83 Weeks - Clash of the Champions 32 [Show Notes] (Patreon)

Our event today is the 32nd Clash of the Champions - or XXXII, IF YOU WILL. It was the first Clash of 1996, the last Clash before the nWo, and the fourth-to-the-last Clash of the Champions ever (under WCW).

Clash of Champions on January 23, 1996 in Las Vegas drew a sellout 3,100 fans (about 2,750 paying $52,000) to Caesars Palace for the second night of a two-night sellout doubleheader. There appeared to be about 150 empty seats in the small building of people who had probably bought tickets for both nights and then had burned out after the first night, Meltzer said.

Tonight’s Clash of the Champions is the second and the last to be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. WCW seemed to own that venue in the wrestling realm during the late 90s. But for most wrestling fans, the first time we heard of Caesars Palace was having Vince McMahon scream it at us during Wrestlemania 9 promos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrP13hMDwG0

Did WCW have a super tight relationship with Caesars? How did that come to be?

Did they treat you well when you were there performing?

News And Notes

Eric Bischoff responded on the WCW hotline to the WWF skits in a ten minute segment with Mike Tenay that ran on 1/23. Bischoff said he didn't think it was a gamble at all to go head-up with Monday Night Raw because he believed his company had the superior talent, but said he felt because Raw was so entrenched and people are creatures of habit that he thought at first it would take two years before WCW could match Raw's ratings. He said he didn't believe there was a such thing as oversaturation on television as long as you worked to keep the quality of the television high. He said the PPV buy rates have been dropping for the past 18 months so he didn't believe Nitro was the cause (the marked drop in buy rates starting in September would make it obvious Nitro is the cause). He said the WWF putting the In Your House PPV shows, which he called nothing but a television show with a price tag added to it, have been more of the culprit for PPV going down. As for the Billionaire Ted skits, he said, "Clearly it's desperation. Clearly he's a desperate man doing desperate things."

Lot’s to talk about here. Did you have that kind of confidence going in that it truly wasn’t going to be a gamble?

Do you think the Billionaire Ted skits were desperation, still?

WWE hits below the belt

In a story from the January 23 Observer…

After a televised skit which implied that WCW doesn't have a legitimate steroid policy, WCW responded first with threats of a lawsuit (which would have little chance of success for a number of reasons--that the skit was labeled satire, that the performers portrayed, Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, are both public figures and both have an admitted history of steroid use although Savage has labeled his history "experimenting," and that there are a lot of legitimate question marks regarding the WCW policy), then with Bischoff defending the policy in place and pointing remarks back at the WWF by noting that three current WWF headliners (without any names being mentioned) had failed steroid tests while with WCW. Of course, that plan of action wasn't well thought out since none of the three performers were ever suspended for steroid use while with WCW and it is believed that all three headlined WCW PPV shows immediately after such a positive test result. Since the names were not revealed, I can only speculate about the last statement although I've got a good idea who they are and that the last statement is probably accurate. At least one of the three, possibly more, did attend a counseling session after failing a test. It's well-known that WWF performer Sid Eudy, while with WCW, walked out on a steroid test at least once and was still promised the WCW heavyweight championship and would have won the title from Vader at Starrcade '93 instead of Ric Flair (who was planned on being phased at that point to a mid-card performer) had the incident in England with Arn Anderson not taken place. If anything, that admission puts more question into the current WCW policy.

The steroid attacks seem pretty crazy, looking back at all Vince had just gone through in the 90s. What did you think when you heard about those?

