What's the worst WCW Nitro Ever?

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

It's not as irritating as hay...ask Raven, DDP, Hak, and Bigelow.

 

RANDOM INTERESTING THOUGHT:

 

Scott Steiner and Booker T, during their WCW tenures, exchanged the following titles in matches against each other:

 

WCW Television Title

WCW U.S. Title

WCW World Tag Team Titles

WCW World Title

[Guest DR PHIL]

There was another nwo nitro in 97 just before starrcade 97 that was a test run on whether they'd get their own show, and it failed miserably so zybysko(sp?) went over.

[Slickster 0]

"Riddle me this! Riddle me that! Who's afraid of the BIG BLACK BAT!?"

 

- Sting, during his lame "Red & Black" gimmick, and later during his lame "Funn guy White & Black gimmick"

I hope he didn't think he was cool by stealing lines from BATMAN FOREVER of all things.

[Slayer 0]

Hell, can ANYBODY remember a Nitro from 2000?

I can't, and I went to TWO live Nitros...

 

I have to hunt for match results if I want to remember what happened

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Hell, can ANYBODY remember a Nitro from 2000?

I remember the Nitro where they literally sent one midcarder after the other to the ring to get powerbombed and pinned by Kevin Nash in 5 seconds each time. I think they killed like 12 guys before stopping. Nash did that a lot, kill midcarders.

[Guest LooneyTune]

Let me think...Nitros from 2000...uh... Nope. I saw the Nitro after Fall Brawl 1999, and didn't watch another til the Nitro after The January 2001 PPV (Sin? or was it still Souled Out).

 

I guess I missed every Russo Nitro.

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

I remember the Nitro where Flair pinned Jarrett for the WCW Title. I remeber it because when Flair won the match, the announcers didn't really sell it that well. Why, you ask ? Because NOBODY TOLD THEM IT WAS HAPPENING, and they thought it was a mistake, so panicked, not wanting to bring attention to something they didn't think was meant to happen.

[BUTT 0]

Hell, can ANYBODY remember a Nitro from 2000?

I remember the Nitro where they literally sent one midcarder after the other to the ring to get powerbombed and pinned by Kevin Nash in 5 seconds each time. I think they killed like 12 guys before stopping. Nash did that a lot, kill midcarders.

Not to mention that he didn't even have to cover them, the ref just counted to three every time one of them hit the mat.

[deancoles 0]

Some of the early 1 hour Nitro's were bad, you'd have the Hogan and Friends vs. Dungeon of Doom/Horsemen thing for at least half of it and then you'd have a couple of random matches thrown out there usually involving DDP,Alex Wright,Harlem Heat and Johnny B. Badd.

[therealworldschampion 0]

I'll tell you some bad Nitros, the ones in 1999 where Sid was blatantly ripping off Austin ad Jericho..

 

You know, dubbing himself "The Millenium Man" and using "Gimme a hell yeah!!"

 

Ah that Sid, he's always good for unintentional comedy.

[haws bah gawd 0]

I too attended a Nitro in 2000. All I remember was Mrs. Hancock's "whos my baby daddy" storyline, and Buff Bagwell came out and said it was him, then got the KA-BONG from Jeff Jarrett for no apparent reason.

[MillenniumMan831 0]

I attended an Aug 2000 Nitro where Sting won the WCW.com poll to face Booker T later that night. Of course, "Sting" was attacked by Goldberg while he ended up suffering possibly the only clean loss of his WCW career to Booker T that night.

 

It also had the wretched 4-Team Caged Heat match where 3 teams would win and the last team out of the cage would be the sole losers. Horrible.

 

Plus, we saw one of the Torrie Wilson sex tapes during Douglas vs. Awesome.

 

Muta turned heel.

 

And finally, Lance Storm won the SHIT.

 

But it still beats the last couple Raws I went to.

[The Czech Republic 0]

For the guy before...here is the very first "nWo Nitro" takeover...

