[1999-01-18-WCW-Nitro] David Flair vs Eric Bischoff (Hair vs Hair)

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Hair vs Presidency. If Bischoff loses he gets his head shaved. If he wins he gets the Presidency back. I remember being worried watching this that they were hitting the reset button on the Flair angle since the Fingerpoke of Doom failed to give them a ratings war win. I think WCW tends to do non-wrestler matches that don't involve Jay Leno or Karl Malone really well and this has a decent amount of heat. David hits Bischoff with a roll of coins and KOs him, and Bischoff gets his head shaved, revealing lots and lots of gray hair. I will give them credit for showing up Bischoff while putting more heat on the Wolfpac each week, because it was a nice way to keep things in balance. At least for now. This isn't quite the moment Tony sells it as, but they try hard to make it one. It probably should have gotten at least a week of build-up with more promos, and Bischoff should have had an NWO corner guy while Ric was in David's corner.

[Tim Evans]

Tony was very annoying during this doing buzzing sounds and playing cheerleader. I kinda felt bad for Eric here and I don't think that was the point.

[soup23]

Not much of a match and some awful punches by Bischoff. David uses a fistful of quarters and pins Bischoff with Randy Anderson turning a blind eye. Kudos to Bischoff getting the haircut even though it does feel kind of desperate. 1/2 *

[PeteF3]

At least they kept the match short, though the little action we see is pretty bad. Bischoff puts the stip over okay enough, but yeah, running this match with less than an hours' buildup is madness. Good to see at least *one* instance where President Flair actually gets one over on somebody.