WWF Monday Night RAW (November 21, 1994)

Original Airdate: November 21, 1994 (Taped November 7)

From Bushkill, Pennsylvania; Your Hosts are Vince McMahon and Jim Cornette

Opening WWF Intercontinental Title Match: Razor Ramon v Diesel: Oh, but wait, here come The Teamsters (Diesel's team for Survivor Series) to attack Ramon during the entrances, so the match is off

Tatanka v Chris Kanyon: Kanyon sells like a champ to make Tatanka's offense look effective (the guy sold a bodyslam so well that Tatanka gives him two more just to watch him do it again), as some fan holds up a Lex Luger commemorative dinner plate to antagonize Tatanka. Wow, I remember seeing those in the WWF Merchandise Catalog they used to have in the Magazine, and even though I dreamt of having everything in that catalog, that was even at the bottom of my list. And there were fucking DOINK items in there! I mean, seriously, I would have loved to sit in on the meeting where they all sat down and went, 'hmm, WCW is doing record numbers with Hulk Hogan, so how about we make dinner plates with Lex Luger and Razor Ramon's faces on them?!' Relatively long squash here, until Tatanka leads him to the End of the Trail at 4:37. Kanyon looked good here, and considering how thin the roster was at this point (we're padding Survivor Series with midgets, and booking a Rumble so bad it has more jobbers than stars), they really should have done something with him. I mean, I don't know if he's 'dinner plate' good, but you'll never know if you don't try! ½*

Adam Bomb v Jason Arndt: Here's another guy you'd think they'd try to do more with, given the state of the roster. Bomb has literally everything they look for in a main eventer, he can work with the proper opponent, and yet they haven't done anything with him since he debuted over a year earlier, and never really would. Yeah, he's there when they need to pad a Survivor Series team, or fill a battle royal, but the guy had the same look as Diesel, and was a better worker. How about tweaking the gimmick, and pushing him up to Intercontinental level? Did they really think Jeff Jarrett was a better bet? Meltdown finishes at 2:26. DUD

McMahon and Cornette play the new Monday Night RAW video game, that I remember thinking was the greatest game of all time when it came out

Todd Pettengill narrates a video package reviewing the Jerry Lawler/Doink feud. Somehow, seeing it all back-to-back somehow makes it worse

Jerry Lawler hosts The King's Court, with his royal midgets as his guests. They hype Survivor Series, until Doink and his midgets come out to squirt them with SuperSoakers. Well, it wouldn't be 1994 without SuperSoakers

Smoking is bad for you! Stop wasting your hundred dollar bills on lighting your disgusting, cancerous cigars, and instead call the WWF Voteline to weigh in on the Sharpshooter/Chickenwing debate!

At a cemetery, IRS has not only dug up a casket and repossessed it, but he is now taking the grave itself as well. I'd make a joke, but that's probably actually happened

IRS v Matt Hardy: Hey, good jobbers this week! IRS: 'no one will rest in peace until their taxes have been paid!' I get that they were building to a feud with The Undertaker, but dear lord! And what a backass way to get there, as he's not even accusing Undertaker of being a tax cheat. Like, why does Undertaker care if IRS wants to waste his time robbing graves, and stealing caskets? I should note that the building has gotten A LOT darker than it was during last weeks episode, as I guess this was too much excitement for some people. And what's weird is that they ran this exact same building the very next day! Write-Off finishes Hardy at 2:52. DUD

Survivor Series Report! Really long one, too, as it's hard sell time, baby!

WWF Intercontinental Title Match: Razor Ramon v Diesel: Take two! And this time, Razor brings his Survivor Series team (The Bad Guys) with him to stand in his corner. Ramon charges in and takes it right to Big Daddy Cool, and works the arm with a hammerlock, but Diesel makes the ropes, and bails. Both guys strategize with their respective teams, and a slugfest goes the champs way, but Diesel grabs him for a short-clothesline. Bootchoke in the corner (with an assist from Shawn Michaels), and a headvise at center ring, but Razor starts escaping, so Diesel turns it into a sleeper - giving the Bad Guys an excuse to slap the mat, and get the crowd behind Ramon. It works, as he uses a side suplex to escape, but Diesel tosses him out of the ring to kill the comeback, and Shawn gets his licks in. That leads to a standoff between the two teams, and Razor gets the best of it by slugging Diesel, and hitting a cross corner clothesline. Diesel fires back with a sidewalk slam for two, and goes back to the headvise. More mat slapping powers the champ up, but Diesel slaps him back down with a big boot, and a few corner whips setup the snake-eyes for two. Straddling ropechoke for two, as tensions start... getting tense... with the teams on the floor. Jackknife to finish, but Ramon backdrops him. Diesel tries keeping control, but Razor slugs away, and hits a bodyslam. That brings Teamster Jeff Jarrett into the ring to breakup the Edge, and it turns into a brawl from there - the official result a double disqualification at 13:00 Textbook ending, of course. Not on par with the SummerSlam match, but totally decent as a TV-match hard sell for Survivor Series. *

BUExperience: Pretty dull go-home show, with Bret, Backlund, Undertaker, and Yokozuna all not appearing. A few neat cameo appearances (Kanyon, Hardy), and a decent feature match, but certainly nothing to go out of your way to see – or to make you buy the pay per view two days later