreciates the genius that is disco music….or, whatever it is you call that noise you like to dance to…..we’ll it’s time we started taking what we want…..come on…..I have a plan…..”

…..oh good…..Disco has a plan…..that’ll end well for them I’m sure…..

…..on with the show…..

Rating: C+

…..we’ve already seen Lance Storm once this evening, but now it’s time to see him in an in-ring capacity, as he faces off against another proud American patriot in Sgt. Craig Pittman…..

…..speaking of patriots, that’s exactly who Lance is going to be facing on Sunday, THE Patriot, when these two warring nations go to battle in what is sure to be an exciting Flag Match…..

…..yeah there was some sarcasm there…..flag matches are rarely exciting…..but still…..it’ll be more exciting than this match…..

…..Storm won…..quite easily……tapping out the Sarge with the Canadian Maple Leaf…..

Winner: Lance Storm
Rating: B

…..Storm isn’t done there either…..he climbs to the outside to collect the Canadian flag and a microphone, before climbing back into the ring, where he nails (a limping) Pittman in the back of the head with the microphone, which makes a resounding THUMP sound through the house speakers…..

…..with Pittman down, Lance drapes the flag over his fallen body, telling the crowd that this is exactly what they will see on Sunday…..

”…..a superior Canadian athlete…..standing over yet another second rate American…..now everybody please rise…..for the playing of the Canadian National Anthem…..”

…..Storm places his hand over his heart and his foot on the chest of the flag covered Pittman as the Anthem begins to play…..

…..which is when The Patriot comes rushing out from the back…..

…..he’s not about to stand for this…..

…..he hits the ring and rushes at Storm (who quickly bails to the outside) before snatching the flag up off the fallen Pittman and helping his countryman to his feet…..

…..Patriot snatches up the microphone, telling Storm that this is the last time they’ll have to hear the Canadian anthem, the last time they’ll have to see the Canadian flag……

”…..and the last time we’ll have to listen to you running your mouth…..because on Sunday, I’m gonna give you a good old fashioned American ass whipping boy…..”

…..are you excited for our Uncensored Flag Match yet?…..

…..what do you mean no?…..

…..philistines…..

…..on with the show…..

Rating: B

…..where the announcers tell us that they have been sent in some anonymous footage featuring an altercation that took place between The Forgotten and their opponents at Uncensored, Mike Awesome and Gideon Cain…..

…..they roll the footage, which is clearly some sort of CCTV footage from a dingy bar of some sorts…..it’s grainy and black and white, but the picture is surprisingly clear to watch……

…..what we see is Awesome and Cain throwing back a few at the bar, clearly having a good time……when our tag team champions (without titles and in street clothes obviously) enter the bar…..

…..there’s no sound in the footage, but clearly the two teams are having words of some sort…..which ultimately breaks out into a shoving match…..

…..Vader shoves Cain into a bystander, just as Awesome does the same to Bigelow…..something that the other patrons don’t take too kindly too…..which is when a mass bar brawl breaks out…..

…..well, less a brawl…..more wrestlers vs. patrons……and the patrons don’t fare too well……

…..it almost looks like the two teams are trying to one up each other in a “can you top this” kind of way…..Awesome slams someone through a pool table, Vader drives someone’s head into a jukebox, Cain smashes a bottle over someone’s head, Bigelow breaks a bar stool across someone’s back…..

…..etc, etc…..

…..this continues until our four wrestlers are the only ones standing…..at which point the feed cuts out…..just as the four men come face to face…..

…..did they come to blows?…..

…..who knows…..

…..one things for sure though, they’ll definitely be fighting on Sunday……

Rating: A

…..I guess it’s time to hear Discos plan…..because the two dancing fools make their way out, and even Alex doesn’t look sure as to what’s about to happen…..

…..they hit the ring and bust out a few moves, before Disco grabs a microphone and says that it’s time that he and Alex were taken a little more seriously around here…..

……he says that the two of them kicked the Rocks ass earlier this evening (before poorly covering the microphone with his hand to check with Wright that Rocky was still in the back and can’t hear this right?) and that’s not all they’ve done…..

”…..we’ve beat up the Rock…..the Nasty Boys….the Forgotten…..and just this last Monday, we beat the two top contenders to the Cruiserweight title…..”

…..while most of those accomplishments have been embellished to say the least, that last one was actually true…..Disco and Alex DID beat the team of Brian Lawler and Psychosis this past Monday night…..and as such, Disco says that as far as they are concerned, THEY should be the top contenders, and THEY should be fighting for the Cruiserweight title at Uncensored…..

…..that brings out our Cruiserweight Champion Hayabusa…..along with James Vandenberg and the rest of his creepy little church of followers…..

…..Vandenberg says that his entire mission since pursuing the Cruiserweight title from Jeff Hardy to begin with, was to ensure that the title remained pure and untouched by the unworthy…..

”…..and you two morons, are the very antithesis of unworthy…..but…..with that being said…..we are nothing if not benevolent, and Hayabusa is the very definition of a fighting champion…..so while you won’t have the honour of competing for this prestigious championship at Unsensored…..

…..Hayabusa will allow you to grace his ring…..

…..right now…..”

…..I guess we have a title match…..

…..ring the bell…..

Rating: B

…..and so much like we will see on Sunday, Hayabusa puts the WCW Cruiserweight title on the line here against two opponents, as he defends the gold in a triple threat match against Alex Wright and the Disco Inferno…..

…..the announcers question the logic of Vandenberg here, accepting a match against two opponents mere days before Hayabusa has to defend against two more opponents…..particularly since Wright and Inferno are somewhat of a cohesive unit…..

…..it does look as though teamwork could be the key to victory here for our challengers, especially as the double team our champion…..in the end though, greed and competitiveness takes over…..had Disco and Wright perhaps discussed a game plan beforehand, one of them could indeed have helped the other to victory…..as it is they began to bicker and argue about who should be the one to go for the pin, eventually leading to Hayabusa back dropping Alex Wright to the outside (where Mortis nails him with a Flatliner right to the floor) before our Champion finishes off Disco with a Phoenix Splash to retain the gold…..

….let’s see what excuse Disco comes up with for this one……

Winner: and Still WCW Cruiserweight Champion…..Hayabusa
Rating: B

…..from there we see highlights of Bill Goldberg going 65-0 on Nitro when he defeated Road Warrior Hawk, as well as clips from the aftermath of that match, which saw Eddie Guerrero high tail it, leaving his Nephew Chavo to get sent for a swim on Nitro’s Spring Breakout edition…..before we head backstage, where Mean Gene is standing by with United States Champion Eddie Guerrero, and his partner this evening, Chavo……

…..Gene says that following the events of this Monday night, Vince Russo has booked the Guerrero’s to face The Road Warriors in tag team action…..

”…..and Eddie Guerrero, I hope you stick around this time, and not run away with your tail between your legs to leave this young man to take on Hawk and Animal alone…..”

“…..run away? Eddie Guerrero doesn’t run away holmes…..the Papi of Perfection doesn’t run from nobody esè…..”

…..Eddie says that he was simply making sure that those two idiots Hawk and Animal didn’t try and injure him and deliberately try and soften him up for that big goof Bill Goldberg…..Eddie says that everyone wants to be the one to hand Goldberg his first defeat…..

”…..and I don’t know why esè, winning 65 matches isn’t that impressive holmes…..Eddie Guerrero has been the United States Champion for 8 months Gene…..240 days esè……do you know how many wins I’ve had in that time…..?”

“…..well I would venture it was far less than 65…..especially since a lot of those matches also saw you running away with your tail between your legs…..”

“…..143 Mean Gene…..”

“…..143? Eddie Guerrero, that is an out and out lie…..”

“…..a lie? A LIE?!….a Guerrero never lies Esè!…..Chavo, tell him how many wins I have…..

“…..143 Gene…..and zero defeats…..”

…..Mean Gene isn’t buying the blatant lie, but Eddie carries on regardless…..he says that everyone in the back wants to be the one to beat Goldberg…..and those stupid Road Warriors know (just like everyone else knows) that Eddie Guerrero will beat the streak without even breaking a sweat…..

…..Eddie says that Hawk and Animal would have tried to soften him up in the hope that it would give Bill Goldberg a fighting chance against the Papi of Perfection, and he’ll probably try to do the same tonight…..

”…..but don’t worry Gene, because Chavito here is going to take care of those two face painted idiots tonight…..and Bill Goldberg, you count those 65 victories esè, because on Sunday, Eddie Guerrero is gonna kick your butt holmes…..all you’ve beat around here are scrubs and nobodies…..well Eddie Guerrero isn’t some scrub, Eddie Guerrero isn’t some nobody esè……Eddie Guerrero is the Papi of Perfection…..and you can’t beat me esè……come on Chavo…..”

…..I guess it’s match time…..

Rating: A

…..and this is the match…..and The Road Warriors looks to be in a particularly bad mood tonight, especially after they were unable to get their hands on Eddie Guerrero this past Monday…..

…..they’ll have to get their hands on him tonight though right? He’s in the match…..

…..well…..not really…..

…..they do manage to lay a couple of shots on him, but Eddie soon relegates himself to the apron out of harms way, and to be honest he’s a pretty bad tag team partner…..because every time Chavo tries to tag out, Eddie is miraculously out of position…..

…..of course Eddie has become quite the expert in avoiding people that want to hurt him…..after all, Bill Goldberg has been trying to get his hands on the US Champion for months now with little success…..and he might have Eddie on Sunday, but he’s apparently sick of seeing Guerrero hiding on the apron…..

…..the (now) instantly recognisable music hits and the crowd explodes as the number one contender makes his way out…..

…..Eddie explodes too…..right off the apron and into the crowd before you can blink…..

…..he wasn’t much use in this match to begin with, but it’s officially a handicap match now…..and Chavo Guerrero facing off against the Road Warriors single handedly was never going to end well…..

…..they play with the younger Guerrero for a little bit, but in the end the result was inevitable…..Doomsday Device…..one, two, three…..

…..Eddie Guerrero might have ran again tonight…..but he won’t be able to run on Sunday…..

…..let’s go to the back…..

Winner(s): The Road Warriors
Rating: B+

…..where there is more action going on…..although this one is more of the unsanctioned variety…..as Jeff Hardy and Curt Hennig continue their recent rivalry which almost saw Hardy leap from the top of a production truck through a table laying Hennig…..

…..fortunately Hennig got the heck out of dodge before that (frankly insane thing) happened, but it hasn’t stopped these two from tearing up the backstage area this evening…..

…..the two men are crashing their way through the hallways of the building much as they did on Nitro, except they at least stay away from the production trucks this time…..although it’s no less chaotic…..

…..Hardy arguably got the upper hand on Monday night, but he’s not as fortunate here as he winds up getting backdropped through a catering table…..

…..and yes it does send food flying…..

…..security rushes the scene then to keep these two men from causing anymore damage…..and they’re joined by the public face of the Championship Committee, Eric Bischoff…..

…..Bischoff says that he knows that Hardy and Hennig aren’t having a championship match at Uncensored, but since Vince Russo is not in the building this evening he is going to make an executive decision…..

”…..and since you seem intent on attempting to (and in your case Curt, succeeding in) driving each other through tables…..and since your match IS taking place at Uncensored…..that’s exactly what you will have to do to win your match on Sunday…..no pinfalls, no submissions, no count outs and no disqualification…..the only way to win will be to send your opponent crashing through a table…..so have fun with that…..and get the hell out of the building before you cause anymore damage…..”

…..I guess we have WCW’s first ever tables match booked for UnCensored…..

…..who’d have thunk it…..

Rating: B+

…..we stay backstage briefly while we catch another shot of the Rock, still waiting on the arrival of JPL…..the announcers say that it doesn’t look like Levesque is going to be showing up this evening, particularly since we only have one match to go…..

…..they may be wrong though…..because just then a car pulls up, and quick as a flash Rocky is over there swinging open the door……

…..it’s not JPL though…..nor any other one of his associates…..

