Original Airdate: Saturday, May 21st, 1994
Knickerbocker Arena
Albany, New York
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Razor Ramon vs. Derec Domino
Razor is a little more aggressive here today, tossing Domino all over the ring. He also gets a lot more time here than we have been seeing from the Superstars squash matches. He finally hits the Razor's Edge and gets the victory. Razor continues to be impressive here in 1994.
Match Rating: 1/4*
They show "highlights" of the sumo match from Raw.
Crush vs Mike Terrance
Crush cuts a promo on Luger before his match. This one is quick and I don't think anyone has a complaint about that. He hits the spinning backbreaker and that is all. After the match he military press slams him over the top rope and to the floor.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Duke Droese vs. Mike Bell
Droese is making his debut here and dumps a garbage can on Lawler's head on his way to the ring. Droese hits a big spinebuster and it already kind of feels like he's at Kwang and Sparky Plugg's level. He hits a tilt-a-whirl type slam for the effortless victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
It's time for the King Of The Ring Report. Todd announces that the Headshrinkers will face Yokozuna and Crush. So apparently you can get a title shot without ever teaming with your partner. Diesel and Bret both cut promos on their match at the show. Plus, Todd makes the biggest announcement of all. Art Donovan will be a guest analyst. What could go wrong?
Headshrinkers vs. Jim Messenger & Ray Roy
Messenger and Roy try to attack the Headshrinkers, but they no sell it and headbutt each other. Samu hits a unique DDT with him standing on the second rope and then tags in Fatu for his splash finisher. I'm still not sure why they're faces, but they are.
Match Rating: 1/4*
More Undertaker sightings and this leads to Ted DiBiase standing in a cemetery saying that he has the resources find him.
King Of The Ring Qualifying Match
Jeff Jarrett vs. Lex Luger
They announce that Mr. Fuji is managing Jarrett here. As they often do on Superstars feature matches, they do a lot of back and forth action, but Luger is mostly dominating here. Luger goes off the ropes and Fuji jams the Japanese flag in the back of Luger as we go into a commercial break. Lawler complains about going to commercial break because we didn't get to see Jarrett beating Luger. Jarrett hits a second rope clothesline, but Luger tosses him in the air on the pin attempt. Jarrett dumps Luger out of the ring and then attempts to go to the top rope. The referee is distracted and Crush attacks him by throwing him into the steel steps. Luger goes and chases after Crush and gets counted out in the process. They start brawling to the back while Jarrett celebrates his victory. Fuji then hands him the flag for Jarrett to waive. This was actually a pretty solid match.
Match Rating: **
We then get an interview with Yokozuna, Crush, Mr. Fuji and Jim Cornette. Cornette does all the talking before the inevitable "Banzai!".
Vince and Lawler bring out the 1-2-3 Kid, who will be battling Adam Bomb next week for a spot in the King Of The Ring. Kid says being in the tournament would be a dream come true.
This was a quickly paced show and the feature match more than delivered over expectations. That's all you can ever really ask for from Superstars and I'm good with that.
Overall Rating: 50%
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