The Name on the Marquee: WWF Wrestling Challenge - October 1987

Posted by Adam Nedeff on 10.21.2009

My boss' favorite wrestler debuts.

-Originally aired October 4, 1987.

-We’re in Rockford, IL.

-Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon & Bobby Heenan.

JIM POWERS & PAUL ROMA vs. DAVE WAGNER & RICK RENSLOW
-Apparently, losing that match on Saturday Night’s Main Event caused their team name to be revoked or something. Bobby Heenan is horrified at the theft of “Crank It Up” from Jimmy Hart.

-Powers & Roma work Renslow’s arm with arm wringer after arm wringer after arm wringer. Roma mixes it up with an axehandle off the top rope. And then back to the arm wringer. Bodypress gets two, so Roma goes back to the arm wringer. Powers tags in and applies…uh, an arm wringer, actually. Roma tags in and clamps on an arm wringer. This isn’t sarcasm, this is actually the match.

-Wagner tags in and fares a little better, getting a two-count from a clothesline. Renslow chokes Roma in the corner and Wagner slams him for a two-count. Wagner misses an elbow and it’s a hot tag to Jim Powers. Series of punches and a backdrop. Dropkick gets one, so Powers hits a powerslam, and that gets the duke.

SPECIAL REPORT WITH CRAIG DEGEORGE
-Craiggers hypes the Intercontinental Title match coming this weekend on Saturday Night’s Main Event, even though the match had already aired in most cities by the time this segment aired. This is a good example of why syndication can be a pain in the ass for the people in charge of the production sometimes. We go to an interview with Honky from Superstars of Wrestling where Randy Savage suddenly appears and makes it a shouting match.

KING HARLEY RACE, HERCULES, & KING KONG BUNDY (with Bobby Heenan) vs. SCOTT CASEY, BRADY BOONE, & CHRIS CURTIS
-Some quick thinking and quick tags by the jobbers actually cause Hercules to struggle for a moment. Race tags in and misses an elbow. Curtis tries to capitalize, but gets caught and the King hits a belly-to-belly suplex. Andre the Giant steps in to announce that he has a big announcement coming up. Johnny V speculates that his big announcement is his suit size. GET IT?

-Bundy clotheslines Chris Curtis and clubs him in the corner. Irish whip and Bundy follows with a high knee. Avalanche finishes…but not before Bundy demands that five-count, just to be sure.

-Gene Okerlund has a word with Ted DiBiase & Virgil. This one is a bit fascinating, because DiBiase’s entire promo is about how he’s after the one thing that he can’t buy: Hulk Hogan’s title belt. Starting two months later, he would try to do exactly that. A few wrestlers have noted over the years that Vince considered these promos important enough that he hung out for the taping of every single one of them, and I dare say we can pinpoint this taping as the exact moment that the lightbulb flickered and Vince came up with his main event angle for the new year.

BULLDOG’S DOG TIPS
-Another dog care tip from Davey Boy and Dynamite. This week’s tip, inexplicably, is an anti-smoking PSA. Smoking is bad for people and dogs, so don’t do it. And then GOOD SWEET BUTTERED GOD ALMIGHTY IN A WICKER BASKET, MATILDA SMOKES A CIGARETTE. To demonstrate the harmful effects of smoking, they actually have the dog smoking a lit cigarette.

BAM-BAM BIGELOW (with Oliver Humperdink) vs. SHADOW 1
-Bam-Bam overpowers the Shadow on a few lock-up attempts. Cartwheel and a standing dropkick by Bigelow send Shadow reeling into the corner. He goes to the eyes, but Bigelow elbows him down. Press slam and an elbow by Bigelow. Bodyslam puts Shadow in position, and the slingshot splash finishes.

-Gene Okerlund talks to the “venerate septuagenarian,” Mr. Fuji, who has big plans for Killer Khan.

“Million Dollar Man” TED DIBIASE (with Virgil) vs. JERRY ALLEN
-Showing that you can transition anything into a plug, Gorilla notes that Ted DiBiase has so much money that he can afford a copy of the Piledriver album, no matter how rare and hard they are to come by after they all fly off the shelves.

