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WCW Monday Nitro on FOX, 1st Week of January, 2002 WCW World Television Championship: Sean O'Haire © vs Ernest Miller In 8 Minutes and 6 Seconds, Sean O'Haire defeated Ernest Miller via Pinfall, after O'Haire hit Miller with the Widow Maker. This marks his 17th defense. Rating: 60 ---------------------- After the match, Scott Steiner comes down to the ring and gets into O'Haire's face, saying that Steiner deserves the shot at Rhyno, and O'haire can go back to being a nobody, which is put in kinder terms than actually said. O'Haire stands his ground, and the two nearly come to blows. Rating: 74 ---------------------- The Road Warriors vs The Fringes In 12 Minutes flat, The Road Warriors defeated the Fringes via Pinfall, after Johnny Swinger got hit with the Doomsday Device. Rating: 56 ----------------------- After the ring has been cleared, Eric Bischoff comes out. He announces that Shane is not there tonight, as he's meeting with FOX. And, as far as he's aware, ECW isn't there either. He then spends a minute going through Starrcade and how WCW beat ECW up and down the card with two exceptions. He says that the end of the invasion is in sight, and that when Rhyno gets beat by O'Haire at Souled Out, ECW will be a distant memory. As he's speaking, Shawn Michaels works his way through the crowd, until he's in the ring as Bischoff finishes talking. Bischoff turns and sees Shawn, who's standing behind him. Shawn walks over and tries to grab a microphone, but the ringside assistant doesn't give him one right away, only after Bischoff gestures for them to do so. Shawn Michaels speaks on WCW television for the first tine, telling Bischoff that the Invasion isn't over until he says it's over, and that when the invasion is over, ECW and WCW will be nothing more than ashes on the ground. He says that he's not alone either, and that he was tired of sitting on the sideline listening to either McMahon's, so he decided to come take out the kid before moving onto the father. And that Easy E can either get out of his way or join the both of them. The segment ends with Michaels leaving the ring, and being escorted out by the WCW wrestlers that keep watch in the crowd, with Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels having a stare down as he leaves. Rating: 99 ------------------- AJ Styles /w Jerry Lawler vs Elix Skipper In 23 Minutes and 44 Seconds, AJ Styles beats Elix Skipper via Pinfall, after Styles hits him with the Styles Clash. Rating: 56 ------------------- After the match, AJ Styles stays in the ring and extends a hand to Skipper, much to Lawler's dismay. Skipper shakes Styles hand. Rating: 31 -------------------- Scott Steiner vs Chuck Palumbo In 8 Minutes and 47 Seconds, Scott Steiner defeated Chuck Palumbo via Submission, using the Steiner Recliner. Rating: 71 ----------------------- We cut to the back for the one and only time tonight, and Gene Okerlund is interviewing Randy Savage, who talks about his match at Starrcade, and what he wishes he could've done to an ECW wrestler tonight that he will instead do to Jeff Jarrett. Rating: 57 ------------------------- Randy Savage vs Jeff Jarrett In 16 Minutes and 27 Seconds, Randy Savage defeated Jeff Jarrett via Pinfall, after Savage hit Jarrett with a flying Elbow. Rating: 72 ------------------------ As Savage celebrates, Shawn Michaels comes into the ring and kicks Jarrett's head off. Savage turns to face Michaels in the ring, as the WCW wrestlers (Ric Flair, Rey Mysterio Jr., Alex Wright and Chris Kanyon) station near ringside jump the barricade. Before they can get to Michaels, he's able to hit Savage with a Sweet Chin Music. They descend on Michaels, who fights them. As he's doing that two more people hop the barricade, and enter the ring. The first person to turn to face them was Mysterio and he eats a clothesline from Hell. Ron Simmons and John Bradshaw proceed to help Shawn Michaels beat the WCW guys, and it ends with Michaels kicking Flair's head off. The three men leave the ring as reinforcements come down from the back. Rating: 69 --------------------- Overall Rating: 77 --------------------- Card + Winners WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs Ernest Miller The Fringes (J. Storm and Swinger) vs The Road Warriors AJ Styles vs Elix Skipper Scott Steiner vs Chuck Palumbo Jeff Jarrett vs Randy Savage

Card for WCW Monday Nitro on FOX, 1st Week of January, 2002 WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs Ernest Miller The Fringes (J. Storm and Swinger) vs The Road Warriors AJ Styles vs Elix Skipper Scott Steiner vs Chuck Palumbo Jeff Jarrett vs Randy Savage

2002 WCW Roster Update Major Star: Booker T Diamond Dallas Page Hulk Hogan (Yet to Return On-Screen) Kevin Nash Mike Awesome (ECW) Randy Savage Ric Flair (5-Month Suspension from In-Ring Competition) Rob Van Dam (ECW) Scott Steiner Sean O'Haire (WCW World Television Champion) Shane Douglas (WCW World Tag Team Champion) Shawn Michaels (WWF) Sting Taz (ECW) --------------------------------- Star: Al Snow (WWF) Chuck Palumbo Devon Dudley (ECW) Jeff Hardy (WWF) John Bradshaw (WWF) Matt Hardy (WWF) Rhyno (ECW) (WCW World Heavyweight Champion) Road Warrior Hawk Ron Simmons (WWF) ------------------------------------- Well Known: Buff Bagwell Elix Skipper (???) Ernest Miller Jeff Jarrett Jerry Lynn (ECW) Lance Storm (ECW) Mark Jindrak (WCW World Tag Team Champion) Rey Mysterio Jr. Rick Steiner Road Warrior Animal Ron Killings (WWF) TAKA Michinoku (ECW) Terry Funk (ECW) ------------------------------ Recognizable: AJ Styles Alex Wright Bam Bam Bigelowe Billy Kidman Chavo Guerrero Jr (WCW World Cruiserweight Champion) Chris Kanyon Sabu (ECW) Steve Corino (ECW) Tommy Dreamer (ECW) Vampiro Yoshihiro Tajiri (ECW) ------------------------------ Unimportant: Chris Candido (ECW) Christopher Daniels James Storm Johnny Swinger Kid Kash Masato Tanaka (ECW) Mikey Whipwreck (ECW) Samoa Joe (???) (Yet To Debut) Sandman (ECW) Shawn Stasiak Sonny Siaki The Prototype (John Cena) (???) (Yet To Debut) Jimmy Wang Yang --------------------------- Managers: Bill Alfonso James Mitchell Jerry Lawler Midajah Ric Flair Stacy Kiebler ----------------------------- Personality: Don West Gene Okerlund ---------------------------- Announcers: Joey Styles (ECW) Mike Tenay Tony Schiavone --------------------------- Color Commentators: Bobby Heenan --------------------------- Referees: Billy Silverman Charles Robinson Mark Johnson Nick Patrick Earl Hebner (WWF) --------------------------- Road Agents: Arn Anderson Dusty Rhodes Fit Finlay John Laurinatis Ricky Steamboat ---------------- Authority Figures: Shane McMahon Eric Bischoff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Factions: The Four Horsemen: Ric Flair, Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, Shane Douglas, Mark Jindrak and Stacy Kiebler The Extremists (All ECW Wrestlers) The Confederation (All WWF Wrestlers) ---------------- Tag Teams: The Filthy Animals (Billy Kidman and Rey Mysterio Jr.) The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) The Extremists (Lance Storm and Mike Awesome) The Four Horsemen (DDP, Kevin Nash, Ric Flair, Shane Douglas and/or Mark Jindrak) The Fringes (James Storm and Johnny Swinger) The New Faces of Fear (Ron Simmons and John Bradshaw) The Hardy Boys (Matt and Jeff Hardy) ---------------- Titles: WCW World Heavyweight Championship ECW World Heavyweight Championship WCW World Tag Team Championship ECW World Tag Team Championship WCW World Television Championship ECW World Television Championship WCW Cruiserweight Championship WCW United States Championship

1st Week of January, Monday Morning: Financial Report For Shane McMahon, it was a nice change of pace to have the financial report the first day of the month. Although, it was more because he and FOX knew the likelihood of a large loss this year, and sure enough, WCW had lost over $1 million in the month of January. It wasn't much over it, but he knew that they would make it sound like it was closer to $2 million in order to get as much out of him as they could. He had gotten them to agree to a 75-25 deal, but the deadline for it to be approved was midnight, and he had already fielded calls, It seemed to him that they were going to go with 80-20, or hell, 85-15. With the records at where they were, They'd lose 350k/month, which wasn't great, but losing the $1.7 million that came with dropping to 20%. He had to figure out how to convince them to keep the current agreement, or, figure out how to get them to stay where they were at. With the show tonight being on the East Coast, and him being needed on the West at FOX HQ, he left the preparations to Eric Bischoff, with some clear instructions: Hulk Hogan was not to appear at the show, or hinted at. He would make his return at SuperBrawl. Shawn Michaels would appear during a segment where Bischoff rails against ECW and announce the new faction of WWF wrestlers, with John Bradshaw debuting and the return of Ron Simmons. He was not to book any ECW wrestlers. Shane was always worried about WCW wrestlers trying to make the ECW guys look weaker, but he'd been happy with the strives made in the last 6 months in that regard. The success of Starrcade was something everyone backstage was proud of, and while ECW got the short end of the stick W/L wise at the PPV, they were ecstatic with Rhyno winning the World Championship. Even the WCW guys weren't too terribly annoyed, and Sting even made some overtures to the ECW guys and it was a big celebration, all in all. Before he left, the Head of Marketing for WCW, Rob Garner, came to him and asked for finances to upgrade the merchandise operation. He told him that his estimations: it would cost WCW 50k over the course of the year to upgrade the operation, and that when completed, it would add 150k to their merchandise sales monthly. That was a no-brainer to him, and he gave the greenlight on the project. *Rhyno Made World Champion: ECW Opinion of Shane: +10 *Sting congratulating Rhyno: WCW Opinion of ECW: +2 | ECW Opinion of WCW: +2 *Success of Starrcade: Opinion of Shane: +2 *Jerry Lawler won Manager of the Year *Bobby Heenan won Color Commentator of the Year ECW Opinion of Shane: 74 WCW Opinion of Shane: 43 ECW Opinion of WCW: 28 WCW Opinion of ECW: 10

Triple Threat Tag Team Match - Winner becomes Number 1 Contenders for the World Tag Team Championships Cryme Tyme (Shad Gaspard & JTG) Vs. World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Bejamin & Charlie Haas) Vs. The Highlanders (Robbie McAlliester & Rory McAlliester) Comments: I think it's really just between Cryme Tyme and WGTT. I'm a big fan of Haas, so I'm picking him. 10 Woman Battle Royal - Winner becomes Number 1 Contender for Women's Championship Ashley Massaro Vs. Brooke Adams Vs. Candice Michelle Vs. Jillian Hall Vs. Katie Lea Vs. Layla El Vs. Michelle McCool Vs. Mickie James Vs. Torrie Wilson Vs. Victoria Comments: I don't have much to say about women's wrestling back in '07, but between all of these girls, I think it comes down to James and Victoria, and between those two, Mickie James is the more recognizable one, and should be in contention for the championship. Victoria is another one that should be in contention, but in these circumstances, James edges her out. One on One Match - Intercontinental Championship on the Line Santino Marella © Vs. William Regal Comments: A comedy character or one of the better technicians during the 2000's. I don't think there's much of a question here. I expect him to have a lengthy championship reign.

