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00:00:00There's no way to win, for I will not let trash like Bill Goldberg.
00:00:09That's what is mine.
00:00:11I've been watching you, Sid.
00:00:13You cheat, you come from behind.
00:00:16Tonight, I stop a hole in your, cuz you're next.
00:00:21It doesn't happen, that's why I say it's ready to happen, say, this is my show.
00:00:28If it ain't tonight, you'll be tomorrow, but you never know.
00:00:33Zero, this is next.
00:00:35I take my eyes off the business for six weeks and Sting won the world title by hitting Hulk Hogan with a baseball bat.
00:00:45You made me what I am at this very moment.
00:00:48I learned from the dirtiest player in the game, Rick.
00:00:52I'm gonna give you the chance to leave peacefully and gracefully.
00:00:56If you and Luger want me to leave.
00:00:58No, you're right, I'm gonna leave.
00:01:01Not.
00:01:02Rick, take a walk.
00:01:04I respect you, but you're gonna have to earn the rest of it.
00:01:08That's all there is to it.
00:01:09Two men, burly attacking Ric Flair.
00:01:11Let the scorpion duck walk and Hulk Hogan.
00:01:14And Rick, they hit man height.
00:01:16Luger and Sting slither away.
00:01:18What you got ready to do to Ric Flair is way over the line, man.
00:01:22I got respect for him.
00:01:23Prepare yourselves to be excellently executed.
00:01:26I don't have medical clearance yet.
00:01:28I'd love to oblige him on release.
00:01:29He's not only cleared tonight, but he has been cleared for three weeks.
00:01:33Hogan went right for Sting wanting payback from last night.
00:01:37He remembers getting whacked with that baseball bat.
00:01:39And he's up and he's down.
00:01:40Diamond Dallas Page.
00:01:42He does have the ball bat in his hand.
00:01:44No.
00:01:44Hogan cuts off DDP.
00:01:46Right in the face.
00:01:48Beat him in the face to the bats.
00:01:49To the bats.
00:01:51Possible serious injury happening here, fans.
00:02:03Sting, a decade of being the hero, the franchise, the go-to guy, WCW's favorite son.
00:02:21But was all this a mere charade?
00:02:25Was the betrayal by Sting at Fall Brawl the final payoff of a grand scheme?
00:02:31We should have seen the clues.
00:02:33But the only thing is for sure about Sting is nothing's for sure.
00:02:40The various appearances of the infamous bogus Sting.
00:02:45The rejection of WCW and the subsequent walking out on the promotion.
00:02:50You can stick it.
00:02:54A new Sting emerged.
00:02:56The colors were gone.
00:02:58He was draped in black.
00:03:01But was the blackest part his heart?
00:03:05Mysteriously appearing in the upper reaches of WCW events everywhere.
00:03:10He was like a specter.
00:03:12But was this the beginning of his true character shining through?
00:03:15The ease in which he quickly sided with the wolf pack.
00:03:20The heightened emotion was now all too easy for him to display.
00:03:25It should have tipped us off.
00:03:28Kevin Nash could have been right.
00:03:30Maybe it was Sting all along driving the mysterious Hummer.
00:03:35He was seen coming out of one and attacking Rick Steiner.
00:03:38Remember?
00:03:40Yes, maybe it is even possible for the re-emergence of the bogus Sting to be a creation of the real Sting himself.
00:03:49The cold fact in this entire mystery is that Sting has now, once and for all, turned his back on his millions of fans around the world.
00:04:01What was once colorful and vibrant is now cold, calculating and dark.
00:04:07We have witnessed better days.
00:04:11For this is a most trying time to have heroes in World Championship Wrestling.
00:04:21And World Championship Wrestling welcomes you to another edition of WCW Monday Nitro.
00:04:30We are hooked in for the next three hours and we are coming to you live
00:04:35from the Queen City of Cincinnati, Ohio.
00:04:40We're at the four-star center, right along the riverfront, right next to Synergy Field,
00:04:45right in the downtown area of Cincinnati, Ohio.
00:04:50Welcome to Metro on TNT.
00:04:55And yes, it is a very trying time to have heroes in World Championship Wrestling.
00:05:02And hi, everybody. It's Tony Schiavone and Bobby the Brain Heenan.
00:05:07Well, there you see it. Sting has signed the return match for the world title against Hulk Hogan.
00:05:14The event, of course, is Halloween Havoc. The big October pay-per-view spectacular.
00:05:20WCW signs this, but really with that dark cloud of Sting over top of us.
00:05:26Bobby the Brain Heenan has everybody wondering why did Sting do what he's done.
00:05:31Sting's always been like this. I've told everybody that. You could never trust a guy.
00:05:35He never really had any alliance or allegiance with anybody, except for a small time, the NWO red and black.
00:05:40He's always been a loner. He's always cared about himself.
00:05:43Now, I guarantee you something, because I know the man.
00:05:45You take a ball back to Hogan, he's going to take two ball bats to you.
00:05:49Look what happened to Bret Hart when Luger hit him in the face.
00:05:52I heard he had stitches, eye damage, a lot of things happening, Tony.
00:05:56And Bret Hart is not here tonight, but World Champion Sting is here.
00:05:59And he will defend the title against the Crippler Chris Benoit, a match we should have had last week.
00:06:05But Sting would not wrestle Benoit.
00:06:07Well, Benoit's ready. He lost the match a couple weeks ago, but he's on a roll now.
00:06:11He's now become champion. He's out for everything.
00:06:13He's gonna take every title he can possibly get his hands on.
00:06:16The man is super tough.
00:06:17And also here wrestling tonight is Goldberg, and Goldberg answered all the talk by Sid Vicious last week.
00:06:24Boy, did he ever. They were lying around the building when I came in at 4 o'clock.
00:06:27They were chanting, Goldberg, Goldberg, Goldberg, and he's here tonight.
00:06:30Goldberg is here wrestling live on TNT, on WCW, Monday Nitro, as well as World Champion Sting,
00:06:40and the Television Champion Chris Benoit to battle for the World Heavyweight Championship.
00:06:45That is all here. That is all live here on Monday night.
00:06:50Monday night.
00:06:51And who knows what else is gonna happen. You never know.
00:06:54As we get ready for our first match, which will be a tag team match.
00:07:02I wanna let you fans know that we're talking about Goldberg wrestling tonight.
00:07:06Well, Goldberg's appearance wrestling on this program live is imminent.
00:07:11You know why, Brain?
00:07:12Because he is wrestling in the very next segment.
00:07:16Goldberg's gonna come right out here, right after the commercial break in wrestle.
00:07:21early tonight on WCW Monday Nitro.
00:07:24Well, I'll tell you, I've been in this sport for 30-some years,
00:07:27and I've never seen anybody hotter except Hogan, maybe, than Goldberg.
00:07:31Goldberg is a, he's the man right now, and everybody wants him.
00:07:34And I'll tell you something, Sid Vich is a very, very, very smart man.
00:07:39I hope Goldberg don't fall into his trap.
00:07:42If he does, he's gonna have to fight his way out of it.
00:07:44And I don't know anybody that's gotten out of it yet.
00:07:46What a match this is gonna be, Tony.
00:07:52Standing in cheering here in Cincinnati for
00:07:57Rey Mysterio here and his partner Kidman.
00:08:00These two men, along with Connie Ann and Eddie Guerrero,
00:08:04have made up the four men who like to call themselves the Filthy Animals.
00:08:09And they come out here to face Rupert Guerrero and Psychosis.
00:08:17Well, we got all former champions here in the ring, all former Cruiserweight champions,
00:08:22and a little shoving going on.
00:08:23Well, fans, we open up this big week in World Championship Wrestling here tonight on
00:08:27Monday Nitro, live Thursday on Thunder.
00:08:30And also this week, it's a big week for WCW because there you see the days and the hours,
00:08:35the countdown to the release of the brand new video game by Electronic Arts, WCW Mayhem.
00:08:41It's gonna be available for PlayStation, Nintendo 64.
00:08:44It is the cutting edge of video game technology.
00:08:47And we have it for you coming up in a mere three days now, this coming Friday.
