WCW Nitro
Airdate: July 22nd, 1996
Arena/Location: Disney MGM Studios in Orlando, FL
Commentators: Hour One: Larry Zbyszko and Tony Schiavone. Hour Two: Eric Bischoff and Bobby Heenan
Tony and Larry talk about what happened the week before with the nWo, before we go to our first match.
Match One: Squire Dave Taylor w/Jeeves vs. Scott Norton
We’re told that Norton turned on his partner Ice Train on WCW Saturday Night. They were a team all of four months.
This match barely got two minutes, and ended when Norton threw Taylor over the top rope, causing a DQ.
Winner by DQ: Scott Norton
Norton continues to beat up on Taylor.
N/R for this short bit of nothing.
We get a quick promo from VK Wallstreet, he hypes up his match against Konnan.
Mean Gene with the Four Horsemen (minus Ric Flair,) as they hype up their match tonight against Luger, Sting, and Savage tonight. Each man got a few seconds to speak. That was nice.
Match Two: V.K. Wallstreet vs. Konnan
Konnan is still being referred to as Konan. This, despite the fact that at Bash at the Beach his name was spelled correctly.
VK controls Konnan for 90% of this matchup, working over Konnan’s leg for a good part of that. However, after Wallstreet hit his finisher (Wallstreet Crash) Konnan is able to reverse a pin into a rollup for the win.
Winner by pinfall: Konnan
*½ from me. It could have been much better.
Mean Gene at the entranceway talking to Sting, Luger, and Randy Savage. They hype up their match against Flair, Benoit, and Mongo tonight.
We get a video of Glacier. He’s in some random place doing all sorts of martial arts maneuvers. He looks like one cool guy.
We get another video package, this time of Alex Wright, Joe Gomez, The Renegade, and Jim Powers. The entire video consists of the four men walking down a beach, and taking off their WCW Monday Nitro shirt. They have a match next, but why the hell do we get such a pointless video? Are they a stable of jobbers? I just wish this was the most headscratching bit of this next match.
Match Three: Stable of Jobbers vs. Dungeon of Doom
The Dungeon of Doom consists of Barbarian, Kevin Sullivan, Hugh Morrus, and... Braun the Leprechaun. Two things though: One. Braun the Leprechaun isn’t a dwarf, or midget, or whatever. He’s an average sized persib that just squats down to look shorter. Two, the person behind the gimmick is Dwayne Bruce aka Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker/Jack Boot/The Sarge, a trainer in the WCW Power Plant.
Five seconds into the match, Tony says that something’s going on in the production truck. A cameraman runs to the back, and it turns out Hall/Nash are in the production truck screwing around with various buttons. They then go over to the guys in control of the camera men, and have them pan the crowd. Apparently they were looking for someone. This goes on for several minutes, before security wanders in and has them escorted out of the truck.
Oh, right the match. Jim Powers is out of the ring, Teddy Long comes from nowhere, gives him a pep talk, and the ‘match’ degenerates into a brawl. Giant is out, and he destroys all four of the jobbers.
Winners by DQ: Stable of Jobbers
N/R since we really didn’t see much at all of this match.
Mean Gene in the ring now, interviewing Giant and Jimmy Hart. Gene asks if Giant accepts Hogan’s demand of a title match. Giant basically says yes, much to the crowd’s approval.
Match Four: Diamond Dallas Page vs. Prince Iaukea
Basically a squash match that DDP won in less than two minutes with a Diamond Cutter.
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