Monday, July 19th, 1993
Manhattan Center
New York City, New York
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We get a clip of the Lex Express beginning to tour. It's pretty easy to see why this was a flop.
Intercontinental Championship Match
Shawn Michaels vs. Marty Jannetty
We get a perfect Rocker-esque beginning to the match that ends with Shawn Michaels on the floor. Shawn gets back in the ring and Marty continues to be one step ahead. Vince claims that Marty was the superior of the two Rockers as his nose grows 3 inches. Marty hits a DDT and gets a victory, even though it was clear that Shawn's foot was on the rope. They go to commercial in the middle of his celebration, but when we come back, the match is back in action. Marty continues to get the best of Michaels until we get a little bit of a strange spot where they collided and then they ended up colliding again. Shawn gets in a cheap shot before the next commercial break and when we come back he finally has the advantage. Savage is absolutely loving this match. Michaels goes for a powerbomb, but Marty hits a hurricanrana into a pin attempt and a nearfall. That's something you literally never saw in this era of WWF. Marty hits a Rocker Dropper and Michaels ends up tied up in the top two ropes. Shawn is able to duck a crossbody attempt and Marty goes soaring to the floor. Diesel throws him back in the ring and Michaels is able to get the pinfall victory. Marty was absolutely on fire here tonight and Shawn was great as always. This is easily one of the best early matches in Raw history.
Match Rating: ***3/4 (out of 5)
Money Inc. is out to join Vince McMahon in the ring. They claim they were robbed of the Tag Team Championships. DiBiase then starts insulting Razor Ramon and wouldn't you know it, he's making his way out to ringside. They joke that they will give him a job cleaning their toilets and waxing their cars. Razor lets them know that he works for no one. DiBiase insults him, so Razor dumps both of them out of the ring. DiBiase says that he wants to embarrass Razor by challenging the 1-2-3 Kid and beating him.
Men On A Mission vs. Rich Myers & Hank Harris
It would take a lot of skill to come up with uglier ring gear than Men On A Mission here. The only thing of note here is their finisher, which the cameras miss because they are zooming in on Oscar's face. Regardless, it's actually a decent finisher.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to Mean Gene for our SummerSlam Report. One new match added here with Giant Gonzalez vs. Undertaker in a Rest In Peace Match.
We now get more footage of the Lex Express. The dude got a bus to take on tour and he still didn't get over.
Bastion Booger vs. Scott Despres
Booger has to be up there on the worst wrestlers in WWF/E history. He also has one of the worst finishes of all time. The less we talk about this, the better.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Next week we get Bret Hart vs. Bam Bam. I can dig that.
It's King's Court Time. Tiny Tim is one of those people that I only know existed because of wrestling. Tim is extremely nervous here and clearly not good at improvising. Tim says Lawler is not the Burger King, but he's the Dairy Queen. Lawler smashes his ukelele and Tim cries on his knees. What a celebrity moment.
1-2-3 Kid vs. Chris Duffy
Look at Kid, getting his own squash matches. Money Inc. has made their way out to the entrance. Out comes Razor from the crowd. Kid hits a spin kick and a dropkick in the corner. Kid hits the top rope leg drop and gets the victory. Not knowing much about the build to their matches at SummerSlam, but considering that SummerSlam was DiBiase's last match, why not do a tag team match between the four of them? After the match, Razor and DiBiase are about to start brawling, but instead we go to commercial.
Match Rating: 1/4*
This show flew by and had a really good match between the two former Rockers. I'm not sure why you even have to bother with Booger, but that was the only negative thing for the week. This was an all around win for me.
Match Rating: 70%
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