WCW Saturday Night - Satuday 27th July 1996
Orlando, Florida[/color]
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18:05-18:07[/color] - The opening WCW Saturday Night video package aired, as we go live to Orlando Studios for WCW Saturday Night, 'live' and presented by Tony Schiavone and Dusty Rhodes, as they run down the card for the next hour of WCW wrestling. They remind us of the happenings from this past few weeks, with Hollywood Hogan, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall all getting into feuds with The Giant, Lex Luger and Randy "Macho Man" Savage.
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18:07-18:11[/color] -
The Ultimate Dragon defeated Billy Kidman[/color] Nothing too grand to kick off this edition of WCW Saturday Night inside of the ring. The Dragon used his acrobatic skills and agility to keep ahead of the WCW PowerPlant student, Kidman. Dragon used some nice kicks, before ending it with the Dragon Sleeper.
*1/4[/color]
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18:11-18:14[/color] - The Ultimate Dragon celebrates, as Sonny Oono appears from out of nowhere, Oono going over to Gene Okerlund and talking about how Hog Wild would lead to a new rising sun in WCW, as the Dragon would win the WCW World Cruiserweight Champion. With that, Dean Malenko himself appears, the champion tlaking to Oono and Dragon, saying that Dean would like to test his abilities on Nitro, if Dragon would be willing to take Malenko on in a non-title contest! The crowd pops as the anti-verbal Dragon nods his head.
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18:14-18:18[/color] - Commercial break.
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18:18-18:25[/color] -
Steve "Mongo" McMichael and Arn Anderson defeated Psychosis and Juventud Guerrera[/color] Fairly decent match here, as it featured two members of the Four Horsemen taking on two of Rey Mysterio, Jr's friends, the luchadores, Juventud Guerrera and Psychosis. The Horsemen had trouble with the masked luchadores, but Mongo eventually took control, as Anderson hit a Spinebuster on Guerrera for the win.
**3/4[/color]
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18:25-18:26[/color] - Arn Anderson and Steve "Mongo" McMichael celebrate, as the WCW US Heavyweight Champion, Ric Flair walks out with a grin on his face, clapping his hands at the fellow Four Horsemen members.
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18:26-18:30[/color] - Commercial break.
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18:30-18:35[/color] -
Meng and The Barbarian defeated Scott Armstrong and Brad Armstrong[/color] This was a way to get the two members of the Dungeon of Doom; Meng and Barbarian over, as they competed against the undercard workers, Scott and Brad of the solid Armstrong wrestling family. Scott and Meng started, as Meng battered Scott with some chops. Barbarian eventually came in, ending it with a Backbreaker on Scott.
**1/4[/color]
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18:35-18:36 - Meng and The Barbarian, the Faces of Fear celebrated, as Brad Armstrong attended to Scott, in the ring.
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18:36-18:40[/color] - Commercial break.
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18:40-18:41 - A video graphic appears, advertising the nWo invading WCW Saturday Night, next week on TBS Superstation!
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18:41-18:44[/color] - We went to Gene Okerlund in a pre-taped segment, standing in front of numerous monitors showing WCW action, as he hyped up WCW Hog Wild, being on Saturday 10th August 1996, as numerous matches had already been announced for the event, to take place in Sturgis, the current card consisting of: The Giant vs Hollywood Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship; Lex Luger vs Kevin Nash for the WCW World Television Championship; Sting vs Scott Hall; Ric Flair vs Rey Mysterio Jr for the WCW US Heavyweight Championship; Dean Malenko vs Ultimate Dragon for the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship, plus announced, Harlem Heat vs American Males for the WCW World Tag Team Championships in a no-holds barred brawl!
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18:41-18:46[/color] -
Sting defeated Big Bubba Rogers[/color] This was a decent match here, as the Stinger managed to take down the larger Big Bubba Rogers, trying to chop down the big tree, and he managed to do so, Rogers seemed a bit off of his game, as Sting was motivated, going right through Bubba and applying the Scorpion Deathlock for the win!
**1/4[/color]
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18:46-18:47[/color] - Sting celebrates, saying that he was going to be the one to murder the New World Order.
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18:47-18:51[/color] - Commercial break.
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18:51-18:55 - We go to Gene Okerlund, as he introduces "Diamond" Dallas Page to the capacity crowd, as he begins to make his way out to the arena to a chorus of boos. Page stands with Okerlund, as he talks about Page's recent past, growing up on the streets and fighting, to get to this point. Page denies all of that, saying that it's always been good for DDP. "Lionheart" Chris Jericho then made his way out to the arena to cheers, as Jericho said that Page has been walking people down, and acting like a snob. Jericho tells Page that that ends at Nitro, Monday! Page accepts the challenge.
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18:55-18:59[/color] - Commercial break.
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18:59-19:08[/color] -
The Giant defeated Michael Wallstreet[/color] A pretty decent main event to this week's edition of Saturday Night, as the WCW World Heavyweight Champion fought with Wallstreet in a nice back-and-forth match, Wallstreet trying out a hit-and-run strategy. He got Giant down, but eventually ran into a Chokeslam for the win for Giant.
**3/4[/color]
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19:08-19:09[/color] - The Giant begins to celebrate, as he holds up the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Saturday Night goes off the air.[/font][/center]