[RESULTS/OPINION]Monday Night RAW/Monday Nitro (6/10) Monday Nitro: Live. HOUR ONE: Hosted by Tony Schiavone & Larry Zbyszko. - SCOTT STEINER vs. BOOKER T. I hate it when WCW spends so much time with matches involving tag teams split up for singles matches and tag team matches with established singles wrestlers joined together. This is very true of WCW right now, especially given the fact that the Tag Titles are held by singles wrestlers who are both currently involved in singles storylines (Luger vs. Giant - Sting vs. Regal.) It says little about WCW's confidence in or opinion of their much vaunted tag team ranks. Anyway, all that aside, this wasn't too bad a match. Scott get the pin following a swell looking belly-to-back suplex. - Mean Gene starts to interview Steiner re: their match with Fire & Ice, but they are interrupted by Deborah McMichael. She asks Mean Gene if he can set up a meeting between herself and Ric Flair. She wants to talk him into stopping the big match set for the Great American Bash. - DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE vs. JIM POWERS Jim Powers! Cripes... someone call S.D. Jones and tell hi to go to Atlanta 'cuz they'll hire anyone! Page with the Diamond Cutter and the pin. - Recap of Benoit/Sullivan feud. - Mean Gene interviews Konan. He'll be facing El Gato at the Bash. Being only a borderline Lucha fan, this means absolutely nothing to me (and will probably mean less to the Baltimore crowd.) - STING vs. MENG Sting finishes of the once invincible Meng with the Scorpion in about 3 minutes or so. - Mean Gene talks to Deborah McMichael and Bobby Heenan in the lockerroom. Heenan says he can arrange a meeting with Flair (after insinuating that Debbie had just spent the last week worth of nights with Flair.) The Brain leads her into a dressing room, then slams the door on Okerlund and the camera. Deborah can be heard screaming behind the door. Moments later she comes out looking a bit dishevelled and in tears. Close behind are Flair, Arn, and the girls. Along comes "Desperado" Joe Gomez and the Renegade (who had recieved much hype throughout the show as an exciting new tag team.) Flair smacks the Renegade and puts him in the figure four while Arn stomps on Renegade's knee. Gomez is lying on the floor from a shot from Arn (presumably) that the camera never caught. All this and we're still only part way through the first hour! (*Checks watch... goes to make sandwich.*) - SQUIRE DAVID TAYLOR (w/ Jeeves) vs. "HACKSAW" JIM DUGGAN Taylor is an accomplished mat wrestler. Duggan has mastered the homosapial art of walking upright. After a few minutes of what looks like wrestling, Duggan tapes his fist and knocks out Taylor for the pin. - Clips of Dean Malenko and an unimpressive looking Rey Misterio Jr. (I know who he is, it's just that WCW is doing nothing to establish him as anything other than another masked Power Ranger-esque guy for the little kids to look at.) - Mean Gene interviews Big Bubba. Bubba is playing with John Tenta's hair. (That's right - the hair that he cut two weeks ago and left lying in the ring last week. Tenta'd have to be a bull moose to have that much hair.) I still can't figure out how a prison guard from Macon Georgia ends up as a rough and tumble biker. Budget cuts? - Mean Gene interviews Scott Norton. HOUR TWO: Hosted by Eric Bischoff and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. - THE GIANT (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs. SCOTT NORTON Man, the Giant's quick for his size. The Giant and Norton end up outside the ring. Norton gets posted. Back in the ring for a pin, then celebratory chokeslam - which is broken up by Lex Luger. They go at it, teasing another table shot, but Lex escapes. Lex more or less comes out on top of the encounter, heading off to the announcer's booth to bluster about it. The Giant stalks off towards the back. - Clip of the Nasty Boys on some Chicago talk show with Dennis Rodman, making him an honorary Nasty Boy. Then a clip of Kevin Greene on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. Looks like WCW is going to call Greene "Shallow Grave" after all. (*Groan*) - LORD STEVEN REGAL (w/ Jeeves) vs. BILLY (THE?) KIDMAN They oughtta call him the "3-2-1 Kid(man.)" Regal beat Kidman this past weekend in about 12 seconds. This match takes a bit longer. Regal throws Kidman down, steps on his head, and pulls on his leg. Heenan remarks it looks like a stump puller. The Kid(man) quickly submits. Couldn't they have shown this in the first hour? - THE NASTY BOYS vs. THE PUBLIC ENEMY I hear there's a sweet little old lady who makes all the WCW wrestler's outfits: Meticulously sewing them by hand - using time honored seamstress techniques. I'd like to smack her in the mouth! The P.E.'s gear