Monday, February 21st, 1994
Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Poughkeepsie, New York
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After being off last week for the dog show, we are back with a live show tonight. Randy Savage is here to join Vince and he says that Randy Savage will unquestionably be in the Hall Of Fame one day. It only took another 21 years for that to happen.
WWF Tag Team Championship Match
Quebecers vs. Razor Ramon & 1-2-3 Kid
So Marty is no longer Razor's partner and Kid is still selling his knee injury. We get a really fun opening segment with Razor and Kid standing tall early on. I still am not really sure why they announced that the Quebecers were facing Men On A Mission prior to this match. It's not like they had this hot feud where it was obvious. Razor gets tripped by Johnny Polo, but Razor still explodes for a double clothesline. Razor goes out side and gives Polo a Razor's Edge on the outside. I'm surprised they let him do that in '94. What's fun is that it's Bill Alfonso as the referee. They go to commercial with Polo being helped to the back. We come back to Kid working on the arm of Pierre. Razor and Kid look really good here as a team and Razor is always over with the New York crowd. Out comes Diesel, who provides a distraction to allow Jacques to take control really for the first time in the match. We go to a second commercial break and we come back to an admittedly pretty cool shot of the reflection of the match in Diesel's sunglasses. We get a hot tag to Kid and he hits a spin kick, but misses with a dropkick. The Quebecers double team and drop Kid on the top rope. This match is right up my alley for this era. Jacques tries to back body drop Pierre on Kid, but Kid avoids it and Jacques is out of it. Razor gets the hot tag and hits a back superplex off the second rope on Pierre. Razor calls for the Razor's Edge and hits it. Shawn Michaels comes out of nowhere barely making it in time to break up the pin attempt and disqualify the Quebecers. He barely made it in there and with how fast he was running, I have a feeling he was a little late on his cue. I really enjoyed this match a lot. I don't mind the DQ finish because it makes sense here, even if it's unsatisfying. This was really good action overall though.
Match Rating: ***1/2
Next week we are getting a Yokozuna vs. Randy Savage match.
Dr. Tom Prichard vs. Bret Hart
This is a pretty rare Bret Hart in ring appearance here on Raw. I can't remember the last time Prichard was on here either. Prichard misses with an elbow drop and Bret viciously attacks the arm. Bret is just so ridiculously good. When we come back from commercial, Prichard is on offense. Bret is just one of those guys that never believes in steamrolling an opponent. They get Donnie Wahlberg on the phone as if there is any chance Vince knows who he is. Cornette was about to hit Bret with the tennis racquet, but Savage makes the save and it almost looked like Cornette may have accidentally hit the steps a little bit. Wow, two matches on the same show that both have two commercial breaks on it. This is my type of episode. Cornette distracts Bret and Prichard knees him out of the ring. Out comes Owen and he starts taunting Bret as he is struggling to get back in the ring. Owen throws him in and claims that Bret always needs his help. Bret avoids Prichard in the corner and hits a suplex. Bret locks in the Sharpshooter and that is all. That was kind of an abrupt ending there, especially for a Bret match. This was a little disappointing, but far from bad. After the match, Bret tries to get Owen into the ring, but the officials hold Owen back.
Match Rating: **
It's time for a WrestleMania Report with Todd Pettengill. He runs down the celebrities this time. It's Little Richard, Burt Reynolds, Jennie Garth, Donnie Wahlberg, Bucky & Vinny and Sy Sperling. Alundra Blayze still doesn't have an opponent and Earthquake is still taking on Ludvig Borga.
Yokozuna's music hits and he starts coming out and we go to commercial break. Little Richard says he is coming to WrestleMania and then we are back to Jim Cornette screaming at Savage. Savage gets in the ring and we go off the air.
This was a strong episode of Raw especially for the era. Two matches that get plenty of time and no fluff is one of the episodes you need to have every once in awhile. I thought the Bret match would be a little bit better, but this one gets no complaint from me.
Overall Rating: 74%
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