WCW Clash:ThanksgivingThunder SJ/Steiners + Dean/Ohtani
Dec 2, 2013 9:13:09 GMT
Post by Captain Charisma on Dec 2, 2013 9:13:09 GMT
THANKSGIVING THUNDER
Airing LIVE on TBS: The Superstation @ 7:05 PM
From Milwaukee, WI on 11/28/96
Referees: Nick Patrick and Randy Anderson
Ring Announcer: Dave Penzer
Interviewer: Mauro Ranallo
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Larry Zbyszko, and Dusty Rhodes
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE’S BOMBTRACK blasts as the camera pans across a filled to the rafters Mecca!
Penzer: Ladies and gentlemen this is the opening contest of Clash of Champions: Thanksgiving Thunder! It is a Six Man Captain’s Fall Match – Eliminations will occur by pinfall, submission, or DQ, and will continue until either Rey Mysterio, Jr. or Psychosis have been eliminated!
At a total combined weight of 505 lbs., first from Tijuana, MX, REY MYSTERIO, JR! And his partners hail from the Darkside, Christian Cage and Lenny Lane, the Highlight Express!
And their opponents hail from Mexico City Mexico and weighed in at a total combined weight 543 lbs. Psychosis, La Parka, and Super Crazy; Tres Rudos Magnifico
This one starts off hot and heavy, and encourages the inside-out ring tactics with its Lucha tag rules of tags not being necessary for legal exchanges. There is a furious pace that sees each man pull off big spots. Christian flew off the top rope and connected with the Frog Splash onto La Parka. Super Crazy broke it up at the last possible instance, taking Cage to the floor. Lenny Lane capitalized and hit the Highlight of the Night Cross Legged Moonsault onto La Parka, and eliminated the chairman!
La Parka Eliminated.
Lenny Lane was certainly proud of himself, but Psychosis proved why he is the captain of the Magnifico Rudos, and attacked Lane from behind. Psychosis hit a Hangman’s Standing Neckbreaker and hit a slingshot senton. Christian wasn’t quick enough to prevent the pinfall after Psychosis’ Guillotine Leg Drop from the top rope, and Lane was the next victim.
Lenny Lane Eliminated.
Psychosis quickly tagged in Super Crazy who met Rey Mysterio with insane back and forth lucha exchange that saw Crazy on the receiving end of some of Mysterio’s offense. That was until Mysterio’s attempted hunacanrana was reversed into a running Lyger Bomb for a near fall for the Insano Luchadore. Back in comes Psychosis, who tears into his long time, arch-nemesis Rey Mysterio, Jr. The wise beyond his years Cage blind tagged himself in and caught the unsuspecting Psychosis from behind. As he set up the Rudos captain for his reversed backslide face buster, Super Crazy kicked him in the temple, only to be met off the top rope with a dropkick from Rey Jr. Crazy bails to the floor, SUICIDE DIVE from Mysterio. Cage hooks Psychosis once again, Unprettier, 1……2………..3!
Psychosis Eliminated. Your Winners, Rey Mysterio, Jr., and the Highlight Express!
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Commercial Break
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We return from break and Tony, Dusty, and Larry recap the stellar opening encounter. Their attention then turns the new talent arriving in WCW, and the worldwide influences that help make WCW what it is today. All 3 men have come to know Don ‘the Natural’ Callis fairly well in his tenure in WCW, and if he says he is taking WCW to the extreme, and is confident enough to sign his latest charges up in a bout against former World Tag Team Champions, the Nasty Boys, they must be quite the formidable tandem
Penzer: The following contest is scheduled for one fall. Introducing first from Nastyville, at a total combined weight of 587 lbs., Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags, the Nasty Boys!
And their opponents, making their WCW debut, are led to the ring by their manager, Don Callis…
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It’s the ELIMINATORS! Saturn and Kronus fly to the ring and take the fight to directly to the Nasties! Sags and Knobbs fight back, and this one is a flat out Donny-Brook! When the action settles down, Saturn and Kronus establish wrestling dominance over the former champions. Lucky for the Nasties, they know how to make things, well, nasty, and hold their own in a scufflin’ situation. But the precision that Saturn and Kronus display is surgical, and not even former World Champions like the Nasty Boys could slow their pace. Total Elimination sends Sags crashing down, and the ELIMINATORS HAVE COME TO WCW AND MADE A STATEMENT!
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Commercial Break
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We return from break and the President of WCW, JJ Dillon, and the Vice President of WCW, Magnum T.A. are in the ring where a table is set up, as we await the arrival, of the man, WOOOOOOO!
