DHK1989 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Samoan Savage vs Bobby Eaton The Journeymen vs The Killer Bees The Steiner Brothers vs The Southern Rockers The Enforcers vs The Heavenly Bodies - non title Shane Douglas vs Nobuhiko Takada © for the WCW TV Title Jushin Liger vs Terrence Taylor - non title Terry Gordy vs Big Van Vader Bam Bam Bigelow vs Butch Reed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smw88 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Samoan Savage vs Bobby Eaton The Journeymen vs The Killer Bees The Steiner Brothers vs The Southern Rockers The Enforcers vs The Heavenly Bodies - non title Shane Douglas vs Nobuhiko Takada © for the WCW TV Title Jushin Liger vs Terrence Taylor - non title Terry Gordy vs Big Van Vader Bam Bam Bigelow vs Butch Reed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollywood Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Samoan Savage vs Bobby Eaton The Journeymen vs The Killer Bees The Steiner Brothers vs The Southern Rockers The Enforcers vs The Heavenly Bodies - non title Shane Douglas vs Nobuhiko Takada © for the WCW TV Title Jushin Liger vs Terrence Taylor - non title Terry Gordy vs Big Van Vader Bam Bam Bigelow vs Butch Reed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Byron Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 My picks: Bobby Eaton, The Killer Bees, The Steiner Brothers, The Enforcers, Nobuhiko Takada ©, Jushin Liger, Big Van Vader, and Bam Bam Bigelow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartman Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 I'm kind of surprised that with all the initial roster cleaning and drug testing that all 3 Freebirds stuck around, but I'm guessing their 0-fers are their punishment. Sadly all 3 were pretty much on their last legs at this point irl though Gordy had a few more good years in AJPW with Dr. Death before nearly killing himself with an OD. A TV tag title is interesting. I guess it was never done because you usually only had one-hour shows combined with fitting 2 TV titles around all your other stuff would be really hard. The 3 hours you've got make it more feasible, though really all you're doing is just making the title always on the line in their matches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blonde Bomber Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Samoan Savage vs Bobby Eaton The Journeymen vs The Killer Bees The Steiner Brothers vs The Southern Rockers The Enforcers vs The Heavenly Bodies - non title Shane Douglas vs Nobuhiko Takada © for the WCW TV Title Jushin Liger vs Terrence Taylor - non title Terry Gordy vs Big Van Vader Bam Bam Bigelow vs Butch Reed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusHack Posted July 24, 2022 Author Share Posted July 24, 2022 I'm kind of surprised that with all the initial roster cleaning and drug testing that all 3 Freebirds stuck around, but I'm guessing their 0-fers are their punishment. Sadly all 3 were pretty much on their last legs at this point irl though Gordy had a few more good years in AJPW with Dr. Death before nearly killing himself with an OD. A TV tag title is interesting. I guess it was never done because you usually only had one-hour shows combined with fitting 2 TV titles around all your other stuff would be really hard. The 3 hours you've got make it more feasible, though really all you're doing is just making the title always on the line in their matches. The backstage rating was a nightmare after the drug testing when the save started. But for each failure, I quickly boosted morale and then asked them to go clean. I was pretty lucky as only guys who didn't clean up right away was rookie Eddy Guerrero, undercard Buddy Landel, manager Missy Hyatt and past his prime Junkyard Dog. They were all sent to rehab to sort themselves out. But I axed a hell of a lot of negative backstage influences and brought in many positive influences. By the time Feb started, the rating had rebounded back to very positive. Just like the prologue verbage, I'm taking wrestlers word at face value for them stating they'll be clean. Looking forward to having to resolve future issues as they pop up. I was struggling to put together a 16 team tag division, so the Freebirds were kind of a necessity. Garvin's not going to last most likely, as he's declining. Gordy on the other hand at 30 years old is still improving. Hayes is going to start declining soon - he's peaked. I'm worried though - Gordy's still working AJPW and Smoky Mountain and I literally just got a warning about his recent schedule causing fatigue. I have a strong want to write storylines that aren't necessarily conflict driven but rather more around performance - The Freebirds are the perfect fall guys for a slow start storyline due to Garvin being on decline and Gordy being a tag specialist that would benefit from a demotion to the tag league. Since Hayes is highly charismatic, they'll benefit from conference segments and long term Hayes has the Road Agent perk plus high psychology, so he's a keeper. I'm running 2.5 hours only at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satyr24 Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Samoan Savage vs Bobby Eaton The Journeymen vs The Killer Bees The Steiner Brothers vs The Southern Rockers The Enforcers vs The Heavenly Bodies - non title Shane Douglas vs Nobuhiko Takada © for the WCW TV Title Jushin Liger vs Terrence Taylor - non title Terry Gordy vs Big Van Vader Bam Bam Bigelow vs Butch Reed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartman Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 I was counting Main Event as an hour. Are you saying that Saturday Night is 2.5 hours? Given how many matches and your long talk show/halftime segments, that wouldn't be too surprising. And yeah, Garvin should be in decline at this point and likely Hayes as well as the drugs had caught up with both before 1992. Gordy was one of the best ever that nobody remembers. So much talent in a huge body. If you could get him clean, he could have had another 8-10 years. But the overwork issue is real with anyone working Japan in TEW as there's no "But you're going for 3-5 weeks then off for 2 months." setting for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusHack Posted July 27, 2022 Author Share Posted July 27, 2022 APRIL 92, WEEK 2 : EPISODE 92.10 “Welcome one and all, to