[RESULTS/OPINION]Monday Night RAW/Monday Nitro (2/12)


Monday Night RAW: Not on. Preempted by Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

 - Next week's main event: Undertaker vs. Goldust.

Comments: Why does a network devoted to explosions and bikinis carry the
rights to a yearly dog show?


Monday Nitro: Live.

 - SuperBrawl VI recap: The Nasty Boys beat the now suspended Public Enemy.
   Konnan beat the One Man Gang. Brian Pillman walked out of the "Respect"
   match before it started - apparently quitting WCW. Anderson took his
   place and fought Kevin Sullivan until Ric Flair stopped the match and
   patched things up between the Horsemen and Dungeon of Doom. Johnny B.
   Badd beat Diamond Dallas Page to retain his TV Title belt, The Doll, 
   and get the 6.6 million dollars. Sting and Lex Luger retained the belts
   against both the Harlem Heat and later the Road Warriors. Hulk Hogan
   climbed out of the cage to defeat the Giant, then held off the entire
   Dungeon of Doom, staring down the newest member, The Loch Ness Monster.
   In the World Title match, Miss Elizabeth turned on Savage and handed her
   shoe to Flair, which he used to gain the pinfall and become World Champ
   for the 13th time. 
   
 - RANDY SAVAGE vs. HUGH MORRUS
   Savage came out looking very determined (and quite frankly energized.)
   Morrus missed his moonsault. Savage with the pin following TWO textbook
   Elbow Drops. The camera gets a good shot of security confiscating a pro-
   Pillman sign.

 - Mean Gene interviewed Steve Grissom, driver of the WCW racing car. I have
   no idea why.
 
 - LOCH NESS (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs. SCOTTY RIGGS
   The seven foot (*wink*) seven hundred pound (*wink-wink*) Monster squashed
   the American Male to a fine paste with a couple of flabby standing Elbow
   Drops.

 - Mean Gene interviewed Woman and Miss Elizabeth, who came out wheeling a 
   gurney. Ric Flair (who had been under a sheet) sits up and goes into his
   alzheimer's routine. Liz, who hasn't delivered an interesting interview
   ever, may have broken that tradition by ripping into the Macho Man. 
   "When I left you, I took half of everything... last night I took the other
   half!" Flair does his palsied strut, "Whoo!s," and rambles on about Space
   Mountain while groping Liz. Woman stood there looking pretty.

 - KONNAN vs. "DANGEROUS" DEVON STORM
   Though a big fan of the high flying/high impact/Lucha/Japanese style of
   wrestling, it's on the condition that it's done well: This wasn't. Most
   every spot these two did was blown by the fact that it took forever to
   set them up. Storm has the technique of a 1-2-3 Kid, and the personality
   of a dead fish. He seemed too busy concentrating on the spots to notice
   the crowd, much less work it. Konnan wrestled like a man who knew he was
   going to win, so why exert himself? Konnan with the pin following a failed
   Frankensteiner attempt off the top rope.

 - HULK HOGAN vs. ARN ANDERSON (w/ Woman)
   Curiously enough, this match was mildly entertaining. Hogan dipped into
   his usual dirty tricks book: Raking of the back, eye gouges, choking
   with tape, etc. Someone in the crowd held up a "Bischoff is Satan" sign.
   Bischoff apologizes for insinuating that the WWF somehow pulled the plug
   on the power on last week's show, saying it was a joke and not a serious 
   allegation. Arn plays human pinball, being worked over pillar-to-post 'til
   Flair and Liz come out. Hulk does an even poorer version of the Fargo
   strut, thus angering Flair (who obviously thinks his strut and his alone
   should be that bad.) Hogan slips Arn into a Figure Four (which drives
   Flair berzerk.) Flair charges in, but is grabbed by Hogan and small
   packaged (while maintaining the Figure Four on Arn.) Fortunately, the
   ref doesn't count the pin. Liz gives Flair her shoe and he in turn hands 
   it to Arn. Woman throws powder in the eyes of Hogan, and is then nailed by
   the shoe. The ref, who'd have to have been at that exact moment suffering a
   stroke in order to miss all this, drops to the mat and counts to three.
   Arn with the win (yay.) McMichael notes there are enough heels at ringside
   to start a shoe store. Savage eventually shows up to make the save.

   Arn, Flair and the girls head over to the desk. Flair chases off Bischoff
   and taunts Hogan. Arn says he beat Hogan tonight, he can do it again. 
   Eventually Hogan and Savage come over, chase off the Horsemen, and take
   their turns at ranting. (Hogan, obviously aware of Heenan's condition, 
   treats him with kid gloves, giving him a chance to get away.) Heenan has
   to climb around a few cables to make his escape. Savage says he'll beat
   Flair next week while Hogan accept Arn's challenge to a rematch.

   A fairly wild ending to an otherwise dull show.

 - Next week's main event: Ric Flair. Randy Savage. The Rematch.

Comments: The fed seems a bit more focused now that they've dumped the 
Horsemen/Dungeon of Doom feud. Hogan seems to be locked into battling the
Dungeon, while Flair and Savage concentrate on what is developing into a
genuinely hot feud. Liz's turn was a shocker, it's just too bad she doesn't
have the talent to work with it. Was the Pillman incident a work? You be the
judge. In any case, he looks to be gone, and is persona non grata down 
Atlanta way.


Bottom line: So-so show. I really missed RAW tonight.

This week's winner: Nitro by default. (Though some of those Westminster dogs
were pretty cute!)