Nevertheless, the word is Bischoff's about face on the Monday Nitro show, never acknowledging or knocking WWF during the show, and never acknowledging a few remarks by Steve McMichael when he broached the subject talking about throwing away your channel clicker, is a response to the criticism of Bischoff the previous week as his knocks at WWF got in the way of getting over the wrestling he was presenting. It was a valid criticism, and Bischoff's response on 1/15 of ignoring the steroid jab (a subject he'd best ignore until he's got real answers and has a real response) was the best policy for three reasons. One, he was more focused on getting over his own product than the WCW announcing crew has been for a long time, which has been a major company weakness. Two, his reaction the previous weak of name calling came off childish. Three, that subject is something he'd best ignore publicly until he's got real answers and has a real response. Bischoff is expected to broach the subject at some point publicly over the next few weeks. Whether he'll give real answers and a real response is the next question. From early indications, statements released on his own hotline and a newspaper interview, my speculation his response will be along the lines of saying that we have a policy and we don't have a steroid problem. I seem to recall that being said in wrestling before by some other guy and it brings up the classic statement about those who don't learn from the lessons of history being doomed to repeat its mistakes.

Do you remember adjusting how hard you went after the WWF in response to criticism, as Meltzer reported here?

Despite the fact he's suddenly in the wake of the steroid skit dropped all verbal on-air knocks at WWF on all shows (the only thing they've done is clips of Vader on the receiving end from Flair and Hogan), he said he believes the best defense is an aggressive offense and said he's going to continue being in their faces. He refused to discuss any potential legal action regarding the steroid skits and when asked about the implication in the skits that Hogan and Savage wouldn't be able to pass a legitimate steroid test said that he would leave that to Hogan and Savage's attorneys to handle because it's a hot potato. He then defended WCW's steroid program and claimed there are a number of people who had a hard time complying with the WCW steroid policy who ran off to the WWF, basically implying something that is totally untrue as none of the wrestlers in question left because of a WCW steroid policy and went to WWF for that reason and said about the skits regarding Vince McMahon--"Here's a guy who spent the better part of three years in court because he has a problem and had a problem." He knocked the Goldust gimmick saying, "Vince, if that's the epitome of your creativity, I feel sorry for you." He praised Dustin Rhodes as a wrestler and a person and said it was embarrassing what McMahon is doing to him. He continued the I feel sorry for you line when addressing the Billionaire Ted match at Wrestlemania saying "I feel sorry for Vince McMahon if he has to hire impostors to draw a number on his PPV's" and finished by saying that McMahon was the Verne Gagne of the 1990s and that his time has come and past.

Do you recall Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan’s reaction to the Nacho Man and Huckster portrayals? Or knocks on them being on steroids?

Was there a lot of resentment to Vince for the Goldust angle in WCW at this time?

Iron Sheik was backstage looking for work. That's happened before and he hasn't been hired.

Any memories of the Iron Sheik looking for work but not wanting to go with him?

A "Baywatch" episode which includes Hogan, Sting, Savage, Flair, Sullivan and Vader that was partially taped at the Bash at the Beach last July airs the week of 2/19.

Did you ever try to get Vader edited out after he was let go? Or was there any concern about letting him go before this aired?

A lot of wrestling groups were at the NATPE convention which the Clash was built around that took place 1/23 to 1/25 in Las Vegas. WWF had a very impressive booth showing a cycle of clips including some great videos they produced about Shawn Michaels, but also showed the Billionaire Ted skits which most felt were out of place in that environment. All of WWF and WCW's big names were there at one point or another but Hogan & Savage drew the most commotion of anyone. The only WWF performer that I saw any lines for was Shawn Michaels and the lines for him were a lot shorter than the lines for pizza. Mario Savoldi was there with Victor Quinones and Miguel Perez selling IPW, a 30 minute show. The AWF had a large booth like last year trying to market the tapes they've already done and had Greg Valentine, Sgt. Slaughter, Johnny Gunn, Jim Powers, Tito Santana, Blacktop Bully and Tommy Rich there. Their brochure mentioned that featured on their television show was Curt Hennig (who did do segments at a taping last year) and Roddy Piper. Terri Power was there pushing old LPWA videos. Gordon Solie, Hiro Matsuda and Howard Brody were there trying to make deals for New Japan but only for European and South American distributors as there would be a political problem (WCW's relationship with New Japan) if they tried to get on American television right now.

