Monday, June 20th, 1994
Westchester County Civic Center
White Plains, New York
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Apparently tonight marks the first time that Raw has a Spanish simulcast. Gorilla Monsoon and Randy Savage are the announce team here tonight.
Diesel vs. Mark Thomas
Diesel is hot off not winning the WWF Championship due to the Jim Neidhart involvement. You would think that this would be a 60 second squash, but instead we are getting a plotting match. Thomas tries to mount some offense, but eats a boot to the face instead. Diesel signals for the Jackknife and that's the end. In a funny moment, Diesel looks for a high five, but then tries to no sell it when Michaels doesn't see it.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Todd Pettengill is here for a King Of The Ring Report. We get lots of still photos and Todd proclaiming that the tag match was one of the greatest of all time.
1-2-3 Kid vs. Nikolai Volkoff
So apparently the winner of this match will face Bret Hart on Raw on 7/11. I'm not really sure what either guy did to deserve the opportunity, but I know I'm looking forward to what happens next. Savage hypes up how great the match between Owen Hart and Kid was. Meanwhile, Volkoff is mostly dominating Kid here. Volkoff hits a weird looking backbreaker twice and pulls him up during the pinfall attempt. Kid sells a knee injury, but then gets a roll up out of nowhere and steals the victory. Volkoff is shocked and attacks Kid from behind. Out comes Virgil (?) to make the save. He goes after DiBiase next and Volkoff attacks him too. Now Luger is out and that clears the ring. This was all just so random.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Next week we are getting Bam Bam Bigelow/Mabel.
Yokozuna vs. Nick Barbarry
Hot off his loss last night in one of the greatest tag team matches ever according to the Toddster, here is Yokozuna, back to not being a tag team wrestler. Yoko hits the big leg drop, gets the big reaction from the crowd and calls it a night.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Typhoon vs. Black Phantom
Gorilla comments on how huge Typhoon is and calls him one half of the Natural Disasters. Typhoon and Yokozuna meet in the aisle and Typhoon gets a right hand in on him. Gorilla continues to sell that Typhoon is the biggest he has ever seen him. Ottman is pretty fresh off his failed run as the Shockmaster over in WCW, but this won't last long either. Typhoon hits a splash in the corner and then the big splash for the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Jerry Lawler is out wearing shades for another King's Court. His guest is Duke Droese because 4 weeks ago he dumped garbage on him on Superstars. Lawler says that since he stinks so much, he left a microphone outside the ring for Duke. Lawler then references Ace Ventura to make fun of Duke. He then makes fun of Helen Hart for good measure. Duke walks out, so Lawler attacks him from behind and hits him in the head with the garbage can.
Heavenly Bodies vs. Jim Powers & Russ Greenberg
Cornette joins the announce table to let everyone know that the Bodies are going to be the next WWF Tag Team Champions. Powers gets in some offense on Del Ray and then on Prichard. He seems like a pretty impressive young up and comer. Greenberg gets hit with a kick by Del Ray and then a belly-to-belly suplex. They hit their variation of a double DDT and a moonsault from Del Ray for the victory. ot quite as good as the usual Bodies squash, but they are always fun.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Gorilla Monsoon then apologizes for Lawler using the garbage can for something other than what it was intended for. He then says that it will never, ever happen again on Raw. This leads to a SummerSlam commercial coming up August 29th in Chicago. They go to an interview with DiBiase backstage and says that he has his eye on Lex Luger.
Well, if you hate 1994 WWF wrestling, you probably won't like this episode much. However, in some weird way I didn't mind it. It wasn't very good in terms of matches, but the 45 minute episodes are just so easy to digest that it rarely feels like a chore. I'm not giving it any sort of recommendation, but I also have sat through much worse.
Overall Rating: 43%
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