WCW Starrcade, 4th Week of December, Sunday, 2001 At the top of the show, a large pyrotechnics display goes off and the announcers welcome everybody to Starrcade! -------------------------------------------- WCW World Television Championship Sean O'Haire © vs A Debuting ECW Wrestler Sean O'Haire waits in the ring for his opponent, and while he does so, Schiavone mentions that come Souled Out, depending on whether or not a ECW wrestler holds the US Championship or the World Heavyweight Championship, O'Haire will get a championship opportunity. Shiavone mentions that for the duration of the event, WCW wrestlers will be at ringside to help dissuade interference. While speaking about them, the camera shows a few of them in the crowd, and they include Ric Flair, Bam Bam Bigelow, Alex Wright and Jeff Jarrett. Just as Bobby Heenan goes to speak, the challenger's music begins and out comes Devon Dudley. Joey Styles starts to go through the accolades of Devon Dudley, even as the match begins, going through his 8 Tag Team Championship victories and the 4 Tag Team Championship victories up in Connecticut, followed by Heenan saying: “So, he’s needed someone else’s help to win.”. O’Haire goes for a clothesline the second Devon enters the ring, which Devon ducks and he starts throwing punches, and once O’Haire gets knocked back to the ropes, Devon whips him into the ropes and hits him with a corkscrew shoulder block, sending O’Haire to the mat. Devon gets up and plays to the fans for a couple of seconds, allowing O’Haire to get to a knee. When Devon goes over to grab him, O’Haire hits him with a spinebuster. O’Haire, now in control of the match, hits Devon with a suplex, and gives him a couple of stomps while he’s on the ground. O’Haire helps Devon to his feet before picking him up and attempting to end the match quick with a Widow Maker, but Devon reverses it and hits him with the Saving Grace, but only get a ‘2’ count. Devon puts the boot to O’Haire and continues to as O’Haire gets to his feet, and it only comes to a stop when O’Haire catches Devon’s boot, pulls him in closer, and hits him with an exploder suplex, sending Devon out of the ring. O’Haire follows and Devon tries to create some separation with a few punches, but O’Haire responds with some of his own, staggering Devon, who uses the announcers table as a crutch. O’Haire walks over, and picks Devon up before dropping him back first on the announcers table, which doesn’t collapse, and Devon slides off of it and lands at the announcers feet. Styles takes this moment to try and offer words of encouragement. O’Haire picks him up again and throws him into the ring this time, and while he gets in, Bill Alfonso runs down the aisle and climbs on the apron, and starts jawing with the ref about the what just happened. While this happens, O’Haire positions Devon in the ring and goes up to the top. Someone hops the guardrail and tries to push O’Haire off the top, but he lands on the apron and goes after the man, but the WCW wrestlers stationed at ringside descend upon him before O’Haire can get close. The camera is able to get a glimpse of the perpetrator and Styles reveals that it is Vic Grimes. Sean O’Haire climbs up to the top rope and shouts at Grimes, and while he does that, Devon gets up, clubs him in the back and hits him with a rope hung neckbreaker. Devon goes for the pin, but Sean O’Haire kicks out. Devon picks him up and tries to go for the Saving Grace once more, but O’Haire reverses and gets Devon set up for, and hits the Widow Maker, and gets the ‘3’. Sean O’Haire retains his WCW World Television Championship for the 16th time. On the outside after the match, Devon is yelling at Alfonso as they make their way up the ramp. Vic Grimes is escorted out by security, while Flair talks with the other wrestlers. They return to their seats, but are closer to ringside. Time: 14 Minutes and 5 Seconds Rating: 59 Notes: When I originally planned for Starrcade, I was going to have O’Haire lose the belt to Devon, since I wanted him to be available for other matches in the lead-up to Souled Out and a different Television champion to tell a different story. However, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that having O’Haire be this dominant champion week in and week out told a better story and worked better in the grand scale of the invasion, as well as where the ECW side of the invasion, was going to go. ------------------------------------------------- Backstage, Devon is yelling at Alfonso about the interference, saying that he told him not to come down and that he could do it on his own. Alfonso says he just wanted to make sure he had the best chance at winning, and before Devon can reply, Eric Bischoff walks up to him, flanked by security. He tells Bill that due to his interference, he’ll be forced to vacate the premises along with Vic Grimes. The security then takes him away, and Eric is left with Devon. The two exchange looks and Bischoff walks away without another word. Notes: When it was just the plucky underdog invasion led by ECW, a leader/spokesperson like Alfonso was fine, but now with a 3rd force entering led by a far more prestigious leader, and with the WCW leaders being well-established, a guy like Alfonso isn’t going to work very well in the coming future. ----------------------------------------------------- Taz vs Jerry Lawler A short video plays before hand that shows Lawler’s previous involvement with ECW and Taz trying to honor ECW’s name back during that time. It then shows more recent events, with Taz beating AJ Styles and then attacking Jerry Lawler. It ends with a snippet from Lawler’s promo on the last Nitro, where he said, “And come Starrcade, I’ll send you back to the Bingo Halls where you belong!”. The match starts with Lawler trying to get the upperhand, and getting stonewalled by Taz. Taz takes Lawler’s punches, and hits him with a overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Taz then picks him up and hits him with a couple of german suplexes. He goes for the quick finish with the Katahajime, but Lawler hits him with a snapmare and put shim in a head lock, which Taz fights out of. Lawler throws a couple more punches, these appearing to do more damage than the former ones. He goes for a clothesline, but Taz ducks, and his him with a back drop. Taz tries to lock in the Katahajime when lawler tries to get up, but Lawler, crawls out of it, and tries to get a quick roll-up pin on Taz, but Taz gets out. Lawler crawls away from him, but Taz follows. Lawler throws a couple of desperation kicks at Taz, and hit him twice in the gut, before Taz catches his foot, pull shim towards the center of the ring, and locks in the Katahajime, causing Lawler to pass out. Time: 14 Minutes and 45 Seconds Rating: 66 Notes: I realized shortly after putting Styles with Lawler that that wasn’t the direction I wanted to go with Styles, specifically. Having Lawler be a manager works perfectly fine for what I had in mind, but after booking Styles more recent matches, Lawler is taking up to much of the focus for Styles. The only reason i paired the two was because Lawler took on Styles as a protege and I, much like I did for James Storm and Johnny Swinger (made them into a tag team because they were both made into protege’s of Sting’s). Unlike Storm and Swinger, I think Styles works better alone, and this is stepping in the direction where Styles won’t have a manager again, and seeing as how it’s only been that way for about 2 months, I consider this to be my first legitimate booking failure. ----------------------------------- ECW World Cruiserweight Championship Match TAKA Michinoku © vs Chavo Guerrero The match starts with some typical cruiserweight action that ends with the two men in a staredown as they get back to their feet. The two circle the ring and get into a collar-elbow tie-up, with Chavo coming out on top with a kick to the gut and a northern lights suplex into a pinning bridge, which only gets a ‘1’ count. Chavo quickly gets TAKA into a front headlock, and drags him up to his feet, and hits him with a snap suplex. He tries to get him up again, but TAKA hits him with a back body drop. Chavo sells his back and he gets up to a knee before TAKA hits him with a running dropkick, sending him out of the ring. TAKA walks over to the ropes, and when Cahvo gets to a knee, springboards off the top rope and hits Chavo just as he turns to look up. TAKA waits for Chavo to get to his knees, and he dropkicks Chavo into the steps, face first. The ref counts ‘3’. TAKA picks up Chavo, who’s selling his jaw and throat, and throws him into the ring. Immediately after doing so, he hits Chavo with a snap suplex into the turnbuckles. TAKA climbs up to the top rope and hits Chavo with a flying crossbody and gets a ‘2’ count on the pinfall attempt. TAKA glares at the ref as he grabs Chavo’s head, and drags him to his feet. He goes for the Michinoku Driver, but Chavo rolls him up into a small package which gets a ‘2’ count. Both men get to their feet, with Chavo still struggling with the suplex and crossbody, so TAKA gets the initiative on him and hits him with a hurricanrana. Chavo use the ropes to get to a knee, and when TAKA gets to him, hits him thrice in the stomach with an elbow, and hits him with a quick DDT. Chavo gets to his feet first, and springboards off the rope and hits TAKA with a tornado DDT. Chavo quickly runs up to the top turnbuckle and goes for a frog splash but comes up with nothing but canvas as TAKA rolls out of the way. TAKA tries to roll up Chavo, but only gets a ‘2’, although it’s a very close ‘2’. TAKA drags Chavo to his feet once more, and goes for the Michinoku Driver, but Chavo flips over TAKA, and when TAKA turns to face him, he gets kicked in the stomach, and Chavo