WCW ON TBS(4/27/94) Go Home Show For the Clash!!!
May 16, 2024 2:45:45 GMT
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World Championship Wrestling
Taped 4/25/94 at Center Stage in Atlanta, GA to air at 6:05 PM on 4/27/94 on Superstation TBS
Announcers: Tony Schiavone, Jesse Ventura, & Larry Zybysko
Interviewer: Gene Okerlund
Ring Announcer: Gary Michael Capetta
What a way to get this show rolling! Harley Race leads Vader to the ring!
Vader(w/Harley Race) vs. Brooklyn Brawler: Vader tunes up for his match at the Clash against Sid Vicious against the veteran Brawler. The former World Champion takes his opponent apart before hitting the Vader Bomb and scoring the 1-2-3.
WINNER: VADER
VTR:
BAM BAM: I’m back in WCW! You gotta know that I want to be World Champion! You got no business in pro wrestling if ya don’t want that! But I got a score to settle, too! Vader! You and me were the hottest tag team in Japan, but Harley Race sold you a bill of goods and you stabbed me in the back! Sooner or later, you’re gonna pay! For all of you wrestling fans, I’ll be in action again, right here on the Superstation next week! Don’t miss it!
COMMERCIAL
VTR:
WCW Commissioner Nick Bockwinkel is seated behind an oak desk. Ole Anderson and Michael Hayes stand behind him.
BOCKWINKEL: Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for interrupting your great WCW wrestling with a housekeeping chore like this, but I have an announcement. For the next several weeks, I have WCW business to conduct in Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. While I am away, I’m leaving the day to day operations of our great organization in the hands of my capable associates, Ole Anderson and Michael Hayes. Nobody knows our great sport like these two gentlemen and I know that I’m leaving WCW, including the upcoming Clash of the Champions, in very good hands! I’ll see you all when I return.
Sherri Martel leads the United States Champion to the ring!
Ravishing Rick Rude(w/Sherri Martel) vs. Matt Hardy: Rude will defend his recently won belt against former Champion Ricky Steamboat at the Clash. Rude calls out Steamboat’s name several times during this bout as he scores a convincing win, using the neckbreaker as a finisher.
WINNER: RICK RUDE
GENE: United States Champion Ravishing Rick Rude, the Clash is only three days away, here on the Super Station! You will defend against the great Ricky “the Dragon” Steamboat. I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that he pinned you in a tag team match on this very program a week ago!
RUDE: But at Super Brawl, when it came down to money, marbles, and chalk, when we played for keeps, who walked out with the title?
SHERRI: You did, Ricky!
RUDE: Steamboat caught a lucky break last week! Gene, sort of like the time your Minnesota Twins actually won the World Series! It was a fluke, these people in Atlanta have seen that every time Dale Murphy ever hit a ball out of the infield! The Dragon poses no threat to me! I’m even considering stepping aside when we get to Dayton for the Clash! You know that my Sexy Sherri is the greatest woman wrestler of all time! I might let her take Steamboat on! I think you can take him, honey!
SHERRI: Let me have him! I’d claw his eyes out!
GENE: Michael Hayes, why are you out here?
HAYES: Gene, as you know, Commissioner Bockwinkel left ole and me in charge here. One of the matters he asked me to handle is this: WTBS has received several complaints from women’s groups about the lack of women’s wrestling here on WCW. We have decided to rectify the situation immediately. As Rick Rude just said, Sherri Martel is regarded as the top female wrestler in the United States today. We have brought in Debbie Combs, a highly regarded wrestler in the Southern states, and she’s in the ring right now.
SHERRI: I’ll take on any woman you can bring out here, but I don’t have my gear!
HAYES: Look, I told the Commissioner that I would have a woman’s match on TV today! Do the best ya can, Sherri!
Sherri kicks off her heels and stalks to the ring!
RUDE: Looks like the inmates are running the asylum, Mean Gene!
Sherri Martel vs. Debbie Combs: Sheri is clad in a dress for this match. Early on, it’s all Debbie Combs as she throws Sherri around the ring and Martel bumps for her like the Japanese army would for Godzilla! In the end, Debbie misses a splash and Sherri uses a Rick Rude neckbreaker to get the pin!
WINNER: SHERRI MARTEL
JESSE: Ya know what? I think she could give Steamboat a run for his money!