…..instead it’s a terrified looking delivery driver, who hands The Rock a package, telling him to “give this to Sting”, before screeching off as quickly as he arrived……

…..Rocky stares at the package for a moment before tearing it open and pulling out what looks very much like a long leather strap…..which he tosses to the floor in frustration, before continuing his wait…..

…..let’s go to our main event…..

Rating: B+

…..and it’s a match that we’ve actually seen a number of times, because Lex Luger and The Giant have had quite the bitter rivalry dating back to last year…..

…..this won’t be the only time this week that they clash either, because they are set to clash in tag team action this Sunday, teaming up with Rowdy Roddy Piper and Buff Bagwell respectively, in what is being touted as the Hot Rod’s final match……

…..of course Piper isn’t here tonight…..he hasn’t been seen since Buff Bagwell and The Giant interrupted his retirement speech with a vicious beat down a few weeks back on Nitro…..

…..Buff Bagwell on the other hand IS here…..because where the Giant goes, Buff Daddy isn’t far behind…..and he certainly makes his presence known tonight…..

…..the match itself was as good as a Lex Luger/Giant match is ever going to be…..that’s to say it was judged more on the crowd reaction than the ACTUAL action…..but the crowd did react, so that’s all that really matters…..the two men hammer into each other with big heavy blows, while Luger shows some impressive strength against his much bigger opponent…..

…..things are going well for Lex too…..he even manages to rack the big man for what would have been the end of the match, had Buff Bagwell not had the official distracted…..

…..as it was, Giant was able to break free by gouging at the eyes of his opponent…..and with the official still distracted, the seven footer punts Luger right between the legs, before driving him into the mat with a huge Chokeslam for the one, two, three…..

Winner: The Giant
Rating: A

…..and since Luger is down, the two Titans may as well take advantage of it…..and take advantage they do…..because Buff joins his partner in the ring, and the two men go about putting the boots to the Total Package…..

…..Bagwell tells Lex that he should have stayed out of their business, and let them put Piper out of his misery once and for all…..because now, all he’s done is tick off the Titans…..and he’s going to find himself hobbled, just like the old man…..

…..with that Bagwell snatches up a steel chair…..and as The Giant puts all of his (considerable) weight on the ankle of Luger (pinning his leg to the mat) Buff raises the chair high in the air, ready to strike…..

…..cue the bagpipes…..

…..as the Hot Rod makes his way out from the back…..

…..with a thick metal chain wrapped around his fist…..

…..Bagwell goes rushing up the aisle (chair in hand) to meet him…..but he gets met right in the jaw by that chain clad fist, knocking him flat on his back…..

…..Piper steps over the fallen Buff and continues to the ring, where the Giant is waiting…..he ducks a big right hand from the big man, before putting that amateur boxing background to good use as he nails Giant in the side of the head with a trio of chain aided blows…..

…..all that does is rock the Titan man though…..even that isn’t enough to put the Giant down, as he staggers backwards into the ropes…..

…..where Lex Luger comes flying across the ring to nail him with a running forearm blow that sends him tottering to the floor…..

…..Giant is p!ssed…..and looks to want to get back in there…..Bagwell has other ideas though, managing to talk his partner into saving it for Uncensored…..and the two men head to the back, leaving The Total Package and The Hot Rod to celebrate in the ring…..

…..we’ll see you on Sunday folks…..

…..oh wait…..

…..there’s more…..

Rating: A

…..where we see JPL, Shawn Michaels and The Totally Awesome Trinity beating the holy hell out of the Rock…..

…..we have a brief Picture in Picture shot showing us how we got to this situation (Rocky had apparently given up waiting for something that wasn’t about to happen, and was heading out of the arena, when he got blindsided by a five on one assault) before we go back to our main shot…..which sees Levesque mounting the chest of The People’s Champion, laying into him with a series of hard right hands…..

…..the entire group talks smack to the master of talking smack, before Michaels snatches up that discarded leather strap, wrapping it around the feet of the Great One…..

…..Michaels yells into the camera that he knows there are no rafters out here…..

”…..and there sure as hell isn’t a helicopter in sight…..but Sting…..Mr. WCW…..I hope you’re watching this…..because you’re about to see what Mr. Wrestling can do with a strap…..before I take YOUR strap at Uncensored…..

…..Copeland…..Cage…..string him up boys…..”

…..JPL continues to put the boots to Rocky, as The Totally Awesome Two take the other end of the strap and hook it up to the back of a nearby car, as Big Ray-Ray heads around to the drivers seat…..

…..the announcers are losing their minds at the depravity of Michaels and Company, stating that the Rocks very life is going to be in danger if Ray Traylor pulls off in that car……

…..fortunately, these degenerates are universally hated by all…..and half the locker room comes rushing into the parking lot to put a stop to this madness…..

…..none of them manage to get hold of these jackasses though…..as Michaels, Levesque and The Trinity scatter and run laughing into the night, leaving Dallas Page to unhook The Rock, as the announcers tell us that if you think what you just saw was uncensored, just wait until you see what we have in store for you on Sunday night…..

…..you should probably join us then…..

Rating: A*

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Week 3, March 1998
Highlights from ECW Living Dangerously 1998

…..it’s that time of the week when things get a little bit extreme up in here, as we put away the bingo balls and bring out the blades…..it’s time for more highlights from ECW Living Dangerously…..and we are opening up the show hot!…..well…..warm…..humid?…..okay, we’re starting…..that’s the main thing…..

…..we head straight into the action, as JT. Smith looks to not only call off the hit that the Big Don placed on him with the “kiss of death” recently, but also regain his made man status as a full card carrying member of the Full Bloodied Italians…..

…..of course to do so, he’s got to beat Little Guido here tonight, and since Guido has the rest of the FBI in his corner (and is actually a very accomplished worker) that might be easier said than done…..particularly given Smith penchant for misfortune…..

…..the match was a mixture of wrestling (Guido) comedy (Smith) and outside interference (the rest of the FBI) with no one really giving the inept JT much chance at picking up the victory…..

…..he’s a klutz right?…..

…..honestly it doesn’t look like he has much of a chance either, because Guido wrestles circles around him…..at least until that clumsiness of Smith’s finally pays off…..

…..he rallies a small comeback (after basically getting destroyed by all four FBI members for the majority of the match) and decides to take a huge risk by climbing to the top rope…..Smith being Smith though he loses his footing, tumbling backwards all the way to the outside…..

…..where he lands flat on top of Smothers and the Big Don, completely taking them out of the action for a few minutes…..and as he climbs back into the ring, he catches his foot on the middle rope and stumbles forward…..

…..head first into Guidos crotch…..

…..Guido doubles over in pain from the unintentional headbutt to the groin, and for once Smith’s misfortune goes his way, as he nails his opponent with a DDT for a surprise victory……

…..Smith wins!…..

Winner: JT. Smith
Rating: D+

…..the match is over and even JT is shocked, but a deal is a deal, and he quickly grabs a microphone to remind the Big Don of that fact…..

…..he tells Rich to call off the hit, do his thing…..and make JT Smith a Made Man again…..

…..Guido and Smothers aren’t happy about this development, circling Smith and telling Rich to say the word ”and this mook will be sleeping with the fishies…..fuggeddaboutit”…..

…..the Big Don reluctantly tells his men to stand down though, borrowing a line from Tony Montana as he tells the crowd that ”all I have in this world is my balls, and my word…..and I don’t break them for no one…..capiche?…..”

…..the rest of the group don’t look too pleased about that, but the godfather has spoken, telling Guido (since he was the one who lost) to head over to the merchandise tables and pick up a shirt for their new wise guy…..

…..Guido comes back with a brand new FBI shirt, which the Big Don ceremoniously presents to an ecstatic JT Smith…..who mugs to the crowd as we go to some interview packages…..

…..JT. Smith…..Made Man…..who’d have thunk it amirite?…..

Rating: C

…..the first of those promo packages comes courtesy of our now FORMER tag team champions, Perry Saturn and John Kronus, the Eliminators…..

…..the Eliminators impressive near nine month reign as champions (after capturing the ECW Tag Titles back in June of last year) came to a screeching halt at the hands of the Brood, and clearly Saturn and Kronus are keen to get those straps back……

…..Kronus is his usual slightly unhinged self, while Saturn is the more intense of the two, as they tell the Vampire Warrior and the Fallen Angel that it’s only a matter of time before they get them back in the ring…..and when they do, not even Luna Vachon is going to be able to save them from Total Elimination……

…..speaking of teams looking for gold, we go over to Rob Van Dam and Sabu next (along with their loudmouth manager Bill Alfonso) who have aspirations of their own…..

…..Sabu recently made his surprising return to ECW, costing the man who was responsible for breaking his neck (Taz) a match against RVD……and while Taz is far from done with this trio (and while he and Sabu are bound to go to war once more) Van Dam is over it already…..

”…..did you hear what Taz is going to do to us Fonzie?…..whatever…..see Taz, Rob Van Dam already beat you…..and when he did, his stock went up…..that means more shots for me and more money in my pocket…..see everybody knows it’s only a matter of time until RVD is working Mondays, it until then, it’s all about the money and the gold…..”

…..Van Dam says that Taz is old news, been there, done that, got the t-shirt…..now it’s all about who’s holding the gold…..be that singles or tag team…..either way, Van Dam is putting everyone on notice…..

”…..because it’s time to put some gold around the waist of the whole f#@king show…..Rob….Van…..Dam…..

…..oh…..

…..and sure, Sabu too…..”

Rating: B

…..and we may as well stay on the theme of tag teams…..because we have a tag team bout up next…..as those chair swinging freaks, Axl Rotten and Balls Mahoney continue their war with the Dudley Clan…..

…..this one has been building for months, as D-Von Dudley has systematically abused, berated and insulted his brothers continually in an effort to make them somewhat worthy of Big Daddy Dudleys name…..

…..it’s an effort that has been mainly in vain for the most part…..Chubby, Sign Guy and Dances with are still for the most part pretty useless…..but after some initial reluctance, D-Von seems to think that Buh Buh and Big Dick are finally starting to show some promise…..

…..with that being said, Buh Buh is going to have to find a bit of a mean streak here…..particularly since he’s in there with two people that love to swing a chair in Rotten and Mahoney……and find a mean streak he does, because this is an arena wide blood soaked brawl…..

…..D-Von tries to get his other brothers involved in the brawl, clearly looking to get them to ‘Dudley’ up a little bit, but outside of Big Dick the rest of the clan are fairly useless…..

…..speaking of Big Dick, he makes an impact at the end of the match…..because after some coaxing from D-Von (coupled with a huge slap across the face while telling him to grow some balls) Dick finally snaps and grabs Mahoney by the throat, before chokeslamming him through a table on the outside…..

…..back on the inside, D-Von is smashing the crap out of Rotten with a steel chair, before handing it to Buh Buh and telling him to finish it off…..

…..Buh Buh is still someone reluctant though, tossing the steel chair to the mat and shaking his head…..

…..this infuriates D-Von, who screams at his brother, only to get shut up by a Buh Buh smack to the mouth……Buh Buh tells D-Von to ”shut the f#@k up…..get him up”…..which is exactly what a smiling D-Von does…..whipping Axl into the ropes and then hoisting him in the air…..

…..where Buh Buh catches him with a Diamond Cutter variation, driving his skull into the steel chair on the mat…..and yes, that is the debut of the 3D…..

…..Buh Buh makes the cover, and three seconds later, the Dudley Boys have the victory…..

Winner(s): The Dudley Boys
Rating: C

…..D-Von is ecstatic at this development, embracing both Buh Buh (who has a very different and much more aggressive look on his face) and Big Dick, before telling the three lesser Dudleys that this is how it’s done…..

”…..and you know what you three fat f#@ks, I’m just about done…..I’ve spent months trying to make Dudleys out of you, but the fact of the matter is, your wh#re mother’s should have aborted you before you were even born…..but since your mother’s didn’t do it then, I guess we’re just going to have to do it now…..”