 

*** WCW Monday Nitro (Live)

09-23-96

 

Announcers: Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, and Larry Zbyszko (Hour One); Eric Bischoff and Bobby Heenan (Hour Two)

 

Cable Rating: 3.43 (3.31, 3.52)

 

The nWo introduced their newest member, "Vince" (the wrestler formerly known as Virgil in the World Wrestling Federation). Vince, later renamed "Vincent", keeps Eric Bischoff hostage in the announcer's booth as the nWo does commentary with him. Hulk Hogan gives The Nasty Boys his hotel room key and his World Title belt and agrees to "talk business" with them after the show. Hogan closes the show by announcing the nWo will destroy WCW in an attempt to prove Hogan is the greatest star the sport has ever seen.

 

1. Kevin Sullivan & Konnan (with Jimmy Hart) defeated Brad Armstrong & Juventud Guerrera when Sullivan made the pin after forcing Konnan to wrestle the entire match. After the match, Sullivan & Bubba Rogers beat down Konnan, and let the camera know that this was Konnan's initiation into the Dungeon of Doom.

2. Chris Jericho pinned Mike Enos.

3. Glacier pinned Pat Tanaka after the "Cryonic Kick".

4. The Public Enemy defeated WCW World Tag Team Champions Harlem Heat (with Sister Sherri & Col. Robert Parker) to win the titles when Rocko Rock pinned Booker T. as both men's shoulders were apparently down in a small package cover. Referee Nick Patrick awarded the match and the titles to The Public Enemy.

5. Greg Valentine defeated Randy Savage by disqualification when Savage used a steel chair. After the match, The Outsiders, Syxx, & Ted DiBiase attacked Savage. The Giant took over the commentary booth, introducing Hulk Hogan as his partner. Nash brutalized Savage, and them humiliated him by whipping him in the face with a "Slim Jim" beef stick. Savage was stretchered out.

6. Jim Powers (with Teddy Long) fought M. Wallstreet to a no-contest when The Outsiders attacked Powers and Wallstreet exited the ring. The Giant delivered a chokeslam to Powers, as WCW referee Nick Patrick agreed to referee the remainder of the matches.

7. Syxx pinned Jim Duggan after The Giant came to ringside and chokeslammed Duggan on the floor, and then rolled him into the ring. The New World Order attacked Duggan's original opponent, Ron Studd, on his way to the ring.

8. nWo Sting defeated Bo LeDoux with the "Scorpion Deathlock".

9. The Outsiders defeated High Voltage in a "First Round nWo World Tag Team Title Tournament Match". The Outsiders ran off Voltage's original opponents, The Amazing French Canadians, before the match began.

OMG!!!!!!! THIS WAS MY VERY FIRST MONDAY NITRO!!!! I remember Chris Jericho vs. Mike Enos and Public Enemy winning the belts. Wow!

[Enigma 0]

There was another nwo nitro in 97 just before starrcade 97 that was a test run on whether they'd get their own show, and it failed miserably so zybysko(sp?) went over.

I was at that Nitro.

 

You think it was boring watching it on TV? At least you had RAW to flip to. We had to sit there for about 45 minutes with nothing going on but the set transformation.

[Just John 0]

It also had the wretched 4-Team Caged Heat match where 3 teams would win and the last team out of the cage would be the sole losers. Horrible.

What? I want to know more about this...

[BHK 0]

It also had the wretched 4-Team Caged Heat match where 3 teams would win and the last team out of the cage would be the sole losers.  Horrible.

What? I want to know more about this...