wrestling’s Sabbath.” It’s opening week of Round 4 and Dusty starts things off with an immediate announcement - Nobuhiko Takada versus Shane Douglas has been postponed one week due to a sprained ankle suffered from Takada. Due to this being the first injury suffered through the course of the new format, the panel takes the time to explain what occurs when injuries occur. If the wrestler injured is capable of competing within the current round, their match will be rescheduled to the best of the abilities of management. If they are unable to compete during their round, they will forfeit their respective match, being denoted as a missed match. It will not count as a loss on their records. However, the opponent doesn’t get an automatic win either. Instead, WCW will assign a replacement wrestler from outside the competition to step in and wrestle the match in the injured parties place. Luckily for Takada, his injury only requires him to miss this week’s show. Dusty Rhodes then confirms that Cactus Jack and Kevin Von Erich have both agreed to push their match up a week and will compete tonight. The panel go through the standings after 3 rounds, where only the Enforcers, the Young Pistols, Sting and Nobuhiko Takada still have perfect records. Meanwhile, Austin Idol, Terry Gordy, One Man Gang, The American Males, The Southern Rockers, The Journeymen and the Fabulous Freebirds are all pointless entering Round 4. Every last one of them need to start turning things around immediately. With recaps out of the way, Harley sends things down to Lance to introduce tonight’s staff. Lance Russell introduces our officiating staff for tonight, Ron West, Hiroyuki Unno and senior official Nick Patrick. Randy Anderson is manning the time keepers table. For the second week in a row, we have two big meaty men getting ready to slap meat to start off the show. Bam Bam has Teddy Long in his corner and Long’s camp is looking to repeat Round Three with another shutout, while Butch has Mr. Hughes in his corner and is trying to rebound from 2 straight losses. These two rush right out the gate at each other and pound away. Reed takes control early and pounds away at Bam Bam’s face in the corner. Butch runs the ropes and charges at Bam Bam, but is met with a huge tackle that sends him flying across the mat. Bam Bam then starts showing off his athleticism by running the ropes and tackling Butch a few more times, before doing a cartwheel to pander. Bam lifts up Reed for a slam, but Reed fights out and wrings Bam Bam’s hard violently - Bigelow goes down hard, and Reed pounces on him attacking the shoulder hard with strikes and knee drops. Reed’s attack is relentless and he wrenches on Bam Bam’s arm, as JR screams he’s going to tear it out of it’s socket. Bam Bam gets to the ropes and Long gets him to retreat to the outside where he tells him to get it together. Teddy Long turns to Mr. Hughes scaring the shit out of him. Back in the ring, Bigelow is tentative and Reed tries to get in close and attack him. Bigelow catches him clean on the nose with a swing and Reed is rocked! Bigelow capitalizes with a backlist and then hits Greetings From Asbury Park! Bam Bam wins as JR comments that it all came down to a perfect strike, and they show replays of the strike as Bigelow celebrates. Bam Bam Bigelow (2-2-0) def. Butch Reed (1-3-0) in 12:38 From a wild brawl, we move on to tag team action, with the Southern Rockers looking to get out of the weeds and secure their first victory. Unfortunately for them, they are facing a great tag team in the Steiner Brothers who are coming off a defeat to the Young Pistols and would love to rebound. The Steiner’s are strong out the gate, using their collegiate backgrounds to out class Rex and Steve. Rick dominates Steve Doll, who gets frustrated and runs to his corner to tag in Rex. Rick laughs and tags in Scott who comes in and obliterates Rex King with quick overhead belly to belly suplexes. The Southern Rockers try to get back into the match with some tomfoolery, abusing the post tag in double team work and referee Ron West steps in and threatens to disqualify them. This one dragged on a little too long though for what it was, as the Southern Rockers were completely outclassed here. The Steiner’s win with a Steinerizer on Rex King. Steiner Brothers (3-1-0) def. The Southern Rockers (0-4-0) in 11:19. Magnum TA runs through the results from last night’s Main Event action, which saw Samoan Savage def. Bobby Eaton and The Killer Bees def. The Journeyman. In additional exhibitions, Brad Armstrong def. Norman the Lunatic, Dave Finlay def. Akio Sato, and in tag team action, Greg Valentine and Tony Anthony def. Solar and Blue Panther. JR’s indie spotlight was on the Tennessee Prodigy, Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett has been seen in recent weeks training with the camp that Jerry Lawler has been developing, the South Atlantic Stronghold and is the son of South Eastern promoter Jerry Jarrett. With wrestling in his blood, it’s only a matter of time that Jarrett claims his own spot as wrestling royalty. Speaking of the South Atlantic Stronghold, a promotional video for their training camp airs. The Rock N Roll Express are shown teaching young talent Jeff Jarrett and Scotty Flamingo while Jerry Lawler talks to the camera. Lawler says that they are searching for the best young talent in the South East to take under their wings and bring to the promised land. Lawler talks himself up and talks about the developmental relationship that he has with the USWA promotion. Scotty Flamingo comes over and grabs Lawler on the shoulder. He turns to the camera and exclaims that South Atlantic Stronghold is currently recruiting, and we are only taking in the best. A panel of Ron Simmons, Lex Luger, Ricky Steamboat and Sting is presented. They discuss their upcoming matches against each other in two weeks time, when Steamboat faces off against Luger and Simmons faces off against Sting. Immediately Simmons starts targeting Luger though, talking about their match and being the rightful champion. Sting interrupts him, saying that he doesn’t disagree with Simmons, but he’d be setting himself up for failure by ignoring the next challenge right in front of him. Luger then calls Sting a kiss-ass and tells him to man up and stop pandering to everyone. Steamboat remains quiet through most of the arguing, but his eyes never leave