…..and that’s exactly what the now trio of Dudleys do…..as Buh Buh and Big Dick join D-Von in beating the holy hell out of Chubby, Sign Guy and Dances with…..

…..at least until AC/DC’s Highway to Hell (copyright issues be damned) starts to play…..and……I want to say ‘a man’ makes his way out from the back…..but if he is a man, he’s a runt of one…..

…..but he is kitted out in Dudley colours…..and considering that there have been rumours of further brothers out there in the wild as of late, you have to assume that this is the person that Dances with Dudley was calling last week…..

…..D-Von looks briefly confused at the identity of the new arrival (at least until Buh Buh whispers something in his ear) at which point he breaks out into a huge smile, saying the more second rate Dudleys he can eliminate the better……particularly runts of the litter like this one…..

…..even Joey Styles is sceptical at this…..even HE is bigger than this newest Dudley…..exactly how is he planning on taking on all three Dudley Boys alone?…..

…..except…..there were whisperings of THREE previously unknown Dudley Brothers…..

…..and this little guy isn’t alone…..

…..as a former racing car driver and a former cowboy come walking out from the back clad in the tie-dye colours…..

…..and all three of these new ‘Dudley Boys’ come running down the aisle and into the ring, where they go straight to work brawling with Buh Buh, D-Von and Big Dick…..

…..the little guy might not look much…..but clearly he is completely unhinged as he goes straight for Big Dick like a rabid Jack Russell…..and he’s kinda holding his own too…..

…..in fact all three new arrivals are…..

…..and then Axl and Balls get back into the mix…..

…..and Buh Buh, Big Dick and D-Von decide that they have inflicted enough violence for one evening and head to the back…..

…..quite a night for the Dudley family…..

…..a split, a union, an assault and new members…..

…..families…..

…..never a dull moment…..

Rating: B

…..we have a brief stop off with Joey Styles in the ‘studio’ who talks about the scenes we have just witnessed, before he recaps the formation of the Triple Threat, which came after Chris Chetti turned on Tommy Dreamer…..

…..he has some…..unkind words for our Television Champion…..stating that while Tommy Dreamer isn’t going to be challenging for the gold here, SOMEONE is going to…..so why don’t we find out who…..

…..from there we go down to the ring, where Shane Douglas, Francine, and the rest of the Triple Threat are in the ring…..

…..Douglas laughs as he introduces Chris Chetti to the crowd as the latest member of his group, saying that they have the perfect mix…..they have the muscle in Hellraiser…..they have the future of the business right here, a pure blue chipper in Chris Chetti…..they have a thing of beauty in Francine…..and then you’ve got him…..the Franchise…..the ECW Television Champion…..the man that took Tommy Dreamer out earlier this evening, and the man that’s going to take whoever walks through that curtain now to school…..

”…..so send them out…..because whoever it is is about to get their ass Franchised…..”

…..well that might not be as simple as Mr. Douglas thinks it will…..

…..because his opponent tonight is Jerry Lynn…..

…..ring that bell…..

Rating: B

…..I’m guessing Douglas was expecting one of your run of the mill ECW brawlers to make their way out tonight…..and with Hellraiser milling around at ringside I expect he was feeling fairly confident…..

…..except that wasn’t what he got…..

…..he got a wrestler…..

…..and a pretty damn good one at that…..

…..Jerry Lynn might not be the stereotypical Extreme superstar, but if there’s one thing the ECW crowd loves it’s an accomplished wrestler……just ask Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero…..ask Dean Malenko…..and they took to Lynn in no time at all…..

…..this was a really good match…..no blood, no guts, no barbed wire or insane bumps…..just two men wrestling, with the occasional high spot from Lynn to pop the crowd in the right places…..

…..Lynn put on a hell of a showing too, and could well have won this thing had it not been for the rest of the recently reformed Triple Threat…..in the end, Francine distracted the official long enough for Chetti to prove his worth by sliding into the ring with the Television title in hand, nailing Lynn in the back of the head with the gold, just as Jerry was attempting a cradle piledriver…..Lynn drops Douglas (and drops to a knee) Douglas quickly catches hold of the Belly to Belly suplex…..and three seconds later, we’re doing…..

Winner: and Still ECW Television Champion…..Shane Douglas
Rating: C+

…..we close out the show tonight with a triple promo package from the three men that competed for the ECW Championship at Living Dangerously…..a match that we will see next week on this very show…..and while promo packages don’t always add a great deal to a storyline, this one certainly does……because we open up with Justin Credible…..

…..well actually we open up outside of a closed door…..with a lot of screaming and poorly attempted censoring of an expletive filled argument, before Paul E. Dangerously can be heard screaming ”FINE…..YOU GOT IT…..NOW GET OUT YOU BUREAUCRATIC PR!CK”…..followed by Justin Credible exiting said room…..followed by none other than Philadelphia State Athletic Commissioner Buford T. Pinkerton……

……Credible smiles at the camera, saying that while ECW and it’s little rinky-dink carny promotor thought they could back door Justin Credible out of the World Title by having that fat drunk and the old man work together to eliminate the only true athlete here in ECW……

”…..this should be my shot and my shot alone…..but you should all know by now, that if there’s one thing the kliq knows, it’s how to play the game brother…..so Buford, tell how it’s going to go down…..”

…..Buford says that as the commissioner of the Philadelphia State Athletic Committee, he has some pull around here…..and he doesn’t want to see some kind of two on one assault…..he wants a fair and equal and CLEAN fight…..so this three way dance won’t be elimination style…..you won’t see The Sandman and Terry Funk working together to get rid of this young man right here……because there won’t be any pin falls…..there won’t be any submissions…..the only way to win this match, will be to retrieve that World Heavyweight Championship that will be hanging high above the ring……

…..because this match…..

…..will be a ladder match…..

…..something that Justin Credible seems very happy about…..telling Sandman that his drunk ass can barely walk straight let alone climb a ladder…..and Terry Funk, he’s likely to break a hip if he even tries to scale those rungs…..

”……so what you’re going to see…..is a true champion climbing to the top of the world tonight…..and that’s not just the coolest, that’s not just the best……that my friends…..is just incredible…..”

…..from there we go from comments from both the Sandman and Terry Funk, seemingly right before this world title match is scheduled to start…..because both men are sat in their respective dressing rooms…..

…..the Sandman says that he’s been in every kind of match imaginable…..he’s gone through tables, bent guard rails, he’s wrestled in a ring surrounded by barbed wire ropes…..he’s fought in bars, back alleys and parking lots all around the country…..against much tougher men than Justin Credible…..and he’s done it all with a beer in his hand and a cigarette in his mouth…..tonight, he’s going to go out there and do what he does best…..fight…..and when he’s done…..he’s still going to be the ECW World Heavyweight Champion…..

…..likewise, Terry Funk doesn’t seem to give a damn about the added stipulation…..

…..he says that people have been calling him washed up for years…..he’s been ‘middle aged and crazy’ for a decade and he just gets better with age…..

”…..see Justin Credible…..you goofy, buck toothed b@stard…..I’ve been taking punk kids like you to the woodshed like your daddy oughta since before you were suckling on your mommas wrinkled old chest…..you name them, I’ve beat them…..and you, you rat faced son of a b!tch…..you’re not Dusty Rhodes…..you’re not Ric Flair…..you’re not Harley Race, Sting…..you’re just a kid that’s been carrying his buddies bags so long that he thinks he’s better than he is…..

…..this ain’t Home Depot son…..and if you think that becoming world champion around here is as easy as climbing a ladder, then you’re in for a very long night…..this is EC f’n W…..and I’m Terry f’n Funk…..and the only thing you’re going to need to worry about where that ladder is concerned……is how much it’s gonna hurt when I shove it up your ass…..”

…..the stakes are set…..the stipulations added……all that remains is to see the match itself……

…..which is exactly what we will do…..

…..next week…..

…..we’ll see you there…..

Rating: B

Final Rating: C+

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Sting (c) vs. Shawn Michaels
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WCW United States Championship Match
Eddie Guerrero (c) vs. Goldberg
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WCW Tag Team Championship Match
The Forgotten (c) vs. Mike Awesome & Gideon Cain
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WCW Cruiserweight Championship Match
Hayabusa (c) vs. Brian Lawler vs. Psychosis
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WCW Television Championship Match
Diamond Dallas Page (c) vs. Chris Benoit
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Street Fight
Randy Savage & The Warrior vs. Adam Copeland & Christian Cage
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Flag Match
The Patriot vs. Lance Storm
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Jeff Hardy vs. Curt Hennig
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Lex Luger & Roddy Piper vs. Buff Bagwell & The Giant
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WCW Championship: Strap Match
Sting (c) vs. Shawn Michaels

WCW United States Championship Match
Eddie Guerrero (c) vs. Goldberg

WCW Tag Team Championship Match
The Forgotten (c) vs. Mike Awesome & Gideon Cain

WCW Cruiserweight Championship Match
Hayabusa (c) vs. Brian Lawler vs. Psychosis

WCW Television Championship Match
Diamond Dallas Page (c) vs. Chris Benoit

Street Fight
Randy Savage & The Warrior vs. Adam Copeland & Christian Cage

Flag Match
The Patriot vs. Lance Storm

Tables Match
Jeff Hardy vs. Curt Hennig

The Rock vs. JPL

Lex Luger & Roddy Piper vs. Buff Bagwell & The Giant

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WCW Championship: Strap Match
Sting (c) vs. Shawn Michaels

WCW United States Championship Match
Eddie Guerrero (c) vs. Goldberg

WCW Tag Team Championship Match
The Forgotten (c) vs. Mike Awesome & Gideon Cain

WCW Cruiserweight Championship Match
Hayabusa (c) vs. Brian Lawler vs. Psychosis

WCW Television Championship Match
Diamond Dallas Page (c) vs. Chris Benoit

Street Fight
Randy Savage & The Warrior vs. Adam Copeland & Christian Cage

Flag Match
The Patriot vs. Lance Storm

Tables Match
Jeff Hardy vs. Curt Hennig

The Rock vs. JPL

Lex Luger & Roddy Piper vs. Buff Bagwell & The Giant

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Week 3, March 1998
Greensboro Coliseum (Greensboro, North Carolina)
ATT: 30,000
PPV BUY: 1.98
Announce Team: Tony Schiavone, Dusty Rhodes & Bobby “The Brain” Heenan

…..it’s Sunday night, and things are about to get a little extreme up in here…..no, we aren’t in Philadelphia, but the rule book IS being ripped up, right here at WCW Uncensored 1998…..

…..we open up at the announce table, where Tony Schiavone, Dusty Rhodes & Bobby “The Brain” Heenan welcome us to what is sure to be a wild night…..

…..they run down not only the matches, but the stipulations surrounding them…..we have a street fight, a flag match, a tables match, and yes, the WCW Championship will be contested for in a strap match…..and if that wasn’t enough (just in case you didn’t get the memo) there are going to be no short cuts here tonight (I’m looking at you Eddie Guerrero) because even in the matches that have no stipulations, we are letting them go and relaxing those rules…..you want to get disqualified tonight, then you’re going to have to do something REALLY extreme to get the referees attention…..

…..and if you want to see extreme, it doesn’t come much more extreme than driving your opponent through a wooden table, but that’s exactly what Jeff Hardy or Curt Hennig will have to do to win this one…..

…..and that match is next…..

Rating: N/A

Tables Match

…..the tables stipulation might be a recent addition to this match, but there’s still plenty of heat behind it, as Jeff Hardy and Curt Hennig have been brawling in the ring, outside of the ring, backstage, and even outside the building…..it’s safe to say there’s no love lost between these two…..

…..since this is the first tables match in a mainstream wrestling organisation, the announcers talk through the rules quickly before this starts…..

…..really quickly…..

…..there’s only one rule…..

…..put your opponent through a table…..

…..so that’s exactly what they tried to do…..

