Original Airdate: Saturday, January 29th, 1994
Cumberland County Memorial Auditorium
Fayetteville, North Carolina
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Vince McMahon recaps the Royal Rumble and we now get Jack Tunney's announcement. For the first time in WrestleMania history, the WWF Championship will be defended twice in the same night. It will either be Lex Luger vs. Crush and Yokozuna vs. Bret Hart, with the winner facing Lex Luger. The other option will be Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart and Yokozuna vs. Lex Luger, with the winner facing Bret Hart. There will be a coin toss to determine the route they go and there will be guest referees assigned to both matches.
Men On A Mission vs. Joey Stallings & Terry Austin
Vince will not shut up about what happened to the Undertaker at the Royal Rumble. Then Stan Lane goes on and on about it. Meanwhile, Mabel hits a big vertical suplex on Austin and clotheslines the poor guy over the top rope. Stallings just comes in and bumps around for Mabel. Mo hits the bulldog on Mabel onto Stallings for the victory. Next.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to Jim Cornette, Mr. Fuji and Yokozuna celebrating the fact that he is still the WWF Champion.
Brooklyn Brawler vs. Thurman Sparky Plugg
This is the "debut" but also not the debut for one of the lamest gimmicks ever. I will say that Holy's wrestling ability was really pretty good during this era. He has a lot more speed than he did in the attitude era. His top rope splash could use some work, but he used it as his finish here anyways.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get another look at Alundra Blayze, which features about two seconds of her wrestling.
We go to Jim Ross, who promotes WrestleMania tickets. Owen Hart is still sick of hearing about his family. Meanwhile, Bret is heartbroken over the situation.
Diesel vs. Tommy Angel
Vince makes fun of the girl who was picked to be the guest announcer this week for her reading ability. Diesel continues his dominance by defeating poor Angel here with Snake Eyes.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Next week, it will be the Steiner Brothers against the Quebecers in a non-title match with a 10 minute time limit. If the Steiners are able to win, they will get a title match.
Tatanka vs. Austin Steele
Steele gets in a knee to the mid-section and he tries to continue his offense, but Tatanka is starting to hulk up and then hits the Samoan drop for the victory. Pretty much every Tatanka squash is exactly the same.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Todd Pettengill is here to go over the WrestleMania coin toss situation.
Jeff Jarrett vs. Tyrone Knox
Stan Lane is really bad as an announcer. Jarrett allows Knox a few small moments in the match, but then Jarrett gets the win by holding the ropes right in front of the ref. I'm not sure what that's supposed to do for him, but I do give him credit for really pushing on those ropes for realism.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Paul Bearer is here and he wheels out the Undertaker's casket. So they taped this before the Rumble?
Headshrinkers vs. Sid Garrison & Larry McGill
I think the Headshrinkers will win. They hit a double Skull Crushing Finale and then Fatu hits the top rope splash for the easy victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
IRS says he got cheated and JR keeps talking about Rush Limbaugh. Razor Ramon admits IRS was tough and that Shawn Michaels is going crazy.
Lucky us, we get Kwang on both Raw and Superstars. The Steiners are ready for their big match next week.
That's it's for this week and what a relief that is. This show was not good...at all. They are just treading water here.
Overall Rating: 31%
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