the World Championship resting on Lex Luger’s shoulder. It’s time for the replacement match for Nobuhiko Takada and Shane Douglas, due to Takada’s injury. JR reinforces that if Takada is unable to compete next week during round 4, he will be forfeiting his match, and a replacement wrestler will step in to take his place against Shane. In place of Takada versus Douglas, we are getting a separate Div 2 match that was slated to take place next week. Kevin Von Erich versus Cactus Jack. Both are sitting at 1-2 and would love to break even and have a chance to finish off the first third of 1992 with a winning record. Cactus is out here alone, while Von Erich appears to have taken in a young lion in Mike Rapada. These guys go back and forth, with Von Erich controlling the tempo until Cactus Jack resorts to stomping on Kevin’s unprotected toes. Schiavone comments that you can’t mad at a guy for taking a short cut that his opponent’s made possible on their own accord. Schiavone has to go back on his support pretty quick though, as Cactus follows it up by biting Von Erich’s nose. This gets dirty though as Von Erich fights back with some mean back rakes after he tears Jack’s shirt off. They trade chops but Jack rakes the eyes and then starts choking Von Erich with the ropes while he squeals. Cactus chokes out Von Erich with the Mandible Claw for a strong win. Cactus Jack (2-2-0) def. Kevin Von Erich (1-3-0) in 14:51. The Enforcers are out, accompanied by Rick Rude, Steve Austin, Paul E, Madusa, Tully and Eaton. They are the favourites. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Bodies are all alone. The two teams are in the ring and JR recites the initial success of the Bodies, despite being a newly formed team. Stan Lane specifically is a wealth of tag team knowledge, and the duo are the current East Coast Wrestling Association Tag Team Champions. They prove to be a worthy challenge to The Enforcers, as they force momentum to stay in their corner. JR comments that you could probably set your watch to their tag intervals. The action picks up as Arn gets frustrated with The Bodies and brawls his way out of the corner, rag dolling Prichard in the process. Larry Z jumps in and starts tossing bodies around and beating his chest. With control, Larry grounds Prichard, but they grind each other on the mat. This becomes a mat-based fight, with Larry maintaining advantage. Prichard has to give up and bring Lane back in, who gets them back into their quick tagging pattern which stops Larry’s momentum. Stan manages to take out Larry’s leg, and he wails in pain. He screams for Arn to come in, but the ref stops him, and with Arn trying to get in, the Heavenly Bodies both jump in and take advantage. They take serious control and the crowd starts to woo in favour of the Enforcers, hoping they can make the tag. Larry manages to floor Stan Lane, and crawl to Anderson, but Prichard flies in off the tag and knocks Anderson off before Larry can make the tag. Larry hobbles up to his base and yells for Prichard and Lane to try him. Lane runs over to Anderson and tackles him on the outside. Prichard tries to take him down, but Larry stuffs him even with one leg and then hits him with a Piledriver! Unexpected three count and the Enforcers win in a great match. The Enforcers (4-0-0) def. The Heavenly Bodies (2-2-0) in 17:28 It’s time, for Inside the Squared Circle with Jesse Ventura and Magnum TA. Ventura wants to talks about Cactus Jack and Kevin Von Erich taking a reschedule and competing short notice tonight. Ventura praises Jack for showing up and making it happen on short notice, commenting that he must border on disturbed to be able be that destructive and choke a person out without real preparation. Magnum says that you can’t discredit Kevin Von Erich’s performance as he went 15 minutes with Jack fighting dirty before he went down. Ventura calls bullshit, saying that it’s his job to show up prepared. Magnum argues with Ventura, calling him out for conflicting commentary, but Ventura says there is an experience gap between the two, and it should be expected that a guy who won his first title 13 years ago is held to a different standard. He’s been wrestling twice as long as Cactus Jack, yet Jack is proving he wants to be in the Elite Division more than the veteran. Magnum TA says he thinks that Jack is a hard worker, but he had to cheat his way through the match. Ventura says there’s a referee right there to call the match, Jack did everything within the line that the referee was willing to allow - you cannot take discredit him for manipulating the rules to his benefit. They argue some more, but Magnum states they are out of time. We send things over to Dusty Rhodes, who shares the card for next week’s WCW Saturday Night Elite Division. We’ll feature Kevin Sullivan versus Nikita Koloff, Steve Williams versus Dan Spivey, and for the United States Championship, Rick Rude versus Barry Windham. On top of that - we’ll get the postponed Nobuhiko Takada versus Shane Douglas for the Television Championship, barring any setbacks from Takada’s injury. If it proves to be more serious than anticipated, Takada will forfeit his round and Shane Douglas will compete against a replacement wrestler. Vegas odds are in favour of Koloff, Dan Spivey, and Rick Rude. Back from intermission and Teddy Long’s boys are looking to continue their hot streak as Long comes out with his client. Followed up is the current Light Heavyweight Champion, Jushin Liger with fellow Japanese lightweight sensation, Ultimo Dragon. Taylor looks cocky as he’s hell bent to prove that he has a technical advantage over Liger, but these two start off going hold for hold without either seeing any advantage technically, and Liger just being quicker in general. They continue to feel each other out, and Taylor takes a few opportunities early to ground Liger and lock in simple holds to control the tempo. Taylor finds his grove in this, as he continues with a series of throws where he maintains grip and transitions into holds on the ground immediately, slowing Liger right down. Liger is crafty though and shows off incredible ring awareness by getting to the ropes and kicking off them to flip momentum into a pinning situation. These two are a strong match and continue to trade control. Liger gets to his feet and explodes with some fast paced strikes before hitting a bridging butterfly suplex