Memories of the NATPE convention in January, 96? What were you looking to do at an event like this for the company or the business? Feelings on the Billionaire Ted skits airing at their booth?

Speaking of New Japan, Bischoff met with Antonio Inoki on 1/24 in Las Vegas. Inoki managed to get Paco Alonso and Antonio Pena together at a meeting earlier in the week in Las Vegas, and got a meeting with Fidel Castro about putting on an international wrestling show in Cuba over the next year or so. Inoki, while in Mexico, talked about running a show at Azteca Stadium (capacity 130,000) in 1996 or 1997. Anyway, he tried to get Bischoff and McMahon at the same meeting in Las Vegas but the WWF declined although Inoki was supposed to have a separate meeting with a WWF rep. Bischoff agreed to send Inoki wrestlers for his 5/18 show in Los Angeles.

Do you recall Inoki trying to get you and McMahon in a meeting together in Las Vegas? Why would he have wanted to do that?

Badd and Giant had a dark match on the 1/22 Nitro which went :08 with a choke slam finish. Badd appeared to be very unhappy about this.

Did you already know he was leaving for the WWF or was this prior-to?

WCW wants to turn Flair face and make him into a living legend character as people have been suggesting for about six years now, but Flair is more comfortable as a heel and there are problems. Even after getting the win at the Clash, Flair was still making noises about wanting to leave because he was unhappy at the direction and push he thought they were going to give him.

Did Flair not have confidence in the living legend type character? What did you think was the best role for him?

The Ratings and The Story

Off the strength of the return of the former Elizabeth Poffo and The Road Warriors, changing both the WCW singles and tag titles the night before, and a mainstream publicity tie-in by using Kevin Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers just days before the Super Bowl, WCW's Clash of the Champions on 1/23 from Las Vegas drew a 4.5 rating and 6.6 share.

We only have a rating and not the total number of viewers at press time, but it would rank in the top three most widely viewed (not highest rated) wrestling television shows in the history of TBS. The 4.5 rating is the same as the August 24, 1994 Clash headlined by the first Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair television match. The 1994 match did a 7.7 share and peaked with a phenomenal 6.7 rating and 11.6 share for the main event. This show drew a more consistent number, starting at a 3.8 and peaking with a 5.5 for the main event.

Much of the credit has to be given to the curiosity about seeing what Elizabeth looked like. In this case, bringing her back was a big winner in the ratings but there is nothing that can be done to prolong the effect of it. People have seen her. The charisma or whatever it once was isn't there anymore and it's done.

Do you think that’s one of if not the big reason why the rating popped here?

There had been and still are plans talked about of doing some kind of an Elizabeth vs. Woman rivalry but these type of plans change on a moments notice although both are now in for regular roles. Woman was attempting to save her job in ECW which would appear to have meant long-term plans had fallen through at least temporarily although by press time it was supposed to be settled to make them both regular characters. Kevin Sullivan had offered to send Heyman talent, including Public Enemy, if his wife could keep her job and still do the WCW gig. At this point, Paul Heyman was planning on finishing her up on the 1/27 Philadelphia show and isn't interested in using any WCW performers unless they are willing to allow them to cleanly put over his guys on his television show. There has been a lot of controversy regarding Nancy Sullivan since it was first learned about the plan to make her the "New Elizabeth" and manage Savage in a feud against Hogan. This was before Hogan and Savage managed to woo the original Elizabeth back. Sullivan had all along strongly and vehemently denied the stories of her even considering going to WCW despite continual word from WCW and other sources that she was heading in. As far as the Heyman situation goes, according to him, he was told that WCW wanted Nancy for the Vegas shots but that Nancy had turned the shots down. He was told that Hogan, who is the real booker, wanted Nancy to do the show and the implication was made to Heyman that Kevin's job would be in jeopardy if he didn't come through. All along Kevin and Nancy were attempting to work with Heyman so Nancy could keep her ECW job. Other stories are entirely different saying that it was Kevin who put forth a lot of effort and politicking to get Nancy the gig when others in the company felt too many wives were already going to appear on television. Nancy didn't leave for Las Vegas until the early a.m. on Monday rather than get to Vegas days earlier as most of the WCW crew had, and reports over the weekend were that Nancy wasn't going to work the shows after all as originally planned until basically she was written back in the storyline the afternoon of Nitro. As of the last word we'd received, both Nancy and Elizabeth were booked for 1/29 in Canton, OH and we'll probably have a good idea of where it's headed at that point.

