Note the typo on the video cassette box, which says “1996” instead of “1995.” I guess this goes in the “because WCW” category?
–Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan, and Dusty Rhodes are doing commentary and they are live from Nashville, Tennessee. Heenan appears to have put aside his complaints about working with Dusty, which drove him from WCW Saturday Night earlier in the year.
If you have not already, do not forget to vote for the Doomies.
–Eric Bischoff, Steve McMichael, and Bobby Heenan are in the booth for this Christmas edition of Monday Nitro and they are taped from Augusta, Georgia. This is also the go-home show for Starrcade, which takes place in two days.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Monday Nitro – December 25, 1995
–Tony Schiavone and Dusty Rhodes in the booth and they are taped from Atlanta, Georgia. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, these matches took place on November 29 and 30.
–Schiavone announces that Hulk Hogan has been suspended from WCW because of his actions on Monday Nitro.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Saturday Night – December 23, 1995
WCW Prime for December 18 featured a couple of original bouts, with Chris Cruise and Dusty Rhodes on commentary. They are sporting Santa hats for the show.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Worldwide – December 23, 1995
–Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan, and Steve McMichael are in the booth and they are live from Augusta, Georgia. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, 8,100 fans attended the show, with 3,000 paying to do so.
–Madusa interrupts the announce crew, holding the WWF Women’s Championship. She says she will always be Madusa and she dumps the WWF Women’s title in the trash can. The promo was terrible, but this was a HUGE shock at the time since Madusa had just competed at Survivor Series weeks earlier and plans called her for to face Aja Kong at the Royal Rumble. This incident had long-term ramifications too as Vince McMahon feared Bret Hart would do the same to the WWF title if he retained at the 1997 Survivor Series, thereby leading to the Montreal Screwjob. Also, the WWF would not restart its women’s division until 1998. WCW would attempt to create its own women’s division with Madusa as a centerpiece, but it never worked out.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Monday Nitro – December 18, 1995
–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