for a near fall and Taylor gets right up and chicken wings Liger immediately, slowing the pace. He works it into a pinning predicament and Liger kicks out but Taylor maintains control and smiles as Long directs traffic. Liger backs Taylor into the corner to release and fires up with a series of strikes in the corner, before charging with a shotei strike that knocks Taylor to the outside. Liger’s not done though as he follows him out with a running senton off the apron! Liger is all fired up now and goes for a baseball slide to continue his momentum, but Taylor catches him with the ring apron and starts pummelling him while he’s trapped. Taylor slides back in and tries to have referee Ron West count him out, but Liger gets back in while still caught to the apron. The referee has to help him detach from the apron as it appears to have gotten snagged to his belt. Taylor keeps jumping on Liger and West sends him to a corner, yelling that he’ll disqualify him. Finally, Liger is unclipped and immediately sprints and connects with a rolling kick that rocks Taylor! One minute remaining! Liger goes for the power bomb, but Taylor pulls out his leg and stacks him with his legs on the ropes for leverage, but West catches the foul! They’re arguing now and Liger with a roll up, but Taylor kicks out. Long is up on the apron yelling at the ref to stop screwing his client and West is distracted from another pin attempt by Liger. Taylor goes to suplex Liger, but it’s countered into a Fishermen’s Buster! But time has expired… What a great match. Long pulls his client to the outside and continues to yell that they were screwed by referee Ron West. Jushin Liger (2-0-2) and Terrence Taylor (2-1-1) go to a 20 minute time limit draw. After that 20 minute classic, the crowd has begun to tire out. Vader comes out with Cactus Jack in his corner while Terry Gordy is out with the Freebirds, and the trio is looking for one of their members to finally break out of their opening slump and collect a win. And just like we started the evening, we are finishing off with two big meaty men, slapping meat. They just go toe to toe and light each other up as JR screams that Gordy’s got to take a different approach as he will fail if he decides to go strike for strike with the Mastadon. Gordy dropkicks Vader and that sends him backwards to the ropes, but he bounces off them and charges Gordy. Gordy rubs his elbow in Vaders face and cuts him and Vader gets pissed and fired up. Vader crushes Gordy with a body avalanche in the corner and follows it up with a Vader Bomb for a near fall, but Schiavone comments that it’s going to be tough for Gordy to fight back from having all the air taken out of him. JR talks about the level of competition that Gordy is achieving this year, as he is also competing in All Japan and Smoky Mountain, and has fought an astonishing 50 matches already in 1992 - that’s a rate of one match every other day. Gordy fires back with 4 straight Big Boots, taking down Vader on the final one, but instead of being able to capitalize, he goes to the ropes to catch his breath. JR shouts that you can’t let up on Vader as he rises like a horror monster and they brawl again. Vader with a spinning back fist that knocks Gordy into the corner and Vader follows up immediately with another body avalanche. Vader locks in a bearhug and the ref opts to call for the bell as Gordy can’t fight back. Vader tosses him to the mat and celebrates as Schiavone asks if anyone can beat Vader. Big Van Vader (3-0-1) def. Terry Gordy (0-4-0) in 14:32 Jesse Ventura announces this weeks three stars: 3. Bam Bam Bigelow 2. Jushin Liger 1. Big Van Vader (wins $10,000 wrestler of the night bonus). Ventura mentions that this is was the strongest rated performance of the season of any wrestler so far. Back at the broadcast panel, the team recaps the nights events, showing replays and providing analysis of the night that was. We go through an updated look at the standings, with Vader moving into first place in the Elite Division after his win and The Enforcers remained undefeated atop their division. Dangerously signs off with his touted quote, “It’s Saturday night, folks - Stay Dangerous!” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusHack Posted July 27, 2022 Author Share Posted July 27, 2022 (edited) April Week 3, 1992 - Slow News Day The offices at WCW were quieter then normal. JR had been hosting talent reviews all week in conjuncture with Kip Allen Frey, and as a result the creative group for the week was reduced to Heyman, Bischoff and Dusty. The trio was surprisingly aligned and there were minimal disagreements, but all conversation was progressive. The management group had made their decision on the championship belts and were going to make a formal announcement on the next episode of WCW Saturday Night. An interesting note was that JR presented score-cards to the wrestlers, showing detailed performance breakdowns in order to help them better understand the scoring that went into determining the three stars. Rick Rude was surprised to hear that 3 matches in, he was the highest scoring wrestler in the company. Meanwhile, the American Males were given the unfortunate news that the two of them scored lowest and third lowest across all wrestlers. AROUND THE WORLD - Ken Shamrock and Tully Blanchard have developed a strong friendship. - CWA Europe and NJPW have become hostile towards each other after NJPW stated they will no longer be trading talent with CWA. The announcement was poorly received and their relationship deteriorated over night. - In an amazing match, Silver King def. Negro Casas to claim the UWA World Middleweight Championship for the first time. - Legend Andre the Giant has taken up residence in Hollywood, as he has begun filming “Trading Mom”. - In unfortunate news, WWF Sid Justice’s house burned down, destroying many of his personal possessions. The event is said to have deeply affected Sid Justice. WEEK 92.11 CARD Prediction Grid: Al Perez vs Jerry Lawler Steve Austin vs Austin Idol Shooters Club vs The Fantastics Rock N Roll Express vs Big and Bigger Shane Douglas vs Nobuhiko Takada © for the WCW TV Title Steve Williams vs Dan Spivey Kevin Sullivan vs Nikita Koloff Rick Rude © vs Barry Windham for the WCW US Title ::: Prediction Contest Leaderboard ::: *Nobuhiko vs Douglas and Jack vs Von Erich had zero effect on last weeks rankings.