Nitro 252

## Monday Nitro 252

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Monday Nitro 252 was a professional wrestling television show of World Championship Wrestling which took place on 26th April 1999.

## Results

* Rick Steiner defeated Goldberg
* Chavo Guerrero defeated Dean Malenko(c), Jamie Knoble, Elix Skipper, Shannoon Moore, Juventud Guerrera, Rey Mysterio Jr and Psicosis in an 8 men package to win the Cruiserweight Championship
* Kevin Nash and Alex Wright defeated David Flair and Curt Hennig in a semi finals of a tournament for the vacant WCW Tag Team Championships
* Ric Flair defeated Diamond Dallas Page
* Meng(c) defeated Raven(W/ The Flock) to retain the Extreme Championship
* The Masked Superstar defeated Sting(c) to win the United States Championship
* Vampiro defeated The Butcher
* Lex Luger(W/ Rick Rude) defeated The Barbarian in a loser leaves town match
* Booker T defeated Eddie Guerrero, Kanyon, La Parka and Ernest Miller in a fatal 5 way NO1 Contendership to the United States Championship
* Rob Van Dam(W/ Paul Heyman) defeated Wrath
* Chris Jericho defeated Bret Hart(c) to win the WCW Heaviweight Championship

## Details

* New stage, logo and intro for WCW. Arn introduces us all to the REVOLUTION ERA, he admits that they haven't been doing too good and this is their fault. But from now into the future, nitro will be MUST SEE TV with an open challenge for a title every single week, we never know who might return or debut on WCW or which title changes can happen but it'll all start tonight as EVERY SINGLE TITLE WILL BE ON THE LINE, Sting will be facing THE MASKED SUPERSTAR FOR THE US TITLE, Bret will be defending his WCW Heaviweight title in an open challenge, the tag tournament will continue, Meng will defend his extreme championship against a man who knows a little about extreme...RAVEN. And tonight we'll have a big 6 men package for the CW title and who knows who's gonna face Malenko, maybe even CWs of the past, WWF, you better start booking your PPVs a bit better because we're coming to DESTROY YOU, OUT COMES RIck steiner. He says that he has now been involved in every single era that WCW has had, his brother might be going back to the tag division like a loser but he's looking to finally unleash his name on the singles division, Goldberg makes his return
* Rick Steiner gets the shocking win and says that the taser shot really slowed goldberg down
* There's a REALLY weird Stevie Ray vignette where he's with glasses and he says that the WCW roster is a bunch of racist assholes, Ronald Reagan is the devil and the government is lying to us...he's being repackaged as a conspiracy theorist????
* Scott Steiner comes out of the CW title and helps Malenko to backstage
* David beats down Hennig with chairshots saying it's HIS TIME NOW, Ric enters the ring and challenges anyone to a match, out comes DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE
* Hugh Morrus now has a lawyer gimmick as he says that if anyone runs into law problems, better call Hugh
* After the match all of The Mob manage to take down Raven BUT MENG ACTUALLY WORKS WITH THE FLOCK AND TAKES DOWN KONNAN
* Meng is walking backstage when The Vigilantes cause an ambush on him and Brian Adams wins the extreme title, Benoit says for TheFlock to COME AT THEM
* Vampiro targets The Butcher's leg as he's stretchered out after the match
* Tank Abbott and Goldberg are brawling backstage, Muta and Piper try to stop them so they team up on them
* The Hacker shows up on the titantron after RVD's match, he shows footage from november 20th 1995, Heyman is signing RVD to ECW when RVD immediatly reveals to Heyman that he's a mole sent from WWF to destroy ECW, Heyman actually likes the sound of that "yknow what...how about you become a DOUBLE agent, if you're a mole sent from WWF it means that they've got their eyes on this show, so you go ahead and slowly destroy ECW from within, I will allow it because that draws viewership and it draws WWF to us. From now on you're my protege" HEYMAN WAS WORKING WITH RVD EVER SINCE HIS DEBUT AND WAS HELPING HIM TAKEDOWN ECW, HEYMAN IS THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR KONNAN, JUVENTUD, REY AND TERRY FUNK LEAVING ECW, this doesn't make that much sense but neither does WCW at this time, RVD is pissed that this has come out to the public and promises to get revenge on this Hacker
* Bret Hart's open challenge is answered BY CHRIS JERICHO TO A BIG POP AS EVERYONE BY NOW KNOWS THAT JERICHO HAS SIGNED WITH WWF SO HIS LAST MATCH IS A WORLD TITLE MATCH. During the match out comes Hulk Hogan, Lex Luger, Booker T and Tank Abbott as they proceed to beat up Bret, Jericho hits the lionsault AND BECOMES WCW HEAVIWEIGHT CHAMPION, Hogan calls them the NEW NWO. This was the striking moment that everyone knew WWF had the war won as WCW was still doing NWO variations and dumb swerves like Jericho winning the title days before his contract with WCW expires