WCW: Monday Nitro
February 8, 1999
Buffalo, NY
Marine Midland Arena

The current WCW champs are as follows:
WCW World Champion: Hollywood Hogan (1/4/1999)
WCW U.S. Champion: Bret Hart (11/30/1998)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Vacant (1/7/1999)
WCW World Television Champion: Scott Steiner (12/28/1998)
WCW Cruiserweight Champion: Billy Kidman (11/22/1998)

WCW MONDAY NITRO IS UNOPPOSED THIS WEEK! THAT’S RIGHT – THE USA NETWORK HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY DOGS!

They start the show replaying the stuff between Hollywood Hogan, Chuck Zito, Ric Flair, and Arn Anderson from last week on Nitro. They left in the “jiggly jiggly jew” comment from Hogan, which is weird. Turns out David Flair is just fine!

HOUR NUMBER ONE! Your hosts are Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, and Larry Zbyszko.

NITRO GIRLS! KIMBERLY PAGE is back out to dance. We catch DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE keeping watch over his wife squatted down by the entrance ramp.

With a big smile on his face, KEVIN NASH and SCOTT HALL welcome DISCO INFERNO into a locker room where ARN ANDERSON is writhing in pain on the floor. Disco wraps a belt around his fist and gets ready to do some damage to Arn while Hall and Nash leave him to it. Sounds like Hall and Nash have plans to beat up other members of the Four Horsemen tonight.

At a pool hall in Anytown, USA, the man (we are to assume) behind the camera gets hit on by a hot blonde and invites him to take a ride with her in her limo. Uhh, stranger danger!

• Rey Mysterio Jr. (w/Konnan) vs. Blitzkrieg

Hell yeah, the Nitro debut of BLITZKRIEG. It’s about time we got to this dude. Tenay lets us know that this will be a high-flying match. KONNAN feels the need to do his pre-match intro shtick. They trade headlocks to start. Rey shows off with a wheelbarrow armdrag, but then Blitzkrieg dropkicks Rey out to the floor for a springboard corkscrew moonsault. Back inside, Blitzkrieg flies down into a powerbomb for two. Rey lands a slingshot split-legged moonsault for a two-count. Mysterio and Blitzkrieg are able to avoid each other’s offense until Rey runs into a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Blitzkrieg then follows up with a somersault senton and then stands up to do a standing moonsault on Rey for two. Schiavone puts over Blitzkrieg as he’s chopping Rey in the corner. Mysterio misses a corner charge and runs his shoulder into the post. Blitzkrieg snaps Rey’s neck off the top rope to send him down to the floor and comes off the top rope again, but Mysterio is there to meet him with a dropkick. Mysterio sends Blitzkrieg into the guardrail to vent some frustration. Back inside, he bends Blitzkrieg over the middle rope and springboard legdrops Blitzkrieg for a two-count. In a rare move for a smaller guy like Mysterio, he gives Blitzkrieg a superplex – and it works. Blitzkrieg gets out of a chinlock and sunset flips Rey for two. As they both get to their feet, Rey runs him down with a clothesline and turns Blitzkrieg inside out – which again is another power move that works when it normally doesn’t for Rey. He tries to wear down Blitzkrieg with a headscissors and a chinlock, but Blitzkrieg gets to his feet only to run into a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. That’s what they call in the biz a callback. Blitzkrieg reverses a corner whip and does the Tiger Mask moonsault kick in the corner and comes right back at Rey with a dropkick. He whips Rey across, but Mysterio bounces off the bottom rope and headscissors away Blitzkrieg. As Blitzkrieg lays back in the corner, Rey comes flying in with the Bronco Buster. He heads up top, but Blitzkrieg knocks him down. Blitzkrieg debuts the SKY TWISTING PRESS, but Mysterio avoids all that and hits the TOP ROPE HURRACANRANA for the three-count. (8:24) Konnan joins Rey in the ring and talks to the camera in the corner about SuperBrawl IX. It’s a great Nitro debut for Blitzkrieg here as he couldn’t have had a better opponent than Rey Mysterio. On the flip side, I’m not sure what they are thinking with putting Rey in matches like this when you would think he needs to be preparing for larger opponents to make his PPV match make sense. **½

KANYON checks on RAVEN at the Levy household since Raven’s mom is worried about how depressed he is. This segment has a “Ferris Bueller” vibe as Raven looks at the camera and breaks the fourth wall – laughing at the things Kanyon says. He’s not depressed – in fact, he’s loving life because he’s got all the money in the world and tons of toys to enjoy. They drive away in a Lamborghini to go do stuff.