-Allen hits a series of dropkicks and armdrags on DiBiase, and DiBiase goes to the floor to rethink things. Back in, DiBiase comes back with chops and a big boot. Elbow off the second rope onto the external occipital proctuberence, so Allen’s in real trouble now. Stomp and a turnbuckle shot by DiBiase, and he gives Allen a hard Irish whip. DiBiase chokes away at Allen, as the crowd gets restless and threatens to get a “boring” chant going. They’ve actually been rather quiet for the entire hour so far, come to think of it. Grapevine crab (sharpshooter) finishes.

SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH CRAIG DEGEORGE
-Outlaw Ron Bass is happy about the article profiling him in WWF Magazine. He should be; it’s the only proof he has that he actually works there.

“The Rock” MAGNIFICENT MURACO vs. BARRY HOROWITZ
-Changing from one nickname to another can be confusing and upsetting, so it’s important to have a transitional period where both names are used.

-Series of armdrags by Muraco. Weird moment at ringside as a fan decides he doesn’t want Muraco’s t-shirt for a souvenir and throws it at a Federette, who catches it and takes it back to the locker room. So, yeah, still not quite there as a face, Don.

-Horowitz goes to the eyes and elbows Muraco. He goes for a legdrop off the ropes, but Muraco moves and attacks the eyes himself, figuring turnabout is fair play. Muraco finishes the usual way and solidifies his face turn by dedicating the piledriver to Gorilla Monsoon instead of Bobby Heenan.

-We go to Superstars of Wrestling, where Tito Santana is providing commentary for the Spanish broadcasts. The Islanders suddenly show up to jaw with him, and a brawl erupts between the Islanders, Tito, and fellow color commentator Pedro Morales. Tito is left laying. Man, if only he had a partner or something to come to his aid. Maybe Tom Zenk was on to something.

HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN & ROUGEAU BROTHERS vs. DANGEROUS DANNY DAVIS & HART FOUNDATION (with Jimmy Hart)
-Raymond starts with Bret. They trade counters until Jacques comes in for a dropkick/slam combo that gets a two-count. Anvil tags in as Jimmy Hart complains that Jim Powers & Paul Roma stole the music that he wrote for the Hart Foundation.

-Back to the ring, Duggan noggin-knocks Davis & Anvil. Jacques tags in and immediately gets caught in the wrong corner. Backbreaker by Bret gets two. Anvil comes back in and lays into Jacques with punches. Davis tries to help with a double-team move but accidentally gets kicked off the apron by Bret. Raymond applies a sleeperhold and Davis comes into KO Raymond with the megaphone, but his timing is off and the referee actually catches him, so the faces take the cheap win.

-Gene Okerlund talks to the Killer Bees. They’ve had a few bad times as a tag team, but they’re going to rally and they’re ready to try the Hart Foundation one more time.

-Moving along, kids…

-Originally aired October 11, 1987.

-We’re in Rockford, IL.

-Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon & Bobby Heenan.

-I can’t believe we have another year and a half to go before they change this theme song, it’s horrible.

STRIKE FORCE vs. IRON MIKE SHARPE & TERRY GIBBS
-You know how you could tell when important company was coming over because your parents brought out the good china? The WWF tag team division used to be like that. You can tell Tito & Rick are getting a massive push because they get the good jobbers.

-Martel gets trapped in the wrong corner early on, but Gibbs accidentally gets the full brunt of the controversial arm brace from his partner. Sharpe gets dropkicked down and Tito tags in. He clamps on a side headlock. Tito & Mike trade atomic drops as Gorilla mentions “Girls in Cars” on the Piledriver album, surprising nobody.

-Armbar on Gibbs and here comes Martel to help with some double-teaming. Series of arm wringers by Martel to show how influential the Young Stallions were during their run. Gibbs goes to the eyes and rams Martel into the boot of Iron Mike. Arm brace goes into Martel’s stomach. Slam by Sharpe, but an elbow misses and Tito steps in, firing away at Sharpe with punches and a backdrop. Pier sixer erupts and the jobbers are Irish whipped into each other. Flying forearm wraps things up.

SPECIAL REPORT WITH CRAIG DEGEORGE
-Ken Patera is on his way back to the ring now that his arm is fully healed. He’s on his way back to competition and the Heenan Family had better look out.

“The Natural” BUTCH REED (with Slick) vs. LEAPING LANNY POFFO
-Slick does a gloriously egotistical introduction of Reed’s new entrance theme, “Jive Soul Bro” from Piledriver. Interesting possibly only to me: It’s just the instrumental track for the first verse.

