Original Airdate: Monday, November 13th, 1995
Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum
Jacksonville, Florida
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Eric Bischoff, Steve McMichael and Bobby Heenan talk about the announcement that a new champion will be crowned at World War 3 before going to Hulk Hogan dressed in black with a mask and holding a sword. It just gets worse every week. He talks about not knowing what's going on with Sting. It should be noted that this is the first ever taped edition of Nitro.
Meng vs. Randy Savage
Savage comes from out of nowhere and attacks Meng. Sullivan tries to sneak attack Savage, but he sees it and gets to him first. This distraction allows Meng to take advantage, and he throws him into the ring post. Meng dominates until he misses off the top rope. Savage throws Meng into Jimmy Hart and then hits the top rope elbow drop for the victory. I never understood why they always had Meng job so much. Immediately after the match, the Shark is out and helps attack Savage. Lex Luger is now out and starts slamming Savage's arm into the ring post. This was decent for what it was, but it was more about the attack after.
Match Rating: *
Kensuke Sasaki vs. Chris Benoit
This one feels rushed right off the bat. Sasaki gets in a little bit of offense and then basically out of nowhere, Benoit hits three German suplexes. The third one is with a bridge and that's enough to pick up the win. I'm not really sure what the point of this was.
Match Rating: 1/2*
WCW Television Championship Match
Eddie Guerrero vs. Johnny B. Badd
They are just stacking up the matches here tonight. Eddie goes for a superplex early on, but Badd is able to drop him face-first and then hits a top rope sunset flip. Badd ducks Eddie and he goes to the floor and then Badd hits a somersault over the top rope. Badd misses a splash back into the ring and Eddie gets a 2 count. We get a little bit of a brawl after Badd hits a few jabs to Eddie's jaw. Eddie goes for a Tombstone style piledriver, but Badd rotates to counter and hits one of his own for a 2 count. We start to get the countdown and we aren't even close to a finish here. They start brawling and the referee tries to get in the middle of it. They end up shaking hands after the match and Mongo sticks up for him being a good loser. Weird finish, but the match itself was pretty good.
Match Rating: **1/4
The announce team lets us know that Hulk Hogan wants to wrestle Sting next week on Nitro. We then go to Jimmy Hart, Kevin Sullivan and Giant in the ring. Hulkamania this. Hulkamania that. No one cares.
Dean Malenko vs. Sting
Mongo tells us that Malenko has no chance because Sting is too strong. Shoutout to the fan in all the purple WCW gear in the front row. They cram a decent amount of action in here, but like most of the other matches tonight, it's over before you know it. Sting gave Dean some offense, but the match was never in doubt. Malenko goes for the Texas Cloverleaf and Sting counters it into a small package for the win.
Match Rating: *1/4
Mean Gene is now in the ring with Sting. Sting says he has nothing against Hogan, but he doesn't like that Hogan referred to him as a little dog on his porch. He's a big dog, brother. Sting says he'll see Hogan here next week.
This was a mostly enjoyable episode, but at the same time, not much happened here either. I'm okay with that for the most part, but it seems like they should be hyping up the undercard for World War 3 a little more, as there has been no mention of it. Them giving us Sting vs. Hogan next week is definitely a big deal though, even with Hogan as lame as he is.
Overall Rating: 52%
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