Original Airdate: Saturday, January 6th, 1996
Stabler Arena
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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Ahmed Johnson vs. Jerry Lawler Royal Spider
Lawler comes out on crutches and says that he's not in any condition to wrestle today, so instead we get the Royal Spider. This is Thrasher from the Headbangers. Out comes Jeff Jarrett already to provide a distraction that allows Spider to dropkick Ahmed out of the ring. Ahmed chases after Jarrett but realizes he would get counted out and gets back in the ring. Ahmed hits a scissor kick to the back and the Pearl River Plunge for the easy win. I'm not really sure what the point of all of this is. Lawler walks to the back.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to Dok Hendrix at the Slam Jam. He announces that Goldust will now challenge Razor Ramon at Royal Rumble. Goldust gives a long promo on Razor. I wasn't really listening. We get Fatu, Jerry Lawler, Isaac Yankem, Doug Gilbert and Jake Roberts is coming back!
They show clips of Diesel beating Mabel at the Raw Bowl in 11 seconds and Diesel walking away with the young lady.
Isaac Yankem vs. Brian Walsh
Are we really still doing this? Why is this match longer than 30 seconds? Please go away.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Next week on Superstars, it's Henry Godwinn vs. Owen Hart. Yes, please.
Mr. Perfect is in the ring to bring out Razor Ramon for an interview. Perfect rambles on and on to get under Razor's skin about how Goldust is getting under his skin and that Razor can't sleep at night. He said he talked to Goldust earlier on and he asked him for a favor. He hands Razor a teddy bear like Goldust and Razor knocks it down and heads to the back.
They hype up Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog from In Your House being shown on Raw on Monday. Plus, Hakushi will take on Jeff Jarrett.
We see Ted DiBiase is talking to Brother Love on the phone and he confirms that he'll be on Raw and he's hyping up the new Million Dollar Champion he found. DiBiase was so terrible as a manager.
Skip vs. Rad Radford
We finally are getting the big payoff to this scorching hot storyline. Radford runs in the ring and hits a series of clotheslines with the final one knocking Skip to the floor. He hides behind Sunny but picks her up and moves her out of the way. That allows Skip to attack from behind and take control of the match. Radford gets a little burst of offense until he misses with the elbow drop. We even get a commercial break during this one. Skip goes up to the top rope but Radford meets him ther and hits a superplex. Skip is back on offense but not for long when Radford shoves Skip off the top rope when he goes for his hurricanrana. Radford hits a spinebuster and then a northern lights suplex. Sunny distracts the referee and a guy dressed up like Skip interferes, giving Skip the win. The celebrate together and Sunny says that his name is Zip and he is Skip's twin brother. Couldn't they have just said brother? Zip is 13 years older than Skip. The match was decent enough.
Match Rating: **
They show a hype video for Vader. As a kid, this was a very big deal to me. Even though I didn't know a lot about WCW at the time, I knew Vader and Sting were the two guys I wanted to jump over to WWF.
We now get a Mankind vignette just showing his missing ear. They don't say who he is or anything. Do you know how annoying it is that we finally get to one of my favorite years as a fan and now I can't even watch Raw anymore?
It's now time for the replay of the Undertaker/Mabel match from In Your House just in case you weren't insulted enough if you actually bought the show by this time.
Casket Match
King Mabel vs. Undertaker
Boy, I am excited for this one. Taker hits a splash in the corner but Mabel comes back with a Boss Man Slam. Taker sits up so Mabel hits a body slam. Mabel goes to the second rope and misses with a splash after Taker sits up. Taker hits a couple of clotheslines but then Mo grabs his ankle for the distraction. Mabel hits the belly-to-belly suplex and hits the leg drop. Taker tries to sit up but he can't do it. Mabel hits a big splash and then Mo drags Taker out of the ring. Mo carries Taker on his shoulder and puts him in the casket. They don't close the door and then Mo grabs Mabel's crown and puts it on. Mabel struts over and Taker naturally blocks it. Taker is back in the ring and hits some more clotheslines. The leaping clothesline finally knocks Mabel off his feet. Taker kicks Mabel in the back and he falls into the casket. Mo attacks Taker before he can close the door. Taker hits a chokeslam on him and rolls him into the casket on top of Mabel. Before he closes the lid, Taker grabs the gold chain from Mo and then slams it shut to put us out of our misery. At least it was short. After the match, Undertaker gives the signal that he wants the WWF Championship.
Match Rating: 3/4*
For the record, I did not watch this again. We go back to Dok and he does the worst impression of Michael Jackson that you will ever hear. He hypes up Diesel being in the Rumble before talking about the title match between Undertaker and Bret Hart. We're only 2 weeks away!
We now see the Raw Bowl queen and she's with Hunter Hearst Helmsley drinking wine sitting by the fireplace. He says that 1996 will be the best year yet.
Now it's time for Billionaire Ted. This was such a stupid and desperate campaign.
Next week they will show us highlights of Shawn Michaels' press conference. On top of Owen/Godwinn, we are also getting Goldust vs. Barry Horowitz. That show sounds better. The Skip match was pretty good and actually gave us some storyline but the rest of the show was awful.
Overall Rating: 36%
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