00:08:52It's tremendous.
00:08:53It's a heck of a, heck of a thing to view.
00:08:55It really is to be a part of, and we'll be talking more about Mayhem by Electronic Arts.
00:09:01It's a great name for it, too.
00:09:02Yes.
00:09:03There's Mayhem all around World Championship Wrestling.
00:09:06There goes Billy Kidman with a great hit to takeover,
00:09:09and then a dropkick to take Psychosis down.
00:09:12When you got four men so equally missed, such as this in the opening bout,
00:09:15Green, you gotta say that it could come down to maybe a mistake.
00:09:19It could come down to maybe some pretty sound strategy to try to get this win here.
00:09:23Well, they know each other so well, and they've been in the ring before.
00:09:26It comes down to what?
00:09:28Who's ever the luckiest at the right time, or who the brakes fall for?
00:09:30They're gonna win this match.
00:09:32Hmm.
00:09:35And a reverse powerbomb that time by Psychosis, and he caught any of the great stars,
00:09:40any of the great wrestling stars, and they will tell you that they will go for luck any day.
00:09:48Whoa!
00:09:49Compared to a sound strategy, good move off the top.
00:09:52Who went to Guerrero?
00:09:54He wants to go to the Hoobie driver immediately.
00:09:56Well, that could happen any time when he's in there.
00:10:01Like you said, Tony, just one missed move, and it's all yours.
00:10:04Kidman's hurt right now.
00:10:06Kidman is hurt now, as you can see, a swat after Rey Mysterio Jr.,
00:10:10and Billy Silverman, and Monachin Rey Jr.
00:10:13is hurt now.
00:10:14He's hurt him, meanwhile, that enables psychosis.
00:10:16And now Hoobie to maybe get the offense going.
00:10:17Forget about it.
00:10:18Kidman back into it.
00:10:20Hoobie to landed on his feet on that one.
00:10:23A tag's been made.
00:10:24And Hoobie to does not realize that Rey Jr.'s made the exchange.
00:10:32He's gonna realize it now.
00:10:34From the top.
00:10:36There's probably a lot of things Hoobie don't realize, but he knows it now.
00:10:39He shouldn't be in there.
00:10:41It was a fast press from the top.
00:10:42Rob Springboard.
00:10:44Asahi Moonsault, middle of Springboard.
00:10:46He gets psychosis.
00:10:50But Hoobie to back into a gut shot.
00:10:53Sends him down with a spectacular move.
00:10:56Spoon the man over and dropped him down with a side slam that time.
00:11:00These men are very talented, very fast, and they're very hungry.
00:11:07Boy, the fans here are rabid.
00:11:09But they are really into world championship right now.
00:11:11And once again.
00:11:12When you say they're rabid, you mean they're dropping?
00:11:16That's a bigger speech, Frank.
00:11:17Once again, Goldberg is coming out here next to wrestle.
00:11:21And you know he has Sid Vicious on his mind.
00:11:24And with that challenge he made to Vicious last week at the top.
00:11:27Whoa!
00:11:28And take leg drop, holding the man high in the air.
00:11:31And then dropping down.
00:11:32This could be it.
00:11:33And Kidman's been the only thing he could've done.
00:11:35He saved the match that time.
00:11:37If Kidman had not done that, that would've been a one, two, three for Hoobie.
00:11:39What a move.
00:11:42Goldberg, every place I go, all they're talking about is Sting, and they're also talking about
00:11:46Goldberg.
00:11:47What an athlete.
00:11:48And Sid Vicious.
00:11:50Yeah, I'll tell you what they're talking about as much as anything else they want from Goldberg to get in the ring.
00:11:55And stop the count by Sid Vicious to end it all.
00:11:59Up on top.
00:12:00Oh, body of that man.
00:12:01Good one, Kidman.
00:12:03And now he and Ray, a little communication going on in the ring.
00:12:06Good teamwork.
00:12:07They will double-team Hoobie to Guerrero.
00:12:10Kick him into the run.
00:12:11He landed on his feet, but there he goes.
00:12:16Wow, what action.
00:12:19He'll backdrop Ray onto the apron.
00:12:20Ray kicked.
00:12:22Whoa!
00:12:24Another Asahi Moonstrant outside this time.
00:12:27As the action is fast and furious in just the opening match here on TNT.
00:12:32Cincinnati hasn't seen this many hits since Pete Rosely's here.
00:12:35Hit first goes.
00:12:37Or Gypsy Rosely, I don't know.
00:12:39Well, Pete Rosely, that's the Goldberg that we're on.
00:12:41Running right by the center here on the riverfront.
00:12:45Are you sure?
00:12:46Yes, I am.
00:12:46I'll bet you.
00:12:47Oh, stop it.
00:12:48Up on top.
00:12:49Oh!
00:12:52Kidman now was going up probably for that shooting star press, but knocked down, pushed up,
00:12:58and kicked by Sycosis on his way down.
00:13:01He got him firmly in the ribs.
00:13:02Cover Sycosis.
00:13:03He got him.
00:13:04Sycosis.
00:13:06What a win.
00:13:06What a big win with him from him and to him.
00:13:11Pick up what it gets to be in many ways an upset.
00:13:16Well, I told you whoever got lucky would win this match.
00:13:19It went both ways.
00:13:20It was back and forth the whole time the limit of this match.
00:13:24And the lucky man prevailed, the lucky team.
00:13:31We got company.
00:13:33We've got some more Filthy Animals coming out.
00:13:36Eddie Guerrero, Conan, K-Dog.
00:13:40Conan, and Eddie taking the measure of Sycosis, and
00:13:45even came down Ray.
00:13:47The Filthy Animals unleashing quite an attack on the duo that just pulled a big upset here on WCW Monday Nightclub.
00:13:54Catchy name, I like that.
00:13:56The Filthy Animals.
00:13:57Look at this, he's gonna try, he's trying to unmask Sycosis.
00:14:02He's trying to take his mask off of this Kidman.
00:14:04And now, out of nowhere, here comes Chavo Guerrero Jr.
00:14:08What is this all about?
00:14:11Shoving match going on, and Eddie trying to separate everybody here.
00:14:16Kidman was going to the mask of the man who pinned him.
00:14:20Boy, there's a lot of questions that need to be answered here.
00:14:26As Chavo came in, to save the unmasking of Sycosis.
00:14:34In an argument, it's too still in the ring.
00:14:38He's blood.
00:14:39What are you talking about?
00:14:41Sycosis wanna say something about it.
00:14:52I'm sorry.
00:14:54I'm sorry.
00:14:56Sycosis wanna say, dude.
00:14:58Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:15:00I know, I can understand Spanish.
00:15:02What he's trying to say is that he's gonna put his mask on the line.
00:15:06If you, Kidman, put your hair on the line.
00:15:12That's an interesting challenge.
00:15:15Challenge, you've been laid out.
00:15:16Trust me, trust me, trust me.
00:15:18Kid, wait, hold on.
00:15:20Yes?
00:15:20Well, then it's settled, and trust me, trust me, trust me.
00:15:24Well, then it's settled.
00:15:25Next Monday night, Atlanta, his mask versus your hair.
00:15:32It's all been agreed to, but I'm not so sure.
00:15:35Hey, hey, what are we doing right now?
00:15:37Let's do it now.
00:15:38Kidman wants to do it right now.
00:15:39Hey, right here.
00:15:42Hey, there's no need to wait till next week.
00:15:43We'll do it right now.
00:15:45Let's do it.
00:15:47Let's do it.
00:15:49Right now, let's do it right now, baby.
00:15:51Right now.
00:15:55I don't think Sycosis understands.
00:15:57I'm not so sure Sycosis is gonna put his mask on the line.
00:16:01But there you saw what Shabo said.
00:16:03And this is only the beginning of Nitro.
00:16:05Right now, bro.
00:16:33The one and only WCW Monday Nitro on TNT brought to you by Windy's Classic
00:16:43Hamburger.
00:16:44It's Hamburger Bliss.
00:16:48Fans, a week ago after months of hearing the tirades by Sid Vicious,
00:16:54Goldberg had had enough.
