Monday, March 13th, 1995
Stockton Memorial Auditorium
Stockton, California
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We get Vince hyping up the feud of Bret Hart and Jerry Lawler. He says that it's supposed to be Jacob and Eli Blu against Bob Holly and 1-2-3 Kid. Right after it's the Headshrinkers instead due to California storms.
The Headshrinkers vs. Jacob & Eli Blu
Sione gets clotheslined over the top rope and then eats a double boot to the face. We get an awkward commercial break, as I guess is pretty common during this era. They show Sione getting clotheslined outside the ring during the break. Sione comes back with a leaping shoulder tackle, but the Blu's use twin magic to their advantage. Sione hits a powerslam and this time is able to tag in Fatu. Fatu gets his head slammed into the mat, but you can't do that and he bounces up and hits a superkick. They start brawling outside the ring and this is going exactly where you probably expected it to go. Especially since this wasn't the scheduled match. It's a double countout and they should have at least had it end with a more wild brawl. The match was decent enough.
Match Rating: *3/4
We get a hype video of Lawrence Taylor talking about WrestleMania and then Vince announces all of LT's all pro team joining him at ringside. We then hear from Steve McMichael and he says that he'll be at Monday Night Raw next week.
We then go to Ted DiBiase, Bam Bam Bigelow and his group of losers. There's no Nikolai Volkoff or IRS. Jim Cornette says there is one football player he has respect for and it's Ernie Ladd. We go to a pre-taped interview between Ladd and McMahon. He talks about how much training it took for him to be good at wrestling. He doesn't think LT's chances are that good.
We get an interview with Barry Horowitz and that he's been talking to Razor Ramon about taking on Jeff Jarrett tonight. I guess this is technically the beginning of the Horowitz push?
Jeff Jarrett vs. Barry Horowitz
They hype up that Barry has never won a match in WWF. Barry gets in some offense, as Jarrett usually does in his squashes. He continues to outsmart Jarrett a little bit until Jarrett is able to hit a chop block. This of course leads to the Figure Four and the victory for Jarrett. This was a little bit better than my review would lead on.
Match Rating: 3/4*
They show a clip of Jerry Lawler in the battle royal on Superstars. We then go to Bret Hart in a backwards hat and calling Lawler a giant pain in the butt.
It's now time for a WrestleMania Report and that means Todd Pettengill. Salt 'N' Peppa will be at WrestleMania to perform. We then get an interview with Shawn Michaels and Pamela Anderson with him. He talks about the Smoking Gunns facing Owen Hart and a mystery opponent. They show a clip from Action Zone yesterday with Men On A Mission facing the Smoking Gunns. After the match, Men On A Mission attacked the Gunns and Todd's not sure why. It's kind of weird that they did that before WrestleMania. Todd then hypes up a new match with Lex Luger teaming with British Bulldog to face the Blu twins.
Jerry Lawler vs. Bret Hart
Lawler is with Bull Nakano tonight to hype up the Bret is racist against Japanese part of this random storyline. The fight begins as soon as Bret gets to the ring and we are under way. It's just so odd to me how Bret had like 3 feuds at the same time and so little of the time was spent with the one that's going to be on pay-per-view. Bret gets Lawler in the tree of woe and gets in a few kicks to the midsection. They show Bob Backlund in the audience staring at the match. Now it's Shinja and Hakushi watching the match from the entrance. When we come back from commercial break, Lawler hits a bulldog. Vince talks about Barry Horowitz asking for a rematch with Jarrett. Lawler goes up top, but Bret catches him in the midsection on the way down. Bret hits a bulldog and then knocks Lawler out of the ring with a right hand. Bret goes out there and Nakano grabs Bret. She accidentally kicks Lawler and Bret stares her down. Lawler gets back in the ring, but when Bret attempts to, Nakano grabs his leg and he is counted out. Bret goes after her, but Shinja and Hakushi are there. Lawler attacks him from behind, but Bret gets the better of him. This was an entertaining main event for what it was.
Match Rating: **1/4
Next week it will be Razor Ramon vs. Henry Godwinn and Smoking Gunns vs. Heavenly Bodies. We go to Vince with Jarrett and Horowitz. Jarrett says that he'll give him his rematch and this time it will be a title match. Out comes Bob Backlund and he attacks Horowitz. He then signs the contract to get a title match and Jarrett is upset, so he attacks Horowitz. That was an odd finish.
This was an easy show to watch and had a good pace. There wasn't anything on it that you had to see, but it was entertaining, especially for 1995.
Overall Rating: 58%
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