Original Airdate: Saturday, November 11th, 1995
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We get a recap of the 1-2-3 Kid/Razor Ramon saga and they get their shot again with the Smoking Gunns here today.
Owen Hart vs. Angel de Guerra
Jerry Lawler suggests that de Guerra is going to get sued for stealing the Angels logo on his tights. Owen dominates and gets some cheers from the Canadian crowd. He hits a beautiful missile dropkick before slapping on the Sharpshooter for the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to Dok Hendrix for the Survivor Series Slam Jam. Dok is rolling over the couch thinking about the Diesel/Bret Hart match. We hear from both competitors and they cut their B level quality promos. Don't forget about Undertaker's awesome team against King Mabel's team.
Rad Radford vs. Barry Horowitz
We get some good action to start off and then out come the Body Donnas. They try to get Radford rejuvenated, but it distracts him and Horowitz hits him with a headbutt before bringing him in the ring the hard way. Radford misses in the corner and Horowitz gets a series of right hands in. Radford hits an ugly looking drop on Horowitz to get out of the corner and we go to commercial. JR drops a bombshell about Waylon Mercy retiring from WWF. Radford hits a suplex for a 2 count. These guys are surprisingly getting a lot of time. Horowitz makes his comeback, but the crowd isn't really into it. Barry gets a pin attempt, but Skip distracts the referee. Skip then throws the water in Barry's eyes and Radford rolls him up for the victory. This was perfectly acceptable wrestling for Superstars in 1995.
Match Rating: *3/4
Isaac Yankem vs. Dave Dalton
It doesn't get much worse than this. I'm sorry, I didn't even really watch this one. I'm sure it was really good.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get in the ring with JR who is with Sid, Ted DiBiase, Jim Cornette and British Bulldog. It's always fun to hear Sid do a little bit of yelling. It's too bad DiBiase has to stink up the joint. Cornette has a fun line about taking Ted to lunch and he would have paid if there wasn't a credit card issue. They're just teasing the tension that the wild card match is creating.
We get the Karate Fighters commercial with the Smoking Gunns.
WWF Tag Team Championship Match
Razor Ramon & 1-2-3 Kid vs. Smoking Gunns
They hype up the Razor/Sid match that features Kid as the referee. I bet nothing eventful happens there. I keep getting more and more upset that I am no longer am going to be watching this timeline pretty soon here. 1996 was the year that I was looking forward to the most and I will only get up to the Royal Rumble barring a miracle. These teams actually have pretty good chemistry, which really isn't surprising now that I've re-watched this era. They do the thing they love to do on Superstars and just have the match end for a stupid reason just as it is getting good. Razor and Billy start slugging away at each other and the referee disqualifies both teams. You know, because that never happens. They couldn't have just given them a couple more minutes? After the match, Kid is so sad and Razor tries to talk to him, but he walks to the back like Charlie Brown.
Match Rating: *1/2
Dok runs through the entire card before giving us a Goldust promo.
When we come back, we see Razor and Kid backstage. They try to interview them, but Kid is still pouting. He slams the door on the camera. Don't forget, Razor takes on Sid on Raw this Monday. I 100% have not watched that already. Next week on Superstars, we will have Savio Vega in action and a special interview with the entire team of the Royals. Bob Holly will take on Goldust in his first Superstars match.
This was actually a pretty enjoyable episode even if the crowd seemed to be sitting on their hands. They must have used all they had on Bret's match last week. But this one went by at a good pace and had some good action minus the Isaac Yankem match. (Yes, I know I gave the Yankem match the same rating as the Owen match, but it's a squash and there's not much you can really give it other than that.)
Overall Rating: 50%
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