Monday, December 18th, 1995
Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center
Augusta, Georgia
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Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan and Steve McMichael kick off the show. They are interrupted by Madusa, better known as Alundra Blayze in WWF. She says that she's always been Madusa and she puts the WWF Women's Championship in the garbage can and we get one of the more famous moments from the early days of the Monday Night Wars. It obviously went on to change nothing in the long run. Now McMichael brings up William "Refrigerator" Perry and he squeezes Heenan's hand and that's all. Alrighty then.
Ric Flair vs. Eddie Guerrero
Eddie is already in the ring here, but you have to love Eddie continuing to get his shot to shine here on Nitro. We get a slow burn here to start, but the crowd is into it. Eddie tries a few quick pin attempts just to rattle Flair a little. They trash Mike Tyson and I have no recollection of which fight they are referring to, nor do I really care. Guerrero hits a springboard hurricanrana and for whatever reason, that didn't get much of a reaction. Eddie falls out of the ring and hurts his knee. Flair slaps on the Figure Four and Flair is able to gain some extra leverage from the top rope while the ref checks on Eddie. Eddie passes out and Flair gets the victory by pinfall. This one never really got going.
Match Rating: *1/4
Arn Anderson comes out and joins Flair for an in ring interview with Mean Gene. Arn talks about Paul Orndorff and says that he got to see what happens when you mess with the Horsemen. Kevin Sullivan and Jimmy Hart come out and interrupt. Sullivan talks about the respect he has for Arn, but he wants them to keep Brian Pillman on a short list. Arn tells him that if you come looking for Pillman, he might just find the Horsemen.
Sgt. Craig Pittman comes out and interrupts the announce team and he is so green that he doesn't even know that he has to hold a mic so that people can hear him. He says he's been doing his homework and he realized that Bobby Heenan used to be one of the great managers. He must have spent a lot of time to uncover that information. He then asks Heenan to manage him, but Heenan says he can only help behind the scenes and not in the ring. I bet you not one person was talking about this after it happened.
Lex Luger vs. Marcus Bagwell
Luger misses in the corner and Bagwell gets a little bit of offense in. Luger comes back pretty quickly with a powerslam. He puts him up in the Torture Rack and that's all. This was just a high profile squash, as it should have been.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Mean Gene now interviews Hart and Luger. Hart reminds us that Luger is the uncrowned champion and Gene says that he's just a top contender.
They hype up Saturday Night and it actually has a few moderately good matches.
Earl Robert Eaton vs. Sting
Here's a squash match that I can get behind. The Luger/Sting story continues the most intriguing thing going in WCW. We get a lot of talking about other stuff during this one. Eaton misses with a top rope knee drop and Sting makes his comeback. He hits a Stinger Splash and slaps on the Scorpion Death Lock for the quick win.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Sting talks with Mean Gene and he talks about how many little kids Flair disappointed and that he'll be the WCW Champion at Starrcade.
WCW Championship Match
The Giant vs. Randy Savage
We get Giant manhandling Savage to start. Giant tosses Savage over the top rope from the floor to put him back in the ring. We get a fun moment where Giant misses off the top rope and Savage runs up top and hits the top rope elbow drop. Giant then throws Savage off at the 2 count. Giant lifts up the padding on the outside of the ring and goes for a suplex. Savage grabs the ropes and Giant falls to the floor. Back in the ring, Giant hits a chokeslam but for some reason doesn't go for the cover. He hits a leg drop and out comes Hogan and hits him with a chair. Sullivan tries to help, but Hogan shoves him off. He hits Giant with the chair a few more times and out of the ring. For some reason McMichael and Perry try to stop Hogan and he kind of hits Perry with the chair. We have a very pro-Hogan crowd here tonight, which hasn't been the case on most other nights. The match was fun for the length they were given.
Match Rating: **
Mean Gene is with Savage and Hogan and out comes Giant again. Sullivan and Pittman try to hold him back and that allows Hogan to come out and hit him with a chair. He then runs back in the ring and says that he's sick of this probation stuff. He tells Savage that he owes him a title shot. Unhinged Hogan is slightly better than what we've been seeing I guess.
A lot of stuff was crammed into this episode, but I'm not sure any of it was really worth anything to me. I appreciate the effort though they do seem to be putting into most every episode though. It would be nice if they would actually give us a reason to care about Starrcade though.
Overall Rating: 51%
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