WCW Nitro 9/30/96
Oct 1, 2013 18:07:38 GMT
Post by Captain Charisma on Oct 1, 2013 18:07:38 GMT
Airing LIVE on TBS: The Superstation from Allentown, PA on 9/30/96
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE’S BOMBTRACK opens the broadcast as the camera pans across a rockin’ and rollin’ Fairgrounds Arena!!!
Tony Schiavone, Dusty Rhodes, and Larry Zbyszko welcome everyone to Monday Nitro, they discuss Ric Flair’s monumental interview from last week, tonight’s big main event that has Buff Bagwell attempting to make good on his promise to get revenge on DDP as he and Scott Norton team up to take on Dallas and his partner, former GenX Division Champion Lance Storm!
Match 1
Nitro kicks off with a bang as Sting and Lex Luger team up to take on the Ravishing Bodies, “Hustler” Rip Rogers and “California Stud” Rod Price. The veterans give the former World Tag Team Champions all they can handle in the early going, Price and Rogers worked very well together. Lex made the tag to the Stinger who came in a house of fire and finished off the Bodies when he hit Rogers with the Scorpion Death Drop.
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Commercial Break
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We return to see Mauro Ranallo joined by Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags, The Nasty Boys, as well as the American Dream Dusty Rhodes! They discuss everything that’s been going on between them and the Stud Stable in recent weeks. Duthtay says that his eye will be on Col. Parker, his shoe, his cane, or anything else he wants to bring to the ring!
Match 2
The Highlight Express, Christian Cage and Lenny Lane, teamed up to take on the duo of Super Calo and Lizmark, Jr. This was a back and forth, exciting contest, that saw the luchadores nearly finish off the Highlights, but the resolve of Lenny and Christian shined through, and Christian was able to catch Lizmark with his Unprettier Modified Reversed Facebuster.
Scotty Steiner comes out and discusses what went down last week as Doc used a foreign object of some sort to headbutt his brother Ricky into oblivion. Ricky is still at home suffering from concussion like symptoms, and right here, right now, Scotty wants Doc in the ring!
Match 3
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Scott Steiner locked up with Doc of Hell on Wheels, it what was a glorified fist fight. There wasn’t much of a match as CW Anderson and Kendall Windham, came into the match to save their leader, all three ate Steinerlines for their troubles. It is clear this war between the Steiners and Hell on Wheels is far from over!
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Commercial Break
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We see “Ravishing” Rick Rude standing in front of an ECW banner, with the wounds of wargames still showing on his beautiful face. Rude says that Sting might’ve won the battle at Fall Brawl, but this war is far from over! When Rick Rude sets his sights on someone that someone ends up going down. And Sting is in the Ravishing One’s crosshairs!
Match 4
The Fallen Angel took on ring veteran, and one half of the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Billy Black. Black more than held his own, dominating much of the early going and producing a near fall after his trademark Moonsault. But the masked man fired up, made his comeback, and finished off Billy with his Angel’s Wings modified Tiger Driver.
Match 5
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Ric Flair and Brad Armstrong hooked it up in a fabulous match. Back and forth they went, and kept the fans on their edge of their seats the entire time. Flair was able to reverse Brad’s attempted Side Russian Leg Sweep into his patent knee breaker, and lock on the figure 4, the valiant, fighting Armstrong refused to give it up, but his shoulders were pinned to the mat for the 1…..2…….3!
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Commercial Break
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Match 6
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Dem Aloha Boys along with the Godfather Samu went to battle with the entire Stud Stable. Rosey more than held his own power-wise with Big Bubba, and the veterans, Samu and ‘Beautiful’ Bobby picked up where the SST and Midnight Express left off in 1989! Iaukea looked good as well, impressively catching the Dirty White Boy in a regular Samoan Drop, but Eaton made the save, which drew in Samu and the two went up and over the top rope! Bubba planted Iaukea with a big boot to the side of the head, but tasted the bare feet of Rosey for his troubles, and the 300 pounders brawled, as Anthony picked the bones of Iaukea and got the submission with the Stump Puller!
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Mauro is now joined by Rick Martel and his friend that joined him in the brutal attack on Ricky Steamboat at the end of last week’s Nitro. Martel says that his friend is second generation superstar Shawn Stasiak, and more importantly, he is a fellow Canadian. Which means that Martel knows he can trust him! Unlike Bobby Eaton, unlike Sting, and definitely unlike Ricky Steamboat!
Here comes the Dragon! Who is not looking to talk! He has the Total Package with him and they get a few licks in on Martel and Stasiak, but not nearly enough for their liking. Luger and Steamboat say that they just finished talking to Magnum T.A., and next week on Nitro, they will get Stasiak and Martel in the ring, and there won’t be any running away!
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Main Event
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World Television Champion, Diamond Dallas Page and Scott ‘Flash’ Norton picked up on their heated rivalry. But the battered and bruised Buff Bagwell, wanted in so badly he could taste it! Norton got the champ down, and obliged his friend. Bagwell really took it to DDP, with a vigor and aggression rarely seen out of the youngster. Lance Storm made a big contribution to the contest, and showed his knowledge for tag team wrestling, tagging Page while Norton and Bagwell didn’t notice! Storm hit his dreaded Corkscrew Brainbuster on Buff Bagwell, but the cover was broken up by Norton, who ate a Diamond Cutter for his troubles! In the confusion, the First Lady of Professional Wrestling, Miss Elizabeth, slid a chain in to her man Buff, who waffled Storm, leading to his top rope flipping Blockbuster Neckbreaker for the big win.
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