Nitro-Glycerin - Monday Nitro recap for November 24, 1997

The New World Order are seen backstage heading to the ring. "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan holds up a sign from the crowd saying "Bischoff owns Vince" in the ring, and Eric Bischoff says that the nWo has business to take care of. Curt Hennig is congratulated for retaining the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, and Scott Hall is congratulated for winning the World War 3 match last night. Hogan says that Bischoff has proven he is the supreme power on the planet of wrestling, it's nice to be his main henchman, and he now has total control with the nWo, with Scott Hall dominating World War 3 raising the bar. He says he has the deck stacked in his favor. Since he's in a good mood, Hogan then challenges anyone in the building and puts the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on the line. All of a sudden, The Giant shows up with WCW Executive Committee head J.J. Dillon, answering Hogan's challenge. Hogan says he'll beat The Giant until he is well done. J.J. Dillon says that The Giant is not medically cleared and cannot let him wrestle, but The Giant insists on wrestling Hogan for the belt, which still has his nameplate on it. J.J. Dillon says that if he is willing to indemnify WCW and not hold them responsible if he gets injured again and sign the paperwork stating just that, he'll let him wrestle. The Giant tells Hogan he'll see him later tonight.

The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner) retain the WCW World Tag Team Championships against the debuting Disorderly Conduct (Tough Tom and Mean Mike). Raven's Flock (Raven, Perry Saturn, Billy Kidman, Sick Boy, Van Hammer, an unknown member) are seen sitting in the front row.

This Saturday on WCW Saturday Night: Dean Malenko! Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray)! Rey Mysterio Jr.! Diamond Dallas Page!

We see a performance by The Nitro Girls.

Chris Jericho is seen answering questions in an interview for WCWWrestling.com backstage.

Booker T beats Meng with a roll-up. Meng attacks Booker T after the match and puts him in the Tongan Death Grip after the match, and even after Stevie Ray hits Meng in the back of the head with a wooden chair, he still has the hold on Booker T. Nevertheless, Meng is angered, and The Barbarian shows up to attack Stevie Ray from behind. Meng lets go of Booker T and puts Stevie Ray in the Tongan Death Grip, and keeps it locked in into the break.

"Mean" Gene Okerlund interviews head of the WCW Executive Committee J.J. Dillon. It doesn't take long for the two of them to find Raven in the front row. All of a sudden, Scotty Riggs shows up and jumps the guardrail, and it is noticed that he is dressed very similarly to Raven as he sits down in the front row, signifying that Riggs is the newest member of Raven's Flock. Dillon says that a courier has hand-delivered him a contract signed by Raven to his offices at the CNN Center with a lot of initials and dates on it. Raven says he has signed the contract, but he will not conform to his rules. He put certain stipulation in the contract allowing him to sit where he wants, wrestle who, where and how he wants, and be paid whatever he wants. Dillon is not thrilled with the stipulations, but regards Raven as under contract to WCW. He also wants an explanation for Riggs' actions just earlier, but doesn't get much of one and Okerlund says that the inmates may be running the asylum.

Before the next match, Raven is announced to face "The Crippler" Chris Benoit, but Raven sends out Sick Boy as his representative instead.

"The Crippler" Chris Benoit beats Sick Boy with the Crippler Crossface after the rest of Raven's Flock (Raven, Perry Saturn, Billy Kidman, Scotty Riggs, Van Hammer, an unknown member) tries to interfere. After the match, the numbers game finally catches up to Benoit.

An announcement paid for the nWo mocks "The Living Legend" Larry Zbyszko in typical nWo fashion. After the announcement is over, Zbyszko gets in the ring and says the nWo wated a lot of money on that footage. He calls out Scott Hall, saying he wants his challenge answered so he can wipe his face on the mat like he did ten years ago. Instead of Scott Hall, leaflets drop from the roof of the arena, all of them featuring photos of Eric Bischoff with his leg in the victory position on Zbyszko's chest at Halloween Havoc. Zbyszo continues to call Scott Hall out, and says he will not leave the ring until he gets him. Bischoff shows up instead, and says Scott Hall made history by winning last night's World War 3 Match, saying it is current history and not Zbyszko's history as "we can't keep track of that." Bischoff says that Scott Hall is a busy man and is defending the tag titles with Kevin Nash all over the world (despite Hall and Nash not being the official tag team champions). He then says that Zbyszko has never been that good a wrestler, even by today's standards, and that he can't even beat him. Zbyszko dares Bischoff to enter Larry Land, but Bischoff says he's too ugly, too fat and way too slow, and that he doesn't want any of him. Bischoff then accepts the challenge, and Zbyszko dares Bischoff to get in the ring with him. Numerous security guards from both the arena and WCW hold both men back before they can go at it. Zbyszko says they have a verbal agreement and that he will have WCW Executive Committee head J.J. Dillon sign it so fast, but Bischoff tells Zbyszko "Bite me" as he leaves.

We see another performance by The Nitro Girls.

Pyrotechnics signal the start of the second hour.

Prince Iaukea beats Alex Wright after Debra McMichael gets hung up on the turnbuckle while standing on the ring apron. After the match, Alex Wright tells Debra she's fnally had it with her and fires her.

"Macho Man" Randy Savage beats Disco Inferno. Before the next match, it is announced that the replay of World War 3 will be on Thanksgiving night, and we see Raven's unknown Flock member carrying a sign saying "This is my spot" with an arrow below the message pointing at him. After the match, Savage hits Disco with a third top rope elbow drop, then punches out the referee and tosses him out when he tries to stop him from going for a fourth. Savage then spray paints "NWO" on Disco's chest before Miss Elizabeth puts her foot on top of Disco for a "three-count" and Savage hits Disco with a fourth top rop elbow drop.

WCW Nitro is now available on Sony PlayStation!

This week's winner of the Nitro Party Pack is Howard Finsky of Atlanta, Georgia. We see footage of Howard's Nitro party.

Dean Malenko beats Brad Armstrong with the Texas Cloverleaf.

"Mean" Gene Okerlund interviews Steve "Mongo" McMichael. Mongo commends Alex Wright for firing Debra McMichael, who suddenly shows up saying that she would do anything to be with him again. Mongo tells Debra to walk up the ramp and get the hell out, and says that if she wants to be somebody on her own, she's got it, and says she should get her own ego instead of hanging onto someone's back.

We see another performance by The Nitro Girls.

Buff Bagwell beats Chris Jericho.

Tay Traylor beats Curt Hennig by disqualification after the New World Order attacks Traylor. Curt Hennig retains the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship. Before the match, it is announced that a videocassette on the WCW career of the late Brian Pillman will be released soon, and the proceeds will go directly to Pillman's family. After the match, the nWo attacks Elizabeth, then spray paint "NWO' on his chest.

WCW vs. nWo: World Tour is now available for Nintendo 64!

The Giant beats "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan by disqualificatoin after a man in a Sting mask attacks The Giant's broken hand with a baseball bat. Once again, the man behind the mask is Kevin Nash. Shortly after the match, Eric Bischoff and Rick Rude show up kicking Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan off commentary for the rest of the night. After the match, The New World Order shows as Kevin Nash tears The Giant's cast open and twists his heel on it. As the nWo celebrates, the real Sting spins his way down from the raftersbut it's a dummy of Sting that lands through the ring. The nWo hit the head of the Sting dummy with the baseball bat, and Bischoff and Rude have a laugh about it.