[1999-11-29-WCW-Nitro] Pyro and Ballyhoo - Part 2

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Chavo interviews Dr. Death and Oklahoma. Doc is eating BBQ sauce the whole time while Oklahoma does another Jim Ross parody. Then Ryan Shamrock, who is now in WCW, gets candy delivered from The Maestro. Finally, Chavo interviews Hall and Nash. Hall says the TV title is useless and the Outsiders throw the TV title in the trash. And that's the end of that.

 

Then Piper continues ranting to no one in particular while Curt Hennig and Creative Control escort him somewhere. Steve Williams and Oklahoma talk Sooners football. The Mamalukes and Gene Okerlund hang out in a strip club. Russo tells Piper he'll be refereeing mud wrestling between women later in the night. The Nitro Girls insult each other in catering and end up throwing food all over each other. Leilani Kai seems amused by all of this. Security pulls them apart. In the middle of all this, Kai ends up choking and Juventud tries to save her life. Symphony gets another gift. Lex Luger has a brilliant idea and requests to see Russo, as it's about ratings.

 

Chavo interviews Tygress Nitro, who ends up in a fight with Spice Nitro. Evan Karagias and Madusa make out in a dark room on the couch. Luger volunteers Russo to Liz for the scheduled mud wrestling match. We eventually learn that the gifts to Symphony were a trap from David Flair, who hid The Maestro inside his own piano. Hall and Nash want a cage match with Goldberg and Sid. The Mamalukes make an Italian dinner for their dates. Creative Control come back covered in mud. Arn Anderson confronts Russo because he's been fired and has no idea why. Stacy Keibler, named Skye Nitro at this point, ends up in a catfight with Chae Nitro. Chavo interviews a mud-covered Piper. Piper puts Chavo in his place for not fighting the Powers That Be like his father, uncles and grandfather would have. Hall and Nash walk by and smirk at Piper and muddy Piper ends up in a brawl with both before getting pulled away by security. Russo is upset that Luger let him down, but Luger promises before the night is over, Liz will be covered in mud because *he* will have a match against her. The Mamalukes serve dinner to their dates. The dates end up using neckties to tie them to the bed. It was a setup for the Disco Inferno and Lash Leroux to show up and pour spaghetti and meatballs all over them.

 

All this in one show.

[Matt D]

holy hell

[Dooley]

So much ballyhoo!

[Tim Evans]

Good god I can't believe this was all on one show. Felt like 20 minutes. Highlights include Juvi humping Lelani Kai, The Nitro girls somehow make a food fight boring, Mean Gene dancing in a nightclub with a tie on his head. Maestro in a piano. Madusa goes to first base with Evan but will only go further if he gives her a title shot at Starcade. Piper attacks Hall and Nash and the keystone cops break it up but keep laughing. This might be Russo at his peak of awful acting segments.

[Zenjo]

The three hour Russo Nitro's were the peak of sports entertainment insanity. This weak he seemed to have a crazed obsession with people getting covered with gunk. Seriously there's 4 separate occasions in the same show. Two lots of mud wrestling, one food fight and the spaghetti and meatballs on the bed. Of course there's plenty of sex and Russo stroking his cock as well, but you got that every week.

 

I didn't even recognise Leliani Kai having not seen her for a decade. The TV title gets trashed. Actually every title got trashed, just not quite this literally.

 

Crash TV = Ratings

[PeteF3]

So apparently Mike Tenay got nailed by a guitar and Okerlund is doing something with the Mamalukes, so Chavo is the new interviewer. Chavo sells Amway with a 555 number and no area code--come ON, guys, can't we be a little more professional and less obvious than that? A real sports-entertainment company would give us a Turner office number or one of the boys' cell phone numbers as a rib.

 

Doc and Oklahoma hype up a cage match against Jerry Only. Oklahoma has ceased even trying to be funny and is now only about the face. JR even in his grouchy vile hateful human being stage today is worth more to the business and more talented than you are, you stupid fuck Ferrara.

 

Okay, I'm not going to recap all of this again since Loss already did it, but yes, these 3-hour Nitros with Russo in charge were just death.

 

I laugh at Mean Gene dancing in the club in spite of myself. I never thought I'd see Juventud Guerrera try to give the Heimlich maneuver to Leilani Kai--then or now. Talk about weird collisions of worlds. Please, please stop making the Nitro Girls try to fight.