This was the debut episode of "WCW Monday Nitro."
"Inside-joke" is listed as a keyword because, in the vignette promoting the debut of M. Wallstreet (Mike Rotunda), he said that IRS would be following him closely, a reference to his previous gimmick in WWE of wrestling taxman Irwin R. Schyster, or IRS.
The dark (non-televised) match before the show was The American Males (Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs (Scotty Antol)) defeating WCW World Tag Team Champions The Stud Stable (Bunkhouse Buck (Jimmy Golden) and Dick Slater) (w/Col. Robert Parker (Robert Welch)) in a non-title match.