Original Airdate: Saturday, May 7th, 1994
War Memorial Auditorium
Rochester, New York
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King Of The Ring Qualifying Match
Scott Steiner vs. IRS
Hey, look. Scott Steiner still works here. Steiner is able to throw IRS around with a bunch of suplexes. We surprisingly get a commercial break for this one, since it's the opening match. Steiner takes a page out of IRS's playbook and slows it down on the mat. Steiner then even cheats by grabbing the rope while in the abdominal stretch. IRS gets caught trying to cheat when he blocks a sunset flip, but then reverses that and gets away with cheating for the victory. Rick Steiner comes out and tries to get the referee to reverse his decision. If he cares so much, why didn't he come out to ringside during the match to keep an eye on him? Out comes Tatanka with referees holding him back to go after IRS. He's now trapped between the Steiners and Tatanka, so he leaves up the steps of the arena. The match was boring, like just about every IRS match ever.
Match Rating: *1/4
It's time for the King Of The Ring Report. They announce that Jerry Lawler will take on Roddy Piper. They show us a series of interviews from Roddy Piper filmed on a camcorder. This was terrible and I love Piper.
Jason Storm vs. 1-2-3 Kid
Kid hits one of his signature leg drops and a belly-to-belly suplex. Kid hits the spin kick and that's it. Kid squashes are usually more competitive than this, but this was really short.
Match Rating: 1/4*
They show clips of Ted DiBiase saying that he bought Nikolai Volkoff. Why was anyone supposed to care about this?
They then show Owen Hart vs. Mo from Wrestling Challenge, with Owen taking advantage of a knee injury.
Owen Hart vs. John Paul
They're letting Owen show off a little bit more aggressive side now and we get another super quick match that ends with a Sharpshooter. I'm not sure what's up with the frantic pace of the squashes today.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get some highlights of the Headshrinkers winning the Tag Team Championships.
Barry Hardy vs. Lex Luger
Luger steamrolls Hardy here, who is always one of the dorkiest looking jobbers they have. He puts him up in the Torture Rack and that is all. Luger continues to have no direction after WrestleMania.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get clips of Diesel on Raw wanting the WWF Championship and Lawler and Jeff Jarrett tricking Dink.
Jeff Jarrett vs. Derek Domino
I still am somewhat surprised of how much I have liked Jarrett so far in his early run here. Again, this one is about three moves and the finisher. Jarrett gets a quick victory with the Figure Four.
Match Rating: 1/4*
They show more clips of the WrestleMania Revenge Tour. Next week it's Mabel vs. Pierre! Nikolai Volkoff is in action! Now it's time for another Undertaker sighting and it's a bunch of kids at a preschool. What a crappy ending to a crappy episode.
I really expected this one to be better, but for whatever reason they didn't give any of the matches time. Owen, Jarrett and Kid are three of the best squash workers they have and they all got about 60 seconds. The feature match was just kind of there, but what do you expect with IRS?
Overall Rating: 39%
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