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Main event mess hurts SuperBrawl

John Powell

 

You read it here before because I’ve written it a thousand times before. More than anything else, World Championship Wrestling needs consistency. To gain the respect and loyalty of the fans again their product must maintain an even flow from one television show to the next, from one pay-per-view to the next. With SuperBrawl: Revenge from the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, WCW is well on its way to gaining back a following after years of a producing an uninspired product which many had turned their backs on.

There is still one major hurdle that WCW must get over to get back in the good graces of wrestling fans though. Their main events are abominable wastes. Case in point, tonight’s WCW World Title match pitting champ Scott “Big Poppa Pump” Steiner against Kevin Nash. This over-booked debacle didn’t serve WCW’s best interest by once again leaving fans, who had been entertained by a decent undercard and mind-blowing cruiserweight bouts, with a really bad taste in their mouth. Reminiscent of that “Canadian rules match” seen at New Blood Rising last year, ridiculous stipulation after stipulation was added turning the main event into a total farce. The worst being Ric Flair guaranteeing that the loser would “leave WCW forever”. Yeah, right. How many times have we heard that one before? Why even bother?

The prelude to the Loser Leaves Town provision was a dressing room meeting between WCW CEO Ric Flair and Steiner earlier in the broadcast. Flair told Poppa Pump not to fret over Nash’s challenge because he had the solution to all their problems. Flair then produced a sealed envelope. Once it was time for the main event, Flair took a seat at the announcer’s table refusing to reveal what was inside the mysterious envelope.

Ushering ring announcer Michael Buffer out of the ring with “Do you think I need you to come out here and tell me how great I am?”, Steiner went over the list of wrestlers he’s put on the shelf. Strangely, the sickening footage of Sid snapping his leg on Nitro was shown over and over again even though viewers could plainly see that Steiner had rolled out of the way and really had nothing to do with Sid’s accident. In what he called an example of “high-style promoting” Flair joined Steiner in the ring to open the envelope and announce the Loser Leaves Town stipulation. Brought to the ring in wheelchair by two scantily-clad nurses, Nash stood up to reveal that the cast on his leg was a fake, grabbed the WCW World Title belt and cracked Steiner in the head with it. In sixteen seconds flat, Nash won the match and the title…or so we thought.

At the announce table, Ric Flair went bonzo. You see, he forgot to say that the bout was also a Two-Out-Of-Three Falls, No DQ contest. Ummm. Okay.

Holding the belt, Nash griped aloud as he continued his attack on a bleeding Steiner. Nash clotheslined Poppa Pump out of the ring and went out after him. Midajah left Steiner’s steel pipe within his reach as she distracted Nash. Steiner hit Nash over the head with it though in doing so he knocked him out cold and couldn’t drag him back into the ring to pin him. Steiner held a mini-conference with Flair who publicly added a Falls Count Anywhere rule so Steiner could pin Nash on the arena floor. To make sure Nash wouldn’t recover so easily Steiner pummeled him with a pair of brass knuckles too. Nash got to his feet bleeding from his forehead.

Midajah and Flair ran interference for Steiner whenever Nash was close to nailing the third and final pinfall. Big Sexy Jack-Knife Power Bombed Steiner and would have easily won the belt but Midajah leapt upon referee Charles Robinson. Tired of her meddling, Nash sidewalked slammed Midajah. As Nash covered Poppa Pump again, Flair yanked Robinson out of the ring and punched him in the chops. Nash attempted to pull Flair into the ring by his hair. Steiner halted that with a low-blow from behind. The Nature Boy slid a steel chair into the ring. Steiner used it to bash Nash’s brains in. A Steiner Recliner, a new official and Big Poppa Pump steals another win. Steiner and Flair gloated from atop the entrance ramp while Nash stood dejected in the ring knowing that once again WCW’s bookers would have to re-write him back into the promotion once his vacation is over.

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