Using the no-holds-barred stipulation to its full effect, both Vince and Stevie went brawling through the crowds and crashing into chairs before returning to the ring for some bog standard offence. That's not to say it was a classic or anything, but it was good, at least by Virgil standards. Second only to his big match against Ted Dibiase at Summerslam 1991, this may well have been the best match Vincent ever had in his entire career. Harlem Street Fight for Control of nWo Black and White The video also showed us clips of Stevie Ray calling Vincent a " roody poo fruit booty" and Vincent responding by telling us he was about to beat Stevie Ray from project to project. If you needed any indication as to how little that stable actually mattered, the match was between Stevie Ray and Vincent.Ī brief video showed us that Hollywood Hogan had been stirring trouble by telling both men separately that they were the nWo Black and White leader and that they should beat the other guy up. Up next, we were about to get a match for control of nWo Black and White.
Your Winner and Still WCW Cruiserweight Champion: Billy Kidman Harking back to a time when WCW would kick off its PPVs with what would often prove to be one of the best matches on the show, this was a solid, fast-paced, high impact cruiserweight match that delivered on every count.Īfter some terrific back-and-forth action, Kidman landed the shooting star press to retain the gold. babyface champion worked incredibly well here. He was also booed loudly by the Kentucky faithful, though I honestly couldn't tell you whether that was because they hated the fact that he was from ECW or simply loved his opponent way more.Įither way, heel challenger vs. Whipwreck was so new that he didn't even get entrance music. Known and beloved as a staple of Extreme Championship Wrestling, Mikey Whipwreck was making his WCW on tonight's show, challenging Billy Kidman for the cruiserweight title. WCW Cruiserweight Champion Billy Kidman vs.
World Championship Wrestling Cruiserweight Championship match before finally, almost six minutes into the broadcast, we got down to ringside. Apparently, WCW didn't want anything to do with the actual matches, but were still willing to pay for the arena, the staff, and the marketing, and were willing to have their name all over things.Īfter Gene shilled 1-9, we got a quick video hyping the upcoming Kevin Nash vs. In true WCW fashion, we next went to Mean Gene Okerlund, who reminded us that because of these "bizarre" stipulations, all of tonight's matches were unsanctioned. I'm not sure if anybody told Tony, but "mindboggling" isn't exactly a good thing. Schiavone told us that this was "the most unpredictable, the most dangerous, the most mindboggling pay per view of the year" and that several of the matches would have "bizarre" stipulations. We began tonight's show with an ominous opening video which reminded that tonight's main event would be a First Blood Barbed Wire Cage Match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship between reigning champion Hollywood Hogan and WCW President Nature Boy Ric Flair.Īnd you thought using blood and OTT gimmicks to disguise the fact that they could no longer go was something Flair and Hogan only did during their TNA run.Īnyway, from there, we got the usual welcome from Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay and Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan. The Most Mindboggling Pay Per View of the Year Let's head to Louisville, Kentucky, to find out. Or was this yet to be another example of all that was terrible about World Championship Wrestling? So, if nothing else, there was hope that this year's event might just be the one to break the Uncensored curse and finally give fans a good show from top to bottom. Still, as we discussed in that 1998 Uncensored review, things had been starting to look better thanks to a very solid undercard. It was at Uncensored 1996 that the company gave us the Doomsday Cage Match, an event which is still talked about today as the ultimate embodiment of all things Wrestlecrap.ġ997 fared a little better, but still gave us a horribly convoluted Three Team Elimination match between Team Piper, Team WCW and Team nWo, whilst in 1998 we had the awful Randy Savage vs. If ever there was an annual event which so perfectly encapsulated all the worst aspects of World Championship Wrestling, it was Uncensored.
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