[Recent ex-WWF talent Lex Luger shows up at the beginning of the Sting/Ric Flair matchup.]
[notices Lex] Oooh, what in the hell is he doing here?! Get the camera off of him!
SMSteve "Mongo" McMichael
What is this?
BHBobby "The Brain" Heenan
Wait a minute. He's got a right to be here, this is a public mall.
SSteve
Somebody call the security guards!
[as the crowd starts chanting "Luger! Luger!"] What?! Get the security and get him out of here!
What's he doing wrong? What is he doing wrong?
SSteve
This is just unabashed arrogance.
We have a major problem here.
We have a situation starting here. A big one.
I want to know what he's doing here.
Well don't ask me! Get on the headsets to the truck, ask somebody.
[Madusa makes her way to the announce booth at the start of the show.]
MMadusa
All right. Can it everyone! [to Mongo] You too bad dog! I am Madusa, always have been Madusa and always will be Madusa. This is the WWF Women's Championship belt.
Whoa... Whoa! Wait a minute. [sees Madusa pick up a trash can and dump the belt in it] What? Look...that indeed it is!
SSteve
[as Madusa does the act] Not in the trash can!
MMadusa
And that's what I think of the WWF Women's Championship belt. This is the WCW, I am now in the WCW and they used to call me Alundra Blayze. But not anymore because this is where the big boys play and now this is where the big girls play! [dumps mic in the trash can as well]
Holy smokes! Madusa, the WWF Women's Championship and the belt right here on Nitro. The belt in the trash can and I tell you what, I'm in shock! Wow!
SSteve
Oh she got covered, she just got sucked up on that one in Connecticut, didn't she?
Welcome back live to the first hour of this edition of WCW Monday Nitro on TNT! Tony Schiavone and Larry Zbyszko. And we are taking a look at the Mauler completely maul his opponent Steve Doll.
Well you know, Steve Doll's trying to get an offensive going.
[notices the crowd suddenly standing up for a large man who just came in through the audience] Wait a minute! What the hell is going on here?
But the Mauler, well he just got reversed right there. The Mauler runs him down.
That's not what I'm talking about.
What are you talking about?!
[The man, Scott Hall, leaps over the railing]
We need security out here. I have no idea, wait a minute! I can't believe what we're seeing.
[climbing into the ring] Hey, you people, you know who I am, but you don't know why I'm here. Where is Billionaire Ted? Where is the Nacho Man? That punk can't even get in the building. Me, I go wherever I want, whenever I want. And where, oh where is Scheme Gene? 'Cause I've got a scoop for you. When that Ken-doll lookalike, when that weatherman wannabe comes out here later tonight, I got a challenge for him, for Billionaire Ted, for the Nacho Man and for anybody else in uh...WCW, huh-huh-huh. Hey, you want to go to war? You want a war? You're gonna get one! [leaves]
Fans, what about the match? I don't know what to say. Randy Anderson's coming-- Randy. Randy, what's going on here? What about the match, Randy? What's going on? The match. Fans, we've gotta go to a break.
I have no idea what to say. Stay with us. Geez.
[as Eric talks] Ken doll, you got such a big mouth and we, we are sick of it.
What do you mean? Who's we?
You know who. This is where the "big boys play"? What a joke! I tell you what, you go tell Billionaire Ted, you tell him, "Get three of his very very best." Maybe the Nacho Man! "Oooooooh....No." Hey, maybe he can get the Stinger! Ooooh, I'm so scared. You go get anybody you want because we...
We are taking over. You wanna go to war? You wanna war? You got one. Only, only let's do it right. In the ring where it matters. Not in no microphones. Not in no newspapers or dirtsheets. Let's do it in the ring where it matters. If uh, if Billionaire Ted and his big boys, if they got any, uh guts...
You're stepping over the line.
Because we are coming down here and like it or not,
We are taking over. [throws his toothpick at Eric.]
[calmly] You're outta here.
You're outta here. [visibly shaken, looks at Heenan, then recomposes] I don't know what to say. We'll see you next week.
[Scott Hall appears again at the announce booth]
Just relax chico. Yo, Ken Doll, I had such a good time last week that I came back for more.