Was there heat with Paul Heyman about using talent both in WCW and ECW? Were you okay with Woman working for other promotions? And what can you say about the idea of a Woman/Liz feud - they seem like two totally different people...

The rating came eight days after WCW had its biggest victory to date in the Monday Night Wars, topping WWF by a 3.5 rating and 5.0 share to WWF's 2.4 rating and 3.5 share. The margin of victory, the largest to date by either side, prompted Eric Bischoff to call Vince McMahon, who didn't take the call, and leave a message with the secretary telling McMahon to continue whatever it is he's doing with the Billionaire Ted skits.

Please tell us about this phone call. What did the secretary say when you told her who you were? Could you hear the shit hitting the fan in the background?

Even though PPV buy rates have nosedived since September as well as WCW basically not doing any house shows and WWF cutting back to 18 shows per month (meaning there is less work and less money except for the select top guys than ever for American pro wrestlers) because of all the marquee matches being given away for free each Monday, the total wrestling audience on television has grown. Between the two live shows and the WCW replay, the cumulative cable ratings points for wrestling on 1/15 were 7.3, which is 4.75 million homes watching wrestling and during the two live shows, they combined doing an 8.5 share of the television audience, all of which are record figures for the past several years of total number of people watching pro wrestling at any given time.

However, that large margin of victory by WCW wasn't indicative of any trend because on 1/22, gaining the usual boost by coming a day after a PPV, it was the WWF's Raw show scoring a 2.9 to 2.7 victory. The only apparent effect of the WWFs getting trounced not only that night but also that entire weekend by WCW by the largest margin in recent memory (and for overall viewership, probably the largest margin of any week since the modern wrestling era began in 1984) was a toning down of the Goldust character which was pushed the weekend of 1/15 as basically an overt predatory homosexual character which may have turned viewers off. By bringing in Goldust's real-life wife, Terri Runnels (Alexandra York) as the Marlene (he called her this throughout the Observer, I’ve left it as is) character and not referring as much to homosexuality (although some implications have been left in), it has turned to sexuality issue that appeared to be a turn-off back into more of a question mark than an exclamation point.

Nobody ever really talks about the Goldust character hurting the WWF in the ratings and sending more viewers to WCW but, given peoples feelings at the time, do you think that helped out?

Among the other major angles coming out of the three-day period were the return of Roddy Piper as new WWF figurehead President, leading to another step in adopting a wilder style of wrestling in an attempt to copy ECW sans the juice. After an injury angle where Vader was suspended for stretchering out figurehead prez Gorilla Monsoon, which was one of the best angles for either group in years, Piper was brought out later in the Raw tapings as new President and basically said he was going to let anything and everything take place. Randy Savage captured the WCW title from Ric Flair on 1/22 in Las Vegas on the live Nitro when Arn Anderson attempted to hit Savage with Knux, but Savage ducked and he hit Flair instead, and Savage got the pin in 11:07 with the elbow off the top rope. This (not this alone but this among many things) led to Flair threatening to quit the promotion after the 1/23 show, where he was originally scheduled to get legdropped. Even with the return of Elizabeth and secret weapon Kevin Greene in the corner, the result of the match was switched to appease Flair with Flair & Giant beating Hogan & Savage when Flair used the Knux to pin Savage. Lex Luger & Sting captured the WCW tag titles from Harlem Heat also on 1/22 in 9:34 when Luger used a foreign object handed to him by Jimmy Hart (this time a roll of silver dollars) on Booker T. Luger & Sting will defend the titles on the 2/5 Nitro from Lakeland, FL against the re-united Road Warriors in their first appearance as a tag team since August of 1992

Was Flair tired of doing jobs for Hogan and crew here? Or is that fair to ask?

