Welcome back to another edition of RAW vs Nitro. I gave Nitro the point last time despite some dumb sh*t happening on their show, so let's see which show is better this time. Let's get into it, it's RAW vs Nitro #5!
RAW
- Camp Cornette with Jim Cornette & Mr. Fuji vs The Undertaker & Two Dudes with Attitudes with Paul Bearer-We kick off the show with the 6-man tag match that was set up on the last RAW. Man, it's just so refreshing to see a RAW start with actual wrestling like it does in these old ones instead of a 15-minute Stephanie McMahon or Mick Foley promo. Shawn Michaels & Owen Hart start off, with Michaels taking advantage with strikes and an unorthodox arm drag. The two have a back and forth sequence before Michaels clotheslines Hart out of the ring and hip tosses the British Bulldog. Everyone gets in the ring and brawls, ending with a double big boot by Diesel & Undertaker that sends Yokozuna out of the ring. Despite no one making a tag, Diesel & Bulldog are the legal men and Diesel beats him down. Bulldog quickly tags out to Yokozuna, who gets taken down with a flying clothesline by Diesel. Undertaker tags in and hits Old School. Yokozuna recovers and hits a Samoan Drop on the Taker, only for Taker to respond with a DDT. Suddenly, we see Waylon Mercy standing at the entrance way. Michaels tags in and eats an Uranage by Yokozuna. After that, Hart tags in and gets a near fall. Camp Cornette dominates Michaels as Dean Douglas walks down to ringside taking notes. I think Dean Douglas has been on every RAW vs Nitro so far and I still have yet to see him wrestle a match. Not that I'm complaining, Shane Douglas sucks. During an abdominal stretch, Hart grabs Bulldog's hand for leverage, which the referee breaks up by kicking their hands apart. This allows Michaels to escape the hold with a hip toss before getting a jackknife cover for a near fall. Camp Cornette goes back to working over Michaels. Thankfully, they kept the two best workers in Hart & Michaels in for the majority of the match, so there are a few good back and forth segments between them. While beating down Michaels, Hart goes to the top rope and we get without a doubt, the WORST spot to take a commercial break during. As soon as Hart jumps, the screen fades to black. Terrible. We come back to see that Michaels was able to dodge the top rope splash and make the tag to Diesel. Diesel runs wild on Bulldog, hitting a sidewalk slam on him before booting Hart out of the ring. A trip up from Hart allows Bulldog to hit a running powerslam, but Taker makes the save. While the referee tries to get the Undertaker out of the ring, Yokozuna hits a leg drop on Diesel and that's enough to get the win. I actually enjoyed this a lot. It might have more to do with the fact that it's 6 people who are upper card guys and not lower mid carders like Bob Holly or Tatanka, but it was still good, especially the Michaels vs Hart parts. After the match, Mabel comes down to attack the Undertaker. He & Yokozuna team and both splash Taker in the corner before Yokozuna hits a leg drop. Dean Douglas then starts brawling with Michaels at ringside before suplexing him onto the steel steps. Jesus, from having him beat Razor Ramon to having him take out Shawn Michaels, they've booked Douglas like a million bucks. It's shocking how he did close to nothing in WWF after being pushed like this. The heels continue to beat down on Michaels, Diesel, and Taker before the commercial break.
- They re-show Bret Hart & Isacc Yankem's match from SummerSlam. Like, all of it, only with commentary from this episode of RAW. Makes no sense, but all right. We found out that next week during Hart & Yankem's steel cage match, if Jerry Lawler interferes in any way, they will literally drop a smaller cage down from the ceiling, lock Lawler in it, and hang the cage above the ring.
- Skip vs Fatu-But it's not just any Fatu. No, it's "Make a Difference" Fatu. Yes, future WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi went through quite a few gimmick changes before hitting it big as Rikishi. Right now, he's just recently dropped the "Samoan Savage" gimmick he had in the Headshrinkers and he's still a few months away from becoming the Sultan, a non-speaking masked wrestler who may or may not have had his tongue cut out. As "Make a Difference" Fatu, he spoke about growing up in the ghetto, almost dying in a drive-by-shooting, and wanting to help the community. He also wore a windbreaker to the ring.So Skip just kind of runs around and hops over Fatu before doing jumping jacks. Skip rams Fatu into the turnbuckle, but Fatu no sells, dances, and knocks Skip down before getting distracted by Sunny. Fatu goes after her but is able to counter Skip's attack. Skip is able to dodge a charging Fatu and sends him into the ring post before hitting a side suplex and doing more jumping jacks. Skip bodyslams Fatu and hits a second rope fist drop before leapfrogging over Fatu and hitting an enziguri. Can someone please go back in time and tell Chris Candido how to do a leapfrog? Seriously, everytime he does a leapfrog, he keeps one foot on the ground and just moves the other one over his opponent. It's not hard, just jump. Skip beats down Fatu before hitting a top rope diving headbutt. However, Skip hurts himself because Fatu has a hard head. Fatu just gets up and dances and runs wild, hitting a back body drop, a corner clothesline, and a backbreaker before going to the top rope. Sunny yells at him to distract him and allows Skip to ram Fatu's head into the ring post. Skip sets up Fatu on the top rope for a superplex, but Fatu blocks it, sends him to the ground and hits the top rope splash for the win. Kind of a lame match, not much exciting stuff happened.
