You know, the Missing Nash mystery was never explained to anyone’s satisfaction, especially considering the importance of this show and the emphasis put on the match by WCW’s hype machine. (2011 Scott sez: Remember when PPVs used to get more than two weeks of hype at a time?) Survey time, you know the drill. – Hey yo, Scott “Alka” Hall is out for a gab session in place of the Giant-Nash match that was promised for weeks. Maybe Eddie put too much pressure on himself, like when he opened Wrestlemania against Rey?) Dean Malenko opening STARRCADE would be a slam dunk, but they just didn’t deliver. (2011 Scott sez: Still don’t know what happened here that made this match such a disappointment. **3/4 Guerrero would get squashed by Ultimo Dragon the next night, rendering the match pointless. Eddy keeps after the leg, dropkicking the knee and then frog-splashing the knee…for the pin? That was pretty out-of-nowhere and quite the downer to start. Meanwhile, Dean is making a comeback and they fight over something on the top rope but the spot ends up pretty messed up. You know, guys, presumably the viewer has already BOUGHT THE SHOW so there’s not much need to keep hyping it. We’re still talking about Sting and Hogan. Innovative spot: Eddy has Malenko laying on the apron with his leg hanging down, so he stands on the apron, slingshots into the ring and hits Malenko, then slingshots back out and hits his leg on the way down. Eddy gains control and works over the leg. Cute bit as Eddy kisses Dean’s foot to try to buy time. This should have been a huge highspot-fest to fire the crowd into a frenzy for the rest of the card. There’s too much stalling and resting going on here. They were giving away a ton of tickets at that point.) Disco Inferno was stuck near the entranceway, it should be noted. (2011 Scott sez: To be fair, the fans were probably comped too. It just goes to show the WCW mindset when 40 or 50 WCW wrestlers are comped front row seats while the fans are relegated behind them. The announcers are too busy talking about the rest of the card to bother to relate it. To tell the truth, I don’t even remember what the storyline here was, if there was one. Eddy trashtalks Dean while hiding behind the referee until Dean attacks. That was really, uh, something.) This is one big-ass crowd, it should be noted. (2011 Scott sez: Boy, the Latino World Order. He was drawing mega-heat here, much moreso than anything else he’s managed to draw since against Dean or with the LWO. – Opening match, Cruiserweight title: Eddy Guerrero v.
Can you imagine now someone throwing a shit fit because they didn’t want to do a job? First of all, who would even give a crap about wins and losses anymore? Second, Vince would fire anyone short of Cena, Undertaker or HHH who pulled that shit and probably tie them up in court for years afterwards.) Pretty sure it was just a case of jobberitis. At the time he was claiming heart problems that turned out to be acid reflux, and I know later he changed it to something else. D’oh! (2011 Scott sez: You know, I don’t think we ever found out for sure what his final story was. And by the way, Kevin Nash isn’t here for the co-main event against the Giant. – We start with the idiocy right away as the Idiots discuss who the referee for the main event will be, as though anyone watching, you know, cares. And now here’s a rant on Starrcade 1997, which was Sting’s return.
Of course now everything is on YouTube and torrents so it’s fairly trivial to find the old footage, but it was fun while it lasted.) In this case, in a neat bit of synchronicity, I did a Rant on Fall Brawl 96 earlier tonight, which was Sting’s exit from WCW for more than a year. (2011 Scott sez: I actually used to make a pretty good supplemental income from tape trading, and I was one of the lower-level guys in the scene. – Yes, it’s a WCW blitz as I desperately try to catch up on my tape orders before the Christmas mailing rush.
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