Monday, October 23rd, 1995
Von Braun Civic Center
Huntsville, Alabama
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Randy Savage vs. Kurasawa
We're right to the ring action this week. This is the go home show for Halloween Havoc. I love how Steve McMichael calls him Macho Man Savage. Kurasawa is getting a lot of offense in here and they talk about how he broke the arm of Road Warrior Hawk. This match even gets a commercial break. When we come back, Kurasawa is still working on Savage. Savage gets an opening when he shoves Kurasawa's throat into the top rope. He immediately goes up top and hits the elbow drop and that's it. Kurasawa got a lot of shine here, but then the finish made him look pretty weak. I know it's Savage, but still. The match was a decent little TV match though.
Match Rating: **
The announce team is talking about the night and then the lights go out. We then get the Dungeon of Doom guy yelling nonsense. They show us a block of "ice" and something about Halloween Havoc. This was terrible. Mean Gene is now with Kevin Sullivan and Giant. Sullivan says that this block of "ice" is the insurance policy. That's right, it's Yet-ay time. Giant was such a bad character. All of the fun from the Savage match was just entirely sucked out of the building with this segment.
After the commercial break, Mean Gene is now with Hulk Hogan and Jimmy Hart. As much as I am enjoying Nitro and looking forward to the future of the show, I'm not sure how many more of these Hogan promos I can take.
Dean Malenko & Chris Benoit vs. Eddie Guerrero & Mr. JL
Alex Wright is out on crutches with Guerrero and JL. Malenko and Benoit show some good teamwork, which leads to a dive from Malenko. Malenko then holds Guerrero for Benoit's dive, but Guerrero moves out of the way and he hits Malenko. Guerrero then launches JL to the outside on both men. Benoit then launches JL into the corner on Malenko. We then get a distraction due to a fight in the back between Scott Norton and Shark. Really? We get a commercial break during a Malenko abdominal stretch. These guys are getting quite a bit of time again tonight. They keep talking about Hogan every 30 seconds, but it's still something. Benoit hits a superplex and gets a 2 count thanks to Eddie breaking up the pin attempt. JL finally gets the hot tag to Guerrero and he gets the crowd into it. He hits an arm drag/headscissors combo. All 4 men end up in the ring and we get a little bit of an awkward spot where Benoit and Eddie fall out of the ring. Mr. JL is able to get in a pin after Alex Wright tripped up Malenko with his crutch and that's all. This was another pretty good showing for Eddie, as he seems to be the one who draws the most crowd response.
Match Rating: **1/2
As Eddie is walking to the back, he attacks Eddie for no reason.
Harlem Heat vs. Sting & Lex Luger
It's interesting that so far in the short history of Nitro, they really have focused on really only having certain guys on the show every week and just sprinkling in a few others here and there. WWF seems to diversify a little more and probably due to the fact that they tape 75 shows at each taping. The Heat mostly dominate Luger while Sherri looks at a Polaroid photo of her and Col. Robert Parker. I didn't know that Eric Bischoff was part of the whole "Yet-ay" thing. I thought that was just Tony Schiavone. Luger finally tags in Sting and we get your typical no flow finish here. Sting hits a clothesline off the top rope and gets the victory. Out comes Giant and Kevin Sullivan and he gives chokeslams to Luger and Sting. Out comes Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan. The crowd is definitely into this and I'm not really sure why. Giant no sells Hogans right hands and then knocks Hogan down. Hogan hulks up and then out comes the rest of the Dungeon of Doom. They clear the ring and then the lights start to flicker. The Yeti breaks out of the iceberg and we go off the air. Did they not learn anything from the Gobbledy Gooker? The match sucked.
Match Rating: 1/2*
We got two good matches here tonight, but everything Hogan sucked the life out of this show. The Yeti is an all timer in terms of sucking, so they also had that going for it. They didn't do a great job of really building any of the card for the show Sunday either, which is kind of surprising. They didn't even bother to run down matches or anything. I am guessing that was more of a Saturday Night thing?
Overall Rating: 45%
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