Original Airdate: Monday, October 31st, 1994
Burlington Memorial Auditorium
Burlington, Vermont
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It's Halloween night, so we get a fun intro featuring Bob Backlund. It's Lex Luger who is stepping up to face the monster.
Lex Luger vs. Mr. Bob Backlund
Luger mocks Backlund's lunges and Backlund doesn't like it. I like 1994 Luger more than I have any reason to. Backlund then sucks all the energy out of the match with his boring offense. He hits a belly-to-belly suplex and then a weird looking cover for a 2 count. Oh boy, it's Tatanka and he's here to take a look as we go to commercial break. Backlund keeps trying to sneak on the Cross-Face Chickenwing, but isn't having any luck. Luger hits a body slam and has Backlund reeling. Out comes Tatanka and Luger goes after him. Backlund slaps on the Cross-Face Chickenwing in the middle of the ring. Then Tatanka comes in the ring and now the bell rings. Um, why? Tatanka starts stomping away on Luger as Backlund still has him in the hold. Backlund comes back and slaps on the hold again and not even Gerald Brisco can get him off, so in comes Randy Savage. Savage is still the best. We were so robbed of some great matches from him in this era. The match itself was a lot of stalling, but felt fresh. It wasn't anything special and Luger winning by DQ made no sense here.
Match Rating: *3/4
We go back to an angry Savage, but Vince only cares about talking about the Action Zone. We probably have a week left of him caring about this show. It's going to be Mabel vs. Yokozuna this week.
1-2-3 Kid vs. Tony Devito
Kid's hair is quite fluffy here tonight. Kid's able to hit a nice dropkick, but Devito actually is doing a nice job of playing heel here. Devito gets in a powerslam and gets a 2 count. He misses with an elbow drop and a second one because jobbers never learn. Kid hits a series of kicks in the corner and then a spin kick. He hits his nice leg drop and comes back with a vertical suplex. Kid hits another spin kick and then goes upstairs for a leg drop for the victory. This was a well worked squash match.
Match Rating: 3/4*
It's time for the Survivor Series Report with Todd Pettengill. He can't help himself and makes a lame Halloween joke. No news here, as all of the matches have been announced.
They show some more WWF softball clips.
King Kong Bundy vs. Bert Centeno
Wouldn't you get sick of just having the same match a million times? I know I'm already sick of typing it. So Bundy wins using the 5 count for the pin. Got it?
Match Rating: 1/4*
It's time to watch the IRS vignette with the John Dough cemetery promo. Why?
It's time for The King's Court and with it being Halloween (not really), the guest is Undertaker. He of course is with Paul Bearer and it almost feels like he forgot how to do his voice for the character. He's here to shill the new WWF Magazine. Bearer informs us that it was not their decision to bring in Chuck Norris, it was the WWF's. This wasn't a good segment.
Next week, it's going to be Jim Neidhart and Owen Hart against Bret Hart and British Bulldog. Yes, please.
Jim Neidhart vs. Tony Roy
Owen gets involved while Neidhart distracts the ref and Roy is in the tree of woe. The big rhino gives us a very slow and methodical match here. He hits the powerslam and puts him in the Camel Clutch for the victory. Not so great.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go back to Vince McMahon with Lex Luger backstage. They're having audio problems, which is fantastic. We here Vince yelling and Tatanka and Luger are going at it when the show goes off the air.
This was a much more enjoyable show again over Superstars. It just has a better pace and typically has better matches. These obviously aren't amazing episodes or anything, but it's a good example of the old formula working.
Overall Rating: 49%
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