Original Airdate: Monday, July 12th, 1993
Manhattan Center
New York City, New York
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WWF Championship Match
Yokozuna vs. Crush
The crowd is definitely lively here for this hoss battle. Crush is able to knock Yoko over the top rope and to the floor to a good pop. Crush follows up an Irish whip with a Stinger Splash. He goes for another one, but this time Yoko is able to move out of the way. Yoko keeps up his attack into the commercial break. As soon as we get back, Yoko hits a superkick. His heat segment seems to go on forever until Yoko misses with a squash in the corner. Crush makes his comeback and hits a top rope shoulder tackle for a 2 count. Crush goes up to the top again, but Fuji knocks him off with the flag. Yoko hits a body slam to the floor. Back in the ring, Yoko hits a belly-to-belly suplex and a big leg drop. Yoko hits the Banzai Drop for the victory. These 10 minutes or so felt like an hour. Yoko hits two more Banzai Dropes and out comes Tatanka. Yoko takes care of them and hits another Banzai Drop. Randy Savage comes in and pulls Crush out of the way before he hits another Banzai Drop.
Match Rating: 3/4* (out of 5)
After all of that, Crush does a stretcher job.
The Headshrinkers vs. PJ Walker & Aaron Ferguson
We get a quick double team and they just launch Ferguson up in the air and face-first to the mat. After destroying Ferguson, they drag his lifeless body to the corner and now go after Walker. It should be noted that the Manhattan Center crowd loves the Headshrinkers. They hit a double side Russian leg sweep, hit the top rope splash and get the victory. The world deserved a longer Steiners/Headshrinkers feud.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get a rare hype video for next week. We are getting a Shawn Michaels/Marty Jannetty rematch.
Tatanka vs. Brooklyn Brawler
Savage is back to give us an update on Crush and I'm pretty sure doesn't take a breath of air in the entire minute or so he goes on about it. Meanwhile in the ring, we are getting a lot of stalling and chasing. Tatanka hits a scoop slam and works on the arm. Brawler hits a reverse neckbreaker as I begin to wonder why this match is still going on. Brawler hits a clothesline, takes off his shirt and uses it to choke Tatanka. Brawler gets Tatanka in a headlock and the cameras get a good shot of Brawler, Hebner and Tatanka communicating about how much time is left. Tatanka starts to make his comeback and oddly screws up running the ropes. He hits a chop and then another from the top rope. He hits the Samoan Drop and that is all. I'm not sure that the undefeated Tatanka should have needed seven minutes against the Brooklyn Brawler in 1993.
Match Rating: 1/2*
They then head to the streets to get a bunch of kids' opinions regarding the Lex Luger title situation.
Mr. Hughes vs. Tony DeVito
A black wreath that says "Rest In Peace" on it is brought to ringside as the match starts. Mr. Hughes hits his same three power moves that he always hits. He pulls out a dropkick this time and then his variation of the chokeslam for the victory. It hilariously takes Mr. Hughes like 30 seconds to read the card that has about five words on it. Even Vince calls him out for it.
Match Rating: 1/4*
SummerSlam Report time with Mean Gene. This will probably be the highlight of the show. Bret Hart will be taking on Jerry Lawler. And...that's it?
We now get another video of Men On A Mission or M.O.M. I don't remember that they actually called them M.O.M.?
Adam Bomb vs. Scott Amati
Vince says that Adam Bomb is the personality profile in this month's WWF Magazine. Don't you have to have a personality in order to profile it? We're back to Savage going nuts about Crush being hurt. Bomb tosses Amati around and then launches him across the outside of the ring. Bomb then hits a top rope clothesline and a powerbomb for the victory. The crowd also liked Bomb here.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Next week Jerry Lawler is going to have Tiny Tim on the King's Court. We also get Men On A Mission and the 1-2-3 Kid. Who booked this episode? I don't get how you look at this card and think this would amount to anything worthwhile? They sold the Crush injury angle hard, but I'm not really sure that it resonated. Bomb and the Headshrinkers looked good in their limited time, but that's about it.
Overall Rating: 40%
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