Nitro-Glycerin - Monday Nitro recap for August 5, 1996

Scott Norton, Big Bubba and The Faces of Fear (Meng and The Barbarian) show up to protect the WCW wrestlers. (In case of interference during matches, they allow matters to take their course as they are only here to keep Hall, Nash and Hulk Hogan out.) Also, the four empty chairs in the front row are seen again.

Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) retain the WCW World Tag Team Championships against The Rock 'n Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) after the distraction from both Sister Sherri and Col. Robert Parker.

"Mean" Gene Okerlund interviews The Nasty Boys (Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs). Knobbs says just because Hogan is a friend of theirs, they're getting a lot of flak, but he says that Hulk Hogan does what he wants to do and The Nasty Boys do want they want to do. Sting and Lex Luger show up wanting to see where they stand, and The Nasty Boys say they are standing where they've always stood: right here in Nastyville. Sags tells them it's none of their business, but Luger says they're making it their business tonight before he and Sting leave. Knobbs continues to stay neutral on behalf of the team, saying that they don't condone what Hogan did, but they don't see anything wrong with it either.

Malia Hosaka beats Madusa. During the match, a black limousine shows up in front of Disney-MGM Studios.

This Saturday on WCW Saturday Night as part of a two-hour pre-show before Hog Wild, live from Sturgis, South Dakota: John Tenta vs. Big Bubba! "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson vs. Hugh Morrus! A one-on-one interview with "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair!

"Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright beats "The Crippler" Chris Benoit by count-out thanks to the interference of Dean Malenko. During the match, Jimmy Hart tells Woman to drop what she's doing with Chris Benoit and Miss Elizabeth, saying Benoit will never win her a championship, and come with him to the back because there's somebody she's driving crazy back there: The Taskmaster. Suddenly, Dean Malenko shows up and tries to take Woman to the back, getting the attention of Chris Benoit, who fights him outside of the ring and takes the brawl to the back as he loses by count-out.

"Macho Man" Randy Savage beats "Lord" Steven Regal. Before the pyrotechnics signalling the start of the second hour, it is reported that Eric Bischoff and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan have not made it into the building. Sting and Lex Luger show up and sit in the empty chairs in the front row, and stand up briefly when Savage sends Regal into them. Sting and Lex Luger leave the arena after the match and head to the limousine, complete with camera crew, but only find a bouquet of flowers with a black ribbon with silver writing say "Condolences on the Death of WCW." "Mean" Gene Okerlund interviews Savage after the match, not knowing what to make of the fact that he takes on the winner of the World Heavyweight title match from Hog Wild to make up for the fact that he has been barred from the event. Savage believes The Giant will get a bigger piece of Hulk Hogan than Hogan will think, and if The Giant leaves a piece for him, he'll finish the job. Sting and Lex Luger show Okerlund and Savage the bouquet, and Savage says that this is their style: always cheap shots and never face-to-face. After Sting says that WCW is alive and well, Randy Savage kicks the bouquet into the stands.

The Booty Man beats "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair by disqualification after interference from "The Crippler" Chris Benoit and Steve "Mongo" McMichaels. Before the match, the rest of The Four Horsemen ("The Enforcer" Arn Anderson, Steve "Mongo" McMichael, "The Crippler" Chris Benoit) guard the entryway to protect "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair. During the next match, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan shows up and explains his actions from last week, and says he has shown up now because Big Bubba, Scott "Flash" Norton" and The Faces of Fear (Meng and The Barbarian) are providing security and is now looking for Eric Bischoff and assuming the worst has happened to him. Heenan then leaves again as Benoit and Mongo attack The Booty Man as Flair has him in the Figure Four Leg Lock. "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson joins in and attacks him with the steel chair before "Mean" Gene Okerlund interviews The Horsemen. Anderson says intense pain is a wonderful thing as one's life flashes before their eyes and the ones important to them become crystal clear as they learn the meaning of life. When he saw the rest of THe Four Horsemen in the ambulance, he realized they were a family brought together not by philosophy but by necessity, and says that when the New World Order is put into place, it signals the beginning of the end of time. WCW is the Horsemen's world, and it is where they live and breathe. If The Outsiders want to take a baseball to one of them, they should finish the job, and if they want to send one of theirs to the hospital, The Horsemen will send one from the New World Order to the morgue. "The Crippler" Chris Benoit says everyone saw a fury of hatred, anger and vengeance unleashed just when he was about to break down. Mongo tells The New World Order to get it together and watch their bags, as he can swing some metal himself. Ric Flair then attacks The Booty Man again to send a message to Hulk Hogan, then says if Hogan wants their attention, he's gotten it, and he crossed a line for attacking Anderson like he did.

We look back at the attack from The Outsiders (Hall and Nash) from last week.

The New World Order (Hall, Nash, Hulk Hogan) make another paid announcement where they make fun of Sting and Lex Luger as well as how they sneak-attacked Luger and attacked people in the back last week. Hulk says he will take the World title from The Giant and make it the nWo World Heavyweight Championship one day before his birthday. Scott Hall says "it's only business." They then focus from taking over to extermination. The tape is suddenly stopped thanks to Lex Luger and Sting being in the back. A man in the back tells Hall and Nash that master control was forced to stopped the tape, and Sting wonders if director Craig Leathers is part of the New World Order. Sting then says he has "pot pie and Mountain Dew in the trailer," a reference to Nash saying the same thing two weeks ago when he and Nash were escorted out of the master control room.

The Giant beats Sgt. Craig "Pitbull" Pittman. The Giant almost attacks "Pitbull" again after the match when Theodore Long gets in the ring and tells him to stop, but Long ends up getting choke slammed instead. "Mean" Gene Okerlund interviews Jimmy Hart and The Giant, and Hart tells Hulk Hogan that he was the only one who told him the truth, and as he speaks, the black limousine returns to Disney MGM Studios. Hart tells Hogan that The Giant will be ready for him. The Giant says he has sent a message to the world. He says is not here to be a nice guy or a role model, and that he is only here to be World champion. He has no sympathy for anybody who crosses his path, and tells Hogan his fifteen minutes are up. He dares Hogan to show up at Hog Wild if he has any guts, and he'll show them to him.

The Steiner Brothers show up to protect both the team of Sting and Lex Luger and The Nasty Boys (Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs) during the next match.

Sting and Lex Luger beats The Nasty Boys (Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs) after a Scorpion Deathlock to Sags and assistance from Rick Steiner outside of the ring.

"Mean" Gene Okerlund interviews Sting and Lex Luger. After some very young Sting fans pose for the crowd, Sting and Lex Luger ask about the limousine outside of the arena, and Sting asks if The Outsiders (Hall and Nash) will be inside the limo, and considers checking it out on the one chance that they are inside. Okerlund asks if this is a rib, and Sting says this is not a rib. Okerlund and a cameraman follow Sting and Lex Luger, as do the wrestlers who have been acting as security. When Sting looks inside, someone tosses a bag with a Turner logo on it at Sting. (After the show, Sting opens it up and finds a note from the New World Order with the following written on it: "Rey Was Right, There Are Four Guys...Or Are There Five? See Ya In Sturgis!" Sting and Luger are not impressed with the presentation of the note.)