World Championship Wrestling 1999: SUPERBRAWL!

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not read much of the diary so far i'll admit but i'll defo try to keep up with it now. superbrawl looks like it's going to be insane especially Jericho vs. Benoit. never been a fan of Nash so i hope Bret beats him.

Good Nitro card. The six man tag and the RVD/Bagwell really stick out for me.

[/color] This was a great contest in which both men put in their all and tried to pull together a great match. I believe this is Buff Bagwell's first match back since his loss to Booker T back at WCW Souled Out, Bagwell was sidelined with groin injury which was thought to be dangerous but was only minor and required some rest. RVD did some drastic kicks in this one as Bagwell took the slower path, eventually hitting some nice moves, watching his groin however in case it was re-injured, this time severely cortesy of RVD. Van Dam was worked over but Rob Van Dam eventually dodged the Blockbuster before knocking Bagwell down through the ropes. Bagwell sold the fall too much and acted hurt, holding his groin and cowardly heading up the aisle as the referee counted to ten. 81/100[/color]

[/li][li] Mean Gene Okerlund attempted to get a word with Buff Bagwell over what we just saw but Bagwell was just simply in too much pain, bragging how he'd be able to beat Rob Van Dam on any day, though at the moment his groin was in major pain and needed to see that foxy nurse, Stacy Hancock.

[/li][li] The NJPW video package of Jushin Thunder Liger plays, hyping his WCW World Cruiserweight Championship match for this Sunday at WCW Superbrawl IX with champion, Billy Kidman.

[/li][li] Commercials.

[/li][li] Mona defeated Sable in a WCW World Womens Championship Tournament Semi-Final. (05:03)[/color] Another dreadful match for Sable in her second match in World Championship Wrestling. Shame, I heard she was paid more than Juventud Guerrera and Psychosis to come join WCW with a 3-year, $300,000 per annum contract. Anyways, at least she plays a good heel. Mona dragged this match above the lowest a rating can get, plus the audience really cared for this one, more than the Rob Van Dam vs Buff Bagwell match, to be honest. Sable cocked up her Sablecanrana, which used to be impressive really. Sable's Sable Bomb was reversed into a spot-on hurricanrana however, which was highlight of the match. That scored the three count. 51/100[/color]

[/li][li] A limousine pulls up outside of the arena as WCW President, Eric Bischoff is seen standing nearby, dressed in his karate attire as Bret Hart steps out, Bischoff tells Bret about Scott Hall's decision and that he will make one this Sunday at WCW Superbrawl IX. Hart warns Bischoff that Hall better not get in his way of victory, otherwise there'll be some major consequences.

[/li][li] Lance Storm and The New Jersey Triad defeated Billy Kidman, Juventud Guerrera and Psychosis after Storm pinned Psychosis. (11:28)[/color] This was a great contest here between six talented athletes (yes, I am calling Bam Bam Bigelow an athlete) and they pulled together a great, lengthy contest which involved a lot of traded momentum, back-and-forth action. Weird, since Bam Bam Bigelow and Kanyon are heavyweights, teaming with a cruiserweights against three other cruiserweights. Lance Storm got a decent amount of heat, probably because he came out to 'O Canada'. Cheap heat, utterly cheap heat. Billy Kidman and Lance Storm started, Kidman went on an outburst of speed before tagging in Juventud Guerrera. Kanyon got in and worked over the neck of Juvi, Bam Bam Bam Bigelow finally going after the neck, setting up a Diving Headbutt from the top rope. Juvi moved however, and Psychosis got the tag. He hit a spot-on Guillotine Legdrop on Bigelow but Storm got a blind tag in before rushing in and kicking Psychosis out of his misery for the win. 87/100[/color]

[/li][li] We cut to the backstage area where Chris Jericho is being interviewed by Gene Okerlund as Okerlund asks Jericho if he's confident facing his opponent for this Sunday's pay-per-view, Chris Benoit but tonight facing his friend, Dean Malenko. Jericho talks cockily, saying how he managed to do that numerous times on pay-per-view last year, why shouldn't he tonight. Jericho used his name-calling style before waltsing off.