COMMERCIAL
Steve Blackman vs. Nasty Ned Brady: Blackman gets a chance to shine this week. Blackman uses his martial arts skills to dominate the action and finishes Brady after a bicycle kick. During the bout, the cameras spot Rob Van Dam at ringside. Mean Gene speaks to the WCW newcomer afterwards.
WINNER: STEVE BLACKMAN
GENE: Rob Van Dam, you will make your WCW debut at the Clashon Tuesday night. What brings you here today?
ROB: Mean Gene, Steve Blackman is a friend of mine and we work out together a lot because of our martial arts backgrounds. He told me that he had a match tonight and I stopped by to support him.
GENE: On April 30th, live from Dayton’s Hara Arena, you will be in action at the Clash of the Champions. Are you ready?
ROB: Absolutely! I really am looking forward to it. They tell me that my opponent flew in from Australia and I know that this will be his chance to wrestle in front of a worldwide audience, too. So, I can’t take anybody lightly and I have to be at my very best! All of you great fans be sure to tune in and I promise you that you’ll se some things you’ve probably never seen before!
GENE: It will be a great night of action, Tuesday night at 8:05, here on the Superstation TBS!
COMMERCIAL
Lord Steven Regal & Squire David Taylor vs. Larry Winters & Ray Odyssey: The Brits give their opponents a wrestling lesson today. Regal pins Odyssey after the Regal Roll. The announcers agree that his lordship looks ready for Arn Anderson at the Clash!
WINNERS: REGAL & TAYLOR
UK Express vs. Mike Bell & Barry Horowitz: Horowitz doesn’t even get to tag in as Finlay and Smith dominate the action and Fit Finlay pins Bell after a tombstone piledriver. After the bout, Smith and Finlay join Mean Gene.
GENE: Johnny Smith and Fit Finlay, the UK Express, yet another impressive victory this week! We just saw your fellow Brits, Lord Steven Regal and Squire David Taylor in action. I have to say that Great Britain is well represented here in WCW!
SMITH: Thanks for your kind words, Mean Gene! It’s interesting that you bring up Regal and Taylor.Fit and I have been calling them out since we arrived here in WCW, but they haven’t answered us.
FINLAY: You’d almost think they were afraid of us, wouldn’t you? Look, there’s a big card coming up Tuesday evening! An international audience! You would think that they would jump at a chance to wrestle there!
Regal and Taylor enter the picture!
REGAL: Look, maybe you blokes simply don’t pay attention. It’s been announced several times that I will be defending my World TV Title against Arn Anderson on the Clash of the Champions! David and myself are not available!
Taylor whispers something in Regal’s ear.
REGAL: Ah, that’s a capital idea, Squire! He just reminded me that a good friend of ours from England will be available that night! You lads probably grew up watching him on the telly.
TAYLOR: Do you remember the Royal Executioner?
SMITH: That’s who you’ve got for a partner?
FINLAY: Yeah, he was a tough wrestler and he sent a lot of guys to hospital, but that don’t intimidate us none! We’ll take you on!
REGAL: Hope you two have your health insurance premiums up to date!
GENE: It looks like we can add one more match to the Clash!
COMMERCIAL
VTR:
Ric Flair is standing in front of the WCW logo, dressed in one of his custom made robes.
FLAIR: Stinger, this Tuesday night, in Dayton and airing LIVE here on TBS, Slick Ric is gonna walk that aisle and take that ten pounds of gold one more time! Sting, I know you’re tough, but on the Clash of the Champions, you’re gonna be miiine! ALL NIGHT LONG! WOOOOOOOOOOO!
Sting vs. Moondog Spike: Spike attacks Sting before the bell rings, but it doesn’t help much. The WCW World Champion gets a submission win via the Scorpion Deathlock. The Stinger looks ready for whatever the nature Boy throws at him at the Clash!
WINNER: STING
COMMERCIAL
Headbangers vs. The Nightmares: Tony announces that Mosh and Thrasher will face the Eliminators at the Clash. Jesse and Larry put over the level of the tag team competition in WCW these days. Thrasher pins Nightmare #2 after the Stage Dive. The match with the Eliminators should rock the house in Dayton!
WINNERS: THE HEADBANGERS
COMMERCIAL
The Eliminators vs. Action Jackson & Boris Zhukov: Saturn and Kronus get a pretty good test from their rugged opponents. Saturn pins Jackson after a Total Elimination. Zybysko predicts a win for the Eliminators, but Jesse says he likes the Headbangers!
