WCW Main Event (September 17, 1995)

Original Airdate: September 17, 1995

From Asheville, North Carolina; Your Hosts are Eric Bischoff and Dusty Rhodes

Kevin Sullivan is ready to take Hulk Hogan to the Dungeon of Doom in the WarGames tonight 

Outside the building, Hulk Hogan arrives on a motorcycle, when suddenly a monster truck (driven by Giant) arrives, and crushes his ride. I get what they were going for here, but this was a pretty goofy segment

Big Bubba Rogers v Mark Thorne: Bubba looks like he’s on some weird shit tonight. Meanwhile, Bischoff is basically in mourning for Hulk’s bike. It was given to him by his fans! Just months ago! It really tied the garage together! Bubba with a scrapbuster at 1:06. DUD

Backstage, Gene Okerlund catches up with a furious Hulkster, so Randy Savage comes in to try to calm him down, Cher style

Lex Luger is on the Hotline, ‘telling the truth’

Ric Flair/Arn Anderson feud review video. And a pretty good one, all considered

Gene catches up with Flair, and he’s not telling his son he lost tonight, so Arn had better get ready to tell his

Disco Inferno v Joey Maggs: This is really early in Disco’s run, only his second televised match. He’s looking pretty pudgy here, too. Meanwhile, Bischoff talks about Lex Luger, and name drops the WWF. Disco with a swinging neckbreaker at 2:32. DUD

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Alex Wright v Eddie Guerrero: This is Guerrero’s TV debut (though he’d already taped a few matches that would air later). And, technically, he’d wrestled on World Championship Wrestling in 1989, but we’re ignoring that. They feel each other out to start, babyface style. Eddie manages a bodyslam to set up a slingshot somersault senton splash, but he lacks a follow up, and Wright throws a standing dropkick. He grabs a headlock, but Guerrero forces a criss cross, and lands a jumping backelbow for two. Another criss cross ends in Guerrero missing a dropkick, and Wright landing a spinheel kick. Alex with a cross corner whip, but Guerrero reverses, so Alex uses an overhead suplex. Eddie bails, so Wright teases a dive, but Guerrero distances himself, and hangs out to break the momentum. Back in for a test-of-strength, but it goes to a stalemate, and they get into a reversal sequence, ending in Guerrero getting a cross-armbreaker on. Eddie with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker for two, and a sitout crucifix powerbomb gets him another two. Eddie hooks a gory special, but Alex counters into a sunset cradle for two. Wright adds a bridging German suplex for two, so Guerrero tries a vertical suplex, but both guys go tumbling over the top. Guerrero gets the worst of it, hitting the steps on the way down, and he looks to be unable to beat the count, but Wright doesn’t want it that way. He stops the referee’s count, and goes to check on Guerrero, the match ending in a double countout at 6:36. This wasn’t the best debut in that Guerrero didn’t win, but it also wasn’t the best debut because he looked kind of nervous, and blew some spots. Watching this, I would have never in a million years believed that this little guy would one day be WWF Champion. * ¼ 

Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Sting, and Lex Luger v Dungeon of Doom video review

The Nasty Boys v The American Males: Jerry Sags and Scotty Riggs start, and Sags wrecks him in the corner right away. Riggs manages to fight back with a dropkick, but he telegraphs a backdrop, and eats a facebuster. Tag to Brian Knobbs, and the Boys use a double team, as Sherri makes her way down to ringside. Marcus Alexander Bagwell tags in, and catches Knobbs with a dropkick, after reversing a cross corner whip. Bagwell with a pair of armdrags into an armbar, as Colonel Robert Parker comes out to try to woo Sherri with flowers. Meanwhile, the Boys get control and work Riggs over, but Marcus gets the hot tag, and Roseanne Barr the door! Riggs misses a charge and goes flying over the top, allowing the Boys to double team Bagwell, but they get distracted by the ongoing Parker/Sherri date on the outside. That allows Dick Slater to run out and attack, and Bagwell steals the pin at 4:14. Way too much going on here for a four minute match. ¼*

Backstage, Gene catches up with Hogan, Savage, Sting, and Luger, and Sting wants Randy to stop being crazy, and start trusting Luger, because they need to be united

BUExperience: I’ve had that Wright/Guerrero match on my list for Goody Bags for years, but man was it a let down. The rest was the usual hard sell stuff, nothing special.