Monday, October 2nd, 1995
Denver Coliseum
Denver, Colorado
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Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan and Steve McMichael hype up the show tonight and are interrupted by Ric Flair. He tells Arn Anderson that he better be ready tonight. We then see the set up for our first match between Lex Luger and Randy Savage.
Lex Luger vs. Randy Savage
If Luger loses, he has to leave WCW. A whole lot of nothing happens before the commercial break and we kind of don't get a whole lot of anything right after it either. This one has the feeling of "we don't want to give away too much". Finally we get Savage leaping off the top rope for a double ax handle to Luger on the floor. We get a referee bump and Savage hits the top rope elbow drop, but there's no count. Out comes the Giant and he hits the chokeslam on Savage. Thankfully the referee was looking the other way for that one. Luger slowly pushes Savage on his back for the Torture Rack, which was kind of sorry looking because Luger was selling the elbow still. Why he couldn't have just pinned him is beyond me. I think even the referee was expecting that. This was a big disappointment.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Disco Inferno comes out and dances until Eddy Guerrero's music interrupts him. Sure?
Eddy Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko
They show Guerrero beating Psicosis on Main Event to earn the right to face Malenko here I guess? McMichael tries to sell us on that by saying these guys fly more than vultures over dead meat. That's one way to put it. They put on a clinic of fast paced action to slowly start to win over the live crowd. Don't worry though, Hulk Hogan's limo is here and they show that in a split screen and then eventually they just show Hogan. Just what the world wants to see, Jimmy Hart and Hogan saying the same crap he has been saying for a decade. We go back to the match and McMichael tries to hype up the match, but even Heenan is talking about Hogan. Guerrero hits a top rope splash from the corner to the floor. Back in the ring, Guerrero goes for the Frog Splash, but Malenko gets his knees up. Guerrero then counters a Malenko pin attempt with one of his own and picks up the victory. After the match, Malenko pulls Guerrero back in the ring and tells him he got lucky and shakes his hand. This was solid, but was ruined by the Hogan stuff. They obviously are capable of much more than this.
Match Rating: *1/2
Mean Gene brings out Hulk Hogan for an interview. He looks dorkier than most do in a neck brace. Hogan says that he's going to the back to confront the Giant. On his way to the back, a "woman" throws salt in his eyes and attacks him with a cane. In a shocking turn of events, it's the Taskmaster. Out comes Zodiac and Giant to continue the attack. Giant rips off the neck brace and does the same neck snap that no one else believed the first time. They then shave off Hogan's moustache. The American Males come out to try and save him, but as you would expect, that doesn't work. Out comes the Nasty Boys and they eat it too. We get the reunion we have all been waiting for and that's with Zodiac and scissors. Struttin' and cuttin' baby.
Arn Anderson vs. Ric Flair
Congrats to the announcers for making it about a minute before mentioning the Hogan thing again. We then move onto baseball results. Meanwhile, the match here is very vanilla so far. Flair does get on the Figure Four, but Arn is right by the ropes. Flair goes off the top rope, but Arn hits him in the midsection. Flair then blocks a piledriver and hits a back body drop onto the mats outside the ring. Flair does get the Figure Four on again, this time in the middle of the ring. Out comes Pillman and the referee rings the bell before he even jumps off the top rope. Pillman breaks up the hold and then attacks Flair. I don't know if these two could possibly have a duller match than what we got here.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Bischoff says that next week we'll get Ric Flair vs. Arn Anderson in a cage match. Plus, Sabu will take on Mr. JL and Big Bubba Rogers will face Hawk.
Well, this episode stunk big time. This was lifeless television and it felt like no one wanted to do anything to make it special.
Overall Rating: 29%
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