WINNERS: THE ELIMINATORS
COMMERCIAL
Harlem Heat, Ahmed Johnson, & Tazmaniac vs. CW Bergstrom, Avalanche, Todd Champion, & Wild Bill Irwin: Four of the rising young stars of WCW face some solid opposition in an 8 man tag. Ventura says that this will pale in comparison to the 8 man tag at the Clash where the Road Warriors and Steiners will take on the Nasty Boys and the Hardliners. Avalanche and Irwin especially give the faces a tough time, but Tazmaniac pins Bergstrom after a T Bone Tazplex.
COMMERCIAL
GENE: Ladies and gentlemen, we are only about 72 hours away from the Clash of the Champions, right here on TBS at 8:05 PM. I’m joined by Luna Vachon and her Nasty Boys! Brian Knobbs, Jerry Saggs, The two of you will team up with Colonel Robert Parker’s Hardliners against the WCW World tag Team Champions, the Steiner Brothers, and the awesome team of Hawk & Animal, the Road Warriors!
KNOBBS: Hey, Mean Gene, did you call Hawk and Animal awesome?
GENE: I certainly did!
SAGGS: You need to look at a calendar, old man! This is ‘94, not ‘84! They ain’t what they used to be!
KNOBBS: Yesterday’s news! They went and got soft! At Clash, they’re gonna be sorry they let themselves get that way! They used to be like us! They were nasty! They were hungry! They were street fighters! Now, they go and vist rest homes and children’s hospitals!
LUNA: The Nasty Boys will leave them for dead!
GENE: You might want to watch this next match very closely!
The Road Warriors vs. Shawn Summers & Ryuma Go: Hawk & Animal go through their opponents like hot lead! Hawk pins Summers after the Doomsday Device. Then, they go to the interview area to confront the Nasty Boys!
WINNERS: THE ROAD WARRIORS
HAWK: OK, you boys were talking about us!
ANIMAL: You got the guts to say it to our faces?
The Nastys appear to be backing down! Hawk and Animal tear into Knobbs and Saggs! The Nasty Boys attempt to fight back! Here come Michael Hayes, Ole Anderson and several prelim wrestlers! They are attempting to separate the Nastys and Warriors!
TONY: We are out of time!
JESSE: Aw, no!
LARRY: To be continued Tueday night at 8:05!
Taped 4/25/94 at Center Stage in Atlanta, GA to air at 6:05 PM on 4/27/94 on Superstation TBS
Announcers: Tony Schiavone, Jesse Ventura, & Larry Zybysko
Interviewer: Gene Okerlund
Ring Announcer: Gary Michael Capetta
What a way to get this show rolling! Harley Race leads Vader to the ring!
Vader(w/Harley Race) vs. Brooklyn Brawler: Vader tunes up for his match at the Clash against Sid Vicious against the veteran Brawler. The former World Champion takes his opponent apart before hitting the Vader Bomb and scoring the 1-2-3.
WINNER: VADER
VTR:
BAM BAM: I’m back in WCW! You gotta know that I want to be World Champion! You got no business in pro wrestling if ya don’t want that! But I got a score to settle, too! Vader! You and me were the hottest tag team in Japan, but Harley Race sold you a bill of goods and you stabbed me in the back! Sooner or later, you’re gonna pay! For all of you wrestling fans, I’ll be in action again, right here on the Superstation next week! Don’t miss it!
COMMERCIAL
VTR:
WCW Commissioner Nick Bockwinkel is seated behind an oak desk. Ole Anderson and Michael Hayes stand behind him.
BOCKWINKEL: Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for interrupting your great WCW wrestling with a housekeeping chore like this, but I have an announcement. For the next several weeks, I have WCW business to conduct in Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. While I am away, I’m leaving the day to day operations of our great organization in the hands of my capable associates, Ole Anderson and Michael Hayes. Nobody knows our great sport like these two gentlemen and I know that I’m leaving WCW, including the upcoming Clash of the Champions, in very good hands! I’ll see you all when I return.
Sherri Martel leads the United States Champion to the ring!
Ravishing Rick Rude(w/Sherri Martel) vs. Matt Hardy: Rude will defend his recently won belt against former Champion Ricky Steamboat at the Clash. Rude calls out Steamboat’s name several times during this bout as he scores a convincing win, using the neckbreaker as a finisher.