[/li][li] Lex Luger defeated The Barbarian after the Torture Rack. (07:54)[/color] This was actually quite a decent match for both of these men. Their brawling styles equally worked quite well combined as both of these men had an enjoyable slugfest as Luger was pretty over. Barbarian had some nice bit of offense in over Luger as well, as he just began to pound away at Luger and choke him out with a deadly-looking vice grip. Luger eventually broke out however, and he did a nice dropkick to Barbarian. Luger does dropkicks as good as he did years ago, too. Jimmy Hart tried to get involved in the contest but it didn't really work out as Luger choked him off of the apron with his own tie before applying the Torture Rack on Barbarian for the victory. 77/100[/color]

[/li][li] As Lex Luger began to celebrate, Jimmy Hart helped The Barbarian out of the ring, through the bottom rope as Hart waved on from the backstage area, Meng rushing down the ramp. Luger gave him a hiptoss before clotheslining him over the top rope. Jerry Flynn came out with a crowbar, but Luger tossed him over the top rope, too. Hugh Morrus then came from behind with a blow to the back of the head but Luger no-sold and the two stared each other down.

[/li][li] Commercials.

[/li][li] Dean Malenko defeated Chris Jericho by Disqualification. (12:24)[/color] These two men put on a wrestling clinic in that ring, here tonight on WCW Monday Nitro. Definately match of the night as both men just simply tried to outwrestle and overcome their opponent. This in my opinion overthrows their best match of WCW Uncensored 1998 if you ask me. Jericho did some awesome things in this contest that were just so devilish, he powerbombed Dean out to the floor, he applied the Liontamer on the WCW announcers' table at ringside, as well as tried to cut his privates in half over those ring barriers. Malenko eventually fought back however as he went to work on Jericho, doing some crazy chain-wrestling from start to finish. Malenko wanted to try and destroy Jericho, only six day before his encounter with Chris Benoit at WCW Superbrawl IX. Malenko hit his Tiger Bomb and almost got the three but unfortunately, Jericho sneakily got his foot on the bottom rope. Jericho then mocked Malenko, dropping the Liontamer midway through the submission hold by applying the Texas Cloverleaf on Malenko, and Jericho kept it applied as Dean had his hand on the bottom rope, the official calling for the bell. 97/100

[/li][li] Commercials.

[/li][li] Following commercials, Chris Jericho still had the Texas Cloverleaf applied on Malenko, though now in the center of the ring as referees attempted to break Malenko out of his own submission move. That's when Chris Benoit rushed down to the ring behind Jericho (Jericho, applying it with his back to the stage), and clunked Jericho over the head with a chair. Benoit then attended to his fallen friend, Dean Malenko.

[/li][li] A hype for the next Nitro Party airs.

[/li][li] A reminder of dates and upcoming events for future WCW shows.

[/li][li] It is 10:40 as Michael Buffer comes out to hype up the main event. David Flair is introduced first, no sign of his father, Ric in sight. Eric Bischoff is then seen, who interrupts Buffer and boasts that people wanted to see him whip the son of Ric Flair's ass out of professional wrestling. Bischoff then bragged about how he beat his father Ric at WCW Souled Out, so he didn't need to beat David. Bischoff also includes that he won back the position as WCW President when he beat Flair, ordering Michael Buffer to introduce Macho Man Randy Savage as David's opponent with all interference barred as well as there being no rules.

[/li][li] Macho Man Randy Savage defeated David Flair in a no holds barred retirement match. (10:17)[/color]. This was, as expected, not really a great contest and it is pretty damn obvious that Savage is extremely past his prime, shame as he had some awesome matches back in the days of WWF in 1992 against Ric Flair, shame since their match at WCW Superbrawl IX will not live up to expectations. Savage simply battered David, but the youngster just kept getting up, again and again. Here's something I like about this new era WCW is going through - there's blood on a TV again! David was cut open from a chairshot cortesy of Savage and after all this, David took down Savage, threw him outside of the ring before battling him up the aisle. Flair nailed Savage with a steel chair before taunting Savage to the crowd, the loudest ovation David has ever got. He applied the Figure-Four Leglock tightly on Savage's broken down legs but Bret Hart took out David out of nowhere! Hart delivered a harsh Piledriver onto David on the rampway before helping Savage up. That's when Ric Flair came out and sucker punched Bret, going after Randy Savage himself, six days short of their match at WCW Superbrawl IX, but Diamond Dallas Page made sure he didn't do anything too drastic. Meanwhile, Savage covered the bloody David and that was it! Game over, Davey! 66/100[/color]

[/li][li] The theme of the nWo played again before being cut off by the arrival of WCW US Heavyweight & WCW World Heavyweight Champion, British Bulldog & Kevin Nash! Nash and Bulldog cleared house, taking down everybody as Scott Hall appeared on the rampway. Nash smiled at Hall who was still undecided on whether he'd go to nWo V2 or the nWo Wolfpack as Nash delivered the Jackknife Powerbomb on his opponent for this Sunday, Bret Hart! Hall left as Ric Flair helped up his son, David, who shoved Ric away, walking away to the back as WCW Monday Nitro went off the air.

