The Monday Nitro Workrate Report

A weekly look at what did and didn't work on Monday Nitro by Dean Rasmussen

Monday, March 9th, 1998

What Worked
Ernest 'The Cat' Miller sold a Damian toprope hurricanrana really well. He's doing a muy tai kickboxer thing now, eh? Great. I'd rather see Damien in a real wrestling match with someone who can work who isn't green as grass, but it was a nice toprope hurricanrana.

Sick Boy is showing that he is really, really green now that he has been put in some matches so you can see how far he actually still needs to go and shipping him off on the ECW house show circuit was a good idea. Lenny Lane shows more each week and is pretty okay for a gassed-up chump with bad hair.

Chris Jericho vs Disco Inferno was good. DI took the bumps and went at it with gusto. Jericho was role modelish and funtabulous as ever. Where is Ultimo Dragon?


What Didn't Work
Bill Goldberg defeats Barry Darsow by showing that he's expanded his repertoire to include moves most guys learn the first week of training. SHIT COLLIDES WITH SHIT IN THIS ONE FALL MEGA-WRESTLING EVENT! GOLDBERG IS AAAAAAWESOME! DARSOW IS AAAAAWWESOME! What a fuckin phenom. Where the hell did put those tapes from Japan?

Dean Malenko wrestles Kidman. Didn't I just see this exact everything on WCWSN? Is this part of the new atempts to pacify the disgruntled mid-card? "Hey Malenko, y'all get to do the exact same shit every week just like the fuckheads at the top!" "Eh. Allright. But you fucked up the Japan deal though, right? So I'm gonna be wallowing in this hole you call a 'wrestling company,' wrestling shitty 4 minute matches all year round now with nowhere else to show what I can really do? Thanks Eric. Golly, you rule."

Brian Adams wrestled Kaos who was accompanied by Rage. Adams really sucks. He puts asses in the seats though. Boy. He's so over. He really does a number on Rage and Chaos. Boy. It was the second coming of Stan Hansen and Bruiser Brodie rolled up into one. What a fierce competitor. What a load of shit. WHIP ASS.

Scott Norton is brought out by Konnan to beat up Juventud Guerrera in a brilliant booking move where you get a real BIG GUY to beat the fuck out of a CRUISERWEIGHT to show that a BIG GUY can really beat the fuck out of a CRUISERWEIGHT! What a great idea! This will REALLY get Scott Norton over as a guy who really beat the fuck out of CRUISERWEIGHTS! Boy. I bet the crowd will start popping for Norton like they do for Goldberg now. "Hey! That's Scott Norton! He beat the shit out of weak piece of luchadore shit, Juventud Guerrera! Norton is just AWESOME!" Juventud has to be stoked about losing his mask in what was basically a WCW WorldWide angle, getting humiliated by Scott Norton on a Nitro that drew a 5.0 rating and Sunday he gets to show how he'll "never surrender" as Konan jacks his dick by beating the piss out of one his "boys" as he gets his "new bigger role in WCW and the nWo" as a fuckhead who gets to ream Juventud in two countries at once. WCW can eat my dick.

To further the shittiness of this Juventud angle, Konan- nWo b-team job-boy who's gonna beat the fuck out of Juventud on Sunday- showed his standing in the company by jobbing to Davey Boy Smith in two minutes. KICK ASS!

Booker T beat Chavo Guerrero in three minutes. This sucked. This wasn't a match and a waste of Chavo and Booker T.

Ric Flair needs to retire. He's less than a shell of his former greatness. Hell, he's almost fifty years old. Run for congress or something- just quit making it harder to remember Steamboat/Flair and the Funk/Flair I quit match. Curt Hennig is quite there. I don't know who tunes in to see him wrestle. Christ knows I don't since he pussed out of a Benoit feud. Fannypants.

Hollywood Hogan and The Outsiders wrestled Sting, The Giant, and Randy Savage. Supposedly, Hogan won a power struggle with Scott Hall to keep Hall from doing the survey and that explains the Nash interview and then Hogan did that interview and blahblahablahblah- God, you don't give a shit about Hogan, Nash and the inside circle jerk of power that is fucking the actual wrestling that could take place in WCW right up the ass and neither do I. They tried to have a match and the Giant and Nash skipped out early- I'm guessing because they both stink and didn't want to work anymore tonight. I think it's funny tht people think the Giant is still capable of doing a moonsault or ever could. He's making a good run at becoming fatter than Yokozuna since he debuted. He can barely walk now, much less use any of his "athletic ability." HEY! LOOK! It's Ed Leslie! The parasitic tapeworm who feeds off of Hulk Hogan's fecal spray! He sure does a mean Chartbuster. He's so over. Look at the asses in the seats. Kick ass.

I'll be happier next week I'm sure! WOO-HOO!

There you have it.

DEAN!




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