Monday Nitro – June 26, 2000: The Youth Movement
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Nitro #246
Date: June 26, 2000
Location: Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, Iowa
Attendance: 4,573
Commentators: Scott Hudson, Tony Schiavone, Mark Madden
Quick recap of last week to open things up. Sign of the recent times: this made sense!
Cat is talking with his limo driver.
Post match the Animals beat down the rookies until Lance Storm makes the save.
Cat tells the Animals to find Storm and bring him to the office.
Video on Big Vito.
Big Vito vs. Jamie-San
Jamie gets beaten down with one of the sticks to start so Yang comes in to help. That earns him a beating as well so Kaz has to come in with a missile dropkick. The Dragons start triple teaming with kicks and Jamie adds a flapjack. A moonsault, missile dropkick and high cross body set up a triple guillotine legdrop to leave Vito laying. No referee so no match but was there a need to crush a champion like that?
Terry Funk offers Johnny the Bull a pep talk in the form of a chair to the back. A friendly chair to the back that is.
The Perfect Event goes into the production truck but Woody Woodpecker (guy from Thunder) leaves instead of dealing with them again.
The Filthy Animals play Scooby and the Gang to look for Storm.
Tag Team Titles: Perfect Event vs. 3 Count
Kanyon now has a line of people. His secret: free booze.
World Title Qualifying Match: Goldberg vs. Jim Duggan
Rating: D-. This was an idea but they were smart to keep it short. Duggan is one of the old school goofy guys who can do whatever he want and still get cheered so having Goldberg out there beating him up is at least trying something. At the end of the day though, this heel turn is a disaster as the fans simply do not want to boo Goldberg, no matter what he does.
Goldberg hits him in the kidneys to try to get people booing, which works as well as anything else has.
A lot of people are freaked out over Duggan.
Duggan is loaded into an ambulance and Nash promises to stop Goldberg.
World Title Qualifying Match: Kevin Nash vs. Mike Awesome
Konnan gets laid out too.
World Title Qualifying Match: Scott Steiner vs. Buff Bagwell
They shake hands post match and Steiner leaves, allowing Shane to come in for a cheap shot. Steiner runs back in for the save.
The Animals have a meeting to calm things down.
Booker comes up to the book signing and asks Kanyon to sign his brick. The beatdown is on with Kanyon going through a table. As CM Punk would later say: “Security around here sucks.”
Miss Hancock wants the match with Daffney to be an evening gown match. Pamela seems intrigued by this.
Lance Storm vs. Disco Inferno
A superkick drops Inferno and a great looking dropkick does the same. Storm goes up but gets crotched, allowing Disco to grab a running neckbreaker for two. They botch something and Storm misses a dropkick. Back up and a standing hurricanrana gets two and he easily blocks the Last Dance, setting up the half crab for the win. Too short to rate but Storm looked awesome.
WCW World Title: Kevin Nash vs. Goldberg vs. Scott Steiner vs. Jeff Jarrett
The champ has to pull the referee out at two. The fans FINALLY think Goldberg sucks as Steiner gets double teamed. An AA sets up a cross armbreaker from Goldberg with the referee finally remembering to ask if Steiner gives up. Cue Mike Awesome to steal the US Title from Midajah.
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