• Booker T vs. Fit Finlay

Booker tries too hard to get everybody FIRED UP. He turns his back on Finlay and pays dearly for it. Finlay keeps Booker down for a few moments, but Booker leapfrogs only to land on Finlay’s shoulder. OUCH. Finlay starts working on the mid-section by dropping knees on the ribs and bouncing his body off the apron. Back inside, Booker comes back with a spinning heel kick and the Jumping Forearm for two. However, Booker misses the Harlem Side Kick and crotches himself to go crashing on the floor. OUCH AGAIN. Again, Finlay uses the apron to do damage on Booker. The ringside violence continues as we go to commercial.

But first, we spy on HOLLYWOOD HOGAN meeting up with HORACE HOGAN backstage. They embrace and Hulk tells Horace he needs his help. Since Horace is blood, Hulk wants him to take over for the nWo B&W. Horace can’t believe this opportunity his uncle just gave him. Except for everyone watching on TV, nobody can know about this conspiracy for the Hogans to lead the nWo into the new millennium, brother.

After the break, we don’t go back to wrestling. We watch as RIC FLAIR is ordering ERIC BISCHOFF to be the head custodian in the men’s room at the Marine Midland Arena because he doesn’t want Bischoff to be in the nWo locker room. Apparently, Doug Dellinger just dropped a poop in there, because Bischoff can’t get over how bad it smells. Flair wants this restroom to be spotless by the end of the night. If Bischoff leaves the restroom, he’ll be in breach of contract. Couldn’t this have waited until after the match was over?

Anyways, back to the ring. Finlay is still in control. Booker elbows away Finlay up on the top rope and connects with a flying crossbody block for two. There’s the Axe Kick. Booker lands a back suplex and the SPINAROONIE leads to the Harlem Side Kick. Here comes the MISSILE DROPKICK and Booker picks up the win. (14:33) They need to start giving Booker some shorter matches. It shouldn’t take him 15 minutes to beat Finlay. I’M SORRY. **

We meet up with Raven and Kanyon as they walk into a First Union Bank. When a suit walks up to them, Kanyon stops the guy and tells him “no autographs”. The guy is a BANKER, Kanyon. He doesn’t watch wrestling. Anyways, apparently Raven called ahead, because they were waiting for his arrival. He gets $10,000 in one dollar bills, and $10,000 in big bills. As they leave, Raven says he’s going to give Kanyon a new look. Breaking of the fourth wall ensues. Stay tuned!

Over in the men’s room, JIMMY HART comes out of the toilet and giggles about running out of toilet paper, telling Bischoff to chop chop on getting more paper. Meanwhile, the FACES OF FEAR head in to the men’s room to take care of business. More like Feces of Fear, amirite? Of course, their poop stinks real bad, and Bischoff reacts like an eight year-old – who can’t act.

Elsewhere, Hollywood Hogan meets with BRIAN ADAMS to make him the new leader of the nWo B&W crew. YIKES.

Gene Okerlund brings WCW PRESIDENT RIC FLAIR out to the ring. Wow, lots of fireworks for Flair tonight. Gene wants to know how Arn Anderson is doing, but Flair decides to get Buffalo hyped instead. I wouldn’t worry about Arn, Gene. Flair announces tonight’s main event as he will team up with Steve McMichael against the Outsiders. He brings up Hollywood Hogan because Hulk’s got two weeks to tell everybody he’s the world champion because Flair is going to take him down in OAK-LAND. Flair starts elbow dropping the mat and putting himself in the Figure-Four, or something. He can’t wait to hear Hogan say he gives up. WOO! Now Flair wants BRET HART to come out because he’s stripping Scott Hall of his U.S. title shot. As Bret heads to the ring, he limps super hard because of that groin injury he’s got. Flair mockingly holds the ropes open for Bret. Boy, Flair has a surprise for Bret – because he’s still wrestling at SuperBrawl IX. He won’t tell Bret who the surprise opponent will be though. Bret has doctors who say he can’t compete, so he’s not doing it. Flair says he’s the president, not a doctor. If Bret doesn’t decide to wrestle, he can leave the U.S. title, and go back to Canada. As for tonight, Flair announces Bret will have to wrestle HOT ROD RODDY PIPER. Bret is freaking out and slams the U.S. title down in the ring. This segment is all over the place. As Bret leaves pissed off, Flair has a crotch chop for Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. Meanwhile, Bret walks over and steals a sign from MAD TV’s Will Sasso.