tonight looked like they were old "Nacho Flavored Tostitos" bags sewed together. There wasn't much in this match that we haven't seen the previous 15 times they've "wrestled." (Except that less "plunder" was used than usual.) The Nasties are DQ'd for using a garbage can. No table shot. - Another Hulk Hogan promo package - same as last week's. - Recap of the whole Flair/Arn/Woman/Liz/Deborah/McMichael/Greene/Savage scenario. Added this week is footage of Savage arriving at Mongo and Greene's training camp. - STING/LEX LUGER vs. RIC FLAIR/ARN ANDERSON (w/ Woman & Liz) Since Gomez and Renegade had to be "carted off to the hospital" Flair and Arn are awarded a title shot. (?) A so-so match. Flair does all his usual. Sting wrestles most of the match. When Luger finally makes the save he clotheslines both Ric and Arn out of the ring. Enter the Giant, who intends to chokeslam Luger. In comes Scott Steiner with a wooden chair for the save. He, Luger and Sting all beat on the Giant until he "hulks up" and stands in the corner of the ring growling. The faces bid a wary retreat. - Cut to the booth for the wrap-up. In strolls (TMFKA) Razor Ramon. Bischoff asks where his "surprise" is. Enter (TMFKA) Diesel. (TMF... forget it!) Diesel grabs the mic. "For six months you've been running your mouth off! This is where the Big Boys play. Look at the adjective... PLAY! We don't PLAY!" (Actually Kev, that should be "the verb." The adjective would have been "big.") "This show is about as interesting as Marge Schott reading excerpts of 'Mein Mampf!' What's the matter... you couldn't get a paleontologist to clear some of these fossils to wrestle... couldn't get enough of these geezers off dialysis... ?! Where's Hogan - off filming another episode of "Blunder in Paradise! Where's the Nacho Man? Off shooting another 'Slim Jim' commercial?!" All though this Razor is mussing up Biscoff hair. Bischoff says he doesn't have the authority to confirm anything now, but that if they show up at the Great American Bash next week - he'll get them a fight. - Next week's main event: None mentioned. Comments: "Desperado" Joe Gomez and the Renegade got more hype than the whole Razor inavsion. I betcha Razor and Diesel show up in the last five minutes of the PPV and Jacknife Alex Wright and Marcus Bagwell. Oh yeah... Blood Runs Cold - interest runs colder. Monday Night RAW: Taped 5/27. - OWEN HART vs. YOKOZUNA Dud. Yoko pummels Owen to a pulp, drags him over to the corner for a Bonzai Splash, looses his footing on the ropes, falls on his can, and is pinned by Slammy Award Winner Owen Hart. Later in an interview Yoko says he has to go and "find himself." Fat farm again. Owen advances in the KOTR. - Clips from the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago. Shaw plays with the Kliq Cam. Then they show a clip of a Jake Roberts interview from Action Zone. The Snake sits in for color commentary during the next match. - "WILDMAN" MARC MERO (w/ Sable) vs. SKIP An okay match. Mero continues to sell leg injuries. Mero holds onto the top ropes during a Frankensteiner attempt by Skip, then later nails Skip with a Frankensteiner of his own for the pin. Mero advances in the KOTR. Skip, as was mentioned last week, is looking for a manager. If interested: Manager Search P.O. Box 3857 Stamford, CT 06905 or E-Mail them at: bodydonnas@wwf.lame.angle.com - Vince interviews the Ultimate warrior. Jerry Lawler has painted a picture of the warrior and would like to give it to him to settle their differences. As was obvious the first second they showed it, Lawler smashes it over the Warrior's back, shattering the glass. - BRITISH BULLDOG (w/ Jim Cornette) vs. THE UNDERTAKER (w/ Paul Bearer) Bulldog is also accompanied by Owen & Diana Hart. Pre match Shawn Michaels is interview. Jim Cornette announces that Clarence Mason's suit against Gorilla Monsoon has been settled out of court in returm for "special considerration." Cornette will be allowed to choose a guest referee for the Bulldog/Michaels rematch at King of the Ring. This was a good match. (Okay, as you all know I'm an Undertaker mark. Seriously... this wasn't all that bad.) Skip ahead to the finish where the Underatker is counted out due to Mankind appearing from under the ring and holding onto the 'Taker's ankle. Cornette, not liking the unpredictable Mankind, pulls away his men as the ring fills with officials intent on stopping Mankind. During the final commercial break, Jim Ross posed the question: "Has the controversial BRIAN PILLMAN joined the ranks of the WWF Superstars?" - Next week's main event: ? Comments: Better than last week's show with two solid matches. Bottom line: I'm really running short on time this week so let me just say that both shows are trying. This week's winner: Nitro. JRP