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Slamboree 1996

Slamboree 1996
May 19, 1996
Baton Rouge, LA
Riverside Centroplex

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: The Giant (4/29/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lex Luger (3/6/1996)
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion: Dean Malenko (5/18/1996)

Your hosts are Tony Schiavone, Dusty Rhodes, & Bobby Heenan. Read the rest of this entry

Monday Nitro (05.06.96)

WCW Monday Nitro
May 6, 1996
Daytona Beach, FL
Ocean Center

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: The Giant (4/29/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lex Luger (3/6/1996)
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion: Dean Malenko (5/2/1996) (yet to air)

Your hosts are Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and that Emmy-award winning Steve “Mongo” McMichael. Read the rest of this entry

Monday Nitro (04.15.96)

WCW Monday Nitro
April 15, 1996
Charleston, WV
Civic Center

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: Ric Flair (2/11/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lex Luger (3/6/1996)

Your hosts are Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and that Emmy-award winning Steve “Mongo” McMichael. Read the rest of this entry

Monday Nitro (03.11.96)

WCW Monday Nitro
March 11, 1996
Winston-Salem, NC
LJVM Coliseum

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: Ric Flair (2/11/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lex Luger (3/6/1996)

Your hosts are Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and that Emmy-award winning Steve “Mongo” McMichael.

This is a special show to me because it was my very FIRST live wrestling show. Read the rest of this entry

Monday Nitro (02.19.96)

WCW Monday Nitro
February 19, 1996
Salisbury, MD
Wicomico Civic Center

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: Ric Flair (2/11/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Johnny B. Badd (2/18/1996)

Your hosts are Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and that Emmy-award winning Steve “Mongo” McMichael. I think Mongo might be drunk tonight.

STEVE GRISSOM WON A RACE! Who cares. Read the rest of this entry

Bigelow’s Replay: WCW Nitro 3/17/97

WCW Nitro 3/17/97
Civic Center
Savannah
, GA

Hour 1

Announcers: Tony Schiavone & Larry Zbyszko

– We start this week’s show off with highlights Read the rest of this entry

Clash of the Champions #32 (01.96)

WCW Clash of the Champions XXXII
January 23, 1996
Las Vegas, NV
Caesars Palace

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: Randy Savage (1/22/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: One Man Gang (12/27/1995)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Johnny B. Badd (10/29/1995)

Your hosts are Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan. Read the rest of this entry

Monday Nitro (01.08.96)

WCW Monday Nitro
January 8, 1996
Charleston, SC
North Charleston Coliseum

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: Ric Flair (12/27/1995)
WCW U.S. Champion: One Man Gang (12/27/1995)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Harlem Heat (10/28/1995)
WCW World Television Champion: Johnny B. Badd (10/29/1995)

Your hosts are Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan and that Emmy-award winning Steve “Mongo” McMichael. Read the rest of this entry

Starrcade 1995

WCW Starrcade
December 27, 1995
Nashville, TN
Municipal Auditorium

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: Randy Savage (11/26/1995)
WCW U.S. Champion: Kensuke Sasaki (11/13/1995)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Harlem Heat (10/28/1995)
WCW World Television Champion: Johnny B. Badd (10/29/1995)

To set this concept show up and it is pretty simple, a stereotypical Japanese guy named Sonny Oono (one of Bischoff’s real-life kickboxing buddies) entered WCW a few months back as an international consultant and told everybody that the athletes from Japan could beat American wrestlers any day of the week. WCW Read the rest of this entry

World War 3 1995

WCW World War 3
November 26, 1995
Norfolk, VA
The Scope

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: vacant (10/30/1995)
WCW U.S. Champion: Kensuke Sasaki (11/13/1995)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Harlem Heat (9/27/1995)
WCW World Television Champion: Johnny B. Badd (10/29/1995)

Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Bobby Heenan.
Read the rest of this entry