The Event

The crowd heat at the Clash from all accounts wasn't at the level of Nitro the previous night which is something WCW needs to take into account. Despite Eric Bischoff telling people the minute the 3.5 Nitro rating came in last week that WCW and TNT had signed or come to an agreement on a three-year deal to continue doing live Nitros, there was much talk (only talk as nothing close to a deal has been completed) over the weekend of moving Nitro permanently to Las Vegas and taping 26 shows (every other week live and the second week taped) per year at the same building. The upside is the wrestlers, and more importantly the front office folks, love going to Las Vegas. Because there are so many people milling around town and tourists, it's relatively easy to paper (although paid attendance after a while will be rather small). Las Vegas, being home to so many major boxing events has more of a major league sound to it than Charleston, SC or Albany, GA. The bad part of it is that they'd eventually have to start sweetening sound because the crowd heat inevitably will tone down.

What can you tell us about Nitro getting a three-year extension here? What made the company happy?

The Clash was a much better event viewed live than on television. Live it was a collection of wrestling matches, all of which were too short but most of which were good. The non-wrestling antics to spice up the television show were horrible, in particular a pathetic multi-part mock wedding where Madusa broke up the wedding and attacked Sister Sherri just before she was about to say "I do" with the storyline being that Col. Parker had been seeing Madusa on the side. That really makes Madusa look good. But at least it puts women back in their stereotypical "rightful place" in the U.S. wrestling scene as characters good for nothing but sex playthings or having conflicts based on sex triangles or in some cases, octagons. When I saw the show live it was an easy thumbs up, a good show but not a great show. On television, it wasn't nearly as good, and with all the heat and distractions going on, it wasn't nearly as obvious live as it was on television just how bad the main event was.

A. Steve Regal (Darren Matthews) pinned Chris Benoit in 6:40 after Benoit missed a head-butt off the top rope. These guys weren't even told they were wrestling each other until two minutes before they were sent to the ring as the original plan was for Benoit vs. Mike Wenner as a dark match. This was a very good opener with the guys smacking the hell out of each other. Benoit bled hardway from around the eye from repeated head-butts by Regal and palm blows. There was a lot of UFC style implemented in this match. ***¼

Can you recall if that’s true about them not learning about this until just before the match? Sounds like it was a stiff contest...did you ever give any thought to programming these two long-term?

1. Public Enemy (Ted Petty & Mike Durham) went to a double disqualification with the Nasty Boys (Jerry Seganowich & Brian Yandrisovitz) in 4:02. This was a total brawl with great heat live. The crowd really got into the Nasty Boys. The DDQ finish was called for no apparent reason. After the match, Rocco Rock moonsaulted Knobs on an industrial strength table (whoever picked the table out was clueless because it was clear it wasn't going to break, which makes table spots less impressive and more dangerous), which didn't break. However, a stick came lose and Sags broke it on Johnny Grunge and as Grunge ran off, he threw the table from the ring to the floor onto Grunge. He chased Grunge to the back with shot after shot with pieces of the table which at this point broke. There was a big chant for the Nasty Boys after the match. ***¼

Who would have been in charge of the table? Klondike? Crockett? I mean, unless you put an autopsy table from CSI out there, there probably wasn’t a stronger table in the world...

