[RESULTS/OPINION]Monday Night RAW/Monday Nitro (12/25) (Slim night for wrestling. This weeks results will be very brief). Monday Night RAW: No show this week. - Will return next week with the RAW Bowl. Monday Nitro: Taped 12/18. - LEX LUGER (w/ JIMMY HART) vs. SCOTTY RIGGS Luger wins with the Rack. - Mean Gene interviews Sting re: Lex Luger. Same stuff we've seen for over a month now. - STING vs. BIG BUBBA Short, but not short enough to avoid being boring. Sting with a roll-up and the pin. - Mean Gene interviews Lex Luger re: Sting. Same stuff we've seen for over a month now. Until ... Out comes Sgt. Craig Pittman, who tells Luger he has no quarrel with him, and asks Jimmy Hart to manage him. Hart says no, belittling Pittman's physique in comparison to the Total Package's. Pittman, frustrated, vows to continue his search for a manager. (Hey Craig-Madusa's not doing anything. Give her a call!) - DEAN MALENKO vs. J. L. Good match with a nice amount of traded holds and such. J. L. gets off a sweet looking corkscrew head-scissors kinda thing, and a cannonball tope type move from the apron to the floor. Malenko gets the submission with an armbar maneuver that I'm not sure I've seen before. By far the best match of the night. Bischoff's commentary as much as gave away the fact that Malenko would eventually get the win. (Which is probably the way to best define a squash: if one guy gets all the commentary, it's his push. J. L.-though given a little due by Bischoff-didn't get near they hype Malenko did) Heenan and McMichael contributed absolutely nothing to the commentary for this match-and most of the night in general. - Mean Gene interviews Ric Flair regarding match with Savage. Flair says to get ready to party. Jimmy Hart comes out and offers to be at ringside. Flair says go ahead. - RANDY SAVAGE (w/ JIMMY HART) vs. RIC FLAIR Flair had Savage reeling for much of the match, which dragged on way too long (show ran several minutes over again). End finally came when Hart jumped on the ring apron to interfere. Savage hits him, prompting Lex Luger to come out from the back and attack Savage, causing the ref to call for the bell. Sting enters the ring and chases off Flair. Savage chases off Luger. Sting and Savage face off, trading a few slaps to the face. Show ends without the usual wrap-up. Bischoff simply starts yelling "we gotta go" and fade to black. - Next week's main event: Nothing at all mentioned about next week as they were too busy hyping Starrcade. Comments: The least impressive Nitro ever. This show could have passed for an installment of the "Main Event." The crowd, which had been hot last week for the live matches, cooled off for the taped stuff. What should have (and could have) been a big build up for Starrcade came off as very flat. If anything, it may have killed some of the heat because it shows that some of these feuds may never end, and that the only unique selling point of Starrcade is the New Japan involment-which went virtually unmentioned. This show really made it clear that the Savage/Luger/Sting/Hogan storyline is the only one WCW has any intention of pushing. It's hard to be optimistic about anything in WCW in the near future when they seem so intent on "business as usual". The Madusa surprise of last week has now completely fizzled as there was nothing taped to show this past weekend, and nothing new last night. (I missed some of the stuff this weekend, so if they did anything with Madusa, I missed it). Oh yeah, they also mentioned that Hulk Hogan had been suspended until the new year, thus explaining in advance his absence from the upcoming Starrcade. Bottom line: Both feds left lumps of coal in our collective stockings this Christmas. This week's winner: RAW ... because no WWF is better than what WCW dumped on us last night. (And on a final note: next week's "RAW Bowl" looks to be a real stinker as well. It was taped last week and from all accounts I've seen, it blew). [REVIEW/OPINION] WWF RAW (12/28) Since there was no RAW this past Monday night, the WWF took the opportunity to show a highlights program called "The World Wrestling Federation Championship: The dream, the reign, the quest." It was essentially a highlights package of clips from World Title matches over the last year. It covered everything from Hart losing the title to Backlund, to Diesel's 8 second title win, to Hart's bloody defense over the British Bulldog. They mentioned Diesel's reversion to his "old self" (in a manner that was surprisingly logical and effective). They hyped Bret Hart's various title reigns, and ran down a list of the top challengers, primarily the Undertaker. The show ended with a replay of the Shawn Michaels tribute video from last week's RAW. Overall, it was a very slick, and well done show. It was only 30 minutes (aired at 10:30 PM Eastern), but it did more to promote the importance of the WWF title than just about anything else they've done this year. It was hosted by McMahon and Mr. Perfect, but the majority of the show was clips packages narrated by Todd Pettengill. (They must have show Bret going through the table at Survivor Series at least three times). Sure it was filler-but it was well done filler. WCW wishes they could put together stuff this well. (Yeah, I'm WWF biased-live with it). They also mentioned that this was the final installment of RAW on Thursdays. They even managed to sneak in ads for the RAW Bowl and a new promo for the Royal Rumble (a pretty funny one at that).