WCW Saturday Night 11/02/93

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Taped from Center Stage on October 31, 1993
November 2, 1993
6:05 pm eastern
Atlanta, Georgia


Tony Schiavone: WCW Saturday Night is on the air! Hello wrestling fans, I'm Tony Schiavone, joined alongside by Jesse The Body Ventura, and for the next hour, we will be bringing you the greatest wrestling action around. We are 1 week removed from Halloween Havoc Jesse, and the fallout is still taking place. As we saw Monday on Nitro, there are new WCW Tag Team champions as 2 Cold Scorpio and Marcus Alexander Bagwell defeated Beautiful Bobby Eaton and Chris Benoit. The former champions are here tonight and ready for action, as they take on The Nasty Boys in the main event.

Jesse Ventura: You said it Schiavone. WCW is a mad house these days, and what I'm looking forward to tonight is the comments from The Lone Wolf Barry Windham. The issue between him and The Nature Boy Ric Flair is far from settled, and tonight we are going to get an answer from Windham as to where he stands. Flair wants a rematch and we'll see what Windham has to say!

Tony Schiavone: Also tonight, a look back to Monday's Nitro and the situation with Sting. Very tense right now between him and commissioner J.J. Dillon as he seeks a match with Hulk Hogan at Starrcade, a wrestling fan's dream match if you will. The stumbling block right now being is that what Hogan wants?, because he has yet to sign any sort of contract with WCW.

Jesse Ventura: Last I checked, Sting's just a wrestler. He doesn't call the shots out here. If he wants to make matches, he can go back into that locker room and try to appease 50 other wrestlers like J.J. Dillon has to! It's not all about Sting, and he's looking to find that out the hard way as he did this past Monday night.

Tony Schiavone: And when we come return, our opener sees Johnny Gunn taking on Jean Paul Levesque, plus comments from the new Tag Team champions. Don't go away because we'll be right back!


-- First commercial break --


The new WCW Tag Team champions 2 Cold Scorpio and Marcus Alexander Bagwell are interviewed about their title win this past Monday on Nitro. Bagwell tells viewers that this is so far the biggest win of either of their careers, and doing it together made it all the more satisfying. There are a lot of great tag teams in WCW right now, so to be seated at the top as the champions right now is a big accomplishment for them. Scorpio says that on that same note, there are a lot of tag teams looking to knock them off, and there is no rest. They will be watching the match later tonight with The Nasty Boys against Bobby Eaton and Chris Benoit, because Eaton and Benoit have their rematch, and The Nasties are going to be looking for their shot too.


Match #1
Jean Paul Levesque defeated Johnny Gunn via pinfall after the double underhook facebuster. Competitive match that sees Gunn getting the advantage late in the match. Levesque however would telegraph a back body drop and connect with his finisher instead to score the victory. With a spot in the King of Cable tournament, Levesque needed this victory, although the commentators note that it could end up him against his mentor Lord Steven Regal. Jesse Ventura thinks that if that match were to happen, we might see a new side of the Frenchman because that would have to be by far his biggest victory to date if he is to defeat the TV champion. Before that is Johnny B. Badd in the first round, no easy task in itself.


-- Second commercial break --


Brad Armstrong is interviewed with valet Toni Adams about their recent pairing. Armstrong tells the viewers that the reason he brought Adams on board was to give himself an added advantage. If opponents are going to cheat against him, he is going to put a distraction himself at ringside. He considers himself a true wrestler, but in today's WCW with the low moral attitude, the only way to compete is to sink to that level. This coming Monday on Nitro, he has a first round King of Cable tournament match with The Z Man, and he is going to make sure that he Adams become WCW's version of Charles and Diana, only better because unlike Charles, he will actually be a king and Adams will be a queen.


Match #2
Harlem Heat defeated Scott Stud and Bobby Walker when Booker T pinned Stud after the Harlem Hangover. Easy victory for the Heat over the 2 smaller and less experienced wrestlers, with Stud and Walker getting little to no offense in over the match. The commentators talk about the comparison in Stud and Walker to The Road Warriors with wrestling being about where it ends, and that those 2 teams will collide this coming Monday on Nitro in a 6 man tag team match.


-- Third commercial break --

CLASH OF CHAMPIONS CONTROL CENTER

- Eric Bischoff is standing by for the first installment. The event takes place live on TBS on Thanksgiving night, Thursday November 28 at 8:05 eastern from The Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. This past Monday on Nitro we learned that Rowdy Roddy Piper will battle Ravishing Rick Rude in a Steel Cage match for the World title, assuming Rude first survives the mystery Computer Contenders Challenge this coming Monday. In addition to that, WCW is hard at work to sign other matches for what should be the biggest night of wrestling anywhere this coming Thanksgiving. The Clash of Champions, live on TBS. Don't miss it!


Match #3
Johnny B. Badd defeated Big Sky via pinfall after The Kiss That Don't Miss. Badd has some trouble with Big Sky, but who would not. It is after all Big F'N Sky. Despite that, Badd manages to put him away, following up on his big Halloween Havoc win over Dustin Rhodes to earn a title shot at Rick Rude's World Title. The commentators talk about the Computer Contenders Challenge this coming Monday with a World title shot at Rude being determined by computer rather than match makers. They wonder what Badd thinks of this, but Jesse Ventura imagines that Badd is confident the computer will spit out his name.


