October 1995

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Randy Savage vs Kurasawa - WCW Nitro 10/23/95 No Savage last week. Savage has an injured arm which becomes a point of contention between Hogan/Bischoff and Meltzer later on. This gives the commentary an excuse to discuss the Savage/Luger feud. Kurasawa is put over as a dangerous martial arts expert that broke Hawk’s arm. We saw Hawk two weeks take on Bossman in a short match that looked like it was going to lead to a Hawk/Disco feud which actually might have been fun. Bossman looked good in that match with his right hands but with WCW going small in the midcard and the main event scene full there was no room for Bossman. Pretty standard babyface Macho Man m…

Sting & Lex Luger vs Harlem Heat - WCW Nitro 10/23/95 Sting has grown out a beard and is wearing red & yellow just like Hogan said! Maybe Hogan was right. They were definitely trying to push the narrative that anyone can turn heel. Big spot for Harlem Heat who have not yet regained their titles. Some heelish behavior from Sting like an arm drag on Booker T over top rope to the floor which the ref rules accidental but Also an eye take later to save Luger on the heat segment. Luger takes a boring heat segment. Booker had some solid spots but nothing too exciting. He missed Harlem Hangover. Sting has a great house afire the best part of the match. Stinger S…

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Strange match but it had plenty of moments, mostly between the referee and Tully. Tully's so good at selling Fujinami's submissions and then getting pissed about everything. The way the ref inserts himself into the lockups while Tully and Fujinami are trying to wrestle around him is great. It's obvious Fujinami wants more of a MUGA-style match and he snags a few good holds but Tully ain't really having it. He takes a nasty dragon screw legwhip from Fujinami and the only real big piece of offense he gets is a double arm suplex. The finish felt rushed and of course, Fujinami wins it. Not what I was expecting but still a super solid match.

Lex Luger vs Meng - WCW Halloween Havoc 1995 Unfortunately I watched this about 2 hours ago, but couldnt get to the review until now due to a couple work emergencies. Which is too bad because I had a lot of thoughts about this match. I will be lead with the most interesting: Lex Luger's individual performance. Coming watching a lot of WWF Lex Luger in the past 6 months, it is night and day watching the Total Package here. I dont think anyone would dispute that the quality of Lex Luger performance is significantly better than pretty much any of his WWF work. Only 3-4 months prior to this match, he was having sub-par matches with Yokozuna in singles and in tags. …

Lex Luger vs Randy Savage - WCW Halloween Havoc 1995 A nothing burger of a match. It was bad, but there was not much meat on the bone at only 5 minutes. Each man won a match over Dungeon of Doom earlier in the night in order to make this match happen. Savage defeated the Zodiac in under two minutes. Luger had a long, ~13 minute match, but was about to lose when Sullivan hit him to trigger a DQ and make this match happen. Luger would reveal that he was Dungeon of Doom 4 Life at the end of the show when he RACKED Hogan and Savage to end the show. At this point, this was still nominally face vs face. Typical Savage babyface performance as we go into heat quickly. …

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Eddie Guerrero vs Sgt. Craig Pittman - WCW Nitro 10/30/95 Im really becoming a Pittman guy. He seems like one of those guys they forgotten to smarten up before he went out to the Ring. I love guys like that. He also kind of reminds me of Tom Howard. If you’re going to do a military gimmick this is the way to do it. Unfortunately I am reviewing this 48 hours after the fact because work got in the way bur I remember this heading uniting good territory before it got cut short with a lame ending. Pittman was tossing Eddie around to start. Imposing his will and manhandling Eddie. Eddie throws Pittman which gets a reaction out of Pittman that leads to a speed versus arm fi…

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Lex Luger & Meng vs American Males - WCW Nitro 10/30/95 Doesn’t feel like a main event but they wanted to do the Halloween Havoc footage and the Dungeon promo to close the show. The juxtaposition of Luger teaming with Sting last week in the main event against Harlem Heat is cool with his teaming against Dungeon 4 Life buddy Meng against American Males. Meng had a grueling contest with Luger the previous night and seemed kind of pissed when Sullivan didnt let him get the win over Luger especially after Meng got the upset over Luger about a month ago on Luger after Giant choke slammed him before the match. I wish they played up some friction here with Luger and Men…