hits him with the Brainbuster. He doesn’t go for the cover and instead picks him up and hits him with the Gory Bomb. 1,2,3. Chavo Guerrero wins the WCW Cruiserweight Championship!. Time: 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds Rating: 62 Notes: I didn’t always have Michinoku losing this match, but as I’ve had time to think about where the storylines were going versus where they are now going to, TAKA needed to lose this match. -------------------------------------- Rey Mysterio Jr vs Steve Corino Corino starts the match by getting hit with a huricanrana by Mysterio and that gets followed up with a springboard crossbody, and a pinfall attempt that almost ends the match before it really begins. Rey continues the fast paced offense until he goes for a wheelbarrow bulldog, and Corino tosses him out of the ring, with Rey landing hard on the floor. Corino follows him out of the ring and when Mysterio gets to his feet, Corino picks him up and crotches him on the barricade before doing a one-handed bulldog, sending Rey face first into the guardrail. Rey remains crotched on the guardrail and is selling both his crotch and face, when Corino hits him with a clothesline, sending his back into the guardrail and Rey slides down off of the guardrail. The ref counts ‘4’. Corino rolls into the ring and walks over to the opposite side fo the ring and sits down at one of the turnbuckles as Rey sells the damage on the outside. As the ref begins to count ‘6’, Rey staggers to his feet and rolls back in as he gets to ‘8’. Immediately, Corino gets up, walks over and starts stomping on Mysterio. Corino bends over and grabs ahold of Mysterio’s head and drags him to his feet before hitting him with a snapmare, and locking him into a headlock. Corino keeps him in it for a minute before Mysterio gets up to his feet. Corino tries to toss him over again, but Mysterio holds onto the ropes, and climbs out onto the apron, while Corino still had a hold of his head. Corino, refusing to let go, followed him, but was still on the otherside of the ropes. However, the moment Corino’s upperbody came level with the middle rope, Rey pulled him out of the ring and hit him with a back suplex out onto the floor. Both men sold the impact, and the referee began counting. When he got to ‘5’, Mysterio got to his feet, and when he got to ‘7’, Mysterio was in the ring just as Corino began to show signs of life. The referee got to ‘8’ and Corino was propping himself up on the guardrail, selling his neck. The ref counted ‘9’, and Corino pushed himself off the guardrail and rolled into the ring. When he got to a knee, Mysterio came sprinting off the ropes and gave him a dropkick into the turnbuckles. Corino slammed into the turnbuckle, and bounced off right into Rey’s springboard huricanrana, which Corino kicks out of. Rey goes to the top rope and goes for a crossbody, which Corino ducks, causing Rey to hit the Canvas hard. Rey gets back to his feet and Corino hits him with a stiff lariat, and he goes for a pin, which only gets a ‘2’. Corino picks Rey up and he tries to go for the Old School Expulsion, but Rey hits him with a jaw breaker, causing Corino to stagger backwards. Rey gets back to his feet and runs off the ropes and gets hit with a leg lariat. Corino picks him up off the mat and goes for a fisherman buster, but Rey wiggles out of the hold and hits him with a DDT. Rey goes out to the apron and waits for Corino to get to his feet and goes for the West Coast Pop, but gets powerbombed. Corino goes for the cover and gets a ‘2’ before Rey just barely reverses the pinfall attempt, putting Corino into one of his own, and gets the ‘3’. Time: 17 Minutes and 49 Seconds Rating: 80 -------------------------------------- WCW United States Championship Match: Elix Skipper © vs Booker T As the combatants make their entrance, Heenan and Schiavone grill Styles as to whether Skipper is a member of ECW, but Styles is just as unsure as they are. Booker, immediately starts trash talking Skipper when the latter gets into the ring and the two get up into each other’s faces, with the first shot thrown coming from Skipper in the form of a open palm slap, and Booker responds with a double leg takedown, just as the bell begins to ring. Booker uses his ground-and-pound as much as he can, until Skipper reaches the ropes. Booker doesn’t break until ‘4’, and when he does, Skipper gets out of the ring. Booker cuts him off by rolling out in front of him , and the two start exchanging punches on the outside. Skipper gets the upper hand for a moment, and goes for the spinning heel kick, which Booker catches. He throws his foot down, and puts him in a full nelson. He drags him around to the steps, picks him up and slams him down backfirst onto the steps. Skipper slides off to the opposite side, and Booker T rolls into the ring, and goes out on the same side that Skipper is on to break the count. Elix Skipper gets up to a knee as Booker T approaches, and he pops up and hit shim with a back body drop onto the steps, and Booker sell his back. Skipper does to as he hobbles around the steps, and slowly picks up Booker, and gives him a hard knife-edge chop. Booker staggers to the side fo the ring and, Skipper throws him in, and rolls in himself. Booker is on his hands and knees as Skipper punts him in the stomach. Skipper picks up Booker and gives him another set of chops, getting him into the corner. He climbs up to the middle rope and punches Booker 7 times, when Booker hits him with a power bomb. Booker goes for the cover, and only gets a ‘2’. Booker gets to his feet, and when Skipper does, he hits him with a spinebuster. Booker drags Skipper back up to his feet, and hits him in the gut and hits him with the axe kick. He does a spinaroonie, and finishes on his feet, as Skipper gets to his. When he does, Booker goes for the Book End, but Skipper elbows his way out. The two exchange some more punches, until Booker goes for the scissor kick. Skipper catches him and crotches him on the top rope. Skipper tkaes his time as he goes over to the corner and climbs to the top rope and it proves to be his detriment, as when he goes for the New School, Booker crotches himself, and takes out his legs, causing Skipper to fall down and get guillotined at the waist by the top rope, and flips into the ring. He rises to his feet, selling the damage, and Booker hits him with the Book End and wins the WCW United States Championship! Time: 14 Minutes and 42 Seconds Rating: 68 Notes: This one was never in question for how it was going to end. Skipper seemingly sells his soul to win the championship, but declines every advance given to him from ECW, and is ostracized from WCW. What will happen to him now? ----------------------------------------- Rob Van Dam vs Kevin Nash The match begins with Van Dam hitting Nash with a springboard kick, and attacking the taller competitor’s legs. He finally knows the man down to a knee after a running basement dropkick, and fells the giant with an enzuigiri. With Nash lying face down, Van Dam hits him with a rolling thunder. Van Dam focuses on the man’s legs until, Nash is able to grab Van Dam’s pony tail, and he yanks him down to the ground. Now with Van Dam caught in his clutches, Nash takes his time beating on on him as he gets to his feet, and when he does, he tosses Van Dam halfway across the ring. And as Van Dam starts to stand, Nash forces him into the corner, and hits him with a a few knee lifts, before picking up Van Dam and hitting him with the snake eyes. Van Dam tries to mount a comeback with another springboard kick, however, Nash catches him and throws him down. This continues until Nash hits Van Dam with a sidewalk slam, and get back to his feet, and signals for the JackKnife. As Van Dam staggers to his feet, Kevin Nash hits him with a lifting knee, and gets him into position for the JackKnife. He lifts him up but Van Dam goes over the head of Nash and hits him with a sunset flip. Van Dam quickly gets up and hops to the top rope and hits Nash with the 5* Frog Splash and wins. Time: 14 Minutes and 43 Seconds Rating: 78 ----------------------------------------- We cut to the back where Shane Douglas is standing next to Don West for an interview but DDP is nowhere to be seen. Don West starts the interview asking about DDP, and Douglas says he and the rest of the Horsemen are unsure of where he is. The interview goes on for a minute longer before you can hear someone off camera call for Shane, who leaves right away. The cameraman follows and finds the Horsemen (not including Ric who’s still at ringside) in the parking lot, standing over a battered and bruised DDP, who’s unresponsive. Jindrak runs away to get some EMT’s, while Nash and Douglas check on him. While doing so, Nash blames ECW for the attack, and when the EMT’s come back with Jindrak, they say that he cannot wrestle tonight. Nash makes the call for Jindrak to replace DDP in tonights match. Rating: 65 --------------------------------------- Sting vs Sabu The match starts with each man staring the other down, with Sting walking towards Sabu, and Sabu staying out by the ropes. When in range, Sting throws a back fist, which Sabu ducks. Sabu kicks Sting in the gut, and follows him away from the ropes, continuing his offense. Sting fights back and the two begin exchanging punches. Sting gets the definitive upper hand, backing Sabu into a corner throwing jab and backhands. Sting whips Sabu into the opposing corner, and goes for the Stinger Splash, but Sabu jumps up and plants both feet firmly in Sting’s gut , knocking Sting back onto the ground.Sabu rolls out of the ring while Sting writhes in it, and he grabs a chair before rolling back in. The ref confronts Sabu, but Sabu simply sets the chair up next Sting, runs off the ropes, jumps on