- Dok Hendrix is backstage outside the babyface locker room. His mic doesn't work, so they cut to commercial and try again. He says it's not a good time to interview Michaels, Diesel, or Taker because they're in bad shape...but he does it anyway. They never go back to him
- We then instantly cut to Jim Ross barging into the heel locker room to interview Jim Cornette & British Bulldog. Rude. Cornette says that Bulldog has been held back in the WWF and never got the title shot he deserved. Now he's pinned the WWF Champion and says he'll do it again at the In Your House 4: The Great White North. Bulldog flexes until Cornette stops talking and says the last time he's beaten Bret Hart, and he'll do the same to Diesel. He says he'll take the title back to England and he'll see Diesel in Winnipeg. Mabel wanders in and says Bulldog is his homie and says he accomplished the impossible by pinning the Undertaker. I don't know when that happened. He says he'll bury the Undertaker under a mountain of snow at In Your House 4 to close the show.
Nitro
- Before the show, Sting comes up to the broadcast booth and says that the problems between Randy Savage & Lex Luger need to be fixed and he'll be the one to do it tonight. He then leaves because he's defending the United States Championship next.
- Sting (c) vs The Shark-United States Championship-Shark rushes Sting to start before hitting a scoop slam, an elbow drop, and a leg drop for a near fall. Just curious, why are only Hulk Hogan's leg drops finishers? Like, how come Shark can hit one along with two other moves and only gets a two count, but Hogan can hit one after just a big boot and get the win. It doesn't make a lot of sense. Then again, I'm watching a match where one guy thinks he's a shark so I guess things don't really need to make sense. Sting dodges a splash in the corner and hits two Stinger Splashes before going to the top rope and hitting a crossbody for the win. Well, that was quick.
- They replay the segment where Hulk Hogan got his neck broken again from last week. No comment.
- Sabu vs Mr. JL-You probably won't recognize him, but Mr. JL is actually Jerry Lynn. Also, a young Justin Roberts makes an appearance in the crowd.Sabu rushes JL as soon as the match starts before bodyslamming him and hitting a slingshot somersault leg drop followed by a springboard leg lariat for a near fall. JL comes back with a corkscrew uppercut before hitting an enziguri that sends Sabu out of the ring. Or as Eric Bischoff called it, a "back leg round kick." What. JL hits a suicide dive that takes out Sabu, only for Sabu to come back with a spinning heel kick. JL rolls to the outside, where Sabu hits a somersault tope. Sabu throws JL into the barricade before setting up a chair and jumping off it to hit a leg lariat. Back in the ring, JL lands on his feet off a suplex back into the ring and hits a German suplex for a near fall. JL dropkicks Sabu in the corner, so Sabu clotheslines him to the ground. Sabu hits an Arabian Press, a slingshot split legged moonsault and locks in a camel clutch. JL breaks the hold by getting to the ropes, so Sabu goes to the top rope, only for JL to meet him up there and hit a top rope draping DDT for a near fall. JL goes to the top rope, but Sabu meets him up there. Sabu goes for a top rope Frankensteiner, but JL holds on and sends Sabu to the mat, but not before a very scary moment where his neck lands right on the bottom rope. JL goes for seated senton, but Sabu catches him for a powerbomb and locks in the camel clutch again for the submission win. Honest to god, I think this is the first time I've seen Sabu bust out like, actual holds. A pretty solid match in all honesty. Sabu can pull off some really cool moves, but that's all he can really do. He definitely fits in better at ECW than in the pretty wacky WCW. After the match, Sabu tosses JL onto the apron and hits a slingshot powerbomb onto the ground.