Look there's no reason...
Look, look, look, relax man, relax. You started it. You want to go to war? You got a war. You started it, we gonna finish it.
What do you mean "We"? You come up with this We stuff.
You know who man. You know who. Did Daddy Warbucks? Did he get his money yet?
[sees Sting come out] Wait a minute, Stinger. Not here, not now. Don't even dignify it man.
You came out here last week and said some real horrible things about WCW. Some real horrible things about the Hulkster, about the Macho Man, about the Stinger. Somewhere along the way, you got lost because do you have any idea where you are? You're in the jungle baby! This is WCW! That's right! Hold on! And every week you come out here and you say you want three of the best.
That's right man, three of the best.
You want three of the best, I don't see two of you. All I see is you and me. So why don't we just do this one on one right here, right now!
Yo, yo, you wanna fight man? You wanna fight? You got one. Only, no one tells me what to do and chico, nobody tells me when to do it. [throws his toothpick at Sting. Sting responds by slapping Hall] Ok, ok tough guy. I got a little, no, I got big surprise for you next week.
[Scott Hall shows up again]
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I don't want any trouble from you. I don't want any trouble with you here, now, but I don't have to point out. You came out here last week. Where is it, the big surprise? I mean I heard a lot of talk but where's the walk? [Hall points behind Eric] What? Where is he?
[Kevin Nash, formerly known as Diesel in the WWF, appears from behind and grabs the mike]
You've been sitting out here for six months running your mouth. This is where the big boys play, huh? Look at the adjective, play [sic]. We ain't here to play! Now, he [referring to Hall] said last week that he was going to bring somebody out here. I'm here. You still don't have your three people and do you know why? Because nobody wants to face us. This show's about as interesting as Marge Schott reading excerpts from Mein Kampf.
No trouble tonight, man. Speak your piece and...
Yeah, no trouble cause you know, I'll kick your teeth down your throat. Where are these three guys? You know you couldn't get a paleontologist to get these fossils cleared? You ain't got enough guys off a dialysis machine to get a team? Yeah, where's Hogan? Where's Hogan? Out doing another episode of Blunder in Paradise? Where's the Macho Man huh? Doing some Slim Jim commercial? Hey, we're here! You wanna say something?
Look, I don't have the authority right here right now. You want a fight? Fight isn't within me. You want to face three guys? Tomorrow morning at 9:00, I'm going to be in Atlanta. I'll be in the offices of WCW. I'll try and get you your fight and do you know what? Live this Sunday in Baltimore, Great American Bash, you guys want to show up? You want a fight? You show up and I'll see if I can get you your fight.
I don't know about you but they love us in Baltimore.
Hey big man, I say me and you, we be at the Bash. Maybe these punks want a fight.
Yeah, bring what you got! The measuring stick just changed around here buddy. You're looking at it. [Tosses Bischoff around before he and Hall leave]
MGMean Gene Okerlund
Sting, a very somber mood tonight. I can't believe it. I can feel it, you can feel it. These people continue to make our lives very very tenuous. They did it again tonight right in the middle of your match with Arn Anderson. But lets go back to last night. What's your sense of what's happened at the Bash at the Beach?
I am not at all surprised. What happened last night, I'm not surprised about coming from the two outsiders. But I will say I'm very very surprised at you Hulk Hogan. But I should've known. I should've known that when you were traveling to every town in that big fat limo. I should've known because you didn't want to travel with the Macho Man, the Total Package and the Stinger. Uhn-uhn, you were too busy making big movies and coming in for a little cameo appearance! You were too busy walking on the dark side! I should've known when you referred to the Macho Man, the Total Package and me as "three little dogs" waiting for a chance to wrestle the great Hulk Hogan. I should've known when I looked into your eyes. Do you know something, I made a mistake. But you made a bigger mistake because last night, you wiped out and trashed every single little kid, every single person that was a part of your life, that patterned their life after you! You told them to believe in the man upstairs! You told them to say their prayers and to take their vitamins! You told them to believe in themselves and you know something? It's a good thing you told them to believe in themselves because they sure as heck can't believe in you!
[grabs mike] And last but not least, to put the cherry on the top, all those little kids, you told them to stick it! No, you stick it Hulk! YOU STICK IT!