…..considering the fact that these two have been trying to kill each other for the past month, the match actually started out much as any other match would…..in the ring……

…..Jeff Hardy has come a long way in his tenure here in WCW…..from (barely) midcardtag team wrestler with his brother in the WWF, to stand out, solid upper card worker here in World Championship Wrestling…..and no, he hasn’t had the title success that his brother has had since the team was separated, but arguably, Matt Hardys brief (and lone) European Championship has ended with him getting a little bit lost in the shuffle up north, while Jeff Hardys stock has risen with every high profile rivalry that he’s been involved in…..and with opponents like Curt Hennig, he’s only going to get better…..

…..Hardy might be somewhat of a daredevil, but as I said earlier, this one actually starts out as a wrestling match, which is where Curt Hennig thrives…..Hennig hits Hardy with a series of chain wrestling holds that Jeff can’t keep up with, before finally batting the youngster round the back of the head with a cocky smirk on his face……

…..he’s not so cocky a few minutes later though when Hardy sends him sailing to the outside…..and he’s even less cocky when his opponent slingshots himself over the top right on top of him…..Hardy takes advantage of the lack of rules to whip Curt into the barricade, before running and leaping up and off the ring steps, sending his whole body crashing into Hennig (and Hennig crashing further against the barrier in the process)…..

…..Hardy slides a table into the ring (along with a steel chair) and rolls Hennig back inside…..he sets the table up against the turnbuckles in the corner and then crashes the chair across the back of his opponent (leading the announcers to talk about Curts history of back problems) before propping Hennig up against the table, setting the chair up in front of him, before running the length of the ring and springing off the chair for Poetry in Motion……

…..except Hennig moves…..

…..and Hardy smashes through the wood and crumples to the mat in a heap…..

…..the announcers question for a moment whether this match is over (its WCW after all, when have they ever been clear about match rules) but they eventually settle on the opinion that you have to drive your opponent through the table with an offensive move to win this match, not simply move to allow your opponent to table themselves…..

…..so with that cleared up (and the first big spot out of the way) all the wrestling goes out of the window…..Hennig may be a wrestler first and foremost but he knows how to fight when he needs to…..the two men get down and dirty as the attempt to beat each other down long enough to put the other through a table…..Hardys steel chair assisted Poetry in Motion gets attempted again after he whips Curt into the turnbuckles, and he’s successful the first time…..he’s not so successful the second time though, because as he comes running again Hennig whips up the steel chair and throws it full force at his oncoming foe…..

…..the difference in styles of these two men couldn’t be clearer than in this match…..while Hardy looks to utilise high flying offence to drive his opponent through the wood, you’re not going to be seeing Curt Hennig attempting a splash off the top through a table…..no, Curt is more focused with trying to use wrestling moves to do it…..body slams, suplex’s, even a Hennig Plex…..Hardy is able to wiggle free on each occasion though…..

…..eventually he catches a kick attempt on the outside, sweeps the other leg and then slingshots his opponent skull first into the steel ring post…..Hennig staggers backwards and Hardy positions a table behind him that he slumps backwards into…..

…..Jeff sets Curt into position…..

…..climbs onto the apron…..

…..and then to the top rope…..

…..where he pulls off his shirt…..

…..and gets crotched right there on the top turnbuckle…..

…..Hardy took way too long getting into position, and a veteran like Curt Hennig isn’t going to miss a wide open opportunity like that…..he’s rolled off the table and up on the apron, where he sweeps Jeffs legs out from under him…..Hennig reaches up and grabs hold of the youngster, and in a spot we have seen Ric Flair and Sting do a million times in their matches over the years, he launches Jeff off the top…..

…..the big difference between this spot and the Flair/Sting spot however, is that Curt throws Jeff to the floor…..

…..and through that same table that Hardy had set up…..

…..that’s an offensive move…..

…..and this one is over…..

Winner: Curt Hennig
Rating: A

…..Hennig stumbles through the ropes and gets his hand raised by the official, before collapsing in exhaustion on the mat…..Heenan says that Curt Hennig won this match by sticking to the basics……

”…..this Jeff Hardy kid is good, but he’s stupid Schiavone…..all you have to do is put your opponent through a table, you don’t need to fly off the roof of the building to do that……Curt Hennig knew that, that’s why he has his hand raised while Jeff Hardy is broken in half on the outside…..”

…..Dusty actually agrees with Heenan, but both he and Schiavone applaud the effort of Hardy, saying that this young man has a bright future ahead of him here in WCW…..

…..Hennig slowly rolls to the outside and looks to make his way to the back, stepping around the broken table (and broken Hardy) but he stops for a minute to look down at his opponent, before reaching down and dragging the youngster back to his feet…..

…..he pulls Hardy over to the guardrail and props him up against it, as Schiavone and Rhodes yell on commentary that the kid has suffered enough……

…..Hennig actually agrees apparently…..because he backs away from his opponent, before softly slapping him on the chest in what looks to be a rare show of respect, before heading to the back…..

…..yes Curt Hennig picked up the victory here tonight, but Jeff Hardy showed a lot of people exactly what he’s about tonight…..and if he can win Hennig’s respect, he’s clearly on the right path……

…..let’s head to the back…..

Rating: B+

…..where we have a couple of promos ahead of our next match……Mike Tenay is standing by with the Patriot, while Mean Gene is in a second location with Lance Storm…..

…..neither of these men are exactly the worlds greatest talkers so we’ll keep this short and sweet…..Patriot says that he’s had it up to his back teeth with Lance Storm and his Sovereignty buddies running down the good old US of A ”the greatest nation in the world Mike Tenay” and tonight, not only is he going to prove that when he raises Old Glory high in the air in victory, he’s gonna take that maple leaf of Lance storms, and shove it right down his Canadian throat…..

…..Storm on the other hand says that he and the Sovereignty (who save for Chris Benoit, flank him for this promo) have little left to prove…..he says that they've already proved that the Sovereign Nations produce superior athletes, superior wrestlers ”and frankly Mean Gene, superior men” and tonight will be no different…..and when Storm wins this match, and the Canadian National Anthem is ringing out in victory, the can close the door on this pointless debate once and for all……

…..let’s get to it shall we…..

Rating: B

Flag Match

…..this whole USA vs The Sovereignty war has been waging on for some time now…..and what better way to end a war? Why by capturing a flag obviously!…..plus we all know Vinnie Ru loves a pole match on any description…..

…..so here we are…..it’s The Patriot facing off against Lance Storm, and the pride of a nation is on the line…..

…..I don’t think anyone was expecting a classic here…..not because the two men couldn’t have a good match, Patriot is a capable worker, and Lance Storm is good enough in the ring to take even a capable worker to a great match…..the biggest problem was always going to be the stipulation…..flag matches suck……it plays into the story though so let’s get to it……

…..Patriot takes charge in the early moments of the match, rallying the crowd behind him, but it’s not long before Storm takes control of the match…..we have the usual close calls where each man is only fingertips away from victory, but in the end it looks like Patriot is going to pick up the win, nailing Storm with the Uncle Slam and making the climb towards Old Glory…..

…..of course, that’s when the Sovereignty make an appearance……both junior members of the Blue Bloods, as well as The Amazing French Canadians…..

…..there’s no dq in this, so there’s not much that the official can do about it…..there’s plenty that the Patriot can do about it though, and he manages to fight off all four men so effectively that eventually His Lordship has to make his way out from the back to take charge…..

…..Regal shakes his head with a look of distaste on his face as he steps over the downed Sovereignty members at ringside, before sliding something into the ring and going to work distracting the Patriot…..the distraction works too…..as the Star Spangled Superstar misses Lance Storm sliding a set of brass knuckles on his fist…..

…..at least until Lance spins him round and nails him right in the jaw…..

…..Patriot is knocked out cold, leaving Storm with little to do but take a leisurely climb up the turnbuckles to recover that Canadian Flag…..

…..and this one is over…..

Winner: Lance Storm
Rating: B

…..insult to injury time, as the Sovereignty join Storm in the ring to put the boots to The Patriot a little bit…..apparently Eaton, Williams, Rougeau and Oulette are slightly more effective when their victim is already unconscious…..before Storm takes a microphone…..

…..he says that finally they have proved once and for all that the Sovereign Nations are the superior ones, before saying that all there is left for the Sovereignty to do tonight, is head to the back, pour His Lordship a cup of tea (because he’s still seething that he even had to come out here, calling his men bloody incompetents) and watch their good friend Chris Benoit bring the Television Title home…..

”…..now if you’ll all kindly have some respect…..shut your mouths…..and all rise for the playing of the Canadian National anthem…..”

…..obviously there is little respect shown…..but then, since a laughing Jacques and Oulette drag the unconscious body of the Patriot to his feet and ‘Weekend at Bernies’ a salute out of him, there isn’t a lot of respect shown by these ‘gentlemen’ either…..

…..so let’s leave them to it…..

…..let’s play a promo package highlighting the history between the Forgotten and the team of Mike Awesome and Gideon Cain…..and then we’ll go to our tag title match…..

…..it’s gonna be ugly…..

Rating: B

…..I wasn’t kidding when I said this was going to be ugly…..it was just four big bulls stiffing the snot out of each other…..so much so that it’s fortunate that we have relaxed the rules a little bit here tonight, otherwise this one would have been thrown out before it even really got started…..

…..the bell sounds and these four men pick right back up where they left it off in that bar room brawl that they were part of the other day…..because they just go right back to slugging the hell out of each other…..Kevin Sullivan is at ringside, but Awesome and Cain are alone…..usually they would have Missy Hyatt right there, but they obviously knew that a war was going to take place, because while Missy escorted her men down the aisle for their entrance, the duo ordered their reluctant manager to the back before the bell sounded…..

…..this is a big task for Mike Awesome and Gideon Cain…..particularly Cain, who is still a rookie on all fronts…..he’s come on a long, long way from his debut mind you…..he’s been somewhat of a pet project of mine, and his partnership with Awesome, pairing with Hyatt, and series of high profile opponents has seen his popularity and skill set rise quicker than Jerry Lawlers heart rate during a bikini contest…..

…..he puts on a good showing here too…..both of these teams have become guilty pleasures of mine and I’ve had plans for them to collide over the tag titles for some time…..and collide they do…..

…..it’s a free for all to start the match, with all four men going at it both in and out of the ring, before the official is finally able to gain a measure of control, as Vader and Bigelow take the advantage, isolating the rookie member of the opposition…..Vader goes to town with clubbing blows and splashes in the corner, while Bigelow does more of the ‘wrestling’ (if you can call a beating wrestling) to grind Gideon Cain down…..

…..eventually Cain is able to make the hot tag, bringing in Mike Awesome…..who really is something else for a man of his size…..he takes on both men while his opponent recovers, actually knocking Vader and Bigelow down with a double top rope clothesline, as well as (even more impressively) being inches from victory after managing to nail Bammers with a huge Awesome Bomb…..in fact it was only Sullivan dragging the official from the ring before his hand struck three that saved this match…..

…..Cain tags back in, and that four way donnybrook resumed, with the official again struggling to keep charge…..and ultimately that was what tipped the match in favour of the Forgotten…..because with the referee momentarily distracted as he tries to get the illegal men from the ring, Sullivan rolls under the bottom rope, just as Cain is attempting to hit the East of Eden on Vader…..

…..Sully spins Cain round, and in a throwback to his glory days, let’s off a fireball right in the face of the rookie…..

…..Cain drops to the mat clutching his face and Vader is quick to react, coming off the second turnbuckle with that Vader Splash to pick up the one, two and three…..

…..the Forgotten retain…..

…..but they really had to work for it…..

…..and you’ve got to think they haven’t heard the last of Mike Awesome and Gideon Cain…..

Winner(s): and Still WCW Tag Team Champions…..The Forgotten
Rating: A

…..from there we head backstage, where Mean Gene is outside of what he tells us is the dressing room of Shawn Michaels and his cohorts…..