Dressed to the nines, here comes the former champion, and he looks like he has a secret as the crowd in Milwaukee gives The Nature Boy a raucous ovation. “Ya know, sometimes, it gets hard being Ric Flair. When my plane landed on the private runway, out behind the Tarmac, and that stretch Rolls limo pulled up with 10 beautiful women just waiting for me to go, WOOOOOOOOOO, in their face, it was real hard to be me. There isn’t but one thing missing, and Curt Hennig, that is MY World Heavyweight Championship. You’ve held it well, you’re an incredible athlete, but pal, that belt is MINE, and you’re just borrowing it!”
Those words certainly don’t set too well with the reigning Heavyweight Champion of the World. “You see Ric Flair, you come out here thinking you can intimidate me, YOUR Perfect World Heavyweight Champion, and pally, Curt Hennig knows the game, you can’t intimidate me Ric Flair. For the past calendar year, I have been the most dominant force in all of professional wrestling. Monopolized this, the most prestigious championship in all of sports. Surpassed the legend of Ric Flair when I sent you packing at Havoc last year. All of a sudden, WCW and ECW have a working relationship, WHICH MY FRIENDSHIP with Rick Rude initiated, and you use that opportunity to ooze back onto the scene. Well this time Flair, I won’t be sending you on vacation. I won’t be sending you into exile. I’m going to send you to the retirement home. I’m going to put an end to your career Ric Flair. JJ, where is the damn pen?”
Flair says those are some awful big words, but “don’t ever make the mistake of thinking you can get one over on the dirtiest player in the game. You had a good 1995, and an even better 1996 Curt. But you aren’t perfect. You are beatable, and Hennig, their ain’t a man on God’s green Earth that Ric Flair can’t pin to the mat, or make squeal like a woman and quit! WOOOOOOOO!” The Nature Boy takes a pen from Magnum’s coat pocket and signs the contract.
Curt smiles, “Ric Flair, you just signed your death warrant.” CURT NAILS FLAIR WITH THE MICROPHONE! And again and again and again. Now Flair is bleeding all over the place, but Curt isn’t finished, he delivers a perfect Fisherman’s Buster THROUGH THE TABLE! A very proud World Heavyweight Champion wipes the challenger’s blood off his hands and onto his chest as he gleefully signs the contract, then stands over his fallen challenger. We’ll be right back, after this quick timeout!
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Commercial Break
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Mauro Ranallo is standing by with former Generation Next Champion, Lance Storm, who is very excited about WCW continuing its partnership with New Japan Pro Wrestling, and its commitment to bring the very best wrestling action on the planet to WCW. That is why he is so excited about an all-encompassing Cruiserweight Division. The very best, Junior, Light, and Mid Heavyweight wrestlers in the Wrestling World all have one place to come and decide once and for all, who is the best. WCW chose Dean Malenko and Shinjiro Ohtani to determine the new champion, and Lance is ok with that decision. They are fine athletes, but Lance Storm has his sights set on Starrcade: Homecoming in the Greensboro Coliseum where it all began. There will never be a bigger stage to leave a lasting impression, and that is exactly what Lance Storm plans on doing!
Penzer: Wrestling fans, the following contest is scheduled for one fall, and is for the World Television Championship! Introducing first; the manager. He is accompanied to the ring by his personal bodyguard, Meng, this is Colonel Robert E. Lee Parker!
The challenger weighed in at 229 lbs. This former champion hails from Huntsville, AL; BEAUTIFUL BOBBY!
SELF HI-FIVE
His opponent is led to the ring by the ‘Diamond Doll’ KIMBERLEY! He weighed in at 252 lbs. and hails from the Jersey Shore, the defending champion, DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE!
These two great World Television Champions each feel as if they have something to prove. Eaton even went as far as to speak on worldwide TV, to let Page know how disrespected he was that DDP left him off a list of greatest World TV Champs, and fought like he had something to prove in the early going. Dusty pointed it out this past Nitro that he had never seen Eaton like this, and didn’t believe that Dallas was prepared for the Bobby Eaton he was meeting tonight, and Dusty was right. Bobby was wiping the floor with Page in the early going. But ever valiant, DDP fought back with everything he had and had Eaton on the ropes.
Just as the Colonel got Randy Anderson’s attention, Meng was going to Tongan Spike the side of Page’s throat from behind, but Bobby shoved Page out of the way, he wanted to do this one on his own damnit! And Eaton tasted the devastating Tongan Spike from Meng for his troubles. Page put a boot upside the temple of the Tongan Monster and covered Bobby for the victory. Once Page saw the replay and realized that Bobby saved him from being Spiked, he tried to get the referee to give Bobby 5 more minutes! The crowd was in favor of the idea, but the Colonel was not! He sent in Meng who caught both DDP and Eaton from behind with a double clothesline. He thrust kicks Page over the top rope and to the floor, and turns his attention to Eaton. He delivers another Tongan Spike to the throat of Beautiful Bobby!
