Original Airdate: Monday, March 20th, 1995
Stockton Memorial Auditorium
Stockton, California
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Razor Ramon vs. Henry Godwinn
Godwinn gets the non-televised entrance treatment here. I'm still amazed that Godwinn's solid performance against Undertaker on Superstars has resulted in nothing for him.Godwinn hits his wheelbarrow slam on Razor before sending him back and forth between turnbuckles. Vince brags about how his 1-900 line doesn't start charging you until after you make your selection. Talk about class. Razor's able to sneak in a backslide for a 2 count before we go to commercial break. Razor hits a spinning right hand and a bulldog from the second rope for a nearfall. Out comes Roadie and that allows Godwinn to attack the distracted Razor. 1-2-3 Kid comes out and hits Roadie with a kick to the jaw. Godwinn is now standing on the bottom rope distracted and Razor picks him up for the Razor's Edge and gets the victory. Another solid match from Godwinn against a top star.
Match Rating: **
Vince interviews Razor after the match and he's not happy about Bob Backlund getting a title shot because that's his belt. It's a borderline heel interview. They show a clip of the Jarrett/Backlund situation.
We get an ad for Sunday Night Slam, which unfortunately is not on Peacock.
They show Bam Bam Bigelow do a football style shoulder tackle on Doink on the Action Zone.
Steve McMichael is introduced to be the guest announcer, which obviously must have impressed WCW enough to hire him a few months later.
King Kong Bundy vs. Adam Croomes & Raven Clark
Croomes and Clark try for a double body slam, but of course it doesn't work. Bundy just doesn't look like a guy who is motivated enough to get the opportunity to face Undertaker. Throw in the fact that he's involved in the main event as well and you'd think that he'd be working a little harder. McMichael isn't too bad on announcing as a guest, but he definitely doesn't have the confidence he would eventually have. Bundy wins after a splash. Whatever.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Kama comes out to confront McMichael about him running his mouth. McMichael was referring to him as Coma during the match. McMichael shoves Kama, so Kama throws water in his face. They start brawling in a pretty convincing fashion and have to be broken up by a large group of officials. That was probably the best thing that Kama ever does.
It's time for another WrestleMania Report. We hear from Shawn Michaels with Sid about winning the WWF Championship. Paul Bearer and Undertaker aren't happy about Ted DiBiase having the urn.
WWF Tag Team Championship Match
Heavenly Bodies vs. Smoking Gunns
They show a clip of Oscar apologizing for Men On A Mission's attack on the Smoking Gunns. Don't forget to tune into the Home Shopping Network next week for some WrestleMania gear. The Gunns look good in the early going and Vince talks about how repulsive Del Ray is. When we come back from commercial break, the Bodies are in control of Bart. Del Ray hits a neckbreaker and gets a 2 count. Del Ray misses with a splash from the top rope, but Prichard prevents Bart from tagging in Billy. They hit a double clothesline and both guys make the tag. Bart recovers quickly enough to lift Prichard above his shoulder and Billy hits the leg drop. Cornette distracts Bart and the ref enough for Del Ray to hit Billy off the top rope. He follows it up with a DDT and Bart has to make the save on the pin attempt. Del Ray goes for a pin attempt, but Billy bridges out of it and reverses it for the victory. This was a good match from two teams that almost always delivered during this era.
Match Rating: ***
They hype up Sunday Night Slam and give us pre-recorded interviews from Tatanka and Lex Luger about their cage match. The feud that just won't die.
This was a good show for the era and one that felt like it breezed by. Nothing really of importance happened, but that was usually the case in the mid-90s.
Overall Rating: 63%
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