WCW Monday Nitro Season 1, Episode 9: Halloween Havoc Hangover 30/10/1995 by AverageMansReviews

WCW Monday Nitro Season 1, Episode 9: Halloween Havoc Hangover 30/10/1995 by AverageMansReviews

Warning: flashing effects/colourful effects/fire/fake seizure

Commentary Award goes to: all of the commentary team working individually or/and together; they talk about last night's pay-per-view of WCW Halloween Havoc 95, including from the beginning until the end of this episode building up to this video package of what happened last night, including why the "Macho Man" Randy Savage isn't here tonight which and I mean this nicely is no big loss, because he got replaced by Eddie Guerrero which I will bring that up for sure, I know at some point Heenan does leave the commentary table and on top of that he says a blooper, where he gets confused between Meng and Sting, Bischoff promotes for next week and interactive week; where we can all make a match in one from the red locker room takes on someone from the locker room, but between Steve "Mongo" McMichael [with Pepe the Chihuahua,] Eric Bischoff and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Weasel" they really do keep this episode going, because without them this episode would have been so much worse.

Wrestling Award goes to: Eddie Guerrero vs. Sgt Craig "PitBull" Pittman; Singles Match; this is a good little match/match slot, but it is heading shoulders above any other wrestling on this program this week.

Promo Award goes to: in the middle of the ring Tony Schiavone: Interviewer recapping with last night's footage; The Horsemen's "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson & not a member Flyin' Brian vs. the WCW US Heavyweight Champion & "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair: Tag Team Match. Then he is joined by the newly reformed The Horsemen's "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson, Flyin' Brian & "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, where they inform us in a nutshell the WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Sting they are back as The Four Horsemen.

Thumbs Down Award goes to: Sabu vs. Disco Inferno: Singles Match. I know I have made reference to this or at least in the same ballpark as it relates to Sabu once before, but what was the point of bringing him in to this promotion and this is still nothing against him. I think every wrestling fan or wrestling person within the industry knows what you get with Sabu, he will give you everything including burning the house down whilst he is still having a wrestling match with somebody or anybody, this is just a terrible way to show him. We get to see the closing stages of last night's main event 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;] Singles Match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. We are in the middle of the ring with Tony Schiavone: Interviewer without giving too much away let's just say a selection of wrestlers that were involved in last night's main event and to be brutally honest yet fair as soon as warning seizure; The Dungeon of Doom's “The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan fakes this seizure as a joke I was done, no seriously, I don't care, I don't have time for this on any level

This episode receives: 3/10, this episode is poor; generally speaking the episodes before and after a pay-per-view are or should be easy winners, let's just keep in mind I said generally speaking. Because you have either angles build up for the pay-per-view or you have the aftermath of the pay-per-view in question. But this episode is garbage, I mean full disclosure I could have given another mark to this episode, but in hindsight it would have been too much of a stretch, what clinched it for me was the entire faking of a seizure. I can work with a simulation of neck breaking, because that is relatively easy to simulate without being too graphic. But with a seizure especially in this case it was used as a joke and it happened in the ring; it crossed that imaginary line for me, but let's leave this episode on the comical note I have just noticed that title of this episode is essentially being a hangover, well they weren't kidding after seeing this episode.