00:16:56Take you back in time to show you what happened a week ago on this program.
00:17:00Sid Vicious has arrived.
00:17:09When you come to battle with Sid Vicious, there's no way to win.
00:17:15Sid!
00:17:16For I will not let trash like this touch my belt, Sid!
00:17:22And I will not let trash like Bill Goldberg, Sid!
00:17:29I will not give him the opportunity to touch what is mine!
00:17:34Sid!
00:17:38I've been watching you, Sid.
00:17:47I've been watching you come out here and wreak havoc.
00:17:50Yes.
00:17:51I admire your strength.
00:17:55But one thing I will not stand for is your mouth.
00:17:59I worked hard at my record.
00:18:03I came out here and destroyed everybody.
00:18:07But unlike me, Sid, you cheat.
00:18:10You come from behind.
00:18:12You come in unscheduled matches.
00:18:15And you stick your nose into people's business.
00:18:20I don't admire that, Sid.
00:18:23So, tonight, I draw the line.
00:18:27And you show me, Sid, one-on-one, who the man is, because you're next.
00:18:45It doesn't happen.
00:18:47That's why I say it's ready to happen, see?
00:18:51Because it's my show.
00:18:55If it ain't tonight, it could be tomorrow.
00:18:58You never know.
00:18:59Because your ass is next.
00:19:00I can't speak any cleaner than that from Goldberg.
00:19:10As he said, you are next.
00:19:12And that next is the biggest one yet in Sid Vicious.
00:19:17The challenge has been made.
00:19:19He wants him in the ring.
00:19:20But you heard what Sid Vicious said.
00:19:23Under his own rules, his own time out of the brain.
00:19:26This man is so smart.
00:19:27He's gonna make you fall into his trap.
00:19:30Sid will get in the ring when he's ready.
00:19:33That's the way the man operates.
00:19:34I'm a big Goldberg fan.
00:19:35I'm a big Six Vicious fan.
00:19:37Hard to pick a winner.
00:19:38They both had a tremendous streak going on.
00:19:42What's on Sid, 83-0, or 95, or going to triple digits yet?
00:19:47Who knows?
00:19:48He's whatever he says it is.
00:19:49I mean, it'll tell me.
00:19:50Good enough for me.
00:19:52And that's good enough for all of us.
00:19:54But let's go back to the one blemish on Goldberg's spark
00:19:57that was really a fluke.
00:19:59You know that, and I know that.
00:20:01But the fact remains this.
00:20:03Sid Vicious is red hot.
00:20:05He's also the United States Heavyweight Champion.
00:20:08Goldberg, last Monday night on Nitro, Jerry Flynn and myself turned our back on you
00:20:17for just that one split second.
00:20:19Because you told us that you came in peace.
00:20:23And all of a sudden, Jerry Flynn was left laying in the middle of the ring from your spirit.
00:20:28Well, it's not going to happen again tonight, because tonight you face another member of the
00:20:33First Family and Nasty Boy Brian Nobbs.
00:20:37And Goldberg, I've got one thing to say to you.
00:20:40It's not who's next, you're next.
00:20:43Jimmy kind of says it all the way.
00:20:45First of all, shut your stinking mouths, you idiot.
00:20:52That'll work.
00:20:54Hey, Goldberg, you've been running around like you're the toughest man on the planet.
00:21:02Well, I am the nastiest man on the planet.
00:21:08And just like all these losers here in Cincinnati, just like the Cincinnati Bengals got squashed right here in this town.
00:21:24Tonight, right here, right now, Goldberg, if you got the guts, I'm gonna kick your stinking ass.
00:21:35All right, here's the music.
00:21:41Wait no longer, fans around the world, here he comes.
00:21:46What's the name, Tony?
00:21:50Goldberg, and they are waiting, security, led by Doug Dillinger.
00:21:57This guy's looked through marquee holes in the peeping town.
00:21:59Boy, did you see the way he stormed, he stomped, it's what you call power walking, right into the dressing room.
00:22:06Here, that has to be for any opponent, regardless of who you are.
00:22:11The most frightening, the most intimidating sight that you can imagine right,
00:22:15knowing this man is going to end up in the ring face-to-face against you.
00:22:20And you know, with every step he takes, even that dressing room, and the closer he gets to the ring,
00:22:25he's thinking about you now, he's thinking about Jimmy Hart's man.
00:22:28He's thinking about getting in that ring, and he's thinking, you're next, you're next, we'll see.
00:22:34Realistically, fans, you know that Goldberg was attacked first by Jerry Flynn one week ago.
00:22:40That does not matter one way or the other.
00:22:42The fact is that Jimmy Hart was right when he said spear, jackhammer, it was all over with Jerry Flynn.
00:22:49And now, for a little first family payback, Brian Fox is thrown at the hills.
00:22:57He's standing, and he's the man.
00:23:12He's a two-and-a-one.
00:23:16What an entrance.
00:23:18What an athlete.
00:23:21What a man.
00:23:23And what a match it would be if Goldberg could get sick wishes in the ring.
00:23:29I don't want to jump over the matches match right ahead, but that's the one match that we want to see.
00:23:36Record versus record.
00:23:37That's the one match.
00:23:44It's like Sosa McGuire.
00:23:47They want to see who's going to do the most hitting.
00:23:49There it is, Sam, you've asked for this.
00:23:53But right now, and this Goldberg stops in the ring.
00:23:58Brian Fox awaits.
00:24:02Jimmy Hart.
00:24:06As Fox goes down for it.
00:24:11He's going after him.
00:24:22The man is doing serious about his sport.
00:24:25He's doing serious about what he can do to the ring.
00:24:27He fears no man.
00:24:29He fears no chance.
00:24:31Look at that.
00:24:34It took three walks to get back on one knee.
00:24:36Four.
00:24:37Five.
00:24:39Go get a sofa.
00:24:40And he's still trying to shake it off.
00:24:43That's unbelievable.
00:24:45And he can even try to get to his feet.
00:24:47See, that's what I said.
00:24:49Don't even count out of time with Jimmy Hart.
00:24:51Now he's realizing he's going to have to pick up something.
00:24:54Something big and heavy to finish off this guy, Goldberg.
00:24:58He's going for the most dangerous sport in the ringside area of the steel ring pulse.
00:25:03And Goldberg put the ringside.
00:25:06And Goldberg is coming.
00:25:09Rocks.
00:25:10Has he ever.
00:25:11Fight the ring pulse, a man's man, you're watching, man.
00:25:15This is what pro wrestling is all about as we cross into a brand new millennium.
00:25:21This man right here.
00:25:22You know how you spell wrestling, Tony?
00:25:24G-O-L-D-B-E-R-G.
00:25:26That's right, he's into the ropes.
00:25:29And that's a big fart from Goldberg.
00:25:34Jimmy Hart with the megaphone.
00:25:35The megaphone.
00:25:38Jimmy Hart up.
00:25:39The megaphone got Goldberg in the back.
00:25:43In the neck.
00:25:44On the trapezius.
00:25:47And after observing all those rows of the chair,
00:25:50he didn't take long for the last megaphone that takes him off his feet.
00:25:53I wouldn't do that to Goldberg.
00:25:55I wouldn't put his face in the pit.
00:25:57I wouldn't give him a pit stop.
00:25:59Look at Goldberg, he's trying to get to his feet.
00:26:01Yeah, it might work.
00:26:02Might work like swelling stops.
00:26:04It might work him out.
00:26:05Oh, that'll wake him up.
00:26:06We'll never know.
00:26:07He's been speared by the man.
00:26:13Services for now will be very, very shortly, I believe.
00:26:17Spear, and now it is Jack Hammer sitting.
00:26:23Can he get him up?
00:26:24What do you think?
00:26:26Of course he can.
00:26:28Yes!
00:26:29God, two, there's a down.
00:26:33There's a down.
00:26:35There's a down.
00:26:37No, there's a down.
00:26:39There's a down.
00:26:41No, there's a down.
00:26:45There's a down.
00:26:47That was awesome.
00:26:49That was explicit.
00:26:50Best comment for Vice President.
00:26:52In the last decade.
00:26:54No question.
