![]() Saturn’s replacing Stevie Richards here, and it’s the official start of the angle that makes Raven a bonafide WCW Superstar, The Flock. Mike Tenay recognizes Saturn and notes that he and Raven “have a long-time association in another wrestling organization,” which isn’t entirely accurate but we’ll work with it. Unfortunately (fortunately) for Kidman, he loses this match to Alex Wright despite having him dead to wrights due to a ringside distraction from Raven. ![]() He has music and moves and actual offense now, which is great, as he ends up a 3-time Cruiserweight Champion and 3-time tag champ, counting the cruiserweight tag straps. So yeah, this week we get the “he’s a real wrestler now” debut of occasional Nitro jobber and shooting star presser into nowhere Billy Kidman. WWE Network pixelates it, of course, and I recommend watching the full scene just for the amazing tight shot of the right three Nitro Girls with Kim Page glaring directly into the center of the camera.Īlso in this episode prefaced by an In Memoriam graphic for the real life death of a young wrestler, we begin Billy Kidman’s new “I’m on heroin” gimmick. The next thing we see is one of the Nitro Girls’ boobs falling out.Īpproaching this from a purely anthropological point of view, this in its day was one of the great pre-Internet “wait, what did I just see” Jacket-Jackson-Super-Bowl moments in the lives of various awkward little wrestling fans going through puberty. ![]() It’s a solemn reminder that no matter how special we are, no matter how long we’ve been here and how many hardships we’ve endured, life is fleeting, and can be taken away from us in, quite literally, a heartbeat. Pillman spent the majority of his career and the better part of a decade in World Championship Wrestling as Flyin’ Brian, one half of the Hollywood Blondes, and the “Loose Cannon” who joined the Four Horsemen and personally burned down kayfabe in February of ’96. If you’re a fan of the vintage reports AND watching me lose my mind, make sure you check out my three-shows-deep NWA TNA weekly pay-per-view recap series.Īnd now, the best and worst of WCW Monday Nitro, originally aired on October 6, 1997.īefore We Begin, The Most Unfortunate Tonal Shift In The History Of Our SportĪs you know if you’ve been reading the Best and Worst of WWF Raw Is War and/or lived through this 20 years ago, former WCW star Brian Pillman died from arteriosclerotic heart failure about six hours before In Your House: Badd Blood. If you don’t tell them how much you like these, nobody’s going to read them. Remember, if you want us to keep writing 20-year-old WCW jokes, click the share buttons and spread the column around. You can catch up with all the previous episodes of WCW Monday Nitro on the Best and Worst of Nitro tag page. El Caliente debuted (and lost), Sting stood next to a weird Andre the Giant pillow person, and Alex Wright wore pants so yellow he looked like a banana giving birth to a second, slightly smaller banana.Ĭlick here to watch this week’s episode on WWE Network. Previously on the Best and Worst of WCW Monday Nitro: Mean Gene Okerlund tried to solve the mystery of William Scott Goldberg and came up with only a photograph.
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