[1991-10-05-WCW-Saturday Night] Halloween Havoc Control Center

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Gordon Solie hosts this one and runs down the card. Not a card that looks really great or anything, but I do think it's the best WCW was capable of producing at the time. I don't get the Paul E./Missy skit.

[PeteF3]

Your Chamber of Horrors: Sting, The Steiners, and El Gigante vs. Abby, The Diamond Studd, Oz (???), and Barry Windham (?!?!?!). Even Solie has no explanation beyond "Strange situation there." I'm surprised they're showing so much footage of Simmons getting pinned by Luger, however screwy the circumstances.

 

Not a great Havoc card, and it clearly won't have 1990's highs. But the lower and mid-card is probably better. Such a mess of a Chamber of Horrors match is pretty fucking bush league, though.

 

Cute but pointless Missy/Paul E. segment follows, as they try to track down what exactly the Chamber of Horrors consists of. They're menaced by a dude with a knife, who gets a little camera-happy and starts doing rote James Cagney and Jack Nicholson impersonations, allowing Paul E. to brain him with the phone.

[Kevin Ridge]

Not sure why Solie hasn't been doing these Control Center segments over Paul E at this point. WWF does a much better job of running down their PPV cards.

[soup23]

Solie was awful during this showing no emotion and reading from a paper. The chamber match makes no sense and I was amazed at how many changes to the final card we got from this rundown. The Paul E/Missy skit also made no sense to me.

[garretta]

Most of my thunder has been stolen. I will say that I don't know which one of these two is weirder: Heyman and Missy suddenly burying their feud like it never happened or Windham being booked on the heel team for the Chamber of Horrors despite being a face since the Bash. It's almost like someone writing the rundown sheet for Gordon to read either didn't know or wasn't told what the real matchup was and decided to make one up. Knowing WCW, I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what happened.

 

I also wouldn't be surprised if Gordon, whom we haven't seen in forever, didn't know the first thing about this card before he filmed this spot and was just reading what they gave him in complete ignorance. I'm not even sure when we saw him last; I remember he did a couple of features leading up to the Bash, so that's at least late June or early July. I wonder why he took such a long vacation. Was he or his wife sick, or had he perhaps been fired by Dusty, then brought back to replace Heyman, who was going back to managing soon?

[dawho5]

That Halloween Havoc logo makes me think they have the Warrior as a surprise guest....yeah, that's about how much I care about the matches I didn't already know.