Original Airdate: Saturday, December 2nd, 1995
Wicomico Civic Center
Salisbury, Maryland
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Vince McMahon, Jim Ross and Mr. Perfect are here to kick off the show. They play Razor Ramon's music but he doesn't come out. We go backstage and Marty Jannetty is back there and gifts him a matching leather jacket. Razor tells him that he's been up and down more than a yo-yo. I won't make the obvious comment here. He accepts and he has Marty come out with him.
Razor Ramon vs. Ken Raper
Razor hits the fall away slam and out comes Sid and 1-2-3 Kid. Razor doesn't let it slow him down and hits the back suplex off the turnbuckle. He finishes him off with the Razor's Edge for the easy win.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to Dok Hendrix for a Slam Jam and he is yelling like crazy because Undertaker vs. Mabel at In Your House will be a casket match. We hear from Undertaker and Paul Bearer. Owen Hart has an open contract for In Your House and Jim Cornette and Owen play up how he took out Shawn Michaels.
King Mabel vs. Dave Thornberg & Jerry Faith
We hear from Brother Love during the match and he says that he has a lovely surprise for us. The look of this arena is kind of weird to me. This is over quickly and that is the right decision. Mabel hits a leg drop after for good measure.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We come back from commercial and Mabel rips up a cardboard cutout of Undertaker and puts his head in his mouth.
They show Bret Hart being attacked by Bob Backlund on Raw during his interview with Brother Love. Why can't they just let the Backlund/Bret thing go?
Ahmed Johnson says to not drink and drive this holiday season or you may have to face the consequences.
Ahmed Johnson vs. Jason Ahrndt
We hear from Dean Douglas and he tells Ahmed that it won't be a very merry Christmas for Ahmed. Ahmed hits a spinebuster and goes right into the Pearl River Plunge for the victory. The squashes are quick this week.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to Henry Godwinn at his farm introducing us to some of his hogs.
Owen Hart vs. Matt Hardy
This is a match I would actually have liked to have seen. Unfortunately, this one is over before it begins. Owen hits a missile dropkick and wins with the Sharpshooter. Next.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Next week it's Savio Vega vs. Bob Backlund on Superstars. Why?
Jim Ross goes into the crowd to interview Backlund. Bob snaps because JR refers to him as Bob. Ross tries to walk away but Backlund slaps on the Cross-face Chickenwing. Savio comes out and tries to pull Backlund off. When we come back, Perfect defends Backlund's actions.
Duke Droese vs. Reginald Walker
Speaking of trash, how about Droese being just an absolute waste of a human being? Despicable. Of all the squashes, this is the one that goes the longest? And not one person in the arena cares. They don't even bother giving him fake crowd noise. He says it's time to take out the trash, but yet here he still is. Yeah, sorry. I don't care about you.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get a video package on the Shawn Michaels story.
Barry Horowitz & Hakushi vs. Sid & 1-2-3 Kid
Horowitz gets a few arm drags on Kid and tags in Hakushi. Sid manhandles Hakushi and they slow things down. When we come back from commercial, Kid is still kicking away on Hakushi. Sid hits the powerbomb on Horowitz and then tags in Kid so that he can make the pin here. This was pretty non-eventful, and I guess it probably should be since they are building this new team. Unfortunately, it will be all for nothing.
Match Rating: 3/4*
Back to Dok we go and he is just so loud today. We hear from Jim Cornette and British Bulldog. They of course bring up SummerSlam 1992. Bret then talks about it as well. Bret tells him that what goes around, comes around and that the Bulldog is going down.
They show Backlund attacking JR again. Vince is hopeful that he will be able to join them next week. Next week, Diesel will take on Rad Radford. That's quite the double main event.
This episode sucked. I know not much is expected of Superstars of this era, but this fell below expectations. Thankfully Raw has been a fun watch and the pay per views are still interesting to me.
Overall Rating: 30%
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