Booker T slaps a bunch of hands. This feels like a house show more than a Thunder between this, Hennig's scrub music, and the number of visible empty seats.
My neighbor Billy Silverman is the official.
Hennig stalls. Do these guys think it's a house show?
First Human Game of Chess reference.
Mike Tenay says Stevie Ray has offered Booker T a spot in the nWo Black & White, which sounds absurd but then I quickly remember he has joined less relevant stables.
Hennig looks a lot slimmer than he normally did during his WCW run but it's obvious he lost most of his spring.
We had two WCW World title changes on Nitro. Sting beat DDP then later that night, DDP won the title back in a four way with Sting, Goldberg, and Nash. That's considered one of the last great Nitros IIRC and I probably should have watched that instead.
Also two World Title changes in one night? Was Russo already secretly working for WCW?
Sign "It's My 25th Birthday". I spent my 25th birthday doing a bar crawl of old man dive bars. Whether or not that is better or worse than attending a '99 Thunder taping...
Long chin lock spot.
Oh I realized why this Thunder is so loaded. It's going against the pilot episode of Smackdown! on UPN. No better way to compete with WWF than with some house show level action!
Booker T hits the Ax Kick and is about to finish Curt Hennig when Stevie Ray runs in and hits Curt Hennig with the Slapjack. What the hell?
This match just made me wish we could've seen a younger Curt Hennig Vs Booker T. Booker was getting main event level reactions already. I'm not saying push him as a top guy earlier than the death throes would've saved WCW but it couldn't have hurt.
WCW Hotline plug.
They couldn't have put Schiavone on this show if they're competing with WWF? You know I'm a Mike Tenay apologist but him as a PBP guy in WCW is NG.
Goldberg Vs Meng! WCW World Heavyweight Champion DDP is here. Some say he's sneaky and question his alliance with Macho Man Randy Savage.
@BruiserBrody groan at long time rivalries being ignored.
Random Kevin Nash video package that just loops the "Don't turn your back on the Wolfpack." part of his theme. Crunkbird.