We check in with the blonde in the limo. She wants the POV guy to come sit next to her and she uses the “promise I won’t bite” line.

Special Video Look at the Tradition and History of the WCW World Tag Team Titles: They highlight Arn Anderson as one of the greatest tag team wrestlers ever. The Steiner brothers and Harlem Heat have held the tag belts more than any other teams. Well known singles wrestlers like Barry Windham, Buff Bagwell, Larry Zbyszko, Sting, and Lex Luger have all held the tag titles. History would not be complete without mentioning the founding members of the nWo: the OUTSIDERS. They show clips of them running through everybody – including the INSANE Kevin Nash JACKKNIFE POWERBOMB to the Giant at SuperBrawl VII. From there, they mention some of the top teams in the current WCW world tag team titles tournament. This was actually very well done. Look for the tournament finals to end at SuperBrawl IX on Sunday, February 21.

NITRO GIRLS! DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE watches on from the monitor to make sure Scott Steiner doesn’t interrupt.

Hollywood Hogan talks with STEVIE RAY backstage. Naturally, Hulk wants Stevie Ray to lead the nWo B&W crew. Stevie Ray is still mad about Vince(nt) stealing his slapjack. Hogan tells Stevie Ray to lead by example, whatever that means. Stevie Ray wants to bust some heads, but Hogan wants him to wait on that to set these guys up big time.

HOUR NUMBER TWO! Your hosts are Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, and Larry Zbyszko.

• WCW World Tag Team Championship Tournament Match: Curt Hennig & Barry Windham vs. Brian Adams & Horace Hogan

Windham and Hennig SNEAK ATTACK Hogan and Adams to start. While Windham takes Horace to the floor to brawl, Adams has a little trouble getting Hennig up for a press slam. As the ref tends to Windham, Adams throws Hennig out to Horace for some guardrail violence. He tosses Hennig back into Adams, but then Adams throws Hennig back to the floor. We get another brawl on the floor as we go to commercial.

BUT FIRST, various luchadores like Hector Garza, Super Calo, Ciclope, and Damien ask “Eddie” (Eric Bischoff) for some lotion. Bischoff says he’s all out of “locion” and “por favors”, which is something he *WOULD* say. He hands them deodorant because he thinks that’s funny. Ciclope wants some Old Spice, Super Calo hands Bischoff a towel, and Bischoff barks at them for an “el tipo”. They hand him their trash on their way out. THESE GUYS AREN’T BOOKED TONIGHT, by the way.

Back to the ring, Horace is playing nWo member in peril. Hennig delivers the flipping neck snap, but Horace sees a backdrop coming and tags out. Adams hits a suplex on Hennig for two. Hennig fights back with a sleeperhold, but Horace nails Hennig from behind to break up the hold. This continues to be a four-man brawl as Windham and Horace head to the floor. The HENNIGPLEX on Adams gets two, but Horace manages to make the save. Hey look, here comes VINCE(NT) down to ringside. While the ref forces Windham to his corner, Horace and Adams deliver a SPIKE PILEDRIVER on Hennig. Looks like Vince(nt) has the slapjack in his back pocket. STEVIE RAY is shown standing in the aisleway. When Vince(nt) tries to whack Hennig (again, ref Charles Robinson is obsessed with Windham), Stevie Ray grabs the slapjack from Vince(nt) and shoves him to the floor. Stevie Ray goes to nail somebody with the slapjack. As Hennig ducks, Adams gets wiped out. Hennig punches down Stevie Ray and collapses on Adams for the three-count. (10:30) Stevie Ray argues with Vince(nt) and jumps in the ring to check on Adams. Horace is PISSED. It’s a mess. Adams and Horace will now move to the LOSERS bracket in this WCW world tag titles tournament. *

We check back in with the blonde chick. She wants the cameraman to join her in the elevator, but he seems apprehensive about it. He enters the elevator anyways, because WHY WOULDN’T YOU?

Hollywood Hogan and Vince(nt) talk about him being the leader of the nWo B&W crew. He kisses Vince(nt) on the head and is disgusted with himself when Vince(nt) walks away.

