RAW
- Sycho Sid vs Justin Hawk Bradshaw with Uncle Zebekiah-The two trade blows before Sid slaps Bradshaw and quickly chokeslams him. Sid takes in the cheers, allowing Bradshaw to grab his bull rope and cowbell and clock Sid for the DQ. Bradshaw & Zebekiah beat down Sid before Sid hits a double clothesline and powerbombs them both. Well, that was quick.
- Sunny & Faarooq Assad get interviewed. She says she had a big surprise for Johnson last week in the form of Faarooq and he'll beat him for the Intercontinental Championship at SummerSlam. Faarooq says Johnson better respect Sunny now and that on the streets, there are no rules. At SummerSlam, he says he'll be fifteen pounds heavier when he wins the title.
- Vader with Jim Cornette vs Marc Mero with Sable-As usual, Jim Cornette takes a seat at commentary for this match. Vader forces Mero into the corner to start before slapping Mero. Vader continues to overpower Mero, forcing him into the corner again and spitting on him. Mero lands on his feet off a suplex and clotheslines Vader before hitting a rolling wheel kick that knocks Vader off his feet. Mero gets a near fall off a crucifix pin before Vader catches him with a body block. Vader follows up with the Face Eraser, a wheelbarrow facebuster, before taking Mero to the corner and beating him down. Vader controls the match until Mero hits a crossbody for a near fall and clotheslines Vader out of the ring. Mero follows up with a somersault senton before bringing Vader back in the ring for a double axe handle. Mero goes to the top rope for the diving sunset flip, but overshoots it by about a foot, forcing Vader to scoot back so Mero can try to roll him up.Poor. Vader tries to sit down on Mero, but Mero dodges it and goes to the top rope again, only to get caught with a powerslam by Vader for the win. This was a good way to build up Vader for his WWF Championship match at SummerSlam. He crushed Mero, who deserved a squashing after THAT sunset flip. After the match, Jim Cornette says he wants Jose Lothario in the ring right now
- Gorilla Monsoon & Clarence Mason negotiate bringing Mason's ex-criminal client into the WWF, with Monsoon listing off the crimes the man committed.
- Vince McMahon interviews Cornette & Lothario in the ring. Cornette says that Lothario is a has been and that Shawn Michaels will kick him to the curb when he loses the title to Vader at SummerSlam. This prompts Lothario to grab Cornette and threatens to kick his ass before trying to leave the ring. Cornette tries to hit Lothario with his tennis racket, but Lothario turns around and clocks Cornette. We then see backstage that Shawn Michaels is being put in the Mandible Claw by Mankind until referees and officials.
- Before the next match, Jerry Lawler challenges Aldo Montoya to a match after Montoya beat him on Superstars. Montoya appears on camera and accepts the rematch.
- The British Bulldog with Owen Hart vs Henry O. Godwinn with Hillbilly Jim-Hart decides to take a seat at commentary for this match, spending the majority of it talking about how the Godwinns smell and trying to keep his Slammy Award away from their stink. The two lock up before Godwinn floors Bulldog with a shoulder tackle. Godwinn slaps on a headlock before countering a leapfrog with a wheelbarrow facebuster. Somebody watched the last match. Bulldog rolls out of the ring to recuperate before going back in the ring, where Godwinn slaps on a wristlock. Bulldog turns it into a hammerlock, but Godwinn fights out of it. Bulldog dodges a charging Godwinn in the corner and starts stomping away Godwinn. Bulldog throws Godwinn out of the ring when he starts to fight back and slaps on a headlock when he gets back in the ring. Bulldog controls the match until Godwinn fights to his feet and hits a suplex before the commercial break. We come back to Godwinn dodging a charging Bulldog in the corner and hits a back elbow for the near fall. Godwinn goes for the Slop Drop, only for Hart to leave commentary and knock over Godwinn's bucket of slop. He does it so casually it's hilarious. Godwinn clearly never learned you don't cry over spilled milk, or in this case slop, and gets distracted long enough for Bulldog to hit the running powerslam for the win. This was pretty boring. Nothing of note happens and it's basically just rest holds.
- The Undertaker with Paul Bearer vs Steve Austin-Austin extends a hand at the start of the match, but Taker does nothing. The two go back and forth before Taker gets a wristlock. Austin reverses it, only to get clocked by Taker. Austin fights back and rams Taker's head into the turnbuckle, but Taker no sells it and strikes away at Austin before hitting a jumping clothesline. Taker goes for Old School, but Austin yanks his foot out from under him and crotches him on the top rope. Austin stomps away at Taker before tying him up in the ropes. Taker fights back with open hand strikes, only for Austin to low blow him right in front of the referee.WHAT ABOUT THE RULES! Austin proceeds to stomps mudhole in Taker, with Lawler actually calling it "stomping a mudhole" for the first time. Austin follows up with a second rope elbow drop for a near fall before taking Taker to the corner and working him over with shoulder tackles. Austin controls the match until Taker ties Austin up in the ropes Andre the Giant style and delivers a big boot. Taker bodyslams Austin, but Austin dodges an elbow drop and regains control. We get a split screen showing Mankind leaving the boiler room before the commercial break. We come back to Austin working over Taker with a headlock, which Taker breaks by raking Austin's eyes. Taker strikes Austin down from his knees before getting to his feet, only for Austin to counter a backbody drop with a piledriver. Austin goes to the top rope, only for Taker to sit up and hit the ropes, causing Austin to land crotch first on the top turnbuckle. Taker chokeslams Austin down to the mat and goes for the Tombstone Piledriver, only to see Mankind at the top of the entrance ramp. Taker leaves the ring and the two brawl. Just like the low blow earlier, despite this being in PLAIN VIEW of the referee, he counts out Taker and gives Austin the win.
