So it’s worth noting – at the risk of breaking the kayfabe of these musings – that I’m wrote most of these earlier in the year when WCW’s YouTube channel… think about how awkward it is to say that about an official channel…. anyway, they’re uploading the first few episodes in aired order until the Oct. 2nd episode, which is later followed by the Nov. 27th, 1995 episode that takes place a month later. Obviously, Nitros not being uploaded in order kinda hurts this whole project that’s supposed to be about following this show in episodic order.
Fortunately, a buddy of mine had recorded a whole bunch of Nitros off the WWE Network when that was still an on-air TV channel as part of the Rogers package on to a bunch of DVD-Rs and kindly gave me his batch as a sort of “get well” gift as a result of my earlier health scare. And so whenever I need to fill holes in the Youtube playlist, this will be my go to.
And just as well to because I’m actually enjoying these more than I thought I would.
U.S. Champion Sting defeated Shark (a.k.a. the former Earthquake) in a little over a minute, which is followed by a replay of
HOGAN SHOT 1
And then Sabu defeated Mr JL via submission in a fun five-minute match that has the crowd hot and chanting ECW… because Mr JL is a masked Jerry Lynn and people know that because they’re not stupid. This is followed by Savage questioning Sting not getting chokeslammed or something… Sting responds by telling Savage and Luger that if they win the Halloween Havoc matches, they can fight each other on Nitro.
There’s a Big Bubba Rogers/Road Warrior Hawk match that I didn’t watch because Disco Inferno was there and scared the dog off. I come back in time to see a Hulk Hogan interview, where he’s wearing all black. He references beating Andre and that promoter in New York whose ego got too big for the business. Hogan chastizing another man for the size of his ego? INCONCEIVABLE!
The show ends with Arn Anderson punching out Ric Flair with a pair of knux to score the Figure-Four pinfall attempt in this four-minute steel cage match. Eh, whatever. See you next week.
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