Original Airdate: Saturday, September 10th, 1994
Portland Civic Center
Portland, Maine
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Diesel & Shawn Michaels vs. Nick Barberi & Tom O'Sullivan
Vince can't stop talking about Abe "Knuckleball" Schwartz. Just to show how last second them winning the belts was, Shawn and Diesel do not have the titles here. Michaels is also sporting lipstick on his cheeks. With this being taped before SummerSlam, they don't really play on the dissention between the two. Instead they make frequent tags and work like a legit tag team. Diesel hits a big boot into the Jackknife. Michaels then mocks the Headshrinkers and does a splash off the shoulders of Diesel for the victory. This made a case for them to stay a tag team longer than they would.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Jim Neidhart vs. Mike Maliccio
I like that Neidhart comes out to the Hart Foundation version of Bret's song. Neidhart was always just so much better as a tag team wrestler. He dumps Maliccio out of the ring and Owen gets in a few cheap shots. Neidhart hits a scoop slam and puts on the Camel Clutch for the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
The WWF Superstars invaded the Harley Davidson Cafe in NYC.
Doink vs. Executioner #1
On the way to the ring, Jerry Lawler pops all of Dink's balloons. For some reason, Doink is on the cover of WWF Magazine. Pretty impressive for a guy who couldn't even make it on the SummerSlam card. Executioner gets a little bit off offense, but Doink hits a German suplex into a bridge for the victory. At least we didn't get the fart sound Whoopee Cushion this time.
Match Rating: 1/4*
The Heavenly Bodies and Jim Cornette are out for an interview. Cornette calls the Smoking Gunns Beavis and Butthead and they stomp on one of the cowboy hats. That's about it.
Undertaker makes a rare in ring appearance against Kwang on Raw this week.
Tony Roy vs. Bam Bam Bigelow
The roster was so weak during this era and still they couldn't do anything to make Bam Bam a top guy. Obviously it's not all on the company, but it's hard not to think if they would have booked him better that he wouldn't have been a bigger deal. Bam Bam attacks Roy and he's out of the ring. Officials are checking on him and Ted DiBiase grabs the mic to issue an open challenge to anyone. Out comes Adam Bomb. They go face-to-face and start slugging it out. Bomb ducks a clothesline and hits a leaping clothesline. Bam Bam is out of the ring and the officials are holding him back. There was no match here.
Headshrinkers vs. Mike Bell & Tony DeVito
Mike Bell actually hits a clothesline and a dropkick, but hits a DDT and Fatu no sells that. Samu hits a reverse kick on the candy cane striped DeVito. Shawn Michaels and Diesel join us and tell us that they're going to hold onto the titles as long as they feel like it. Fatu hits the splash and that is all she wrote.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get a lengthy recap of the Lex Luger/Tatanka match followed by a Luger promo about taking Tatanka out.
Yokozuna vs. Steve King
Yoko tosses poor King around as we start the build for the Undertaker feud. He hits a suplex for some reason for the victory. The Undertaker's bell tolls and Yoko is scared. Neither Mr. Fuji or Jim Cornette are with him.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Look for some Headshrinker cooking tips.
Next week it's Well Dunn vs. Bushwhackers, Jeff Jarrett, Bob Backlund and Undertaker. Plus, we'll have Tatanka in the Heartbreak Hotel.
This was a pretty standard episode that once again deprived us of a feature match. They're sort of stuck in that weird period of time where they still feel like they have to talk non-stop about SummerSlam and haven't yet started to try to move on from it.
Overall Rating: 42%
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