WWF Monday Night RAW (September 13, 1993)

Original Airdate: September 13, 1993

From New York, New York; Your Hosts are Vince McMahon, Randy Savage, and Bobby Heenan.

Opening WWF Tag Team Title Province of Quebec Rules Match: The Steiner Brothers v The Quebecers: The rules stipulate that top rope moves are banned, throwing someone over the top rope is banned, piledrivers are banned, and titles can change hands by countout or disqualification. Wait, is Bill Watts from Quebec? Onto the action, Rick Steiner starts with Jacques, and a criss cross ends in Steiner powerslamming him. Clothesline nearly knocks Jacques over the top, but Jacques changes gears and goes out under the rope - a botch that nearly ended the match. Pierre meets him out there for a hug, and switches with him (sans tag, but the referee doesn't complain too loudly), but Rick powerslams him anyway. Tag to Scott Steiner, and he blocks a backdrop with a double-underhook powerbomb for two. Armbar, but Pierre powers up, so Scott dropkicks him, and slaps on a front-facelock. Cross corner charge backfires however, and Pierre blasts him with a 2^nd rope clothesline for two. Splash gets two, but Pierre ends up getting backdropped, and Scott tags. Jacques makes another illegal switch, so Rick decides to piledrive him, but Scott talks his dum-dum brother out of it, and he settles for a clothesline instead. Tag back to Pierre (although, really, that's the first tag they've made), and Scott tags in as well to resume their war. Steiner controls with a mat-based side-headlock, but Pierre blocks a hiptoss, and clotheslines him - only to walk into an overhead suplex for two. Scott slaps on a half-crab, but Jacques runs in to break the hold, so Scott tags out, and Rick drops an elbow for two. Half-crab of his own, but Jacques breaks that up as well. Again, it only dazes the Steiner in question, and Rick tags - allowing Scott to come in and drop an elbow for two. Rick with a belly-to-belly suplex for two, as Johnny Polo joins us at ringside to watch. Rick goes to the top, but Scott reminds him about the DQ's, and Rick settles for a splash from the middle rope, but misses - in an awkward looking spot. Pierre tries a superplex off the middle rope, but Rick counters with a forward-suplex for two, and Pierre rolls out to the floor to regroup - Polo joining in on the huddle. Back in, a cheap shot from Pierre takes Scott Steiner down, and they cut the ring in half with tandem stuff. Pierre slams Jacques onto Scott for two. Stungun, and Pierre chokes him with the tag rope in the corner while Jacques distracts the referee. Legsweep/clothesline combo for two, and a bodyslam sets up a pump-splash by Pierre for two. Jumping backelbow gets Jacques two, but he telegraphs a backdrop and takes a foot to the face - Pierre just cutting off a tag. Bodyslam, and Jacques backdrops him onto Steiner, but Jacques ends up missing a cross corner charge, and gets DDT'd. Pierre runs in illegally to prevent the tag, and they dump Scott to the outside to tease a cheap shot from Polo (which doesn't happen somehow). Inside, Jacques whiplashes Scott to set up a 2^nd rope legdrop from Pierre, and he slaps on a Boston crab. Pierre heads up for another legdrop while Jacques wrenches on the hold, but Rick gets sick of it, and comes in illegally - slamming Pierre off the middle rope. Scott adds a clothesline for both challengers, and finally gets the tag to brother Rick. He's a doghouse of fire, and a four-way brawl breaks out in short order - Scott catching Pierre with the Frankensteiner for two. In the chaos, Polo ends up on the apron, but Rick steals his hockey stick, and Scott ends up nailing Jacques with it for the DQ at 22:00 - giving us all heel champions in the WWF. Fantastic, old-school tag team wrestling here. Given plenty of time, and filled with neat double-teams, tag psychology, and a brilliant heat segment. *** ¾

Mr. Perfect v Tony DeVito: DeVito gets uppity, but makes the mistake of getting cocky, and ends up getting chased all the way back to the dressing rooms. Perfect drags him back for hits an atomic drop, but takes a dropkick out of the ropes. Perfect responds in kind, and finishes the kid with the Perfect-Plex at 2:47. Just your basic squash, but they had some fun with it. ¼*

Let's go back to SummerSlam, where Lex Luger looked like a complete asshole celebrating despite not winning the WWF Title, only for Ludvig Borga to show up doing his Ivan Drago impression, complete with 'I will break you'

Razor Ramon v The Executioner: Executioner flips out about the toothpick toss, but gets launched across the ring when he tries to respond. Executioner rakes the eyes, and it looks like he really got him, because Razor does a crazy oversell off of it, and falls to the floor. Back in, Ramon slugs away, and hits a chokeslam, followed by a blockbuster. Abdominal stretch, and a side-superplex finishes at 2:36. Paint-by-numbers. ¼*

Vince McMahon brings new tag champs The Quebecers, and their new official manager Johnny Polo out to gloat in an in-ring interview. The usual, but Vince bursts their bubble a bit by announcing that Pierre will face Scott Steiner the next week, and if Scott wins, the Steiner's get a rematch

We take a look at various WWF Superstars that were on hand at the Jerry Lewis telethon over Labor Day weekend. Oh God, remember those? Nothing could ruin a day off from school like that fucking telethon in the pre-Internet, pre-Netflix, pre-DVR days

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Doink v Rich Myers: And so begins Doink's abrupt (and unfortunate) face turn, as he made fun of Jerry Lawler on Superstars after SummerSlam, and now he's throwing confetti to the crowd, and smiling in non-sadistic ways. He still destroys poor Myers with a bunch of suplexes, and finishes with the Whoopee Cushion at 2:10. Afterwards, Doink pours a bucket of water over Bobby Heenan's head to cement the face turn. Solid squash, as Matt Bourne was still motivated, but it all fell apart once they replaced him not long after this, and added Dink to the mix. ½*

BUExperience: Steiners/Quebecers is an awesome, must-see tag team match, and the rest is more or less business as usual, but it wasn’t dull. Plus, nobody can sell a bucket of water to the face quite like Bobby Heenan. Good episode