MGMean Gene
That is very strong. By the way, as fate would have it, these two men and their partner last night. Lex Luger got knocked out early by the action so the two of you had to go at it against the Outsiders. But Macho Man Randy Savage, you were very close with Hulk Hogan as I was. You were part of the Mega Powers. And if anybody got it stuck up, stuck up, well, stuck to him, you really got it stuck to you.
RSRandy Savage
I got a message for Hollywood Hogan. What I want to tell you and what I want to do to you, I can't say here on television especially at Disney. But you take the worst thing you can think about and you multiply it by the number nine million and then you multiply it by infinity and beyond, it would be just like one grain of sand in the Sahara desert brother. Because, it's really really scary. What I'm thinking and going to do to you, yeah!
[Sting comes down to the ring with a microphone]
[with his back turned to the main camera] I want a chance to explain something that happened last Monday night on Nitro. Last Monday night, I was on an airplane flying from L.A. to Atlanta. When I got to Atlanta, I tuned in the TV to Nitro and I thought I was watching a rerun. It was a very convincing film. Often imitated but never duplicated though and what else did I see? I saw people, I saw wrestlers, I saw commentators and I saw best friends, doubt the Stinger. That's right, doubt the Stinger. So, I heard Lex Luger say "I know where Sting lives, I know where he works out, I'm gonna go get him!" So I said to myself, "I'll just go into seclusion. I'll wait and see what happens on Saturday Night." And I tuned in Saturday Night and what did I see? I saw more of the same— more doubt. Which brings me to Fall Brawl. I knew I had to get to Fall Brawl to get face to face with the Total Package to let him know that it wasn't me and what I got out of that was, "No, Sting. I DON'T BELIEVE YOU STING!" Well, all I've got to say is, I have been mediator...I have been babysitter... For Lex Luger, I've given him the benefit of the doubt about a THOUSAND TIMES in the last twelve months! I have carried the WCW banner and I have given my blood, my sweat and my TEARS for WCW! So for all of those fans out there and all of those wrestlers and people who've never doubted the Stinger, I'll stand by you if you stand by me! But, for all of the people, all of the commentators, all of the wrestlers and all of the best friends who did doubt me, you can stick it! From now on, I consider myself a free agent. But that doesn't mean you won't see the Stinger. From time to time, I'm going to pop in when you least expect it.
[The show opens with the Outsiders in the ring with chairs having laid out the Nasty Boys and High Voltage. They go down to ringside where Tony and Larry are standing.]
Not again. Not again with this!
Does this work? Nice to see you dressed up this week, Larry! [to Tony] Hey, I don't see you laughing today huh?
I was so funny last week right? Funny like a clown right? Were you laughing at me? I ain't so funny tonight am I? You see, we can put this on any time we want. I can be funny, I can be deadly and so can this man! Hey, let me ask you a question.
You got the bad neck, right?
You got the bad neck, right? Do you want to pick up your kids, huh?
[to Larry who's not standing up for Tony] Do you want to step in here?
Hey, you're the one that laughed at them. They let me know what I think.
You talk about a triangle match, right? There's two of the combatants laid out right now.
You know, what I want to know is I've been hearing my whole career how scary the Faces of Fear are. They say, everybody says that Meng and the Barbarian are the two toughest guys in the business. Well you tell those two islanders, come on out here and we'll slap that coconut breath out of you. Tell them to come on down. You can't have a Pay Per View in WCW without inviting the nWo.
You can't be upset by what happened. These guys are thugs, they're paid by Dibiase and you're okay. So relax about it, don't be all upset.
Yeah well, I don't need to be pushed around. I'm not a wrestler. You're a wrestler. So why didn't you step in front for me? How long have we been friends?
You're okay and I'm not Clint Eastwood.
Well I can only say this and I'm going to apologize to everybody because I've never done this before at all. But I don't need to be pushed around. I've got five children. I've got a wife. I've got a great job. I'll tell you what, big mouth! Why don't you go ahead? Why don't you go ahead and step in front of me? Why don't you handle the broadcast? Why don't you try play-by-play?
