Monday, March 15th, 1993
Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Poughkeepsie, New York
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For the first time in the short history of the show, they are not at the Manhattan Center. Even better, we get Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan. Unfortunately, Rob Bartlett is still here and he is pretending to be Vince McMahon. The impersonation is as awful as you would expect it to be.
Razor Ramon vs. Ross Greenberg
Much like the Elvis gimmick Barlett did, this is unbearable and is just making the show hard to watch. I will never understand how Razor Ramon went from having a title shot at Royal Rumble to fighting Bob Backlund at WrestleMania with no backstory. Gorilla is already ignoring Bartlett. God bless that man. Anyways, Razor looks good as he almost always did during this era here, hitting all of his signature matches. He hits the Razor's Edge and that's all.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Typhoon vs. L.A. Gore
Apparently a blizzard caused some of the talents to miss the show, so that's a hot topic of discussion on this episode. Typhoon gets in his usual power moves, including an Irish whip that sounded like the ring was about to fall apart. He hits the big splash and gets the pinfall victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Bobby Heenan is in the ring and he's yelling at someone for not giving him his cue, which lets them get in their ICOPRO and Hasbro action figure commercials. Heenan introduces Giant Gonzalez and Harvey Wippleman. It's almost as if they were trying to top Max Moon's horrendous costume when they dreamed up Gonzalez's suit. I still am unable to even comprehend how Wippleman is only 27 years old here. They actually let Gonzalez say something and it's that he has a giant surprise for him. Heenan tried, but it is what it is.
We get a WrestleMania IX promo that is 100% based around Hulk Hogan returning. They squeeze in that Bret is facing Yokozuna at the end.
Papa Shango vs. Bob Backlund
This one seems like it will be quite the style clash. Backlund uses his usual tricks here. Shango hits a backbreaker and seriously I can't even concentrate on the match because of Bartlett. Outside the ring, Shango drives Backlund into the ring while Gorilla yells "STOP" at Bartlett. You can't help but feel bad for Shango here. He must be lost without his voodoo powers. Now the best he can come up with is a two minute headlock in a seven minute match. Backlund gets out of it, but Shango hits him with a knee to the gut. Backlund gets a small package out of nowhere and that is all. Well, that was uneventful.
Match Rating: 1/2*
We head to Mean Gene for a WrestleMania IX Report. They show a clip of Yokozuna hitting the Banzai Splash on some poor fool. Money, Inc. says that they have a special briefcase being made for WrestleMania. Such intrigue. Undertaker and Paul Bearer say a bunch of stuff that of course leads to Rest In Peace.
The Nasty Boys vs. The Headshrinkers
I have to say, the Manhattan Center is probably a cooler venue but the atmosphere here is pretty cool as well. If there are ever shows in arenas again, I think it would actually improve the show to go to arenas that hold around 3,000-5,000 people. The Nasty Boys get the early advantage hitting a back body drop and a DDT. Back from the commercial break, the Headshrinkers are working on Sags. Sags makes the hot tag to Knobbs and he goes for a double noggin knocker, which of course doesn't work. So then he goes to a double DDT and that does work? Wrestling logic. They spill out to the floor and they are brawling at a table full of food. They start covering each other in mustard and handing out unprotected shots to the head. The match is ruled a double countout. This was decent enough for these four.
Match Rating: *1/4
We now get a charity highlight package and boy is this something. It ends with a picture of Vince McMahon and it says that he is the President/CEO of the WWF. Was this the first time they acknowledged this on TV?
Well, this show was most likely written on the fly as a result of the blizzard, so they get a bit of a pass. However, there was nothing worth watching on this one and can easily be skipped. Kudos to the crowd though. They tried their best to make this entertaining.
Overall Rating: 39%
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