Monday Nitro – August 18, 1997: WCW Is Kind Of On A Roll
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Nitro #101
Date: August 18, 1997
Location: Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center, Birmingham, Alabama
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, Bobby Heenan, Larry Zbyszko
Raven reads us a poem about ugly people to start things off.
Harlem Heat vs. Vicious and Delicious
Buff and Ray start things off with Buff running his mouth of course. A hiptoss shuts him up for a bit but he comes back with a hiptoss of his own and some posing. Ray still tries to shut him up, this time with a slam and a tag off to his brother. Norton comes in as well to pound down Booker, only to get kicked in the face a few times. Back to Ray who gets grabbed by Buff to give the NWO a quick advantage. A few elbows are dropped before one from the top by Buff misses. Everything breaks down after the hot tag to Ray and Vincent comes in for the fast DQ.
Booker clears the ring anyway.
Barbarian vs. Mortis
Post match Wrath comes in to take Barbarian out but Meng puts him in the Tongan Death Grip to knock Wrath out.
Stevie Richards vs. Scotty Riggs
Raven lays out Richards with the Even Flow.
Eddie, Debra and Jarrett make fun of the fans and tell Wright that he has to win the TV Title if he wants to hang out with them.
The NWO says this Thursday is going to be their birthday.
Chris Benoit/Steve McMichael vs. Jeff Jarrett/Eddie Guerrero
Ric Flair vs. Syxx
Rating: C. These two fought each other quite a bit and we got some decent matches out of them most of the time. The respect angle was fine, especially when you have a punk like Waltman and a pretty big jerk in Flair out there talking about it. Not much to see here but it was designed to set up the Clash again, which is fine.
Hennig makes the save post match.
TV Title: Ultimo Dragon vs. La Parka
Curt Hennig vs. The Giant
We recap the Sting segment from last week again.
The NWO is having a birthday party on Thursday.
Tag Titles: Outsiders vs. Diamond Dallas Page/Lex Luger
The big man wants Page so they both stand in opposite corners for a bit. The high powered offense begins from Nash until Page takes him down with a swinging neckbreaker for two. Page fires off his shoulder blocks but Nash clotheslines him right back down. DDP escapes Snake Eyes and gets two off a Russian legsweep. Back to Hall for a clothesline and the fallaway slam for two.
Off to a sleeper by Hall and Page is in trouble. His arm drops twice before Page comes back with a belly to back suplex to put both guys down. Nash breaks up the tag AGAIN and clotheslines Page down. Page busts out a headscissors of all things and finally tags in Luger. Not that it matters as the NWO runs in about five seconds later for the DQ.
Flair and the Giant run in and a brawl ends the show.
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