WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 11/14/98

By The Cubs Fan

• I'm in a bad mood. I'm drawing the cynical conculsion that you pretty much don't care why, but you've been warned.

• Tony and Larry hype the 60 man battle royale...and the recent acts of Bret Hart
  • Larry says Bret's frustrated lately, and he's taking it out on everyone.
  • They go to Tenay, who recounts the recent events of Bret, including his attack on Nitro against DDP and his attack on Luger the following week.
  • Tenay says they don't know when Sting and DDP will be back.
  • Tony says they're not sure if he's in the battle royale, but he's pretty sure, because he's a "top contender'.
    • They have 60 top contenders?
  • IMO, The only three people who have a shot at winning the think are Bret Hart, Hogan and Nash.
    • With the pull of those three, they could get the win. Heck, Goldberg is going have a tough time keeping the title at Starrcade, no matter which one wins.
• Lee Marshall with Lodi
  • Lee asks him about his shorts. Okay.
  • Lodi says Raven was his best boss ever.
  • Lodi's fav sign "Toad needs work"
    • He got the idea from watching kids in the mall while getting gumballs. Lee can't see the connection. He just doesn't get it, does he?
    • Lee probably thought something silly, like it was an ad for Lodi's indy tag team partner Toad.
  • Other fav? "Raven misses Lodi"
  • Lee says he should make a "Lodi is a goofball" sign.
• Tony plugs World War 3
• They go back to last year, where thanks to "a nWo conspiracy", Scott Hall won.
  • Somehow, Tony connects this with what happened with Booker T, saying that he makes things happen.
  • Larry says his deep, introspective words about Scott Hall.
  • We go to Booker T's interview from Nitro 11/2
    • I don't like that shirt. Sorry.
    • I missed this bit, and didn't hear the 5-time champ statement till the match. I promptly spit my pizza halfway across the room. Then I found out that they didn't acknowledge Benoit as champ and realized I wasted some food.
  • Moving ahead...Booker T vs Scott Hall is shown, in part.
  • Later, we'll see a history of WW3 and hear about the hottest wrestler in WCW now. Tony says we'll be surprised. I'm going say we're going be disappionted. I don't know, Saturn?
• Pointless World War 3 promo. You know, they could at least have it make sense with the event, instead of some weird boardroom thing. Yea, a guy is playing with a model airplane...I WANNA BUY THE PPV!
• Tony plugs WW3
• Oops...they hottest wrestler is...
  • Wrath.
  • Larry says they say the bigger you are, the harder they fall, but they also said the world is flat. Sure, whatever.
  • We get to see Wrath's complete match from the Nitro 11/2, with ring intros.
  • I guess the new WCW strategy for getting a big man over is having him be unstoppable. (See Norton, Scott.)
• WCW Motorsports ad
  • Yea, I said I'd never mention this stuff, but I've got an exception this week.
  • Tuesday (I think), I was flipping through channels and hit a Winston Cup race. After watching for a couple minutes, who should totally miss a turn but the WCW car driver, Lance Hooper. As they were picking up the pieces of the car, the announcers mentioned something...Hooper and the car didn't have a sponsor for next year. That means one of three things...
    1. WCW is stopping this motorsports nonsense, and we'll never have to hear about it again.
    2. WCW is getting a new car and driver. Maybe they'll get one that can win a race?
    3. Or I totally misheard them. But I think I didn't, and I'm hoping for choice 1.
• Tony "Next Sunday will be our fourth WW3"
  • As we puzzle that, Tony goes over the changes from the first to the latest.
  • Then, they should the same generic promo they've been showing.
    • Hey, I saw a real man's man!
• Stuipd pointless WW3 promo
• Lee Marshall with Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit!
  • Lee points out that when Dean showed up in WCW, he said he didn't need anyone
  • Dean says he still means that, but there's a lot of guys out there in a lot of factions, and he's lucky to be part of the best one.
  • Lee asks if Chris is happy with the Horseman being back like it is.
  • Chris says he does, and there's no one he trust more to back him up in the ring than Dean, Ric and Mongo.
• Tony sneaks in one more promo for WW3, and they talk about it some more.
  • Tony says he likes Nash in this one
  • Larry refused to pick, because there's too many unknowns.
• Doc Dean vs Buddy Lee Parker
  • Marshall and Tenay are our announcers.
  • They bring up Dean's win over Jushin Liger.
  • Buddy Lee Parker is dressed for desert combat
  • They bring up Buddy Lee's job at the powerplant
  • Parker with an armbar
  • Dean reverses into one of his own
  • Parker re-reverses into a headlock on the mat, and moves over to cover for the pin.
  • Nick Patrick doesn't even count, as Dean's underneath the ropes
  • As both get up, Dean drop toe holds Parker. Dean quickly puts on another armbar, into a headlock.
  • Dean gets pushed off the ropes and lands a shoulderblock
  • Parker takes him down, stomps on him and chokes him using the ropes
  • Nick Patrick calls for a break, so Parker moves back and then pushes Dean out of the ring
  • Parker does a real slow and awkward looking springboard axhandle to the outside
  • Parker punches Dean and brings him back inside
  • Parker seems to go for a gorilla press, but it's revesed into a German suplex for Dean
  • Dean goes for a Samoan drop, but Parker reverses it into a bad looking DDT.
  • Parker with a body slam...and a top rope knee drop for the win.
  • Your Winner: Buddy Lee Parker
• Tokyo Mangum vs Ultimo Dragon
  • Kinda don't want to see this. The last match I might have ever seen Ultimo wrestle a few weeks ago, was versus Rey Mysterio Jr on this program. He may never wrestle again
  • They bring up this being a teacher/student matchup, as well as Tokyo's assoication with the Dancing Fools.
  • Ultimo Dragon pushes Tokyo Mangum into a corner
  • Dragon with a headlock, runs off the ropes, and hits a shoulderblock
  • Dragon off the ropes, Tokyou drops down, Dragon runs the other way, Mangum leap frogs, turns around a dropkicks Dragon.
  • Dragon runs off the ropes again and lands a clothesline
  • Dragon with an abdominal stretch, a snapemare takedown and some kicks to the back.
  • Dragon continues with double boot stomp on the head
  • Dragon with a headlock takedown and a chinlock
  • Dragon whips Mangum, and hits a shoulderblock
  • Dragon with a half Boston crab. Mangum gets to the ropes after a bit.
  • Dragon stomps Tokyo...picks him up and chops him in the corner.
  • Dragon whips him across, Mangum reverses, throwing Dragon over the turnbuckle.
  • Tokyo dances, but Dragon doesn't got out of the ring...he instead holds on with his headstand and dropkicks Tokyo. Then he runs over Tokyo going to the other corner!
  • Dragon goes up top
  • Tokyo stops him, goes to the rop and takes him down with a top rope 'rana for a two count.
  • Tokyo Mangum with a delay springboard 'rana, for two count.
  • Stomp, whip, Dragon aviods, machine gun kicks
  • Ultimo Dragon whips Tokyo in to the ropes and hooks on a normal sleeper
  • Tokyo slips to the mat, and Ultimo switches to the normal Dragon sleeper. Tokyo taps.
  • Your Winner: Ultimo Dragon
  • Not as good as the other match, but still good.
  • Wait a minute, why hasn't anyone said this before? ULTIMO DRAGON IS THE BLUE BLAZER! The whole elbow thing, it's just a cover for him to go to the WWF! Or maybe not :)
    

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