Your hosts are Vince McMahon, Randy Savage and Rob Bartlett.
The Megamaniacs give a crazed interview. Hogan: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, but that didn't have anything to do with Brutus' face at all!" Dude, wtf?
Money Inc. vs. Tito Santana & Virgil.
Tito and Dibiase do a damned fine wrestling sequence early. It's interesting that the early Raws often led off with the best match and did the angles later on. Presumably, that's so they didn't cut off the good matches by going off the air. Tito and Virgil start cheating to the delight of the crowd. We take a break (Gilbert & Rhonda host USA Up All Night) and comes back to Tito getting hit in the gut by Irwin. Dibiase tags in, but he collides with Tito. Virgil gets the hot tag and cleans house on IRS. Dibiase trips up Virgil, allowing IRS to finish with the backdrop suplex at 9:46. Tito was always quality, and Virgil was near his peak, so this was a good JTTS squash. **1/2
Recap of Tatanka's various upsets of Shawn Michaels.
Tatanka vs. Phil Apollo.
Apollo looks like a young, chunky Mike Adamle. He actually gets in a few slugs and kicks before Tatanka finishes with the Samoan Drop at 2:43. 1/4*
The WrestleMania report.
Rick Martel sends one of the skanky Raw girls to the back and carries the ring card himself.
TMNT III: Turtles in Time commercial.
Papa Shango vs. Mike Edwards.
Ah yes. Papa Shango. Master of the Dark Pimping Ultimate Fighting Arts. You may know him as Kama Mustafa or just Kama or the Godfather or maybe the Soultaker but probably not. Shango puts the boots Edwards and headbutts him low. The reverse shoulderbreaker finishes at 2:32. I like that move, but it really is more of a setup to a finisher than an actual finisher. 1/2*
Rick Martel returns again to get rid of the Raw girls.
Bob Backlund vs. Tony DeMoro.
Bob is *really* over with the crowd. Then again, most of them probably remember his title reign when they were five. DeMoro looks like someone, but I can't put my finger on it. Steve McMichael maybe. Backlund schools him on the mat and finishes with a 3/4 Nelson rollup at 3:53. Backlund was soooo out of his element here, but it seemed to work. 1/4*
In the back, Rick "The Model" Martel runs down Bartlett and the ring girls who know nothing about modeling.
Fire In the Sky commercial.
Mr. Perfect vs. The Model.
It's an AWA dream match. One-upsmanship early as Martel cartwheels away from Perfect, so Perfect cartwheels away from Martel's reverse monkeyflip. Perfect sends Martel to the floor, so we take a commercial break (Roger Clemens Baseball for SNES). We come back to Martel holding a chinlock. Martel hits a backbreaker and tries to slingshot into a splash, but Perfect gets his knees up. Perfect whips Martel to the buckle and backdrops him as we go to another break (CB4, short-lived Matrix TV Show). Perfect wins during the break. Martel ducked his head on a backdrop and got Perfectplexed around 10 minutes in. **
Perfect celebrates with the Raw girls to pay off the little storyline they had going.
The 411: Another bland show outside of the opening tag. There's almost no hype for WrestleMania IX at this point. The Summer of '93 can't get here soon enough.
JD, did you see Fueling the Fire yet, with the MCMGs vs Aries/Danielson?
Posted By: hamatosan (Guest) on September 30, 2008 at 12:07 PM
They finished the match during the commercial break? The main event match, no less? WTF?
Posted By: subtlefuge (Registered) on September 30, 2008 at 12:29 PM
@ hamatosan, Fueling the Fire was pretty good but Death Before Dishonor VI is the best show I've seen all year so far. Just getting that out there in advance.
Posted By: Guest#7505 (Guest) on September 30, 2008 at 05:05 PM
I wonder what Rhonda Shear looks like these days?
Posted By: s1rweeze (Guest) on September 30, 2008 at 05:35 PM
"JD, did you see Fueling the Fire yet, with the MCMGs vs Aries/Danielson?"
It's coming up. I have about five ROH/FIP/PWR DVDs just waiting for me, but I'm working on this year's 31y, 31s first.
Posted By: J.D. Dunn (Registered) on September 30, 2008 at 09:25 PM
No surprise DiBiase & Santana worked well together; they'd known each other for years at this point. College roommates, IIRC.
Posted By: rwe1138 (Registered) on September 30, 2008 at 09:28 PM
I love the ad updates. Hilarious!
That main event could have been good. Sounds like a but of a fuck up to end it in the commercial, though.
Posted By: Guest (Registered) (Guest) on October 01, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Since you like to rip off Simpsons quotes, you sir are "The Worst Columnist on this site EVER! I suggest taking some time off and trying to refresh your material. It's getting as dry as Bea Arthurs twat on an African safari.
Posted By: Elias (Guest) on October 01, 2008 at 02:23 AM
I've been hesitant to buy FTF or DBD6 yet, as only the ROH board has reviewed them and those fans tend to think everything is a bit better than I do.
Posted By: hamatosan (Guest) on October 01, 2008 at 02:31 AM
when I saw at the end of last weeks that it was Martel vs Perfect I had no recollection of it at all, my memory of Martel was that he had disappeared in late 1992 ( was he at the rumble?) and didn't come back until after Summerslam for the Razor Ramon stuff.
however I totally remember the match with the finish in the ad break stuff, obviously in the UK we only had Mania at the time, so I had no idea it was the last match, but that was just stupid
I remember them showing all the replays and stuff.
However, especially at a time when kayfabe still existed it added a bit of reality to the situation, as it would be very well a match could end during the ad break
Posted By: zhukov (Registered) on October 01, 2008 at 09:53 AM
WCW once had a Brian Pillman vs. Ricky Steamboat end during an ad break on a taped show. The show went to break and when it resumed, Jim Ross said that the match had ended and then showed the finish.
Posted By: Guest#3077 (Guest) on October 01, 2008 at 01:00 PM
"TMNT III: Turtles in Time commercial."
Showing my nerdiness, I know, but this isn't the game of the game. It must be TMNT III: The Manhattan Project, or TMNT IV: Turtles in Time.
Posted By: Matt H (Guest) on October 01, 2008 at 06:13 PM
If WWE ended a match during a commercial I can only image the screaming from the 12 year olds on here about the WWE going out of business.
Posted By: Guest#5324 (Guest) on October 01, 2008 at 07:33 PM
"TMNT III: Turtles in Time commercial."
Showing my nerdiness, I know, but this isn't the game of the game. It must be TMNT III: The Manhattan Project, or TMNT IV: Turtles in Time.
Posted By: Matt H (Guest) on October 01, 2008 at 06:13 PM
Actually, this commercial refers to the third TMNT movie, also called Turtles in Time, which came out in March 1993. The video game Turtles in Time was out in 1992 according to Wikipedia.
Posted By: Jeff (Guest) on October 02, 2008 at 01:22 AM
"I wonder what Rhonda Shear looks like these days?"
She's always selling lingerie on one of the home shopping channels.
Posted By: Trashy (Guest) on October 02, 2008 at 10:55 AM
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