-Reed charges but gets caught with a hiptoss right away. Reed dropkicks him clear out of the ring. Reed slams him on the concrete and rams him into the post for good measure. Back inside Reed clobbers Poffo and slams him down. He heads up to the top, but Poffo catches him with a shot to the gut. Elbow by Poffo, but Reed catches him in a bodypress and drops him on the top rope. Superstar Billy Graham steps in to warn Reed about his mighty pythons.

-Press slam finishes in the meantime, and Reed gets down to celebrate.

-Gene Okerlund talks to Billy Jack Haynes. He calls Haynes “a people person.” RF Video’s output involving the man makes me dispute that just slightly.

-Gorilla Monsoon mentions some upcoming thing called “Survivor Series,” which he says will be an exciting, innovative event, and he’ll tell us a little more about it in the coming weeks.

BAM-BAM BIGELOW (with Oliver Humperdink) vs. SHADOW 2 (with Shadow 1)
-Bigelow slams the Gang down as One Man Gang says that Bigelow’s not as big as him. Oh, snap.

-Shadow 2 gets knocked out of the ring and Shadow 1 does the old switcheroo, only to get shoulderblocked and dropkicked out of the ring. Shadow 2 comes back in and gets caught in a slam. Slingshot splash finishes with no trouble.

-Post-match, both Shadows attack, but Bam-Bam dodges them with a forward roll and tackles them out of the ring.

-Gene Okerlund talks to Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Nikolai Volkoff still rubs him the wrong way, even after taking a few months off.

ISLANDERS (with Bobby Heenan) vs. MARIO MANCINI & MIKE RICHARDS
-Tama chops Mancini and chops him additional times. Haku steps in for double chops. Jim Duggan steps in again and says the Islanders won’t get away with another sneak attack like they pulled last week.

-Mike Richards comes in to try his luck. Chops and headbutts by Tama. Haku continues to beat on him with shots to the throats and a rake across the back. Tama hits an elbow off the ropes for two, and Haku steps back in for a double-shot of the same move. Clothesline by Haku and he stomps Richards. Suplex could have finished, but Haku pulls up Richards. Tama chops Richards and snapmares him, then grinds and pulls at his mouth. Heenan suddenly gets on the mike and demands that the fans give a round of applause for the Islanders.

-Haku slams Richards into position for a top rope splash by Tama to finish. Nothing more than a squash match, but it involved a guy named Mike Richards getting the shit kicked out of him, so, five stars. Yes, I’m an EX-employee of “The Price is Right,” why do you ask?

SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH CRAIG DEGEORGE
-Craiggers takes a minute to give us a little exposition about Survivor Series. For one, it’s going to be on Thanksgiving night. What, are you shitting me? Hello, didn’t anybody tip these guys off that the NWA is already going to have their own pay-per-view event that night? Man, I bet the bonehead who came up with this brainfart got fired when Vince figured that out.

-Anyway, it’s going to be a series of tag team elimination matches, and here come the co-captains of one team involved at the Survivor Series, the Hart Foundation. Either they’re screwing this up or they changed the booking plans, because they make it sound like they’re competing against the Islanders & Demolition, among others, and it’s going to be last team standing.

INTERCONTINENTAL TITLE: HONKY TONK MAN (Champion, with Jimmy Hart) vs. RANDY “Macho Man” SAVAGE (with Elizabeth)
-Joined in progress Honky and the Hart Foundation return to the ring without Jimmy. Savage picks up where he left off, dropping an elbow. Honky fights back with kicks. Savage goes after him with elbows, but misses a charge. Honky backdrops Savage and flirts with Elizabeth until Savage suddenly hooks his legs and gets a near fall from it. Honky goes back to work with a series of punches in the corner. Snapmare by Honky and he goes back to the second rope for another fistdrop. This one misses and Savage lights into him with elbows and a baaaaaaack bodydrop. Honky begs for mercy again and gets another boot. Honky’s a slow learner.

-Savage chokes him in the corner. He elbows Honky down for a two-count. Suplex gets another two-count. Honky rakes his eyes and tosses Savage to the floor, where the Foundation pummels Savage as Honky jaws with the referee. The Harts load Savage back into the ring and Honky goes for the pin, but he can only get two. Shake, Rattle, & Roll is blocked & countered with a backdrop. Bodyslam by Savage. Flying elbow looks to finish, but in come the Harts to finish the job, double-teaming the hell out of Savage and allowing Honky to retain the title thanks to the trusty disqualification rule. 1 for 1, and unless anybody can direct me to something better, I’ll go ahead and declare this Honky’s best match ever.

