Original Airdate: Saturday, September 3rd, 1994
Portland Civic Center
Portland, Maine
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They show a quick recap of the Tatanka/Lex Luger match at SummerSlam. They are actually in a semi-legit arena this week. Of course it was taped 3 weeks before this.
Lex Luger vs. Tim McNeany
Luger is all fired up and of course they're telling us it was due to what Tatanka did to him in the future. This is a super quick squash, as Luger puts McNeany in the Torture Rack for the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get a video package hyping up Yokozuna vs. Undertaker for the Hart Attack Tour.
Bert Centeno vs. Bob Backlund
The kid who is the guest ring announcer totally screws up the pronunciation of San Juan, which Lawler rips on him for. Backlund lets the kid know it is Mr. Bob Backlund. This match is almost all stalling until Centeno is able to get a roll up for a 2 count. Backlund pops up and puts on the Crossface Chicken Wing for the victory. The New Generation at its finest.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We now go to the SummerSlam Report with Todd Pettengill. He claims that the crowd went ballistic when the real Undertaker came down. He also recaps the cage match, Intercontinental match and women's match. All the greatest of all time.
Owen Hart vs. Scott Taylor
It's Scotty 2 Hotty in his hometown state of Maine. Taylor gets a little bit of momentum going until he leapfrogs Owen and gets hit with the spin kick. Owen taunts the crowd about Bret and after another little spurt from Taylor, Owen hits an awesome overhead belly-to-belly suplex. He pulls up Taylor on the pin attempt and slaps on the Sharpshooter for the victory. This was a good squash.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Smoking Gunns vs. Heavenly Bodies
These are two very underutilized teams for whatever reason. Jim Cornette comes out before the Bodies to insult the Gunns, which leads to the Bodies attacking the Gunns from behind. They toss them out of the ring and then stomp on their Cowboy hats. The Gunns come back in and attack the Bodies and rip up their robes while the bell rings. As they are ripping up the wings, the Bodies come back in and we get a big brawl. I'm disappointed there is no match, but this is pretty entertaining.
1-2-3 Kid vs. Raymond Roy
Kid hits a flying shoulder tackle, but Roy hits a scoop slam. Oh, hey. It's Able Schwartz. Again. Roy misses a splash in the corner and Kid hits a series of kicks. Roy fights back again, but misses with a splash from the top rope. Kid goes up top and hits a big leg drop for the victory. Kid squashes are always fun, but they need to find a story for him.
Match Rating: 1/2*
When Monday Night Raw returns on September 12th, it will be Kwang vs. Undertaker. Get your VCRs ready.
IRS vs. Phil Apollo
Apollo hits a crossbody for a 2 count, but a frustrated IRS dumps him out of the ring in front of Ted DiBiase. Vince lets us know that DiBiase was all over SummerSlam. Trust me, we know. IRS slaps on the Penalty and that's all. I can't wait for the buildup for his match with Undertaker at Royal Rumble.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get some more background on Jim Neidhart turning on Bret Hart. They will meet face-to-face on the Hart Attack Tour.
We get some lame commercial with an old lady.
Next week we are going to have Shawn Michaels and Diesel, the Headshrinkers, Yokozuna and Bam Bam Bigelow. Don't forget about the encore presentation of SummerSlam.
Considering the feature match didn't end up being a match, this ended up being a pretty good show by Superstars standards. You had to suffer through a lot of talk of how great SummerSlam was, but there were some fun moments overall. In other words, this was far from the worst presentation from the much maligned New Generation.
Overall Rating: 47%
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