Original Airdate: Saturday, December 23rd, 1995
Stabler Arena
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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You'd think we'd get a recap of In Your House, but instead it's just a quick blurb about Ted Dibiase's Santa Clause, since that is definitely the one thing on every fan's mind.
WWF Tag Team Championship Match
Skip & Rad Radford vs. Smoking Gunns
We get a spirited opening sequence from Billy and Skip that leads to Skip rolling out of the ring to step away. The Gunns hit a double side Russian leg sweep on Radford for a 2 count. A distraction from Sunny allows Skip to dive off the apron. Their advantage doesn't last long with Billy being tagged in. Skip gets a thumb to his eye, but Bart comes in and throws Skip off the top rope into Radford and the champions retain. They kept up a pretty good pace and got a lot in a fairly short match. After the match, Sunny grabs the mic and berates Radford. She tells him that he's fired and then slaps him. Skip attacks him from behind and they bolt to the back.
Match Rating: **
We go to Dok Hendrix's house for the Slam Jam. He talks Royal Rumble and we hear from one of the first participants, Diesel, and he wants his title back. Owen Hart then talks about putting Shawn Michaels away. Don't forget about Jeff Jarrett vs. Ahmed Johnson.
Xanta Klaus vs. Scott Taylor
Well, this is a pretty infamous bad gimmick played by Balls Mahoney. We do hear from DiBiase and he lets us know that he's searching high and low for his next top superstar. Xanta puts on the Camel Clutch and gets the easy win. I see big things for this guy in the near future.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Buddy Landel vs. Matt Hardy
Landel has already been entered into the Royal Rumble. Huge if true. I mean, what were they really hoping to get out of Landel in 1996? It's easy to see why they ended up signing Hardy, as he always does a good job of selling for his opponents. Landel wins with an elbow drop. That should tell you all you need to know.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We see the Undertaker/Diesel confrontation from In Your House.
Henry Godwinn vs. Brooklyn Brawler
We come back from commercial and the bell rings for this match with no entrance for Godwinn. There's also some awkward silence before Vince starts talking. We hear from Godwinn and he talks about being in the Royal Rumble. The stakes just keep getting higher with all of these top stars being entered in. Brawler tries to go off the top rope, but Godwinn slams him off and then hits the Slop Drop for the easy win.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get a recap of what transpired between Goldust and Razor Ramon at In Your House.
British Bulldog vs. Marty Jannetty
Marty has been pretty sharp for the most part during his 15th return to the company here. Marty has a good flurry of hip tosses and dropkicks before Bulldog slows it down. We come back from commercial break and Bulldog hits a delayed vertical suplex. We get some back and forth wrestling from here. Marty goes up top but Cornette pulls Bulldog out of the ring. Jannetty hits him with a baseball slide. Back in the ring, Marty goes up top again and Bulldog catches him and puts him up for the running powerslam for the win. Even Mr. Perfect was impressed with this match. This was a good Superstars main event.
Match Rating: **1/2
We go back to Dok and he keeps hyping up how shocked we'll be at the names trying to get into the Royal Rumble. Diesel, Owen Hart and Buddy Landel but then we go to the title match, Bret Hart vs. Undertaker. We hear from both competitors.
It's time for the special music video of Shawn Michaels, who will definitely never compete again. This is the famous "Tell Me A Lie" music video.
They actually kind of pulled out a good episode of Superstars out of nowhere. Both feature matches delivered and the rest was very easy to digest. The Rumble is looking pretty weak so far outside of the main event, so that has to be a bit of a concern.
Overall Rating: 53%
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