Original Airdate: Monday, February 28th, 1994
Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Poughkeepsie, New York
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Vince gives us a recap of the Royal Rumble and Jack Tunney's announcement for the 100th time.
WWF Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Yokozuna
Harvey Wippleman is our guest announcer this week. Savage, being the maniac that he is, attacks Yoko from behind but then gets leveled by an elbow. Savage fires back with comes clotheslines and gets a 2 count. Yoko dominates, but then misses with a splash and Savage knees him out of the ring. He goes up top and hits the double ax handle on the outside. For whatever reason, Jim Cornette wasn't with Yoko for his entrance but he runs out now and we hit our first commercial. Savage has Vince screaming on the top of his lungs for his every move and almost scores a victory after a couple of top rope maneuvers. Savage is working his butt off like it's 1987. Yoko knocks Savage out and drags him to the center of the ring. Savage avoids the big leg drop and Cornette is now distracting the official. Mr. Fuji gives Yoko the basket, but Savage blocks it and nails Yoko with it. Savage is finally able to cover him, but Yoko is able to kick out. Savage knocks Cornette off the apron and hits the top rope elbow drop. Crush is in there to cause the disqualification at the last second. Out comes Bret Hart to try and make the save, but he immediately gets beaten down. Now it's Lex Luger's turn to make a save and he knocks Yokozuna out of the ring. Him and Bret team up and double clothesline Crush. It was pretty obvious what the ending was going to be, but they did everything in their power to have you believing there was a chance Savage would pull it off. After the match, Savage, Bret and Luger celebrate together. I loved this.
Match Rating: ***3/4
Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Mike Khoury
Luna is at ringside wearing an anti-Doink shirt. Bam Bam catches Khoury and hits a leaping powerslam. I feel like they should be doing more to be building his feud with Doink. Bam Bam hits an enzuigiri for the easy victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Earthquake vs. Black Phantom
Vince announces that Borga is still hurt and that Quake will be facing Adam Bomb. Earthquake's body slam was always a thing of beauty. He hits his finisher and that's all for Black Phantom.
Match Rating: 1/4*
WrestleMania Report time with a hatless Todd Pettengill. Nothing new to report here.
Kwang vs. John Crystal
Harvey leaves Vince, which means we now have to listen to him interview Sy Sperling over the phone. Meanwhile, Kwang hits some kicks, sprays some green mist and all sorts of other things that won't get him over. He hits another kick and gets the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Stan Lane is attempting to interview Shawn Michaels backstage. They do a heavily edited interview that splices in footage of the feud with Razor Ramon.
Next week we are getting Owen Hart and Crush against the Smoking Gunns.
Men On A Mission vs. Brooklyn Brawler & Steve Smyth
Brawler goes for a sunset flip and then Smyth comes into help, but Mabel back body drops him and starts grooving. They hit their bulldog finisher and that is all for Smyth. They continue to underwhelm and of course they get the title shot.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Next week we get Jeff Jarrett vs. Virgil, Doink, IRS and Tatanka with a special presentation.
This show features possibly my favorite Raw match up to this point in it's history, so it's an easy thumbs up from me. The rest of the show was just a glorified episode of Superstars, but at least it moved along quickly.
Overall Rating: 59%
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