Gene Okerlund brings out BAM BAM BIGELOW to talk about Goldberg. Looks like Bigelow is carrying some sort of mini-poster with him. Gene reminds Goldberg isn’t just “another ex-football player”. YIKES. Bigelow reminds Okerlund and all the people that he’s hardcore, he’s the BEAST FROM THE EAST, and that Goldberg needs to not be worrying about other things. Apparently, Goldberg has recently talked to the U.S. Congress on behalf of animal rights, and Bigelow has a sample of the USA Today article on Goldberg doing so. Bigelow says Goldberg shouldn’t worry about cockfights and should have his mind on SuperBrawl, where Bigelow says Goldberg is going DOWN. Goldberg apparently has vowed to make everybody in WCW adopt an animal in 1999, so Bigelow suggests he takes Goldberg’s old lady, puts a leash on her, walk her once or twice, and then feed her some Alpo – whatever Goldberg wants. EPIC. Naturally, GOLDBERG runs down, and Bigelow bumps around for Goldberg. They start rolling around on the mat until security and Buffalo’s Finest run down to separate them.

See the Nitro Girls on May 17-21 on the BRUISE CRUISE!

NITRO GIRLS! Once again, Diamond Dallas Page keeps an eye on the ladies.

This sends us to a clip of Rita Sever talking with Diamond Dallas Page. Is that Jason Hervey talking on a cell phone next to DDP? Dallas will be a guest on the show Later, which aired nightly on NBC after Late Night with Conan O’Brien in the 1990s. Apparently they have some history, but I don’t know. Sever tries out her promo voice on DDP – and it’s a little scary. Hervey says something, but DDP apparently likes his girls scary.

HOUR NUMBER THREE! Your hosts are Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, and Bobby Heenan.

• Diamond Dallas Page vs. Kenny Kaos

Schiavone mentions about how proud WCW is of their relationship with NBC. Interesting. It must be 9:30PM EST because Bobby Heenan has replaced Larry Z. Despite some minor efforts WCW has put into Kaos over the last several months, nothing has worked out and he’s relegated to JTTS status for the rest of his run. Kaos stuns DDP with a Springboard Clothesline, but it’s not enough. He continues to work over DDP, but no one believes this guy isn’t getting banged tonight. Lots of Piper versus Hart talk from our esteemed commentators. Kaos tries heeling it up by putting his feet on the SECOND rope with a chinlock. Nevertheless, DDP makes his comeback and leaps off the second rope to nail the DIAMOND CUTTER for the win. (5:49) Just another JTTS match, but Kaos was game to do his best. *½

Raven and Kanyon go to Versace (Kanyon mispronounces it Ver-SAIS of course) and it’s clothes shopping time. Naturally, there’s a montage for Kanyon trying on clothes – like we’re watching a scene out of Pretty Woman. Commercials!

When we come back, apparently Raven and Kanyon are painting the town red, because we see some signs that would imply they are enjoying the nightlife. They’re pulled in to the garage while Raven turns to the camera and says “the witch is home.” Kanyon lies to Mrs. Levy and she tells Raven that WCW called and they want him to come back to work. Raven walks away from her and winks at the camera. He doesn’t think his mom is too bright, huh.

Out comes THE CAT and SONNY OONO. Cat forces David Penzer to refer to him as the “greatest of all time and the greatest looking athlete today.” He continues to threaten the crowd and call himself the greatest.

Meanwhile, we cut to the nWo B&W dressing room, where Brian Adams is holding an icepack to his head. They manage to convince Vince(nt) that the Cat called him out. Didn’t they just do this last week or something?

Vince(nt) tries to get Disco Inferno to take on the Cat in his place, but Disco ain’t falling for that. If you’re wondering if the Cat is still talking, you’d be right. Finally, the old nWo theme song fires up and out comes Vince(nt).

