Airdate: September 25th 1995
Arena/Location: Denver Coliseum in Denver, Colorado.
Commentators: Steve 'Mongo' McMichael, 'The Wild Thing' Pepe, Eric Bischoff, and Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan
Hey, they finally replaced Vader in the intro video. That only took three weeks.
We start off Nitro with Ric Flair coming to the announce desk, grabbing Bischoff's headset, and hyping up his match with Arn Anderson later on.
Match One: Lex Luger vs. 'Macho Man' Randy Savage. If Luger loses, his career in WCW is over.
The finish comes when Savage goes for the pin, the referee was knocked out. Savage tries to help the referee up.Giant comes out, chokeslams Savage, then leaves. Luger puts the Torture Rack on Savage, and Luger wins.
Winner by pinfall, and STILL in WCW: Lex Luger
They have been putting over Giant huge the past few weeks. The match itself? Alright considering Luger was involved. *3/4
Back to the commentary team. They are still talking about the Giant's interference in the previous match.
Match Two: Eddie Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko
These two are having a good match, but then they decide to cut from the match for a minute to have Hogan get out of his vehicle and say why he's going to stay in the building while the Giant is there
Match ends with both men countering each other several times, the Eddie getting the pin.
Postmatch: Dean stops Eddie from leaving the ring, and demands another match. Eddie agrees then shakes Dean's hand.
Winner by pinfall: Eddie Guerrero
***1/4. We definitely need more that that.
Mean Gene in the ring to interview Hulk Hogan. Hogan talks about the 'stinky' Giant. In an un-Hulk Hogan like move, Hogan gives his shirt to someone in the audience after ripping it off his body, then goes around ringside greeting fans when Taskmaster (dressed as a woman) attacks Hogan with powder and a cane.
Giant and Zodiac come out, Giant rips off Hogans neck brace to again do a neck crank like move to him. Taskmaster shaves off Hogan's mustache. Bischoff says this is the goes beyond bodily harm. Er, okay. Heenan says it's about time someone shaved off that greasy mustache of Hogan's.
American Males out to help Hogan, but Giant decimates them. Nasty Boyz comes out as well, but Giant destroys them as well. There goes the WCW World Title match. Now Taskmaster is cutting off Hogan's hair... Well, the hair he has left. Trainer is now there talking to Hogan.
Main Event: Arn Anderson vs. Ric Flair
This is a rematch from Fall Brawl. They keep wondering where Luger was when Hogan was being attacked. Mongo thinks he was eating a snow cone.
Flair locks on the Figure Four on Arn Anderson in the middle of the ring. Arn looks like he's about to tap, but Pillman interferes and hits a splash on Flair.
Winner by DQ: Ric Flair
Postmatch, Flair and Pillman trade blows, then Arn hits Flair from behind, and the two men gain the upper hand on Flair
Decent match that got a sufficient amount of time. Sets up a future tag team match between these three (and a now unknown) fourth man down the line. **1/2.
Next week on Nitro: Flair vs. Arn Anderson in a cage match. They mention that no interference will happen in a cage match. Yeah, right. Also on the card: Sting vs. Shark, Sabu vs. Mr. JL, and Road Warrior Hawk vs. Big Bubba.
A definite step up from the week prior. The matches were pretty good, and while the DoD stuff is rather silly, it did put over Giant as a monster. Not all bad, right? 7.5/10
TV Rating: 2.5
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