Post by Leo on Aug 11, 2023 7:59:55 GMT -5
WCW Women’s Special on Tubi for 8.12.23
The Queen of the Ring Tournament
Live from the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana
Commentary: Gorilla Monsoon, Dutch Mantell and Molly Holly
Ring Announcer: Gary Michael Cappetta
Interviewer: SoCal Val
Referees: Tommy Young, Joey Marella and Aubrey Edwards
Shane McMahon opens in the ring laying out the tournament and putting over the WCW women’s division. He then brings out the mystery women for the first quarter finals match of the Queen of the Ring Tournament - Wendi Richter and Asuka.
Queen of the Ring Quarter Final
Wendi Richter vs. Asuka
Referee: Tommy Young
Winner: Wendi Richter by disqualification at 7:11 via Asuka spraying mist in her eyes.
Segment Notes
* McMahon thought the mystery opponent match was a great seller, but then you’re stuck on which woman goes over. The finish protects Asuka while giving Richter something to overcome as she goes forward.
COMMERCIAL
Queen of the Ring Quarterfinal
Taya Valkyrie with Maria Kannellis-Bennett vs. Natalya
Referee: Aubrey Edwards
Nattie has Taya in the sharpshooter. Maria tries to pull Valkyrie to the ropes, but Edwards sees it and stomps on Maria’s hands. Valkyrie powers up and makes the ropes herself. Natalya goes to pull Valkyrie up and is suckered into a small package. They go rolling around the ring and steamroll over Edwards. Maria nails Natalya in the back of the head with the hairspray can as she lies on the mat and Maria is on the floor. Valkyrie with a hangman’s neckbreaker and she finishes with a Road to Valhalla.
Winner: Taya Valkyrie by pinfall at 8:34.
COMMERCIAL
Shane McMahon, Hugh Hefner and the Nitro Girls are in the ring to unveil the Playboy cover for the WCW woman chosen for the layout. There’s a big tarped poster hanging over the ring. Hefner signals for it to drop and we see Kamille Kaine.
Kamille comes out and talks about how she knows that sexy, beautiful, strong, confident and athletic can all go together in one complete package and she is that package.
Kamille is interrupted by Toni Storm, who says that Kaine is right about everything except for one small detail. She’s the complete package, not Kamille. If she had signed to WCW just a few weeks before, she’d be on that magazine cover and everybody knows it.
McMahon orders Storm out of the ring, she turns to go, but then tackles Kaine and they fight on the mat. Hefner leaves the ring with the Nitro Girls. McMahon tries to separate them and Steve Blackman comes out to help.
Segment Notes
* Hugh Hefner wanted Charlotte Flair, but she said no. McMahon was like “we’ve got another tall, fit blonde, if that’s what you want.”
* Originally Roxanne Perez was going to be the one interrupting Kaine, but it was eventually decided Storm was the better match-up. At one point it was going to be Lady Frost, but McMahon is kind of done with her.
COMMERCIAL
Queen of the Ring Quarterfinal
Mickie James vs. Tessa Blanchard
Referee: Joey Marella
James gets a flapjack and kips up, but Blanchard kips up too and James drops and begs off. Tessa grabs James by the hair and throws her out of the corner. Running knee strike sets up a springboard bulldog. She goes for the Buzzsaw DDT, but James slips out, kicks Blanchard in the gut and gets a sitout facebuster. Jackknife cover gets a two count. Nick Aldis comes out dressed like Hugh Hefner with AC Jazz and Spice of the Nitro Girls. James rants and raves at them, allowing Blanchard to recover and win with a rollup from behind. James is livid and just screams insanely in the ring.
Winner: Tessa Blanchard by pinfall at 8:14.
Segment Notes
* This continues the gamesmanship of Aldis and James distracting each other in matches or getting someone else to do it.