00:26:55Every magazine, every talk show, everybody wants to get interviewed with that man.
00:27:02Everybody wants to find out what this man, Goldberg, is all about.
00:27:05I'll tell you what he's all about.
00:27:07He just wants to get in there and kick tail.
00:27:13He's got to talk to me.
00:27:21I wonder how many kids on Halloween will be Goldberg.
00:27:23He's got to talk to me.
00:27:25Millions, I bet.
00:27:30Well, Sid Bicious.
00:27:37Here we go.
00:27:39I remember correctly.
00:27:41Last week, I was in this very ring.
00:27:45And I threw a challenge after you, Sid.
00:27:51What'd you do?
00:27:53You packed your bags, and you left, like a little girl.
00:28:03Well, you've amassed quite a record.
00:28:07But guess what?
00:28:09So am I.
00:28:14And since you got that belt,
00:28:16I want it.
00:28:26And since I got to go through you, I'm going to get it.
00:28:31Look at the eyes.
00:28:32Well, you've been a great intimidator over the last months in WCW.
00:28:43But intimidation is my game.
00:28:54And once The Hunted, now I turn into The Hunter.
00:28:59And there ain't no fear in these eyes, Sid.
00:29:06It's only anger.
00:29:09And I direct it, and we'll take it out on only one person.
00:29:14So I give you five weeks, Sid.
00:29:25Because at Halloween Havoc,
00:29:27and I am your next.
00:29:35Yes.
00:29:37Put the nail in the coffin.
00:29:41He has made it crystal clear.
00:29:42He has made out the challenge for Sid Vicious.
00:29:47He wants him at Halloween Havoc.
00:29:50We have yet to hear from Sid Vicious in this program.
00:29:54But stay right where you are.
00:29:56Don't count him out.
00:30:04Goldberg has laid down the challenge.
00:30:06We understand right now talking to WCW officials.
00:30:09He wants Sid Vicious.
00:30:10He wants him at Halloween Havoc.
00:30:12He wants him bad.
00:30:13But I'll tell you something about Sid Vicious.
00:30:15He's going to make you play his game.
00:30:17Sid wants, I mean, Goldberg wants Sid.
00:30:19Sid's going to take his time.
00:30:21He's a smart man.
00:30:22He's very calculating.
00:30:24When he's ready, he'll be ready.
00:30:26And what a match, and what a fight that will be.
00:30:28Tonight, Sting will defend the world title against the Crippler,
00:30:31Chris Benoit, on this program.
00:30:33Last week, Benoit defeated Malenko to earn this title shot.
00:30:38He's going up top.
00:30:40Boy, there's no doubt about it.
00:30:41These two men have mastered their craft.
00:30:45Sadr looks on.
00:30:48Douglas looks on.
00:30:49Malenko does not look on.
00:30:51He takes action.
00:30:52He nails Benoit as he got to the top turnbuckle.
00:30:55It's time for Malenko to take Benoit for a little ride right now.
00:30:59Aaron Malenko.
00:31:00Got him up.
00:31:01Superplex.
00:31:02Dave Malenko, and he's going to do it.
00:31:05It's a cover by Benoit, and Benoit wins it.
00:31:08Chris, Benoit is the winner.
00:31:09All right, we have a full house here in Southern Ohio.
00:31:14Fans coming in from Northern Kentucky, parts of Indiana, this entire area.
00:31:20And my guest at this time, in prime time, here on TNT, a man that used to be president of World
00:31:29Championship Wrestling, no longer, but he will always be the chairman of the board.
00:31:36Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Nature Boy, Rick Clare.
00:31:42Many times, the Nature Boys walk the aisle here at Cincinnati, and I have just been handed a note
00:31:53from the WCW Championship Committee, Brian, the committee that books matches and
00:31:59championships here in our sport.
00:32:02They have signed for next Monday nothing less than a major blockbuster that I want to talk about.
00:32:10It involves Rick Clare.
00:32:12But before we get to talk about that, the Nature Boys in the ring with Benji.
00:32:17All right, we need to get down to brass tacks.
00:32:20I want to talk business with you because seven days ago in this very ring in Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
00:32:28Sting Luger brutally attacked you.
00:32:31You've got to have some response.
00:32:33Rick Clare.
00:32:33Oh, I got a response.
00:32:35The response is this.
00:32:37We got a ball game now.
00:32:39We got a real, live ball game.
00:32:42Mean, by God, Mean, whoo.
00:32:47He's loose tonight.
00:32:49Sting, you and Luger, I like it, I like it.
00:32:53You can kick my ass again tonight because you're gonna have a chance.
00:32:57I'm here tonight.
00:32:59I'm demanding you, Sting, and I'll tell you why.
00:33:03Because God knows I'm free, free at last.
00:33:08I'm back in the ring, I'm out, I'm alive.
00:33:18I'm not going to the barn.
00:33:20I'm not going home.
00:33:22I'm right here in Cincinnati and Sting.
00:33:27The Nature Boy is gonna slap the paint off your face tonight.
00:33:37Come on now.
00:33:38Come on, Sting.
00:33:39Woo!
00:33:41I don't know if he can do it.
00:33:42Hold on a second here.
00:33:44Hold on a second here.
00:33:52I don't mean to come out here and rain all over your parade, Nate.
00:33:57You and I certainly have a lot of unsettled business.
00:34:00And the day will come when we do take care of that business.
00:34:04But tonight, I hear you out here demanding a shot at Sting.
00:34:11After seeing what happened to you last week, I couldn't agree more.
00:34:14You do deserve a shot at Sting.
00:34:17And you can have that shot at Sting.
00:34:19Or whatever's left of Sting after I get done kicking his rear end tonight.
00:34:25See what I have here?
00:34:28In my hand is the WCW contract for an opportunity at the World Heavyweight Title.
00:34:37This is two weeks old.
00:34:39Well, Sting, there's not gonna be a third week.
00:34:44If you're man enough to be the champion, be man enough to come out here and
00:34:48defend it against the Crippler.
00:34:51There you are.
00:34:53Just because you got a contract, Sting, I want you out here now.
00:34:58Come on, Sting, now, now, now, whoo, come on, Nate.
00:35:03Nate, I've heard nothing but promises, broken promises from you about wait till it's your turn.
00:35:13It's not your time.
00:35:14Well, Flair, it is my turn.
00:35:17It is my time.
00:35:18And tonight, Stinger, you're man enough to wear that belt.
00:35:23Be man enough to defend it against the Crippler and leave your goons in the back.
00:35:29Because I'm not gonna have any of the revolution around.
00:35:32I got something to prove to myself, to my fans, and to the world.
00:35:37Because tonight, you're gonna find out just how intense the Crippler is.
00:35:44All right, Rick, apparently he has other priorities.
00:35:47Sting, I'm coming to find you right now.
00:35:50Contrary to popular belief, they have not thrown dirt over this man.
00:35:55He is alive and well, and back at World Championship Wrestling.
00:36:00Tony, back to you.
00:36:03Thanks a lot, he wants him right now, he's gonna be looking for Sting.
00:36:06Meanwhile, Sting gonna fit the world title here tonight.
00:36:10And here it is for you fans.
00:36:12What a Donnybrook World Title match we're gonna have.
00:36:15The new world television champion, the Crippler Chris Benoit,
00:36:18against the heavyweight champion of the world, Sting.
00:36:21It's all for the title.
00:36:22It's all tonight live on E&T.
00:36:25Tonight.
00:36:27Close caption where available.
00:36:29Sponsored by Meineke.
00:36:31D
00:36:54I'm certain that sparked your interest
00:37:18as we search for another WCW nitrile girl.
00:37:22Please welcome Kimberley and Congress.
00:37:28Gentlemen, if you please.
00:37:39Hello.
00:37:41All right, the search goes on here on WCW Monday Nitro.
00:37:45Kimberley, last week we were in Raleigh, North Carolina,
00:37:48had a great contest there.
00:37:50You saw the footage from that contest,
00:37:52and I'm happy to say that we have a new finalist
00:37:54that's going to represent North Carolina
00:37:56in the finals on November 8th,
00:37:58and her name is Ashley Beck.