and off the chair onto the ropes and hits Sting with a moonsault. On commentary, Schiavone questions whether or not that it’s legal in the match, to which Styles says that it’s not being used as a weapon, but as a platform, and as long as it isn’t used as a weapon, it’s okay. Schiavone is still unsure. Sabu continues his aerial offense, keeping Sting near the center of the ring and it begins to wear on Sting, until Sabu sets the chair a little to close to Sting, and as Sabu goes to jump off it for another moonsault, Sting kicks the chair out from under him, causing Sabut to collapse atop the chair. Sting gets to his feet while Sabu sells the damage, and he drags him to his feet and hits him with a suplex. Sting gets back to his feet, and takes the chair and tosses it out of the ring. Sting walks back over to Sabu who throws some punches to Sting’s gut, but Sting easily wins the punching exchange and backs Sabu into a corner. Sting whips Sabu over to the opposite corner and this time he successfully hits the Stinger Splash. Sting cups his hands around his mouth and shouts ‘Woo!’, which the crowd repeats. Sabu rolls out of the ring and Sting follows him. While fighting on the outside Sabu is able to hit Sting with a low blow out of view of the referee. With the upperhand, Sabu takes control of the match with some springboard moves. Sabu goes up to the apron, and when Sting gets to his feet, Sabu hits him with a huricanrana. With Sting down, Sabu walks over, picks up a different chair and gets into the ring. He sets it up and when Sting is about halfway to hif feet, Sabu runs off the the ropes, jumps off the chair and onto the ropes, and then hits Sting with a sitting senton. Sabu picks Sting up and rolls him back into the ring. Sabu heads up to the top rope and when Sting gets to a knee, he jumps off, going for the Arabian Facecrusher. It hits Sting and Sting staggers, and Sabu gets to his feet and Sting straightens up and flexes. Sabu goes for a punch, which Sting blocks and comes out with a flurry of his own strikes, forcing Sabu back into a corner, Sting whips him to the other corner and hits him with a 2nd Stinger Splash. The moment Sting lands on his feet, he whips Sabu back to the original corner and he hits him with another Stinger Splash, which causes Sabu to collapse to the ground. Sting drags Sabu to the center of the ring and puts him in the Scorpion Deathlock. Sabu struggles in it and is able to crawl his way to the ropes, but before he can grab them, Sting drags him back to the center of the ring, and torques Sabu’s back until Sabu taps out. Time: 15 Minutes and 3 Seconds Rating: 71 ------------------------------------- ECW World Tag Team Championship Elimination Match: The Extremists vs The Four Horsemen (Mark Jindrak and Shane Douglas) The match starts with Lance Storm and Shane Douglas in the ring and the two get into some chain wrestling, which Storm wins out on, hitting Douglas with a back suplex. Keeping him grounded, Storm locks Douglas in a leg hold, and Douglas has to spend a fair amount of time getting out of it, but once he does, He’s able to fight back to a vertical base, and ducks a Storm clothesline and hits Storm with a german suplex. He tags out ot Mark Jindrak, who capitalizes on the kneeling man, and takes the boot to him. Things turn in Storm’s favor after Jindrak goes for a suplex, and Storm reverses it into one of his own. He drgas Jindrak over to their corner and tags out to Awesome, and the Extremists isolate Jindrak for the better part of the opening four or five minutes Jindrak breaks away after being beaten down, and tags in Douglas, who ducks a clothesline from Awesome, and hits him with a belly-to-belly, and only gets a ‘1’. Douglas keeps the big man grounded, but Awesome overpowers him and is able to tag out to Storm. Storm and Douglas exchange strikes, and Storm tries to surprise Douglas with a superkick, which Douglas catches. Douglas kicks out his other leg and drags him over to his corner and tags out to Jindrak, who attacks Storm’s knee. Jindrak brings Storm to his feet and hits him with a suplex. Jindrak continues with some grounded strikes, but Storm is able to escape, and gets to his feet, anc catches Jindrak with a superkick. He then tags out to Storm, who races across the ring and knocks Douglas off the apron. Jindrak staggers to his feet, and Awesome kicks him in the gut, picks him up and hits him with the Awesome Bomb, pinning and eliminating Mark Jindrak. (8:12) Douglas stands up on the outside, and realizes that he’s alone in the fight. He gingerly walks up the stairs and into the ring, upon which Awesome charges him. Douglas is barely able to evade the larger competitor, and tries to mount some offense with some punches, but Awesome punches back and the two get into it for a little bit with Awesome winning out on it, forcing him back into his corner. He lifts Douglas up ont the top turnbuckle before tagging out to Storm. Storm gets into the ring and hits a superkick to Douglas’ chest, who would have slumped over and fallen down to the ring side area if Awesome didn’t catch him. Storm climbs up the ropes and gets ready to hit Douglas with a superplex, but Douglas is able to throw some punches to stagger Storm for a few seconds, but a few punches from Awesome gives Storm the opportunity to go for the Superplex. He does, but Douglas is able to reverse it, so he lands onto Storm like it were a crossbody attempt. The ref gets down to count and Storm kicks out at ‘2’. Douglas and Storm sell their abdomens as they get back to their feet and Storm tries to go and tag in Awesome, but Douglas is able to head him off and hits a desperation german suplex, putting himself between Storm and Awesome. Storm and Douglas battle it out, with Awesome growing more and more impatient, waiting for Storm to make the tag. Eventually, when Douglas stops Storm once more, Awesome gets into the ring, and clubs Douglas in the back, and throws him out of the way. The referee quickly gets into Awesome’s face and despite some threatening motions from Awesome, the ref is able to get Awesome back into his corner. While that happened, Storm took the opportunity to try and punt Douglas in the groin, but Douglas catches his foot, and gives Storm a low blow. Following this, he kicks him in the gut, and hits him with the Pittsburgh Plunge. He makes the cover just as Awesome goes back to his spot on the apron. The ref starts to make the count, and Awesome tries to get in, but stumbles over the ropes, allowing Douglas to get a ‘3’ on Storm, turning the match into a 1v1. (17:46) Douglas is breathing heavily, while Awesome is in near-mint condition, and it shows in the first minute of the fight as Awesome controls much of the momentum. Awesome, tide firmly in his corner, clotheslines Douglas out of the ring. He follows and Douglas tries to shake him off with some punches, but Awesome is unperturbed, and blocks the last of Douglas’ punches and hits him with one of his own, causing Douglas to stagger back to the announcer’s table. Awesome clears off the table and tries to get Douglas onto it, but he tries to fight back, throwing punches as hard as he’s been able to and finally starts to stagger the bigger man. Awesome tries to end this flurry with a clothesline, but Douglas dodges it but rolling onto the table. Awesome follows and the two men exchange punches while atop the table. Awesome punches Douglas hard, almost making Douglas fall backwards off of the table, but Douglas regains his balance and continues the fight. Awesome kicks Douglas in the gut, and starts to pick him up for the Awesome Bomb, but Douglas worms his way out, and gives Awesome a kick of his own. He picks Awesome up and hits a Pittsburgh Plunge on the announcers table, and both men are knocked down. The ref, who had been trying to get them back into the ring, goes into the ring, and starts to count. When he gets to ‘5’, Douglas is on all fours, and Awesome is crawling towards the ring. When he gets to ‘7’, Douglas rolls into the ring, and Awesome is kneeling next to the ring apron. When the ref gets to ‘9’, Awesome rolls into the ring, and both men spend a little bit of time recuperating. Douglas is the first to his feet, and he drags Awesome up to his, and hits him with a vicious chop. Awesome responds with a punch, and the two go back and forth, until Douglas hits Awesome with a jaw breaker, causing him to stagger back into the corner. Douglas walks over and shoulder blocks him a couple of times, and gets a knee to the face on the third attempt. Awesome grabs Douglas and throws him into the corner and shoulder charges him a few times, before lifting him up onto the top turnbuckle. He climbs up to the middle rope, and gets Douglas into the position for a superplex once again. Douglas fights out of it, and stands on the top turnbuckle, and hits Awesome with a sunset flip powerbomb. Awesome lands high up on his shoulder and he rolls over, coming to rest on his knees. Douglas quickly hops to his feet and picks Awesome up and hits him with another Pittsburgh Plunge, and Awesome does not kick out. Shane Douglas and Mark Jindrak win the ECW World Tag Team Championships! Time: 25 Minutes and 34 Seconds Rating: 72 -------------------------------------- Just as the ref’s hand hits ‘3’, Shane Douglas rolls off of Mike Awesome, hands covering his face. The ref walks over with the championship belts and he gives them to Shane Douglas who begins his celebration as Jindrak races down the aisle. When he gets into the ring the two share an embrace, before Douglas gives Jindrak his title and the two celebrate in the ring. Rating: 50 ---------------------------------------- Randy Savage vs Jerry Lynn The match starts with the two getting into each other’s face, and the size difference