Original Airdate: Monday, August 22nd, 1994
Beeghly Center
Youngstown, Ohio
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Vince McMahon and Randy Savage greet us from WWF Studios to kick things off. I guess we're seeing some matches from Sunday Night Slam, so we'll hear from Gorilla Monsoon and Jim Ross here.
Lex Luger vs. Crush
Crush was so memorable that I completely forgot he hasn't done anything in months. After a quick start from Crush, Luger battles back and knocks him out of the ring. He immediately throws him back in, but Crush hits him with an inverted atomic drop and a big back breaker. Crush continues to work on the back and out comes Ted DiBiase just as we go to commercial break. When we come back. Luger counters a suplex into a small package and gets a 2 count. I have to say, both guys look pretty motivated here. Crush hits a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and DiBiase jumps on the apron to offer Crush some money. Crush knocks it out of his hand and then gets hit with a running forearm for the victory. This wasn't bad storytelling for the seemingly never ending DiBiase/Luger story. This wasn't too bad considering who was involved.
Match Rating: **
Vince and Savage discuss if Luger has sold out and Savage thinks he has. If you want to voice your opinion for no reason, you can pay $1.49 to call the hotline.
We get a Owen Hart/Bret Hart recap. We also get the steel cage interview from Superstars. Now it's time for a Bret Hart interview with Raymond Rougeau. He talks about going in the steel cage in the SummerSlam. He then calls Neidhart fat and stupid.
We now get more of Leslie Nielsen. Peak 1994 WWF.
Typhoon vs. Diesel
Typhoon coming out to Earthquake's music by himself is just weird to me. They have a big collision and Diesel is the one who goes flying to the mat. Diesel then hits an impressive leaping shoulder tackle to knock Typhoon down and follows it up with an elbow drop. Typhoon actually gets in some more offense here, but it all leads to Typhoon missing an elbow drop. Typhoon does hit a running splash in the corner, but on the second attempt, Diesel gets the boot up. He follows it up with a big running clothesline and gets the victory. They made Typhoon look a little too strong there for my taste. This was your typical big man match, but Diesel did look good.
Match Rating: *
We see a Razor Ramon/Walter Payton interview into the commercial break.
Vince and Savage then throw us back to the King's Court last week on Raw where the lights went out when Paul Bearer was getting choked out by the Fake Undertaker. We go back to Leslie Nielsen again. When we come back. they announce that Raw will not be on for two weeks due to the US Open. Vince pretends to not be mad. SummerSlam is next week, oh yeah.
Well, this was basically a studio show, but it did have two feature matches on it. Neither of them was memorable, but they also weren't bad overall. This was pretty paint by the numbers, but I was mostly entertained.
Overall Rating: 50%
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