-But back to the ring, where Honky has recovered to make it a 3-on-1 attack while Elizabeth panics. Honky grabs his guitar and winds it up while the Harts hold Savage in place. Elizabeth steps in right as the guitar comes down, and Honky catches himself in time to stop the guitar from hitting her, although he comes close enough that the crowd FREAKS. Honky warns Elizabeth that she should leave. She refuses, instead pleading for mercy, but Honky’s not in the mood, so he gives her a hard shove down to the mat. Elizabeth, hurt & scared, runs away.

-Honky, meanwhile, gets re-focused on the task and drills Savage with the guitar. Honky & the Harts continue kicking the shit out of Savage until Elizabeth returns to the ring…with Hulk Hogan. Hogan runs in and gets triple-teamed himself, but Hulk is able to make his own save until Savage makes it back to his feet, and they clear the ring. Hulk & Savage tease getting into a fistfight, but Savage suddenly thinks better of it and offers Hogan a handshake. Hogan accepts, and the crowd goes insane for the formation of the Mega Powers.

KILLER KHAN (with Mr. Fuji) vs. CHRIS ZARANA
-Forearms and elbows by Khan, and a kneelift followed by a chop. Another chop. Green sputum for fun, and here’s a backbreaker and a second rope kneedrop to finish.

-Gene Okerlund talks to the Rougeau Brothers. They’ve been wrestling six-man matches lately, and they’d like Hulk Hogan to join them some day for one of those, because it might be fun.

-Next!

-Originally aired October 18, 1987.

-We’re hailing from Greeeeeeeennnn Baaaaaaaaaayyyyy, Wisconsin.

-Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon & the Federette-assisted Bobby Heenan. This week, we’ll be seeing the Piledriver video. Gorilla assures us it’s a happening.

BRITISH BULLDOGS vs. BRIAN COSTELLO & “The Crippler” RIP OLIVER
-This match somehow reminds Gorilla that Survivor Series will be a happening. Smith & Oliver trade arm wringers as the Dream Team steps in to promise that they’ll mow down Matilda if they have the opportunity.

-Double headbutt by the bulldog, and Dynamite gives Oliver a hard shoulderblock. Snap suplex, and then Davey Boy heads back in, walking right into a side headlock. Oliver manages to follow with a shoulderblock, but gets press slammed for two. Dynamite comes back in and Oliver shows a little more life, with kneelifts and kicks. Dynamite gets caught in the wrong corner and double teamed. Costello tries a side headlock, but Dynamite escapes with a back suplex. Costello stays on top of him and Oliver offers a little cheating from the apron until Dynamite gets a lucky shot and makes the tag.

-Backdrop by Davey Boy; running powerslam looks to finish, but Davey Boy is feeling generous, so Dynamite comes in for a double-shoulderblock and a hard Irish whip. Smith press slams Dynamite on top of Costello, and that gets the pin.

SPECIAL REPORT WITH CRAIG DEGEORGE
-We take a look at Jake Roberts, master of psychological warfare and the DDT.

ONE MAN GANG (with Slick) vs. RICK GANTNER
-Gang pounds Gantner in the corner. Irish whip and Gantner makes an ill-advised attempt at a Flair flip to sell it. Oliver Humperdink warns the One Man Gang that Bam-Bam Bigelow is hot on his trail, AND he’s on the cover of the new WWF Magazine. So there’s that.

-Gang boots Gantner in the corner and chokes away as Gorilla formally announces YOUR Survivor Series main event: Hulk Hogan, Bam-Bam Bigelow, Paul Orndorff, Ken Patera, & Superstar Billy Graham vs. Andre the Giant, One Man Gang, King Kong Bundy, Butch Reed, & Rick Rude. Card subject to change.

-Gourdbuster finishes, as usual.

-Gene Okerlund talks to Strike Force about the 20-man elimination match and announces their opposition: Hart Foundation, Demolition, Islanders, Dream Team, and the Bolsheviks. Weird that they’re hyping that when one of those teams has yet to debut.

HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN vs. BARRY HOROWITZ
-Duggan keeps forcing Horowitz into the corner before punching him down. We get pre-recorded insanity from Duggan, gobbling and chanting “Survivor!” over and over.

-Duggan rams Horowitz into the turnbuckle. Horowitz goes for a flying bodypress, but Duggan catches him and slams him. Three-point stance gets the win.