July 24, 2000: General Rection and Cpl. Cajun defeated Rey Misterio Jr. and Disco Inferno, Mark Jindrak and Shawn O’Hare, and Chuck Palumbo and Shawn Stasiak in a "Four Team Caged Heat Elimination Match"

[Gert T 0]

July 27, 1998: Jim Duggan pinned The Barbarian...Scott Norton pinned Jim Neidhart...World Cruiserweight Champion, Chris Jericho, defeated Dean Malenko by Disqualification...Curt Hennig pinned Steve McMichael...Sting defeated Scott Hall by Disqualification...World Heavyweight Champion, Bill Goldberg, pinned Brian Adams...Diamond Dallas Page defeated Hollywood Hogan by Disqualification

 

This gets special mention due to the hideous 10-15 minute segment where Bischoff would blast Jay Leno.

 

Whenever I see the Simpsons B-Sharps episode and Bart asks Homer is they screwed it up by saying they were bigger than Jesus, I imagine Bischoff's kid asking him this down the line. Worst segments ever in WCW and that covers territory.

 

The best was how they had them during the 8 o' clock hour, so WWF fans were probably just salivating for Raw to start.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

In this thread, let's post what we feel was the worst episode of WCW Nitro ever...

 

READ THIS...it may not be THE worst...but it's right up there...check out some of the fucking angles in the "angles" area...as well as match times and workes paired together...

 

And then post some of your memories!

 

12-20-99, The Baltimore Arena, Baltimore, Maryland

 

Announcers: Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, and Bobby Heenan

 

Backstage, the unseen Vince Russo and Roddy Piper argue, as Russo tries to get Piper to tell the fans he "sold out" to Russo, and Piper refuses. The announcers speculate that Vince Russo caused Bill Goldberg to be "screwed" at Starrcade, much like Bret Hart was two years earlier in the World Wrestling Federation. Kevin Nash cuts a "shoot" promo, running down Bret Hart and saying that Goldberg was screwed out of the World Title. Jim Duggan refuses to denounce the United States, and The Revolution brutalizes him until The Filthy Animals make the save. Roddy Piper quits WCW for making a horrible choice, but is stopped by Bill Goldberg and Bret Hart. Hart vacates the WCW World Title and says he had nothing to do with Piper's decision. Vince Russo admits he screwed Goldberg to make up for the "screwing" of Bret two years earlier. A Hart/Goldberg rematch is signed. Roddy Piper destroys Vince Russo's office, coming through the wall with a baseball bat. In the rafters, The Total Package, dressed up as Sting, was seen posing with a baseball bat. Disco Inferno was brought to Mr. Marinara by The Mamalukes & Tony Marinara, and forced to "join the family or live in a coma". Backstage, David Flair's gothic #1 fan, Daffney, is hit on by Jerry only. She responds by biting his nose and running away from the other Misifts. Later, David Flair beats down ring announcer David Penzer, as well as Vampiro & Jerry Only, for Daffney being harassed. Evan Karagias attacks Chavo Guerrero for attempting to sell him a book, titled "How to Pick Up Chicks". Dallas Page comes to the ring and attacks "Buff" Bagwell, who is claiming that an affair may have occurred between he and Kimberly, Page's wife. Roddy Piper gives an emotional speech to the WCW locker room about not selling out, as the crowd chants "boring".

 

1. WCW Cruiserweight Champion Madusa (with Spice) pinned Buzzkill in 1:38 with a German suplex after hitting him with brass knuckles thrown to her by Spice.

2. Curt Hennig pinned Hugh Morrus in 4:30 with the "Hennigplex" as Morrus was frequently distracted by his father, who arrived to ringside in a hospital gown.

3. Tank Abbott fought Jerry Flynn to a no-contest in a "No Holds Barred" match when security broke up the fight as the referee was knocked out. After the match, Abbott hit Flynn with a knockout punch cheap shot.

4. Brian Knobbs & Fit Finlay defeated Meng & Norman Smiley in a "hardcore match" in 4:00 when Knobbs pinned Smiley in the arena's bathroom after slamming a stall door on his head.

5. The Maestro (with Symphony) pinned Evan Karagias in 3:41 with a running knee as Karagias was concerned with Symphony, who was feigning being knocked out after Karagias ran into her.

