Monday, September 18th, 1995
Freedom Hall
Johnson City, Tennessee
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Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan and Steve McMichael are here to kick it off. Bischoff says that there is an emergency in the back and we go to Mean Gene with an ambulance pulling in. Out comes Kevin Sullivan and Giant. Gene says that if Giant's father was alive, he'd be ashamed. Giant is in Waterboy mode here.
WCW Tag Team Championship Match
American Males vs. Blue Bloods Harlem Heat
Bobby Eaton was on the way out and Harlem Heat attacks him. Heenan assumes that they already knocked out Steven Regal. Heat are the new champions, winning the title just last night at Fall Brawl. They say they are going to give these two punks a title shot tonight. Sure. They tell us that Nick Bockwinkle is not here, so they're not sure how it will be handled. The Males play the plucky underdogs, as you would expect. Booker is able to hit a big scissor kick and the Heat are dominating. Booker hits a big kick and gets a 2 count on Riggs. We then see a big sign in the crowd that says "We want it Raw!". Bagwell makes a hot tag that isn't so hot. Out comes Colonel Parker and he starts making out with Sherri. He carries her away and Bagwell reverses a body slam into a pin on Booker and they pull of the upset to become new champions. The Heat were clearly the over team, but there is storyline going on and obviously they wanted something at least remotely shocking every week to begin with. I can live with that booking.
Match Rating: *
Mean Gene is in the ring and brings out Ric Flair. He says that Arn Anderson broke the code by bringing an outsider into their match. He's going to chop Brian Pillman so hard that Boomer Esiason is going to feel it in Long Island. Flair also drops the first curse word.
This week on Saturday Night it's going to be the rematch everyone wants to see when Sgt. Craig Pittman takes on Cobra. Sometimes I'm glad I can't watch that show.
Paul Orndorff vs. Johnny B. Badd
Orndorff comes out to new annoying heel music that I had no idea existed. Orndorff looks pretty old at this point. He was just about to turn 46 here, but he looks older than that. Badd apparently had 9 stitches put in after his match with Pillman at Fall Brawl. We get a commercial break before anything exciting happens. Basically nothing happens here and we then get a crap finish that takes forever to get to, where Orndorff counters and grabs the legs for the pin. It didn't seem like anyone was really happy with that. This stunk.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We then go to Randy Savage doing bench presses on the beach until Kevin Sullivan attacks him by pushing the bar on his throat. Then a couple of lifeguards and Ric Flair gently lift him off and he just gladly goes away. That was awful. That brings Mean Gene out and he brings out Savage. Savage says "Thanks, but no thanks" to Flair helping him. He says that he'll take care of Taskmaster himself. He then says that Hulk Hogan is a terrible judge of character, which is obvious based on him being the mascot of the garbage man that just was voted President. He says that Lex Luger had a personal agenda and that he was hit with a cheap shot at Fall Brawl. Luger comes out and wonders if Savage is jealous of him. Luger says that the reason he's here is because he was sick of playing with kids, he wants the big boys. Out of context, that sounds pretty bad. Savage says right here, right now. That's code for we're going to commercial because it's not happening. This was the first positive of the episode so far.
We go to a pre-tape interview with Mean Gene, Hulk Hogan and his motorcycle. This was from before Fall Brawl. We then get the absolute cheesiest video of the Giant smashing Hogans motorcycle. They then show Giant coming down to save Kevin Sullivan from Hogan. This was horrendous.
Brian Pillman vs. Ric Flair
These two go right at it and Pillman misses with a dropkick. The announcers are shocked by Pillman's aggressive new attitude. I blame Flair's haircut. Pillman slams Flair off the top rope, but then misses with a splash. We get a collision spot and both men are down. Flair is able to hit a suplex and puts on the Figure Four and Pillman taps? Sure. He then says that he's waiting on Arn Anderson. This match was nothing.
Match Rating: 1/2*
The announcers wrap up the show and we'll have Randy Savage vs. Kevin Sullivan next week and Alex Wright vs. Disco Inferno. Bobby Heenan tells us that something's going on in the back, Eric Bischoff agrees and we never see anything. Sounds about right.
This episode was nowhere near as good as the last two by a mile. Outside of the Savage/Luger spot, this was extremely dull and even had a bad Pillman/Flair match.
Overall Rating: 38%
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