is noticeable, with Savage being taller and more jacked, yet, when the two finally start going at it, Savage is able to hang with Lynn, up until Lynn hits a tilt-a-whirl headscissors, sending Savage to the canvas. As Savage gets to his feet. Lynn jumps off the ropes and hits Savage with a tornado DDT. Savage rolls out of the ring, selling the neck, and as he goes around the corner post, Lynn climbs up to the top and jumps off with a crossbody. Lynn keeps up the frantic offense with a suplex and and neck breaker out on the floor. Savage gets rolled into the ring and Lynn follows him in. Lynn then slowed down the pace of the match, locking Savage in some submission holds, ending with a crossface. Savage is able to force Lynn off his back, but Lynn transitions into an arm breaker. Savage is able to get to his feet, and lifts Lynn up, giving him a powerbomb. Lynn doesn’t let go right away, so Savage hits him with another, which does break Lynn’s grip. Savage sells the arm, and when Lynn gets to his feet, Savage walks over and puts him in a collar-elbow tie-up. The two proceed to chain wrestle with Lynn momentarily getting the upperhand, until Savage drops him with a DDT. Savage picks him back up and goes to put him back in the tie-up, but Lynn shoots him off into the ropes. Lynn drops down and Savage goes over him. Lynn hops to his feet and hits a stiff dropkick, one that stops Savage dead in his tracks, and causes him to collapse to the ground. Lynn signals for the Cradle Piledriver, and picks Savage up off the mat, and gets him into position, before Savage hits him with a back body drop. When Lynn gets to his feet, Savage hits him with a piledriver, and goes up to the top rope, and hits him with a flying elbow drop. 1,2,3. Randy Savage defeats Jerry Lynn! Time: 17 Minutes and 58 Seconds Rating: 81 ------------------------------------- We cut to the back for the final time tonight, where Gene Okerlund is interviewing Scott Steiner, and Scott Steiner rants about ECW and when he gets to Rhyno says that he’s nothing more than a man who’s about to meet a genetic freak, and that no one will be able to save him once he’s in the ring. Rating: 71 ------------------------------------ WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match: Scott Steiner © vs Rhyno As soon as Rhyno hits the ring both men start raining blows onto each other, with Rhyno using his smaller frame to get leverage on Steiner, and hits Steiner with a belly-to-belly. Stiner rolls over onto his stomach, as Rhyno gets to his feet. When Steiner gets to a knee, Rhyno walks over and kicks Steiner hard in the sternum, but Steiner doesn’t go down, but staggers a bit. Rhyno does it again, and again, and when he goes to do it the 4th time, Steiner catches the food, pulls Rhyno towards him, and hits him with an exploder suplex. Steiner stays on the offensive and doesn’t allow Rhyno a chance to breath, picking him up and hitting him with a Gotch-Style German Suplex, with Rhyno landing high up on his shoulders. Steiner maintains the pressure, until he goes to pick up Rhyno, and Rhyno surprises Steiner with a death valley driver, more so done out of desperation. Now with time to breathe, Rhyno is able to chip away at Steiner’s momentum, until it’s gone entirely, and now in his hands. Rhyno punches Steiner into the corner, and goes to life him up, but Steiner starts to fight his way out, so Rhyno scraps the idea he had, and instead gives Steiner a spinebuster. Rhyno stomps him a few times while Steiner’s on the ground, and when Steiner starts to get up, Rhyno gets set up to hit the Gore, but when he charges at Steiner. Steiner drops back down, and Rhyno whiffs the Gore attempt. When he gets back up, Steiner is there and clotheslines him back down. He then shows off his arm muscles, kisses his bicep and drops an elbow on Rhyno, which garners a ‘2’ count. Steiner picks Rhyno back up, lifts him up and hits a running powerslam into the corner. Steiner goes to end the match by applying the Steiner Recliner, but he is unable to cinch it in, and Rhyno escapes by lifting Steiner and hitting him with an electric chair drop. As Steiner gets to his feet Rhyno hits him with the Gore, but Steiner kicks out at ‘2.9’ much to the shock of Rhyno. He goes over to the corner and waits for Steiner to get up again, and when he does goes for another gore, but Steiner jumps over Rhyno, and Rhyno crashes into the corner. Steiner gets back up and hits Rhyno with an overhead belly-to-belly. Steiner walks over, flips Rhyno over and locks in the Steiner Recliner. Steiner torques Rhyno’s back, but Rhyno doesn’t tap, and after a minute of Steiner yanking back as far as he could, he leans too far, and has to reposition, giving Rhyno a moment, which Rhyno capitalizes byt standing up and jumping backwards, landing on top of Steiner. Steiner’s the first to get to his feet, but Rhyno’s over by the ropes, selling his back. Steiner lifts him up onto the top rope, and gets prepared to do the Frankensteiner, but Rhyno punches him, causing him to keel over, and Rhyno capitalizes on the situation, and hits Steiner with a Rhino Driver. Steiner sells it, while Rhyno gets set in the corner and waits for Steiner to get to his feet. When he does, Rhyno hits him with one more Gore, and when Rhyno pins him, Steiner kicks out after the referee counts ‘3’. Rhyno wins the WCW World Heavyweight Championship! Time: 15 Minutes and 7 Seconds Rating: 73 ------------------------ The commentary team, sans Joey Styles, is in shock, as is the ref, who only goes to grab the belt after staring at the scene in front of him for half a minute. When he hands the belt to Rhyno, he grabs it and starts celebrating. And he goes to each corner to do so, but when he comes down from the last one, Steiner gets back to his feet and attacks Rhyno, hitting him with a high angle German Suplex. The WCW guys who were at ringside come into th ering to stop Steiner, Steiner toss each and every one of them out of the ring to get to Rhyno, and he hit shim once more with a overhead belly-to-belly. Tommy Dreamer and RVD race down the aisle and try to stop Steiner, but Steiner destroys the both of them. He walks over to Rhyno and puts him back into the Steiner Recliner and this time, Rhyno passes out, but Steiner just will not let go, or at least he doesn’t until someone enters the ring behind him. The crowd and the folks at home can see who it is, but Steiner is still unsure as he lets Rhyno out of the hold and turns to look at the man. But all he sees in the boot of Shawn Michaels as he gets hit with a Sweet Chin Music, knocking him out. Shawn Michaels stands in the ring and poses over Steiner, and with that visual, Starrcade comes to an end. Rating: 80 ---------------------- Overall Rating: 74 ----------------------- Card + Winners WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match: Scott Steiner © vs Rhyno Randy Savage vs Jerry Lynn ECW World Tag Team Championship Match: The Four Horsemen (Jindrak and Douglas) vs The Extremists Sting vs Sabu Kevin Nash vs Rob Van Dam WCW United States Championship Match: Booker T vs Elix Skipper © Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Steve Corino ECW Cruiserweight Championship Match: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs TAKA Michinoku © Jerry Lawler vs Taz WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs A Debuting ECW Wrestler (Vic Grimes or Brother Devon

Card for WCW Starrcade, 4th Week of December, 2001 WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match: Scott Steiner © vs Rhyno Randy Savage vs Jerry Lynn ECW World Tag Team Championship Match: The Four Horsemen (DDP and Douglas) vs The Extremists Sting vs Sabu Kevin Nash vs Rob Van Dam WCW United States Championship Match: Booker T vs Elix Skipper © Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Steve Corino ECW Cruiserweight Championship Match: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs TAKA Michinoku © Jerry Lawler vs Taz WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs A Debuting ECW Wrestler (Vic Grimes or Brother Devon)

4th Week of December, 2001, Friday: The FOX Meeting If all of the financial issues he had to deal with this month weren't enough, the meeting went about as well as he could have expected. The good news was that FOX was really happy with the product and the ratings that it was getting on Primtime, and so would keep them on that slot. The Bad news was that they wanted to make more money. Currently, they had a 70-30 agreement on the revenue split, but the executives wanted to make it a 80-20 agreement, which Shane figured out would equate to a $1.7 million loss of revenue. Shane had to fight, and fight hard to get them to come up to a 75-25 agreement, and felt exhausted. That's when they told him about the fines he'd have to deal with regarding Chris Candido. The Execs made it clear that such a incident was unacceptable and that since they had ties with WCW, any thing that came to hurt WCW, hurt them too, and so were leveling a $250k fine on WCW, which blindsided Shane. He realyed the entire meeting to Bischoff, who seemed to be in higher spirits, and said that the fine wasn't the worst thing in the world. Shane asked him to elaborate and Eric said that at that moment, about 650k were one time charges on their financial records. So if they were running at a lossless than that, that would mean that they'd make a profit, which gave Shane a little bit of reprieve. No matter how bad it looked, this was going to be the worst month, simply due to that 650k. He just hoped that Eric was right and that this whole thing was being overblown in his head, but until he saw the report, he'd be on edge. But now wasn't the time to worry about finances. They had a show in two days, and he needed a success.