00:38:00She's the beautiful blonde that you just saw.
00:38:02All right, congratulations to you, Ashley.
00:38:04Now, Tigress, this past Saturday night here in Cincinnati,
00:38:07we were down at the waterfront,
00:38:09and of course we had some gorgeous girls on hand for that.
00:38:11Tell us all about it.
00:38:12We did.
00:38:13Let me tell you how fabulous Cincinnati is.
00:38:15We had the largest turnout in Cincinnati
00:38:17that we had in any city we've been to yet.
00:38:21And I had the pleasure of co-hosting the show there at the waterfront,
00:38:28where the judges had the very difficult time
00:38:30of marrying down to two contestants.
00:38:32And let me tell you, they picked two fabulous, hot, spunky, and funky girls.
00:38:39I hope they weren't the two judges from the De La Hoya-Quinnidad fight,
00:38:43but nonetheless, speaking to those two semifinalists,
00:38:46ladies and gentlemen, take a look at the two young ladies
00:38:49from the greater Cincinnati area.
00:38:54My name is Keisha Simpson, and I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio.
00:38:57I would say I'm a hip-hop funk kind of dancer.
00:39:00I like to show my style, and I have my own attitude and vibe, so.
00:39:06The one thing I think I like best about myself is that
00:39:08I'm just an outgoing person, and I love to be around other people.
00:39:11And I would say the most influential person is my mother.
00:39:14And being a dancer is very competitive,
00:39:17and a lot of people put you down, but she's always been beside me
00:39:20just saying, keep your head up, and you can do it, you know?
00:39:23Just believe in yourself.
00:39:25Hi, I'm Robbie Spencer from Dayton, Ohio, home of the Dayton Flyers.
00:39:30I want to be a natural girl because I'm into that whole performing thing,
00:39:34you know, I'm a natural-born performer.
00:39:36I enjoy it. I like playing up to crowds.
00:39:39And on the cheesier side of things, sincerely, though,
00:39:43you're kind of a role model to young ladies, you know,
00:39:46who look up to you and they wonder what you've done with your life,
00:39:49what things you have planned for your life in the future.
00:39:52And, you know, they really look up to that,
00:39:54and you might help guide their life in the right direction.
00:39:58Oh, I totally agree with you, Kimberly.
00:40:01They indeed are awesome.
00:40:02Let's bring them out.
00:40:03A couple of your very own.
00:40:05They are Robbie and Keisha.
00:40:08Maybe micro-girls to be.
00:40:11Hello.
00:40:12Check this out.
00:40:14Oh, my.
00:40:17Now then, Kimberly, as we take a look at these lovely ladies,
00:40:22of course, for more information,
00:40:24people across the country and around the world can call toll-free,
00:40:27888-787-0395.
00:40:32But what about the voting?
00:40:33How do we vote to choose from these?
00:40:35It's going to be a tough decision.
00:40:37Absolutely.
00:40:38But they all have their very own virtues.
00:40:42So pick your favorite and vote tonight on our website, wcw.com.
00:40:46And you've got until 2 a.m. Eastern time to vote.
00:40:50So everybody get out and vote for your favorite.
00:40:53All right.
00:40:54Robbie or Keisha.
00:40:56Here we go until 2 this morning online.
00:40:59You can vote.
00:41:00Guys, gals out there, wcw.com.
00:41:04Make your choice known.
00:41:05By the way, next week we're going to be in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:41:08Tell us all about it, Kimberly.
00:41:09Should be our biggest turnout yet.
00:41:11We're going to start open auditions at Main Event Fitness in Marietta.
00:41:15And then that night, are you going to join me at $3 Cafe in Buckhead?
00:41:19I wouldn't miss that for the world.
00:41:21Oh, my goodness.
00:41:22We'll be narrowing down our semifinalists that night,
00:41:25and it should be hot.
00:41:26All right.
00:41:27We'll see you at the $3 Cafe in Buckhead next Saturday night.
00:41:31And, of course, the search for the Nitro Girls go on as we culminate on November the 8th in Indianapolis, Indiana.
00:41:38$10,000, and a chance to be a Nitro Girl.
00:41:42Tony, this is tough duty.
00:41:44I hate to throw it back to you.
00:41:45Yeah, you are and always will be the man, Gene Oglin.
00:41:48There they are.
00:41:49Robbie and the other lady, Keisha, folks, until 2 a.m. on wcw.com.
00:41:55By the way, fans, when we come back, we're gonna go back to the ring.
00:42:00Sweat, blood, guts, it's all a part of a world title.
00:42:03Chris Benoit, the television champion.
00:42:05Sting, the world heavyweight champion.
00:42:07It's all next.
00:42:08Tonight, Monday Nitro is the place to be on the September 20th, 19 and 99.
00:42:17As we head towards the big event, Halloween Heaven, where Goldberg has already put his name on that contract,
00:42:25waiting for Sid Vicious to do the same thing.
00:42:28We know that Sting has agreed to return match against Hulk Hogan, but ahead of Sting,
00:42:33before he even gets to Hulk Hogan, on the 24th of October, in Las Vegas, at the MGM Grand,
00:42:40has to be this man, the well-deserving world television champion, the crippler Chris Benoit.
00:42:46I'll tell you, Benoit made a very big mistake tonight.
00:42:49Did you notice that?
00:42:51When he was talking about his match with Sting, he said, Sting, I'm gonna be in the ring by myself.
00:42:57No members of the revolution are going to be here.
00:43:00Never, never tip your hand.
00:43:03Don't ever let anybody know what you're gonna do in any form of life.
00:43:07Maybe he was lying to him.
00:43:09I like a liar.
00:43:10You're like a liar, and I knew you would.
00:43:12Here comes the heavyweight champion of the world, and a mixture of tears and news towards the man.
00:43:20Look at that former number one Sting fan there.
00:43:23The man who dons the gold strap right now, Sting.
00:43:27Well, I'm sure I picture interest fans talking about a note that I was handed from the WCW Championship committee about next week's telecast.
00:43:36Well, I wanna give it to you right now.
00:43:38I want you to think about it when we're talking about it during the course of the program.
00:43:43It's not a good idea for me to talk about next week's program in the midst of this one all the time, but I think in light of what I've just been handed, it's worth telling you this right now.
00:43:56Are you sitting down?
00:43:57I wouldn't tell him.
00:43:58Take him, Ray.
00:43:59No.
00:44:00Are you sitting down?
00:44:02For the first time ever, the three biggest names in our sport.
00:44:07Wait till now.
00:44:08Wait till now we're waiting.
00:44:09No.
00:44:10I'm gonna tell them now, brain.
00:44:11Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Bret the Hitman Hart will be on the same team.
00:44:17Hogan, Flair, and Hogan.
00:44:19The three biggest, it's the first time ever.
00:44:22Bret Hart, as we know, injured last week, down 100%.
00:44:26But we understand he'll be back next week.
00:44:28He'll team with Ric Flair, Hogan, in a six-man tag against Diamond Dallas Page, Lex Luger, and the man you're looking at right there on your screen, the World Champion.
00:44:40That's gonna be our feature bout next Monday, live in Atlanta at the Phillips Arena, and only on WCW Monday Nitro, right here on D&T.
00:44:50DDP, Luger and Stig taking on the threesome of Hart, Flair, and Hogan, unheard of.
00:44:55Three biggest names ever on the first time ever on the very same team.
00:45:00Maybe the six biggest names right now in our sport.
00:45:02There's not an arena nor a television screen big enough to hold this one.
00:45:06It is all next week as this match gets underway very briefly.
00:45:10They'll probably fight right from the Phillips Arena over to the Georgia Dome and right on Highway 75 out of town.
00:45:16And very briefly, the tickets are available at the Phillips Arena box office and all Ticketmaster Outlets next Monday at the Phillips Arena for the grand opening weekend in the brand new arena for the Hawks and the Threshers and for World Championship Wrestling.
00:45:30Back in the Enzigari kick is the World Champion Sting. Sting, and it's right over Benoit.
00:45:35We have been, as Benoit spills out of the ring, we have so much been talking and praising the abilities, the athletic abilities of a Chris Benoit.