-- Fourth commercial break --


WCW Monday Nitro Review for October 28 from Biloxi, Mississippi
- Read the show!

WCW Monday Nitro Preview for November 4 from Macon, Georgia
- Sting seeks answers as to the identity of the new Black Scorpion
- The King of Cable tournament begins
- Stunning Steve Austin vs Flyin Brian Pillman, Hollywood Blond vs Hollywood Blond
- The Road Warriors and Ice Train vs Harlem Heat and Tex Slazenger
- Ravishing Rick Rude defends the World Title in the first Computer Contenders Challenge match
- Plus more!


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The U.S. champion Ice Train is interviewed about the attack this past Monday on Nitro from Tex Slazenger. Train tells viewers that Slazenger is a coward for attacking him from behind, just like when Harlem Heat jumped Thunderbolt Patterson 2 weeks ago. Now he is going to get all 3 of them in 1 match, and his partners are none other than the awesome Road Warriors. Slazenger's return will be short lived and the Heat will regret the day that they crossed him. Asked about Ron Simmons, Train says that he still has no doubt that he was the 1 that ordered Heat to do that, and if he wants anymore of what he got at Halloween Havoc, he is not that hard to find.


-- Fifth commercial break --


Promotional Consideration paid for by the following:
- G.I. Joe, good vs. evil, figures and vehicles sold seperately
- Mortal Kombat from Akklaim, available for Genesis, Super NES, Game Gear, and Game Boy
- Spiderman and X-Men team up in arcade's revenge, available for SNES and Genesis from Akklaim


Match #4
The Nasty Boys fought to a rare double count out with Bobby Eaton and Chris Benoit. The former Tag Team champions had their work cut out for them in this match, and The Nasties took them to the limit. All 4 wrestlers brawled on the outside on opposite sides of the ring. The referee was busy with Saggs brawling with Eaton and missed Knobbs get in the ring to break the count, only for manager Scotty Flamingo to give an assist in helping Benoit pull him back to the floor. No team wins, but that does not mean the action is done. Flamingo joins his men in a post match 3 on 2 beatdown, but fans cheer when 2 Cold Scorpio and Marcus Alexander Bagwell rush out to make the save. The former champions and their manager escape unharmed, but these 2 teams are not done. And apparently neither are The Nasty Boys who make no guise as they let Scorpio and Bagwell know that they want a shot and they are going to be right there. Scorpio and Bagwell like that idea and welcome the challenge if the match goes down.


The Lone Wolf Barry Windham is interviewed about the situation with The Nature Boy Ric Flair. Windham tells viewers that he heard Flair's challenge on Nitro for a rematch, but he needs more incentive because officially in the record books, he defeated Flair at Halloween Havoc, and not only that, but if it had not been for referees, Flair would have been left for dead in his hand from the iron claw. He is not scared of Flair by any means and if the rematch gets presented, he would consider it, but he needs something more. He needs the match to have ramifications because this time when Flair goes down, he pays for it. Flair got off scott free with the restraining order and now he will not be so lucky.

Tony Schiavone closes the show by reminding viewers to tune this coming Monday for Nitro on TNT at 8pm eastern, and to come back next week at 6:05 for more WCW on Saturday Night. Until then, so long!

[Grape Ape]

Solid follow up to both Halloween Havoc and Nitro. Good card here and interesting lien-up come Monday. Looking forward to it.

Nasty Boys elevate themselves a bit standing toe-to-toe with the former champions Eaton and Benoit.

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Good stuff. I will say it's time to get the US title off of Ice Train man. It's sad to see it drop to this level with Train feuding with P.I.G of all people.

I'm not worried though, as I figure it's somehow part of a larger plan. And even if it isn't you need misses every so often when trying to present a realistic product.

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You are right. Ice Train's been pretty touch and go for me. I had other ideas for his future, but when 120 names got drafted to USWA, ECW, and AWA, I had to figure something else out. By no means am I complaining, just it is what it is, had to come up with something else. I went with Slazenger because I had a story with him in place as to why with the underdog challenge stuff, and the way it will be done, it is not like with Simmons at Havoc where it would be higher in the cards, so no point wasting a better feud for the November Clash when it will be a lower card match on that show anyway. Basically no more or less viewers would be watching the Clash any more for a white hot Ice Train feud with a serious contender as they would for a match involving Train and Slazenger (although that could be said for anything Ice Train is doing right now, just do not want to burn him through main event talents if it is mid card material should I use him as more later on). Also Slazenger is still new so I figure nobody would really be looking at it the way people with future knowledge would, ie. seeing him as a jobber or anything, but realistically I doubt anybody would see him as much of a threat either ... but there is more to it than just that coming.

I would consider taking the belt off Train, just no heel is in place right now to take it that would benefit from it. See where things stand in a month as there could be somebody. I did consider a heel turn / double switch for him and Simmons at Havoc, using a Rocky Maivia to The Rock thing where the fans turned on him as a play off the feedback, but I figured it is still way too early for that if I did use that as a reason, plus I would have left the event with 5 heel champions, 0 face. Maybe throw in a "Die Ice Train, Die" going forward to help his cause come the new year lol.

[Grape Ape]

What either guy did in real life aside, there is nothing wrong with a program between the two, especially if you envision it as something short between programs with someone up the food chain.