COMMERCIAL
Queen of the Ring Quarterfinal
Ember Moon with Dr. of Style Slick vs. Rhea Ripley
Referee: Aubrey Edwards
Ripley backdrops out of a double arm suplex try. She gets a delayed vertical suplex. Moon comes up into a hesitation dropkick. She rolls to the floor and confers with Slick. Ripley with a baseball slide out. She roughs up Slick, but Moon gets a rolling elbow to the back of Ripley’s head. She rolls Ripley back into the ring and goes for the Eclipse. Rhea meets her up there, wins a slug fest and delivers a release full nelson slam followed by a diving headbutt for the victory.
Winner: Rhea Ripley by pinfall at 7:54.
COMMERCIAL
10 Women Battle Royal for the WCW U.S. Woman’s Title
Thunder Rosa © vs. Gigi Dolin vs. Nikkita Lyons vs. Medusa Micelli vs. Lady Frost vs. Kamille Kaine vs. Toni Storm vs. Tamina Snuka vs. Amber Nova vs. Roxanne Perez
All referees at ringside
Kaine jumps Storm as she walks down the aisle. They fight off and never enter the ring. Perez is making her debut. Dolin and Lyons toss Frost. Tamina Snuka with a double flying clothesline knocks out the All-Sister Squadron. Perez dumps Nova. Rosa eliminates Micelli. Snuka tries to align with Perez, but she Pearl Harbors Tamina and throws her out.
Perez and Rosa wrestle for a few minutes and wind up falling over the top rope to the apron. Perez goes for a flying head scissors, but Rosa blocks by grabbing the top rope. However, Perez pivots and tries to turn it into a Frankensteiner. Rosa fights it and they both tumble off the apron to the floor at the same time. Each gal claims they won. The referees review the instant replay. Tommy Young says Perez hit the ground first by about half a second and Rosa retains. Perez says she’s coming for the belt.
Winner: Thunder Rosa retains the WCW U.S. Women’s Title by last eliminating Roxanne Perez at 10:50.
Segment Notes
* Storm and Kaine were added to the list to get it to 10, but after the earlier segment creative didn’t want them in the bout. Hence, them brawling off early.
* Perez needed to debut strong, but they didn’t want to put the U.S. Title on her right out of the gate.
COMMERCIAL
SoCal Val is in the front row with “Exotic” Adrian Street, who will be debuting on the next Nitro. She asks him about the women he’s seen here tonight. “There’s definitely some talent, but no fashion sense. I wouldn’t be caught dead in most of these outfits, honey.”
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Queen of the Ring Semifinal
Wendi Richter vs. Taya Valkyrie with Maria Kannellis-Bennett
Referee: Tommy Young
Valkyrie with a fallaway slam and she distracts Tommy Young so Maria can smack on Richter from the floor while she lays on the canvas. This just wakes Richter up and she goes outside to stalk Maria. Valkyrie with a suicide dive into Wendi. Gorilla press slam on the outside and Taya is happy with the count out win, but Richter makes it to the apron at nine. Valkyrie grabs her hair and brings her back in over the top rope. Tornado DDT. Taya pulls Richter up from the cover, because she wants the Road to Valhalla, but Richter gets a body scissors as she goes up and gets a front roll into a cover for a two count. As they come up, Richter gets the True Colors DDT (sitout DDT) out of nowhere and gets the victory.
Winner: Wendi Richter by pinfall at 12:21.
COMMERCIAL
Queen of the Ring Semifinal
Tessa Blanchard vs. Rhea Ripley
Referee: Joey Marella
Blanchard with a Tequila Sunrise Facebuster and a split legged leg drop for a two count. She slings Ripley to the corner, but she reverses. Charge hits an outstretched leg and Blanchard goes for a second rope Thesz Press, but Ripley catches her for a belly to belly suplex. Bennett Bomb sets up a Northern Lights Suplex for a two count. Ripley goes for the Prism Trap, but Blanchard boots her out of it. Blanchard up to her feet with a rolling clothesline. Double arm suplex. She hits the Magnum for a two count. Tessa tries the Buzzsaw DDT, but Ripley blocks, gets a heel trip and goes for the Prism Trap again and locks it in. Blanchard tries to make the ropes, but is stuck in the middle of the ring and eventually taps out.