6. Chris Kanyon (with J. Biggs & women) defeated Bam Bam Bigelow and Dallas Page in a "three-way dance" in 4:19 after smashing a champagne bottle over Bigelow's head while the referee was distracted. Page walked out on the match after hitting both men with a "Diamond Cutter" moments before the end.

7. Kevin Nash (with Scott Hall) fought Creative Control to a no-contest in 3:30 in a match without a referee after Scott Hall entered the ring on crutches and broke one over Creative Control's backs.

8. Jeff Jarrett defeated WCW U.S. Champion Chris Benoit in 6:56 in a ladder match to win the title after hitting Benoit with a guitar and climbing a second ladder. Benoit had just earlier attempted to climb a ladder with Jarrett incapacitated, both the rungs on both sides fell off, as someone apparently rigged the ladder.

9. The Wall (with Berlyn) defeated Sid Vicious by disqualification in 2:33 after Berlyn came off the top rope and dropkicked his bodyguard. After the match, Vicious powerbombed Berlyn, and then shook hands with The Wall.

10. Mike Rotunda & Rick Steiner (with Kevin Sullivan & Leia Meow) defeated Harlem Heat in 7:14 when Rotunda pinned Stevie Ray as he was distracted arguing with Midnight, who appeared at ringside after the lights went out.

11. Bret Hart pinned Bill Goldberg in 5:44 to win the vacant WCW World Title after The Outsiders (aided by Hart) came to the ring and brutalized Goldberg with baseball bats. Roddy Piper unsuccessfully came to the ring and attempted to shield Goldberg's body. Jeff Jarrett came to the ring and laid out Piper with a guitar shot. The group spray painted Piper & Goldberg, as the nWo music played to announce the new four-man faction.

and then the very next night, they had the Thunder taping here in Salisbury MD where Goldberg punched out the limo window and crowbar debuted at the gas station down the street from me (I knew he didn't work there lol)...not to mention I got to see, albeit breifly, Benoit vs Bret Hart live in person.

 

But back to topic..

 

The worst one I can remember, was the one with the Hogan/Giant ME that they used as a ploy to boost ratings for the Robin Hood debut.

 

I was also at the Nitro here in Salisbury right after WW3 1996 which was pretty bad from a being there live standpoint.

 

WCW Nitro November 25, 1996

Arn Anderson vs. Lex Luger

Interview- Giant

Interview- nWo

Marcus Bagwell turns on Scotty Riggs and joins the nWo

DDP vs. Disco Inferno

Interview- DDP

Steve Regal vs. Tony Pena

Interview- Rick Steiner

Konan vs. Eddie Guerrero

Big Bubba Rogers vs. Rick Steiner (Sting interferes)

Psychosis vs. Rey Misterio, Jr.

Interview- Chris Benoit/Woman

Rowdy Roddy Piper/Hollywood Hogan Contract Signing from World War III

Jeff Jarrett vs. Alex Wright.

The only thing I really remember from that show was the fact that it was mostly them showing stuff from WW3, and someone threw a soda at Kevin Nash during the nWo interview and he caught it and drank it. When Jeff Jarrett vs Alex Wright is the Main Event...damn.

[MillenniumMan831 0]

It also had the wretched 4-Team Caged Heat match where 3 teams would win and the last team out of the cage would be the sole losers.  Horrible.

What? I want to know more about this...

July 24, 2000: General Rection and Cpl. Cajun defeated Rey Misterio Jr. and Disco Inferno, Mark Jindrak and Shawn O’Hare, and Chuck Palumbo and Shawn Stasiak in a "Four Team Caged Heat Elimination Match"

WCW needed 3 top contending teams to face Kronik in a Fatal 4 Way match at New Blood Rising. So, they took the 4 top challenging teams and put them in Caged Heat. IIRC, O'Haire/Jindrak casually escaped first, then The Perfect Event, and finally MIA also escaped meaning that the Filthy Animals would be left off that Tag Title match at the ppv. They won the gold the very next night though.

