WCW Monday Nitro - Monday, July 1st, 1996
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- On with the show.
- WCW opening video
- We are LIVE from Landover, Maryland.
- Tony Schiavone and Larry Zbyszko welcome us to hour number one.
- Schiavone quickly plugs that Bash At The Beach is this Sunday.
- Diamond Dallas Page comes over as Zbyszko is talking.
- Page says that his ring has been stolen. Page wants everyone to be stripped searched.
- Page believes everyone is jealous. Page leaves.
- Video of how Sting and Lex Luger lost the tag team titles last week is shown.
- Schiavone says there is a rumor that Razor Ramon and Diesel are here. Of course, he doesn't say their names as WCW has yet to name them. Over a month and a half and they still do not have names.
- For the WCW World Tag Team Championships: © Harlem Heat vs. Steiner Brothers
- Well, this could be a good one!
- Booker and Scott start the contest with Scott taking Booker down with a fireman's carry.
- Scott maintains his offense with a belly-to-belly suplex and a military press slam. Booker is clotheslined to the floor.
- Commercials
- Four Horsemen are sitting at their VIP section by ringside.
- Ray is working on Rick with a clothesline but is taken down with a German suplex.
- Scott manages to take Ray down with a overhead suplex.
- Col. Robert Parker is now at ringside. Rick slams Booker down as Booker was going for a leapfrog.
- Booker with a standing sidekick to knock Rick down. Booker with a top rope forearm smash as well getting a near fall.
- Rick with a overhead belly-to-belly suplex off the top and gets a two count on Booker.
- Scott enters and power bombs Booker down but isn't able to get the win.
- Booker with an super kick as Ray knees Scott in the back. Booker with a power slam for a near fall on Scott.
- Booker with a top rope splash on Scott but Rick breaks up the pin.
- Double clothesline and both Booker and Scott are knocked out in the ring.
- Rick gets the tag and cleans house with right hands and scoop slams. Rick with a few clotheslines as well.
- Late in the match, Parker hits Rick Steiner with his cane as he is on the top rope. Rick falls down and is pinned by Booker.
- Your Winners: And STILL WCW World Tag Team Champion, Harlem Heat via pinfall
- Not a bad match, but not all that great.
- Gene is standing with the Horsemen. Well, the Horsemen are sitting.
- We see footage from a few weeks ago where the Horsemen attacked Gomez and Renegade. Also, the Rock and Roll Express being attacked is shown.
- Debra believes that Mongo will be making more money in WCW then he did in the NFL.
- Elizabeth mentions that all the money came from Randy Savage (haven't mentioned that in awhile!).
- Anderson says they run the professional wrestling industry.
- Mongo says that "money is what makes the monkey dance".
- Flair rambles about Savage and plays to the crowd.
- Commercials
- Glacier video is shown. He should be debuting soon.
- Disco Inferno vs. Kurasawa
- I hope that K kicks Inferno's head off. Inferno says that the fans want to see him dance. They don't, and neither does K.
- Well, an impersonator arrives and distracts K.
- This allows Inferno to hit K with a disco ball that comes down from the ceiling.
- Inferno picks up the win.
- What the hell was that?
- Your Winner: Disco Inferno via pinfall
- Commercials
- Diamond Dallas Page vs. Scotty Riggs
- Riggs gets a chance to beat DDP, something his partner Bagwell couldn't do at GAB.
- DDP is not happy being unable to find his ring. He is checking the workers of WCW.
- Considering Page is facing Duggan at Bash at the Beach, wouldn't he be an ideal suspect here?
- We actually get a promo from Duggan saying that he didn't steal the ring. Duggan tells Page to go look for it somewhere else.
- Riggs gets a few moves in, but gets fairly dominated.
- Including, a springboard cross body on the floor and several roll ups.
- Page reverses a scoop slam into the diamond cutter and picks up the win.
- Your Winner: Diamond Dallas Page via pinfall
- Gene is with Diamond Dallas Page on the entrance ramp.
- Page says that everyone in WCW is jealous of him.
- Gene mentions his match at Bash at the Beach against Jim Duggan in a taped fist match.
- Page doesn't care and wants his ring back. Page tries to search Gene, but that doesn't happen.
- Commercials
- Randy Savage vs. Greg Valentine
- Valentine comes out to the Hollywood Blondes music from 1993.
- I've always liked that theme music.
- I miss Steve Austin and Brian Pillman in WCW.
- Savage goes for the elbow drop late in the match, but Valentine delivers a elbow in midair!
- Valentine takes Savage down with a back suplex but apparently knocked himself out?
- What...
- Savage pops up and leaps off the top hitting the elbow drop winning the match.
- Your Winner: Randy Savage via pinfall
- Hour #2 starts with Eric Bischoff and Bobby Heenan on commentary.
- Commercials
- Eric Bischoff thanks for all the cards of support.
