[1998-05-11-WCW-Nitro] Randy Savage promo

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Savage wants Hogan in the ring tonight. That was the match they ran the week after RAW broke their ratings streak and they drew an impressive 6.5 quarter off of the main event. So they went back to it and this time it didn't work. Even though WCW needed to push new stars, prostituting such a marquee match for ratings instead of saving it for something special is silly. They acted like the sky was falling because suddenly the WWF was competitive in the ratings instead of just re-thinking their approach and slowly moving in a new direction.

[Childs]

It no longer felt like a marquee match at all, which I'm sure they couldn't grasp inside their bubble. The motivations were so muddy, and neither guys had done anything interesting in the ring in months. Who the hell would choose to watch this over Austin-McMahon?

[soup23]

Agreed that it was one too many times to the well for this match. Savage tries to justify why the match needs to happen in this promo but it doesn't work even though the crowd live is jacked as could be.

[PeteF3]

Fuck, I didn't want to see Hogan vs. Savage again the *last* time they were pushing it--I know that put me in the minority compared to the 1998 audience, but enough already.

[TravJ1979]

Good promo by Savage, but I'd rather watch Val Venis vignettes than this match.