Mike Reviews WCW

Happy Friday Everyone!

Apologies for stepping on Maffew‘s toes, but I’m going to take a page from his book and review some WCW 2000, name Saturday Night. Saturday Night was kind of like a prototypical version of NXT at the time, as Jimmy Hart was booking it and it kind of lived in it’s own universe that was somewhat separate from what was happening on Nitro and Thunder. Hart was mostly using folks from the Power Point and some veteran talent that he liked, such as Bobby Eaton and Jim Duggan. Thus the likes of Chris Harris, Elix Skipper, Chuck Palumbo and others got a chance to cut their teeth on television in front of live crowds before finally making it to the main roster.

Sadly the Jimmy Hart run ended in March 2000 when WCW decided to turn Saturday Night into a recap show, which was a shame as plenty found the show a refreshing change of pace from the general malaise that was sinking WCW’s main product at the time. Thankfully I was able to stumble across this episode whilst visiting my local purveyor of Fish and Chips, so we can enjoy seeing the likes of Los Villanos, Barry Horowitz and Beautiful Bobby taking on some of WCW’s other less utilised grapplers, whilst some youngsters can do battle with each other and get some reps.

You can view the full card for this episode of Saturday Night by clicking the link below;

WCW Saturday Night Card

Happy Friday Everyone!

We’re back with what is, in essence, a VHS review today as we take a look at a recap of the career of Billy Kidman. However, this feature actually aired on pay-per-view rather than being released on video. That sounds odd, so let me explain. Around 1998/99, WCW started making a collection of home videos that featured profiles of the WCW wrestlers. They called this the “Superstar Series” and the initial tapes that came out covered the big stars in the promotion such as Sting, Ric Flair, Randy Savage etc. Some of these tapes even made it over to the UK, which was impressive because we didn’t always get a decent supply of WCW home video content over here, even though we were a reasonably healthy market for WCW at the time.

Ultimately there were four volumes of the Superstar Series that hit the video shelves, with each volume containing two superstars. Volume One for instance featured a section on Sting and a separate section on Goldberg. WCW did go on to make more of these Superstar Series features, but by that point we were moving into the dying days of the promotion so these features never actually got physical releases and were instead released as discounted pay per views, making them not quite lost media, but still pretty obscure. However, thanks to the fine folks at F&C, the Billy Kidman edition of Superstar Series is now available for me to view and I decided to give it a look-see, seeing as I always tended to enjoy Kidman’s work and I would look forward to his bouts whenever he appeared on WCW Worldwide when that show aired on Channel 5 here in the UK.

Happy Friday Everyone!

We’re filling out my WCW pay per view archives today with Sin, which was WCW’s first pay per view event of 2001 and was supposed to begin a “Seven Sins” theme for their events, which they followed up with WCW Greed in March 2001. Sadly the company didn’t live long enough to hold WCW Sloth, although there would have been plenty of candidates to complete in the Main Event of that particular show.

We’ve got WCW World Champ Scott Steiner defending his belt against Jeff Jarrett, Sid and the dreaded Mystery Opponent in the Main Event, whilst Goldberg is teaming up with his trainer against Totally Buffed in the Semi-Main. Thankfully we’ve also got the Cruiserweights in the undercard who are likely to deliver some good wrestling, which should keep this one out of Stinker territory if nothing else.

You can view the full card for Sin by clicking below;

WCW Sin 2001 Card

Happy Friday Everyone! (I hope your day isn’t too unlucky)

We’ve got a WCW home video release from 2000 today, courtesy of F+C, with the Fan Favourites aspect of it being that WCW fans supposedly voted for the four matches that were included here, one of which I don’t think I’ve ever sat down and properly watched before.

Let’s have a look and see if the Fan Favourites included on this tape are deserving of inclusion or not.

Happy Friday Everyone!

We’ve got some World Championship Wrestling today, with an hour of good old fashioned wrestling from WTBS courtesy of F+C. This week we’ve got Ric Flair showing up for some promos, whilst Ted DiBiase and the Road Warriors will see in-ring action. Decent star power there and we’ll hopefully have some fun squashes and interview segments

I tried to find the full card for this episode of World Championship Wrestling, but Cage Match looks to be a bit confused about the line-up. I’ll post it below anyway and any history buffs can let us know why we’ve got the mix up

World Championship Wrestling Card – 28th April 1984

Happy Friday Everyone!

