From: dkempste@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David N Kempster)
Subject: WCW House show
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:21:58 GMT

For the first time in quite sometime WCW promoted an event in Columbus Ohio. 
Richard Gaines Jr. and I decided to go.

It was Dec. 12 by the way. There were somewhere between 750 and 1,000 people 
there. That is not too bad considering there is no real local WCW T.V. show in 
Columbus (There is on chan. 53 but almost no one can get it over the air and it
is not carried by the cable systemes. ) I only knew about it because they 
mentioned it on WorldWide which we can see on cable piped in from Cleveland. 
Then two days before the show or so they ran a very small add in the sports 
page. On top of the lack of publicity there was an Ohio State basketball game 
and a Columbus Chill Hockey game that night. (The Chill are quite popular, 
selling out all of their games.)

 1. Vinnie Vegas vs. some Cleveland Scrub. It was supposed to be Bagwell.(I I
think Bagwell must have had a legit injury because he was there that night in
Johnny B. Badd's corner and was not moving all that much.) This match was long 
and slow but Vinnie added some comedy spots. Best momement was when Vegas had 
the scrub in a bearhug and they looked like they were slow dancing. Someone 
yelled -"We need music" and Nash ((Vegas)laughed.   1/4*

2. Watts vs. Steve Austin. This was supposed to be Watts vs Spivey but Spivey 
ended up taking Rude's place against Simmons because Rude was hurt (also 
apparently legit because he and Mudusa were there and came out with Spivey.
This match was a time limit draw which made us happy because we didn't want 
Steve to have to job for the little brat. Steve Austin worked the crowd well 
getting into fights with people - the whole bit. The end of the match had Watts
put the STF on Austin and the ref head to signal that Austin had submitted but 
the bell rings for the time limit before he gets there. Watts then asks for 5 
more minuets, Austin comes in and starts beating on Watts but when things went 
Watts way he left. The weirdest thing about this match was that the crowd was 
reallly behind the little stinker. He got one of the best reactions all night. 
This match got alot more reaction than the Simmons title defense. Richard got 
a lot of heat during this match as well shooting "Erik Sucks" and such. Several
people (mostly children) were quite annoyed.     ** (**** for Austin who made 
it a ** match).

3. 3 rounds of boxing- Johnny B.Badd (with Bagwell in his corner) vs. Flamingo 
(Vegas in his corner). Badd won in some round (I think it was the third) Then  
Badd was dubble teamed. Bagwell fell out of the ring and only entered when the 
heels were gone.    Dud

Intermission

4. World Title: Ron Simmons vs. Spivey. - Mudusa and Rude came to ringside but 
were then asked to leave. Simmons won in a poor match almost all rest holds. No
one showed any interest in this match. It was a good thing that it was not the 
main event.  1/4 *

5. Barry Windham vs. Dustin Rhodes. Ended in a dubble count out. This one drew 
the most heat of the night and was the best match of the night. We actually got
a good "Barry Barry" chant going in our section and he even looked over at us. 
We drowned out the "Dustin" chant every time it started. At the end of the 
match Windham hit Dustin with a good chair shot.  *** 1/2

6.Tag Title: Shane Douglass & Ricky Steamboat vs. Van Vader and Steve Williams.
A fairly good match. Vader worked the crowd well. He had Steamboat down at one 
point and was kicking him saying "Common CHamp". The faces win by a DQ when one
of the heels throws one of the faces over the top rope.  The fans booed the 
ending and started to leave even though they were still brawling in the ring.
***

Overall it wasn't too bad, but to book 3 DQ finishes out of your 4 good matches
doesn't make the fans very happy. We see matches of this sort on T.V. at house 
shows you want conclusive finnishes.
                                       David Kempster