[/li][li] OVERALL SHOW RATING: 77/100[/color][/center][/li][/ul]

- Hmm. Having Bischoff/Flair on the Nitro before the PPV seems a little odd. I would think you’d be able to hold off from using the match for the PPV itself.
- I liked the opening segment with Hall and Bischoff. Having him make his decision at the PPV is a nice touch.
- Bagwell as a cowardly heel is alright I guess. Good to have him play up his injured groin. I could see you using that angle for awhile.
- I really like having Mona beating Sable. Mona is/was a great women’s wrestler.
- Six man tag match was OK. Would have liked Bigelow or Kanyon getting the pin over Juventud or Psicosis to get some clear advantage heading into the PPV.
- Luger/Barbarian seemed to be on the card awfully late on the show. Never really liked Luger, really didn’t care for the match. I don’t know about making the First Family, if that’s what your calling them, out to make look weak. I do like a possible Morrus/Luger feud, though.
- Hmm. Didn’t really like the finish for Jericho/Malenko. Looked like a solid match but the finish while realistic just didn’t work for me. Jericho having the move on for several minutes even after the commercial was slightly ridiculous. I would think Benoit would run down soon then he did to help Malenko.
- Liked the interference for the main event to continue to hype up for some matches on the PPV.

- Overall, seemed really just average show for me. A good way to promote your stacked Super Brawl card, which I’m really looking forward to.

I'm liking what your doing with Hall, it's certainly interesting. I'm hoping he goes solo, and gets a face run. I like that Van Dam got the win, although I'm not so convinced with Bagwell, he just seems a bit of a loser to me. I really am not convinced with Sable, I don't get why you brought her in, at least she didn't get the win. The six man tag match was good, but I found it hard to get interested in it. I'm surprised Luger/ Barbarian got such a good rating, but it sounded quite good. Jericho/ Malenko sounded amazing, and I would love to see another match between the two down the line. Jericho/ Benoit is looking like it will be a classic. I like that Bischoff brought in Randy to get the job done. I'm not overly fussed on David Flair, so I hope he's actually gone.

Superbrawl is looking great. Before I address the card, I wanted to add that this is awesome, how you expanded it to two threads is remarkable. I appreciate your effort and you are putting on a good example of what I spotlight should be. Now, on to Superbrawl 9. I hope Hart takes the belt from Nash, since I've never really been a fan of Nash and definitely not in this diary. I hope that retirement match goes to some double draw, so both can retire. ugh ha. Interesting tag team match, happy to see Juvi/Psychosis getting a proper push together DTP. I KNOW Jericho/Benoit will be awesome and I hope you give it a right amount of time. Card looks good man, I will be reading and NOW DEFINITELY REPLYING. HOLD ME TO IT!

- Interesting opening with Hall/Bischoff. I'm clearly a WolfPack fan myself so I'd like to see him join that as I'm not big on the nWo v2 anyway.

- Eh would have preferred Sable to get the win but ah well.

- Ya know I can actually see Barbarian and Luger having a decent slug fist style match. Good strong win for Luger over the underrated Barbarian.

- Of course EWR would eat up Jericho vs Malenko. Sounded like a great match though and I like the finish which led to Benoit making the save which helps build their match-up one final time.

So I guess I'll move along and make some predictions or desires for the results of the ppv. Would love if Hart became World Champion but I have doubts. Would like to see Savage win but that is doubtful as well. I would think the tag champs will retain while Bulldog doesn't though I'm not exactly sure what else can be done with him either way. And I expect Angelina to win this tournament.

Great opening promo hyping up Flair/Savage. Opening match seemed interesting due to the size difference. I liked the idea of mocking Luger after the match. Jericho & Henning make for an awesome team. Taka-Chavo sounded good although I'm not sure if they could have that amazing of a match. Still waiting for Krieg to do something. Glad Rey & Konnan picked up the W in their match. Surprised Hak jobbed like that, but it's understandable because it's against DDP. Good show, and Superbrawl is looking great.