00:45:44But even though Sting has done what he's done, you cannot overlook the ability this man has in the ring brain.
00:45:50Well, he's held the World Championship, he's held the television title, the U.S. title, tag team titles.
00:45:58He's taken it to everyone.
00:46:00This man is a tremendous, fantastic athlete.
00:46:03But like I said years ago, you can't trust him.
00:46:06And I was right again.
00:46:08Well, you've always said you cannot really trust anybody in this sport, and that point is well taken.
00:46:13Or in your home.
00:46:15Well, that's another story.
00:46:16Into the midsection, a forearm shot.
00:46:18And Benoit will send Sting now in.
00:46:21One thing Sting realizes, Benoit will give him everything and then a little bit more.
00:46:25And Sting runs over the World Television Champion.
00:46:28Now, let's put it this way.
00:46:30Sting's got more experience.
00:46:32He's been there, he's been a champion many, many times.
00:46:35But does anybody have more heart than Benoit?
00:46:37Does anybody want it more than Benoit?
00:46:39I don't know of a guy.
00:46:41Unless it may be Goldberg and Vicious.
00:46:44Well, I know the one thing that Goldberg likes.
00:46:47We know it.
00:46:48And hopefully, we're going to hear some response from Sid Vicious during this program.
00:46:52Can you imagine the first hour that we've had?
00:46:54And we've got two more big hours to go.
00:46:57Sting and Chris Benoit for the World Heavyweight Championship.
00:47:03I don't know about you, but Saturday night, I'm going to Buckhead.
00:47:06I'm going to be at the $3 Cafe.
00:47:08I want to see those pretty ladies.
00:47:10Boy, how about that?
00:47:11The Nitro Girl search continues.
00:47:13Standing switch there by Benoit.
00:47:15Ducky Lowe out of that.
00:47:16I found four the other day.
00:47:18That's nice to know.
00:47:19John King punched it.
00:47:21Benoit on the outside and falls back up against the barricade.
00:47:26You are looking at one of the most explosive, and there's one as well.
00:47:33One of the most explosive athletes ever in our sport.
00:47:36You know, and I guess if you think about it, and you say this, Bray,
00:47:41maybe we should have seen all of this coming.
00:47:43A very nice video package earlier in the program talked about, hey,
00:47:47it seems as if Sting was even, and it hasn't been confirmed.
00:47:51But I guess if you go back and say who was driving the Hummer?
00:47:54Who tried to destroy Kevin Nash?
00:47:56It was Sting.
00:47:57I think it was.
00:47:58I really do.
00:47:59But can you imagine what Bret Hart must be thinking?
00:48:01Getting hit in the face with that ball back.
00:48:03How much Bret wants to get his hands on Luger?
00:48:05How much Bret wants to get his hands on Sting and Luger?
00:48:07How much Hogan wants to get his hands on DDP Sting and Luger?
00:48:10What a main event that's gonna be next week.
00:48:12It really is.
00:48:13And now the Crippler going right to the extremity.
00:48:16Going to the knee, going to the leg of Stang.
00:48:18Basic strategy, but Benoit close it with the best of him.
00:48:22Kind of a half grab, but now he ties him up.
00:48:26A version of the Indian Death Rock, he'll bridge over.
00:48:29Oh, he's hit the chin.
00:48:31How about this?
00:48:33This thing looks like a bow and arrow.
00:48:36Death Rock surfboard combination maneuver and Nick Patrick.
00:48:40He's gonna tap out, Tony.
00:48:42I know what he's trying to do here.
00:48:44Let's get to the rocks, I don't believe.
00:48:45Sting's a fighter.
00:48:46He's tapping, it looks like to me.
00:48:48No, he did not give up.
00:48:49It's the referee's decision, though.
00:48:51It sure is.
00:48:52And I tell you, we know Sting is one of the great fighters of all time.
00:48:58And the fans applaud that effort not only by Benoit,
00:49:01but by Sting to stay in it.
00:49:03That's a good move by Benoit working on the knees.
00:49:05Sting won't be able to elevate himself when he jumps in that car
00:49:08if he gets Benoit in that kind of a position.
00:49:11Benoit's a smart athlete also.
00:49:14Through the test of time, only the great athlete's names will prevail,
00:49:18and I can better believe that two of them are gonna be Sting and Benoit.
00:49:22And these two megastars, champions, world championship wrestling.
00:49:27Pushing the envelope.
00:49:28Watch this.
00:49:29For the biggest title for baseball slide drop kick.
00:49:33And Sting is tied up and nowhere to go.
00:49:35Oh, we're all shy.
00:49:36We need some more pink.
00:49:37Benoit's gonna do it again.
00:49:39Sting's still caught up.
00:49:41Look at that .
00:49:44Amazing, and Sting just rolls out of the way on the baseball slide.
00:49:50And on the other end, it's the .
00:49:54Sting is pointing to whatever it was, he got the attention of the referee away and called Benoit.
00:50:09That'll hurt.
00:50:10Thank you, that will hurt.
00:50:13As now Sting has drastically flipped the momentum back towards him.
00:50:18I feel better now.
00:50:19You know what, Brain?
00:50:20And we said this earlier in big match, big title matches with mega superstars giving it their all.
00:50:27Sometimes it comes down to just a simple mistake.
00:50:30And that second one by Benoit may have been the mistake that will cost him here tonight.
00:50:38You know, you can't tell athletes of this caliber.
00:50:41They don't make many mistakes, but when they do, it costs them.
00:50:44It costs them big time.
00:50:45They have that ability to come back so often.
00:50:48That's what conditioning is.
00:50:49That's what experience is about.
00:50:51That's what WCW is all about.
00:50:53The greatest wrestling athletes in the world.
00:50:58Halloween having Sting will go up against Hulk Hogan once again.
00:51:02Conceivably, Benoit could be the World Heavyweight Champion.
00:51:05And here's the cover.
00:51:06One, two.
00:51:08You know Hulk Hogan's name is synonymous with World Heavyweight Championships.
00:51:13But Hogan wants Sting as badly as he wants that belt right now.
00:51:16I know he would like to have a world title shot.
00:51:18But I know first and foremost for Hogan is getting Sting back in the ring.
00:51:22Everybody wants Sting.
00:51:24Oh!
00:51:25Everybody wants it.
00:51:26From Ric Flair going out the back looking for Sting.
00:51:31To Bret Hart.
00:51:32To Hogan.
00:51:33Every man in the back area in the dressing room area.
00:51:36This is where the money's at.
00:51:38This is where the prestige is.
00:51:39And this man holds it all.
00:51:40I'm talking about Sting.
00:51:42What a move by Benoit.
00:51:44Out of the atomic drop.
00:51:45Heading up to Lariat Sting.
00:51:47But Sting at the better of it right now.
00:51:49Benoit still down.
00:51:50Sting back up in a hurry.
00:51:53And hammers Benoit.
00:51:54And now tries to grind the Crippler down.
00:51:56Sting realizes as much as anybody else.
00:51:58To beat Benoit, you gotta drive the man down.
00:52:02Wear him down because he has so much reserve left in his body.
00:52:06He is such a big athlete.
00:52:08And not only that.
00:52:09In his mind, there is no quit.
00:52:11The man won't give up.
00:52:12You're gonna have to knock him out.
00:52:14You're gonna have to render him unconscious to beat the man.
00:52:17And those are the signs of a man who's a champion.
00:52:19Those are the signs of the guys.
00:52:20They're gonna be around this sport for a long, long time.
00:52:22Making a whole lot of big time money.
00:52:25Keeps the Crippler down.
00:52:27Doug's the World Heavyweight Champion.
00:52:29A good look at what Nick Patrick sees.
00:52:32As he looks in closer with the rear chin lock.
00:52:34You see the crook of the elbow there across the chin.
00:52:37Across the mouth.
00:52:38But not on the throat.
00:52:40So it's a little hole.
00:52:41And now here comes Benoit.
00:52:43Sips up quickly.
00:52:45Almost broken that sit up.
00:52:47He is back up.
00:52:48Benoit trying to break free.
