Original Airdate: Monday, December 4th, 1995
Richmond Coliseum
Richmond, Virginia
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We get the good intro music for the hype video here and have a nice card for tonight.
Bob Holly vs. British Bulldog
Holly hits a body slam and a couple of clotheslines, causing Bulldog to regroup outside the ring. Honestly, they haven't done a great job of Bulldog looking like a dominant contender. He pinned Diesel on Raw through shenanigans, which I get, but his matches like this have been a little too 50/50 at times. Bulldog hits the delayed vertical suplex. Holly hits a dropkick and starts firing back with right hands. I mean, god forbid that Holly doesn't get his offense in here. Bulldog catches Holly on his shoulder and hits the running powerslam for the way too difficult victory for it being Bob Holly.
Match Rating: 3/4*
They show the highlights of Bob Backlund attacking Bret Hart and then attacking Jim Ross on Superstars. Lawler now calls Backlund over to him for an interview. He will be facing Bret Hart next week in a non-title match. Backlund does lots of yelling and they show a random guy holding a sign to go to break. Vince keeps asking to kill his mic so that they can go to break and they do.
Fatu vs. Brooklyn Brawler
Brawler attacks Fatu before the bell because why not? Within about 60 seconds, Fatu hits a top rope splash for the easy victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
It's time for Dok and the Slam Jam. Vince interrupts him and we go back to Backlund and he attacks the sound engineer. Dok announces that Diesel has accepted Owen Hart's open contract for a match at In Your House.
Intercontinental Championship Match
Dean Douglas vs. Razor Ramon
Dean attacks Razor as he's getting ready and then almost uses the title belt, but the referee is able to grab it away from him. Razor catches Dean and hits the fall away slam before clotheslining him over the top so that he can remove his vest. Dean is about to hit a reverse elbow off the second rope and we go to commercial. Razor puts on the abdominal stretch when we come back and then hits the Razor's Edge. That was it? We're supposed to think that Dean can take on Ahmed? It's pretty clear the writing is on the wall here for Dean.
Match Rating: 3/4*
They hype up Bret/Backlund again and also say that Shawn Michaels will speak in the ring next week.
We get another Brother Love interview, this time with King Mabel. Love says that he has two surprises for Mabel. Someone wheels out a casket and he says surprise number 1 Sir Mo under the druid hood. Surprise 2 is the Undertaker's casket being painted with Mabel on it instead. Mabel thanks Brother Love and tells Undertaker that there will be no love for him at In Your House.
They show Razor getting Marty Jannetty ready for his match.
On January 1st, it's the Raw Bowl.
Sid vs. Marty Jannetty
Don't forget to buy your life size Undertaker or Diesel cardboard cut outs for only $25! There is a lot of time left in this episode here. Jannetty attacks Sid from behind and we're ready to go. Sid catches Jannetty and hits a slam. When we come back from commercial, Sid turns Jannetty inside out with a clothesline. Sid is getting a little bit of a heel pop here. 1-2-3 Kid is out and he attacks Jannetty while Sid has the referee distracted. Razor comes out to make the save and the referee calls for the bell. Razor knocks Sid out of the ring and then chases Kid through the arena. Back in the ring, Sid hits a powerbomb on Jannetty to a pretty big pop. DiBiase shoves some money in the mouth of Jannetty. Vince says that it is a disqualification victory for Jannetty. The match was fine for what it was.
Match Rating: *
We get an early Vince/Lawler spot since they will be closing with the Shawn Michaels stuff.
We get a Todd Pettengill narrated segment on Shawn's condition. We hear from his doctor and post-concussion syndrome. The doctor is very concerned for Shawn's well being as a person, not as a performer. He says that Shawn is not progressing and that it may not be safe for him to return at all. We then get a Vince narrated sob story about the Superstars.
This episode didn't feature very much wrestling and most of it here wasn't very good. This very much felt like the end of the taping episode that it was. The Shawn stuff is definitely questionable considering the circumstances that got us to that point. This is one to skip.
Overall Rating: 32%
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