WCW Monday Nitro on FOX, 4th Week of December, 2001 The show begins with in-ring action as Sean O'Haire comes out to defend his WCW World Television Championship against Kanyon. ------------------------------- WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs Kanyon Finish: Kanyon gets O'Haire on his back, and is perched on the top rope, about to hit the D.O.A., but O'Haire wiggles out of it, and hits Kanyon with a crucifix Powerbomb for the victory, and his 15th Championship defense. Time: 12 Minutes and 22 Seconds Rating: 72 ------------------ As soon as Kanyon and O'Haire have gone to the back, the competitors of the next match do their entrances. --------------------- Taz vs Shawn Stasiak Finish: Taz Locks in the Katahajime and makes Stasiak tap out. Time: 4 Minutes and 53 Seconds Rating: 46 ---------------------- As Taz finally lets Stasiak out of the hold, Jerry Lawler comes out and after trash talking ECW for a little bit, challenges Taz to a match at Starrcade, which Taz accepts. Rating: 76 ---------------------- We cut to the office of Shane McMahon, where he and Eric are going over the card for Starrcade as Sean O'Haire walks into the room. Shane congratulates him on his 15 championship defenses, and O'Haire asks for a championship match against Elix Skipper at Starrcade, to which Shane shakes his head, saying that he already has a challenger for him, but that O'Haire will get a shot at a championship come Souled Out, that is if Skipper beats his challenger and/or the worst case scenario happens in the Main Event at Starrcade. Shane also tells him that he'll have to defend his championship at Starrcade. Rating: 75 ---------------------- Kevin Nash vs Masato Tanaka Finish: Tanaka tries to hit Nash with a vertical suplex, but Nash shuts him down before he can really get him vertical. Nash follows it up with a side knee to the gut and hits Tanaka with the Jackknife powerbomb and gets the pinfall. Time: 14 Minutes and 12 Seconds Rating: 61 ----------------------- As Nash gets up from the pin, Rhyno hops over the guardrail, with RVD close behind. Rhyno gets into the ring and when Nash tursn around, hits him with the Gore. Van Dam quickly heads to the top rope and hits him with a 5* Frog Splash. AS DDP and Douglas come barrelling out of the back and towards the ring, the three ECW guys beat down on Nash. When Page and Douglas get into the ring, they find that the ECW guys just barely escape their grasp. Rating: 74 ------------------------ 6-Man Elimination Match for #1 Contender-ship of the Cruiserweight Championship: Chavo Guerrero Jr vs Kid Kash vs Jimmy Wang Yang vs Sonny Siaki vs AJ Styles vs Christopher Daniels Order of Eliminations: Sonny Siaki eliminates Jimmy Wang Yang (4:12) Sonny Siaki eliminates Kid Kash (8:29) AJ Styles eliminates Sonny Siaki (after getting hit with an Angel's Wing and Spiral Tap) (12:21) AJ Styles eliminates Christopher Daniels (17:54)Finish: AJ Styles hits Chavo with the Styles Clash, but Chavo just barely kicks out, mainly because Styles only had one arm secured. With Chavo lying prone on his back, Styles heads to the top for the Sprial Tap, but as he's about to jump, Jerry Lynn comes down and distracts Styles long enough for that when Styles does the move, Chavo rolls out of the way. Styles hits the mat, and gets onto his hands and knees as he holds his neck, and Chavo gets Styles into the La Magistral and gets the '3'. Time: 23 Minutes and 39 Seconds Rating: 47 ------------------------ We cut to the back where Gene Okerlund is interviewing the Road Warriors, who say that the Extremists are in for the beatdown of their life, and that when the dust settles tonight, the Road Warriors will be on top. Rating: 50 ------------------------ The Road Warriors vs The Extremists Finish: As the Road Warriors get the upperhand on the Extremists, Animal has Storm on his shoulder, and just as Hawk gets to the top rope, Tommy Dreamer hops the guardrail and shoves Hawk off the top, and the ref calls for the bell. Time: 13 Minutes and 37 Seconds Rating: 70 ----------------------- Animal gets hits with a huricanrana by Storm and as he runs back around, selling the move, Rhyno gores him. On the outside, RVD and Dreamer are somping on Hawk, and on the inside, Mike Awesome, Storm and Rhyno beat on Animal. Rating: 58 ---------------------- DDP and Douglas come down for the save, weilding baseball bats. The first two who get hit are the two outside, RVD and Dreamer, who get hit and hit hard. DDP and Douglas then get into the ring, as the three inside get out of dodge before they get hit. DDP grabs a mic and tells them to enjoy running away, because at Starrcade they won't be able to. Rating: 65 ----------------------- Overall Rating: 71 ----------------------- Card + Winners: Main Event: The Road Warriors (ViaDQ) vs The Extremists 6-Man Elimination Match to Determine the #1 Contender for the ECW Cruiserweight Championship: Chavo Guerrero Jr (Via Jerry Lynn Interference) vs Kid Kash vs Jimmy Wang Yang vs Sonny Siaki vs AJ Styles vs Christopher Daniels MidCard: Kevin Nash vs Masato Tanaka Lower MidCard: Taz vs Shawn Stasiak WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs Chris Kanyon

Card for WCW Monday Nitro on FOX, 4th Week of December, 2001 Main Event: The Road Warriors vs The Extremists 6-Man Elimination Match to Determine the #1 Contender for the ECW Cruiserweight Championship: Chavo Guerrero Jr vs Kid Kash vs Jimmy Wang Yang vs Sonny Siaki vs AJ Styles vs Christopher Daniels MidCard: Kevin Nash vs Masato Tanaka Lower MidCard: Taz vs Shawn Stasiak WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs Chris Kanyon

3rd Week of December, Wednesday, 2001: An Honest Talk and A Wrestler Caught Shane rubbed his temples as he hung up the phone. He just got off the phone with Candido's Lawyer. Appearently, he had been pulled over and they had found a small amount of drugs in his car, as well as a decent amount of Steroids. Luckily for Candido, he only had enough for a misdeanor drug offense, but what really hurt was the fact that he had been caught with steroids. A reporter found that out and now he was reading headlines, questioning just how many WCW wrestlers were using steroids, and they were now speculating on whether or not a case like what happened with his father could happen with him. The only difference is, and one that the media had noted already, was that his father had been accused of helping distribution, and so far (and never since he wasn't doing that), no one had come forward. The lawyer continued, saying that even though it was his first offense, there was a chance for Candido to get 3-5 years in prison. The whole news about that didn't ease his mind, but he knew that he had to do something in response, and decided to suspend him for 1 month, without pay. Once that was over, he would report to a rehab facility, which WCW would pay for. He laid that out to the lawyer, who told him he'd relay that to Candido. That call had come after a number of calls coming from the sponsors, all of which hummed the same tune, and sang the same threat, which all but a few backpedaled from. Unfortunately, he did lose a few sponsors, and that was money walking out of the door that he wouldn't get back anytime soon, and he already knew that things were going to be taking their tolls on the finances of WCW. This was something that was going hurt, but by how much he didn't know. With all of this swirling around in his head, he didn't even notice the knock on his door. The only time he noticed was when Eric Bischoff had gotten to his desk and spoke. E: Shane? S: Hm? Oh, sorry, Eric. I, uh, just got off the phone with Candido's lawyer. E: How's that going? S: Poorly. I told the lawyer that Candido would be suspended and sent to rehab. E: Are we paying him for his suspension? S: No, but we are paying for the rehab. Eric nodded, looked over at a chair, and pulled it closer to the desk. Shane could tell he wanted to speak about something and waited for Eric to speak first. E: Why didn't you consult me about the WWF guys? S: Do you disagree with the signings? E: No. I probably would've gone along with it. S: Then what's the problem? E: The problem is, is that i had to find out from Page because he read Meltzer! Not only did you not consult me while you were handing out the contract, you didn't even call me to let me know. S: That's fair, but I have to ask why you waited so long to bring this up. E: Well, I didn't find out until three days after the fact, and you haven't been alone until now. I don't think this would be a good thing for the guys to hear about. S: I think you'd be right about that. Look, I'm sorry I didn't talk to you, or even call you to let you know. I should have told you, and I promise that I'll make it up to you. E: You'll make it up to me? S: In some way, yes. Eric nodded and leaned over the desk. E: Here's a way you could make it up to me. --------------------------------------- Shane furiously rubbed his temples as he got of the phone once more, this time with a wrestler of Bischoff's request. He already knew that money would be tight, but when he had dialed the number Bischoff had given him and heard the voice on the other end, he knew it was going to be much worse. It was a voice he'd last heard in person nearly a decade ago, and was probably the most recognizable figure in wrestling history. Hulk Hogan was on the other end of the line, and according to him, he was now 100% from a knee injury that he had been dealing with the last 6 months. Before long, the discussion went to the contract that Hogan wanted, and the figure nearly made Shane jump out of his skin. Shane told him he couldn't do that number, and gave him a contract similar to most of the recent hires, along with the merchandise cut from Shawn. Hogan acquiesced to the deal, and when Shane hung up the phone, Bischoff smiled. E: He accept. S: Yep. And it'll cost us 112.5k a month, and however much the merchandise will be. E: Which I imagine will be alot. Anyways, now that we have him, we have a great surprise for the end of Starrcade. Hogan returns to confront the ECW bra- S: No. We've already got an ending. We can save Hogan for SuperBrawl or later, when things really look down. But revealing him now, would diminish the finish we already have. Eric looked at him and eventually nodded, before wishing him a good night and walking out of the office. Shane leaned back in his chair and could feel just how much WCW would fall behind. With the buyout of UPW and the new contracts, he had added nearly 800k to this months finances alone, with nearly 400k recurring. And with the yearly renegotiation meeting with FOX coming up, he knew that money was going to be hard to come buy.

