WCW Monday Nitro Season 1, Episode 11: T-R-O-U-B-L-E 13/11/1995 by AverageMansReviews

WCW Monday Nitro Season 1, Episode 11: T-R-O-U-B-L-E 13/11/1995 by AverageMansReviews

Warning/Disclaimers: flashing effects/colourful effects/fire/seizure. Disclaimers: anything I say about this individual is purely based on wrestling and nothing else I think we were having sound problems at one point with the commentary which is easy to pick up on, but also consistently with the ring announcer, I mean I have like bats hearing, yet I could hear anything comfortably, so apologies if I have got any of these stipulations wrong, I shouldn’t have but sometimes it is just better to be safe than sorry.

Commentary Award goes to: Eric Bischoff for questioning his commentary partner Bobby "The Brain"/"Weasel" Heenan, about his business dealings with the incoming Asian contingent or/and makes reference to it again and later on I am paraphrasing here breaking the news that Hulk Hogan vs. the WCW United States Champion Sting is lined up for next week

Wrestling Award goes to: Kensuke Sasak vs. The Four Horsemen's "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit; Singles Match. Straight off the bat I know, I know this is a short match/slot but what we see get is hard-hitting wrestling, Eddie Guerrero vs. the WCW World Heavyweight Champion Johnny B. Badd: Singles Match for the WCW World Television Championship; now and again it isn't the most smoothest of matches, but still worthy of receiving this award or/and amongst these other matches as well. "The Iceman" Dean Malenko vs. the WCW United States Champion Sting; Singles Match yes it wasn't referenced on commentary that this championship was on the line here, but it will be up for grabs in a few days time against Kensuke Sasaki. But back to here and now those from the old school generations of wrestling fans knows precisely what Malenko can bring to the table and this match/match slot is an excellent example, so for the younger generations if you think that a shorter wrestler can't be seen as a major threat just take a look at this match/match slot, it should be noted the only thing I hate about this main event match is the fact that we have to take an advertising break [advertising W CW World War 3, 26/11/1995,] but I'm not going to hold that against this main event, because there is out of their control to be fair; I am talking about the wrestlers themselves, I know we get a little replay when we come back but still it is so irritating.

Promo Award goes to: "Mean"Gene Okerlund interviews the WCW United States Champion Sting where in short he accepts Hogan's challenge.

Thumbs Down Award goes to: this is one of those occasions where you have to ask okay the promo itself was okay, it got over what Hogan had in mind and had to say on this ongoing situation. But at the same time, the viewers can't take what he is saying seriously, because of this whole idea that someone came up with. Of it basically being situated in mediaeval times this segment begins with us looking at this symbol and hearing Hogan growl, he is holding a sword point down to begin with, yes he has a sword, no seriously he has a sword. With this black getup which he has been wearing some of it for some time now but now including hood and cape, a leather mask over his eyes and nose, with these bits of make-up on his face of these little lines. Let me put a little bit more context here for those people that watch NXT does anyone remember Scrypts' debut 22/11/2022 that is the kind of level I am talking about with this segment, where someone had the bright idea and it may have looked okay on paper but in reality not so much.

Later on

"Mean"Gene Okerlund interviews The Dungeon of Doom's The Giant [with “The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan] vs. the WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan [with "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart] in the middle of the ring basically building on to WCW pay-per-view World War 3, 26/11/1995 and in a nutshell we have yet again “The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan faking a seizure with Sullivan and Hart or just Sullivan performing this; not comical gesture to Hogan's ear gesture that he usually does to the crowd, then Sullivan goes back to having a seizure..

This episode receives: 7/10, this episode is good; this is one of those occasions where I struggled to award anything higher, yes generally speaking the wrestling is at worst something that gets us from point A to point B in the grand scheme of things or as you can see it receives awards. But the promos segments in one way or another are damaging to this episode.