00:52:50And look at the fighting Benoit.
00:52:52Chopped him.
00:52:53Staggered Sting, but Sting got the knee out.
00:52:55Sting's awesome.
00:52:57Got the knee out of the nick of time.
00:53:03You're looking at the heavyweight champion of the world right there.
00:53:08Sting.
00:53:18Boy, there's so many tough characters here at WCW.
00:53:23Guys that are off the wall.
00:53:24Guys that...
00:53:25They're loose all the time.
00:53:27Come on.
00:53:28I'll tell you, Sting is gonna have his hands full.
00:53:32Because everybody wants a piece of him.
00:53:34Everybody wants to say, I'm the man that became heavyweight champion.
00:53:38I'm the man that beats Sting.
00:53:40Reverse.
00:53:41There goes suplex.
00:53:42Benoit just not only hit the mat very hard, he bounced up on the mat and landed again.
00:53:56Show you the force of that move by Sting.
00:53:58He'll hook the far leg.
00:53:59Did not really get a good press across the shoulder so Benoit could get out of it.
00:54:06This is what WCW Monday Nitro fans is all about.
00:54:10It's about the greatest athletes in the world pushing their bodies to the limit to bring you the greatest matches in the world.
00:54:16A one, two, and a two count Sting kicked away.
00:54:19Kicked away real quick.
00:54:20Yeah, the leg strength of Sting came into play that time.
00:54:23And now Sting with a running clothesline.
00:54:25Puts Benoit back down on the mat.
00:54:27Watching these two go out, it will leave you breathless.
00:54:32You're an announcer, if you're a fan.
00:54:35Watching this telecast here live from the clean city of Cincinnati.
00:54:40Home of some of the finest wrestling fans.
00:54:43Personally, I've been coming here for about 12 years now with Pro Wrestling.
00:54:48And we are well received with this great city as we are everywhere across the country.
00:54:53It's good they can have matches like this to bring you in your living room live.
00:54:58There's a look at this capacity crowd on hand here at the First Star Center.
00:55:03Quarterly the Riverfront Coliseum.
00:55:06Back elbows.
00:55:07Sting is stunned.
00:55:09And Benoit walks him with a backhand shot.
00:55:12And Sting holds on to the top rope.
00:55:14No excuse for experience.
00:55:16Well put, Brain.
00:55:20He saw it coming.
00:55:21He may have even set him up for it.
00:55:25But don't take time with him, Sting.
00:55:27You're the champion.
00:55:28He's got to be you.
00:55:29You don't have to beat him.
00:55:31Sting knows that being the nine-time world champ.
00:55:33And as you pointed out earlier, United States champ, television champ, world tag team champ.
00:55:38Here's a cover.
00:55:39One, two.
00:55:40You talked about experience being a veteran.
00:55:42He has been down the road.
00:55:43He knows all about it.
00:55:45So right now he is wrestling this match under his own time.
00:55:50His own guidelines.
00:55:51His own pace here.
00:55:52But Benoit's the kind of a guy you can't time.
00:55:55You can't pace.
00:55:56He'll set his own pace.
00:55:57You never know when you got him.
00:55:59Sometimes when you think you got him, he's got you.
00:56:02Benoit fell back down to the mat.
00:56:04He may be luring Sting.
00:56:05Yes, inside credo.
00:56:06Got him.
00:56:07Hooked up the belt.
00:56:08Couldn't keep him down.
00:56:09Notice how Benoit just tried to get up.
00:56:11Fell down.
00:56:12He lured Sting.
00:56:13And in that false sense of security that time enabling the inside credo.
00:56:17Kind of a desperation move, but it worked pretty well.
00:56:21He's talking to him now.
00:56:23I bet he's not asking how do you feel.
00:56:26Stomps him in the gut.
00:56:27You know, you gotta give the Crippler a lot of credit.
00:56:30We've talked so much about the world title shot he could have had last week
00:56:33and deserved for a couple of weeks.
00:56:35Let's not forget that even though he didn't win the world heavyweight title,
00:56:38he did to throw Rick Steiner.
00:56:40He's the world television champion.
00:56:42He's trying to secure the world heavyweight title right now.
00:56:45Sting is perched.
00:56:46Sting is in the air.
00:56:48And Sting wasted valuable seconds getting from point A to point B.
00:56:52But you wonder too, did Benoit set him up?
00:56:54Did he lay there perfectly still?
00:56:56Letting Sting think, I can take all the time I want.
00:56:59Benoit's crafty also.
00:57:01He tried a Stinger splash.
00:57:03Benoit sidestepped it.
00:57:04Then he runs over it.
00:57:06Improvising Benoit and push Benoit.
00:57:09He's telling the world.
00:57:10He's gonna try to put this one in the tank.
00:57:14I'm going to the third floor.
00:57:16Going to the goal line.
00:57:18He's at the goal line.
00:57:20He can have it right here.
00:57:21He could become the champ.
00:57:22One.
00:57:23Two.
00:57:24Sting.
00:57:25No, we don't.
00:57:26No.
00:57:27Sting rolled up the left side of his body and pushed Benoit.
00:57:32He's still the champ.
00:57:33Barely.
00:57:35He barely kicked out of that.
00:57:38Wow, what a comeback that was.
00:57:40Look how much that took out of Benoit.
00:57:42It's one of those desperation moves that you use to try to win major titles.
00:57:48What will Benoit try to do now?
00:57:50What can he do?
00:57:51Against one of the most remarkable athletes of all time.
00:57:54And Sting.
00:57:55Love him or hate him.
00:57:57And many fans hate him right now.
00:57:59He is unbelievable as an athlete.
00:58:03Here comes the group with a second wind.
00:58:07He hooked him with a snap suplex.
00:58:09Keeps the body contact.
00:58:11Sting trying to fight it off.
00:58:13It's a crippled crossface.
00:58:14He's got him in it.
00:58:15He's got him in the move.
00:58:17But Tony's close to the ropes.
00:58:18He is close enough to reach.
00:58:20And the break will end the crippled crossface.
00:58:23This match goes on.
00:58:24But, Brain, you gotta know, as painful as that move is,
00:58:27it could wear into Sting down the road in this matchup for the world title.
00:58:32And Sting's thinking about that right now, how close he came to losing that title.
00:58:35Benoit would have had him in the middle of that ring.
00:58:37He'd have had him.
00:58:38Swat it, missed it.
00:58:41Full Nelson, Sting broke free.
00:58:43Sleeper Hall here.
00:58:45Sting just shoved him off and shoved him into the referee.
00:58:49Nick Patrick, wrong place, wrong time.
00:58:52And he goes down.
00:58:53He's all the way on the apron.
00:58:55He's still in the ring area as Benoit, Benoit is gonna try to tombstone.
00:59:00He's got him.
00:59:06I don't think it matters.
00:59:07The referee is, he's cold.
00:59:08No, no, you're right.
00:59:09He's out.
00:59:10It does not matter.
00:59:11And the fans counted for Benoit.
00:59:15They counted four.
00:59:16Yeah, that don't mean anything.
00:59:17Yeah, you're right.
00:59:18The man in the zebra suit's gotta count him.
00:59:20Well, what that means is that if there was a referee, then the Crippler could've won the thing.
00:59:26Sting grabs the leg of the Crippler.
00:59:30Goes in the other way.
00:59:31Sting back into this one.
00:59:34German Suplex is on the edge.
00:59:36One, two, three, four.
00:59:38Luger with the ball back.
00:59:39Luger with the ball back.
00:59:40Luger with the ball back.
00:59:41Luger with the ball back.
00:59:42Oh, my God.
00:59:43Across the exposed low abdomen.
00:59:47A big walk.
00:59:50That could break a man in half.
00:59:53One, two, three.
00:59:56And the nature boy is alive.
00:59:59Be careful.
01:00:00He won't think twice about breaking your head open.
01:00:03The match is over.
01:00:04Nick Patrick in count to three.
01:00:05Ric Flair bucked the ball back.
01:00:07And Ric Flair.
01:00:09P.D.P. just came from over on the table.
01:00:11Diamond Dallas Page.