…..there’s plenty of laughing coming from behind the door, along with some playful shrieks from what sound to be a number of different women…..Gene says that he’s here to try and get word from the man who will be challenging for the world title later this evening…..

”…..but by the sound of it, Shawn Michaels and his little gang of degenerates are far too busy to answer the door…..”

…..Gene knocks again…..and a third time…..and finally, just as he’s about to answer, the door swings open and about five scantily clad women come rushing out, giggling as they go…..

…..and by scantily clad I mean panties…..

…..and that’s it…..

…..because their breasts are completely (and I do mean completely, nothing to censor here) with what looks to be whipped cream…..

…..Adam Copelands voice can be heard shouting for Big Ray-Ray to totally remind the girls to get the cherries, before Big Ray-Ray pokes his head out of the door…..

…..with his chin completely covered in whipped cream…..

…..Gene looks at Ray-Ray for a moment, before saying that he’s here to try and get word with Shawn Michaels ahead of his strap match later this evening…..

”…..Shawn Michaels, if you can tear yourself away from…whatever it is you’re doing in there (I really don’t want to know) I have a few questions for you…..”

…..there’s a beat of silence, until finally Adam Copeland shouts out from behind the door…..

”…..Big Ray-Ray, is that Mike Tenay?…..”

“…..you totally suck Mike Tenay!…..”

“…..SHUT UP MIKE TENAY!…..”

“…..Big Ray-Ray, get rid of him…..”

“…..you suck Mike Tenay!…..”

…..Gene goes to continue his line of questioning, but the look on Ray’s face tells him that might not be a wise idea…..instead he offers some advice, just before Traylor slams the door in his face…..

”…..you’ve got a little bit of something on your chin…..”

…..let’s go to the ACTUAL Mike Tenay…..

Rating: B+

…..who’s standing by with the longest reigning champion here in WCW today…..the Papi of Perfection…..the man who (by hook or by crook) has managed to keep hold of that United States Championship against some of the biggest names in the company…..Jeff Hardy, Curt Hennig, Rikishi, The Rock, JPL…..you name them, no one has been able to take this championship from him…..yes…..it’s Eddie Guerrero…..

…..Tenay lists those same accolades, but follows it up with the fact that Eddie hasn’t actually WON in all those title defences…..he’s just never been pinned to lose…..

”…..but with the rules relaxed here tonight Eddie Guerrero, there will be no short cuts, no easy ways out…..to successfully defend that United States Championship tonight, you’re going to have to do something nobody has been able to do in 65 straight matches…..

…..pin Bill Goldberg…..”

…..Eddie scoffs at that, telling Tenay that actually, it’s Bill Goldberg that has to do something that hasn't been done since July of last year…..

”…..Bill Goldberg has to pin ME esè…..and I don’t think he can do it holmes…..”

…..Eddie says that tonight, he’s going to prove to everyone that the only streak that matters around here, is Eddie Guerrero’s title defence streak…..eight months of successful title defences, zero months of failed title defences…..eight months of putting the title on the line against everyone that’s anyone, vs beating a few scrubs like Goldberg has…..

”…..and that’s if he even makes it to the ring esè…..I mean, I don't know where Chavito is holmes, it it can be pretty dangerous back here…..and we all know that Bill Goldberg is such an idiot, he can get injured before the bell even rings esè…..”

…..Mike Tenay says that while he’s sure that Eddie and Chavo wouldn’t try anything underhanded tonight (like they did when they put Goldberg on the shelf a few months back) ”I believe that the face of the WCW Championship Committee Eric Bischoff, has put a few…..security measures…..in place to ensure that this match actually happens…..”

…..Tenay motions to a tv monitor (as we switch to a shot of of a dressing room door) which sees the making of a new entrance technique for Goldberg, as a group of security guards escort the challenger to the Gorilla Position…..we have it all here…..the knock, the guards, the pyro, the smoke breathing…..and as we cut back to a shot of Eddie Guerrero…..who does not look happy…..next to a smiling Mike Tenay…..

”…..I think they’re playing your music…..good luck…..champ…..”

“…..SHUT UP MIKE TENAY!…..”

Rating: A

…..so here it is, the biggest match of Bill Goldberg’s short career…..as he puts his undefeated streak on the line against Eddie Guerrero, for the United States Championship…..

…..and boy are the crowd hot for it…..

…..Eddie Guerrero wasn’t joking when he said he’d put this title on the line against all comers…..he might not have won every match (thank you ‘the title can only change hands on a pinfall or submission’ rule) but he’s been in there with some huge names…..and as such, his stock has skyrocketed…..in fact, he could headline this event quite comfortably against the Stinger, so over is he right now…..

…..likewise, Bill Goldberg isn’t far behind in terms of popularity…..granted he’s not quite at Eddie’s level, but 65 straight victories in a row have him wayyyyyy up there at the top of the card…..

…..he knows what it is to hold gold too…..a former champion in his own right after capturing the Television Title several months ago…..unfortunately (Eddie Guerrero and) injury forced him to vacate that championship…..

…..bigger and better things tonight?…..

…..the match itself is really very good…..it’s certainly the longest and most competitive of Goldberg’s career to date…..

…..Eddie shows exactly why he has been the US Champion for so long…..he’s he’s happy to take the easy way out sure, but he is one hell of an accomplished wrestler, there’s no doubt about that…..but he’s also one hell of a smart wrestler…..

…..see Bill Goldberg has been trying to get his hands on Eddie for MONTHS now…..months…..and Eddie has been poking that bear from a distance, making him gradually more and more mad…..and while most people would think you must be crazy to deliberately antagonise Bill Goldberg, angry people are rash…..reckless…..and they make mistakes…..

…..that’s not to say Eddie doesn’t get his comeuppance…..Goldberg DESTROYS him in the opening portion of the match…..just tosses him around like a rag doll…..but that anger does get the better of him, as he goes for a spear far too early, which Eddie dodges, leaving Goldberg to crash shoulder first into the turnbuckles…..

…..and it’s that shoulder that Eddie injured originally…..

…..from there the Champion takes control, focusing on that body part (which Bobby Heenan is particularly pleased about) “…..and if I was managing him Schiavone, that’s exactly what I would be telling him to do….that’s smart…..Goldberg might be the man, but he’s still A man…..and that man has a target on that shoulder since the injury, not to mention the fact that it’s hard to spear a guy with a separated shoulder…..”

…..and focus on that shoulder is what Eddie does…..even going so far as to wrap it around a steel ring post, before crushing it with a chair (telling the official to go ahead and disqualify him)…..the official doesn’t, obviously…..because as Dusty reminds us ”we’re uncensored baby”, JT the chair certainly does some damage…..

…..eventually Goldberg begins to rally back, rocking Eddie so much that finally Chavo comes running out from the back with chair in hand…..

…..he climbs into the ring and raises the weapon…..

…..only to get speared out of his boots…..

…..the announcers comment that Goldberg used the non-injured shoulder to take out Chavo, but the distraction lead to Eddie managing to drop to his knees behind the challenger and nail him in the crotch with a brutal low blow that drops Goldberg to the mat…..

…..Eddie climbs to the top rope (looking for that Frog Splash) but spends so long congratulating himself and taunting the fans, for the victory that will surely follow, that when he leaps he leaps right into a mid air Spear……

…..the crowd erupts as Goldberg suplex’s the man up, and holds him (one handed) above his head (bad shoulder remember) before Jack Hammering him straight to the mat for the one…..the two…..and after over eight long months……

…..the three…..

…..we have a new US Champion…..

…..and his name is Goldberg…..

…..66-0…..

Winner: and New WCW United States Champion…..Goldberg
Rating: A

…..we head over to the announce table while Goldberg takes in his victory in the ring, where the trio talk about the unstoppable force that is our undefeated United States Champion…..from there they briefly recap the build to our next match, which sees Lex Luger team with Roddy Piper against Buff Bagwell and The Giant…..in what is being billed as The Hot Rods farewell match…..

…..the two teams make their way out, with Piper getting a tremendous ovation for this “retirement” match…..there’s a lot of history between these four men…..Luger and the Giant have clashed many times since the big man turned on his former friend late last year (with the Giant coming out on top more often than not) while Bagwell and Piper have been at war for the best part of 1998…..Bagwell does hold a victory over the Hot Rod (which was probably the biggest victory of his singles career to date) but he had to virtually cripple the Rowdy one in the build up to that match in order to do so…..

…..Piper got his revenge at February’s PPV offering, but it was following that victory (after announcing his retirement) that the Titans pairing of Bagwell and the Giant struck and beat Roddy down one more time……and so here we are……

…..it’s not going to be a deep dive for this one…..it was never going to be a technical masterpiece after all…..it was decent though…..Luger has been a bit of a sleeping giant in his own right here in WCW…..he’s quietly gone about putting on solid displays for a long while now, nothing spectacular, nothing terrible, just constantly good……as for the other three, Piper has been coasting off his name value for a few years now (although it serves him well here) Bagwell is a steady hand, while the Giant is no slouch considering his size…..

…..the faces start out hot, but eventually the Titan pairing are able to cut off Piper, going to work on the well publicised reconstructed hip……

…..eventually though Piper is able to make the hot tag to Luger and business picks up…..Lex takes on both men alone until Roddy is back in the mix, with all four men making it impossible for the official to keep up…..

…..good job we’re uncensored huh…..

…..finally Luger and the Giant find themselves brawling on the outside…..

…..Bagwell misses a Blockbuster attempt on Piper…..

…..gets back to his feet only to take a double finger to the eyes from Roddy…..

…..the Hot Rod slaps on the sleeper…..

…..and hush daddy, because Buff Daddy is taking a nap…..

…..your winners…..

….. Lex Luger and Rowdy Roddy Piper…..

Winner(s): Lex Luger and Rowdy Roddy Piper
Rating: B+

…..we leave Piper and Luger celebrating in the ring and head backstage, where Mean Gene is standing by with the two men who are about to compete for the WCW Television Title…..Champion Diamond Dallas Page, and challenger, Chris Benoit…..

…..Gene says that from Titan wars, to Tag Team Titles, to competing for the Television Title tonight, Dallas Page and Chris Benoit have been intertwined for the best part of a year now…..sometimes partners, sometimes opponents…..but always friends…..

”…..gentlemen, is that no longer the case? Chris Benoit, have you let Lance Storm get inside your head?…..”

…..Benoit says that the only thing that’s been in his head as of late, is championship gold…..he says that when he and Dallas lost the tag team titles, it was Page that was too obsessed with Lance Storm and the Sovereignty to join Benoit in taking them back…..

”…..and since then Gene, all I’ve heard is ‘are you joining the Sovereignty, is Lance Storm going to be at ringside, is Lance Storm going to interfere…..the only person with Lance Storm inside their head…..is Dallas…..”

…..Page says that he ain’t buying it jack…..he says that if Benoit had REALLY wanted to regain the tag titles, he would have joined Dallas in taking out the Sovereignty, then the two of them could have got the gold back…..as it was, Benoit kept his distance, and looky look here…..it’s DDP that has the gold…..

”…..see Chris, you've been laying down with dogs so long, how do I know you don’t have fleas?…..I’ll fight you tonight…..I’ll fight the Sovereignty Scum too if I have to…..I just want you to be a man long enough to tell me exactly how many guys are gonna feel the bang in about two minutes…..”

…..Benoit says that the only man Page needs to worry about, is the one that’s standing right in front of him…..he tells Page that he’s told him time and time again, and he’s going to say it one more time now…..Dallas doesn’t need to worry about Lance Storm tonight…..he doesn’t have to worry about Steven Regal…..not the Blue Bloods or the Amazing French Canadians…..

”…..the only thing you need to worry about, is me…..taking that title from around your waist…..you want me to be a man? Well man to man, right here right now…..I’m telling you, you won’t see one of those men at ringside tonight…..I can beat you by myself, I will beat you by myself…..and I am going to be the next Television Champion…..”

