Seriously, the banner says it all.
This whole show was built around one thing; Robocop making his first (and to date, ONLY) wrestling appearance. I’m sure the actual show will not live up to the hype and legend that has been inflated by internet lore, but fuck it, I want to watch this one regardless. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Aside from everything, of course…
An old picture of Dr. Ashen facepalming is the perfect way to describe WCW’s last-ever Pay-Per-View offering.
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. This is where it all ended for World Championship Wrestling. A week later, WCW would air its final episode of Monday Nitro and become a distant memory… aside from its name being associated with an offshoot stable for a lame “invasion” angle on WWF television.
WCW was running low on names, weren’t they?
Anyway, the second of three WCW Pay-Per-Views taking place in 2001 before their eventual closure and purchase by the WWF .
So WCW in 2001 was in pretty dire straits. They’re about to be sold, they supposed get bought out by one group but then not really, then their TV gets cancelled and finally they get bought by WWF. But apparently, the last few months of TV was actually tolerable compared to what came before. So this month, we’ll be looking at the last three WCW PPVs ever conceived – unless you want to count that Super Slow-Down show from Australia last year. And then after that, who knows?
Welp, this is it… the last WCW Uncensored PPV.
You know this show is going to be a winner when the camera shows a fan with a sign that says “I’d Rather Be At Wrestlemania.”
Sigh… let’s get this fucker over with.
WCW Uncensored 1999 is a show that will live in infamy… except not really.
Anyway, on with the show…
Yeah, I saw this one back in the day… I don’t remember much about it, but I doubt it’ll be as entertaining as that one show where Eric Bischoff beat Vince McMahon via countout in a make-believe street fight or something.
Anyway, while March saw the Austin era begin at Wrestlemania, WCW fans had this show to look forward to… well, let’s jump into it.
Uncensored 97 places us in the height of the New World Order era of WCW, which saw the promotion’s Monday Nitro program trump WWF Raw week in and week out. Uncensored ’97 is a rather significant event in the overall narrative of the WCW vs. nWo story, but is it a good show otherwise?
Let’s find out.
A couple years ago, we covered the very first WCW Uncensored event from 1995; a “unique” concept PPV that would comprise nothing but gimmick matches and things of that nature, similar to the current day WWE Extreme Rules PPV concept, except somewhat goofier… I guess. NowI covered the ’95 version since I had that on tape, but never got around to watching the remaining five editions of this series until I got access to the VOD aspect of the WWE Network. As such, we’ll be looking at the remaining shows this month and… well, it’ll be not boring… I hope.
Today’s subject matter is WCW Uncensored 1996, home of the Doomsday Cage match where Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage take one EIGHT men in a triple decker cage!
Taking a brief detour from WWF 1995 Pay-Per-Views due to there being two left and having a day free for anything else, but let’s make a quick hop over to World Championship Wrestling and take a look at that year’s Starrcade event, which features the stars of WCW going up against the stars of New Japan Pro Wrestling… because that was a thing that happened back in 1995. Wouldn’t you like to see something like that with WWE?
“Yeah, bro. Good one.”
Welp, I tried.
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