- Mean Gene interviews Sting & Lex Luger. Sting asks Randy Savage to come out, so he does. Sting says the Giant is "winning the game" and has chokeslammed Hogan, Savage, and Luger. Savage questions why the Giant hasn't chokeslammed Sting. Probably because Sting hasn't been on Nitro in about a month, but I digress. Sting says Savage is paranoid and that he doesn't know why the Giant hasn't chokeslammed. He says all three of them want to be WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Sting then proposes that if both Savage & Luger win their matches at Halloween Havoc, they'll face eachother afterward. Savage agrees, but Luger says that while he agreed to a rematch, he never said anything about Halloween Havoc. Sting calls him pathetic and says that he's been sticking up for Luger since he came back to WCW. Luger accepts the match and leaves to close the segment.
- We see a limo pull up to a building. Bischoff hypes up a new wrestler as someone who has made a name for himself all around the world. He steps out of the limo and it's...
Oh...oh boy. Umm...yeah, this is awkward. Look, I know Chris Benoit was a great wrestler, one of the best, but...you know. Let's...let's just move on. - Disco Inferno comes out and dances at the entrance way until the next match interrupts him.
- Big Bubba vs Hawk-They cut off Disco's music, so Disco starts playing his entrance theme on a little sound system. Hawk comes out and scares him, so Disco straight up chases after him, steals a fan's hat, and sticks it on Hawk's shoulder pad spike. That showed him! Disco Inferno is pretty great. Bubba rushes Hawk in the corner and hits a Stinger Splash. Hawk's head completely misses the turnbuckle when Bubba tries to ram his head into it. Hawk Irish whips Bubba, who slides under the bottom rope and back into the ring, only to get power slammed by Hawk. Suddenly, Disco Inferno returns and dances on the ring apron. Hawk grabs him and beats him all the way up the entrance ramp, getting counted out in the process. Well, that was sh*t.
- Mean Gene brings out Hulk Hogan & Jimmy Hart. Hogan comes out in all black because all black means he's being serious. He even has a black neck brace because he's being super serious right now. He says he's in all black because the games are over and now that he knows the rules, he's going to play their game. But he just said the games are over. Stupid idiot...Despite being a darker Hulk Hogan, he still calls the Giant "big & stinky because, for the third week in a row, he's a 42-year-old grown up. He says he could rip his neck brace off and beat the Giant right now. After having his neck broken...twice...in a month. Mean Gene says that the Giant isn't allowed in the arena tonight before Hogan talks about Hulkamania. He says a promoter's ego got in the way and now he's in WCW. He says he wants to face Giant tonight, but Mean Gene says it's not happening. Hogan compares shaving his mustache off to vandalizing the Washington Monument or burning an American Flag. Suddenly, they cut to the outside, where the Dungeon of Doom pulls up in a monster truck. Hogan wants the Giant to come in, but the police won't let him, so Hogan goes out after him. I know it might seem like I go a bit too hard on Hogan in these posts, and I probably do, but I do it for two reasons. #1; he's a douche who held a lot of people back in the wrestling business (Savage, in particular) to keep himself on top even when everyone was tired of him. And #2;HE BLOCKED ME ON TWITTER! What a douche...Although I did get an A on an English paper I wrote about him being a douche, which you can read here. Thanks Hulk!...he's still a douche, though.
- Before the main event, the police tell Bischoff that they are keeping Hogan and The Giant away from eachother.
- Ric Flair vs Arn Anderson in a Steel Cage match-OK, look at how small this cage is:It's ridiculous. It goes up to Flair's waist when he's on the top rope. Not to mention how poorly put together it looks. I think it might just be literally tied to the ring posts. Whatever. The two go back and forth until Anderson takes advantage and starts throwing Flair around the cage before the commercial break. We come back to Anderson hitting a spinebuster on Flair for a one count. Flair fights back and starts throwing Anderson around the cage before raking his face into the cage. Anderson reverses Flair trying to toss him into the cage and throws him into it. Anderson rakes Flair across the cage, so Flair no sells and clotheslines him. Flair suplexes Arn before Brian Pillman runs down to interfere. Flair pops up and knocks Pillman to the ground before hitting a double ax handle off the top rope. Flair hits a knee breaker and goes for the figure four, but Anderson uses a deadly TAPED FIST to punch Flair and get the win. And "taped fist" is being pretty generous, because it was like one layer of tape. I got a say, this was kind of disappointing. I expected something better from Flair & Anderson in a cage match. Maybe it was just too short.
- We close the show with Ric Flair going up to the commentators. He takes & accidentally breaks Bischoff's head set before saying he'll take on Anderson & Pillman next week. If he can't find a partner, he'll take them on 2-on-1.
RAW: 2
Nitro: 3
That's it for this edition. Stay tuned for RAW vs Nitro #6
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