WWF Monday Night RAW (June 13, 1994)

Original Airdate: June 13, 1994  

Your Hosts are Vince McMahon and Randy Savage from a studio, as this is a special ‘Countdown to the Crowning’ edition of RAW to hype Sunday’s King of the Ring. Stan Lane and Ted DiBiase provide commentary for the matches.

Opening WWF Tag Team Title Match: The Headshrinkers v The Quebecers: This is the rematch from when the 'Shrinkers won the tag titles, but was taped in late May. Samu starts with Jacques, and easily controls. Both guys tag, and Pierre manages to clothesline Fatu for the somersault sell, but takes a jumping forearm during a criss cross, and tags back to Jacques. Jacques wants a test-of-strength, and fires off a cheapshot, but a facebuster fails, and Fatu superkicks him. The Quebecers use some double-teaming to take over on Samu, and they cut the ring in half. They look to finish with the Tower of Quebec, but Samu dodges it, and dropkicks them both to allow the tag. Fatu is a hut of fire, and a flying splash finishes Pierre at 7:18. Total crap, and featured not one, but TWO awkward clip jobs. DUD

The team of Yokozuna and Crush offer pre-taped thoughts for The Headshrinkers, who they challenge at King of the Ring

King of the Ring Hotline promo! Dial 1-900-454-KING if you hate your parents, and want to waste all of their money!

WWF 'New Generation' promo

We take a look at the 1994 WWF Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, back in the days before it became the big to-do it is now

Review of the Bret Hart/Diesel feud

Bret Hart promises a surprise family member in his corner for King of the Ring. I was wondering when they were going to get around to mentioning that. Didn't realize it wasn't until a week before the show

We take a look at the brackets for the tournament, including clips of the qualifying matches. This segment is actually so long, it's broken up by a commercial break. Randy Savage predicts Bam Bam Bigelow goes all the way, defeating Jeff Jarrett in the finals. Neither guy advanced past the first match, so remind me not to call the Macho Man for gambling advice

King of the Ring promo. What do you call the rest of this show?

Review of the Roddy Piper/Jerry Lawler feud

Raymond Rougeau is with WWF President Jack Tunney, and they have the throne, crown, robe, and scepter the tournament winner will receive set up in the ring. All eight men scheduled to participate do individual entrances to get a closer look at the kingly goodies

BUExperience: These countdown shows are never particularly good, but this may be the laziest one yet, with only one (bad) match, and nothing at all of note