…..Benoit offers Page his hand, telling him ‘may the best man win’…..Page looks down at the hand for a second, before slowly accepting it…..

…..the two men shake hands and Benoit goes to walk away, before Page pulls him back into shot, as the pair go face to face…..there’s a brief stare down, as Dallas tells Benoit that if even one member of the Sovereignty turns up at ringside tonight…..they…..just like Benoit…..

”…..will feel….the…..BANG!…..”

…..our TV Title match is next…..

…..let’s get to it…..

Rating: B+

…..so here it is…..Chris Benoit has been adamant that he would already be the WCW Television Champion had he not been at less than 100% in that tournament final back on Thunder…..Dallas Page is adamant that even at 100%, Chris Benoit would still need the Sovereignty there at ringside to beat him…..I guess we’ll find out who’s right now…..

…..true to his (and Lance Storms) word, Chris Benoit does indeed make his way out alone…..as in fact does Dallas…..Kimberly walks out with her man, but she doesn’t stick around, choosing instead to head to the back, making this thing a definite one on one encounter…..

…..the two lock up in the middle and Benoit gets an early advantage, snapping on a headlock…..Page backs into the ropes and tries to break free, pushing his opponent off, but Benoit snatches him by the hair and pulls him down to the mat…..back to their feet the two men jockey for position and run the ropes…..Benoit hits an arm drag, Page hits a high knee to the midsection followed by a gut wrench gut buster, focusing on those ribs…..

…..the two continue to chain wrestle and jockey around the ring, so much so that tempers clearly begin to flare as they back up into the corner and the official has to separate them…..exchange of slaps in the middle, followed by a Crossface and Diamond Cutter attempt, both of which are quickly escaped from…..

…..series of chops by Benoit lights up the chest of Dallas, before Page fires back with a series of blows to the head followed up by a discus lariat before the two men spill through the ropes and out to the floor…..

…..the pair brawl on the outside, with Page sending Benoit crashing into the guard rail, and Benoit sending Page crashing into the steps, before locking in the Crossface right there on the floor…..

…..obviously he knows he’s not going to win the title on the outside so he lets up the hold and rolls Page back in…..he goes to lock the Crossface on again but Page is able to reach the ropes……Benoit drags the champion back to his feet but Page quickly hits a Diamond Cutter out of nowhere and this one is over…..

…..or it would have been had Benoit not landed right by the ropes, with the impact inadvertently causing him to roll to the outside…..

……Page can’t capitalise on the situation either, encaustic those consecutive Crossfaces he was caught in mean he needs to catch a breather too…..

…..eventually the two men hit the final stretch of the match and a Donnybrook breaks out as they just slug it out in the middle of the ring…..and a number of near falls follow as Champion and Challenger pull out all the stops to pick up the win……eventually Page leaves Benoit reeling after a series of right hands, and goes for that discus lariat once more……Benoit ducks though and the referee takes the full force of the blow…..

…..and that’s when Dallas hits a second Diamond Cutter and makes the cover…..

…..except the official is down…..

…..as a figure climbs over the guard rail and slides into the ring, kicking Page in the back of the head…..

…..as the British Bulldog, Davey Boy Smith makes his WCW debut, dragging Dallas to his feet…..hoisting him up…..

…..and driving him into the mat with a Running Powerslam…..

…..Davey shakes Benoit back to his senses and drags him over to DDP, where the Crippler groggily locks on another Crossface on the unconscious Champion…..

…..The Bulldog rouses the official, who crawls over to see Dallas unresponsive in the Crossface, before calling for the bell…..

…..we have a new Television Champion…..

…..and Lance Storm really was nowhere in sight…..

…..but Benoit really didn’t do this single handedly…..

…..that fink!…..

Winner: and New WCW Television Champion…..Chris Benoit
Rating: A

…..I guess somewhat true to their word, now that the match is over the rest of the Sovereignty make their way out to congratulate Chris Benoit on his victory…..although after what we have just seen, I think it’s safe to say that the group has just gained TWO new members, as everyone welcomes Davey Boy into the group too……

…..Dallas reads the writing on the wall, and manages to roll out of the ring before the inevitable beating, backing up the aisle and calling Chris Benoit a gutless scumbag as he goes…..not that the new TV Champion cares, as Lance Storm straps the title belt around his waist…..

…..Storm takes a microphone and formally congratulates the Champ, telling him that it is an honour to formally (and finally) welcome one of the greatest wrestlers in the world into the Sovereignty…..and since they already have the best technical wrestlers, he wants to introduce everyone to the muscle behind the moves…..the British Bulldog, Davey Boy Smith…..

…..Regal takes the microphone next, also welcoming his countryman, before saying that what you see before you, is a group that would make Her Majesty proud…..

”…..almost…..

…..and I say almost, because while the Sovereignty is finally United…..while the Sovereignty is finally complete…..while the Sovereignty is the perfect combination of brains, brawn, class, and technical wrestling excellence…..there’s still the small matter of, how do you brainless Americans put it? Taking out the trash?…..

…..it takes more than the right passport to make you a member of Her Majesty’s Sovereignty…..it takes pride…..integrity…..class……and more importantly, it takes the ability to be the best you can be, and frankly, after what we saw tonight, for you four bloody imbeciles, your best just isn’t enough lads…..you’re an embarrassment to me…..to Mr. Storm…..and more importantly…..to the Queen herself…..and that’s why……you’re being exiled…..Mr. Benoit, Mr. Smith, would you be so kind as to start the proceedings…..”

…..and start the proceedings they do…..as the Bulldog runs through Williams and Eaton with a massive double clothesline, while Benoit cracks Oulette in the back of the head with the TV title, before breaking Jacques in half with a massive German suplex…..

…..Storm and Regal join in the assault then…..as the two Blue Bloods and the Amazing French Canadians get the absolute snot beat out of them, before being unceremoniously dumped to the outside…..

…..Davey Boy picks up the TV Title that was just used to brain Carl Oulette, draping it over the shoulder of Chris Benoit…..before the new and improved Sovereignty stand side by side, arms raised in the middle of the ring…..

…..Her Highness must be so proud…..

…..let’s go to the back…..where Gene is still trying to get some kind of word from Shawn Michaels…..

Rating: A

…..and it looks like persistence was the key, because our intrepid reporter has finally made it into the den of debauchery that is Shawn Michaels locker room, where he spends a few seconds shilling the hotline as he tells us that all the latest news on the signing of Davey Boy Smith can be found by hitting option 3…..kids get your parents permission and then call 1-900-909-9900…..

…..he then turns his attention to Shawn Michaels, stating that he has been trying to get word from the self proclaimed ‘Mr. Wrestling’ all evening, but clearly (judging by the state of the locker room, he’s been having far too much…..fun…..

”…..are you done little man?…..

“…..well no, I’m here as a broadcast journalist, and I won’t leave until I have answers…..”

“…..no, no, no Scheme Gene, what you are, is a two bit car salesman, trying to make a buck off the name of Shawn Michaels…..well if you want a scoop for your hotline, Mr. Wrestling here has one for ya…..because option 2…..says that you can go and Suck It…..”

…..Michaels and crew laugh that one up, with Levesque swirling a big cone of whipped cream on the top of Gene’s shiny bald head, while Ray Traylor holds him in place…..

…..Ray-Ray shoves Gene backwards, who storms out of the room (cream head and all) telling Michaels that this is exactly why they have this locker room away from everyone else…..

”…..because no body can stand you….you….bunch of degenerates!…..”

…..the group continue laughing as Mean Gene storms out of the room…..and the camera man looks to be about to follow suit, before Shawn grabs hold of the lens and pulls him back…..

”…..woah, where do you think you’re going camera monkey?…..first of all, you leave when we say you can leave…..second of all, the reason we have this locker room away from everyone else is pretty simple jack…..it’s because you don’t make the stars of the show share a trailer with the extras…..and make no mistake, we are the stars around here…..

…..and if Scheme Gene wants a scoop, here’s one for him…..in about two minutes time, these two totally awesome guys right here are going to go down to that ring, and finally put a couple of old Titans out to pasture…..

…..then when they’re done using the Macho Mans skull to wipe the Warriors face paint off their boots, they’re going to come back here, they’re going to tag in JPL, and then The Crock is going to find out that running your mouth to us, just lands you in a whole world of hurt…..

…..and then that’ll just leave me….Mr. Wrestling versus Mr. Dubbya See Dubbya, Sting…..see Stinger, they might call you the franchise…..and they might call you the icon…..but everyone knows that there’s only ONE icon in professional wrestling, and you’re looking at him jack…..I don’t need to hide behind no paint, I don’t have to hang out in the rafters…..all I got to do, is kick your teeth down your throat with some Sweet Chin Music….drag you to all four corners of that ring….and then you can all call me YOUR WCW Champion…..and you can all…..kiss…..my…..ass…..

…..and now camera monkey…..now you can go…..”

…..it’s match time…..

…..or rather fight time…..

…..our street fight is up next…..

Rating: A*

Street Fight

…..and that street fight is going to pit two of the biggest names in the sport in Randy Savage and The Warrior, against two of the biggest jackasses in the sport in Adam Copeland and Christian Cage…..and there’s plenty of bad blood in this one…..after all, the way Randy Savage sees it, it was their association with the Titans of Wrestling that made Copeland and Cage the household names they are today…..and how did they repay that? By hitching their waggon to Shawn Michaels, that’s how…..

…..speaking of the Titans of Wrestling, you could argue that they have languished slightly since Hollywood Hogan lost the World Title (and in turn, upped and vanished) to Sting back at Starrcade…..and they lost their way even more with the departure of the Totally Awesome Trinity…..sure they gained The Giant as a member, but they’re hardly the United force they once were…..

…..I’m sure that losing here tonight isn’t an option for them…..

…..it doesn’t look like it’s an option either, particularly since they completely unload on the Awesome Two as the bell rings…..

…..street fight rules are in effect here…..so tags are out of the window…..all four men are legal and anything goes, which is evident from the get go as both teams brawl all over the ringside area…..the two Titans have the size and strength (and experience) advantage here, and they use all of those advantages to their favour as they go about punishing their younger opponents on the outside…..

…..they eventually pair off (Copeland and Savage, Cage and Warrior) and the uncensored action continues…..Savage is like a wild man in this one, whipping Copeland into the safety rails, coming off the top rope with ax handles to the floor, and slamming his opponents head off the steps…..a further ax handle from the top is unsuccessful though, and he crashes and burns and he hits nothing but safety railing, before getting tossed right into the crowd by Copeland…..

…..Cage isn’t faring much better with The Warrior, as the much bigger man backdrops a charging Christian right on the ramp way, before dragging him over to the corner and smashing his face off the steel steps…..not content with that though, Warrior follows suit by slamming his opponents skull into the timekeepers table (and in turn, the ring bell) but as he comes over a second time (to bounce that skull again) Cage picks up the ring bell, and it’s the Warrior who gets the metal object between his eyes…..

…..Copeland and Savage are brawling through the crowd, and Copeland is coming out of this exchange poorly, as the Macho Man hammers him with blow after blow…..Adam finally gets a breather as they work their way back towards the barricade with a totally awesome kick to the balls, but when he charges at Savage he gets backdropped right over that structure, out of the crowd, and onto the entrance way with a thud…..

…..Warrior has gained control on the other side…..he hits a clothesline on the floor before rolling Cage back into the ring and snatching up a steel chair…..he follows Christian into the ring and crashes the steel across his back…..he raises the chair again but Cage cuts it off with a low blow…..Warrior drops the chair and Christian takes advantage by nailing a DDT onto the fallen weapon, getting the first near fall of the match…..

…..Savage has taken hold of a chair as he battles Copeland around the production area below the stage area…..The Totally Awesome Two have mad quite a name for themselves with a steel chair as of late, but Savage is getting his revenge here, unloading with shots the back of his opponent, before swinging for the fences with a brutal shot to the head that leaves Copeland collapsed on the top of a table…..Savage climbs on top of the table with him and piledrives the man straight through the wood, before dragging him back down to the ringside area…..

