WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 10/23/99

By The Cubs Fan

Caught the video Rascalz "Sharpshooter", which features Bret Hart.

Bret mentioned it in his column a while back, and I just happened to see it on MuchMusic.
Not a bad video, but Bret looks out of place, the Rascalz being a rap group, and Bret being more of a country guy.
Bret does get to say he's TBTW, TBTI, and TBTEWB three times and beat up someone in a wrestling ring.

Random Thought: I'm watching the Scooby Doo marathon and it just occurred to me...the WWF's Ivory is such a Daphne rip off. She's stealing the whole scarf gimmick.

This week's studio hosts are Tony and Larry

Top Story: Sid vs Goldberg

Tony and Larry hype, then we go to...the Magic 8-Ball?
Whatever, Tony now sends us to the clips, from Nitro, October 11th

Goldberg Walks, but Sid interrupts.
Skip ahead to the Bret/Benoit vs Luger/Steiner main event, with Sid running in.
Goldberg makes the save, but Sid taunts him about the no-touching rule.
Goldberg spears him anyway.

Tony and Larry talk more, but my FastForward button is stuck. Yea...

Mean Gene talks to Berlyn (w/Bodyguard)

Oh, this should be really fun.
Mean Gene asks Berlyn a question
Berlyn speaks in German
Mean Gene asks the bodyguard for translation
The bodyguard just looks at him
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Actually, I can provide a translation:
Alex: "How did I get this un-over?"
Alex: "What happened to my translator?"
Alex: "How did that fool ex-partner of mine get a belt and I'm stuck facing Brad Armstrong?"

The problems with the Revolution are so bad, we must use the bouncy handheld camera!

Or something.
Zbyszko "Douglas has gotten very aggressive, he grew up in Pittsburgh, maybe he watched too much of me?"
Tony "Do the members of the Revolution want to do it all by themselves, or do they want to do it the right way?"
Zbyszko says that to get ahead, you can't always do it by the right way.
Back to Nitro

Saturn and Dean have a man-to-man talk...
But Dean prevents Shane and Saturn from Cheating To Win
Group therapy session later, where Benoit quits and Malenko agrees to team with Saturn
On to that tag match, where Saturn prevents Dean from winning, and Shane uses illegal means to get them the win.
Dean tosses the T-shirt

Recap of that evil German Berlyn's (and his evil and mysterious bodyguard) evil attacks against the virtuous and proud American Brad Armstrong.

Oh, sorry, that's the story line vibes they were projecting.
Back to Nitro, where the Bodyguard and Berlyn beat Brad.
Later, Berlyn and Bodyguard beat La Parka and Brad.
Ummm....if Berlyn hates Americans and Brad in particular, why does he let Brad still get the win? Viva La Mexico!
Maybe he hates Mexicans, too. He's really evil.
Tony says that Brad got the match 'cause of Berlyn's actions.
Shouldn't Parka get a match versus the bodyguard, then?
The man's keeping the Chairman down, again.

Road Report features Jimmy Baron accidentally remind us that Minnesota (and not Texas) is Curt Hennig's home state.

Or Hennig's actually a North West (Texas) Redneck.

Tony and Larry go over Havoc's card.

I've taken so long to write this, it no longer matters.
I saw Lenny and Lodi in the random clips played on the Worldwide-tron behind Larry and Tony! Oops.

