Today’s episode of Nitro opens with a clip from WCW Saturday Night where Ric Flair is pleading with Sting to be his partner in his feud against Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman… and of course, Sting accepts because he’s a stupid idiot babyface and we all know what’s going to happen when this match takes place at Halloween Havoc. Though, to be fair, Sting did warn Flair that if Ric went bad, he’d be left for dead… and, well, that didn’t happen.
There’s a DDP/Johnny B. Badd interaction that goes nowhere, which is followed by a short but great Eddie Guerrero/Chris Benoit match that sees Benoit win with a Dragon Suplex, followed by a Giant/Kevin Sullivan promo… at some point, Mean Gene even pimps the WCW Hotline. Meng murders Jim Duggan with his Golden Spike thing… I kinda preferred the Tongan Death Grip myself, but we’re still ways off from that, are we? And then, Hogan comes out in his black get-up to try and convince us that he’s an evil bastard… well, there’s some truth to that, but this promo is mostly laughable.
And in the main event, Ric Flair & Sting defeated Arn Anderson & Brian Pillman in a fun match that saw Flair do most of the work before he tags in Sting and he does a billion splashes to win the match. And then he agrees to be Flair’s partner at Halloween Havoc… in the same match-up we saw on Nitro… on free TV… and they want you to pay for the rematch… where Flair will turn on Sting. That’s not a spoiler; that’s business as usual.
A couple good matches in this hour-long show makes this an easy watch.
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