Original Airdate: Monday, March 8th, 1993
Manhattan Center
New York City, New York
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We kick it off with a studio interview from the Mega Maniacs. It's pretty easy to see why the crowd was starting to turn on Hogan here. This interview is about as lame as it gets. It ends with a "Live from New York, it's Monday Night Raw".
Virgil & El Matador vs. Money, Inc.
This match is very much 1992 WWF, except in 1993. Tito gets in a reverse elbow in on DiBiase and tags in Virgil. IRS is tagged in as well and Virgil hits him with a flurry of offensive moves. Tito gets a few right hands in and throws him back in the ring. Tito and Virgil are showing off some impressive teamwork here for a thrown together team. Tito and DiBiase collide in the middle of the ring and both men are down. They both make tags and Virgil gets the best of IRS. IRS screws up a spot by falling down instead of getting hit by the clothesline after being thrown into the turnbuckle. DiBiase distracts Virgil, IRS hits a suplex and that's all. Keep in mind that this is the team that is semi-main eventing WrestleMania. Match was decent enough despite the lame finish.
Match Rating: *3/4 (out of 5)
They show highlights of Tatanka getting non-title victories over Shawn Michaels over the past few weeks.
Rick Martel comes out to the ring and confronts the Raw Girl. He has her leave the ring and he models the sign.
Tatanka vs. Phil Apollo
Tatanka hip tosses Apollo over the top rope to the floor. Shawn Michaels joins Vince over the phone. Michaels says Tatanka got lucky, but the big time is WrestleMania and Michaels will walk out of Caesar's Palace as the Intercontinental Championship. Meanwhile, Tatanka continues with his Ultimate Warrior lite offense and finishes Apollo with End Of The Trail. Tatanka continues his undefeated streak.
Match Rating: 1/4*
It's a WrestleMania IX Report with Mean Gene. Bret Hart says that he's been studying Yokozuna and he likes that he's walking into WrestleMania as the underdog. Mr. Fuji says that Yokozuna will be the WWF Champion. Mean Gene hypes up the Roman theme. Paul Bearer and Undertaker say Giant Gonzalez will pay.
Rick Martel is back out again and takes away the card from another Raw Girl.
Papa Shango vs. Mike Edwards
I guess we're still getting Papa Shango squashes here in March of '93. He destroys Edwards here pretty quickly, but picks him up while pinning him. The second time he hits a back suplex, he doesn't go for the cover. He then hits a reverse shoulder breaker for the victory. That was a dangerous looking move.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Bob Backlund vs. Tony Demoro
Vince lets us know that Demoro is a really good looking young man that is really put together. After denying Backlund a handshake, they lock up and Backlund throws Demoro across the ring. It still amazes me that Backlund was the champion he was back in the day. Backlund hits a double underhook suplex and then goes for a goofy pin cover for the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Rob Bartlett is backstage with Martel. He said he wanted to show the Raw Girls how to model. He says that perfection is boring and he's going to show everyone that he has so much class.
Rick Martel vs. Mr. Perfect
I don't believe I've ever seen these two wrestle one another. Martel does his cartwheel taunt, but Perfect does it right back to him. Martel gets his knee up on a charging Perfect and follows it up with a suplex. Perfect dumps Martel out of the ring right before the commercial break. Back from the break and Martel regains control. Martel goes for a slingshot leap over the top rope, but Perfect gets his knees up. Perfect hits Martel in the midsection as he comes off the second rope. Perfect hits an inverted atomic drop and a back body drop. They go to an awkward second commercial break and when we come back, the match is over. They show the replay of Perfect hitting the Perfect Plex for the victory. The fact that this was a taped show makes that decision even more awful.
Match Rating: **1/4
After the Slim Jim spot Perfect is shown walking back out with the Raw Girls. Next week we have Kamala in action along with Razor Ramon. The main event will be Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Typhoon.
This show had a really good pace to it this week with the major exception of them missing the finish of the main event of the show. How does that even happen? Regardless, we got two decent TV matches and the crowd was a little more lively than usual. It was 45 minutes of entertaining television even if nothing of note really happened.
Overall Rating: 58%
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