01:00:13Just leveled Ric Flair.
01:00:15Page who walked out with Luger and Sting last week.
01:00:21Will walk into the ring with them next week.
01:00:25In a six-man match.
01:00:27Flair down.
01:00:28Who's coming, Tony?
01:00:31Hulk Hogan's coming.
01:00:32Hogan is here, the yellow and red.
01:00:34Quickly, Sting and Luger and D.D.P. slither off into the night.
01:00:42Well, you gotta be worried though of all of this.
01:00:46Sting, that belt's mine.
01:00:47As much about anything as Benoit.
01:00:48You're the power.
01:00:49That could break a screen, Wayne.
01:00:52And there's the weapon of choice.
01:00:55Hulk Hogan, who will team with Ric Flair and Bret Hart next Monday to face the trio walking away in the main event in Atlanta on Monday Nitro.
01:01:08Looking over the Nature Boy, Ric Flair.
01:01:15Sting is still the World Heavyweight Champion.
01:01:18What a match.
01:01:19And we're not done yet.
01:01:20No.
01:01:22Well, take a breath, Harry Heenan.
01:01:36That was quite a moment.
01:01:38That was a fine match that we should have expected would be ruined by Luger in the baseball bat.
01:01:45And that by Diamond Dallas Page attacking Ric Flair.
01:01:48Well, guess what, Bobby the Brain Heenan.
01:01:51What, Herr Schiavone?
01:01:53WCW's Championship Committee, as you know, headed by Dusty Rhodes.
01:01:58The Executive Committee headed by James J. Dillon.
01:02:01Quickly working now to sign a match for later on tonight.
01:02:06And you know what that match that they're working on signing right now is?
01:02:09How would I know you never tell me anything?
01:02:11Well, later on here tonight, just guess, after what you've seen.
01:02:14What match?
01:02:15Now, we know that we know we've got Hogan, Ric Flair, and Bret Hart for the first time ever together next week against Luger, Sting, and Diamond Dallas Sting.
01:02:25But the Mets, and they are working on signing for tonight.
01:02:30I couldn't even think.
01:02:31Diamond Dallas Page and Ric Flair one-on-one here tonight.
01:02:34They're working on that for tonight?
01:02:35Right now they're working on it as we speak.
01:02:37A little premature, I know.
01:02:38I know they probably let the cat out of the bag a little bit too early, but I know I got it firsthand.
01:02:43Wendy Turnbuckle handed me a note right now, and she told me that they're working on it, so she knows.
01:02:48She handed me a note earlier, too, and I can't do that to myself.
01:02:52You never know what I'm going to lead the brand into.
01:02:58Well, Berlin has arrived with this.
01:03:02But she's got all, she's like Tanae. Tanae's got more scoops than Baskin-Robbins.
01:03:07Berlin is in the ring against one of the Armstrong brothers, Scott Armstrong.
01:03:14And this, would you look at the size of this bodyguard on this?
01:03:17Man, it's huge.
01:03:18Man, it's like a handball wall.
01:03:21Like the racquetball.
01:03:23West screen is a drive-in.
01:03:24Absolutely.
01:03:25Do you know his name?
01:03:27I don't know.
01:03:28I know.
01:03:29It's not Heidi.
01:03:30I mean, you can't even talk to Berlin earlier today in his own locker room.
01:03:34He has this big guy standing out front.
01:03:37Sometimes he'll have more than one bodyguard always arriving in a black Mercedes to the arena.
01:03:44And he refuses to speak English.
01:03:47Yes, he does.
01:03:49Okay, I am willing to refuse to speak German.
01:03:53Good.
01:03:54Jawohl.
01:04:01And that is all you need to know here, Shivani.
01:04:04Gerald Robinson calls for the bell, and here we go.
01:04:07It's gonna be Berlin and a fine athlete in Scott Armstrong of the Armstrong family.
01:04:14And Steve, Brad, for many months, many years have been great performers here on this program,
01:04:24on Thunder, on WCW, Saturday night on World Wide Wrestling.
01:04:27Tony, the bodyguard is standing around here in front of us.
01:04:31Look at the size of the hoofs on this guy.
01:04:34For you fans who don't understand what he's talking about, he's talking about the size of the feet.
01:04:39They are about 17, 18 years, I do believe.
01:04:42Size 18.
01:04:43Meanwhile, in the ring...
01:04:44You can search with them.
01:04:45As the bodyguard stands stoically on the outside, Berlin is completely dominating.
01:04:52Dominating Scott Armstrong.
01:04:55I mean, Berlin is wrestling with purpose here.
01:04:58Or should I say, fighting with purpose.
01:05:01Obvious to me, the sun don't shine in Germany.
01:05:04As you see the back, the wide back of the bodyguard, who, by the way, has been instrumental in Berlin's win so far,
01:05:13who is without a blemish here at WCW.
01:05:16Ooh!
01:05:17Spit on the man.
01:05:19A complete, utter disdain for Americans in the American way.
01:05:24But Berlin has come in here with a purpose.
01:05:26Oh!
01:05:27Scott Armstrong has had absolutely no offense here.
01:05:31And he's a talented athlete.
01:05:33Yes, he is.
01:05:34In that scene, Samo hit the ring apron very hard.
01:05:39And here's the bodyguard.
01:05:40Oh, he is measuring him right now.
01:05:42Look how large this guy is.
01:05:44Look at the hands on him.
01:05:45Yeah, he's got that hand taped.
01:05:47It was taped a week ago.
01:05:49It knocked out Buff Bagwell.
01:05:51We remember that.
01:05:52What could be in that tape, Ed?
01:05:54How about just about knuckles?
01:05:56About four knuckles.
01:05:57One, two.
01:05:59He may be the originator of the knuckles sandwich.
01:06:03I don't want one of them.
01:06:08Inside crescent kick that time by Berlin.
01:06:11Complete domination here.
01:06:12Look at the European uppercut.
01:06:14As Scott Armstrong tries to stick Refuge to the turnbuckle pad.
01:06:19Well, as WCW works on the Diamond Dallas Page Ric Flair match for later on.
01:06:26As WCW has already laid down a major announcement with Hogan, Bret Harden, and Ric Flair together.
01:06:34Can you remember Hogan and Ric Flair?
01:06:35No, you can't.
01:06:36No.
01:06:37The good news about Bret Harden, if there's any good news about getting hit in the face with a baseball bat was that no teeth were broken.
01:06:56Just, uh, I understand he had stitches in his mouth, inside of his mouth.
01:06:59Did not break the nose, although he's very swollen and very injured right now.
01:07:02He'll be back next week.
01:07:04next week here comes scott armstrong pretty good comeback here for the young man out of marietta
01:07:11georgia he backs now berlin up against the ropes and armstrong winning his emotions and tempers
01:07:19carrying through this thing here break go do it you want to throw those punches go ahead that's
01:07:24what we're here for a good fight and a lot of action but berlin head on to the near side ropes
01:07:29that time as a drop kick watch out there it is hit him in the head with it
01:07:40in a reverse neck breaker by berlin that's all das is ricknick
01:07:50and he's not done look at this this guy's gotta go 350 pounds
01:07:54rear chin lock pulling up on a man who's already out and look at armstrong's eyes he's ready to go
01:08:01out ready to go out maybe he is out i think he was down when he got hit in the head
01:08:05look at the glassy eyes on him he's trying to injure this man and all of a sudden into the ring is brad
01:08:10armstrong brad armstrong over his brother daring both men to jump on no fear in their eyes at all
01:08:20love and a smile on the face of berlin no emotion out of the big man
01:08:35man you told me all right never mind listen listen jay
01:08:39saggy you're not a cruise i told you to be ariel the ariel fly fly bottom line is it should be me
01:08:46going for that though hey you're not a cruiser with it all right what are you trying to look
01:08:51nothing nothing nothing right listen listen their hands are going everywhere they're grabbing
01:08:54they're groping but don't worry they're going to slam you and it feels funny don't worry about it
01:08:57just just just be careful i don't worry about your thing you've got to be brave you've got to be
01:09:02ready to expect this if you're going to be a champion juggalo come on juggalo yeah
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