Original Airdate: Saturday, December 3rd, 1994
Fernwood Resort
Bushkill, Pennsylvania
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1-2-3 Kid vs. Brooklyn Brawler
I guess this means Abe Schwartz is officially a dead gimmick? It had so much potential. Kid is wearing some ugly gear here and his hair is a sight to behold. He hits his signature leg drop, but ducks down too early and Brawler makes him pay with a neckbreaker. He drops his throat down on the top rope and dumps him out of the ring. Brawler hits a baseball slide kick and then throws him into the ring post. He goes for another baseball slide, but Kid avoids it and slams his head into the side of the ring. Back in the ring he hits a series of kicks, including a spin kick. He goes for the ten punches in the corner, but Brawler hits an inverted atomic drop. Brawler goes up top, but Kid is there to press slam him off and then rolls him up for the victory. That was a pretty good little match to maybe help cover up that there is no feature match on this episode.
Match Rating: *
Todd Pettengill is here for the (final?) Survivor Series Report. They show a still photo recap of the Bret Hart/Bob Backlund match. He then moves onto the Diesel/Shawn Michaels saga. They then show the entire Diesel/Bob Backlund match from Madison Square Garden with Diesel winning the WWF Championship. Backlund cuts a promo sitting in a chair talking about feeling the decay around us. They are continuing to do the gimmick where they do cuts of his promo. Backlund is also not looking into the camera. He claims that he will put morality back into our lives. We now go to Diesel, who has a black background and he's trying to be a cool guy. He honestly reminds me a little bit of Razor Ramon with what he's going for. Nash was just never super comfortable as a face. We're almost halfway into the show after this.
King Kong Bundy vs. Jason Ahrndt
Bundy catches Ahrndt and hits a power slam. Vince thinks that Bundy will be one of the favorites in the Royal Rumble match, tickets on sale this weekend. Meanwhile Bundy hits a splash in the corner and counts to 5 for the victory. Bundy is just currently existing here in 1994.
Match Rating: 1/4*
It's time for Live Event News with Charlie Minn. He talks about Bret Hart winning the WWF Championship from Yokozuna and some of the matches during his reign. They show Diesel's rise to WWF Champion.
We get a mysterious Hakushi vignette that doesn't show him.
Bushwhackers vs. JR Storm & ???
The kid ring announcer wasn't easy to understand on the poor jobbers name announcement. They keep talking about "hongi", which apparently is a New Zealand tradition where you rub noses. They even have hats now. It must be that time where WWF is desperate to have enough tag teams to fill a tournament, so the Bushwhackers are back. Well apparently one of the jobbers is JR Storm. The Bushwhackers hit the Battering Ram on him and his "tag team partner" didn't even get in the match. With the Bushwhackers, the shorter, the better.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Jim Neidhart vs. Jeff Hardy
No Owen Hart here today to accompany Jim. Neidhart catches Hardy and then tosses him right over the ropes to the floor. Hardy is flipping and flopping here for Neidhart. He slaps on the Camel Clutch and that's all. They keep calling him Harvey for whatever reason.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get a new Henry Godwinn vignette making fun of for being lazy for watching him on TV.
They show us footage of the WWF Superstars in the Macy's Day Parade.
Duke Droese vs. Black Phantom
Droese hits a big back body drop and a vertical suplex. Droese hits a corkscrew elbow drop and slaps on the bear hug. Droese hits a spinebuster and finishes the Phantom with the Trash Compactor. It really is baffling how small the roster is and yet hardly anyone has a purpose.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We're back for more Live Event News. We see clips of the Razor Ramon/Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania X. We then see clips of Diesel beating Razor on Superstars and then Razor winning the title back at SummerSlam. Now, Razor is moving onto Jeff Jarrett.
It's time for a terrible Italian WWF vignette about watching Raw.
Next week, it's the Smoking Gunns, Tatanka, Doink, Owen Hart and Razor Ramon. Plus, Bob Backlund will be on The Heartbreak Hotel.
This was another filler episode that basically just recapped Survivor Series. The Kid match was fun for what it was and the Backlund promo was entertaining.
Overall Rating: 38%
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