Original Airdate: Monday, May 8th, 1995
Omaha Civic Auditorium
Omaha, Nebraska
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We get a recap of Sid/Razor Ramon from last week before the intro. When we go to the arena, Jerry Lawler is ecstatic about getting to wrestle Bret Hart at In Your House (only $14.95). Tonight it's Owen Hart vs. Bart Gunn, Hakushi in action and an interview with Sid.
Jeff Jarrett vs. Doink
This is a non-title match. Jarrett's attire tonight is something I don't think I have ever seen him wear before and probably for good reason. Not that any of his gear was ever really that good. Doink runs into a boot in the corner after having control of the early portion of the match. Jarrett almost runs into Roadie, but while he brags about his intelligence, Doink snaps Roadie's neck on the top rope and almost gets a quick win over Jarrett. Jarrett has Doink in trouble when we go to commercial break and when we come back he is working on the leg. Doink makes a comeback and then Dink bites Jarrett's butt. Roadie takes out Doink's leg and that allows Jarrett to put on the Figure Four and Doink submits. This was a perfectly acceptable TV match.
Match Rating: *1/2
We get a Body Donnas vignette and then go into a pre-taped interview with an apologetic Bam Bam Bigelow. He talks about his mistake of doing what he did at Royal Rumble, which led to him losing to one of the greatest football players of all time. This whole thing makes him look like a total dweeb.
We get a Sid/Diesel video for In Your House.
We now go to an in ring interview with Sid and Ted DiBiase. Ted gives his usual predictable promo and then Sid just starts yelling before going down low and then into more yelling.
Hakushi vs. Gary Scott
It's Michael's brother, Gary. The crowd is chanting "We want Bret" and just in case you didn't know that Bret has two matches at In Your House, you'll know by the end of this show. They have only mentioned it 16 times already. Hakushi remains undefeated here with an easy pinfall victory, but I suspect it won't last for long.
Match Rating: 1/4*
It's the final In Your House Report because it's this Sunday. Diesel talks about being a big man or something. For some reason, there is no replay of In Your House. I thought the replay was a standard thing by this time?
Owen Hart vs. Bart Gunn
Bart fights off an early distraction from Mr. Fuji and hits a top rope crossbody for a 2 count. Bart continues on offense until Fuji trips Bart up and now Owen takes advantage of it. We get some more shenanigans after the commercial break and it leads to Billy crotching Owen on the top rope. Bart then is able to roll up Owen and picks up the victory ahead of their rematch at In Your House. It should be noted that Yokozuna was not at ringside for whatever reason. I didn't type much, but this was a good 1995 style WWF match for Raw.
Match Rating: **1/2
They show Todd and Stephanie from Mania giving us a tour of the house. How did we ever think that kitchens that looked like that were nice? Todd is in full annoying trying too hard mode here.
They show a clip of Bret Hart accepting Jerry Lawler's challenge and then Lawler tells us that he's going to bring his mother to the show. If that doesn't make you want to buy it, I don't know what will.
This was a decent enough show. This era is infamous for its quality, but the shows are well paced and don't usually overstay their welcome.
Overall Rating: 49%
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