WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 02/07/98

By The Cubs Fan

• Ever have something go bad on Monday and just know that it wasn't gonna be your week? I had one of those weeks this week...which got topped off with a fire alarm (the first of the school year) going off in our dorm about 4 am on Friday morning...I ended up going outside, in shorts, in 20 degree weather...not fun...
• Anyone happen to have a video clip or even pics of Rey Mysterio being "thrown like a dart"? I don't know why...I just want to see that again...
• Raven interfering, Jericho interfering, it's all the same, DQ and no good ending to Benoit vs DDP...What does it mean now? DDP/Raven fued...DDP/Benoit vs Raven's nest? Got me...
• Thanks to all you who sent in corrections for last week's report...hopefully, I won't screw up that bad this time...

• Jim Duggan w/Flag and 2X4 over Barbarian w/ Jimmy Hart by knee drop
  • Oh no, it's back! Not the dreaded piece of wood!
  • Tony promises nWo later on today...two words for you: Oh yeaaah!
  • Ten seconds into the match, Superbrawl hype (read Sting vs Hogan) starts...I'm surprised it took so long
  • Duggan and Barbarian do the three clothesline gimmick, with Barbarain no-selling the first two and Duggan knocking Barbarian over the top on the third one
  • You know, I think Tony's catching on...he called Duggan coming back out of a bearhug by Barbarian before the third time the ref pulled his arm up...
  • Hart gets on the apron, Duggan goes over to get at him, looks back to see when Barbarian was getting there, moves so Barabarian clotheslines Hart, knocks Barbarian down and gives the knee drop.
    • You know, the knee drop setup looks a lot like he's about to do a Hogan leg drop
• Yahoo...we've got hype for the Chicago Nitro, March 30th...Lee Marshall talking to Chris Jericho (w/belt)
  • Wants to replace Mike's statue with one of him
  • Talks trash about the Blackhawks...that makes him a face in my book :)
  • He's gonna give them a performance that the Bulls and Blackhawks can't...
  • Anyone know when tix's go on sale?
• Tony and Bobby hype Sting vs Hogan a little more
• Chris "Pound for Pound, the best wrestler in the World" Benoit over Dave Sierra
  • Tony talks about Benoit not getting his due title shots...
  • By his outfit, I got to figure that Sierra was one of the Barrio Brothers from long ago...anyone remember?
  • Sierra took the early advantage...Ric Flair later! WHOOOOO!
  • For any of you northern Indiana folks, March 21st, Hammond, Indiana, WCW will be in town.
  • Ray Traylor, despite being powerbombed and being sore and bruised, will be back in action today :)
  • Not too many moves, but a lot of brawling...
  • Chris goes for the Swan Dive, with Sierra 2/3rds of the way across the ring, may have just barely made it
  • Wow, Raven's Nest was at ringside...you know what would have really cool? If they did anything but sit there when Benoit walked by...
    • I think I saw Stevie Richards...must have been old footage
    • For all of you who haven't seen Worldwide, I've got to point this out to you, Raven's Nest sits right next to the camera they use to do the normal ring camera shot, away from most of the crowd. The place where they sit isn't shown most matches...so they could be there anytime and they don't have to show us.
• Nitro Highlights....followed by Superbrawl commerical (the count was definitely sped up)
• Harlem Heat over High Voltage by Big Apple
  • Brain fills us in, Voltage been in Europe and the Orient...Kaos's hair is in braids...
  • This is what I like...a good old tag team match...
  • They point out that Stevie Ray hasn't been on TV much lately...
  • Heat start off ahead with Rage being beat by Stevie Ray...Rage gets the tag when Booker T comes in...Kaos and Rage double team for a while but Booker gets a few moves...
  • High Voltage takes a few shortcuts on Booker T...Rage and Kaos get a few good moves, Booker T with good side suplex race to tag...Stevie Ray on fire...cleans house real quick...tags Booker T....Big Apple
  • If I cared, I'd tell that this week in WCW Motorsports was on...but I don't...
• Thunder (in Paradise) highlights...Nash getting fined, Nash powerdroping the ref....Nash gets arrested....hasn't he been paying attention to DDP? Leave through the crowd! That way, you don't get arrested...
• "nWo"'s Tenzan over Tony Carr by Top Rope Headbutt
  • Tenzan totally destroys Tony Carr early...beating the heck out of Carr and not even flinching on Carr's punches
  • Talk about Muta, Chono and Tenzan in nWo (w/ the "other" Sting, M. Wallstreet and Big "Razor Ramon 2" Titlat) and the need for a Bischoff-like character to lead them...scary, one's enough.
  • Tenzan may break Meng's record for no-selling...not a move yet...nice brainbuster, followed by another 2/3rds away headbutt that almost made it (like Benoit's) for the win
• Lee Marshall hypes the Nitro...(Tix on sale Feb 13th, this week, Friday!) and talks to Disco Inferno
• Disco "Da Bears, Da Bulls" calls the Chicago fans morons...says MJ has done nothing compared to what he's done: two TV champion
• He's twice as good as anyone who's won it twice
• Disco "and I'm gonna burn the mother (pause) down." Got a laugh out of me...
• Ric Flair over Barry Horowitz by Figure Four
  • These two ever meet in Flair's WWF tour?
  • Brain "and who can you compare his [Flair] record to? I hear he may be trying to compare it to Wilt Chamberlain's record soon..."
  • Talk about Bret's respect for Flair, after Souled Out
  • Tony and Brain argue about if Brain's arrogant...and they end up sounding like Horowitz..."No!" "Yeah!" "No!" "Yeah!"
  • The talk up the championships Flair has won...and who he's beat for them...
  • Some nice work from both guys, quick moving match...Horowitz misses a dropkick and it time for the figure four...Flair keeps it on a little long and gets a shot in Horowitz after...kinda heelish, I'd have to say...

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