Superstars 5-6-95 Review

Original Airdate: Saturday, May 6th, 1995
Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Des Moines, Iowa

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WWF Tag Team Championship Match
Headshrinkers vs. Owen Hart & Yokozuna

The Headshrinkers are here without both Lou Albano and Afa. I have to think that this is their last TV appearance here? Owen tries to slam Fatu's head on the turnbuckle, but he no sells it and does some dancing before hitting a headbutt to Owen's abdomen. The Headshrinkers are very much not the Headshrinkers any more. Owen tags in Yoko, so Fatu tags in Sione. Sione is able to yank Yoko's hair and slam him on his back. Sione then hits a big boot and knocks Yoko out of the ring and into the commercial break. When we come back, Yoko and Owen have Sione trapped in their corner. Fatu tags in and he suffers from the same luck. Fatu counters Owen and hits a piledriver and both men tag in their partners. Sione ducks a clothesline and hits one of his own. Sione hits a second one, but Yoko is still teetering. Fatu illegally runs in and they hit a double clothesline to knock him down. Owen runs in and Sione takes care of him. Sione hits a big boot and Fatu hits the top rope splash. Owen is not the legal man, but Cornette and Fuji have the ref distracted. Yoko hits a leg drop on Fatu and then throws Fatu over the ropes and he gets his head stuck in between the ropes. Yoko then hits the Banzai Splash and picks up the win for his team. This was a really good match for Superstars and I'm loving this team of Yoko and Owen. 

Match Rating: ***1/4

We go to Todd Pettengill for the In Your House Report. He compliments Yoko and Owen on their teamwork before hyping up the show's value. He hypes up that Bret Hart will now have double duty, facing both Hakushi and Jerry Lawler.

Adam Bomb vs. Rock Warner

You're looking at your next King Of The Ring, I assure you. There's no way they'd be dumb enough to let Mabel even qualify, let alone win it, right? Bomb hits the top rope clothesline and easily disposes of Warner. He then tosses out some footballs to the Bomb Squad. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

Next week, it's Diesel vs. Henry Godwinn on Superstars. Yes, please.

Bertha Faye vs. Jessica Rivera

Faye has some peppy music here, as I guess her and Harvey aren't quite in love just yet. Rivera does a nice job of bumping around and then even hits a top rope clothesline to knock Bertha down. Bertha recovers and crushes her with a clothesline in the corner. She blows Harvey a kiss and then skips over to hit a sit down powerbomb and a victory. Bertha was pretty impressive here and at least breathes a little bit of life into a dead division.

Match Rating: 1/2*

They show highlights of the Bob Holly/Jeff Jarrett storyline on Action Zone.

Hunter Hearst Helmsley vs. Sonny Rogers

This is his debut here, as he now will be appearing on both of my timelines that I am covering. Helmsley hits a spin kick, which I don't think I've ever seen him hit before. He debuts the Pedigree and that's all for Mr. Rogers.

Match Rating: 1/4*

We go back to Todd in the studio and he shows highlights of Sid's rise to #1 contender. 

Tatanka vs. Kevin Krueger

Freddy's cousin taking on Tatanka here. Krueger hits a crossbody and gets a 2 count. Tatanka tries a back body drop, but Krueger hits a sunset flip for another nearfall. Tatanka actually hits a back body drop this time in retaliation and then hits the End Of The Trail for the victory.

Match Rating: 1/4*

We go to Sunny and Skip making fun of people watching their Zony TV. 

Dave Sigfrid vs. Undertaker

Sigfrid tries to attack Taker and it doesn't work. Taker hits him with the Tombstone and this one is over in close to a minute here. After the match, Paul Bearer pulls out the body bag, which is something we haven't seen in a long time. They don't even show him finishing up putting him in. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

Henry Godwinn says that he knows what the outcome of his match next week is going to be. 

This was a fun episode with a really rock solid feature match. The rest of it flew by and I thought Bertha and Helmsley both looked good here. We're getting closer to the whirlwind of Sunny in her prime arriving and the downfall of pay per view wrestling with monthly shows. There's a lot going on without there actually being a lot going on, if that makes sense.

Overall Rating: 58%