The show begins with a small pyrotechnics display and a 'welcome' from the announce team. Immediately after, the first match is set to begin with Chavo Guerrero Jr. coming out towards the ring. ------------------------------------------ Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs Christopher Daniels Finish: Christopher Daniels gets Chavo into the position for the Angel's Wings, but Guerrero Jr. is able to hit him with a huricanrana, and hooks the leg and gets the three. Time: 15 Minutes and 42 Seconds Rating: 59 -------------------------- After both participants leave the ring, Jerry Lawler comes out with his client AJ Styles, and grabs a microphone. He challenges any 'bingo hall trash' to come out and wrestle his guy. When nobody comes out right away, he continues his rant on ECW, and about twenty seconds later, someone's music plays, and out walks Taz. -------------------------- AJ Styles vs Taz Finish: At the end of an incredibly short match, Styles tries to hit a flying forearm, but misses. As Styles lands face down, he tries to get back to a knee, when Taz sinks in the Katahajime, and makes Styles tap out. Time: 4 Minutes and 18 Seconds Rating: 50 Notes: This is the first appearance of anybody from the recent hires. --------------------------- Soon after the end of the match, Taz gets his hands on Lawler, and after a few suplexs locks him into the Katahajime, but before Lawler can really get hurt by it, Styles breaks it up, gets a few shots on Taz, before Taz puts the hold back onto Styles, as Lawler gets away. Rating: 65 -------------------------- We cut to the back where Skipper is waiting for his interview to begin, when Booker T comes up and, much like Skipper last week, goes off on Skipper, and after his rant challenges him to a match. When Skipper refuses, Booker essentially calls him a coward and that while he might have been right about Jindrak not being strong enough, that doesn't make him the top dog. Booker then leaves to go to the ring for his match. Rating: 67 ------------------------- Booker T vs Mike Awesome Finish: Just as Booker T seems poised to fell the big ECW wrestler, Skipper comes into the ring as Lance Storm distracts the ref on the opposite side, and hits him with a brand-new move: a Spinning Kudo Driver. He exits the ring as Awesome gets to his feet. He then picks Booker up and hits him with a Awesome Bomb and picks up the victory. Time: 26 Minutes and 55 Seconds Rating: 76 Notes: After the match, Storm goes over to hug Skipper, as if to welcome him into the ECW family, but Skipper rejects it and walks away alone. ------------------------- We cut to the back where Mene Gene finally gets interview somebody after being prevented twice. He interviews the challenger for Sean O'Haire's Television Championship, Jeff Jarrett, who says that he looks forward to breaking O'Haire's winning streak and winning the Television Championship. Rating: 54 ------------------------- WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs Jeff Jarrett Finish: Sean O'Haire goes up to the top rope and gets crotched by Jarrett, who goes up as well and tries to hit him with the Stroke, but gets thrown off. While Jarrett sells the drop from the top, O'Haire leaps off the top and hits Jarrett with the Seanton Bomb, and gets the 3 to retain his Television Championship, marking his 14th defense of the championship. Time: 13 Minutes and 55 Seconds Rating: 71 ------------------------ We cut to the back where Scott Steiner is posing in the mirror, getting hyped for his match, when Randy Savage comes in, and the tension between the two is palpable, but no fists are thrown, as Savage tells Steiner to keep an eye out on Alfonso, and to whip the punk. Steiner laughs him off and says that regardless of whatever man is put in front of him, he'll make him his, you know. Rating: 75 ----------------------- Scott Steiner vs Rob Van Dam Finish: As Steiner synches in the Recliner, Alfonso hops up onto the apron and gets destroyed by Steiner, who had been expecting it, and shoves him back into the guardrail. When he turns around, Van Dam tries to and succeeds with hitting him with a monkey flip. When Van Dam gets up, he falls right back into the corner, and the ref goes to check on him. Steiner starts to get up as a man hops over the guardrail and enters the ring, lurched over in the corner waiting for Steiner to get to his feet. When Steiner does, the man explodes out of the corner and hits him with the Gore. Rhyno rolls out of the ring, while RVD simply hops back up to his feet and gives the ref a thumbs up, as if he's okay now, and covers Steiner for the '3'. Time: 18 Minutes and 43 Seconds Rating: 75 ---------------------------- Bill Alfonso enters the ring with a mic, and is being propped up RVD and Alfonso announces that Steiner's opponent at Starrcade will not be Rob Van Dam, but instead the Man-Beast, Rhyno! Rating: 68 ---------------------------- Overall Rating: 74 ---------------------------- Card + Winners Main Event: Rob Van Dam (Via Interference from Rhyno and Alfonso) vs Scott Steiner WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs Jeff Jarrett MidCard Match: Mike Awesome (W/ Skipper Interference) vs Booker T Jerry Lawler's Open Challenge: AJ Styles vs an ECW Wrestler *Bonus for guessing the correct wrestler: Taz Opener: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs Christopher Daniels

<p>Card for WCW Monday Nitro on FOX, 3rd Week of December, 2001</p><p> </p><p> Main Event: Rob Van Dam vs Scott Steiner</p><p> </p><p> WCW World Television Championship Match: Sean O'Haire © vs Jeff Jarrett</p><p> </p><p> MidCard Match: Mike Awesome vs Booker T</p><p> </p><p> Jerry Lawler's Open Challenge: AJ Styles vs an ECW Wrestler</p><p> </p><p> *Bonus for guessing the correct wrestler</p><p> </p><p> Opener: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs Christopher Daniels</p>

<p>WCW Monday Nitro on FOX, 2nd Week of December, 2001</p><p> </p><p> The show starts out with Scott Steiner cutting a promo on both Rob Van Dam and Randy Savage, saying that not only did he beat Savage, he did so convincingly even when Savage had help from Van Dam. He then spends quite a few minutes taunting Van Dam, essentially saying that when Starrcade comes around, Van Dam is going to need far more help than Savage got to beat him.</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 67</p><p> ------------------------------</p><p> <strong><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">WCW World Television Championship Match:</span></em></strong></p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Sean O'Haire © vs Mark Jindrak w/ Stacy Kiebler</span></p><p> </p><p> Finish: Jindrak goes for the Mark of Excellence, but O'Haire shoves him off and hits him with a super kick, and starts to go for the cover when Stacy Kieb;er hops up onto the top rope. O'Haire gets back up and gets into her face, but she stands her ground, giving Jindrak time to get to his feet. Unfortunately for Jindrak, O'Haire predicted his movements perfectly, catches and picks him up to hit him with the Widow Maker, but makes sure to spin around so Jindrak's feet hit Stacy, knocking her off the apron. O'Haire hits the Widow Maker and gets the victory, retaining his Television Championship for the 13th time.</p><p> </p><p> Time: 13 Minutes and 34 Seconds</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 62</p><p> -----------------------------</p><p> We cut to the locker room where Shane Douglas and Diamond Dallas Page are conversing, with Douglas hyping up Dallas. Page says that he has no doubt that they can take Storm and Awesome individually, but when those two are together, they seem to be able to get lucky. Douglas tells Dallas to make sure Storm doesn't get lucky tonight.</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 66</p><p> -----------------------------</p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Diamond Dallas Page vs Lance Storm</span></p><p> </p><p> Finish: Storm picks up Dallas, and whips him into the ropes, and tries to hit him with a Superkick, but Dallas catches his foot, pulls him back into a belly-to-back hold, turns him around and hits him with a Diamond Cutter. DDP covers Storm and gets the victory.</p><p> </p><p> Time: 17 Minutes and 45 Seconds</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 77</p><p> ----------------------------</p><p> We cut to the back where Booker T is about to start his interview with Gene Okerlund, in which during the opening minute, Gene asks Booker about his confrontation with Skipper last week, and Booker calls Skipper a sell-out and that he's nothing more than a traitor to WCW. Before the interview can get much further, Skipper walks up and starts shouting at Booker and the two nearly get into a fight in the backstage area.