–Tony Schiavone and Dusty Rhodes are calling tonight’s action and they are taped from Atlanta, Georgia. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, these matches took place on November 29.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Saturday Night – December 16, 1995
–Eric Bischoff, Steve McMichael, and Bobby Heenan are in the booth and they are live from Charlotte, North Carolina. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, 4,500 fans attended the show, with 3,900 fans paying for tickets.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Monday Nitro – December 11, 1995
–Tony Schiavone and Dusty Rhodes are in the booth and they are taped from Atlanta, Georgia. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, these shows were taped on November 16 and 29 at Center Stage.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Saturday Night – December 9, 1995
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary and they are taped from Orlando, Florida.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Worldwide – December 9, 1995
WCW Prime for December 4 featured a few new matches that will be recapped before WCW Pro.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Pro – December 9, 1995
–Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and Steve McMichael are in the booth and they are live from Phoenix, Arizona. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew 9,000 fans, 3,000 of whom paid.
–Bischoff announces that the WCW Executive Committee decided forty-eight minutes ago that Hulk Hogan, the Giant, and Ric Flair are all on probation and if they do something wrong, they could be indefinitely suspended.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Monday Nitro – December 4, 1995
–Gene Okerlund and Bobby Heenan handle studio duties for today’s show.
–Okerlund talks about a “dark cloud” that lingers over Randy Savage’s world title win at World War 3. Since the company is not building to a Savage-Hulk Hogan match, continually casting Savage’s title win in this fashion is not doing him any favors.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Main Event – December 3, 1995
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary and they are taped from Orlando, Florida. Heenan puts over his business partnership with New Japan, ignoring that he took their money fraudulently for half of WCW Pro.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Worldwide – December 2, 1995
–Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and Steve McMichael are calling the action and they are live from Salem, Virginia. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew a crowd of 5,000 fans, with 3,000 fans paying for entry.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Monday Nitro- November 27, 1995
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are calling the matches and they are live from Norfolk, Virginia.
–Gene Okerlund interviews Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Sting. The crowd gives Hogan a mixed reaction as he talks about how he has not fully embraced the dark side and is going back to his babyface persona. He sheds his black gear, which Sting tosses into a black container that explodes. The problem is that the fire gets to be too much, so Sting has to keep going back to the container to pour water on it or keep down the smoke. WCW technicians are eventually forced to put it out. Savage tells Sting that he is cool with him again as Sting acts like a star-struck teenager. Hogan says that Savage’s arm is not actually hurt and goes into a crazy rant about a “rag sheet” that said the Giant was going to win – the rag sheet in question being a copy of Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer – and how the Internet has the “real scoops.” The Observer copy is burned as regular fans at home have no idea what Hogan is talking about.
–Tony Schiavone and Dusty Rhodes call today’s action which, according to thehistoryofwwe.com, was taped on October 25 and November 16.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Saturday Night – November 25, 1995
WCW Prime featured a few new bouts, with Chris Cruise and Dusty Rhodes calling the action. Cruise is dressed as a Puritan woman, while Dusty has male Pilgrim garb. A turkey mascot, also in Pilgrim costume, dances behind them throughout the show.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Pro – November 25, 1995
WCW Prime for November 13 featured a new match, with Chris Cruise and Dusty Rhodes doing commentary.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Pro – November 18, 1995
–Eric Bischoff, Steve McMichael, and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary and they are taped from Jacksonville, Florida since WCW talent went to Japan for a series of shows with New Japan Pro Wrestling.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Monday Nitro – November 13, 1995
–Gene Okerlund and Tony Schiavone are doing the studio work for this show. They recap how the WCW title was held up on Monday Nitro.
–Okerlund and Schiavone discuss the recent difficulties of Paul Orndorff.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Main Event – November 12, 1995
Hello You!
Back again with some NWA/WCW stuff (I’m not exactly sure what Turner’s company was called at this time and Wikipedia isn’t especially that helpful either as it lists both groups as hosting the event. The box art for the VHS release says WCW, but that might have been added in after the fact). Seeing as we’re creeping ever closer to December I decided I’d have a look at a show that I’ve never seen in full before with Starrcade 1989.
I remember watching the Turner Home Video cut of the show many moons back, but that featured a lot of clipped matches so that they could trim it down to fit onto the tape. However, thanks to the miracle of the WWE Network, I can now watch the near 3 hour show in its entirety.
Whether that’s a good idea or not is yet to be seen, as this Starrcade fell into the dreaded category of “concept show” (Which is something that happened quite a lot with Starrcade actually now I think about it. It’s strange how they did that so often with their biggest gala event instead of just promoting some big matches that fans cared about and then delivering them) with the concept being Round Robin tournaments for both the singles and tag divisions.
Of course the tag section is immediately weakened by not having The Midnight Express in it, with Jim Cornette relegated to commentary of all things, but the singles tournament features four genuine stars in the form of Ric Flair, Lex Luger, Sting and The Great Muta. It’s hard to think that having those four guys all working with one another couldn’t produce at least a couple of good matches.
I actually did this the old fashioned way by watching the show with an actual notepad and pencil before going away and typing it up later. Of course hand writing stuff takes a bit longer than typing so if I miss something pertinent it might be because I was busy scribbling something down, so apologies in advance if that should it happen.
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary and they are taped from Orlando, Florida.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Worldwide – November 4, 1995
–Eric Bischoff, Steve McMichael, and Bobby Heenan are calling the action and they are live from Dayton, Ohio. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, 3,500 fans attended the show, with 2,500 paying for entry.
–Bischoff says that Randy Savage will not face Sergeant Craig Pittman tonight because he was hurt at Halloween Havoc and that Eddy Guerrero will be his replacement. Savage was dealing with a legitimate detached tricep injury so the beating at Halloween Havoc was a convenient way to write him out for the time being.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Monday Nitro – October 30, 1995
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are in the booth and they are live from Detroit, Michigan. Schiavone says that Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman attacked Ric Flair before the show went on the air and Flair’s ability to compete later tonight is uncertain.
–A video package recaps the Diamond Dallas Page-Johnny B. Badd feud.
–Tony Schiavone and Dusty Rhodes are calling the action and they are taped from Atlanta, Georgia. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the matches on this show were taped on September 27, October 11, and October 25.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Saturday Night – October 28, 1995