The Steiners recovered, executing the Steiner Bulldog double team on a frustrated Scott Hall. During the fray, the referee got dropped, leaving no one to count down a sure pin.
Scott Steiner was on fire, going suplex crazy until he threw himself into the Razor’s/Outsider’s Edge. Having to fight fire with fire, Rick decided to go for broke, using a well-aimed shot to the groin to stun Nash and tag out. The champions isolated Rick, using a mixture of power maneuvers, right hands and insults to keep him grounded and/or weary. Nick Patrick purposefully held Rick Steiner back as he argued over the fact Scott Hall had blatantly interfered by kneeing the running “Dog Faced Gremlin” in the back. Looking to pick up where his brother left off, Rick forgot he was in the ring with a crooked referee. It seemed for the first time in the evening that a New World Order representative would go down in quick fashion. And The Steiners were doing a great job in the early going with Steiner suplexes aplenty and simple right fists aimed at heads and faces resulted in the challengers clearing the ring. The fans rallied behind Rick and Scott Steiner in hopes that the brothers from Michigan State could do the seemingly impossible. Who would’ve guessed an early Match of the Night candidate would’ve involved “Buff” Bagwell?Ĭontroversy Abounds: After The Outsiders of Scott Hall & Kevin Nash won the WCW World Tag Team Championship during the summer, they had been on a tear while maintaining a death grip on the gold. “Buff” broke his way out of the painful situation, debuting the Blockbuster flipping neck breaker for the pin fall victory.Īfter three matches and a bunch of nonsense (more on that later), the show finally had a bout that featured some consistent action and gave the fans a reason to care about what happened from bell to bell. Things were going in favor of Riggs so much that he put Bagwell on the top rope for a superplex attempt. But Scotty refused to be stopped on this night as the fans rallied behind him and gave Riggs the energy to explode with an enzuguri kick and the tornado DDT. system, “Loser!” any time a fighting Riggs’ offense was cut off. Just when things were seemingly going well for Scotty, “Buff” muscled his way out of a suplex to drop Riggs abdomen first across the top rope.įor the next several minutes, the crowd watched as Bagwell worked over Riggs’ torso, posed to the jeering audience and listened to the headless voice say via the P.A. But the future of Riggs couldn’t be denied as he suplexed Bagwell in position for some highflying offense that really got the crowd on its feet. This would be their first official clash since that night and the fans were already into the action as referee Nick Patrick went out of his way to protect Bagwell during his multiple attempts at using the ropes as a barricade to prevent Riggs from getting any early advantage. Marcus “Buff” Bagwell turned on his American Males teammate Scotty Riggs to join the NWO. Un-American Attitude: The first match of the evening to actually have a story coming into it featured former tag team partners colliding. But will Bischoff’s intentions make for a must-see event? Lets find out. Featuring wrestlers from the group’s constant expansion, Bischoff hoped to embarrass WCW wrestlers up and down the card for the company’s various championships. With money just being tossed at the faction through t-shirt sales and proven to be a television ratings success, Eric Bischoff had the bright idea to base an entirely new pay-per-view event around his faction.
By the tail end of 1996, the New World Order faction headed by Hollywood (Hulk) Hogan and WCW’s President Eric Bischoff had practically taken over the world of wrestling with its gang-style attack patterns and “too cool/sweet” attitude.
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