Original Airdate: Saturday, June 24th, 1995
Wheeling Civic Center
Wheeling, West Virginia
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Shawn Michaels vs. Brooklyn Brawler
Shawn's in his usual joking 1995 mode here. He hits Brawler with a slap to the face when he stops before a leapfrog. He ends up getting Brawler outside the ring. He does a baseball slide and lands on his feet. He hits Brawler with Sweet Chin Music and counts along with the ref before rolling in to beat the count. There's nothing like a countout victory for the heck of it.
Match Rating 1/4*
We get a Waylon Mercy vignette about potato salad or something. He debuts on Superstars next week. But today we're all winners because we are getting Mantaur vs. Bam Bam Bigelow.
Men On A Mission vs. Jerry Flynn & Mike McReynolds
We join this match in progress for whatever reason and it's even as if Dok Hendrix is in mid-sentence. Flynn gets in a couple of moves until Mabel squashes him with a big leg drop. Mo comes in and makes the pin. It sure doesn't feel like they are grooming him to win tomorrow.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get a King Of The Ring Report with Todd Pettengill. He makes the announcement that Razor Ramon will not be able to wrestle in the tournament. Jack Tunney has announced that IRS will face Savio Vega on Sunday to determine his replacement. Todd says that we'll kick ourselves all year if we make the mistake of not ordering this show. Less true words have never been spoken.
Undertaker vs. Barry Horowitz
We are inching closer to Barry's run, but he has no chance here. They interview Mabel during the match and he says that he'll do whatever it takes to beat Undertaker tomorrow. Horowitz tries to attack Taker, but just gets squashed instead. He hits the Tombstone and that's all. After the match, we see the Creatures of the Night and then out comes Mabel. Mabel says he's going down.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get Bob Backlund ranting on Man Mountain Rock. Did they really think this feud was going to work? I mean, in theory, it makes sense. It's just that not a single person cared about Man Mountain Rock, so that's a problem.
Skip vs. John Crystal
Sunny talks over the guest ring announcer in a good heat spot. They then insult the disgusting people in the audience. Skip hits the second rope leg drop and a gut wrench suplex. Skip hits the top rope superplex and pins him while doing push ups on Crystal's chest. The gimmick is lame, but I actually think they did a pretty good job with it.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get a beautiful recap of the friendship between Bam Bam and Diesel. I just don't know how they expected anyone to be excited about this tag team match.
Mantaur vs. Bam Bam Bigelow
I can't believe that Jim Cornette is still stuck working with Mantaur. Mantaur attacks Bam Bam as he's taking off his super cool jacket. This match is as dull as you would expect it to be. Bam Bam battles back with some headbutts, but fails on the body slam attempt. Mantaur hits a suplex, which is pretty impressive. Bam Bam counters an Irish whip in a weird way and then hits a top rope headbutt for the win. The ending was a little oddly executed, as Mantaur kind of grazed his head because of the timing. This was whatever.
Match Rating: 1/2*
It's time to go back to the Toddster for more King Of The Ring talk. We get lots of feet talk and go to Bret Hart, who is doing some of his weakest stuff of his career on the mic here.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley vs. Mike Khoury
They show the cover of the WWF Magazine issue that got me back into wrestling. Yep, that's wright. This is the time period that I got back into WWF. Anyway, Hunter hits the Pedigree and wins. Whatever.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to Jerry Lawler and see the same video we've already seen. They then show the Aldo Montoya footage again. They weren't even trying on this one.
This wasn't a good episode and it's no surprise that King Of The Ring ends up being terrible.
Overall Rating: 28%
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