* monrapi3 : 18/46 40% Egoshiha : 4/8 50% Blodyxe : 8/14 58% Smasher1311 : 19/32 60% Hollywood : 24/39 62% Jaysin : 5/8 63% ElectricX : 30/48 63% Satyr24 : 53/85 63% chasep197 : 25/38 66% Lord Byron : 56/85 66% smw88 : 53/79 67% The Blonde Bomber : 31/47 68% Helginho : 31/46 68% SonOfSharknado : 60/85 71% DHK1989 : 60/85 71% Dalton : 6/8 75% Purotastic : 19/24 80% smartman said: I was counting Main Event as an hour. Are you saying that Saturday Night is 2.5 hours? Given how many matches and your long talk show/halftime segments, that wouldn't be too surprising. And yeah, Garvin should be in decline at this point and likely Hayes as well as the drugs had caught up with both before 1992. Gordy was one of the best ever that nobody remembers. So much talent in a huge body. If you could get him clean, he could have had another 8-10 years. But the overwork issue is real with anyone working Japan in TEW as there's no "But you're going for 3-5 weeks then off for 2 months." setting for them. Yes - Saturday Night is 2.5 hours. The open / close panel segments are true to other sport broadcasts in approach / length. A lot of the big boys of that era don’t get enough love honestly. Probably because they overall style was more brawling than athleticism and as a result most of their work is generalized. A shame, really. Edited September 11, 2022 by CactusHack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smw88 Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Al Perez vs Jerry Lawler Steve Austin vs Austin Idol Shooters Club vs The Fantastics Rock N Roll Express vs Big and Bigger Shane Douglas vs Nobuhiko Takada © for the WCW TV Title Steve Williams vs Dan Spivey Kevin Sullivan vs Nikita Koloff Rick Rude © vs Barry Windham for the WCW US Title Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Byron Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 My picks: Jerry Lawler, Steve Austin, Shooters Club, Rock N Roll Express, Nobuhiko Takada ©, Steve Williams, Nikita Koloff, and Rick Rude... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHK1989 Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Al Perez vs Jerry Lawler Steve Austin vs Austin Idol Shooters Club vs The Fantastics Rock N Roll Express vs Big and Bigger Shane Douglas vs Nobuhiko Takada © for the WCW TV Title Steve Williams vs Dan Spivey Kevin Sullivan vs Nikita Koloff Rick Rude © vs Barry Windham for the WCW US Title Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfSharknado Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Al Perez vs Jerry Lawler Steve Austin vs Austin Idol Shooters Club vs The Fantastics Rock N Roll Express vs Big and Bigger Shane Douglas vs Nobuhiko Takada © for the WCW TV Title Steve Williams vs Dan Spivey Kevin Sullivan vs Nikita Koloff Rick Rude © vs Barry Windham for the WCW US Title Time limit draw? These time limits are kickin' my ass. I keep forgetting about them or getting them wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Jerry Lawler Steve Austin Shooters Club Rock 'n' Roll Express Nobuhiko Takada Steve Williams Nikita Koloff Rick Rude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusHack Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 APRIL 92, WEEK 3 : EPISODE 92.11 “Welcome one and all, to wrestling’s Sabbath.” It’s week two of Round 4 and the panel of Harley Race, Paul E Dangerously and Dusty Rhodes run through tonights card. They are happy to announce that Nobuhiko Takada has made an adequate recovery and is able to compete tonight. Dusty was worried that WCW would have to deal with it’s first forfeit. They go through the rankings, talking about tonight’s main event where Rick Rude faces off against Barry Windham. Rude may be undefeated and the US championship going into his Round 4 match, but he only has one win so far and is lower in the rankings than Barry due to the point scoring. With 3 points for a win and only one for a draw, Barry has more points at 6 points despite the imperfect record. The other highlight for Harley is the tag team bout for Shooters Club, one round removed from their star making performance. After we get through the predictions, analysis and chatter, Harley sends things down to Lance Russell who is standing by with our officiating team for tonight. Lance Russell introduces our officiating staff for tonight, Jimmy Jett and Hiroyuki Unno and senior official Nick Patrick. Randy Anderson is manning the time keepers table. We start the show off with Sullivan versus Koloff in Elite Division action. Both men are sitting at 1-2 to start the season off and would love an opportunity to get back to even here. Sullivan makes his entrance, and no longer has Norman the Lunatic in his corner. JR and Schiavone question why, and as they do, Sullivan motions to behind the curtain and the mysterious Woman enters behind him. Sullivan and Koloff square off and start pounding each other. JR comments that while Sullivan has not made himself endearing to the audience, there is no questioning the quality of the wrestling strategies he’s put forward so far in this competition - however, choosing to go strike for strike with Nikita Koloff may not be his brightest choice. Surely enough, Koloff’s size helps him brawl his way into an advantage. He pummels on Sullivan as Woman stares on at ringside. Sullivan asks for a time out, and Koloff gets frustrated with him and the ref tells him to fly a kite. But Sullivan goes straight back to brawling, allowing Koloff to continue to get the advantage. Sullivan is busted open now, and JR is baffled at what his strategy is tonight. He gets back up again and puts his fist up shouting for more, so Koloff kicks his ass some more. Koloff pounds on Sullivan on the ground and then grabs his shoulder. It seems as though through all those punches, Koloff has strained his shoulder… but the advantage is still his. He hits a few more moves, for near falls. He lines up for the Sickle, but before he runs, he glances at his shoulder and shakes his head and decides to follow up with a different move. Sullivan takes advantage of the hesitation, rolling him up quickly and grabbing the tights and despite the low amount of offence taken, Nikita can’t get out! Sullivan has won! Kevin Sullivan (2-2-0) def. Nikita Koloff (1-3-0) in 14:39. Next up is tag action as the Shooters Club arrives with Norman Smiley in their corner, and the commentary team praising the breakout performance