KAYFABE, Ric! They fight on the floor and back in for the Flair Flip, but he clips the knee to take over. Hulk of course slams him off and clotheslines him to the floor, with Flair going up for the move before Hulk was even in contact with him. Hogan overpowers him to start and Flair throws chops, but Hulk no-sells it, so Flair pokes him in the eyes and goes up. *1/2 Who the hell watched this and thought “Well, Warlord sucked, but we’ll give Barbarian a job for the next 5 years?” That was quite the visual for the finish.
The Assassins cut off the ring for a bit, but Sting fights them off and makes the hot tag to Luger, who quickly finishes Barbarian with the rack at 5:47 while Sting puts Warlord into the scorpion. Barbarian with an over the shoulder backbreaker on Sting and they give him a double shoulderblock for two. Warlord works on Luger’s back, but Sting comes in and cleans house while Craig Pittman tries to convince Mongo to be his manager. The Super Assassins The Assassins are Warlord and Barbarian under masks, in case you’re wondering.
That was apparently part of his “pretending to get fired” persona that ended up getting him fake fired for real.
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Notable here: Brian Pillman pointing out that Benoit was always able to perform with the limo full of naked women. Arn tries to make peace, and the Dungeon storms the ring, but the Giant keeps them from attacking. ***īrian Pillman bitches out Benoit and AA for losing tonight, wearing his BADASS leather duster right out of Undertaker’s closet. This was quite the strong style super-stiff fight, with the added realism of them battling for every little move. Benoit follows with a dive, SPLATS on the concrete, and Regal rolls him in for the pin at 5:50. They fight over a tombstone and Benoit spikes him with that for two, but Regal bails to escape. Regal fights to the top, but Benoit takes him down with the electric chair, then misses the flying headbutt. They fight over a suplex and Regal gets the butterfly suplex for two before Benoit clotheslines him down. Chris Benoit They fight over the knucklelock and Regal throws forearms and grabs a cravat, and they do a nice little wrestling sequence that ends with Benoit suplexing him on his head for two. **1/2 The Horsemen are outraged and protest, but Savage is protected by double jeopardy laws. Ref is bumped and AA quickly grabs his trust brass knuckles, but Savage snatches them and knocks him out for the pin at 7:52. Arn grinds on the arm while Savage tries a comeback, and gets the DDT for two. Brain notes that Arn can “break every bone in a chicken leg and never touch the skin.” That’s a, uh, very specific skill set. Arn takes him down with an armbreaker and goes to work on the giant bandaged arm with a hammerlock slam. Back in the ring, Macho with an atomic drop and he hits Double A with a Double A(xehandle) for two and chokes him out in the corner. Eric notes that there’s some stupid thing going on over on RAW, but the Smoking Gunns won it anyway and no one cares. Hey, that fringe can get into someone’s eye and do serious damage! That’s reckless. Randy Savage Arn immediately works him over in the corner, but Savage takes the brawl to the floor and TOSSES HIS JACKET AT HIM. Live from Atlanta, GA Your hosts are Eric Bischoff, Bobby Heenan & MongoĪrn Anderson v. So after we left our heroes, Ric Flair had regained the WCW World title for the 12th time at Starrcade, and Randy Savage is none too happy about it.
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