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[1995-11-06-WCW-Nitro] WCW World Title announcement


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  • 2 months later...

The Giant is out with Jimmy Hart and Kevin Sullivan with the WCW title. Jimmy Hart, who signed the contract for Havoc on Hogan's behalf, revealed that there was a clause that Hogan would lose the title if he was DQd, and Hart got him intentionally DQd, so therefore, Giant is champ. Give Jimmy Hart something to talk about -- no matter how convoluted -- and he shows just how underutilized he was for so many years.

 

Nick Lambrose interrupts to say that Giant is not the champ. Nick Bockwinkel and the Board of Directors (Why not the Championship Committee since this is a championship matter?) release a statement declaring the belt vacant, with a new champion to be crowned at World War 3. Then Gene Okerlund says "You heard that statement from the Championship Committee" ... I give up.

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Oh my God, the old Jimmy Hart is almost back! "While Hogan was makin' all those B-grade movies that wound up in a video store before they wound up on a silver screen..." Awesome. Hart, having power of attorney over Hogan's contract, inserted a waiver for the DQ rule into the Halloween Havoc contract. Okerlund brings out a member of WCW legal (and stunningly, does not refer to Lambrose as a "longtime personal friend").

 

Oh my God, Lambrose has the most hilarious voice of all-time. He sounds like someone doing a close but slightly overexaggerated impersonation of Kermit the Frog. Due to the "dubious nature" of the disqualification, the title has been held up to be determined at World War 3. Hart throws a fit. Okerlund: "Why don't you take this contract to the men's room? It won't do you any more good than that." This storyline doesn't make total sense and is a pretty shallow recreation of the Tuesday in Texas/Royal Rumble deal.

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Jimmy Hart was certainly a wasted commodity in WCW and I think even in WWF too, but I am not as familiar with WWF TV in the 80s. He was really good in this segment. Holy shit, I thought the lawyer sounded like Kermit too! Definitely a recreation of Hogan/Taker with Hogan/Giant. It would have been funny if Flair won the title at WWIII too.

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Glad others noticed the distinctly Kermit-esque voice of the WCW exec.

 

I never noticed before just how slavishly this storyline follows the 'Mania IV storyline. Giant (Andre or otherwise) wins the title from longtime holder Hulk Hogan in a screwjob scenario. The title ends up vacant, then Randy Savage wins it in a big tournament style match where Hogan is never technically defeated. It's almost shot for shot at times.

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