Original Airdate: Saturday, April 15th, 1995
Glens Falls Civic Center
Glens Falls, New York
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Allied Powers vs. Bert Centeno & Tony DeVito
No Jerry Lawler here today and instead we have the Superstars debut of Dok Hendrix. You know you are right in the heart of the New Generation with Dok. The crazy thing to me is that Hendrix is only 36 years old here. He seems like he's from a completely different generation. This is your typical tag team squash here, with Bulldog hitting the running powerslam for the victory. Vince hypes up the tag division after and Hendrix refers to 1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly as Beavis and Butthead.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We have Stephanie Wiand now to talk about In Your House and how it's only $14.95. It's kind of crazy that 25 years later I can watch WrestleMania plus every other WWE show for $5.99 a month. She announces that the main event will be Diesel vs. Sid.
Dok Hendrix shows us photos of Alundra Blayze's broken nose.
Bob Holly vs. Black Phantom
Dok then says that he did some digging and found out that Bertha Faye and Harvey Wippleman live in the same trailer park. Dok criticizes Phantom's choice of moves and then Holly hits a dropkick. He follows that up with a body slam and a top rope elbow for the victory. He is much better as a tag team wrestler in this era.
Match Rating: 1/4*
They show the clip of Diesel saying he might have lost the title at WrestleMania if it weren't for Sid. I still don't get this part of the story. They show Shawn's response and what it leads to.
Smoking Gunns know all about Hakushi and Kwang's martial arts experience and seem pretty happy overall despite losing their championships.
Hakushi & Kwang vs. Smoking Gunns
This has to be one of the last Kwang appearances considering Savio Vega should be debuting soon. We get going before the Gunns can even take off their dorky shirts. After some good tag action, the Gunns work on the left arm of Kwang. They hit a Hart Attack, but a distraction from Shinja prevents a pin attempt. Kwang is able to get a kick in and sprays the red mist into the air. Hakushi gets tagged in and hits a headbutt. Hakushi hits his variation of the Vader Bomb and we go to commercial. We get a double crossbody with Hakushi and Bart, knocking both men down. They both make tags and Billy is a house of fire. He ducks a kick and hits a crossbody for a 2 count. Kwang accidentally hits Hakushi with a spin kick and then Billy rolls up Kwang for the victory. This was a pretty good offering for a Superstars match. I'm not sure I would have had Hakushi take a loss so soon, even though he didn't take the pin.
Match Rating: **1/4
After the match, Hakushi and Kwang are ready to brawl, but are broken apart before anything happens.
After an In Your House commercial, Hakushi and Kwang begin brawling near the entrance and have to be broken up by officials.
We see the clip of Aldo Montoya beating Jeff Jarrett last week. Next week they'll face each other with the Intercontinental Championship on the line.
We get our first Hunter Hearst Helmsley vignette. He talks about the Bushwhackers, Headshrinkers and Smoking Gunns and how he's better than them. He actually does a pretty good snob once you get over how he's talking compared to what we are used to.
Adam Bomb vs. Mike Bell
Bomb dominates and hits a disappointing dropkick and Bell disappointingly falls over the top rope. Bomb is fired up after a couple of offensive moves from Bell. He hits a hip toss and two clotheslines. He hits a back suplex before going up top to hit a clothesline for the victory. Bomb has lost all of his momentum.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go back to Stephanie Wiand to talk about the house they are giving away. I can't wait to see this for another 8 episodes.
Henry Godwinn vs. Nick Barberri
This one is pretty quick with Godwinn hitting his usual offense here. He hits a Slop Drop and rolls him over with his head for the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to Bob Backlund on the beach for spring break. He has sunscreen on his nose in his dorky suit and bowtie. The camera man keeps trying to show girls in bikinis, but Backlund keeps nudging the camera back to him and his rant.
Next week outside of the Intercontinental match, we'll also see Razor Ramon in action.
There's pretty much a standard for 1995 Superstars and the overall quality doesn't really deviate too much from that spot very often. This was a very typical episode that had a decent enough feature match. The rest was the usual take it or leave it type of stuff.
Overall Rating: 44%
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