…..Savage rolls Copeland into the ring and the four men finally have what constitutes as an in ring encounter…..it doesn’t last particularly long though before the street fight element returns…..Copeland is able to land a bulldog on Savage on top of that earlier discarded steel chair, while the Warrior tears a turnbuckle pad off, before slingshotting Cage skull first into that exposed steel…..Christian staggers backwards, only to get clotheslined right over the top and down to the floor by a charging Warrior…..

…..that leaves Copeland alone with the Titan pair momentarily…..and they hammer him with blows…..the Totally Awesome Two are really getting a punishing in this one, and as The Warrior Gorilla Presses Copeland overhead, and Savage climbs to the top rope, this one could well be almost over…..

…..except it’s not…..

…..because with Copeland still overhead, the Warrior gets blindsided by an arriving Ray Traylor, who smashes a nightstick into the back of Warriors knee, just as Christian sweeps the leg of Savage, crotching him on the top…..Copeland crashes down on top of the Warrior, who gets dragged to the outside and worked over by Traylor…..

…..you knew Big Ray-Ray would be getting involved here at some point, and Copeland and Cage really needed him at this point…..he continues to work over the knee of the Warrior on the outside with that nightstick, as Cage climbs up to meet Savage on the top rope, driving him to the mat with a massive Superplex…..

…..it’s basically a two on one assault on Savage now…..Traylor keeps Warrior down on the outside as Copeland spears Savage out of his boots, and Cage collects two chairs from ringside…..Savage is in real trouble here, and it only gets worse as the Totally Awesome Two break out their signature move…..

…..a double Con-Chair-To to the skull of the Macho Man…..

…..Cage makes the cover as Copeland rolls to the floor to join Big Ray-Ray in keeping the Warrior at bay…..and three seconds later, The Totally Awesome Trinity (yes Trinity…..Traylor played a part in this one too) have the biggest victory of their career…..

…..it’s not been a good night for the Titans…..

Winner(s): Adam Copeland and Christian Cage
Rating: A

…..we run a promo package highlighting our next match (while they clear up the mess that our previous match left behind) and then it’s time for Hayabusa to put the Cruiserweight Title on the line…..in a triple threat match no less…..

…..not that he doesn’t have precedence in these sort of things, it was only a few days ago that he successfully defended the championship against Disco Inferno and Alex Wright in exactly this kind of match, although the officials question whether competing in two such matches in the space of three days is pushing his luck slightly…..

…..these three way type matches already have an uncensored element to them at the best of times…..count outs and disqualifications really aren’t an option when you need one clear winner, so you would think perhaps that James Vandenberg would utilise his followers to ensure that his man kept hold of the title here, but truth be told he really didn’t need to…..

…..the match itself was great…..you had somewhat of a clash of styles in Hayabusa’s daredevil mentality, Brian Lawlers more mat based offence, and Psychosis’ lucha libre offence, but it worked and made for a fast paced and exciting (if not relatively short) encounter…..

…..all three men came close to victory on a number of occasions, but in the end (much as he did on Thunder) it was Hayabusa that picked up the victory, finishing off Psychosis with the Phoenix Splash to retain the Championship…..

…..much to the delight of James Mitchell…..

Winner: and Still WCW Cruiserweight Champion…..Hayabusa
Rating: B

…..from there we head to the back, where there are tense scenes unfolding in the Titans dressing room…..

…..with both Bagwell and The Giant AND Savage and The Warrior losing here this evening, it’s not been a good night to be a Titan, but right now, Savage is more concerned about where Buff or Giant were when Ray Traylor was interfering in their match…..

…..Russo try’s to defuse the situation, but Savage isn’t having any of it, tossing a chair across the room and getting in the Giants face, telling him that he was brought into the Titans to make a difference, and all he’s doing at the minute is taking up space in the locker room…..and as for Buff, Savage isn’t sure why he’s even part of the Titans of Wrestling…..because after that display tonight, getting put to sleep by half a cripple Roddy Piper, clearly he’s not at Titan level…..

…..Giant isn’t happy about being taken to task, towering over Savage to tell him that he’s really not “measuring” up anymore either…..

”…..yeah, we lost tonight…..but we at least lost to Luger and Piper…..you two lost to a pair of punk kids…..and not to mention the only reason that Shawn Michaels is fighting for the title tonight is because YOU couldn’t get the job done…..so back up little man…..”

…..Giant shoves Savage hard in the chest, sending him halfway back across the room…..and it looks like a powder keg about to explode in here…..

…..finally Russo snaps and screams at them all to calm down…..he says that the night hasn’t gone their way, but the night isn’t over yet…..and yeah, Shawn Michaels has got the shot tonight, but it doesn’t matter who’s won at the end of the night, all that matters is that the Titans get back on the same page, and get that WCW Title back where it belongs…..

…..Warrior isn’t listening, he just lets out a snort and storms out of the room…..Savage isn’t listening either as he follows quickly behind, telling Russo that if he can’t even get the Titans title shots, then what use is he…..about as much use as Buff Bagwell and the Giant clearly…..

”…..maybe it’s time for the Macho Man to look out for the Macho Man, yeah…..ya dig?…..”

…..tensions are rising in the Titans…..

…..oh dear…..

Rating: A*

…..we stay in the back and head over to the interview area, where Mean Gene (all cleaned up from his visit at Shawn Michaels locker room) is standing by with the man who’s about to face off against Michaels number two…..the People’s Champion…..The Rock…..

…..Gene begins to ask the Rock a question, but Rocky silences him with a hand, listening to the ‘Rocky’ chant that is echoing through the arena, before announcing that ”FINALLY, THE ROCK HAS COME BACK….TO GREENSBORO”…..

…..The Rock tells Gene that he’s here, he’s excited, the people are excited…..

”…..Mean Gene, are you excited? Can you feel the anticipation running up your legs? Tingling to the very tip of your microphone? Is it making your moustache tingle Gene? Can you feel the electricity in the air?…..”

…..Mean Gene says that he certainly can, and he for one hopes that The Rock lays a big old bag of smack down on JPL’s candy ass…..

…..Rocky tells Gene not to steal the Rocks gimmick, before telling him that fortunately, the Great One is feeling generous tonight…..

”….because tonight, the Rock’s handing out smack downs like it’s going out of business…..if the Hansen brothers and their fat uncle Ray want to walk down that aisle, The Rock’s got a size 16 boot waiting to totally kick them right in the trinity…..Shawn Michaels? ‘Oh, oh, Shawn’….he’s not going to be a sexy boy when the Great One pulls that leather strap off his wrist, rolls it up real tight, and shoves it straight up his candy ass…..

…..and then there’s Jipple the Nipple…..”

…..the Rock says that FINALLY, he gets to go out there tonight in front of the People, and give Jipple the uncensored ass kicking that he’s been trying to give him for months now…..no more running, no more hiding behind behind the Trinity, no more hiding behind Shawn Michaels’ ass-less chaps, begging him to suck it…..just Jipple the Nipple going one on one with the Great One…..

”…..and TONIGHT…..The Rock is going to make Jipple…..his Roody-Poo Bitch…..

…..IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLLLLLA……WHAT THE ROCK…..IS……COOKING……”

…..and with that The Rock walks off, as Mean Gene tells him to kick JPL’s ass…..

…..way to be impartial Gene…..

Rating: A

…..and that match is now…..

…..these two men have been on a collision course for some time now…..they’ve faced off in multi man matches, the Mayhem match, tag team encounters, but this is the first time they have clashed one on one…..and they’re fixing to explode…..

…..speaking about exploding, the crowd explodes when the Great One makes his way out for this one…..sure JPL is the (second) most despised man in the company, but there’s no denying the fact that The Rock is one of the most popular stars going today…..

…..the two men lock up and jostle for position as they hit all four corners of the ring without ever releasing their grip…..finally they come to a halt in the corner and the official tries to separate them, with Levesque using that brief distraction to slap the taste right out of The Rock’s mouth with a cocky smirk on his face…..

…..the two lock up again and again they wind up against the ropes…..this time Rocky propels his opponent off, and as Levesque runs the ropes The Rock catches him with a huge spinebuster and as JPL gets back to his feet he’s met with a HUGE open handed slap that sends him scurrying to the outside for some sanctuary…..

…..he doesn’t get any though, as the Rock follows him right out there…..he runs right through Levesque with a clothesline, tosses him into the steel barricade (where he unloads a series of right hands right there in front of the fans) and then goes to Irish Whip Levesque into the ring steps…..JPL reverses that though, and the Rock crashes knee first into the steel, before getting hobbled with a chop block and tossed back inside…..

…..Levesque stays on the floor, dragging the Rock into the corner by his leg and wrapping his knee around the ring post three times, before THEN finally re-entering the ring…..

…..Levesque grapevines the leg of the Rock, before attempting what looks to be a figure four, but the Rock is able to kick him off into the turnbuckles as he tries to spin into the hold…..Levesque hits chest first and staggers back into a roll up for a near fall…..that just seems to piss JPL off though, because he’s straight back to his feet and straight back to putting the boots to the knee of The Rock…..

…..Rocky finally catches a break, moving his leg on a JPL knee drop (jarring his own knee in the process) and a clothesline by the Rock sends both men toppling over the top and to the floor…..

…..this isn’t a street fight or any other type of stipulation match, but the rules HAVE even relaxed for this uncensored event, and so the official doesn’t really bother counting as the two men fight their way up the entrance ramp…..Levesque gets whipped into the Uncensored sign but bounces right off and nails Rocky with a clothesline as both men collapse on the ramp…..

…..they finally make their way back into the ring and trade blows as they both attempt to gain the upper hand…..Rocky manages to get the offence in his favour, but gets spiked with a piledriver after dropping his head to try a Samoan Drop…..

…..Levesque continues the offence and looks pretty cocky for it…..the commentators mention their surprise at there being no sign of the Totally Awesome Trinity at ringside, but cite JPL’s ego there, stating that he no doubt thinks he’s always had the Rocks number…..he just might too…..especially since he ducks a Rock clothesline and drops the man with a high knee…..

…..back to the outside and the two men brawl on the floor for a few minutes (count outs be damned) before returning to the ring, where Rocky is finally able to mount some form of offence…..he rally’s with a series of right hands that leaves Levesque reeling, and a series of moves that gives him near fall after near fall…..Samoan Drop, Float-over DDT, and finally a huge spinebuster that leaves Levesque down and in prime position for a People’s Elbow…..

…..before he can drop the elbow though, the Totally Awesome Trinity come rushing down the aisle…..looks like they’re about to take advantage of the relaxed rules tonight to help their man to victory…..

…..or not…..

…..because the second Randy Anderson sees them at ringside he is out of the ring and ordering them to the back…..

…..Copeland and Cage are aghast at this display from the official, telling him that’s it’s totally uncensored tonight and that he totally sucks…..the official doesn’t care though (with the announcers saying that even the officials can’t stand this group of men) and tells the trio that he’ll “totally disqualify Levesque” if they get within two more feet of the ring…..

…..and so unfortunately for JPL, the Trinity make a hasty retreat…..

…..not so unfortunately for JPL, in the midst of all that, Ray Traylor did manage to surreptitiously slide a steel chair into the ring…..and while Rocky was distracted by Awesome and Cage, Levesque cracked him across the back, before doubling him over with a shot to the midsection…..before raising that chair over head to strike a third blow……

…..which is when the official returns to the ring…..

…..before Levesque can bring the chair crashing down again, the referee snatches it out of his hands and tosses it out to the floor…..

…..JPL screams at Anderson, but little Randy doesn’t give a damn, telling Levesque to “Suck It” and hitting the crotch chop (much to the delight of the crowd)…..

…..and that’s when Rocky pounces…..

…..he spins Levesque around and Rock Bottoms him straight to the mat…..

…..and the official counts the three…..

…..and this one is over…..