-Gene Okerlund talks to Ken Patera, probably because he’s paid to. Patera has clearance to wrestle with a heavy orthopedic brace, which he assures us is heavily padded. Patera promises that his Survivor Series team will work together in accordance.

“PILEDRIVER” MUSIC VIDEO
- Honky Tonk Man drives into a construction site, where Billy Jack Haynes & Bam-Bam Bigelow stare at him angrily. Hulk Hogan grimaces with a sledgehammer until Don Muraco drops a slab of wood that blows dust in Honky’s face, and he leaves angrily.

-Meanwhile, Koko B. Ware talks about love. Sometimes love feels just right, it feels so real, and sometimes it feels like a piledriver. The construction crew (including Vince McMahon mugging like it’s going out of style) ogle some pretty girls. We hit the chorus again, and since the name of the song is “Piledriver,” of course, we see a ton of shots of Koko doing…a brainbuster. Well, yeah. Arnold Skaaland gets trapped in a port-a-john being hoisted by a forklift as we fade to black. Did I mention his best friend is a talking pie? In spite of all that, it’s actually a good song.

SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH CRAIG DEGEORGE
-Craig talks to Andre & Bobby Heenan about the Survivor Series. Andre doesn’t care about the rest of the team, he just wants vengeance for being cheated out of the belt.

SPECIAL REPORT WITH CRAIG DEGEORGE
-What the hell? Uh, okay, we’re taking a look this time around at highlights of the Intercontinental Title match from Saturday Night’s Main Event. Okay, think about this when you wonder why titles don’t seem like a big deal anymore. This match happened two weeks ago. We got a hype package for it that week, we saw highlights last week, and we’re seeing highlights again this week. So, yeah, a title match was kind of a big deal in those days. Savage is ready to kill people, by the way.

RAVISHING RICK RUDE & HERCULES (with Bobby Heenan) vs. JIM EVANS & SCOTT CASEY
-Rude has theme music now, and everything suddenly feels right. Great touch, as he makes it a point to do everything in time with the music during his intro. Sensational Sherri sits in for commentary and gives a hearty round of applause for the muscle men.

-Hercules starts with Casey as Sherri keeps fawning over them. Hercules hammers Casey down and Casey makes a quick tag to Evans, who walks right into a press slam. Bobby Heenan formally announces that he refuses to be held responsible for divorces caused by Rick Rude.

-Back to the ring, Rude slams Evans, then tags Hercules back in. He faceplants Evans and puts the boots to him as Sherri swoons, “Look at that guy.” Sherri didn’t bring a blade to the commentary table, but I think it’s a safe bet that she’s juicing up there.

-Rude chops Evans down and takes a break to pose. Hercules steps in to offer a backbreaker, and Rude comes in to finish with a body vice.

-Gene Okerlund talks to Oliver Humperdink. Andre the Giant and King Kong Bundy may have got the upper hand on Paul Orndorff, but Survivor Series means retribution.

-Next!

-Originally aired October, 25, 1987.

-We’re in Green Bay, Wisconsin, home of the factory that makes WWF Ice Cream Bars. I think there’s a historical marker there now.

-Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon & Bobby Heenan.

RANDY “Macho Man” SAVAGE (with Elizabeth) vs. VAN VAN HORNE
-Savage is OOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEERRRR in Green Bay this week. Savage works the arm and then just elbows VVH down. VVH goes to the floor and Savage gives chase. Back inside, Savage elbows him and drops a knee. He tosses VVH to the floor and meets him out there with the double-axehandle from the top. Slam sets things up, and the flying elbow takes us home.

SPECIAL REPORT WITH CRAIG DEGEORGE
-We look at the cover boy of the current WWF Magazine, Bam-Bam Bigelow. He’s beaten Nikolai Volkoff. He’s beaten the Shadows. Who might be next?

“Million Dollar Man” TED DIBIASE (with Virgil) vs. TONY PARKS
-DiBiase talks poopy about the Packers before the match. Criss-cross and DiBiase runs into a pair of armdrags before bailing out to re-think things. He comes back in and runs right into another armdrag. Back inside, DiBiase takes control with a series of chops and forearms. Backdrop and boots follow. Slams & stomps continue the alliteratively-themed offense. Clothesline gets a two-count. Suplex almost finishes, but Ted pulls up at two. Powerslam is the beginning of the end, and the grapevine Boston crucifix or whatever the hell they’re calling the move this week gives DiBiase the duke.

