WCW Monday Nitro, Charlotte, NC
This is a random match thrown onto a Nitro a couple weeks before WCW’s biggest show ever and the beginning of its miserable choking death which lasted a little over three years.
Parka and Psicosis are out first. I refuse — and have refused my entire life — to ever spell it “Psychosis.” I don’t know why I’m so picky about this one specific thing, I just am. I adjusted over time and spelled Misterio with a Y, but I refuse with Psicosis.
Rey and Juvi still have their masks and this is a very rare instance of them teaming together. La Parka is in his usual gear but it’s yellow accents instead of white, and he has his chair, because he is The Chairman of WCW.
Juvi and Psicosis start, Juvi flying off with a top rope rana, then a frankensteiner at center ring. Parka gets a boot up on Juvi hitting the ropes, and Psicosis hits a clothesline to put Juvi down. Psicosis with a drop toehold after a tag to Parka, who straight up punts Guerrera in the face.
Parka picks Juvi up, drapes him over the middle rope, and Psicosis flies in with a guillotine legdrop! Parka hits a belly-to-belly for two. Parka whips Juvi to the corner, kicks him in the gut, and then power bombs the shit out of him for another two count.
Rey trying to rally the crowd on the apron. This is Charlotte and Rey would like to be Robert Gibson and I am fine with it, brother. Psicosis tags in, Parka holds Juvi, and then Juvi moves and Psicosis hits Parka with a missile dropkick. Juvi rolls Psicosis up for two before Parka kicks him in the head to break the count.
Juvi goes for the tag but Psicosis knocks Mysterio off the apron. Juvi whipped into a boot from Parka. Juvi off the ropes, Psicosis hits him with a dropkick and taunts Rey, who stupidly tries to come into the ring.
Parka comes back in and misses a charge in the corner, where Juvi doesn’t make the tag for reasons. Psicosis charges Juvi and gets crushed with a Juvi Driver, and Guerrera finally tags Mysterio, who the crowd might actually care slightly about.
Mysterio hits a facebuster on Parka. They try to double team Rey, but Juventud flies in from the apron to be caught, and Mysterio knocks everyone down with a springboard attack. Rey and Juvi get whipped into one another, then Rey’s on the apron behind Juvi. Rey hits Psicosis, Parka misses an elbowdrop, and Rey flies in from the apron to hit both of them.
Spin kick/dropkick combo sends Psicosis and Parka out to the floor. Mysterio and Guerrera somersault out to the floor onto Parka and Psicosis! Crowd coming alive a bit now. That was one of the beauties of this time period — even a skeptical crowd could be won over by a match like this, and very few people in the audience thought they were a part of the show simply by having a seat in the arena.
Back in the ring, Juvi springboards off of Rey and hits Psicosis with a leg lariat in the corner. Two count. Mysterio moonsaults in to hit Parka, but lands on his feet after Parka steps back. Parka accidentally dropkicks Psicosis out of the ring, then Juvi puts big Parka up top.
Juvi catapults Rey up for a frankensteiner from the top, but Psicosis pulls Rey out of the ring on the pin attempt. Juvi and Parka in the ring. Parka and Psicosis double team Juvi, but Rey trips Parka from the floor.
Psicosis and Juvi go up top, all the way, and Psicosis goes for a top rope Michinoku Driver or something, but Guerrera turns it in mid-air! Parka makes the save on the pin, but gets caught dancing by a Rey dropkick.
Psicosis going after Juvi, but Rey catches Psicosis on his shoulders. Parka takes Juvi down on the top rope, and Mysterio slams Psicosis out of the electric chair. Parka caught dancing again, then Mysterio dives out to the floor with a frankensteiner on Parka! Juvi with a 450 on Psicosis, three count! Juventud is VERY EXCITED as usual. He’s an excitable boy.
Rating: 3.5/5. Really really fun TV match where everyone busts out their nice stuff in six-and-a-half minutes of bell-to-bell where they were basically just thrown onto Nitro cold in front of a crowd that initially didn’t much care. It didn’t wind up revolutionizing tag team wrestling in the United States or anything but it is a very good time and the kind of unexpected stuff you used to get on a Monday night before Vince McMahon won the war and fell asleep at the wheel 17 years ago, leading us to thrilling Twitter discussions in 2018 about how hard it is to write a three-hour TV show every week so nobody should criticize the endless Bálor-Lashley thrill fests.
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