I read the Scott Keith WCW Mayhem 2000 re-post last year and it looked like a potentially interesting show, so I decided to give it a review this week seeing as I’ve never watched it before.

We’ve got Booker T Vs Scott Steiner in a cage, Lex Luger battling Goldberg and Jeff Jarrett colliding with Buff Bagwell as the major matches, so hopefully some of those will end up being fun at least.

You can view the full card for Mayhem by clicking below;

WCW Mayhem 2000 Card

Happy Friday Everyone!

If you get to see this Starrcade review then it means I managed to get to it a year ago before WWE Network sadly went away. I’ve reviewed Halloween Havoc and World War 3 previously, so you can get yourself up to date with the goings on in WCW during this time period before we pick things up here with the Starrcade review.

The big story going into Starrcade is that New Japan Pro Wrestling are working with WCW here and are going to do a mini-tournament with WCW in order to decide the World Cup of Wrestling. Some of those matches should hopefully be good, whilst some others probably won’t be.

You can view the full card for Starrcade by clicking below;

WCW Starrcade 1995 Card

Logan has also reviewed this one, so go give it a read!

Happy Friday Everyone!

This one is being written in December 2024, as I try to review both Fall Brawl and Starrcade before WWE Network goes away here in the UK (Hi, September 2025 Mike here; I managed it in the end). Fall Brawl has an infamously awful War Games match, but it also has Brian Pillman Vs Johnny B. Badd and Ric Flair Vs Arn Anderson, so I’m looking forward to those matches at least.

You can view the full card for Fall Brawl by clicking below;

WCW Fall Brawl 1995 Card

Logan has reviewed this one previously as well, so give him some views!

All of the pics came from WWE Network News

Happy Friday Everyone!

We’ve got some WCW Worldwide from 2000 this week, as we take a look at what was essentially the go-home show for Bash at the Beach 2000. We’ve got assorted highlights from Nitro and Thunder, along with three matches taped especially for the Worldwide broadcast

You can view the full card by clicking below;

WCW Worldwide Card

Happy Bashing Friday Everyone!

I’ve managed to get to this one before WWE Network goes into the quiet night here in the UK, so let’s continue our journey into 1995 WCW with Great American Bash! (Future Mike; I ended up reviewing all of the 1995 WCW pay per view’s in December 2024 before the Network went away, so you can look forward to them. I sadly missed out the August COTC though because I forgot it was a thing and by then it was too late to go back and do it).

Our Main Event sees Randy Savage looking to get revenge on Ric Flair for the events of Slamboree. We’ve also got Arn Anderson defending the TV Title against The Renegade and the Finals of a WCW US Title tournament.

You can view the full card by clicking below;

WCW The Great American Bash 1995 Card

Happy Friday Everyone!

I’m writing this in the tail end of December 2024, meaning that this will probably be the end of my journey into 1995 WCW unless some sort of a miracle happens with the archives over on Netflix (Or the WCW Vault channel on YouTube uploads the full WCW pay per view archive). I’m almost sad that I couldn’t make it to the absolute disaster that was going to be Bash at the Beach, as I was probably going to have a lot of fun burying that one in a shallow grave. As it is though; Slamboree 1995 is where our journey might be ending. (Spoiler; I managed to get the rest of the 1995 WCW pay per views done after cramming towards the end of December 2024)

We’ve got Ric Flair and Vader taking on Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage in the Main Event, with Sting getting another crack at Big Bubba in the Semi-Main.

Logan has reviewed this one as well, so go give his link a click (oh er Matron!)

You can view the full card for Slamboree by clicking below;

WCW Slamboree 1995 Card

Happy Colliding Friday Everyone!

WCW didn’t have a pay per view in April of 1995, but they did contribute some wrestlers to this show in Korea, which was one of the many examples of a dodgy government trying to use Pro Wrestling for the purposes of sports washing. Collision In Korea sees New Japan, WCW and All Japan Women wrestlers competing over two nights in giant stadium in North Korea, most of which was filled with “fans” who had been “gently persuaded” to be there.

You can get more info on this by checking out the Dark Side of the Ring episode that covers it, but it certainly didn’t sound like a fun time for the wrestlers that took part in it. Most of the Koreans didn’t want the wrestlers to be there, and the reception towards them ranged from hostility to indifference depending on what the wrestlers happened to be doing at the time. We’ll see a LOT of the latter when we actually get to reviewing the matches.

