WCW Nitro
Airdate: March 25th, 1996
Arena/Location: Von Braun Civic Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Commentators: Steve 'Mongo' McMichael, Eric Bischoff, and Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan
Usual hype job for WCW Nitro. We got three title matches tonight, those being the US, World Tag Team, and World Heavyweight Titles. Mongo says there will finally be a wedge to end Hulkamania. They’ve been together a month! They talk about Ric Flair for a bit, then we kick off our first match!
Match One: Randy Savage vs. The Belfast Bruiser
Finlay controls most of the match… only for Savage to hit one move on Finlay, then go for the Flying Elbow for the win after five minutes.
Winner by pinfall: Randy Savage
Nothing too special, but they make Finlay look weak for losing so easily. I guess it make a bit of sense after his brutal match the night before, but didn't Savage go through an even more brutal match? *
After the commercial break, we go to Mean Gene who’s in the entranceway. We’re getting an interview with Ric “I did the job last night” Flair. He hypes up his match tonight against The Giant. Flair believes the Giant can breathe fire. He then starts singing for a few minutes.
Match Two: Mr. JL vs. Konnan© for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship.
Konnan still has his name spelled Konan in the name plate. They need to fix that.
Decent six minute match here, with both guys getting some offense in. It ends when Konnan get a bridge on JL for the win.
Winner, and STILL WCW United States Heavyweight Champion: Konnan
Decent six minute match. *¾
Match Three: Disco Inferno vs. Booty Man
The battle between a silly gimmick that requires lots of booty shaking and bad dancing.. And Booty Man.
Booty Babe is out cheering Booty Man on. She then slaps Booty Man’s ass.. BM wins with a high knee.
Winner by pinfall: Booty Man.
N/R
Match Four: American Males (AMERICAN MALES) vs. Sting and Luger© for the WCW World Tag Team Championships
Luger works the majority of this match. Sting gets the hot tag, dominates Riggs. He covers him. Bagwell is in the ring, then remembers that he’s supposed to not break up the pin, and it looks like he forgets how to lift his leg. Sting and Luger win.
Winners, and STILL WCW World Tag Team Champions: Lex Luger and Sting
Not a good tag team match. I’d prefer Steiners/Harlem Heat or something. *
Sting celebrates with American Males after the match.
Main Event: The Giant w/Jimmy Hart vs. Ric Flair© w/Miss Elizabeth and Woman for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
While Flair is coming out, Savage runs out, and is restrained by Security.
Nature Boy chant by the crowd. Giant gets an early advantage, but Flair is able to get some control here. This goes for eight minutes, before Arn and Sullivan are out. Arn attacks Giant with a chair, Sullivan takes the chair from Arn, Giant attacks Sullivan, then Arn. Flair, Arn, and Sullivan are out.
No Contest Flair retains
Giant walks from the ring as the women and Jimmy Hart check up on their allies.
Alright match for eight minutes. Giant got some aerial moves out of this, which is always surprising to see. The ending just helped pull apart DoD and the Four Horsemen more. *¾
Five matches, though none of them got **. No Hogan was a huge plus, though they talked about him all throughout the show. This Nitro pushed the storylines more than anything, which isn’t all bad. I‘ll go with average because none of the matches were outright terrible. 5/10
TV Rating: 3.1
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