WCW Worldwide - Saturday, 12/09/00

By The Cubs Fan

• It's Scott and Larry this week.

• Everyone's talking about the new champ.
  • A Mayhem recap this week.
  • Also, a look at the shooting for the cover of the WCW magazine
  • And we go with Goldberg on his media tour.

• Mayhem stills.
  • Or just some of them.
  • Sanders/Kwee-Wee
  • Insiders/Perfect Event
  • Luger/Goldberg
  • Steiner/Booker T

• Goldberg was a busy man
  • He got a win over Luger at Mayhem, or at least he thought he did.
  • On Nitro, Luger tried to get Goldberg DQed, but got a rematch instead.
  • Clip of Luger attacking Goldberg after his match with Reno.
  • Larry: "Luger, he's a narcissist. When he sees a mirror, he stops cold and checks out his percent of body fat."
  • Larry's a big fan of early 90s WWF gimmicks, you know.
  • Anyway, on to Goldberg's media tour.
    • 9:00 AM, interview with WNNX-FM
      • Is there some new rule that Jimmy Baron must make a cameo every week?
    • 11:00 AM, interview WQIX-AM
      • Goldberg talks about being on the Man Show on Comedy Central (this Sunday)
    • 2:00 PM, Satellite Tour for Mayhem.
      • That means Goldberg sits in a chair and people elsewhere interview him for their local shows.
      • No one explains that on this show.
      • Goldberg: "The type of wrestling that I do is much more dynamic and physical than I think than anybody else"
      • "I'm lucky to be able, just to walk."
      • I had to listen to that a few times to believe he actually said that.
    • 7:00 PM, Book Signing
  • Back to the studio.
  • Larry: "It's a great story of how Goldberg went from football to the biggest wrestling attraction ever."

• Ask WCW time
  • This week's question is from Sammy Florence in Dupont, PA, and for Mean Gene Okerlund:

    Is interviewing wrestlers now any different than when you were interviewing wrestlers when you started your career?

  • Larry thinks it's a stupid question.
    • "Any idiot can do that."
  • Mean Gene responds. 

    Well, Sammy, the technique of interview today is certainly a lot different than it was when I first started. They were stand up one-on-one interviews, sometimes you talked to tag teams, and sometimes you talked to the proverbial manager. But today, it's more of an in-your-face attitude that is exuded by professional wrestlers, and in that respect, you don't get a lot of respect. So I have to say that's the major change, from when I broke in to the business to the year 2000, just about 2001. But no mistake about it, it's still loads of fun.

  • Scott: "He says it's a little more in your face than when he was interviewing Strangler Lewis."
  • Larry: "What does that mean? 'In your face?'
  • Good question.
  • Moving to something totally different.

• "Holidays Hotties Photo Shoot"
  • To music and lots of different clips, we see Midijah, Torrie and Major Gunns pose for about a minute.

• It's time for the Professor's Pick of the Week.
  • Hudson was hoping that it'd be Professor Boris Malenko instead of Tenay yet.
  • We go back to the Steiner Brothers vs Harlem Heat at Great American Bash '97.
    • Which wasn't even in the poll Tenay mentioned last week.
  • Anyway, I know how this turns out and I'm not looking forward to it
  • I'll just point you to Bill's recap from that time, and finish eating my pizza
  • Harlem Heat won by DQ when Vincent came in and got the Steiners DQed
    • The nWo didn't want to fight the Steiner's for the tag team titles.
    • Dillon would order a rematch the next night, stripping the Heat of the #1 contendership.
    • The Heat beat up Vincent, but still lost to the Steiners in the rematch.
  • Next week, it's the poll result match
    • Which looked like the Steiner Brothers/Outsiders match from Road Wild '97 last I looked.
    • That's when the Steiner's got the title shot from all this.

• Scott Steiner has already had a busy championship.
  • Stevie Ray put up his career on Nitro.
  • We go back to Nitro to watch the end of that.
  • And then Sid walks out.
  • On to Thunder, where Sid speaks.
    • As usual, the audio is not in sync with the video.
  • The announcers talk about the Starrcade match a bit.

• It's time for Reel Time Wrestling
  • It's a different way to watch matches, I guess.
  • The announcers are hyping it as great so much...
  • They don't really explain what it is.

• The match itself is Booker T and Jeff Jarrett from Bash A
  • Reel Time Wrestling = "Pop Up Video" imitation.
  • The announcing seems snipped and maybe pulled for different matches and times.
  • And there's music playing softly.
  • And we skip around the match every so often.
  • Bubble: "Booker T is a career fan favorite."
    • Odd. He didn't seem that way earlier in that 
  • They name moves and such. Like:
    • Sleeper, aka "Good Night, Irene" and "Weaver Lock
    • Used by Roddy Piper, Dusty Rhodes and Curt Hennig.
    • Curt Hennig?
  • The figure four is a "feared submission hold."
  • Actually, The pop up video calls more moves than the announcers do.
  • Apparently, the belt costs $10,000.
  • Jeff has smashed 760 guitars, and at $350, that's $266,000
    • They don't actually specify if the guitars really cost $350
  • It wasn't bad.
  • If they could completely cut out the announcers..
  • They'll have more of that in upcoming weeks.

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