Monday, January 25th, 1993
Manhattan Center
New York City, New York
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Sean Mooney is outside the building and a tow truck arrives. Repo Man comes out of it and tells the Macho Man that he's here to repossess his career.
Repo Man vs. Randy Savage
Savage runs out while Repo is in the ring and attacks him. Repo is able to throw Savage outside, but he comes right back in and knees Repo outside of the ring. Repo tries to retreat, but Savage catches up to him and brings him back to the ring. Repo counters Savage and slams him into the steel steps. They cut to commercial at a weird spot where Savage catches Repo's leg. I guess they were still getting used to live TV going into commercial. Repo continues the assult after the break and he gets a 2 count after a suplex. It really is hard to believe that this is the same guy who was so intimidating as Smash. Savage hits Repo with a clothesline and then heads up top and hits an elbow drop. Savage gets the victory in a pretty vanilla match.
Match Rating: *1/4 (out of 5)
Kamala vs. Brooklyn Brawler
This was the short-lived babyface run for Kamala with Slick. Brawler attacks him, but goes for a body slam and it doesn't end well for him. Kamala hits all of his typical squash match offense and the crowd is pretty surprisingly behind him. He hits the splash and of course still needs help rolling him over, but he eventually gets it for the win. He literally worked the exact same match despite no longer being a heel.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Vince McMahon goes out to interview Slick, who credits the fans for converting Kamala.
Mean Gene is here with a Royal Rumble Report. He goes over the main storylines out of the Rumble.
Loser Leaves WWF Match
Ric Flair vs. Mr. Perfect
Now that I think of it, it's kind of weird that Steamboat left WWF as Flair was coming in and now Flair is leaving as Luger is arriving. It would have been fun to at least get a quick feud out of each before they left. They take it slow to start things off here, mixing in some slaps to the face. Perfect starts chopping Flair in the corner and we get the signature Flair fall, to which Bartlett has no idea what Flair just did. Flair now backs Perfect in the corner, but Perfect counters and chops him again and mixes in some jabs. Flair gives Perfect a thumb to the eye and dumps Perfect outside. Flair grabs a chair, but Earl Hebner takes it away as they go to commercial break. Back in the ring, Flair is still dominating and sends Perfect to the outside on an Irish whip to the turnbuckle. Perfect is busted open. "It's like life. You can do anything until you get caught." Bobby Heenan was one of a kind. Both men battle for a backslide and Perfect finally gets him over for a 2 count. Perfect comes back with a back body drop and Flair is begging for mercy. Perfect has him in the corner and gives him multiple right hands until Flair hits an inverted atomic drop. Flair locks in the sleeper hold in the middle of the ring. Perfect is able to keep his arm up on the third drop and drags Flair to the turnbuckle. They have a miscommunication that turns into an awkward leap by Perfect and him grabbing Flair into a sleeper hold pin attempt. Flair gets out of it with a suplex and both men are down. Flair is up and locks in the Figure Four and uses the ropes for leverage. Hebner finally notices it and makes Flair release the hold. Flair continues to work on Perfect's knee. Flair heads up to the top rope, but Perfect slams him off as we go to the final commercial. Flair grabs some knucks from his knee pad and nails Perfect with them. Flair hits an elbow drop and goes for a pin, but Perfect has his leg on the rope. He hooks the leg and still only gets 2. Flair continues to hit the open wound on Perfect's forehead. Flair goes after Perfect, but Perfect is using his magical babyface powers and hits a big back body drop. He hits an awkward clothesline on the top of Flair's head. Flair goes up top and Perfect hits yet another awkward clothesline to counter it. Flair goes for a pin with his feet on the ropes and again this is kind of awkward looking. Perfect out of nowhere hits the Perfect Plex for the victory. The drama was great, but there were a lot of spots that were just off. That's not something you usually see when these two are in the ring. Still, this was a nice use of Flair leaving but it's kind of a shame that Perfect didn't ever get much of a chance at a main event spot after this.
Match Rating: ***1/2
Heenan joins Flair in walking to the back while Perfect celebrates in the ring. They then show a WWF Mania promo. They announce next week that we are getting Typhoon against Doink. Not quite on par with this week's matchup.
Overall, this was about as good of a show as you were going to get in this format. You had a memorable main event, a Macho Man match and a squash. The good thing is the show has yet to feel long and on this episode Bartlett hardly got a word in. That's a win in my book.
Overall Rating: 70%
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