</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 66</p><p> ----------------------------</p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Road Warriors vs The Filthy Animals</span></p><p> </p><p> Finish: Rey Mysterio Jr. miraculously gets into a position where Animal is hurt and has his back to him, and gets ready to hit him with a West Coast Pop, but Animal catches him. While that happens, Hawk gets into the ring, runs over and knocks Kidman on to the floor before going up to the top rope. Animal turns Mysterio around, and he gets hit with a Doomsday Device. Animal makes the cover, while Hawk runs interference and the Road Warriors pick up the victory.</p><p> </p><p> Time: 9 Minutes and 58 Seconds</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 63</p><p> ----------------------------</p><p> Terry Funk comes out after the tag team competitors exit the ring area, and he cuts a promo on Douglas, saying that he's forgotten where he came from and what made him, and that he's going to be given a remainder of what happens when you turn your back on your home.</p><p> </p><p> Rating:65</p><p> ----------------------------</p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Terry Funk vs Shane Douglas</span></p><p> </p><p> Finish: Terry Funk tries to get Douglas up for a piledriver, and instead gets back dropped. Douglas waits for Funk to reach his feet and hits him with the Franchiser for the victory.</p><p> </p><p> Time: 16 Minutes and 46 Seconds</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 65</p><p> ----------------------------</p><p> Shane McMahon comes out while Douglas is celebrating and announces that at Starrcade, Shane Douglas and Diamond Dallas Page will be the challengers to the current WCW World Tag Team Champions.</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 65</p><p> -----------------------------</p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Rob Van Dam vs Randy Savage</span></p><p> </p><p> Finish: Savage finishes a sudden flurry of offense that leaves Rob Van Dam prone on the mat. He goes up to the top rope and is about to hit the Diving Elbow, when Bill Alfonso comes down and distracts Savage. Van Dam is able to take advantage as both the ref and Savage are focused on Alfonso, and RVD is able to punt Savage in the groin and follows that up with a 5* Frog Splash, and gets the win.</p><p> </p><p> Time: 23 Minutes and 19 Seconds</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 70</p><p> ----------------------------</p><p> As the bell rings to end the match, Alfonso and RVD start to beat down on Savage. While they do that, Steiner comes charging down the aisle and RVD is able to escape, but Alfonso isn't and eats a belly-to-belly and he gets put in the Steiner Recliner.</p><p> </p><p> Rating: 74</p><p> ----------------------------</p><p> Overall Rating: 71</p><p> ----------------------------</p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Card + Winners:</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Rob Van Dam</strong> vs Randy Savage</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Shane Douglas</strong> vs Terry Funk</p><p> </p><p> <strong>The Road Warriors</strong> vs The Filthy Animals</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Diamond Dallas Page</strong> vs Lance Storm</p><p> </p><p> WCW World Television Championship Match: <strong>Sean O'Haire ©</strong> vs Mark Jindrak /w Stacy Kiebler</p>

On March 24th, 2001, a McMahon bought WCW. But on March 23rd, Vince McMahon was in the middle of talks with AOL to purchase WCW, and was making headway, and it seemed as though a deal was going to be done soon. He was going to acquire his competition, a thorn in his side, and stand atop the wrestling world uncontested. And he was going to do it all for the low price of $2.5 million. He could hardly believe it, but, there he was, waiting for the final terms to be made and for the whole contract to be put to paper. Hell, it looked as though the paper would reach his desk for him to sign that night. But as he waited for it to arrive, the clock ticked on, and at midnight, he would receive a call from Shane. Vince: "Yes?". Shane: "Hey, we've run into a problem.". Vince: "What kind of problem?". Shane: "Something on their end. Lawyer saw something with one of the terms and they're going over it again. If I were to guess, it'll be finalized sometime tomorrow.". Vince: "Is that the only issue?". Shane: "Yes.". Vince: "Ok.". Vince hung up the phone, and sighed. He decided to stay at the office and work on Wrestlemania 17, and his fued with his son Shane. He had this idea of Shane 'buying' WCW and making his match with him a 'WCW vs WWF' proxy match. He got right to work on it. At 6 a.m. on the 24th of March, Vince McMahon gets a call. On the other end is Jamie Kellner. Kellner: "Vince?". Vince: "Yes.". Kellner: "This is Jamie Kellner. I'm calling to inform you that the deal has fallen through.". Vince: "What? What do you mean?". Kellner: "Well, Vince, someone else bought WCW. They already signed the paperwork". Vince: "What do you mean someone else bought it? We had a deal, one you agreed to!". Kellner: "We did, but we received an offer last night and we at AOL accepted that one. It was a considerable upgrade over your offer, and better for us overall.". Vince: "How much?". Kellner: "I can't disclose the financial amount, but it was about triple what you offered. They got the video library as well.". Vince: "Who bought it?". Kellner: "...You really don't know?". Vince: "Why would I know?". Kellner: "Vince. Your son, Shane, and his backers, bought the company.". ---------- Shane kicked his feet up on the table and relaxed. Keeping the whole thing a secret had been exhausting, but now he owned the one thing that his father had wanted for the last ten years. He now owned WCW. And not only did he own the company, he had secured a primetime TV time slot with Fox, who had been looking for a wrestling show for the last couple years. The War would continue, and now he was the one who was going to put his father out of business, not Ted. He closed his eyes and thought about what to do next. The odds of the guys in the WCW locker room taking his ownership with smiles was probably not gonna happen, but he had an idea. They probably wouldn't trust him, but he figured bringing in Eric would allow the boys some comfort. There was planning to do, and he couldn't wait. ------------- Eric sat in the kitchen of his home, dejected. He tried vehemently to make sure WCW lived and now it was going to be sold to Vince. All of his work and pitching to potential backers had been for nothing. His phone rang, and he picked it up, assuming it was another one of his backers pulling out of the deal, not that it really mattered. Eric: "Yeah?". Shane: "Is this Eric Bischoff?". Eric: "It is. And who is this?". Shane: "I'm Shane McMahon.". Eric: "Well, I'll stop you right there. I have no interest in going to work for the WWF. Not right now.". Shane: "Well, Eric, I got some good news for you. I'm not asking you to come work for WWF, since I no longer work for the WWF. You see, Eric, I bought WCW.". Eric: "You mean your dad bought it for you.". Shane: "No. I am the majority owner of WCW, and I've secured a deal with Fox to air Nitro, Prime time, Monday Night. Vince isn't involved. In fact, I imagine he's learning about this right now, just like you. But that's not important, Eric. What's important, is that I want to bring you in to the new WCW.". Eric could scarcely believe what he was hearing. It sounded to good to be true. Eric: "If what you've told me is true, I'm in.". ------------ This version of WCW is based on if Shane McMahon actually bought WCW from underneath his father. WCW will begin airing shows in July of 2001, on Fox, while Shane and Eric come up with a creative direction for the company, while also trying to get Fox and some wrestlers to agree to come back (aka get bought out from their Time Warner deals). The first event will be the Sunday before the debut of Nitro on Fox, which is The Big Bang. However, there is still the March 26th episode of Nitro that needs to be done first, which is the last show on TNT and with AOL. After that, then the time would come to think about the future. A quick glimpse into the new regime. WCW will not have the limitless payroll that was afforded to them by Ted Turner, so they will have to shorten up the amount of money that is offered out. WCW Owner: Shane McMahon WCW Booker: Eric Bischoff/Shane McMahon -------------------- --------------------- ------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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