2. Dean Malenko (Dean Simon) pinned Alex Wright in 5:31. This was an awesome scientific match although too short. Malenko was awesome and Wright is going to be one of the great workers in probably not that distant a future. in a very short period of time. The announcers made this match come off not nearly as good on television as it was live. I know writing about announcing gets redundant, but when the announcers aren't on the same page or in the same era as the wrestlers, it takes a lot away from technical matches. The complaints about the announcing are hardly limited to readers of this publication as it was a common complaint among the wrestlers over the weekend as to why logical or legitimate looking maneuvers don't get crowd reactions because the audience hasn't been taught them. The epitome of it was Malenko dropping into a heel hold, which is one of the most effect legit submissions as everyone who follows legit has learned. While this potential finisher was in the ring, Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan were telling jokes about Sherri and the Colonel's wedding. Schiavone is improving of late as long as Dusty Rhodes isn't there to do whatever it is he does. Malenko used a jackknife cradle but let go at two, thinking it was three. Instead of clumsily keeping the match going because there was no three count, the bell just sounded. ***½

(Did you get distracted by the commentary and was that a bad thing - or was that necessary to tell stories for this type of television program? Just curious what your take is on Meltzer’s analysis. )

They were supposed to have a Kevin Sullivan vs. Disco Inferno match. However, since they used Inferno in that series of wedding skits that they had taped the previous Saturday (that wedding stuff took six hours to tape), they realized since the wedding was supposed to be taking place, Inferno couldn't be in two places at once. Mike Wenner came out doing a horrible Elvis impersonation eating a peanut butter sandwich. Sullivan beat him up. The crowd cheered Sullivan. Then came a Sting & Luger interview and the Road Warriors came out to challenge them for the belts. It was a pretty weak segment except for Luger's antics of not wanting to defend the belts against the Warriors while Sting agreed to do it anytime. Luger first said that he didn't want to re-injure Animal so soon into his comeback, and then said since they haven't been around in years that Harlem Heat, The American Males and State Patrol all deserved title shots first. Then came a nearly 4:00 interview feature with Paul Orndorff that was really good, with Orndorff acknowledging the Vader incident although not by name but talked about a fight with a "450 pound gorilla." The feature was very effective live as when it was over, the fans gave Orndorff a big babyface pop. Psychic Gary Spivey was at the show. After all the talk of what major celebs would show up to watch, Spivey was the closest thing to a celebrity in attendance.

Up next, we get one of the all time great moments. There’s no real story build up to the match and despite the quality of performers, both of whom passed away far too young, it was on the commentary table where history was made. Here’s what Meltzer said:

3. Brian Pillman pinned Eddie Guerrero in 5:50 with a crossbody and then holding the trunks. This match will forever be remembered in pro wrestling history for an unplanned incident. Pillman ran away from Guerrero doing a plancha tease and hid behind Bobby Heenan, nearly tearing his jacket off in the process. Heenan, who has a very bad neck from all those crazy bumps he took for Bruiser and Crusher, freaked out thinking Pillman, who half the company seems to be afraid of, might inadvertently to something that would hurt his neck screamed on the air, "What the f*** are you doing?" He then stormed out, but regained his composure and came back and quickly apologized for losing control. This match was too short since Pillman spent the first 3:00 running around like a maniac which left little time to actually wrestle. **½

MY LORD. So many questions:

Heenan wrote that he thought he was fired when he said it. Why wasn’t he?

Did you hear about this from anyone at TBS?

Was this a bigger deal if it happened on TNT or TBS?

Hogan & Savage & the late Kevin Greene did an interview. Before the show when they were running down the line-up, the two people whose names were booed the most were Greene and Hogan. However, during this interview, they still booed Greene (it appeared there were tons of Cowboys fans or Steelers haters in attendance) but cheered Hogan and Savage.

(Memories of working with Kevin Greene? He seemed to have overflowing personality when we would seem him in WCW and his work, for an outside guy, wasn’t bad. )

4. Sting (Steve Borden) & Lex Luger (Larry Pfohl) beat Regal & Bobby Eaton in 7:46 when Sting put the scorpion on Eaton. Regal had blown out his already injured knee in the Benoit match so, between his limitation by the injury and his opponents' limitations, he mainly resorted to facial comedy. *¼

(Tough night for Regal. Was it a mistake to make him work the Benoit match AND this one?)

They did a Pillman interview with Bischoff where Pillman threatened to swear on live television but Bischoff pulled the mic away and Pillman came back and said a few words about Orndorff.