from Ken Shamrock in Round 3. Out next are the Fantastics, sitting at 1-2 to start the season off. This is even out of the gate between the two babyface teams, but the audience clearly cares more about the young shooters who won their hearts just a few weeks ago. This is fast paced, with all four keeping heavily involved constantly. Very different styles on display and the difference and chaos makes it difficult to gauge any advantage being captured by either team. The four men fight both in the ring and outside and referee Unno has very little control over this match. He tries to get them back to their corners, but doesn’t want to be the one to throw out the match. The wildness keeps going and things break down as Shamrock and Fulton end up brawling into the crowd, leaving Rogers and Severn in the ring. Rogers flies off the top rope, but is caught in a bear hug by Severn, who slowly transitions to the back and locks in the Beast Choker for the win. Great, exciting match that the crowd was way into, despite all competitors being undercard wrestlers. JR wonders whether Severn had something to prove after his partner’s star making performance last match, as Severn showed up to play tonight! Shooters Club (3-1-0) def. The Fantastics (1-3-0) in 12:34. Magnum TA runs through the results from last night’s Main Event action, which saw Jerry Lawler def. Al Perez and Steve Austin def. Austin Idol. In additional exhibitions, The Outsiders teamed with a returning DDP to defeat Billy Jack Hayes, Tommy Lane and Al Green in trios competition, Z-Man and Sledgehammer Anderson def. Rip Rogers and Silver King, Greg Valentine and Dave Finlay def. Solar and Negro Casas, and Scotty Flamingo def. Akio Sato. JR’s indie spotlight was on Mexican sensation Konnan, who has signed a four year entry level contract with WCW. We get footage of a Weigh In between The Outsiders, Diamond Studd and Vinnie Vegas, and Chaos By Nature, Haku and Abdullah the Butcher. Diamond Dallas Page is playing up his boys as this is just a brief showcase of human anomalies, and more of a fun character piece for the four tag wrestlers and DDP. We go from there to press conference footage from the Fabulous Freebirds who are once again discussing getting their first win. The charismatic Michael Hayes rallies the crowd a bit saying that the crowd at home wants to see them win the US Tag Titles. The Young Pistols are invited to the panel, where they refuse to put the titles up against a team on a losing skid, saying it doesn’t really matter though because they get to face the Fabulous Freebies next week and are excited to collect their freebie win. In our second of three Elite Division matches, we get two hosses in Dan Spivey and Steve Williams vying for a big win. These guys are good friends, so it’ll be interesting to see how they approach the match. They start off with a show of respect and initially go into a grappling stand off, where Williams gets the advantage due to his strength, and he tosses Spivey. They laugh and go again, and Williams wins out again with relative ease. Spivey isn’t too happy but asks to go again. This time, Spivey stomps the toes and then quickly hip tosses Williams and Williams springs up and gets in his face. They argue and Williams chops Spivey, so they start chop battling. The two big boys light each other up as both men’s chests go beet red. They brawl to the floor and continue to beat each other up. Referee Unno demands they get back in the ring and they don’t listen as the ref threatens to count them out. They finally get back in the ring and Spivey gets a headlock on that Williams needs the ropes to break. Spivey refuses to let go right away and Unno tries to separate them and gets shoved for his efforts. Unno hasn’t been having a good night tonight. The big boys go back to the floor again and continue to all-out-brawl. They get back up onto the apron, but take each other backwards, both men flying through the time keepers table. Randy Anderson at the table is hurt and Unno has no choice but to throw the match out after the boys continued to brawl in the area without regard for the injured official. The two big men are disappointed in their match being thrown out, but shake hands after the match. Dan Spivey (1-2-1) and Steve Williams (1-1-2) go to a draw by double DQ in 13:45. Next up is the TV Title match between Douglas and Nobuhiko Takada. Takada makes his entrance with Teddy Long, Bam Bam and Terry Taylor in his corner and JR questions whether his ankle will hold up. Schiavone notes that Douglas is still without a win in the 1992 season, and will need to take advantage of any weakness that Takada shows if he wants to stand a chance to get out of the basement in the Junior Division. Douglas goes straight for Takada’s ankle right out of the gate and JR wonders whether Takada will be able to snap off his deadly roundhouse kick tonight with one ankle. Douglas takes Takada to the mat, but Takada out wrestles him and gets a choke on that Douglas had to fight to the ropes to get out of. Takada takes control of the match and owns Douglas for a while, but Douglas is tenacious and not backing down. Finally, Douglas figures out his spot when he takes down Takada with a sliding leg trip. Douglas goes to the submission game, slowing things down and taking control of the match. Douglas goes back to the ankle, trying to slow him down He grabs the foot and Takada struggles and his boot pops off. Douglas looks dumb for a second as he looks at the empty boot in his hand, and Takada turns and hits the Roundhouse Kick without the shoe, clean against Douglas’s temple. This one is all over, Takada picks up his fourth straight win. Nobuhiko Takada (4-0-0) def. Shane Douglas (0-3-1) in 17:38 to retain the WCW TV Title. It’s time, for Inside the Squared Circle with Jesse Ventura and Magnum TA. Ventura and Magnum start off by discussing the impressiveness of Takada and Shooters Club in these early days of their respective WCW careers. Takada starting his season 4-0 leaves him as a heavy favourite to get promoted into the Elite Division for 1993, and the Shooters Club are on their way to the top of the tag division looking at promotion as well. The top of the rankings is what is all about. Magnum asks Ventura what his thoughts are on the call made by referee Hiroyuki Unno to throw out Steve Williams versus Dan Spivey. Ventura says that it was a difficult