Original Airdate: Saturday, June 17th, 1995
Wheeling Civic Center
Wheeling, West Virginia
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During Henry Godwinn's entrance, we get a video of Jerry Lawler getting his feet ready again.
Henry Godwinn vs. Bret Hart
These two should have had an In Your House feud. Bret looks motivated here, as he comes out aggressive. Godwinn slows things down and takes it to Bret's back. Godwinn gets greedy and misses a second rope knee drop. Bret comes back and hits the bulldog for a 2 count. Bret is in the middle of the five moves of doom and out comes Jerry Lawler. Bret goes after him and Lawler tries to hide under the ring. Bret grabs him by the foot and this allows Godwinn to level him with a clothesline. Bret throws Godwinn into the ring post and then chases Bret to the back. The bell rang and we go to a commercial break with no announcement of the winner. When we come back, Vince tells us that it was a double countout. Dok Hendrix is with an angry Bret and he wants another go round with Godwinn and he'll see the slimy rat, Lawler at King Of The Ring. This was an entertaining match that I'd like to see again.
Match Rating: **
Jacob & Eli Blu vs. Gus Kantarakis & John Smith
John Smith? Really? It feels like it's been a minute since we've seen the Blu brothers. They do their usual stuff here, but for some reason they drag this one out. They hit a double boot to the face and then a knee drop for the finish. They really needed a cool double team to help them get over.
Match Rating: 1/4*
They show Yokozuna beating Lex Luger to qualify for the King Of The Ring. We then go to Todd Pettengill for the King Of The Ring Report. He runs down the bracket and then we go to Yokozuna and Jim Cornette. Mabel then says that King Mabel will be born. No way they'd ever do that.
They show Bob Backlund from last week with Man Mountain Rock's guitar.
Man Mountain Rock vs. Kenny Kendall
Rock is horrible and I find myself zoning out for this one. He puts on the Whammy Bar and that's all. No one cares.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Jeff Jarrett vs. John Senowski
We join this match just as the bell rings. Jarrett hits a superplex and then goes right into the Figure Four for the easy victory. That should have been the length of the last two matches rather than this one.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to a pre-recorded sit down interview between Vince, Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow. They say nothing of value here.
Next week on Superstars, it's Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Bam Bam Bigelow wannabe, Mantaur.
Jean Pierre Lafitte vs. Reginald Walker
The squashes seem a little underwhelming this week. I'm also still not quite understanding the way WWF brings in people during this era. It seems like so many of them just have nothing to do for months and months. Lafitte hits the Cannon Ball and that's all.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get two more announced for the Hall Of Fame in Pedro Morales and George Steele.
We get the same Waylon Mercy vignette about the worm.
Savio Vega vs. Bob Cook
Vega does a bunch of jumping around here and then does this weird pin attempt to pick up the victory. That's a bizarre choice to finish a squash match.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Todd is back to talk more King Of The Ring, which I assure you will be absolutely fantastic. Sid, Tatanka and Ted DiBiase give us nothing of value. A theme for today.
Next week it will be Shawn Michaels, Undertaker and we now get another look at Aldo Montoya kissing Lawler's foot.
The opening match was an enjoyable feature match and then it was all downhill from there. The squashes just weren't interesting this week and there are just no good storylines to get into.
Overall Rating: 37%
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