(Hey, we’ve already said FUCK on TBS tonight. What else could he say?)

5. Konnan (Charles Ashenoff) beat Psicosis (Dionicio Castellanos) via submission in 5:26 with a ziplock. They were supposed to go twice as long so they started out showing some mat holds, then they were going to let Psicosis run wild and finally a big finish. As it was, Konnan demonstrated a few submission maneuvers never seen by this crowd, did some acrobatic stuff, Psicosis did a wild dive over the top rope, and then they were told to go home five minutes early because the show was running late. He did a german superplex which Psicosis totally flipped over and took the bump on his face, and went to the finish. The crowd seemed to not understand exactly what they were doing, but liked it as both men got ovations leaving from a crowd that going in had no clue who they were or what they were doing. **¾

(Any memories on what segment went long?)

6. Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea) & Randy Savage (Randy Poffo) beat Ric Flair (Richard Fliehr) & The Giant (Paul Wight) in 9:51 when Flair pinned Savage after KOing him with Knux. Hogan & Savage came out with several dressed up women that included (but were not referred to as) Deborah McMichael (wife of Steve, a former Miss America contestant), Linda Bollea (Hulk's wife), Linda's sister, and Woman (Nancy Sullivan) and one or two other models. Elizabeth came out to great curiosity but looked out of place once she got there. The match had tremendous heat live but it sucked as a match. After the match, Greene, who clearly wants to be a pro wrestler and is a big-time Hogan fan, teamed with Hogan to throw both Pillman and Zodiac over the top rope. The fans booed those spots but cheered Hogan far more than anyone else on the show for the rest of the match. *¼

Did Hulk and Kevin Greene have a friendship here? How did he feel about working with the football player? And did Kevin Greene want to move into pro-wrestling?

How did Savage feel about the decision to bring Liz in here? Can you talk about why you did that?

We get one final main event match to close the show. A dark match for the live crowd:

B. One Man Gang (George Gray) pinned Disco Inferno (Glen Gilbertti) in 6:16 with the 747 splash. Probably 75% of the crowd left during the match. The original plan was for Gang to defend the U.S. title against Bunkhouse Buck. -1/2*

Why was this even a thing?

Overall, give us your thoughts on Clash of the Champions 32

Questions:

Wayne has a perceptive question. What caused the move from Caesars Palace to the MGM Grand eventually?

Francis asks...Did you ever consider having WCW PPVs only in Vegas?

Francis also asks...Who designed the ring gear for hulk and randy during this era?

One more from Francis...When as yourselves and the company started to know that live electronic chat would help with the brand?

Joe Lawson asks….How rolltide as Miss Liz duing this era?

PenderJ asks...Did Randy, Hulk and Liz have any trepidation about working together given their rumored past? Ever since I was a little kid they always seemed like a natural team.

Markus asks...I watched the Clash a few days ago and I want to know if there was heat on either Pillman or Heenan for the scene in the Match.I really liked the wedding angle (except Disco Inferno). Has Eric any good stories about Sherri?

Ken Brzezinski asks...its well established that Gorilla Monsoon was the biggest gambler in WWE, who was the biggest gambler in WCW?

Jared Wetzel asks...Any fun stories about Sherri and Col. Rob Parker's Wedding? When was it shot? Did Eric get them jump ropes as a wedding gift?

Ray Leduc asks...Did Eddie get pissed at Pillman for the Heenan incident, or was he aware of it?

Mister Williams asks...Saturday nights main event shows ended in 92. In the mid 90s did you feel running clashes were still needed or profitable?

Daniel asks...Is it true Ric Flair wanted the match ending changed or he was gonna quit wcw?

Pender J asks...Did WCW draw a lot of “local” Vegas crowds or did these type of shows attack the casino crowds? And did Caesars purchase the show?

David Kyle asks...Why does it seem like Public Enemy wrestled the Nasty Boys 4,313 times during their run in WCW? Could you never find another team to pair them up against?