WWF Superstars (November 7, 1992)

Original Airdate: November 7, 1992 (taped October 12)

 

From Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Your Hosts are Vince McMahon and Mr. Perfect

 

Max Moon v Louie Spicolli: The announcers say 'Louie Spicolli' about two hundred times in the first minute. If you liked it so much, why call him 'Rad Radford' later on? They don't even bother doing any sound sweetening for Moon anymore, so we actually get to listen to a dead silent crowd as he gets his shit in. Rolling fireman's carry slam... doesn't finish? That's weird, thought that was his finisher. Nope, instead he goes up with a flying bodypress instead at 1:54. DUD

 

Last week, Money Inc won the WWF Tag Team title from the Natural Disasters, triggering a babyface turn from the Nasty Boys. I'm confused why they didn't run Money Inc and the Headshrinkers against the Disasters and Nasties at Survivor Series, since this angle pretty much set everything up for them perfectly

 

The Headshrinkers v Joey Maggs and Brian Costello: Vince tries to make a case that the Headshrinkers cost the Natural Disasters the tag title last week, though really, they could barely string together a series of moves even before then. The Headshrinkers split screen in with a generic promo, and they're totally different here than the shouty stuff they were doing when I started watching in 1994. Unlike the Disasters or Nasty Boys, they work perfectly as either heels or babyfaces. Fatu with the flying splash at 1:55. DUD

 

Kamala goes over the rules to the first ever Coffin match. Well, no wonder he lost. He's got some bad information there

 

Tatanka wants those damn feathers back. He didn't give them to Rick Martel, they were STOLEN! Honestly, the fact that he hasn't so much as mentioned them in some five months makes a good case for Martel's side of things

 

Bam Bam Bigelow is coming, straight from the fire to the ring

 

Virgil v Jim Peterson: Vince calls Jim Peterson 'robot-like,' which is a weird thing to say about a jobber. And he actually has a pretty decent look for one of these enhancement guys. Most of them don't even look like pro-wrestlers. Virgil split screens in to wish Bob Backlund luck with his comeback, since he was Virgil's favorite wrestler as a kid. Well, no wonder he's so boring. Also, how has Virgil 'patterned his career' after Backlund, per Vince? His style is night and day different. Russian legsweep finishes at 1:56, as Doink the Clown hangs around in the crowd again. DUD

 

Lord Alfred Hayes is in the control center with a look back at the awesome Shawn Michaels/Marty Jannetty angle from last week

 

WWF Champion Bret Hart music video. This was originally Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' Makin' Some Noise, but that's been replaced with a sound-alike (with no lyrics) on the Network. And then that changes into a totally different song mid-way through. It's pretty terrible, which is a shame, since the Petty one was awesome. Perfect complaining that Ric Flair won the title twice and never got a music video is great

 

Damien Demento v Steve May: This is Demento's debut. Vince notes that Flair may be suffering a middle ear problem, and wow, I never realized they actually acknowledged that on TV. May looks like he grew up idolizing the British Bulldogs, but then became a huge Lex Luger fan in 1993. Demento split screens in to cut his debut promo, and it's just general creepiness. Give the guy credit, he committed to the bit. Demento with a kneedrop at 2:08. This was a really weak debut. Also, what's up with the lack of sound sweetening this week? DUD

 

Saturday Night's Main Event ad

 

Joe Bevins brings Big Boss Man out to talk about the Nightstick match at Survivor Series, and while Nailz may have been let out of the correctional system, in the WWF, the Boss Man is the system. Is he, though? I don't recall him ever being appointed such by literally anyone. He's an out of control vigilante is what he is

 

Gene Okerlund is in the studio with the Survivor Series Report, and the card is starting to take shape now. Ted DiBiase's promo pic sneer turning into a cartoonish smile now that they've won the belts is a nice touch. He was a master of facial expressions

 

WWF Tag Team Title Match: Money Inc v High Energy: Ted DiBiase starts with Owen Hart, dominating him with a series of armdrags, and getting cockier with each one. Bodyslam puts Owen on his ass again, but a criss cross goes Hart's way with a clothesline. That draws Irwin R. Schyster in without a tag, but Koko B. Ware cuts him off, and the challengers clean house. I'm surprised the opening sequence didn't end in DiBiase getting overconfident and falling prey to an armdrag from Hart. That would have gotten a big pop. Dust settles on IRS and Owen, and Hart takes him down with a hammerlock. Over to Koko to work the arm as well, and Big Boss Man or Sgt. Slaughter should really do something about those pants he has on. Koko quickly walks into a cheap shot from DiBiase, and Money Inc go to work. The heat segment lasts all of a minute, however, and Ware makes the hot tag to Owen - Roseanne Barr the door. Owen tries a backdrop on DiBiase, but Ted counters with a swinging neckbreaker to retain at 4:19. Wow, that's two weeks in a row that Money Inc went over a babyface team clean. This was really short, but energetic. *

 

Rick Martel really doesn't appreciate Tatanka calling him a thief after giving him a generous gift. It might help if they at least showed some clips of Martel originally stealing them, because the way it's coming off here, Tatanka seems like a real dick

 

Ric Flair and Razor Ramon give us a motivational speech. It's too bad they aren't doing more in-arena stuff to hype up this match, because all the characters involved are awesome, and just doing generic promos in the studio feels like a waste of what would have likely been an incredible feud if it was booked during the Monday Night Wars era

 

Repo Man is ready to repossess Davey Boy Smith's Intercontinental title. Meanwhile, the Bulldog would really prefer it if that didn't happen

 

BUExperience: Another good episode this week, as they’re firing on all cylinders, with a lot of different things going on. These last couple have been so much better than the squash heavy, directionless stuff that we got for most of the summer.