-Gene Okerlund talks to Jimmy Hart and the Honky Tonk Man about the Survivor Series. Survivor Series hype really loses something without graphics to help the fans keep track of who’s on the team. Hell, Honky even appears to be reading his opponent’s names off a cue card for this promo. Maybe we should be showing the fans pictures so they know what exactly is coming up on Thanksgiving.

STRIKE FORCE vs. STEVE LOMBARDI & TOM STONE
-Stone gets the early advantage on Martel, but Martel takes care of both opponents and tags in Tito. Tito shoulderblocks Stone and armdrags him. Lombardi tags in and gets hiptossed and armdragged all around. Armbar as we take another look at the new WWF Magazine, and the Classics editing team does another magnificent job of blurring an utterly microscopic “WWF” on the graphic.

-Back to the ring, Tito slams Tom Stone and then goes back to abusing Lombardi. Lombardi tries to mount a comeback with legscissors, but Martel turns it around to him and goes back to the armbar. Tito comes in and applies an arm wringer. Lombardi makes the tag as Gorilla oh-so-subtly boasts about the 400-plus cable companies that have signed to carry the Survivor Series.

-Stone goes to the eyes to try and get an advantage, but Martel makes the tag right away, and Stone gets double-teamed and runs into a flying forearm to finish.

-Gene Okerlund has a word with Hulk Hogan. We all need to train, say our prayers, and eat our vitamins to survive, brother!

ULTIMATE WARRIOR vs. TERRY GIBBS
-No music, no running. It’s jarring. Gibbs tries to attack from behind but gets shoved right on his ass. Leapfrog and a hiptoss by the warrior. He works the arm with a wristlock, so right off, Warrior is debuting with three moves that he never did again. We get pre-recorded words from the Warrior. The only thing flowing through his veins is the power of the Warrior.

-Press slam leads to the big splash, and Warrior gets the win.

SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH CRAIG DEGEORGE
-It’s Jimmy Hart again, because Craig DeGeorge has the guts to ask the questions that Gene Okerlund won’t touch. Jimmy brags that he manages so many champions that he’ll be in three out of the four matches at the Survivor Series.

“GIRLS IN CARS”
-We get a rare on-camera appearance of Jim Johnston. He introduces the video by explaining that the first time he met Strike Force, all they wanted to talk about was girls!

-So here you go, Strike Force’s entrance theme, and if you had Wrestlemania for NES, Ted DiBiase’s entrance theme for some reason. I actually like the instrumental version Strike Force used for their entrance, but the song itself…Well, it’s about the effect that girls in cars have on singer Robbie Dupree. You see them in their cars, you can’t get over how beautiful they are, but when you try to get a better look at them, they just seem to disappear. Apparently, this was originally supposed to be Clark Griswold’s entrance theme.

-Anyway, we see a bunch of girls. Like, a BUNCH. Most of them are waving, wearing bikinis or short shorts, and then out of nowhere we get a quick shot of one doing a fire-breathing trick. Were Grinder Girl and Hula Hoop Girl already booked? And we get a brief cameo by the back of Tito’s head, which is hilarious given that, you know, it’s Strike Force’s video.

DEMOLITION (with Mr. Fuji) vs. CHRIS ZARNA & SONNY ROGERS
-Ax axes Rogers as Gorilla again teases Heenan about being left off the Piledriver album. He WASN’T, dude! You’re the face announcer, you’re supposed to be the correct one! The Young Stallions smile and deliver a clearly scripted promo, back in the days when that was a bad sign instead of standard procedure.

-Smash pounds Zarna and Ax punches him down. Snapmare and a nerve hold by Ax, and Smash tags in and beats on Zarna’s sternum. Series of slams by Ax. Smash chokes Zarna and Ax comes in for the Decapitator to wrap it up.

-Gene Okerlund talks to the Killer Bees. They plan on surviving at the Survivor Series.

Adam Nedeff plans on Game Showing at Game Show Utopia.

The 411: Weird month, as the company is so focused on hyping their new album and gimmicky pay-per-view that, with the exception of Hulk-Andre and Savage-Honky, there's not too many angles or feuds being developed. But hey, at least they're building toward something, as opposed to figuring out how to present the same match in a different way THIS month. Just saying.

Final Score:  5.5   [ Not So Good ]