Monday, November 6th, 1995
Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum
Jacksonville, Florida
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We are welcomed by Eric Bischoff, Steve McMichael and Bobby Heenan. Bischoff tells us that we can call and vote to pick who we want to see wrestle in the main event tonight.
Cobra vs. Giant
Giant hits a chokeslam and that is all. A legit sub 20 second match here.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Mean Gene and Tony Schiavone are in the two different locker rooms that you can pick your main event from. Only 99 cents per minute.
We go to Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage in Venice Beach from earlier today. They are with some homeless guy who keeps speaking gibberish and some crappy street performer playing guitar. Hogan continues to find new ways to make the absolute worst crap ever made.
Kevin Sullivan vs. Renegade
Does anyone care that the Renegade even exists anymore? Renegade hits a cartwheel elbow in the corner. He then misses in the corner and ends up hung upside down. Sullivan hits a tree of woe run into the corner and hits a double stomp for the win. This was awful despite only being about 3 minutes long. After the match, Jimmy Hart yells in Renegade's face.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go back to Mean Gene and it's always fun with him being stuck with the heels.
Chris Benoit vs. Eddie Guerrero
I guess we are finally going to get an actual match tonight. They show a group of Japanese people at a table enjoying food and drinks that includes Sonny Onoo. Meanwhile, Guerrero hits a top rope dive to the floor over the corner. It's kind of fun to see how different these matches were compared to the other crap they often put on TV with the hindsight of knowing how much the style would be shifting. They start battling with Eddie on the apron. Benoit goes for a suplex, but Eddie shifts his weight and falls on top for the victory despite Benoit's feet being under the ropes. Heenan is livid about it and the others just say they don't have any time to even look at the replay. Weird.
Match Rating: *1/2
We go back to Schiavone and Sting wanting Flair. Sting's promos were really lame during this era.
You'll never guess what the fans picked for the main event. They only let Ric Flair and Sting talk and they both talked about hating each other. I didn't see it coming.
Sting vs. Ric Flair
Sting jumps Flair upon his entrance, and we are underway. The crowd is 100% into this one, that's for sure. I'm not sure how much time they are giving this match, but there is still 20 minutes left in the show. We go to commercial break and when we come back, they let us know that Flair hit a kick to the crotch. He slaps on the Figure Four and uses the ropes for leverage. Sting reverses it and McMichael claims he has never seen anyone do that before. It should be noted that both Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman are not at ringside with Flair. Sting hits a superplex and slaps on the Scorpion Death Lock and Flair submits. Sting won't let go and all the good guys come out to finally pull him off. Sting puts it back on and now Lex Luger is out. Luger says something to Sting and he lets go and walks back with Luger. The other wrestlers are in shock. The match was entertaining and I'm surprised they put Sting over so cleanly on TV.
Match Rating: **1/2
Mean Gene is in the ring with Kevin Sullivan, Jimmy Hart and the Giant. Jimmy takes a cheap shot of Hogan's movies going straight to video. Hart says that while Hogan was doing movies and charity, Jimmy took care of business and he signed the contract because he had power of attorney. Hogan didn't realize that there was a stipulation that if there was a disqualification, Hogan lost his title and that means Giant is the champion. Okerlund brings in an attorney and says that Jimmy is partially correct. He then says that Giant is not the champion and then says that Nick Bockwinkle issued a statement that due to the dubious nature of the disqualification, the championship is vacant and will be awarded to the winner of the World War 3 battle royal. Sullivan is livid, but says that no one can beat the Giant in the battle royal.
The announce team talks about what just occurred. Next week it's Randy Savage vs. Meng, Sting vs. Dean Malenko and Johnny B. Badd vs. Eddie Guerrero.
This episode started off horribly, but once we hit the Guerrero match, it was a good time. They had to do something to make the battle royal mean something, so the title storyline makes sense there. The Hogan segment though is one of the worst things to happen in this year and we are talking about 1995, so think about that.
Overall Rating: 56%
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