[2000-11-06-WCW-Nitro] Kevin Nash vs Booker T

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An obnoxious Nash promo with him taking shots at Goldberg’s book, something is dropped that gets picked up on mic and he yells “pick that up” and then he brow beats Stasiak. I really hate too cool for school Nash here just staying pat on the sinking ship trying to act like king shit. DDP is back and he is jacked. He gives a pretty fun promo with a huge reaction. The Battle Dome Warriors are at ringside and jawing with DDP. I had forgotten all about this. DDP brings out Buff Bagwell, Ernest Miller and Rick Steiner as backup. Woof, not exactly some great partners DDP. Buff calls them Battledome queers and they battle as Madden yells to make these guys famous. What shit this is. Buff calls them queers again as security separates everyone. Flair comes out with a new haircut and a microphone. Flair doesn’t have much to say except to diss on Scott Steiner. Steiner comes out with threats and here comes Booker T. Booker gets one of his better reactions of the year clearing the ring of Steiner. Flair is essentially Booker’s hype man for the Mayhem match and its entertaining. Back from break, Steiner is in the ring again and he again shits on Flair. Match finally starts with Steiner on commentary. A huge We Want Pump chant is broken out. Steiner is really the most fascinating thing in WCW right now and it’s not close. The match isn’t anything special with some chair shots on the outside and then Nash back on offense 30 seconds later. Steiner asks Hudson if he is high on commentary. Side Kick hits the ref and we get Stasiak running in with some brass knuckles. Nash puts Booker in position for the powerbomb and Stasiak wallops him too. Nash collapses with Booker on top and we get a cheap win. Crotch chop by Stasiak ends the show. ½*

 

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Pamela Paulshock would like to get some comments on Shawn Stasiak being out of the Natural Born Thrillers, but Kevin Nash is more interested in reading Goldberg’s book.  A bang happens off screen and Nash yells “pick that up” although his ad lib appears to cause him to lose his train of thought!  He says that he wants a title match against Booker T tonight when they’re joined by an apologetic Stasiak who wants to prove to them he’s still part of the team.  Nash tells him to take a hike before making sure to get the book in shot for one final plug.

DDP is back with a bang!  Mark Madden claims that the crowd are going nuts, and while they’re happy to see Page they’re hardly going nuts.  DDP is ‘shooting’, so much so that he lets us know that he’s doing so twice.  He’s also clearly been paying attention to Mick Foley getting in a couple of Foley-esque cheap pops.  A long winded tale ends with him saying how Ric Flair called him up and told him that he wants him back in WCW, and he said he’d give him an answer here in Chicago.  The answer is affirmative (like it would be anything else?) and a high spirited DDP let’s everyone know that “he’s back and he’s jacked”.   Page spots the Battledome Warriors in the front row and calls for some back up in the shape of Buff Bagwell, The Cat and Rick Steiner.  I don’t think I’d be calling on Buff or the Cat as back up for a fight!  An uber confident Cat clearly fancies his chances, thinking that if they jump the railing he’ll beat all five of them, while the best Buff can come up with is to call them the “Battledome queers”.  Jesus!  The Battledome guys try to rush the wrestlers but are held back by security as Mark Madden squeals about “making them famous”.  Bagwell then claims it’s “WCW 1 - Battledome queers 0”.  Not sure how what we just saw can be classed as a victory, but there you go.

We return from a commercial break and they replay what just went down.  Tony Schiavone says it was “uncontrollable” even though the situation is being controlled by security!  As a side note I think the jacked up dude without his top on in the white shorts is Midajah’s real life husband.

Next we hear from Ric Flair who just loves Chicago!  Now ‘the Naitch’ is at it with the cheap pops.  He runs down the matches for the Mayhem PPV on 11/26 and announces that Booker T will defend the World title against Scott Steiner in a steel cage match.  Flair says that he respects Steiner as a national amateur champion, as a great athlete and as an awesome figure of a man, but his conduct recently has been unacceptable and he can’t go around grabbing folk, hollering, screaming and hitting people with pipes.  Mark Madden gets in a dig at Flair here saying it’s not like the Horsemen always conducted themselves professionally.  That brings out Steiner and I’m again drawn to Midajah’s footwear.  He calls Flair an “old bastard” and is threatening him in the corner.  Booker T runs down to make the save and nails him with a Harlem side kick before Steiner is eventually dragged away by security.  Due to what just happened Flair then adds an additional stipulation for their match at Mayhem; a strait jacked will be hung above the ring and whoever retrieves it can put it on their opponent and “beat the hell out of them”.  Not sure how that really benefits Booker, although at least Flair did acknowledge that point.  He finally warns Steiner that if he ever touches a non-wrestling employee again he will be gone from WCW.

Back from another commercial break and Steiner is waiting in the ring.  He says that he doesn’t take orders from anyone and tells Flair to kiss his ass, before taking a seat at the broadcast desk for the upcoming title match.

The match has barely got going and there’s a loud “We want Pump” chant that Steiner acknowledges on comms.  A Nash right hand sends Booker through the ropes to the floor and he slams his head into the desk right in front of where Steiner is sat.  He picks up a chair, however Booker boots him in the mid-section and snatches it away before he’s able to use it.  Booker then cracks him over the back with the chair and gets a two count following a top rope flying forearm.  Booker runs into a Nash boot and we get some of his uninspiring offense.  A couple of forearms stagger Nash before Booker drops him with a spin kick that looks like it barely grazes him.  Nash’s selling here is laughable.  He ducks the Harlem side kick and Booker connects with referee Billy Silverman in another of those oh so obvious WCW ref bumps that you knew was coming.  Booker has Nash primed for the ‘Book End’ when he’s KO’d by a brass knux brandishing Shawn Stasiak.  As Nash picks Booker up for the jackknife powerbomb, he turns on him, KO’ing Nash too.  Stasiak puts Booker on top as Silverman comes around to count the pin.

I didn’t see the Stasiak turn coming, although a Stasiak/Nash feud inspires me even less than a Goldberg/Luger one does.  Nice chair shot by Booker but this was your typical laboured, half assed Nash efforts and as a result isn’t much.