[MARTYEWR 0]

I don't remember exactly everything that happened, but the 11/15/1999 Nitro was HORRIBLE.

[BHK 0]

November 15, 1999: Norman Smiley defeated Jimmy Hart in a hardcore match...Creative Control defeated Booker T....Evan Karagias pinned Johnny Boone...Sid Vicious interfered in a Pinata match. The particiapants were: Silver Kinf, Villano V, El Dandy, Psichosis, and Juventud Guerrera...Bill Goldberg pinned Curt Hennig...Berlyn and The Wall defeated Vampiro and the Misfits...Sid Vicous and Rick Steiner fought to a No Contest...Jerry Flynn defeated The Barbarian in a No Disqualification match...Asya defeated Kimberly Page by Disqualification...World Heavyweight Title Tournament Match: Chris Benoit defeated United States Champion, Scott Hall...World Heavyweight Title Tournament Match: Bret Hart defeated Billy Kidman...World Heavyweight Title Tournament Match: Jeff Jarrett pinned Buff Bagwell...Eddy Guerrero and Konnan defeated Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn in a House of Pain Match...Sting pinned Lex Luger...Kevin Nash and Sid Vicious fought to a No Contest in a street fight match.

 

Jerry Flynn going over the Barbarian is amusing. Also, that Hart/Kidman match sounds interesting. Anyone remember anything about it? was it good?

[MARTYEWR 0]

Hart-Kidman lasted only 4 minutes.

 

Here's CRZ's recap:

http://slashwrestling.com/nitro/991115.html

[syxx2001 0]

I went to the New Year Evil Nitro. It was when Steiner faked his retirement. I fell for it cause I was there. But on TV it looked so gay. They had like a big black sheet covering the other side of the arena. I think we were in the Compaq Center.

[Guest Astro]

For the guy before...here is the very first "nWo Nitro" takeover...

 

*** WCW Monday Nitro (Live)

09-23-96

 

Announcers:  Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, and Larry Zbyszko (Hour One); Eric Bischoff and Bobby Heenan (Hour Two)

 

Cable Rating:  3.43 (3.31, 3.52)

 

The nWo introduced their newest member, "Vince" (the wrestler formerly known as Virgil in the World Wrestling Federation).  Vince, later renamed "Vincent", keeps Eric Bischoff hostage in the announcer's booth as the nWo does commentary with him.  Hulk Hogan gives The Nasty Boys his hotel room key and his World Title belt and agrees to "talk business" with them after the show.  Hogan closes the show by announcing the nWo will destroy WCW in an attempt to prove Hogan is the greatest star the sport has ever seen.

 

1.  Kevin Sullivan & Konnan (with Jimmy Hart) defeated Brad Armstrong & Juventud Guerrera when Sullivan made the pin after forcing Konnan to wrestle the entire match.  After the match, Sullivan & Bubba Rogers beat down Konnan, and let the camera know that this was Konnan's initiation into the Dungeon of Doom.

2.  Chris Jericho pinned Mike Enos.

3.  Glacier pinned Pat Tanaka after the "Cryonic Kick".

4.  The Public Enemy defeated WCW World Tag Team Champions Harlem Heat (with Sister Sherri & Col. Robert Parker) to win the titles when Rocko Rock pinned Booker T. as both men's shoulders were apparently down in a small package cover.  Referee Nick Patrick awarded the match and the titles to The Public Enemy.

5.  Greg Valentine defeated Randy Savage by disqualification when Savage used a steel chair.  After the match, The Outsiders, Syxx, & Ted DiBiase attacked Savage.  The Giant took over the commentary booth, introducing Hulk Hogan as his partner.  Nash brutalized Savage, and them humiliated him by whipping him in the face with a "Slim Jim" beef stick.  Savage was stretchered out.