decision to watch, but he thinks it was the wrong choice. Two big men beating the piss out of each other is always going to get violent and ugly, and to throw it out cost both men an opportunity at 2 additional points. Magnum says that the officials have to protect the ringside staff and that call prevented any more damage from happening to the staff. Ventura says that this is the second time that the timekeepers table has affected the outcome of a match, and perhaps it’s time WCW figures out that booth and maybe repositions it. Why does it need to be right by the ring, anyway? Seems like a dumb oversight that could be corrected easily. Magnum jokes that maybe if president Rhodes was competent these decisions would be made quickly. Magnum sends things over to Dusty Rhodes, who shares the card for next week’s WCW Saturday Night Elite Division. We’ll feature Sting versus Ron Simmons, Ricky Steamboat versus Lex Luger, and Tully Blanchard versus One Man Gang in a loaded week for the Elite Division. Dusty comments that current Vegas odds list Sting as the favourite in his match, Tully Blanchard as the favourite in his match, and in the main event, Vegas odds predict that Luger and Steamboat will reach a 20 minute time limit draw. A promotional video for he South Atlantic Stronghold training camp airs. The Rock N Roll Express are shown teaching young talent Jeff Jarrett and Scotty Flamingo while Jerry Lawler talks to the camera. Lawler says that they are searching for the best young talent in the South East to take under their wings and bring to the promised land. Lawler talks himself up and talks about the developmental relationship that he has with the USWA promotion. Scotty Flamingo comes over and grabs Lawler on the shoulder. He turns to the camera and exclaims that South Atlantic Stronghold is currently recruiting, and we are only taking in the best. This advert has been paid for by Flamingo Corp Enterprises. Back from intermission, it’s time for tag team action. The legendary Rock N Roll Express have their work cut out for them with their giant opponent. Big and Bigger have La Parka in their corner, while the Express are accompanied by Alexandra York and Scotty Flamingo. Also at ringside are the KIller Bees, scouting their competition. El Gigante starts things off and throws around Morton with ease. Morton retreats and tags in Gibson, who also gets rag dolled and Gigante laughs at the ease, before tagging in Big Josh. Josh comes in and goes to work on Gibson, who takes a beating but intelligently pulls Josh back to his corner and tags in Morton. Momentum changes as the Express start to take turns working on Josh. They double team and deploy classic tag team wrestling on Josh, and cut him down to size. On the outside a confrontation between La Parka and Flamingo takes place, and El Gigante is distracted, leading to Big Josh missing a tag opportunity after a comeback attempt. Josh gets controlled a bit more, but makes a second comeback attempt, taking out both members of the express and going for the tag, but this time Gigante is distracted by a flirting Alexandra York at ringside… Gibson rolls up Big Josh for the pin, and the big boys argue after the match. Josh gets into an argument with the Bees at ringside as well. The Rock N Roll Express (3-1-0) def. Big and Bigger (2-2-0) in 10:02. And now, it’s time for the main event. Barry Windham is out with Dustin Rhodes, while Rick Rude makes his way to the ring with the entire Dangerous Alliance. Despite having no loses against him, Rick Rude is lower in the rankings than Barry. JR asks if Rude can get the job done tonight, or if he will prove once again that he can’t finish. Schiavone comments that maybe he’s avoiding risks to hold onto that United States championship, and the bonuses that comes with it. The bell rings and Barry charges at Rude, but Rude ducks right out of the ring. Rude is insistent on fighting at his pace, looking to kill the momentum Barry has developed with the crowd in his first 3 rounds. Rude goads Windham to the outside where the Alliance surrounds him and disorientates him, allowing Rude to throw him into the ringside steps and get the advantage. Rude tosses Barry around the outside of the ring, into the ring posts and guardrails and then slams Barry onto the concrete floor, but Barry gets back into the ring before the count. Rude smiles and toys with Barry some more, completely owning the pace. Rude hits a stalling suplex and poses again, but Barry jumps right back up and attacks - bum rushing Rude with clubbing blows. Barry hits a bulldog for a near fall and the momentum has flipped completely. Rude gets back up and wants to tie up, but Barry just pulls Rude to the floor where they tangle and strike each other. Nick Patrick tries to break them up and Rude takes this as an opportunity to rake Barry’s eyes outside of the refs line of sight. Then he starts stomping on his ankle viciously and Barry screams in pain. Rude then drops to the outside and slams Barry’s ankle into the ring post over and over. Barry is wailing in pain and Nick Patrick asks him if he can continue, but there’s no world Barry’s giving up without a fight. Rude let’s Barry get to his feet in the ring and then just immediately kicks out his ankle again and laughs. Barry gets up again and motions at his wrist, telling Rude that he can take these kicks for 5 more minutes and run out the clock if he needs to, he’s got more points that Rude at this point. Rude gets pissed and it suckers him in to a very close roll up. Then on the ground, Barry locks in an arm bar and it appears he’s interested in keeping this on the ground! Rude is crawling to the ropes, but Barry rolls him into the centre again and transitions to a crossface. Rude fights out of it, but is rolled into a chicken win roll up. Barry is killing it from the floor here, and eating up time to boot! Arn starts barking orders from the outside and Rude listens, managing to kick some distance between them and allowing himself to spring to his feet. Barry tries to meet Rude in the centre, but Rude stomps the ankle again and is able to finish this with a Rude Awakening with just a minute on the clock. Schiavone says he needs a cig. Rick Rude (2-0-2) def. Barry Windham (2-2-0) in 19:01. Jesse Ventura announces this weeks three stars: 3. Dan Severn 2. Dr. Death Steve Williams 1. Rick Rude (wins $10,000 wrestler of the night bonus). Back at the broadcast panel, the team recaps the nights events, showing replays and providing analysis of the night that was. We go through an updated look at the standings, where Vader remains in first place but Rick Rude is inching closer to the top spot with his big win, and in Division Two Nobuhiko continues his early dominance. Dangerously signs off with his touted quote, “It’s Saturday night, folks - Stay Dangerous!” