LEX LUGER vs. RANDY SAVAGE
Oh hey, an actual match of any interest! If you call the WCW hotline you can hear about what’s going on on RAW from Mike Tenay, apparently. Huh. Since Luger has anything to do with this match we get constant pissy little cheap shots towards the WWF at the commentary desk. Once they’re done with the pointless WWF cheap shots, we get 5 minutes of Steve McMichael bashing Bobby Heenan. I don’t know how they managed to get worse than the RAW ’93 McMahon-Savage-Bartlett commentary desk, but they managed to do it with one man alone. Eric Bischoff is inoffensively stupid and Heenan is Heenan but my god is Steve McMichael a hack.
Either way, we immediately get a commercial break and Luger smacks Savage across the face. Soon, they go to the outside and weirdly fight over a suplex for a while. Lex eventually reverses it and hits a neckbreaker on the floor, and we hype up Hulk Hogan being on Nitro. Yeah, apparently Hogan doing TV is a rare enough occurrence to hype the hell out of it every time it happens. Ain’t that something. Savage goes for a backslide, which fails because of course it does. I don’t know why he even tried. They do the stupid spot that happens on every Nitro where they run into each other followed by the stupid spot that happens on every Nitro where someone gets thrown into the barricade.
Good god, you guys have run this spot into the ground. It’s not interesting anymore. When you do the same thing over and over and over again it loses its power. We get a ref bump and as is required by law Savage immediately hits his finisher afterwards. The Giant comes out, as expected, and drills Savage with a chokeslam. As the followup, Lex picks him up for the Torture Rack, which ends the match and gets him immense heat, even though I’m not 100% sure whether he’s even supposed to be a heel or not. Steve McMichael gives us some great insight after the match as per usual, and Heenan predicts that Giant is going to wreck Hogan.
Apparently Guerrero vs. Malenko is scheduled, but Disco Inferno is coming out. Wow, what a bitter disappointment. Guerrero comes out to yell at him and chase him off the stage. What in the hell was the point of that?