6.  Jim Powers (with Teddy Long) fought M. Wallstreet to a no-contest when The Outsiders attacked Powers and Wallstreet exited the ring.  The Giant delivered a chokeslam to Powers, as WCW referee Nick Patrick agreed to referee the remainder of the matches.

7.  Syxx pinned Jim Duggan after The Giant came to ringside and chokeslammed Duggan on the floor, and then rolled him into the ring.  The New World Order attacked Duggan's original opponent, Ron Studd, on his way to the ring.

8.  nWo Sting defeated Bo LeDoux with the "Scorpion Deathlock".

9.  The Outsiders defeated High Voltage in a "First Round nWo World Tag Team Title Tournament Match".  The Outsiders ran off Voltage's original opponents, The Amazing French Canadians, before the match began.

OMG!!!!!!! THIS WAS MY VERY FIRST MONDAY NITRO!!!! I remember Chris Jericho vs. Mike Enos and Public Enemy winning the belts. Wow!

To compare shows, Raw this night had:

 

the Mero/Furooqu IC Tour Finals

 

the ECW invasion during a Bulldog/Owen vs Bodydonnas match

 

HHH vs Stalker (Windham wins)

 

and JR turns heel and debuets Fake Razor

[JoeDirt 0]

October 5, 1998:

 

1) Saturn d. Lizmark Jr.

2) Cat d. Kaz Hayashi

3) Juventud Guerrera d. Jerry Flynn

-Hype for Hogan vs. Warrior at Havoc. Schiavone says it will go down as one of the greatest matches in wrestling history.

-Hogan/Warrior video package

4) Wrath d. Villano V

-Another Hogan/Warrior video package

-Mike Tenay with the "word on the street"

-Sting/Bret Hart Brawl

5) Damian nc. Hector Garza, as Eddie Guerrero starts the LWO.

6) Kidman d. Psychosis

-Scott Steiner on "why I make Steiners great"

7) Rick Steiner d. Brian Adams

-Wolfpac go into a bar looking for Scott Hall

-Hogan interview, talks about Warrior

8) DDP d. Kanyon via DQ

9) Disciple d. Lenny Lane. After the match, Disciple says "Hollywood, I'm all done carrying your bags. I'm through. I'm my own man now. Now and forever."

-Hogan is backstage and he sees Warrior in his mirror, even though nobody else can.

-Hall and Nash brawl in a bar, and Hall gets a swirlie.

-Bischoff wrestles 10-year old Reid Flair a bit in the ring.

10) Bret Hart nc. Sting as the match never happens, they just brawl in the back.

[CBright7831 0]

I remember the Nitro before Russo took back over being quite horrendous (even with Modest beating Iaukea in a horrible match).

        -=Mike

"LOOK, IT'S THE WALL, BROTHER!!"

 

Although it did have Lex going into the pool. It was always cool when that happened, even though Lex's pool dunking was nowhere near as cool as Flair's the year before.

Hell, can ANYBODY remember a Nitro from 2000? The only one that stood out, at all, was the one where Storm won the U.S Title. The rest were just a mish-mash of crap all year long.

-=Mike

I remember watching the Nitro where they started the New Blood vs. Millionairs Club feud.

 

That Nitro was actually good.

 

Quick question though.

 

Where are you all getting these old Nitro results from?

 

I know there's DDTDigest, but there's only goes past a certain point in 96.

 

CAN ANYONE TELL ME?!?!??

[Agent_Bond34 0]

Summer of 1999 had some terrible WCW Nitro shows.

[CBright7831 0]

CAN ANYONE TELL ME?!?!??

Please?

[Placebo Effect 0]

No details, but http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/p...cw/nitroarc.htm

 

Some of us just know how to use Google.

[natey2k4 0]

Does anyone remember the show where the ME was... PRINCE IAUKEA VS ULTIMO DRAGON.. what the hell!!! lol