WCW Monday Nitro, Salt Lake City, UT
A request for some reason! (Yes, he is Magnum Tokyo elsewhere. Yes, he was Tokyo Magnum in WCW.)
This is a really quick, simple match where we’ve got student vs teacher, which Mike Tenay tries to dig into about about, oh, 30 seconds or so, and then the rest of the time Tony Schiavone rambles nearly incoherently about a mess of situations involving nWo Hollywood, Scott Hall, Eric Bischoff, Kevin Nash, Sting, Bret Hart, and Diamond Dallas Page for the next two minutes.
You’ve got all the highlights:
- Dragon outfoxing Magnum early!
- Dragon kicking a dancing Magnum in the back of the head during a corner headstand!
- Dragon with his combo kicks!
- Magnum getting in A Move with a Frankensteiner from the second rope!
- Dragon hits a brainbuster!
- Dragon finishes with the Dragon Sleeper!
The one notable thing is that this was the final match Ultimo Dragon would work for just over four years. He came into this with an injury, you can see him trying to shake out his arm during his entrance and after a clothesline he hits to start the match. What should have been a routine surgery was fucked up and made it all worse, causing nerve damage. Eventually, he would return, and even get the run in WWE he wanted, complete with an appearance at WrestleMania XX where he tripped during his entrance. For reference, his absence from the ring was nearly the exact same length during the exact same time that Shawn Michaels didn’t wrestle.
Other than that this is a standard two-minute nothing Nitro ’98 match where a couple cruiserweights get to go kill a small bit of time.
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