Monday, December 4th, 1995
America West Arena
Phoenix, Arizona
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We are hyping up tonight's show with a big main event of Lex Luger vs. Randy Savage for the WCW Championship. We're also starting off with a title match here.
WCW Tag Team Championship Match
American Males vs. Harlem Heat
It sure sounded like a lot of boos for the American Males. We get some good action here to start off and then out comes Colonel Parker with a gift in his hand. Sherri finally sees him and apparently, it's a ring and she walks out back with him. Despite the distraction, the Heat are still in control. Now Phoenix Suns player, A.C. Green is getting into it with Booker and yet they still are in control. Riggs finally makes the tag and Bagwell gets a few moves before being manhandled. Booker hits the Harlem Hangover to retain the title. That was actually a pretty fun match with the Heat working hard here.
Match Rating: **1/4
Now it's time to hear from Lex Luger and Sting. Sting does most of the talking here and he thinks Luger has a good chance to win the title tonight. He also knows that he'll be in the triangle match at Starrcade and he'll be coming at Luger even though it's his best friend. Luger agrees on Sting's prediction of him winning tonight. Luger says that he feels the exact same way.
Sting vs. Kurasawa
Even though I've seen that he actually exists, Kurasawa will always just be a made up name to me that I saw in the PWI Almanac. Today's youth will never understand the joy that publication brought to me. Anyway, Sting puts on the Scorpion Death Lock and wins. There wasn't anything to this one.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Scott Norton vs. Giant
Next week on Nitro, Hulk Hogan and Sting will team up to take on Arn Anderson and Ric Flair. Giant hits a big body slam on Norton with ease. Norton then hits an atomic drop on Giant, which is pretty impressive. Bischoff brags about them not having to go off the air right at 10:00. Norton goes off the top rope, but Giant catches him by the throat and hits the chokeslam for the win. This was fine for what it was.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Mean Gene introduces Ric Flair, but instead we're treated to Charles Barkley with Flair coming out behind him. Gene then asks the question that every dad was wondering, is he the new tag team partner for Flair? They play to the crowd for a bit and then they mention Starrcade for a second and Flair teases Barkley as a Four Horsemen.
WCW Championship Match
Lex Luger vs. Randy Savage
This is a pretty huge match and let's see if it delivers. We get some pretty standard action into the commercial break and the announcers do the thing where they just keep talking as it fades to commercial. When we come back, Savage is pulling Luger's arm on the guardrail outside the ring. This one kind of keeps going the standard route, which is fine since they are getting time. Savage is truly one of the greatest sellers of all time. Considering this was up against Marty Jannetty vs. Sid, I think we know which show was better. Somehow Raw won in the ratings, which is pretty crazy to me. We have a referee down and Savage hits the top rope elbow drop. Jimmy Hart gets on the apron and Savage grabs hold of him. In comes Flair with some brass knuckles and he nails Savage with it. Hart rolls Luger on top of Savage and Flair walks away. Out comes Hogan behind Flair and gets him back in the ring. The referee starts to count for Luger and Hogan pushes the referee, causing a disqualification and a victory for Luger. He gets into it with Flair and Luger, but then he accidentally hits Sting. They start shoving and Savage breaks it up as we go to a commercial break. This was pretty basic.
Match Rating: *1/2
Gene is now in the ring with the trio of best friends. Gene reminds Hogan that he's on probation and that he touched a referee. Hogan says that he and Sting are supposed to team up next week and he wants to know whose side he's on. Sting's his friend, brother. They shake and celebrate because they're friends.
The announce team recaps the show and hypes up the big main event next week. Heenan questions how good their handshake was, which is classic Bobby.
This wasn't the home run show they were probably hoping for, but it was a stand up double. It was certainly better than the poor showing that Raw had this week.
Overall Rating: 59%
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