Friday, October 21, 2022

Superstars 11-5-94 Review

Original Airdate: Saturday, November 5th, 1994
Burlington Memorial Auditorium
Burlington, Vermont

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Billy Gunn vs. Tatanka

Bart is not out here with Billy. Billy shakes Vince's hand on his way down, but blows off Lawler. That's probably the closest we have gotten to New Age Outlaw Billy so far. Tatanka is sporting the Sid Justice Body Glove elbow pad today. Billy gets the early advantage until Ted DiBiase pulls down the top rope as he's running the ropes. Tatanka slows things down before hitting a gutwrench suplex for a 2 count. Tatanka goes off the top rope, but Billy hits him in the midsection on the way down. Gunn hits a spinning body slam and goes up to the top rope. DiBiase gets on the apron and out comes Bam Bam Bigelow to push him off the top. Tatanka covers him and picks up the victory. I'm not sure why in kayfabe Billy wouldn't have wanted Bart to come down with him to the ring. Out comes Bart to make the save after the post-match beatdown. As far as 1994 Superstars feature matches go, this one was pretty good. 

Match Rating: *3/4

Todd says he'll run down the Survivor Series later on, but he's got breaking news. Bret Hart has accepted Bob Backlund's challenge for his match to be a Submission Match. Owen Hart and British Bulldog will be in their corners and they will be holding the towel that will need to be thrown in for the submission. We hear from Backlund and Owen and they know that Bret will submit. Bulldog and Bret then talk about confidence. 

Barry Hardy vs. Duke Droese

Droese bullies old favorite Hardy around. He hits a big powerslam and then hits a side suplex for the victory. Talk about a guy going nowhere. After the match, Backlund slaps on the Cross-Face Chickenwing on Hardy. Droese comes in and Backlund slaps it on him. Like I said, he's going nowhere.

Match Rating: 1/4*

It's Live Event News time and Randy Savage celebrates Columbus Day, which was always the biggest joke of a holiday. 

Diesel vs. Tim McNeany

No Shawn Michaels here today. They must have really been watching the budget on this big trip to Vermont. Diesel hits a couple of power moves before hitting the Jackknife and staning on him for the pinfall victory. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

Chuck Norris is coming.

Doink vs. Phil Apollo

Doink and his team play Ring Around The Rosie before spraying Lawler with silly string. Doink jokes around a little bit but it all just leads to Doink hitting the Whoopee Cushion for the victory. No fart noise this week. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

It's time for the official Survivor Series Report here now. Captain Lou Albano gets some airtime this week. We hear from both competitors in the biggest match in history, Undertaker and Yokozuna (well, Jim Cornette). 

IRS vs. Aaron Ferguson

We're forced to watch the John Dough cemetery bit with IRS again. IRS hits a double underhook suplex and a running clothesline for the easy victory. Vince makes note that IRS is not part of the Million Dollar Team at the Survivor Series. No one really cares. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

It's back to Live Event News and everyone is talking about the Razor Ramon/Yokozuna match from Raw, so we see a highlight package of the entire match. 

Back to Vince and Lawler and they show us the finish of the Tatanka/Billy Gunn match earlier. We're now with the Smoking Gunns and Bart stumbles over his words before saying they will face Tatanka and Bam Bam next week. 

Superstars is always going to be what it is, a forgettable show that once in awhile has something memorable on it. This was a better show than last week, but it would be hard to call it anything better than mediocre. 

Overall Rating: 38%

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