Original Airdate: Saturday, April 16th, 1994
Lowell Auditorium
Lowell, Massachusetts
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Jerry Lawler and Vince McMahon are here and most definitely 100% not in front of a green screen.
Lex Luger vs. George South
Luger still looks pretty motivated here, so maybe he still was being made promises here. Anyway, he hits a few moves and puts him in the Torture Rack for the victory. After the match, Jerry Lawler uses his Magistrator to draw foreign things on Luger and then Vince erases it all. I guarantee this wasn't funny in 1994 either.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Yet another IRS with more tax tips.
Kwang vs. Tatanka
Kwang is quickly becoming a staple of Superstars. Tatanka fights off some early offense and hits a crossbody off the top rope for a 2 count. Kwang is back with a chop to the throat and slows things down. Out comes IRS to make this extra bad. Kwang just sucks the life out of this match and IRS begins to grab the headdress. As Tatanka charges at Kwang, he sprays him in the face with the green mist and we have a disqualification. In comes IRS and he attacks him and ties him up in the ropes. IRS puts on the headdress and mocks Native Americans, then rips off the feathers and shoves them in his mouth. He tells him all he had to do was pay his taxes. Out comes Chief Jay Strongbow, who is, you know, Italian. He slows down IRS for a bit, but IRS takes him down and continues to rip up the headdress. The officials come down to finally stop IRS and Tatanka checks on Strongbow. Despite the racially insensitive stuff, this actually did get some heat from the usually mellow Superstars crowd. The match itself was garbage.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Men On A Mission vs. Black Phantom & Joey Stallings
Poor Phantom gets beat down to start things off and eats a leg drop from Mabel. Stallings gets his chance though and he takes the pinfall after a spin kick from Mabel. Pretty standard stuff.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Mike Freeman
Bam Bam tosses Freeman around for a few minutes. He finishes it off with his reverse crossbody, not quite moonsault off the top rope for the victory. On his way back, he calls out Alundra Blayze for Luna. Remember her? They continue to do nothing with her.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get the debut of the vignettes for Duke Droese.
We then check in to the Heartbreak Hotel. His guest is Owen Hart and all he wants to do is to take the WWF Championship away from Bret.
Earthquake vs. Eric Cody
They actually have a semi-decent fan announcer this week. Anyway, Quake obviously dominates this one and hits all of his signatures here. This was a quick one.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Next week, Razor Ramon takes on Superstars main eventer, Adam Bomb.
Crush vs. Tony Roy
They show Nikolai Volkoff again in the crowd. Make it stop. Roy must have won the drawing backstage on which jobber gets to get in 10 seconds of offense on this episode. Crush hits a kick and then a press slam. Crush hits the old Heart Punch for the victory. There is no better finisher.
Match Rating: 1/4*
They show the Bushwhackers at the White House again.
Next week it's Owen Hart, the Quebecers and Mr. Perfect on the Heartbreak Hotel.
This show was all about one thing, the terrible IRS/Tatanka angle. I am by no means an IRS fan, but I do give him credit on this and making the best of a stupid story. The rest of the show was just normal Superstars, but the quick paced version has still stuck around.
Overall Rating: 40%
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