The Sixer: WCW Saturday Night, December 1994
Another day, another Sixer! I’m not telling you this will be the forever pace, because it really just can’t be, but when I’ve got that wrestling itch I like to scratch on it, so we’re here again today.
Today’s idea: Six matches from WCW Saturday Night, 30 years ago this month in December of nineteen-hundred and ninety-four. Some of you were not alive. I was! Because I am getting up there. But just like the John Anderson song “Years,” which was wonderfully covered by Sierra Ferrell, you know, time just keeps on going by and shit. I think that’s the point.
In this batch:
Johnny B. Badd vs Beautiful Bobby (Eaton) for the WCW Television title!
Harlem Heat take on the team of The Fantastics, whom you might remember from “the 1980s” and are now also-ran nobodies from the time of the fuckin’ dinosaurs!
Bunkhouse Buck vs Brian Armstrong!
Hacksaw Jim Duggan defends the United States title against Vader!
Jean-Paul Levesque takes on another Armstrong, Scott, whom he would later employ as a referee in WWE!
Blacktop Bully makes his in-ring debut!
In short, this is one for the weirdos and freaks, the real perverts who are lovely enough to give me money so I can talk about any old crap on here! And I love you all.
Johnny B. Badd vs Beautiful Bobby
WCW Saturday Night
December 3, 1994
All the matches were taped at Center Stage in Atlanta. Hulk Hogan had come to WCW earlier in the year and pretty much ruined everything within a couple months or so, but we won’t be talking about that dumb bastard any further than this. Maybe. Probably not; I mean there’s a Duggan match, but I purposely picked around, like, Avalanche and Honky Tonk Man and other Hogan hires. (In part just because none of their jobber matches looked interesting enough to watch.)
Eaton is a former TV champ, having briefly held the belt in ‘91 to pass it from Arn Anderson to Steve Austin and little to nothing more — ugh, Eric Bischoff is on commentary, God fuck it all. He’s kind of faded into the background of the company over the couple of years prior to this, no longer really a player no matter what Bobby-Brain Heenan tells you.