Original Airdate: Saturday, November 14th, 1992
Hulman Center
Terre Haute, Indiana
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WWF Tag Team Championship Match
Money, Inc. vs. Ultimate Maniacs
Warrior and Savage run into the ring and are immediately attacked by IRS and Dibiase. Of course, it doesn't last long and they are both thrown over the top. Bobby Heenan debuts his Brain Scan and makes fun of Ross Perot. Warrior misses a shoulder tackle and Dibiase is able to tag IRS. They cut to Flair, Razor and Perfect in the back.. Both IRS and Dibiase put Warrior in a sleeper hold. Savage illegally breaks up the Million Dollar Dream and then Warrior and Dibiase hit a double clothesline. Hot tag to Savage and boy do I miss reactions from back in the day. Savage hits a top rope elbow drop, but Dibiase breaks up the pin attempt. I have to say, Warrior and Savage are kind of a fun tag team. They send IRS and Dibiase over the ropes again and Money, Inc. walks away and gets counted out. They chase them down the aisle and out come Flair, Razor and Perfect to surprise attack them. That was a fun early 90s WWF style match. It's too bad we never got the real payoff thanks to Warrior being Warrior.
Match Rating: **1/2 (out of 5)
Intercontinental Championship Match
Shawn Michaels vs. British Bulldog
They aren't wasting any time here tonight. Within the first minute, they do more wrestling than we normally see from this era. Bulldog hits an impressive press slam on Michaels and then sends him to the outside. Michaels takes the top turnbuckle behind the refs back and Heenan loves it. Michaels works on the back of the Bulldog. Bulldog makes his comeback and the crowd is loving it. Vertical suplex gets a nearfall. Michaels counters Bulldog and sends him into the turnbuckle that he loosened up. Bulldog goes for a superplex, but Michaels counters and falls on top of him. Michaels gets the pinfall and the Intercontinental Championship. That was kind of a weird ending to an otherwise good match.
Match Rating: ***
Mean Gene is backstage with Flair, Razor and Savage. Flair says that it's not about winning or losing, it's about making it out of the building in one piece.
Bret Hart is now backstage with Mean Gene. He talks about his training with his father, Stu.
WWF Championship Match
Papa Shango vs. Bret Hart
The original version of Bret's entrance is so much better than "newer" version. Bret hits a monkey flip on Shango and then a flying bodypress, but Shango sends him to the outside. Bret sends himself over the top rope to the floor, which was something you didn't see a lot of in 1992. Bret is one of the very select few wrestlers that can make anyone's offense look awesome. Bret's out there selling like crazy and Vince is acting surprised that Shango is a formidable opponent, which in turn makes Hart seem weak. Maybe I'm just over analyzing it. Hart tries to make a comeback, but Shango counters a sleeper hold and slams Bret into the turnbuckle. Shango misses a second rope elbow drop and Bret's all mad because that's his move. Bret's punches are a thing of beauty as well. Again Vince is shocked at how good Papa Shango is. Bret puts on the Sharpshooter and Shango gives up. Leave it to Bret to have a good match here. That was better than I was expecting for sure and I can't emphasize enough how good Bret was here.
Match Rating: **3/4
We go right to Paul Bearer in the Funeral Parlor. They show the footage of Undertaker making the casket for Kamala. Bearer introduces Taker and he comes out of a coffin that is part of the set. Taker talks about maggots feasting on Kamala's carcass.
Mean Gene is back with Bret Hart again. They talk about how his match with Michaels is now champion vs. champion and in walks Michaels. Michaels tells Bret that he beat the man that embarrassed him in front of 80,000 people. That was a good, quick little segment.
Back to Vince and Heenan, where Heenan is on the phone getting a scoop that Savage and Warrior will not be a team at Survivor Series. One of them will be out with a new partner, but he doesn't know who. And with that, they go off the air.
That was a really enjoyable show. All three matches were entertaining and the crowd was into all of it. They also crammed a lot into a 42 minute show with no downtime at all. It's a shame that this was the end of Saturday Night's Main Event, but it at least ended with a bang.
Overall Rating: 76%
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