It's "Large and in Charge" month on 24/7, as they spotlight big guys all month long. Included is SuperBrawl V with Vader and Brock Lesnar's "Here Comes the Pain" feature (which...coincidentally, shows up just a few weeks after Sports Illustrated ran a feature article on Lesnar's career from high school to UFC. Hmmmm).
Plus, a few "Shorties" with One Man Gang, Yokozuna and other tubs o' guts. Oh, and "Hall of Fame" with Gorilla Monsoon! It will be... a happening!
Finally, they've officially changed the name of "24/7" to "Classics On Demand". Which, aside from a goofy new logo, does nothing but make it harder for us to type about the thing.
Oh...I also wanted to bump that annoying/depressing "Statement by Test" topic off of the top.
Watched WCW SuperBrawl V, last night. From February 1995, headlined by Vader vs. Hogan.
Also featured Harlem Heat vs. Nasty Boys for the tag straps. Darn...but I'd forgotten how HOT Sherri was, back then. Mean Gene conducts an interview and the entire time he's staring down her dress.
The long-running "Monday Night Wars" series appears to have reverted to 1995 as they're starting over. Michael Cole recorded a brief intro saying how they're still doing RAW and Nitro, "but with a twist!". Another way of saying they're re-running their shows. The package then fires up with an old "WWE 24/7" Michael Cole piece recorded in 2005.
I'm okay with this for several reasons. First, the 1997 (and ensuing 1998) RAW and Nitro episodes were SO damn long. Nitro was routinely running 2.5-3 hours at the end of 1997.
Second, RAW switches to the scratchy "Attitude" logo on their turnbuckles in early 1998, which means we'd be subjected to 2 hours of blurred video. That would get annoying, quick. WWE 24/7 has run some matches under "shorties" in the past, and I always skip them as they're almost unwatchable.
Finally, WCW added "Thunder" in early 1998, which made it hard to follow Nitro. Thunder ran some pretty big angles and matches until mid-March 1998. For instance, JJ Dillon made Sting vacate the WCW Title on an episode of Thunder, not Nitro.
I may do a few Nitro recaps, here and there. The episode from Sept 11, 1995 is pretty fun. Sabu beats the crap out of Alex Wright and they slam Vader for leaving the company. Bobby Heenan is in the booth with Eric Bischoff and Steve McMichael. Heenan asks Bischoff, of McMichael: "how long is he going to be here with us?!"