[2001-03-05-WCW-Nitro] Mike Awesome vs Hugh Morrus

[GSR]

With March being the final month for the company I’m going to watch everything WCW puts out, which means stuff like this, which I would normally have no interest in, is getting viewed.   The laughable “U-S-A” chant, laughable in the sense that it is two Americans in there.  Awesome no sells the splash in the corner and runs through Hugh with a big clothesline.  He throws him through the ropes to the floor, following him out, but ends up getting backdropped over the guard rail into the front row.  The crowd, who haven’t really been into this, do pop for that.  Awesome must land on his feet because he’s set waiting for Morrus to turn around, nailing him with a springboard clothesline off the railing.  Slingshot splash back into the ring, the start of a series of two counts for him.  Hugh ducks a clothesline (Awesome seriously over relies on that move too much) and dumps Awesome with a release German, only to go shoulder first into the ring post after his charge is side-stepped.  The Awesome bomb is countered at which point out rushes Lance Storm for yet another run in on what’ s been a night of them.  Storm interference doesn’t pay off and he ends up getting sent into the metal security railing.  Awesome misses the splash off the top after having first connected on a slingshot shoulderblock.  Morrus milks the lead up to the moonsault, landing it for the three.  Storm attacks Hugh post-match, Konnan making the save.  Orelay!

Boring match and that’s four run ins for the night already (not counting Dustin’s post-match run in) with just the main event to come.