WINNER: RICK RUDE
GENE: United States Champion Ravishing Rick Rude, the Clash is only three days away, here on the Super Station! You will defend against the great Ricky “the Dragon” Steamboat. I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that he pinned you in a tag team match on this very program a week ago!
RUDE: But at Super Brawl, when it came down to money, marbles, and chalk, when we played for keeps, who walked out with the title?
SHERRI: You did, Ricky!
RUDE: Steamboat caught a lucky break last week! Gene, sort of like the time your Minnesota Twins actually won the World Series! It was a fluke, these people in Atlanta have seen that every time Dale Murphy ever hit a ball out of the infield! The Dragon poses no threat to me! I’m even considering stepping aside when we get to Dayton for the Clash! You know that my Sexy Sherri is the greatest woman wrestler of all time! I might let her take Steamboat on! I think you can take him, honey!
SHERRI: Let me have him! I’d claw his eyes out!
GENE: Michael Hayes, why are you out here?
HAYES: Gene, as you know, Commissioner Bockwinkel left ole and me in charge here. One of the matters he asked me to handle is this: WTBS has received several complaints from women’s groups about the lack of women’s wrestling here on WCW. We have decided to rectify the situation immediately. As Rick Rude just said, Sherri Martel is regarded as the top female wrestler in the United States today. We have brought in Debbie Combs, a highly regarded wrestler in the Southern states, and she’s in the ring right now.
SHERRI: I’ll take on any woman you can bring out here, but I don’t have my gear!
HAYES: Look, I told the Commissioner that I would have a woman’s match on TV today! Do the best ya can, Sherri!
Sherri kicks off her heels and stalks to the ring!
RUDE: Looks like the inmates are running the asylum, Mean Gene!
Sherri Martel vs. Debbie Combs: Sheri is clad in a dress for this match. Early on, it’s all Debbie Combs as she throws Sherri around the ring and Martel bumps for her like the Japanese army would for Godzilla! In the end, Debbie misses a splash and Sherri uses a Rick Rude neckbreaker to get the pin!
WINNER: SHERRI MARTEL
JESSE: Ya know what? I think she could give Steamboat a run for his money!
COMMERCIAL
Steve Blackman vs. Nasty Ned Brady: Blackman gets a chance to shine this week. Blackman uses his martial arts skills to dominate the action and finishes Brady after a bicycle kick. During the bout, the cameras spot Rob Van Dam at ringside. Mean Gene speaks to the WCW newcomer afterwards.
WINNER: STEVE BLACKMAN
GENE: Rob Van Dam, you will make your WCW debut at the Clashon Tuesday night. What brings you here today?
ROB: Mean Gene, Steve Blackman is a friend of mine and we work out together a lot because of our martial arts backgrounds. He told me that he had a match tonight and I stopped by to support him.
GENE: On April 30th, live from Dayton’s Hara Arena, you will be in action at the Clash of the Champions. Are you ready?
ROB: Absolutely! I really am looking forward to it. They tell me that my opponent flew in from Australia and I know that this will be his chance to wrestle in front of a worldwide audience, too. So, I can’t take anybody lightly and I have to be at my very best! All of you great fans be sure to tune in and I promise you that you’ll se some things you’ve probably never seen before!
GENE: It will be a great night of action, Tuesday night at 8:05, here on the Superstation TBS!
COMMERCIAL
Lord Steven Regal & Squire David Taylor vs. Larry Winters & Ray Odyssey: The Brits give their opponents a wrestling lesson today. Regal pins Odyssey after the Regal Roll. The announcers agree that his lordship looks ready for Arn Anderson at the Clash!
WINNERS: REGAL & TAYLOR
UK Express vs. Mike Bell & Barry Horowitz: Horowitz doesn’t even get to tag in as Finlay and Smith dominate the action and Fit Finlay pins Bell after a tombstone piledriver. After the bout, Smith and Finlay join Mean Gene.
GENE: Johnny Smith and Fit Finlay, the UK Express, yet another impressive victory this week! We just saw your fellow Brits, Lord Steven Regal and Squire David Taylor in action. I have to say that Great Britain is well represented here in WCW!
SMITH: Thanks for your kind words, Mean Gene! It’s interesting that you bring up Regal and Taylor.Fit and I have been calling them out since we arrived here in WCW, but they haven’t answered us.
FINLAY: You’d almost think they were afraid of us, wouldn’t you? Look, there’s a big card coming up Tuesday evening! An international audience! You would think that they would jump at a chance to wrestle there!
Regal and Taylor enter the picture!
