WCW Halloween Havoc 1992

 It's time for the Sting-Roberts SPIN THE WHEEL, MAKE THE DEAL match. We get some awful CG and STING HOWLING AT THE MOON. Bruno and Tony run down the possible stips for Spin the Wheel while we see Barbarian, THE WORLD TITLE CHALLENGER, taking bumps from guys in a ring with Cactus Jack training him. In kayfabe, WHY IS BARBARIAN NOT KILLING THESE GUYS!? Tony says he's training this way to prepare for the powerslam. Yeah sure. Missy is in a hot gold outfit while Jesse is in a fully body skull costume. Jesse gets all shouty talking about the wheel stips. 

The opener has Johnny Gunn, Zenk, and Shane Douglas teaming up to face Hayes, Eaton, and Arn. I like the match getting a graphic beforehand. Shane's dressed in a ridiculous white cutout jacket that he'd later use in ECW in a black and yellow motif. We get some nothing happening babyface action and Johnny pins Hayes with a shitty looking Thesz Press. Missy chats with Harley and he won't let her in to talk to Barb. Tony and Bruno chat before Brian comes out to face Steamboat, in some stunning red gear. 

Nice back and forth wrestling before Steamboat gets faceplanted and Pillman just chokes him on the mat. They exchange chops and Pillman loses after a crossbody into a pair of cradle reversals. Teddy Long is with Chono, Sakaguchi, Sasaki, and Hiro Matsuda. Kensuke will be his official and a ruling has been made about the US Title that Rude holds. Watts says Gordy is suspended permanently and he told Doc to pick a world-class partner and he picked Austin. Watts says that Rude has a surrogate to defend the US Title tonight and he's picked Vader to face Koloff tonight.

Nikita's out and A CLEAN-SHAVEN RUDE is with Vader and puts the belt on his shoulder. Vader beats the fuck out of him for a while before Nikita fires up and gets a crossbody to the back! He also slugs him on the floor Vader eats a corner punch barrage and a trio of tackles before a flying shoulderblock sends him down for 2. Nikita misses a charge on the floor and eats the post before a vertical bodyblock and a rough powerbomb ends Nikita's career. 

Barry and Dustin are backstage with the double gold. We get a lot of quick back and forth with Doc and Dustin before Dustin and Barry go at it. Barry is so smooth and Steve is lightning-fast here. Austin gets Dustin up for the Body backbreaker and they just fire back and forth. These two had amazing chemistry together. Dustin gets a lariat and they go back and forth before the time limit expires. Well, that's one way to have Doc not lose and keep the belts on Barry and Dustin.

Paul E says that he's the reason Rude succeeded and brags while Vader has the US Title on his shoulder. Madusa thanks everyone BUT HEYMAN and HE IS A MAN and Vader and Harley just step back and let him eat shit. He says SHE'S FIRED and shoves her hard and she kicks him! Sting comes out to SPIN THE WHEEL! It's the coal miner's glove match! NWA Title time with a clean-shaven Rude insulting the flabby, out of shape inner city sweathogs to shut up and Madusa's still with Rude. Chono gets the same generic Japanese music everyone got for a billion years. 

Speaking of a billion years, this match is just dreadful with long rest holds aplenty. Rude takes a bump off a leg pull on the ropes to create some motion before MORE RESTHOLDS! Chono goes for the STF and Rude blocks by putting his hands behind his head. Rude gets a horrible back bump dropkick, which looks like shit and barely hits. Chono mafia kicks Race when the latter got in the way when Rude ducked. Chono throws Rude over the top into Sasaki and causes Race to hit the barricade. Chono gets the STF and Sasaki makes the call before Race calls bullshit and eats a slam and then Sasaki dropkicks Rude! 

We get more training with Barb and Jack, now with Jack breaking cinder blocks on his back with a hammer. Barb is out and Ron is out with his hot sax theme doing a train with Teddy and Jesse talks about how many new friends Ron's gotten as champ. We get some nice brawling before Barb misses the ropewalk elbow. Barb gets a lariat, but the powerslam ends it. ERIK WATTS puts over Ron Simmons because hey, the Watts family isn't racist guys! Bruno puts over Ron as a great champion for the modern era and THAT does more to give Ron credibility than anything else and to be fair, they put Barb over hard before the match, in the match, after the match and here by saying he's tough and worthy of another shot down the road. 

Roberts is out to what would become Austin's theme in grey gear that makes him look even paler. We get a walk and brawl before they just do stuff for a bit and Jake eats the pole. Jake gets the snake glove and Sting gets the coal miner's glove and hits Jake in the back, causing "the snake to latch onto Jake!" via Jake holding him on his face. Jack takes Jake out of there and we get some closing comments from Bruno, Jesse, and Ross. Yowza what a not great show. Madusa's turn on Heyman was good though and there were flashes of greatness in the double tag title match.