Scotty Riggs (w/Mirror and Shiny Shirt) vs Adrian Byrd

Larry Zbyszko and Scott Hudson are the arena commentators.
Byrd with a headlock, whip, shoulderblock.
Riggs calls time out and checks his hair.
Stop stealing other people's gimmicks, Scotty.
Riggs with punches, whip, reversal, Byrd with a hiptoss, body slam, running lariat, and Riggs calls another time out.
Riggs with a kick punch, punch, whip, misses a clothesline, catches Byrd on the rebound and slams Byrd's back into the turnbuckle.
Riggs with a boot choke...cross-corner whip, and running butt bump.
Hudson and Zbyszko are hyping Byrd's upset victory over Erik Watts still, saying he could pull another here.
I still wonder how and why that happened.
Actually, I don't wonder how and why, I'm just surprised it got to happen.
Riggs does the hip swivel.
Riggs with a snapmare into a chin lock.
Now into a surfboard.. A wide variety of rest holds here.
Riggs with a whip, and the really good dropkick.
But only good enough to get a 2 count.
Riggs with an eye poke, another snapmare, another chinlock.
Byrd powers out, but gets elbowed.
Riggs with a whip, but Byrd holds the ropes and Riggs miss the dropkick,.
Byrd with a whip and hits his own dropkick.
Riggs with swinging punch, misses, Byrd with a nice belly to back for 2.
Byrd with a whip, puts his head down, Riggs leapfrogs him and turns around
Riggs kicks Byrd in the stomach, puts his leg on Byrd's neck, and Byrd collapses under the weight.
Okay, that's not what I'm supposed to think happened, but it sure looked that way.
Riggs didn't even do the jump for the ShowStopper/RockerDropper.
And Byrd hesitated before he went down.
So that's what it looked like.
Geeze...he makes Billy Gunn look competent.
Whatever, it got the 3.
Your Winner: Scotty Riggs
That was not good.

Mean Gene talks to Lash LeRoux

Man...that accent is something.
Lash says a lot of people didn't take him seriously when he first came to WCW.
And now?
Lash "You think I'm some stooge from Baton Rouge?"
Lash wants to make sure that he has the VooDoo and mojo going.
Lash promises a Whiplash for Disco.
Mean Gene asks about the celebration and victory meal.
Lash starts naming food as the interview ends....

Barry Darsow as Blacktop Bully vs Luther Biggs (w/Coach Buzz Stern, wo/helmet)

You know, I knew they were thinking of making WCWSN as if it was a separate, independent fed.
With these gimmicks, I feel almost like I should be watching this in a high school gym.
I find it very ironic that Glacier was hyped as a martial arts master, who had to learn wrestling and Stern is a wrestling coach.
On the other hand, seeing as he invented the move, Stern should really teach Biggs the Superkick.
Okay, I'll shut up now.
Larry compares the relative size of Tony and Luther.
Stern and Luther do some pre-match mike work.
Darsow "I'm going break his stinking arm!"
Stern: "There's nothing as uncertain as a sure thing."
Okay.
Darsow attacks Biggs from behind as he's taking off his sweatshirt.
And then he uses the sweatshirt to choke him.
Darsow works over the left arm using the ropes
Darsow with an armbar on the left arm, and then twists it around Lutehrs's neck.
Axhandle to back, and Luther hits an eyepick.
Luther punches Darsow and hurts his hand
Biggs whips, and puts his head down WAY too soon.
Darsow with a punch, knocking Biggs over, then ax-handles to the back
Darsow works the arm over the ropes agian
Zbyszko decides to leave to get back to the studio in time. And he's had enough of this match.
Wish I could do that.
Hudson "You going leave me all by myself?"
Zbyszko "It's Luther Biggs and Barry Darsow. You can handle it, kid."
Die Tape Die!
No dice.
How did Mike get so lucky?
Actually, this hasn't been that bad. Just not really that good. And the gimmicks...
Darsow with a whip, clothesline, 2 count.
Darsow with a belly-to-back suplex, covers for one, then takes off out of the ring against Stern.
Oh, I get it now. His name is Stern, 'cause he's a stern person.
Sorry.
Biggs attacks from behind to no impact.
Biggs runs in the ring, but gets tripped up by the ropes.
Biggs begs off, but Darsow chokes him.
The ref tries to pull Darsow off, but Darsow ends up knocking him across the ring.
Just what this match needed. A ref bump and a screwjob ending.
Darsow with the Barley Legal, but Stern hits Darsow with the clipboard.
Biggs falls on Darsow for the pin.
Your Winner: Luther Biggs
That was also not good.

Back to Tony and Larry (w/Magic 8-Ball)

Tony announces that he won't be on the next few weeks.
He'll be in LA shooting the WCW movie.
Scott Hudson will be filling in.
Larry seems slightly pleased.
I'm more so.
Tony asks the 8-Ball if the WCW Movie will win the Academy Awards for best picture.
Tony checks the ball, and then says 'We all know the answer to that."
Gee, when Tony's cynical on something WCW related, it ain't good sign.

With that, we close. C ya next week.

WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 10/23/99

By The Cubs Fan

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