Taker & Mankind brawl to the back, only for Taker to come back out and give Austin a Tombstone Piledriver. Jesus, that was a mess. After the match, Vince McMahon enters the ring to interview Taker, who says he will enter Mankind's lair and Mankind will rest in peace at SummerSlam.
That's it for RAW. Onto Nitro!
Nitro
- Mike Enos vs Jim Duggan-Enos goes after Duggan as soon as the bell rings, only for Duggan to come back with a hip toss and clotheslines him out of the ring. Back in the ring, the two try to knock eachother down before trading strikes. Duggan hits an atomic drop before trying to clothesline Enos out of the ring again, only for Enos to pull down the ropes and send him to the outside. Outside the ring, Enos bodyslams Duggan on the pavement before bringing him back in the ring. Enos hits a corner splash before clotheslining him down to the mat. Enos controls the match until Duggan fights to his feet and both men go down on a double shoulder block. Duggan gets a near fall off a sunset flip, which Enos responds to with a neckbreaker for a near fall. Enos hits a suplex and goes for a top rope splash, but Duggan dodges it. Duggan beats down Enos in the corner until the referee stops him, allowing Enos to take control in the corner. The referee pulls Enos out of the corner, which allows Duggan to pull his athletic tape out of his tights, wrap his fist, and clock Enos for the win. This was sh*t. After the match, Mean Gene interviews Jim Duggan. Duggan says Hulk Hogan turned his back on the fans, the children, and everything he used to love. Duggan says Hogan is a great technical wrestler. That is a lie. He ends by saying he wants to beat up Hogan.
- GLACIER VIGNETTE!
- Ric Flair, Chris Benoit, and Steve McMichael with Woman, Miss Elizabeth, and Debra vs Randy Savage, Sting, and Lex Luger-Instant brawling to kick off the match. After a commercial break, the match officially starts with Benoit & Sting starting off. Sting back body drops Benoit and clotheslines him before Benoit tags in Flair. Sting beats down Flair in the corner before throwing him out of the ring, where Savage brawls with Flair. Back in the ring, Sting gorilla press slams Flair before tagging in Savage. Flair quickly runs over and kisses Miss Elizabeth to gain an advantage, but Savage is able to keep control. Flair leaves the ring after getting beat down in the corner. Flair walks all the way up the entrance ramp, prompting Savage to follow him out and bring him back to the ring. Mongo & Luger tag in and Luger throws Mongo through the middle ropes and out of the ring. Back in the ring, Mongo forces Luger into the Horsemen's corner and tags in Flair, who gets gorilla press slammed by Luger. Luger suplexes Flair for a near fall before Flair tags in Benoit, who beats down Luger in the corner. Savage cheap shots Benoit, allowing Flair to jab Luger in the eye while the referee breaks up Savage & Benoit. Flair tags in and gets clotheslined before Luger tags in Sting. Sting hits a hip toss & a dropkick before getting Flair on the top rope for a superplex. Benoit breaks up the fall before Flair throws Sting out of the ring. Sting goes for a sunset flip, but Flair tags in Mongo before he can get rolled up. Mongo clotheslines Sting in the corner before hitting a backbreaker and tagging in Benoit. Benoit hits a back elbow for a near fall before hitting a back suplex for another near fall. The Horsemen control the match until suddenly, Jimmy Hart runs down and tells the camera man that the Outsiders are backstage. The cameraman sprints to the back as Hart tries to tell everyone about the Outsiders. Luger & Sting go the back before we cut to the back, where Arn Anderson & Marcus Alexander Bagwell are by Hall & Nash, who have baseball bats. Scotty Riggs runs out and eats a stage light to the face from Hall. Rey Mysterio Jr. pops up and dives at Nash, but Nash catches him and throws him headfirst into a trailer. Yep, it's the infamous "Mysterio Lawn Dart" moment
Hall & Nash get into a limo as Savage sprints down and hops onto the roof of the limo.
