Monday Nitro – November 15, 1999: Russo’s Finest
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Nitro #214
Date: November 15, 1999
Location: Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, Arkansas
Attendance: 10,435
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan
Opening sequence.
Norman Smiley vs. Jimmy Hart
Knobbs beats Smiley down post match.
Here are the tournament brackets.
Bret Hart
Kidman
Total Package
Sting
Chris Benoit
Scott Hall
Buff Bagwell
Jeff Jarrett
Kimberly talks to Terry Taylor. Why is she in the building after last week?
AC Jazz is out of the Nitro Girls so Fyre and Tygress jump Spice. Next.
Kimberly tries to see the Powers That Be but the Twins stop her.
Booker T. vs. Creative Control
The Twins start double teaming him and take it outside where Booker can only fight one at a time. Back in and Booker manages a dropkick to put both guys down, setting up the ax kick and a missile dropkick for two with Gerald making a save. The H Bomb gets the pin on Booker a few seconds later.
Evan Karagias vs. Johnny Boone
Madusa kisses Evan post match.
Dr. Death Steve Williams and Ed Ferrara as JR show up.
Creative Control keeps looking for Torrie.
Villano V vs. Juventud Guerrera vs. El Dandy vs. Silver King vs. Psychosis
Dr. Death takes the check from King as the bell rings roughly 857 times.
Nash is back in his usual clothes and says he took some time off when WCW sucked. Now that Hall is back, things are fun again. Well of course it is. He barely has to do anything but comedy and gets a huge check. Pay no attention to the company, and therefore the checks, dying before his eyes.
Goldberg vs. Curt Hennig
Kimberly is on the phone with Page when the lights flicker. She panics at the fear of bad writing but Jim Duggan comes up with a flashlight and says the fuses in this place are horrible. I hate to admit it, but this was kind of funny. Ignore the fact that Jim Duggan apparently has a working knowledge of the fuses in an arena in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Chavo Guerrero sells Duggan some fuses.
Vampiro/Misfits vs. Berlyn/The Wall
Berlyn whips Vampiro post match.
TV Title: Rick Steiner vs. Sid Vicious
Nash is taping up.
Asya vs. Kimberly
Goldberg has a chilled beverage.
Kimberly runs from David.
WCW World Title Tournament Quarter-Finals: Chris Benoit vs. Scott Hall
We hit the sleeper on the Canadian but Chris suplexes out to put both guys down. Benoit fights up and plants Hall with a backbreaker before dropkicking him to the floor. Nash goes after Benoit but Hart makes the save. In the melee, Sid comes in and powerbombs Hall, setting up the Swan Dive for two. Nash makes another save but Benoit Crossfaces Hall to go to Mayhem.
WCW World Title Tournament Quarter-Finals: Bret Hart vs. Kidman
Jeff Jarrett is the chosen one.
WCW World Title Tournament Quarter-Finals: Jeff Jarrett vs. Buff Bagwell
Goldberg headbutts a Surge machine and gets a free drink.
Liz and Luger put laxatives in the brownies.
The Revolution is ready for the House of Pain match, but Saturn wants to talk about Everlast boxing gear and the music video for Jump Around. Saturn asks Dean to jump for him and staring abounds. I could get into this new character.
Duggan intercepts the brownies and says he deserves something like this.
Eddie Guerrero/Konnan vs. Perry Saturn/Dean Malenko
The Revolution double teams Guerrero in the corner and pretty easily gets him most of the way chained up. Konnan comes in with some shots of his own but eats a spike piledriver. They complete shackling Eddie and Konnan gets the same just a few seconds later. Total time of a pretty big gimmick match like this: 2:57.
WCW World Title Tournament Quarter-Finals: Total Package vs. Sting
Tony starts talking about how Sting and Luger have been friends for years in this sport before correcting himself by calling it a business. The Stinger Splash connects but Luger trips the referee while in the Scorpion. Liz maces Sting and the Torture Rack goes on, only to have Meng come out for a Tongan Death Grip (revenge for getting maced last week) to Luger. Meng puts Sting on top to send him to Mayhem.
Here are the final four:
Bret Hart
Sting
Chris Benoit
Jeff Jarrett
Jim Duggan feels the effects of the brownies.
Kevin Nash vs. Sid Vicious
Street fight. As has been the case almost all night, they start brawling in the aisle with Nash taking it into the crowd and hitting Sid low. They head back over the barricade and Nash hits the framed elbows in the corner. A quick clothesline sends Sid to the floor but he hits Nash low to take over again.
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