• Vince(nt) vs. The Cat (w/Sonny Oono)

Sonny Oono distracts Vince(nt) to start down on the floor – allowing the Cat to run wild on him. Is it possible Vince(nt) is a worse worker than the Cat? The match ends up at ringside where the Cat superkicks Vince(nt) into the front row. Cat brings him back to ringside for a bounce off the steps. Back in the ring, the Cat still has everything going his way until Vince(nt) nails Cat with a jawbreaker and an inverted atomic drop. Cat then ducks a running clothesline and superkicks Vince(nt) down. Cat nails a spinning kick and heads up top. For some reason, Sonny Oono is on the apron. Vince(nt) gets up and pulls Oono into the Cat, which knocks the Cat off the apron. And just like that, Vince(nt) cradles Cat and gets the three-count. (4:19) Terrible, terrible match. CRAP

During an ad for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit ’99 Special that will air on Wednesday night on TNT, they cut away to see SCOTT STEINER confronting KIMBERLY PAGE as she’s trying to leave the building. Diamond Dallas Page shows up from around the driver’s side and attacks Steiner, but Steiner quickly low blows DDP and punches back as Kimberly gets in the car, which is probably the safest place for her. Somehow, WCW security is right on the scene and pulls the two guys apart. Steiner gets away and jumps in DDP’s car with Kimberly inside. WHERE TO, KIMBERLY? Steiner gases the Lincoln Town Car and does a U-turn to run down DDP! TO make matters worse, the front passenger door opens and Kimberly (well, her stunt double) is thrown from the car and rolls to a stop face down. Oh shoot, let’s go to commercial. DDP yells for an ambulance and checks on his poor wife making sure not to turn her over. Heenan – “DON’T MOVE HER!” You can even hear her in pain. GREAT ANGLE, but shouldn’t Scott Steiner be getting arrested right about now?

After the break, she’s being rolled onto her back by the EMTs. As they take care of Kimberly to put her in the ambulance, our esteemed commentators make sure we know that Scott Steiner is an evil man. Imagine Jim Ross on the microphone right now.

We see a clip of Mad TV where Will Sasso (playing as Jesse Ventura) and Bret Hart appear in the same skit. When Sasso breaks character to check on his cast members, Bret works over Sasso and puts him in the SHARPSHOOTER. I miss Mad TV.

Elsewhere, Larry Zbyszko is shown going on and on to Eric Bischoff while grooming himself, makes a mess on his $1000 shoes, and tells Bischoff to bleach the floor. Eric takes a whiff of the bleach. As long as he stays away from the ammonia, he should be fine.

• WCW U.S. Heavyweight Championship: Bret Hart (c) vs. Roddy Piper

This was a PPV quality match – SEVEN YEARS AGO. If you’ll recall, the last time we saw Roddy Piper was back in September on the night Ric Flair returned. Piper encouraged Bret Hart to not let the people down and asked the fans to forgive Bret for his dealings with Hollywood Hogan. Big face-to-face staredown to start. Piper pounds Bret in and out of the ring. As much as I love Piper, what more did he ever really do? He teases stomping on Bret’s groin. Piper pokes the eyes, but Bret fires back with punches. As he goes to choke him in the ropes, Bret goes down apparently selling his groin problems. It looked like Piper kicked him in the balls, but he didn’t. Out comes trainer Danny Young to check on Bret. Next thing you know, Bret pops up and beats Piper down into the corner. While our esteemed commentators feel Bret is trying to fool us all, it STILL doesn’t mean his pain doesn’t come and go, right? Commercials! Bret unleashes the Russian legsweep, the headbutt to the groin, and a backbreaker for two. We go to the floor where Bret chokes Piper with a cable. While the ref is busy untangling Piper, Bret goes over and flips Sasso over the rail to beat on him. Once Piper is loose, he pulls Bret off Sasso and brings him back into the ring. Now Piper starts delivering suplexes. They each get two. The “Roddy” chants begin. Bret tries to fight back, but that’s when Piper finds the SLEEPERHOLD. Oh, but Bret backs up into the ref as well. There’s a double-knockdown. As they come up, Bret finds a foreign object in his tights. By the way, Sasso is standing around ringside cheering on Piper. Roddy stops Bret with an inside cradle, but stands up into a LOADED right hand from Bret. With Piper down and out, Bret begins to drag ref Mickey Jay over to him. Unbeknownst to Bret, Sasso grabs hold of Mickey Jay’s leg, causing a tug-of-war over the ref. As Bret pulls, Sasso lets go, causing Bret to fall backwards into a schoolboy from Piper for the win and the U.S. title. (12:59) What a pop. Anyways, Roddy Piper gets his win back from Bret after putting him over at WrestleMania VIII and then also regains the U.S. title after being without it for nearly sixteen years. *½

Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Disco Inferno make their entrance. Scott says his “Hey Yo” while Nash lets us know that the Wolfpac is in the house. Commercials!