The Collision in Korea pay per view is a mash-up where they’ve taken a selection of matches from both nights and thrown them together for a two hour showing, complete with some nice juicy North Korean propaganda sprinkled in. You can view the full cards for both nights by clicking below;

Collison in Korea – Night One
Collison in Korea – Night Two

Featured Image comes from Wrestle Inn

Happy Friday Everyone!

I’ve only got three shows left when it comes to reviewing WCW shows from 1999, so let’s knock one of them off the list with Souled Out. If WWE Network is still a thing later in the year, or if the archives go to Netflix, then we’ll look at getting Fall Brawl and Mayhem done, as I’m always going to need topics for Stinker Reviews.

I don’t think Souled Out will fall into that category, as some of the matches on the card look promising and we’ve got Scott Hall working with Goldberg in the Main Event, so hopefully Razor will have his working boots on and will be able to get something out of “Da Man”

You can view the card for Souled Out by clicking below;

WCW Souled Out 1999 Card

Pics come courtesy of IMDB

Happy Clashin Friday Everyone!

We’re picking up where we left off in our WCW journey, with a review of Clash #30. This one has two very famous moments on it, one during the Main Event and another one after it.

You can view the full card for Clash #30 by clicking below;

WCW Clash of the Champions #30 Card

Happy Clashin’ Friday Everyone!

I’ve already reviewed Starrcade 1993, so we don’t have a 1993 WCW to show review this time out (this is an unlucky day after all), hence why we’re watching Clash of the Champions #9 instead. I’ve chosen Clash #9 to review this week as I’ve never seen it all the way through and who knows what’s going to happen with the archives when WWE moves over to Netflix, so let’s get Clash #9 watched whilst I still can.

The big match is Terry Funk and Ric Flair battling in an I Quit match, but we’ve also got The Midnight Express and The Dynamic Dudes going at it as well, so there should be plenty to look forward to!

You can view the full card for Clash #9 by clicking below;

NWA Clash of the Champions #9 Card

Happy Clashin’ Friday Everyone!

We’re back with another 1994 WCW review, as this time we’re looking at Clash of the Champions #29. Back at Halloween Havoc, Hulk Hogan finally won his feud with Ric Flair, but then a new one started when Kevin Sullivan, The Avalanche and Brother Bruti left him laying. So tonight on The Clash, that feud will continue

You can view the card for Clash #29 by clicking below

WCW Clash Of The Champions #29 Card

All the pics used here were from a review by Benjamin Trecroci

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We continue our journey into 1993 WCW today, with Clash of the Champions #25. We’ve got Vader Vs Ric Flair in the Main Event, as well as The Hollywood Blondes EXPLODING.

You can view the card for Clash #25 below

WCW Clash of the Champions #25 Card

Pics are from a review by Benjamin Trecroci on the Ring The Damn Bell website

Happy Spooky Saturday Everyone!

We’re continuing our journey into 1994 WCW today with Halloween Havoc. When we last left things back at Fall Brawl, Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan had agreed to another match for the World Title, whilst Steve Austin had both won and lost the US Title in quick succession. Let’s see where WCW takes things next at Halloween Havoc.

You can view the card for Halloween Havoc by clicking below;

WCW Halloween Havoc 1994 Card

Happy Spooky Saturday Everyone!

We’re heading back to WCW 1993 today, following on from the below average Fall Brawl 1993, as we head into spook season with Halloween Havoc 1993!

Pics courtesy of WCW Worldwide

The big match here features Cactus Jack finally getting a shot at revenge against Vader, after the monster sent him to Cleveland earlier in the year. Elsewhere we’ve got Rick Rude and Ric Flair going at it as The Richard Powers Explode, along with Sting trying to fend off the challenge of Sid Vicious.

You can view the full card for Halloween Havoc 1993 below;

WCW Halloween Havoc 1993 Card

Happy Saturday Everyone!

Seeing as it’s been 26 years to the day since this episode of Nitro aired, I thought I’d review it, seeing as it has one of my favourite ever WCW moments with Ric Flair returning to Nitro after a long absence

You can check the full card for this Nitro below;

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=1672&page=2