Winner: Rhea Ripley by submission at 12:34.
COMMERCIAL
UWA Women’s Universal Title Cage Match
Jade Cargill © vs. “The Queen” Charlotte Flair
Referee: Aubrey Edwards
Just wild brawling to start with both women going into the cage a few times. Cargill climbs, but Flair pulls her trunks, showing some butt, to bring her down. Flair climbs and Cargill pulls her trunks, showing some butt, to bring her down. A criss cross sequence leads to a double down and Flair comes up with the Natural Selection for a two count. She covers for a two count and then goes for the door. Cargill trips Flair from behind, grabs the other leg, flips her over, and does a giant swing, releasing her into the side of the cage wall. Seated dropkick pushes Flair into the cage wall again. Cargill goes for the door, but Flair clips the knee from behind. Shinbreaker and she locks on the Figure Eight. However, Cargill pulls them closer to the cage door and she’s half hanging out, still locked in the figure eight.
Flair realizes that’s no good. She releases it and drags Cargill back to the center of the ring and goes for the figure eight again, but Cargill boots her out of it and Flair goes into the cage wall again. Bicycle kick. Flair blocks the Jaded and gets a snap DDT. Flair with a rear waistlock and she German Suplexes Cargill into the cage wall, hangs on and does it again, hangs on and does it a third time. She climbs the cage, but yells, ‘I’m not running’ and goes for the moonsault…which misses. Jaded and instead of going for the pin, Cargill screams “I am that b*tch” and just walks out the cage door just to spite Flair.
Winner and still UWA Women’s Champion: Jade Cargill by cage escape at 25:50.
COMMERCIAL
Steve Blackman talks with Tamina Snuka in the back. Tonight showed him they need a woman on the security team, because when the women get into it, Blackman isn’t too comfortable getting rough with them. He hands Snuka a security team shirt and she takes it.
Segment Notes
* Creative liked the idea of a woman on the security team to compliment Blackman and they also thought a man getting rough with some of the women when needed wouldn’t sit well with some viewers and advertisers. Snuka has the right look and she wasn’t doing anything else.
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Queen of the Ring Finals
Wendi Richter vs. Rhea Ripley
Referee: Tommy Young
Richter with a body slam and a series of knee drops. She covers, but Ripley powers out. Both women up and Richter gets her head taken off with a lariat. She goes for the Prism Trap, but Richter grabs her hair and turns it into a small package. Both women up and Richter ducks the lariat this time and gets a walk past neckbreaker. Richter goes for a powerbomb, but Ripley turns it into a rana for a two count.
Running big boot. Rhea pulls Wendi up for the Riptide, but she counters into the True Colors, which Ripley blocks and then backdrops out of. She goes for another running big boot, but Richter grabs the foot and stands while shaking her finger no. Ripley goes for an enzuigiri, but Richter ducks, grabs the leg and gets a wheelbarrow face jam. Cover for two. Swinging arm wrench facebuster gets two. Richter up to the second rope and waits for Ripley to stand for a flying crossbody. Ripley catches her and gets a turning mat slam for a two count. Richter elbows out of another Riptide attempt. Kick to the gut. True Colors. Kick out at 2.9. She tries another, but Ripley pushes her into the near corner. Rhea backs up for a head of steam and charges. Wendi to the second rope and Ripley runs into a boot to the face. Richter with a blockbuster. Second True Colors and she gets the victory.
Winner and Queen of the Ring: Wendi Richter by pinfall at 20:11. She also earns the WCW Women’s Title Match at Great American Bash.
Segment Notes
* Richter made the freshest match up with Flair for the match at GAB.