Winner: The Rock
Rating: A

…..the bell sounds and the official raises The Rocks hand in victory…..

…..instantly the Trinity make their way out and help Levesque back to his feet…..before the four men surround Rocky AND Randy Anderson…..

….it looks like this plucky little referee is about to pay the price for his actions…..

…..or not…..

…..do you know a good way of stopping your roster complaining that they weren’t featured on your pay per view? Stick a bunch of them in an angle…..

….and that’s exactly what happens here…..

…..half the locker room empties (and even Dusty Rhodes comes down from the announce desk) and storm then ring, forming a protective wall around Anderson and The Rock…..

…..the crowd (and the announce team) loves it, and as the Trinity and Levesque make a hasty retreat, Randy Anderson is hoisted up onto the shoulders of Rikishi and Ice Train, as the whole arena celebrates The Rocks victory…..

…..and we go to a promo package highlighting Stings title victory, Shawn Michaels journey in WCW so far, and the events that lead up to our main event…..

…..which is coming up next…..

Rating: B+

Strap Match

…..so this is it, it’s main event time and the World Title is on the line, as once again (he did at Starrcade) Sting has the full weight of everyone that lives and breathes WCW behind him…..of course, he has a very different opponent…..and a very different match stipulation…..

…..when the Titans of Wrestling were running roughshod and holding the WCW Title ransom around the waist of Hollywood Hogan, it was because they wanted to run WCW and everything that came along with that…..they wanted the main events…..they wanted the titles…..they WANTED to be here in World Championship Wrestling…..

…..Shawn Michaels on the other hand, does NOT want to be here in World Championship Wrestling…..he doesn’t want the fans chanting his name…..hell, he doesn’t even really want the WCW Title…..he just wants to take it away from every wrestler and fan that DOES want it…..

…..so here we are…..the most popular face in WCW against the most despised…..Icon vs. Icon…..Mr. WCW vs. Mr. Wrestling…..it’s Sting vs. Shawn Michaels, and it’s for all the marbles…..

…..and it’s a strap match to boot…..

…..before the entrances take place we see a shot of the rest of the locker room backstage gathered around monitors…..face and heel alike are watching together here, unified in only one thing…..they all hate Shawn Michaels…..

…..and make no mistake (as he makes his way out) Shawn Michaels wouldn’t have it any other way…..

…..as for Sting…..in the last year he’s been silent…..brooding…..a dark shadow up in the rafters of the building…..but he’s not hiding tonight…..he walks right down the aisle to an absolutely thunderous ovation…..

…..they strap the two men together…..ring the bell…..and this one is underway…..

…..the fact that Shawn Michaels is tethered to the World Champion does him no favours in the opening minutes of the bout…..he literally has nowhere to run when the Stinger explodes towards him as the bell rings…..Sting strikes with lefts and rights and back hands and chops, dragging Michaels back towards him every time he tries to retreat to deliver some more offence…..even when Shawn DOES manage to make it to the outside, he doesn’t get far…..because as Shawn rolls out on one side of the ring, Sting rolls out on the side next to it…..and as Michaels tries to hit the bricks, Sting yanks back on the strap, sending Shawn crashing into the ring post……

…..the two men brawl about on the outside for a while, with Sting pretty much dominating the action as Shawn sells like a superstar…..he gets beaten, chopped, punched and whipped with that strap before he finally scrambles back into the ring…..

…..he’s not there for long though, as Sting (since they are strapped together after all) follows right behind him…..he whips him into one corner and crushes him with a Stinger Splash….a groggy Michaels gets whipped again to the opposite corner, this time going inside out (Flair style) and lands on his feet on the apron, where Sting charges again and sends Shawn flying backwards where he crashes chest first into the crowd railing…..

…..Michaels staggers forward after the impact of the railings, and since he can’t go through the ropes (after Michaels and his side of the strap went over the top) Sting slingshots himself over the ropes and splashes down on top of the challenger…..

…..more offence from the Champion (much to the delight of the crowd) as Sting continues the punishment on the floor…..in a throwback to his 1993 strap match with Big Van Vader (and the only other instance I can think of) Sting wraps the strap around the feet of Michaels (much as Shawn attempted to do with The Rock this past Thursday) and begins to drag him around the ring on the outside, reaching under the ropes to slap the bottom turnbuckle as he goes…..

…..hey, there’s nothing in the rule book that says you have to be inside the ring to touch those pads…..

…..he manages to hit three, before Michaels is able to untangle himself from the strap, and a tug of war breaks out…..finally Sting relents, and decides to whip Michaels into the barricade again instead, before attempting to follow up with a Stinger Splash…..Shawn grabs hold of the strap though, moves, and yanks as Sting takes flight, meaning that the Champion hits nothing but steel…..

…..finally Shawn has the upper hand (as we show a reaction shot of the boys in the back, groaning at Sting’s mishap) and he picks up a steel chair, cracking it against the back of the Champion, before wrapping the strap around his fist and going to work with heavy (and loaded) right hands, mocking the crowd (and Sting) as he does, beating his chest and letting out a loud Owwwwww…..

…..back in the ring and Michaels keeps up the offence, using the strap to his advantage as he whips the champion until welts begin to show across the back of the Stinger…..the aim of the match is to touch all four corners, but Shawn looks more intent on hurting his opponent, wrapping the strap around the neck of the face of WCW and then tossing him over the top rope, hanging him out to dry…..

…..there’s nothing the official can do here, anything goes in this match, but obviously Michaels can’t win if he can’t reach the corners…..he waits until Sting is practically out before releasing the choke, then begins making his way around the ring, hitting one, two, three corners, dragging the choked out Champion behind him…..Sting is able to put a stop to it before Michaels hits the fourth corner, managing to hit Shawn with a low blow (much to the delight of the crowd) as both men collapse to the mat in exhaustion…..

…..slowly the two men pull themselves back to their feet, and quick as a flash Michaels lays out Sting with the Sweet Chin Music…..

…..unfortunately for Michaels the impact knocks Sting to the outside, meaning that the challenger is unable to drag him around the ring to win the match…..

…..pissed off by his stroke of bad luck, Michaels heads to the outside and stomps on the champion, before clearing off the timekeepers table, rolling Sting on top and then climbing the turnbuckles…..landing this would probably finish the champion off, but Michaels spends too long throwing crotch chops at the crowd and Sting is able to roll off the table…..Shawn looks down and sees the WCW Champion staring up at him……

…..and Sting looks up at the challenger…..

…..gives a crotch chop of his own…..

…..and then clutches hold of the strap and yanks…..

…..sending Michaels flying from the top, all the way down to the floor and through the table…..

…..Michaels is a broken mess and Sting rolls him into the ring…..he begins to touch the corners but he’s cut off before he reaches the fourth, Adam Copeland and Christian Cage come rushing out from the back…..

…..they don’t get far though…..

…..because clearly still ticked off from their loss earlier in the evening, Randy Savage and The Warrior make their way out to cut them off…..

…..Sting is briefly distracted by the new arrivals, and when he turns back around he’s caught with some Sweet Chin Music…..

…..or rather he CATCHES some Sweet Chin Music…..

…..catches the foot of his opponent that is…..

…..then sweeps the leg…..

…..and hooks on the Scorpion Deathlock…..

…..Michaels is tapping like mad, but there’s no submissions here…..Sting is going to have to put his opponent out if he wants to win….so finally he releases the hold and drags his weary opponent to his feet, then whips him into the corner, where he hits a mighty Stinger Splash…..

…..Michaels is stunned but Sting isn’t giving up…..

…..he backs up and comes charging again, crushing the wind out of his opponent a second time…..

…..a third time he backs up, looking to finally shut the mouth of Michaels once and for all…..

…..he lets out a loud howl and then runs again…..

…..and leaping…..

…..face first into a last ditch Sweet Chin Music…..

…..Sting goes down hard…..the impact of the kick coupled with the force of Sting leaping into it means the champion is out cold…..

…..Michaels isn’t much better…..but he is conscious…..

…..and as the crowd rains trash at the ring as Michaels stumbles to one corner…..

…..staggers his way to a second…..

…..drags his way along the ropes to the third…..

…..and finally (after dropping to his knees in exhaustion) crawls his way to the fourth…..

…..and with one more slap of the hand on turnbuckle…..

…..we have a brand new WCW Champion…..

Winner: and New WCW Champion…..Shawn Michaels
Rating: A

…..the bell rings, and the crowd is NOT pleased…..

…..Copeland and Cage manage to scramble away from Warrior and Savage as Traylor and JPL drag them down to the ring, where the four of them help a battered and bruised Shawn Michaels to his feet…..

…..Copeland and Cage toss Sting to the outside (where surprisingly, Savage and the Warrior help him to his feet) as Levesque snatches the Big Gold Belt from the official, before Big Ray-Ray tosses HIM to the outside too…..

…..one by one the locker room empties onto the stage as Levesque straps the WCW Championship around the waist of Shawn Michaels, before Traylor hands the new champion a microphone…..

…..he first of all tells the crowd to shut up…..

”…..because Mr. Wrestling…..and YOUR brand new World Champion…..has something to say…..

…..so this goes out to all you idiots in the crowd…..all you jack-off’s watching at home in your momma’s basements…..you announcers up there, who spend all your time complaining about Shawn Michaels and his degenerates from behind your desk…..the referees who try to hold us down…..and more importantly, all you second rate losers up there on the ramp…..

…..I know it’s hard to comprehend…..because this is dubbya see dubbya after all, and you don’t see much of it…..but what you see in this ring right here, right now, is greatness…..forget your Horsemen, your Titans…..your Dangerous Alliances ain’t got nothing on this…..you’ve all been going around calling us this and calling us that…..

…..well from this day forward, you can just call me champ…..

…..and since you like to call us degenerates so much…..

…..you can go ahead and call us D-Generation X…..”

…..Shawn tells the wrestlers on the ramp to take a good hard look at the title around his waist…..because this is as close as any of them are going to come to it again…..

”…..because Savage can’t beat me…..Warrior can’t even lace up my boots…..Luger, Vader, The Giant…..even Mr. WCW there, the last great hope Sting…..we all just saw that he sure as hell can’t beat me…..in fact, there ain’t a man standing on that ramp that can do what I do in this ring…..

…..and if you ain’t down with that…..I got two words for ya…..

…..Suc…..”

…..hold that thought…..

…..because Shawn doesn’t get to finish his sentence…..

…..before some familiar music starts playing…..

…..and it’s some music we haven’t heard for some time…..

…..which causes the crowd to go bananas…..

…..and get even louder when the wrestlers on the entrance way part…..

…..as Hulk Hogan comes walking out from the back, coming to a halt and standing hands on hips at the top of the aisle…..

…..and this ain’t Hollywood…..this is the American Made, Red and Yellow wearing Hulkster that we haven’t seen in over two years now…..

…..Shawn looks pissed…..as does JPL…..it’s hard to say how Big Ray-Ray looks, with those aviators over his eyes…..Copeland and Cage however just looked shocked…..they never did manage to shake those little Hulkamanic feelings they had growing up after all (they’ve been wearing yellow for some time now, and it’s no coincidence)…..

…..Michaels unhooks the title from around his waist, laying it on the mat in front of him, as he mockingly hits some of Hogans signature poses, before acting like he just threw out his back and then throwing Crotch Chops Hogans way, telling him to “Suck It old man”…..Hogan on the other hand just smiles, staring around at the crowd with his hands on his yellow clad hips, before tearing off that shirt and throwing it on the ground in front of him…..

…..and with that scene, the show comes to a close…..Shawn Michaels and the rest of D-Generation X staring up at the aisle…..the crowd cheering a returning Hulk Hogan…..Randy Savage, Sting and The Warrior looking warily at the new arrival…..

…..where do we go from here?…..

…..I would say we’ll see you tomorrow night for Nitro and all the fall out from this evening…..

…..but our WCW journey has come to an end…..

…..goodnight fans…..

Rating: A*

Final Rating: A