We check in on the lucky cameraman who has been with that hot blonde chick all night long. She thinks it’s hot in the hallway next to her hotel room and removes her sweater thing before going inside. She tells him to sit down on the bed and heads to the bathroom. She must have had too many chicken wings at the bar and needed to poop. Yeah, that’s it.

• The Outsiders (w/Disco Inferno) vs. Ric Flair & Steve McMichael

Back in the arena, the Horsemen head to the ring and they are READY to fight. They clean house on the Outsiders. Back in, Flair chops away on Hall and gives one big chop to Nash. As he comes in after Flair, Mongo runs him down with a shoulder tackle to his knee. Flair pounds on Hall’s head and sends him out to regroup. Back in again, Hall forces Flair into a corner for a ten-count punch. Flair ignores the punches and delivers an inverted atomic drop, but then Hall levels him with a clothesline. Hall takes over with his signature punches and slams Flair off the top, which makes no sense for babyface Flair. Tag to Nash, Flair puts on the brakes to avoid a whip into the ropes and struts over to McMichael for a tag. Mongo stomps on Nash’s feet and runs him down with a clothesline. Now McMichael goes SLAM CRAZY. Once Hall returns to his corner, Nash reverses a whip and sends Mongo into a clothesline from Hall that staggers McMichael into a big boot by Nash. VINTAGE OUTSIDERS. Nash delivers his knees and elbows in the corner to Mongo. Fallaway Slam by Hall gets two. Hall slaps on the sleeperhold, but McMichael escapes with a jawbreaker. Tag to Flair, he chops Hall and elbows him down. An inverted atomic drop sets up the shinbreaker to lead into the Figure-Four, but that draws in Nash. Flair crotches him on the top rope and chops him to the floor. Back over to Hall, Flair applies the FIGURE-FOUR.

On the split-screen, we see Hollywood Hogan being handed a mop bucket by Eric Bischoff. The live feed cuts away from the match and we see Hogan walking by unconscious security guards. The commentators continue to call what’s happening in the ring because they aren’t supposed to know about what’s happening backstage, which is INSANITY. Back on the split-screen, we catch Hall and Flair run into each other. Now that Hogan has made it down the aisle, there’s no need for the split-screen. With bucket in hand, Disco Inferno holds Flair up for Hogan to dump the bucket on him. Flair low blows Disco and chops him down. Meanwhile, Hogan throws the contents of the bucket into MONGO’S FACE. Of course, we are to assume McMichael just got bleach thrown in his eyes. Flair chases Hogan (as best they can in wrestling boots and wet mats) into the ring. Hall and Nash intercept Flair and he’s got no backup. WHERE’S BENOIT AND MALENKO? Hogan takes off his weightlifting belt to whip Flair, but Flair delivers LOW BLOWS to both Hall and Nash. Disco Inferno sneaks in to give Flair the Chartbuster, but he takes a low blow as well. HERE COMES GOLDBERG. Spear for Disco! The nWo Wolfpac boys are long gone. Out comes BAM BAM BIGELOW. He wails on Goldberg, but Goldberg dumps him aside by a sack of potatoes and yells at the nWo Wolfpac to end the show. (10:44) For the Steve McMichael marks out there, this is the last time you’ll see him wrestle on WCW TV. I guess they just got tired of trying to convince him to come to the show. What a way to go out by getting bleach thrown into his face by Hollywood Hogan. ¾*

WCW certainly had a chance to turn the tide of the Monday Night Wars here being unopposed for wrestling fans, and they did not succeed. They tried to do things the WWF way with all the hidden camera / backstage vignettes you get used to seeing on RAW every week, but they did *that* plus not having the commentators act like they are aware of what’s happening. Hopefully this is a one-and-done attempt at doing something different. I can’t remember if they continue this charade in the weeks to come. However, we will find out.

Until next time, so long for now.

WCW / nWo PRESENTS: SUPERBRAWL IX
LIVE on February 21 from The Arena in Oakland in Oakland, California! ONLY ON PPV!
MAIN EVENT: WCW World Heavyweight Championship: Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. Ric Flair
WCW U.S. Heavyweight Championship: Roddy Piper (c) vs. ???
WCW World Tag Team Championship Tournament Finals
WCW World Television Championship: Scott Steiner (c) vs. Diamond Dallas Page
Goldberg vs. Bam Bam Bigelow
Elizabeth’s Hair vs. Rey’s Mask: Konnan & Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Lex Luger & Kevin Nash
Booker T vs. Disco Inferno