[1992-08-23-WWF-Primetime Wrestling] Randy Savage & Ultimate Warrior vs Nasty Boys

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Last few minutes. Warrior in his flesh-colored singlet looking naked except for tassels. Flair and Perfect do a number on Warrior while the Nasties beat up Savage with a chair.

[El-P]

Warrior's outfit was distracting to say the least. I wonder why HHH never tried it, seems right in his alley.

I remember watching this stuff on Superstar, and the fact it looked like total chaos to me. Ah, being a mark again...

[Tim Evans]

That outfit was almost as distracting as Stan Lane's hair. Good beatdown though.

[shoe]

That outfit is just creepy.

[Kevin Ridge]

Those tights were awful. Flair and Perfect show up at ringside to lay a beating on Warrior as the ref has been laid out. Nastys take out Savage and get a count out victory. Savage manages to clear the ring after.

[flyonthewall2983]

The thing I remember most about this match is that I heard the rumor about the Warrior of this match wasn't the same, from my mother of all people.

[WingedEagle]

Nastys hit Savage with the helmet while Warrior goes after Hart, where Flair & Perfect destroy him. Effective in building intrigue around Flair's role at SS.

[PeteF3]

This show was the debut of the "video wall," IIRC, which in a sense would change televised wrestling in a major way. Warrior is covering himself with Warrior-shaped fig leaves over his naughty bits. It's ANOTHER partners-in-conflict match, which is taking over the wrestling world in the summer of '92, and Perfect and Flair are out to put a beatdown on the Warrior while the Nasties take out Savage. Good beatdown by all four heels, and it results in an upset countout victory for the Nasties. In a great bit of booking, THAT result would be significant as it resulted in the Nasty Boys being named the #1 contenders, but Jimmy Hart got a title shot for Money Inc. instead.

 

Both babyfaces would have compelling backstage interviews after this. Warrior pointed out that Flair and Perfect only targeted him and not Savage, and Savage responded that they did that as a swerve and that they were actually working with Warrior. This was all a VERY clever, well-done build-up to the title match that sold me on the PPV.

[Robert S]

The whole build up to the supposed main event of Summerslam is weird. Centering it around two guys who are not wrestling on the show and having the go-home angle include a tag team that is only doing a dark show match seems counterintuitive. I almost seems as if they had problems promoting two face vs. face matches and wanted to have a heel in the picture of at least one match.

[garretta]

Robert's right. The WWF had never done a face-face double main event before, and it was so far out of their booking wheelhouse that they felt they needed to center the Savage-Warrior match around Flair and Curt and the IC title match around possible dissension in the Hart family. Why they didn't simply run Savage-Flair if they felt this way and let Warrior blow off the Shango feud is beyond me. It's not like Flair and Savage were incapable of main-eventing a big stadium show; they'd just done it four months earlier at Mania VIII.

 

The beatdown was pretty stiff for regular cable TV, and the Nasties looked thrilled to finally be doing something worthwhile. The only problem is, from the way Vince was overselling it Warrior and Savage should have been doing dual stretcher jobs instead of running Flair, Curt and the Nasties off. Nice to see Curt throwing chops, by the way.

 

Vince was screaming and growling all over the place to the point where it was disgusting and his accusatory tone with Heenan may have worked if Bobby had been in so much as one promo with Flair and Curt since Mania. As it was, Vince just sounded like he needed a handy heel to blame and picked the one he was sitting next to. God help SummerSlam with this nut on play-by-play. As for the Brain, from the hat and coat reference I'm guessing they had him dressed like Sherlock Holmes on camera, though I'm praying not. Honestly, if I'd been him I'd have called it a career right about now. He's not really into match analysis (though he's better at it than he likes to say he is), and his jokes are only likely to get stupider and more infantile as they follow the WWF product right down the sewer over the next year and change.

 

Why didn't the postmatch interviews make the set? They sound like they were pretty important to me from how Pete described them. Maybe parts of them are on the feud recap.

[dawho5]

If you are going to set up the Summerslam mains like they did, this is at least one way of building intrigue for them.  Probably the best way given the circumstances, but I kinda wish they had done Savage/Flair.  Also, maybe some seeds of the Attitude Era here where there truly are no good guys, everyone is out for themselves.