WCW Saturday Night - Saturday, 06/20/98
WCW Saturday Night - Saturday, 06/20/98
- Welcome back to the Muthaship. I'm Captain Stubing, and I'll be your host this evening.
- I'm finishing up my unpacking this weekend, so I've been bad about doing things like checking my email or thinking about "the state of wrestling." I'll have some original ideas by my next report.
- We've only got a one-hour show this week.
- Match 1: Yuji Nagata (w/Sonny Oono) made Hardbody Harrison submit to the Nagatalock
- As Nagata and Oono come out, Scott Hudson and Mike Tenay are already talking about Bash at the Beach.
- Nagata's wearing a jacket. I dunno, I kinda miss his floormats.
- Hardbody Harrison's already in the ring. He doesn't look like Fred Sanford anymore.
- Harrison's got something shaved in the back of his hair, but I can't tell what it is.
- Nagata with some early offense, and then sends Harrison down to the floor.
- Harrison tries to mount some offense, but Nagata backdrops him.
- Nagata sends Harrison out to the floor again, where Oono gets a few kicks in.
- Nagata with his stiff kick to the back.
- Nagata begins to work on the leg.
- A Harrison comeback is quickly snuffed.
- Harrison, though, hits a nice modified powerslam, and then drops Nagata with a double-arm DDT! He only gets two, though.
- Nagata takes Harrison down with a dragonscrew legwhip.
- Nagata hits an overhead release belly-to-belly suplex, and then locks on the Nagatalock for the submission win.
- The announcers talk a bit more about Bash at the Beach.
- In case anyone was wondering, the two guys on the beach in the "Bash at the Beach" promo are Dale Torborg and Chad Fortune, Power Plant wrestlers often seen in the pit crew on "This Week in WCW Motorsports."
- Match 2: Van Hammer defeated Reese (w/Horace (w/Stop Sign)) via DQ when Horace interfered
- Van Hammer comes out, announced as being from Baltimore, MD.
- Hammer: "I tried to tell 'em last week - stop the violence. [smirk] After this match."
- Reese (announced as hailing from "Northern California") comes out, with the Flock's designated stop-sign valet.
- Hudson: "The reason they don't give a specific city for Reese is that he's bigger than most towns."
- For the record, Reese is being listed as 7'2", over 400 pounds.
- Hammer opens up with some kicks in the corner.
- Reese, though, floors Hammer with a clothesline.
- Reese with a solid Irish whip into the corner.
- Reese picks Hammer up for a belly-to-back suplex, and just drops him from 7' in the air.
- Hammer with some kicks, followed by a kneelift.
- Hammer tries a bodyslam, but Reese just falls on top of him for two.
- Reese with a big vertical suplex.
- Hammer comes back with a flying shoulderblock, and then actually manages to bodyslam the big guy.
- Hammer covers for the pin, but Horace runs in and nails him with the stop sign.
- The rest of the Flock come in to stomp a mudhole in Hammer, and Raven slowly walks to the ring.
- Raven stands over Hammer with a disdainful look on his face, and then leaves the ring.
- A retrospective of the Rodman/Hogan/DDP situation.
- Footage of Bischoff "breaking Savage's leg," and the end of the DDP/Savage cage match on Nitro.
- Mean Gene plugs his hotline.
- Footage of the Benoit/Booker T/Stevie Ray/Mongo situation on Thunder
- Tenay wonders if seeing Benoit and Mongo back together might mean a reformation of, and he says the words, "the Four Horsemen."
- We can only hope.
- Match 3: Stevie Ray pinned Mike Tolbert after a kick to the chest
- We join this match in progress.
- Stevie Ray with the early advantage, of course, but it's all just been brawling.
- Tolbert gets some offense in with Stevie Ray in the corner, and then flexes.
- Tolbert charges the corner, but gets met with a back-elbow.
- Stevie Ray floors Tolbert with a clothesline.
- Stevie Ray sends Tolbert to the floor, and then clubs him in the chest when he makes it back up to the apron.
- Tolbert gets back on the apron and tries a sunset flip, but Stevie doesn't go down.
- Stevie locks on the 110th Street Resthold.
- Stevie with a bodyslam, followed by a really sloppy spinebuster.
- Stevie gives a signal to the fans, and whips Tolbert into the ropes.
- Tolbert ducks a clothesline, but gets met with a boot to the chest.
- Stevie then covers Tolbert for the win.
- Commercial for 1-800-USA-FIND.
- This is kinda like 1-800-YES-CREDIT, but instead of bikini-clad bimbos hawking credit card applications, we get to see a dumpy woman talking about how she found her stunned-bunny-looking father by calling this magic number.
- Lady, the guy'd just gone down to the corner store for a "Moon Pie" and a "Nu-Grape." Don't make such a big production out of it. Sheesh.
- Match 4: Diamond Dallas Page pinned Eddie Guerrero after the Diamond Cutter
- Eddie Guerrero comes out for our main event, not looking at all dejected like he did against Benoit. Tenay tries to cover for it by saying that Guerrero's "upset, dejected, and even a little angry" about the Chavo situation.
- Commercial.
- Tonight, Mr. Guerrero will be doing the job for Diamond Dallas Page.
- On his way to the ring, DDP grabs a sign that says "DDP Bang." The author was a somebody "Shakespeare."
- Which reminds me. If you're going to a show, and are considering making a sign, please avoid the following concepts - odds are, no matter how hard you try, you're not going to make anything interesting using the following ever-popular templates:
- ____ 4-Life.
- ____ 3:16 (or ____ #:## for that matter).
- Survey says ____.
- ____ fears ____.
- ____ suck it.
- ____ too sweet.
- The preceding has been a public service announcement from "People for Original Ideas."
- Anyway.
- Eddie doesn't like the chants for DDP, and lets the crowds know as much.
- Eddie hits an armdrag, and taunts DDP. He then gives DDP a little "kiss my ass" motion.
- DDP grins, and then proceeds to direct some crotch chops toward Eddie.
- Eddie gets mad, charges, and meets the canvas, courtesy of a DDP armdrag and hiptoss.
- Eddie runs on his knees to the ref, and complains about pulling of the tights.
- The ref asks DDP, and Eddie tries to sneak-attack.
- DDP avoids him, and hits a shoulderblock, followed by a belly-to-belly suplex.
- DDP mounts the corner to punch Eddie, but Guerrero gives him a hotshot on the turnbuckle.
- Eddie follows it up with a dropkick to the back.
- Eddie starts workin' on DDP's back.
- DDP's wearing the rib pads again this week.
- Eddie hits his slingshot somersault headbutt on Page's back.
- Eddie locks on a single-leg Boston crab.
- Eddie with a vertical suplex, and right back to the crab.
- Eddie jumps up and down on DDP's back, but tries it once too often and gets a knee to the 'nads.
- Page with some punches, and his "discus clothesline."
- DDP tries his rope-bounce version of the Diamond Cutter, but Eddie slips away.
- Page hits a knee to the gut, and sets Eddie up for a piledriver.
- DDP signals for the Diamond Cutter?
- Page puts Eddie up in an over-the-shoulder backbreaker, and then in one motion flips him over and drops him with the Diamond Cutter!!!
- That was an amazing variation!
- Page thinks so, too, as he struts around the ring for a bit before pinning Eddie.