That's the Cruiserweight Champion, by the way. The limo drives off with Savage still on top as the rest of the locker room checks on the injured. Scotty Riggs is the only one who's not moving. He might actually be unconscious. Mysterio keeps yelling about how there were four Outsiders, even though we only saw Hall & Nash. Eddie Guerrero is apparently unable to comprehend this, as he keeps yelling "WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY 4?" Mongo yells that there's going to be justice as Woman cries over Anderson. The injured are taken off in an ambulance. Meng & Chris Benoit argue before we go to the second hour. The four commentators talk as Bobby Heenan says he won't risk being crippled tonight with his history of neck injuries and says he won't do commentary tonight, leaving Bischoff to do commentary with Schiavone & Zbyszko. This was great. It felt real. Everything on the show came to a halt to show this. Like, nothing is happening in the ring. The crowd is chanting boring and there right, it is boring for them, but that's the point. This might not seem that long because of how I'm writing about it, but this goes on for nearly 20 minutes. It is supposed to seem like the Outsiders are legit outsiders who want nothing more than to destroy WCW, and everyone in WCW needs to stop them. Sting & Flair ride to the hospital together in an ambulance. Sting & Flair. Two of the biggest rivals in wrestling history sitting side by side in an ambulance. I tend to say this when the WWF does something stupid like put a wrestling plumber in the ring, but stuff like this is why WCW starts winning. Things that feel real.
- High Voltage vs The Steiner Brothers-Scott Steiner and Kaos start off with Steiner hitting a hip toss. At first, Rick Steiner doesn't get on the apron, constantly looking back at the entrance way Steiner slaps on an armbar before flooring Kaos with a shoulder block. Steiner controls the match before he leaves the ring to tell Rick to get his head in the game. Rick tags in, but is still distracted and Kaos takes control. High Voltage hits a double dropkick followed by two elbow drops. High Voltage follows up with a double suplex before Rage hits a bodyslam and a diving shoulder tackle off the top rope. Kaos tags in and goes for a flying nothing, which Steiner turns into a powerslam for a near fall. Scott tags in and runs wild on High Voltage, hitting a tilt-a-whirl slam and a double underhook powerbomb on Rage. Rick tags in for a clothesline before tagging in Scott for his underrated finisher; a delayed vertical suplex dropped into a piledriver called the Steiner Screwdriver. It's awesome.The Steiners win off that move in a fine match.
- Big Bubba with Jimmy Hart vs Eddie Guerrero-This was supposed to be Guerrero taking on Rey Mysterio Jr. for the Cruiserweight Championship, but since Mysterio got thrown face first into a trailer by "four men" (BUT WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY 4?!) so now we're getting Guerrero vs Big Bubba. That's like being promised Shawn Michaels vs The Undertaker and getting Michaels vs The Great Khali instead. The two start off with Bubba flooring Guerrero with a shoulder block and throwing Guerrero out of the ring. Guerrero quickly gets back in the ring and dropkicks Bubba out of the ring. Bubba gets back in the ring and the two trade wristlocks before Bubba launches Guerrero in the air. Bubba drops a knee and starts slapping Guerrero before gorilla pressing Guerrero onto the top rope. Bubba controls the match until Guerrero counters a running powerslam and hits a side suplex, only to get clocked by Bubba. Guerrero comes back with a pop-up dropkick, but Bubba responds with a clothesline for a near fall. Bubba puts Guerrero in a camel clutch before applying body scissors. Guerrero fights out, but Bubba keeps control and beats down Guerrero in the corner before splashing him. Bubba controls the match for a long time until Guerrero hits a tornado DDT, only for Jimmy Hart to hop up on the apron and literally hold the referee in place while he tosses his megaphone to Bubba.Bubba tries to grab the megaphone, but Guerrero is able to pin him with a sunset flip before he can for the win. This was not good. I never thought I'd say that about an Eddie Guerrero match, but it was bad.
- We get an announcement "paid for by the New World Order" during the commercial break. Hogan says there is nothing anyone can do about the New World Order and Hall questions if WCW is even gonna fight or are they just going to take WCW. Hogan says they'll take WCW when they want to and that the nWo will establish itself as the best wrestling organization in the world at Hog Wild. Hall says him & Nash will bring it to Sting & Luger at Hog Wild.
- The Giant (c) with Jimmy Hart vs Greg Valentine-WCW World Heavyweight-This was supposed to be The Giant vs Arn Anderson, but because of the Outsiders attack, Anderson can't compete. Instead, we have Greg Valentine, and again, it's like going from Michaels vs Undertaker to Michaels vs Khali. Valentine tries to knock the Giant down before the Giant clotheslines him. The Giant chokes Valentine in the corner with his foot, but Valentine dodges a back elbow in the corner and hits a double axe handle. Valentine goes for a second one, but the Giant meets him at the top and hits a chokeslam. The Giant hits another one for good measure and the win. After the match, Mean Gene interviews the Giant, who poses before talking.The Giant mocks Hogan's promo-style before saying Hogan conned America by telling us to believe in things he didn't believe in himself. He calls Hall & Nash piranhas and that Hogan started the nWo because he couldn't be the big fish in WCW anymore. The Giant says he has chokeslam ready for Hogan before Jimmy Hart says that the Giant will take Hogan out at Hog Wild.
RAW: 17
Nitro: 26
That's it for this edition of RAW vs Nitro. If you liked what you read, feel free to share this around and as always, stay tuned for the next one!
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