WCW Worldwide - 03/24/01

By The Cubs Fan

• This is the filler week, so here's the filler:
  • A "satellite" interview with Hugh Morrus
    • Could they really afford a satellite
  • The Professor's Pick will feature a Hugh Morrus match
  • But the top story is "the return of a young lady we haven't seen in a while"
    • Hudson: "Moolah was at Nitro??"
  • Back to Nitro.
  • Stacy and Sean are a couple on the rise, okay.

• Worldwide Trivia: What was Hugh Morrus called when he wrestled in Japan?

• Wow, they finnaly got a new ad for the WCW magazine..
  • Too bad it's last month's magazine.
  • Which itself is, what, two months behind?
  • "Eric Bischoff shoots straight from the hip!" 
  • There's a shot of Kevin Nash but he's out of WCW forever.

• Spring Breakout is this Monday. 

• Interview with a mad man
  • That's close enough.
  • Hugh thinks it's funny that they're talking over satellite when they see each other every week and Scott and Mike have nothing to say to him.
  • Tenay asks about Hugh's background.
  • Hugh says Tenay should know, since he's the Professor, although he never mentions Hugh's background.
  • So he tells Scott instead - he started after college, just something to keep busy, "I didn't know anything about wrestling at the time - some say, I don't know anything about wrestling now."
  • Mike says he knew the announcer - he was just a conduit for fans.
  • Scott asks if it's true that his father got him into wrestling.
  • Hugh says yes - his dad saw him becoming coach potato, so after playing college football, he pushed him to try wrestling, Hugh met the Unpredictable Johnny Rodz, and got started.
  • Hugh says Mike would know that - but they don't talk any more.
  • Scott asks if Hugh did a tour of Japan as Jason the Terrible and Crash the Terminator.
  • Hugh says Crash is right, but for "the fourteenth millionth time", he's not Jason - that was some other fat guy from New Jersey.
  • Hugh says he never wrestled in the states except for his training, till he got into WCW.
  • "Not Jason the Terrible."
  • Tenay recounts Hugh's early history - he started off on Worldwide and Saturday Night and then got in with the Dungeon of Doom.
  • Hugh recalls being "the Man of Question" and had a run with Randy Savage, and then he got into the Dungeon of Doom.

    

  • Hugh explain the pun in his name.
  • Scott asks about if Hugh prefers singles, tag, or hardcore.
  • Hugh says he got brought in because of his hardcore wrestling, but also had high school and college wrestling.
  • He likes all the different ways he's worked - working with the MIA was the best.
  • Tenay asks him what his favorite match was
  • Hugh: "The one I won - 'cause I think there was only one match. I think it was Chad Brock, then he became a country music star. I still don't know who became famous in that one."
    • Chad Brock was the Power Plant jobber turned real life country music singer who appeared on Nitro a year or so back
  • Scott brings up Hugh winning the US Title.
  • Hugh says that was his own title win - he was proud to represent the whole USA, thanks to Jim Duggan, and his rivalry with Team Canada was one of his crowning moments.
  • Tenay asks if Hugh hopes to be WCW World Champion.
  • Hugh just wants to make the fans happy - titles are secondary.
  • "The thing that bothers me the most is Mike, you say I'm 350 pounds, Scott, you say I'm 325 pounds. I'm 290 pounds. Maybe that's my next match - Hugh Morrus and the announcers."
  • Tenay is all upset now, but Scott regains control - are the fans more important than the title?
  • Hugh says the fans are what brought you there, everything else is gravy. He does it for the love of the game.
  • Tenay asks Hugh how he perfected the top rope moonsault.
  • Hugh says he was told that if he didn't the moonsault, he wouldn't work in Japan again. So he did it. But he has no idea how.
  • Scott asks if Hugh looks to anyone in wrestling.
  • Hugh says Kevin Nash - 'cause he's so tall. Everyone else is even - he does mark out for Ric Flair, but manages not to do that till he gets back to his room.
  • Tenay says that Hugh got an art scholarship - what would he be doing if he wasn't wrestling.
  • Hugh says commercial art, probably. Or sitting on the beach.
  • Scott asks why Hugh doesn't doodle by Lash.
  • Hugh says no one doodles like Lash - he's really good. Lash is only 23. A lot of guys have other talents besides wrestling. Hugh's is Chinese checkers.
  • Tenay gives Hugh one opportunity to say something to the fans.
  • Hugh takes the opportunity to berate Mike, Scott, Tony and even Stevie Ray for saying that he weights 350 after he dropped to 290.
  • Tenay says that Hugh should put both feet on the scale when he weighs himself.
  • Tenay: "325, I'd say."
  • Hudson: "It's 10 after 2."

• It's time for Ask WCW
  • This week's question is from Christina Lara, from Watsonville, Georgia, for Sean O'Haire

    I know you are a professional kickboxer and if you weren't wrestling would you have kickboxed your whole life? Also, I have one more question: Since you're a big fan of comic books and Spider Man, would you want to do something involving comiv bookes like be a writer for the comics?
    

  • Sean answers no to the first one (too many rules in kickboxing, the UFC, underground fighting he likes to do is illegal and there's not much money in it - though he may have done something in professional fighting) and no (because he likes to read and follow it, but he's not into writing.)
  • Tenay says that he often goes through the Ask WCW questions, and he notices that most of Scott Hudson's fans are lacking in basic grammar skills.
  • Scott says a look at Jason Jett is next.
  • Mike argues about the spelling of Jett's last name.

• A Special Look at Jason Jett
  • Scott says that a Crusierweight, like Jett, has to work hard to break it in WCW.
  • Tenay points out all the recent new arrivals, and then says that Jett is on the limit of cruiserweights, and could also hang with the cruiserweights.
  • Back to Thunder, and his match with Alex Wright.
  • Scott: "Jason Jett had a made a name for himself in the minor leagues of wrestling"
  • Mike says that Jason's match drew a lot of attention from the wrestlers.

• Some plugs disguised as show content
  • Tenay plugs the WCW Magazine
  • Scott plugs the Spring Break Out events

• The trivia answer: Crash the Terminator.

• The Professor's Pick of the Week
  • We go back to the Great American Bash, '97
  • At Slamboree, Konnan turned on Hugh Morrus.
  • So, we get the follow up match.

• Konnan vs Hugh Morrus, GAB '97
  • No.
  • Bill did this all the way back then.
  • Lots of restholds in this one.
  • Your Winner: Konnan (Tequila Sunrise, 9:57)
  • Nice match to pick, the one where the featured guy losses.
    • Like EVERY week.
  • Back in the studio, Tenay notes that these are friends now.
  • And that's it for this week.

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