HERE COMES BIG BUBBA AND TONY ANTHONY! Southern Justice is on the scene, and as the White Boy checks on Eaton, Bubba gets in Meng’s face! The Col. quickly steps in between his two big bulls, and grabs Meng by the hair a bit and heads for higher ground. Bubba turns to check on his friend, and stares DDP down; Page moves around to the aisle way, he slings Meng around, BANG! DIAMOND CUTTER! To Meng, on the concrete!
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Commercial Break
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Tony catches up on what can only be declared the end of Beautiful Bobby and Col. Parker’s relationship, and will this affect Bubba and Tony in anyway, as we approach the biggest title defense of their reign? And Larry points out that if DDP doesn’t leave before showering, he imagines we will have an update of him being injured in the back after Meng finds him! The Dream wonders just how smart it was for the Total Package to pick a fight with boff Harlem Heat, and we still haven’t heard a peep out of Sting in regards to Lex nominating him for tag team action, but Duhth is looking forward to seeing how Booker T. handles himself against a former, 2-time World Champion in single action…
Penzer: The following contest is scheduled for one fall. Introducing first, from the Windy City of Chicago, IL, he weighs in at 275 lbs.
‘THE TOTAL PACKAGE’ LEX LUGER
And his opponent is led to the ring by his brother Stevie Ray. He hails from Harlem, NY and weighs in at 246 lbs.
BOOKER T.
Lex seems very weary of big brother Stevie Ray at ringside in the early goings, contributing to Booker’s quick start, but there is no denying that the star of Booker T. is on the rise and he shows off why here. His speed, athleticism, and tenacity make him a difficult opponent for anyone, even a former 2-time World Heavyweight Champion. Booker’s only problem is his swagger and propensity for appreciating his skills too much. As Stevie Ray is leading his praise, Booker is unaware that his bodyslam has been no-sold by the Total Package, and now it’s Luger’s turn to take advantage. Lex picks up a near fall with his bionic forearm shiver, and then begins taking it to Booker in the corner as he mounts him and his punching away while the crowd in Milwaukee counts away in unison. Unbeknownst to senior official Nick Patrick though, big Stevie Ray has a hold of Luger’s boot, and with a shove from Booker T., Lex crashes hard right onto is external occipital protuberance! Now Harlem Heat is taking advantage of the numbers game, and as Booker expertly distracts the official, big Stevie chokes, claws, kicks, and beats down Luger.
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Just then out of the back comes the Stinger! Stevie Ray goes to meet him in the aisle, AND THE FIGHT IS ON! Booker T. is intently looking on, which gives Luger the opportunity to school-boy Booker from behind, 1……2………..3, NO! Book got the shoulder up, but just barely. Book hops right to his feet, but Luger ducks the attempted Harlem sidekick, and drops Booker with a clothesline. And another. He boots Booker in the gut, he PILEDRIVES BOOKER T. and totally adjusts his attitude! He hooks the leg, 1……2…….3!!
Now here comes Sting and Stevie Ray battling into the ring, Sting and Lex double clothesline Stevie over the top and to the floor, in charges Booker T. who they back body drop over the top rope and down onto his brother! The crowd is going bonkers, and Lex Luger seems like the happiest man in the building as he celebrates. Sting, not so much.
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Commercial Break
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Tony, Dusty, and Larry welcome everyone back to Thanksgiving Thunder, and what a night it’s been, and we still have two title matches to go! They bring in international broadcast and wrestling journalist Maura Ranallo for the following contest, and he breaks down the match-up between two of the finest wrestlers on the entire planet, Dean Malenko and Shinjiro Ohtani. These men both put their time in the dojo’s of New Japan Pro Wrestling and have emerged as leading forces in the world of wrestling, and this is one that we can definitely consider an International Dream Match.
Semi-Final
One Fall with a 60 Minute Time Limit
To crown the first Cruiserweight Champion of the World
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Shinjiro Ohtani w/Sonny Onoo
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WCW GenX Division, ECW Lt. Heavyweight, and CWA British Mid-Heavyweight Champion Dean Malenko
There is a feeling out process to kick this one off. With so much on the line, neither man wants to make that critical first mistake. They exchange holds and counter holds, much to the appreciation of the fans in the great wrestling city of Milwaukee, but it’s Malenko who strikes first surprising Ohtani with a basement dropkick to the knee from out of nowhere, and now the doctor is prepping his patient. Systematically the Lone Wolf is working on the leg of Ohtani, but the Japanese grappler is crafty and knows how to use ring positioning whether that is to grab the rope, or to go to the eyes when referee Randy Anderson is working his way around the action. After going to the eyes, Shinjiro shows that he is no stranger to the submission arts as he works on the lower body of Malenko and then locks him in the Muta Death Lock!