I don't need guys who are seven feet tall coming out here! [takes off his headset and walks away]
I don't need guys seven feet tall either coming out here!
[Eric Bischoff is dismissing Roddy Piper's claim that he leads the NWO, which suddenly comes out and restrains Piper. Hulk Hogan embraces Bischoff, who later shakes Ted DiBiase]
Now that everybody realizes who everybody's working for... I mean, my God, this guy right here is the foundation of the WCW. Now he works for the NWO!
[Tony Schiavone and Larry Zbyszko review the Piper/Hogan match footage at Starrcade 1996 that Eric Bischoff confiscated and was somehow played, but when the tape suddenly stops as if it was taken off playback, just as Randy Anderson was about to count off Hogan as submitting to Piper...]
Well that wasn't nothing...
We did not get this - [talks to production crew on the headset] what happened? Can anybody tell me what happened? The tape stopped? The tape broke?
Someone's getting the tape in the production truck.
We're trying to find out fans, I apologize. I'm just talking to Craig Leathers, Keith Mitchell, in our video production truck. Someone apparently went and you hear the tape queueing up. You saw right there, I mean the hand was going up and it was gonna be the end of Hollywood Hulk Hogan with the sleeper. We all witnessed what happened, Eric Bischoff went into the video truck and grabbed the tape.
Well, anyway, the world saw what happened, we knew about it, now the missing footage had been recovered and what happened-
[Eric Bischoff confronts the announcers with the tape]
Don't you ever, don't you EVER, EVER, pull a stunt like that again. You or anybody else in this organization [puts down mic and starts tearing out the tape] ever, ever again. [leaves]
He could beat up a tape, that's impressive!
[Randy Anderson appears with his family to appeal to Eric Bischoff about hiring him back after the events of Souled Out]
Kids come on up here. It's all right Randy. It's all right, kids, could you do me a favor. Would you please tell your daddy... that he's still fired? [NWO laughs] Would you do that for me?
MAMontana Anderson
Please, Mr Bischoff!
Montana please, tell your daddy he's fired, get on with his life.
[mocks] Do it for little Tiny Tim!
SSyxx
God bless us everyone!
[Eric Bischoff is fuming mad at Jimmy Jett passing Randy Anderson brass knuckles during his match with Nick Patrick]
What do you think you're doing?!? You knocked him out! What is this? What is that? You know better than that! You know better than that! You used to be a referee!
JJJimmy Jett
Hey he won the match-
You used to be a referee!! You are nothing! [to Anderson] And YOU. I saw it! Let me, let me tell you what you won. Now, you just won a permanent vacation and you are fired! Fired! Spell it, F-I-R-E-D! You are fired! Leave the building [pokes finger at Randy Anderson with each word] now! Now! [pokes Jimmy Jett] You're fired!
It's not fair! Take those with you!
Alright. I've sat back here for about two hours and I'm about to puke. You know, the president has a state of the union address every couple of months. It's time the nWo has a state of the union address. Only difference is I'm not going to lie to you. I don't know what the hell's going on with the nWo right now. I tell you what, Kevin Nash and Syxx are here. And Scott Hall, people are wondering where Scott Hall is. Scott Hall's taking care of business more important than professional wrestling right now. Now while Bischoff, Hogan, Dibiase and Vincent are all up there at Rodman's opening day movie shenanigans, we're here taking care of business! So you boys in Chicago if you're watching, you better get focused because I'll tell you something right now. I'm getting pissed off! I'm getting tired of sitting around having you guys take my time. I'll tell you right now, you don't want to get me mad because I'm one person in this business that can stand alone!
SSyxx
Is this thing even working?
I don't even know. It's WCW.
I'll tell you something right now. Steiner Brothers, big win tonight, who cares? I'll tell you one thing in Tupelo, Mississippi, Nash will be there. Whether Scott's with me or not, it doesn't really matter. I'll be there, I'll take you on alone. And all you Napoleons back there, you know who I'm talking about. All you guys that you can't get on the adult life because you don't make the height requirement. The only reason you people breathe is because I ALLOW IT!! Yeah, I'll smash that camera! I'll tell you right now as long as I got breath in my lungs, I'll fight WCW BY MYSELF!!
