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Don't think Chastity got near to being back into WCW after Time Warner found out about that hardcore porno she did.

For all the wrestling mentioned in this thread, this is the only thing mentioned I don't own a copy of, that I wish I had. She gave a great performance, as it were. IIRC it was called "Live Bait".
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Strangely enough, I just started re-watching WCW from the Bash At The Beach 96 last night! Going to work through the PPV's & Nitro's during the holidays. Some of it is really shit, but a lot of it is brilliant.

 

Bash at the Beach 96 was the first ppv in which I saw Lucha Libre style. The Mysterio vs Psychosis match blew me away. The Splash Mountain finish was just unreal to a young me. Phenomenal stuff.

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Strangely enough, I just started re-watching WCW from the Bash At The Beach 96 last night! Going to work through the PPV's & Nitro's during the holidays. Some of it is really shit, but a lot of it is brilliant.

Bash at the Beach 96 was the first ppv in which I saw Lucha Libre style. The Mysterio vs Psychosis match blew me away. The Splash Mountain finish was just unreal to a young me. Phenomenal stuff.

Yeah, that was a superb match. It was followed by a real classic between Dean Malenko and Mysterio the following night on Nitro, which saw the title change hands surprisingly. I remember at the time thinking that Mysterio would surely come close but not actually get the win.

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Since "OOOLD SCHOOOOL" is locked in Gold, I'll bump this one to post what I've been up to tonight.

 

I'm watching the "start of a new era" episode of Nitro from April 2000.

 

Fuck me, in parts it's terrible.

 

In the opening segment Jarrett and Russo spend a ludicrous amount of time talking about the WWF and their performers (each Radical by name), and the shoot stuff is a nonsense, why they thought the comings and goings in the office for real needed talking about in the show is beyond me. Brian Knobs stood in the ring as Russo and Bischoff refer to "New Blood" is utterly hilarious, and what makes it stupider still is the title belt draped over him so he could be confused with a somebody. Nearly as laughable as some of the guys you might call stars having to stand next to Van Hammer. Madden is insufferable shrieking "Everything he's saying is true! EVERYTHING!!" as Bischoff spins half-truths about Luger and Sting and overreacting to every "shoot" comment. He makes Scott Hudson sound like a good commentator. The silver lining of me having to watch this terrible segment is that I'm reminded that fewer women ever fired my engine like Kim Page - I remember 96-97 being her peak but even here she's hotter than the fires of hell.

Back from break, and the four-man tournament is clumsily described to us by Big Tone as being announced during the break. You fucking kidding me? The future of the World title should really be announced properly, shouldn't it?? DDP and Luger start the tournament and both get their entrances truncated, presumably at the command of Russo and Bischoff, which is a nice touch. Buff Bagwell coming out during the match and managing to distract both at different points would make little sense most of the time but actually in the context of this storyline, fucking with both members of the as-yet-unnamed Millionaires Club makes perfect sense. What makes far less sense is the Kidman/Hogan segment. Kidman sounds like a loser whining about Hogan then gets beaten up like one, so fuck knows what they thought it was going to achieve. Hogan calling Billy "p-whipped" on a show where several performers have already cursed is just bizarre, and Bischoff swerve-turning on Hogan being described as "one of the most shocking moments in (Nitro history)" by Schiavone is retarded given that Bischoff had made his feelings towards Hogan perfectly clear at the start of the show.

"I know there's no way in hell I could ever bring you up to my level, physically OR mentally" is an amazing line out of Scott Steiner in his promo on Flair. Unfortunately while Steiner distracts Flair, the Nature Boy is attacked by Shane "he doesn't even work here" Douglas, which Scott Hudson mistakes for a reason to mention Benoit AGAIN. Douglas' promo afterwards is impassioned though, I'll give him that. It's a shame they switched focus so quickly to Flair v Douglas, as they were in real danger of making their viewers want to see Flair fight Steiner. Up next is Sting vs Sid and both guys get full intros (Sid gets loads of pyro) which pisses on the nice touch of music being cut off earlier for Page and Flexy Lexy.

Jeff Jarrett needing (botched) help from Shawn Stasiak to beat Curt Hennig at this point in Hennig's career is not exactly an auspicious start to a run where they're trying to make Jarrett into a main event and Hudson going nuts about Stasiak previously being Meat in the WWF just makes WCW look so small time - why are we supposed to give a shit about that? It's like Days Of TNA Past. Nash comes out and mentions Shawn Michaels, then suggests Hall and him had anything to do with Bischoff no longer working for Verne, which is so nonsensical I might cry. "We're shooting here!" says Tony. Mike Awesome attacks Nash and if there was any chance that being ECW World Champion gave you a little "cool" factor, Awesome's bum bag negates that entirely.

By the time Sting vs DDP happens, you're getting sick of run-ins - in this case it's Vampiro - but at least the battle lines are being drawn and who in The New Blood is coming after who in the Millionaires Club is spelled out. If they'd held out on some consistency and had a little patience, maybe it would have made watchable telly, but being WCW, swerves for the sake of swerves were always just too tempting. Watching Kim Page get accidentally tonked by Double Js guitar, I can't help but think how daft it is that she decided to go with the New Blood six days earlier. That's just stupid. The pull-apart go home angle reminds me that out of the three guys they were destined to truly make into new main eventers in 2000. the most viable, Booker T, who was neither already tarred with "midcarder for live" (Jarrett) or physically on borrowed time (Steiner), did fuck all of note and didn't even have to change out of his suit between the first segment and the last. They even manage to ruin the actually-gratifying sight of Russo and Bischoff looking like smug pricks on the ramp by having Bret stroll out to tease we'll-never-know-exactly-what.

Still, as has often been said, it's a strangely compelling show, like that pile-up you have to keep watching just to see how bad it gets. But I think I'll tap out before Spring Stampede where the "New Blood" swells to include Crush. Ahmed and the ghost of Sunny. Even though Kim playing heel might persuade my libido to reach for the remote again before bedtime.

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Don't think Chastity got near to being back into WCW after Time Warner found out about that hardcore porno she did. To be fair, she made it whilst she was in ECW.ADDED: I'd have to add the time the Yeti exploded out of an iceberg(?) at the Nitro entrance way. Wasn't the guy doing that bit Giant Gonzalez in his one and only appearance? At Halloween Havoc 1995, Yeti was Ron Reis.

It was an attempt to be clever - they were bringing Gonzalez back with that awful costume, and so were going to call him the Yeti. But he had visa issues and couldnt get to Nitro on time. So they wrapped Ron Reis in bog roll thinking they can unwrap him at Havoc and itll be Gonzalez. Except the visa issue never got sorted, so they were stuck with this fucking mummy.

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Yeah that is a fucker to find on the net

I started looking ages ago when i saw Ian mention he saw it on the end of One of his tapes

Still no luck

I have a copy of it - it's awful. Bad, bad porn! If I can figure out how to copy it then I'll run a few off

Google live bait chastity and click on video, takes you straight to it.

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On the Nitro after Souled Out 1998 and it's outstanding how the popularity of some wrestlers died in the previous months. Sting has been killed dead, Giant, Luger and DDP went from being red hot over to just being there. Benoit's hot run has dwindled and him, Guerrero, and Malenko are stagnating. Where did Hennig vanish to? Also Hart came in looking knackered and has no aura to him like the other WWF lot. He doesn't belong there and it shows.

Larry Zybysko is the most over face on the show.

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