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.
LZLarry Zbyszko
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?
LLarry
But the Mauler, well he just got reversed right there. The Mauler runs him down.
That's not what I'm talking about.
LLarry
What are you talking about?!
[The man, Scott Hall, leaps over the railing]
LLarry
Well, what the hell?
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.
[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.]
LLarry
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?
LLarry
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.
LLarry
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?
LLarry
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]
LLarry
I don't need guys seven feet tall either coming out here!
[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...]
ZZbyszko
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?
ZZbyszko
Well what happened was -
Someone's getting the tape in the production truck.
ZZbyszko
Who's in the 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.
ZZbyszko
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]
ZZbyszko
He could beat up a tape, that's impressive!
MGMean Gene Okerlund
That's very impressive, a gentleman the stature of Hugh Morrus, and you absolutely got in there and manhandled him tonight. [Bill Goldberg just walks away] Sir, I've got to get a little bit more than that. Gentleman's just walking away from me.
LZLarry Zbyszko
Is he a mute?
MGMean Gene
I can't believe that. Tony, I haven't seen anything like that. Very impressive. But who is this guy Goldberg?
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