- Bischoff refers to Diesel as "Nash" and says that he didn't scare anyone off.
- Diesel's real name is Kevin Nash. Looks like they are going by their real names.
- Bischoff can't wait for the main event at the Bash at the Beach.
- Heenan says that he is worried about his own safety.
- The crowd erupts as we see Kevin Nash and Scott Hall making their way down through the crowd.
- They have popcorn and Cokes. They are sitting at ringside!
- Security try telling them to leave, but Nash and Hall show they have tickets.
- Thus, they get to stay? Wouldn't you eject the threat?
- Oh well.
- Commercials
- Another Glacier video is shown.
- For the WCW World Heavyweight Championship: © The Giant vs. John Tenta
- Who wouldn't want to see a Tenta vs. Bubba match for the world title this Sunday?
- I agree, that would be awesome in 1989.
- Giant controls Tenta for an amount of the contest.
- Tenta tries to knock Giant off his feet, and is able to connect with a dropkick.
- However, Jimmy Hart and Kevin Sullivan distract Tenta.
- This allows Giant to choke slam Tenta to pick up the win
- Your Winner: And STILL WCW World Heavyweight Champion: The Giant via pinfall
- After the match, Big Bubba enters and shaves half of Tenta's beard.
- Gene is with the Dungeon of Doom.
- Jimmy Hart says that the Horsemen will suffer the same fate as John Tenta.
- Bubba talks about all the shaving he has done to Tenta. Bubba discuss the silver dollar match and says he is going hurt Tenta.
- Giant tells Tenta to never cross the Dungeon of Doom.
- Giant tells Sullivan that he told him to never trust a horse? He says that they were jealous of them.
- Sullivan, has no idea what to say, so he has to re-group to cut a promo. Sullivan is distracted by Tenta getting up, I guess.
- He just leaves. Giant finishes the promo and says they are going to win, basically.
- Commercials
- Saturday Night will see American Males vs. Rock and Roll Express.
- Benoit and Page in action. Also, Luger/Sting/Savage will be in six man tag.
- A video hyping up Rey Mysterio Jr. is shown.
- The video is interrupted by Kevin Nash who says they are going to be taking over a little early.
- They break away from police, briefly.
- Sting, Luger and Savage come out and are called "clowns" by Nash.
- What a smart man.
- Apparently, all the WCW's locker room has emptied out to stand up to these guys.
- Nash is chanting "Attica".
- They are just standing around as the threat is gone.
- Commercials
- Gene is backstage with Jim Duggan
- Duggan says that he got done using the bathroom and noticed something.
- He noticed Diamond Dallas Page's ring!
- Duggan says that he will give the ring back to Page if he wants it.
- Page breaks into the locker room and calls Duggan a thief and liar!
- Duggan drops the ring and nails Page with a taped fist shot.
- Duggan leaves as Page stumbles around in the locker room.
- Four Horsemen vs. Joe Gomez/Renegade/Rock and Roll Express
- Who honestly sees a team of Renegade and Gomez winning this match?
- All eight men go at it early on, with the babyfaces actually holding their own.
- All the babyfaces get the early advantage when they enter, that is until Renegade enters. Renegade is controlled by all four men.
- Renegade manages to get some offense in, mainly clotheslines.
- Gomez gets involved with right hands and flips Flair onto the apron.
- Anderson with a spine buster on Gomez late in the match but doesn't go for the cover. Gomez botches a backslide on Benoit.
- Everyone brawls and Flair locks the figure-four on Renegade to win the match for his team.
- Your Winners: Four Horsemen via submission
- Gene is with the Four Horsemen. Mongo doesn't care about Mike Ditka or the Chicago Bears, the Horsemen are his family now!
- Benoit says that he must have not beaten Sullivan up enough. He also says the belt that Giant has will be coming where it belongs.
- Anderson wants people to take a body count, starting right now.
- Flair cuts a promo on Konnan and says that he will be the WCW US Champion one more time this Sunday.
- The women talk about the parties and whatnot.
- Woman continues to hit on Gene.
- Commercials
- Bischoff and Heenan hype up the pay-per-view Bash at the Beach this Sunday.
- Bischoff says that it is time to put up or shut up, once and for all.
- Heenan needs to know who the third man is.
- Bischoff believes that the Outsiders had a reason to back off.
- Backstage, police are escorting the Outsiders out of the building.
- Nash and Hall make a couple of doughnut jokes. Nash and Hall get in their car and drive off.
- That's it.
- The Good: Tag team title match was a solid contest, the best on the show by far.
- The Bad: Tenta/Bubba feud just needs to end quickly as possible. This whole ring feud as well between Page and Duggan is stupid. It seems like Duggan doesn't want the ring, but is fighting for it at the pay per view? Doesn't make much sense to me.
- The Ugly: Tenta now sporting half a beard to go with half a head of hair. Gomez and Renegade being in a main event.