REGAL: Look, maybe you blokes simply don’t pay attention. It’s been announced several times that I will be defending my World TV Title against Arn Anderson on the Clash of the Champions! David and myself are not available!
Taylor whispers something in Regal’s ear.
REGAL: Ah, that’s a capital idea, Squire! He just reminded me that a good friend of ours from England will be available that night! You lads probably grew up watching him on the telly.
TAYLOR: Do you remember the Royal Executioner?
SMITH: That’s who you’ve got for a partner?
FINLAY: Yeah, he was a tough wrestler and he sent a lot of guys to hospital, but that don’t intimidate us none! We’ll take you on!
REGAL: Hope you two have your health insurance premiums up to date!
GENE: It looks like we can add one more match to the Clash!
COMMERCIAL
VTR:
Ric Flair is standing in front of the WCW logo, dressed in one of his custom made robes.
FLAIR: Stinger, this Tuesday night, in Dayton and airing LIVE here on TBS, Slick Ric is gonna walk that aisle and take that ten pounds of gold one more time! Sting, I know you’re tough, but on the Clash of the Champions, you’re gonna be miiine! ALL NIGHT LONG! WOOOOOOOOOOO!
Sting vs. Moondog Spike: Spike attacks Sting before the bell rings, but it doesn’t help much. The WCW World Champion gets a submission win via the Scorpion Deathlock. The Stinger looks ready for whatever the nature Boy throws at him at the Clash!
WINNER: STING
COMMERCIAL
Headbangers vs. The Nightmares: Tony announces that Mosh and Thrasher will face the Eliminators at the Clash. Jesse and Larry put over the level of the tag team competition in WCW these days. Thrasher pins Nightmare #2 after the Stage Dive. The match with the Eliminators should rock the house in Dayton!
WINNERS: THE HEADBANGERS
COMMERCIAL
The Eliminators vs. Action Jackson & Boris Zhukov: Saturn and Kronus get a pretty good test from their rugged opponents. Saturn pins Jackson after a Total Elimination. Zybysko predicts a win for the Eliminators, but Jesse says he likes the Headbangers!
WINNERS: THE ELIMINATORS
COMMERCIAL
Harlem Heat, Ahmed Johnson, & Tazmaniac vs. CW Bergstrom, Avalanche, Todd Champion, & Wild Bill Irwin: Four of the rising young stars of WCW face some solid opposition in an 8 man tag. Ventura says that this will pale in comparison to the 8 man tag at the Clash where the Road Warriors and Steiners will take on the Nasty Boys and the Hardliners. Avalanche and Irwin especially give the faces a tough time, but Tazmaniac pins Bergstrom after a T Bone Tazplex.
COMMERCIAL
GENE: Ladies and gentlemen, we are only about 72 hours away from the Clash of the Champions, right here on TBS at 8:05 PM. I’m joined by Luna Vachon and her Nasty Boys! Brian Knobbs, Jerry Saggs, The two of you will team up with Colonel Robert Parker’s Hardliners against the WCW World tag Team Champions, the Steiner Brothers, and the awesome team of Hawk & Animal, the Road Warriors!
KNOBBS: Hey, Mean Gene, did you call Hawk and Animal awesome?
GENE: I certainly did!
SAGGS: You need to look at a calendar, old man! This is ‘94, not ‘84! They ain’t what they used to be!
KNOBBS: Yesterday’s news! They went and got soft! At Clash, they’re gonna be sorry they let themselves get that way! They used to be like us! They were nasty! They were hungry! They were street fighters! Now, they go and vist rest homes and children’s hospitals!
LUNA: The Nasty Boys will leave them for dead!
GENE: You might want to watch this next match very closely!
The Road Warriors vs. Shawn Summers & Ryuma Go: Hawk & Animal go through their opponents like hot lead! Hawk pins Summers after the Doomsday Device. Then, they go to the interview area to confront the Nasty Boys!
WINNERS: THE ROAD WARRIORS
HAWK: OK, you boys were talking about us!
ANIMAL: You got the guts to say it to our faces?
The Nastys appear to be backing down! Hawk and Animal tear into Knobbs and Saggs! The Nasty Boys attempt to fight back! Here come Michael Hayes, Ole Anderson and several prelim wrestlers! They are attempting to separate the Nastys and Warriors!
TONY: We are out of time!
JESSE: Aw, no!
LARRY: To be continued Tueday night at 8:05!
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