Original Airdate: Saturday, July 4th, 1992
Victor Copps Coliseum
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
What better way for Vince McMahon to celebrate the 4th of July then pretending to be in Canada?
High Energy vs. Bob Bradley & Joe Milano
Owen hits an enzaguri that only connects on the shoulder, but the jobber still does a nice sell and does a flip to the mat. Owen tags in Koko and we get a double clothesline. The Nasty Boys let High Energy that they are going to be Nasty-sized. Owen holds up the jobber, who just seemingly sits in his arms waiting for something to happen, and Koko hits him with a dropkick off of the top rope. I'd rather watch High Energy jobber matches over just about anyone else on the roster right now.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Update with Mean Gene and he was fortunate enough to talk to Big Boss Man this week. They show the clips from 5 weeks ago of the attack by Nailz. We now get a phone interview with Boss Man. Boss Man claims that he has lost a lot of weight, but he is on the road to recovery. Boss Man says he'll be back a lot sooner than Nailz thinks.
Rick Martel vs. Jason Knight
Martel is still the ultimate mid-card heel. Knight got Martel in position for a monkey flip and got really excited, but Martel countered. Boston Crab and that is all.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Crush vs. Kerry Davis
According to Vince, Crush is a great example of what ICOPRO can do for you. Press slam followed up by a leg drop. 30 seconds in and Crush already seems like he's not sure what to do next. Crush does his lame finisher and that is all.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Event Center with Sean Mooney. Kamala gets the generic WWF background. That was something. British Bulldog is training harder than ever to get ready for Repo Man. Davey Boy says "Repo Man" like 6 times in this 30 second interview.
Papa Shango vs. Joe McMullen
Shango does some voodoo and McMullen starts grabbing his knee. Vince says you have to believe in the voodoo for it to be effective. Sound logic. Shango works on the knee a little and hits a gutwrench powerbomb. He then hits a reverse shoulderbreaker type move for the 3 count.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Back to the Event Center. Texas Tornado says people wonder how they stay in shape with the schedule they have. He said it's all about guts. Ric Flair and Mr. Perfect are here to say they want a rematch because Flair needs the title.
Sgt. Slaughter vs. Barry Hardy
Slaughter gives Hardy a series of kicks to the gut and a big knee. Gutbuster by the Sarge and some blows to the back of Hardy. Sarge hits him with a pretty weak clothesline and then puts on the Cobra Clutch for the victory. Not exactly peak Sarge here.
Match Rating: 1/4*
STOP THE PRESSES! The WBF Championship is now available on VHS. I can't help but wonder if this even sold 10 copies, no joke.
Mean Gene now introduces Repo Man, who rides to the stage on a bike. He met a kid who was studying for finals, so he had to quit his job so he couldn't make payments for his bike. Repo did his job and stole it from him. He then makes some lame not even dad joke quality jokes about the British Bulldog. How did this make the air?
Barry Horowitz vs. Bret Hart
Criss cross to begin, which is one of my favorite underused cheesy moves in wrestling. Bret turns it into an inverted atomic drop. Bret hits his suplex and side Russian legsweep. Bret just going straight to all of the signature stuff today and then easily puts him into the Sharpshooter. 3 years later and Horowitz would be getting ready to be on SummerSlam.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Razor Ramon is walking the street and telling the kids at home to not go to school if you want to be like Razor. Razor then steals from a produce stand and spits in the employees face. Congrats to Razor on a nice spit into the camera to end the segment.
WBF Body Stars commercial is every bit as terrible as you would expect it to be.
Scott Taylor & Phil Apollo vs. The Beverly Brothers
We get a few suplexes by both Beverly Brothers and they quickly hit their seemingly dangerous finisher on Taylor really quickly. Poor future Doink didn't even get a chance to impress. After the match, they continue with the whole LOS. Scott Taylor has been on NXT in 2012, Smackdown in 2005 and Superstars in 1992. I am glad to be covering so much of his career.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Event Center again and Tatanka gives a little bit more of a focused promo than usual telling Martel he will be getting his revenge. The Mountie and Jimmy Hart talk about all of the fan mail they get. God bless The Mountie.
Next week on Superstars we get Money, Inc., Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Nailz and Legion of Doom. I am counting down the seconds.
Superstars is what it is here in 1992, which is basically an infomercial for WWF and the occasional WBF/ICOPRO spot. You almost never get anything resembling a competitive match and the promos are pretty repetitive. Some of the episodes flow better than others and most of the time I can't even put my finger on why that is. This would fall under that category. Not a good show (at all), but easy enough to watch if you are a fan of this era.
Overall Rating: 30%
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