Malenko is finally able to take Ohtani’s bridge away from him, alleviating some of the pressure, and then reversing the death lock and controlling the head and neck of Ohtani, but the work Shinjiro has put in has paid off and he regains the advantage with a shin breaker across his own knee, to which he immediately transitions into a leg captured, German suplex, he bridges again, 1…….2…..NO! Ohtani is getting frustrated and unleashes a flurry of kicks, but Dean Malenko is a machine, he catches the fifth kick and nearly rips Ohtani’s knee out of socket with a dragon screw leg whip! Dean locks in the TEXAS CLOVERLEAF! Shinjiro looks to be close to submitting, but as Anderson is intently checking for the submission, Onoo slyly pushes on the bottom rope, giving Ohtani the break he needed!
Malenko saw it, and goes after Onoo. Before he can get him Ohtani kicks him in the side of the head as he rounds the post, grabs a handful of hair, and pulls Malenko onto the apron. Ohtani attempts to suplex Malenko from the outside back in, but Dean reverses, BRAINBUSTER! And in one motion Malenko has locked the Cloverleaf back in! Ohtani fights and fights, but this time as Onoo pushes on the ropes Dean drags Ohtani back to the center of the ring, and this time the IWGP Champ has no choice but to give it up!
“Your winner, aaaaaand NEEEEEEEEEEEW WCW CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, DEAN MA-LEEEEEEN-KOOOOO!”
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Commercial Break
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Tony, Dusty, and Larry return from the final commercial break and go over the recent history of the Steiner Brothers and Southern Justice. The Steiner’s have been on a real roll since their return to tag action at Halloween Havoc, but the dominant Unified Tag Champs have been the hottest team in wrestling in 1996. And with all the dissention arising in the Stud Stable on this very broadcast, what kind of mindset wills Big Bubba and the Dirty White Boy be in, heading into the stiffest challenge to their reign to date?
MAIN EVENT
One Fall 60 Minute Time Limit
For the WCW Unified Tag Team Championship of the World
©Big Bubba and Tony Anthony, Southern Justice
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Rick and Scott, the Steiner Brothers
Bubba definitely seemed preoccupied on the apron, and the White Boy even looked for Col. Parker at ringside on a couple of occasions, but Southern Justice was eventually able to hit their stride after surviving an initial, heavy onslaught from the former champions. Bubba and Anthony each survived near falls at the hands of Rick and Scott, but a well placed thrust to the throat and uppercut from Rogers dropped Scotty in the wrong part of town and allowed him and DWB to really lean on Scott. Anthony hit Scott with the Bucksnort Blaster, and even locked him into the Stump Puller, which has to excruciating on a man as developed as Steiner, but Scotty refused to quit. The past year spent outside of the title picture, looking in, was obviously a beneficial motivational technique. Scotty elbowed his way out of the Puller, and made the tag to big brother Ricky!
Steinerlines, belly to belly throws, and overhead release German suplexes got the crowd on their feet and barking alongside the Dog Faced Gremlin. Bubba grabs the back of Steiner’s head and slams it into the top turnbuckle, and Ricky Steiner just smiles at him! Rogers gives him a chop across the chest, and Steiner smiles again! Rick nails Rogers with a big right, and drops him with a vicious Steinerline! Anthony breaks up the pinfall, and then cheapshots Scotty before getting to the apron for the tag from Bubba. As Nick Patrick puts Scotty back out of the ring, Bubba hits Steiner with his sidewalk slam, the White Boy hits Ricky with a big legdrop, 1…….2………….3, NO!
STEINER KICKED OUT! Tony Anthony can’t believe it and tosses Rick Steiner over the top rope, and antagonizes Scotty once again, but the younger brother was ready, and instead of going after Anthony, Scotty went and saved his brother from being attacked by Bubba on the floor. Scotty and Rogers are fighting all over the ringside area, as DWB suplexes Rick back into the ring. Anthony sets Steiner on the top rope, he’s hooking him up for a Superplex! But STEINER BITES HIS FOREHEAD AND KNOCKS HIM OFF THE ROPES! Ricky stands up on the top turnbuckle, a groggy Tony Anthony struggles to his feet, Rick leaps, TOP ROPE BULLDOG! He hooks the leg, 1…….2……..3!!!
“Your winners, and NEEEEEEEEWWWWWWW UNIFIED TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD, Rick and Scott, the STEIIIIIIIINER BRO-THERS!”
Ricky and Scotty are celebrating in the ring as the Mecca in Milwaukee roars with approval, here comes the Stinger, Ricky Steamboat, and Diamond Dallas Page!!! Tony Schiavone, Dusty Rhodes, and Larry Zbyszko certainly hope everyone has enjoyed Clash of the Champions: Thanksgiving Thunder, and will see you this Monday for Nitro!
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