Original Airdate: Saturday, December 30th, 1995
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Unfortunately, this is a 1995 recap show rather than an actual episode of Superstars. We get a Todd Pettengill narrated introduction before sending us to Vince McMahon and Mr. Perfect in the television studio. They briefly talk about the top stars before going into Bam Bam Bigelow (does he even work here any more?) and Lawrence Taylor.
This leads to Todd doing a terrible old timey sports announcer voice as they show us the story of Bam Bam and LT. We get highlights of the match, which was solid for what it was. Vince is his phony mood today and sounds like he's running an infomercial. They show Bob Backlund declaring that he's running for president before the first commercial break.
We get our next 1995 Superstar Moment and it's Jerry Lawler and his nosebleed as he dangled over the cage match between Isaac Yankem and Bret Hart. This leads into the Kiss My Foot match. They go through this one more quickly than the LT one and focus more on Lawler's comeuppance. That then leads into Isaac Yankem.
They then go back to Survivor Series...1994? They talk about Owen making Martha to throw the towel in and costing Bret the title. This leads to a highlight package of Bret's 1995 up until Survivor Series 1995. Jim Ross then narrates a brief moment where they show Bret/Diesel for a second.
Even though it's a recap show, we still have to see Dok Hendrix for the Slam Jam. He talks about Bret Hart vs. Undertaker and we hear from Paul Bearer and Undertaker. Taker says the creatures of the night are calling for him to win the WWF title. He then talks about the big match between Ahmed Johnson facing Jeff Jarrett. He'll tell us about 4 new names later on. They then show fake Bill Clinton flirting with Sunny.
We come back to Barry Horowitz's first victory and then Vince and Perfect mocking JR's call. That naturally leads into them talking about...Razor Ramon. They recap the saga with 1-2-3 Kid. It's interesting how much focus is going to be put on him and Diesel when they are going to be leaving 4 months or so.
They go on to start talking about Razor's new rival, Goldust. Vince thinks Goldust is just getting in the head of Razor. Perfect then says that he'll interview Razor next week.
It's time to pretend that Jeff Jarrett didn't leave for a few months over a contract dispute. They hype up the Royal Rumble match and remind us that he won't be in the actual Rumble match thanks to Gorilla Monsoon.
It's now time to talk about Kama and the feud with Undertaker. This is kind of surprising since Kama is basically a nothing at this point. It's time to talk about Mabel too and he's also basically a nothing. Diesel isn't too happy about Undertaker's title shot.
We get a clip of the Smoking Gunns winning the tag titles from Owen Hart and Yokozuna.
They start talking about Diesel and basically openly admit how he was booked poorly by kissing babies and doing media appearances. They think his schedule may have caused him to lose the WWF title and they show a few highlights of the Survivor Series match and his interview the next night.
It's back to Dok for the Slam Jam. He announces some new entrants starting with British Bulldog and we hear from him and Jim Cornette. Savio Vega gets a rare interview spot and he's also in the Rumble. He's my pick to go all the way. Dok then announces King Mabel and Dory Funk Jr...
It's time to talk about the heartbreak around Shawn Michaels. We get to hear "Tell Me A Lie" one more time.
Next week we get Ahmed Johnson vs. Jerry Lawler and Skip vs. Rad Radford. Vince asks Perfect his favorite moment and of course it is him coming back and Vince does some terrible comedic acting. Ted DiBiase says his best moment was acquiring Sid. Henry Godwinn's favorite was slopping DiBiase and throwing Hunter Hearst Helmsley in the mud. Bret's was winning the WWF Championship. They then go back to Mr. Perfect who is still rambling. Hilarious.
1995 in many regards is the worst year in WWF history. A weak roster, poor booking and watering down the product with monthly pay-per-views really left a sour taste in most people's mouths. However, this is the year I fell back in love with wrestling. I don't really know what it was that drew me back in to pro wrestling, but I was hooked once again. With that being said, this recap wasn't really that great. It didn't really do anything particularly well and Vince was pretty poor as a host here.
Overall Rating: 40%
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