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusHack Posted July 31, 2022 Author Share Posted July 31, 2022 (edited) AROUND THE WORLD - Scott Armstrong suffered a freak broken arm injury during a match. He will be out of action for 2 months. - Big Van Vader and Masahiro Chono def. Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Mutoh to capture the IWGP World Tag Team Championships. - Black Terry captured the UWA World Welterweight Championship from El Hijo Del Santo - The 39 year old’s first time holding any title. - The WWF suffers another blow as The Ultimate Warrior tore his meniscus during a tag team match on Superstars. The 32 year old babyface mega star will be out of commission for over a year in recovery. Meanwhile Vince McMahon will need to look at creating another major babyface in short order to accompany Hulk Hogan at the top of the card. - After recent growth spurts, the Ladies Major League Wrestling promotion has chosen to develop Rockin’ Robin as the figure head of their company. Robin, family member of WWF World Champion Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts, is known to have substance abuse issues and time will tell whether this is the right decision for the company. WEEK 92.12 CARD Prediction Grid: Samoan Swat Team vs American Males Van Hammer vs Brian Pillman Tom Zenk vs Dustin Rhodes The Outsiders vs Chaos By Nature The Young Pistols vs The Fabulous Freebirds in a non title match Ron Simmons vs Sting Tully Blanchard vs One Man Gang Ricky Steamboat vs Lex Luger © in a match that hasn’t been advertised as being for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, but whether it’s a title match or not is not clear. ::: Prediction Contest Leaderboard ::: monrapi3 : 18/46 40% Egoshiha : 4/8 50% Blodyxe : 8/14 58% Hollywood : 24/39 62% Jaysin : 5/8 63% Smasher1311 : 25/40 63% ElectricX : 30/48 63% Satyr24 : 53/85 63% chasep197 : 25/38 66% Lord Byron : 62/93 67% smw88 : 59/87 68% The Blonde Bomber : 31/47 68% Helginho : 31/46 68% SonOfSharknado : 65/93 70% DHK1989 : 66/93 71% Dalton : 6/8 75% Purotastic : 19/24 80% Authors note : I’m going to separate the previews / match cards from the board room segments. It’s creating lag between me accomplishing things as I want to have the match cards ready faster and may not always have a backstage bit to share. SonOfSharknado said: These time limits are kickin' my ass. I keep forgetting about them or getting them wrong. LOL! You and DHK are neck and neck. Pretty good race though, and Lord Byron has been climbing back into it and is only a few points behind. Edited September 11, 2022 by CactusHack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smw88 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Samoan Swat Team vs American Males Van Hammer vs Brian Pillman Tom Zenk vs Dustin Rhodes The Outsiders vs Chaos By Nature The Young Pistols vs The Fabulous Freebirds in a non title match Ron Simmons vs Sting draw Tully Blanchard vs One Man Gang Ricky Steamboat vs Lex Luger © in a match that hasn’t been advertised as being for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, but whether it’s a title match or not is not clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Samoan Swat Team Brian Pillman Dustin Rhodes The Outsiders The Fabulous Freebirds Sting One Man Gang Lex Luger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfSharknado Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Samoan Swat Team vs American Males Van Hammer vs Brian Pillman Tom Zenk vs Dustin Rhodes The Outsiders vs Chaos By Nature Double DQ! The Young Pistols vs The Fabulous Freebirds in a non title match Ron Simmons vs Sting Tully Blanchard vs One Man Gang Ricky Steamboat vs Lex Luger © in a match that hasn’t been advertised as being for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, but whether it’s a title match or not is not clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHK1989 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Samoan Swat Team vs American Males Van Hammer vs Brian Pillman Tom Zenk vs Dustin Rhodes The Outsiders vs Chaos By Nature The Young Pistols vs The Fabulous Freebirds in a non title match Ron Simmons vs Sting Tully Blanchard vs One Man Gang Ricky Steamboat vs Lex Luger © in a match that hasn’t been advertised as being for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, but whether it’s a title match or not is not clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satyr24 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Samoan Swat Team vs American Males Van Hammer vs Brian Pillman Tom Zenk vs Dustin Rhodes The Outsiders vs Chaos By Nature The Young Pistols vs The Fabulous Freebirds in a non title match Ron Simmons vs Sting Tully Blanchard vs One Man Gang Ricky Steamboat vs Lex Luger © in a match that hasn’t been advertised as being for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, but whether it’s a title match or not is not clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lariat Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Samoan Swat Team vs American Males Van Hammer vs Brian Pillman Tom Zenk vs Dustin Rhodes The Outsiders vs Chaos By Nature The Young Pistols vs The Fabulous Freebirds in a non title match Ron Simmons vs Sting DRAW Tully Blanchard vs One Man Gang Ricky Steamboat vs Lex Luger © DRAW Debated the Outsiders/Chaos By Nature match, but given that I think there’s gonna be two draws, I didn’t want to give a third. Simmons looks to be on a collision course with Lex, while Steamboat is arguably the biggest challenge yet. I see some sort of shenanigans in both matches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Byron Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 My picks: Samoan Swat Team, Brian Pillman, Dustin Rhodes, The Outsiders, The Fabulous Freebirds, Ron Simmons, Tully Blanchard, and Lex Luger ©... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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