WWF at Westfalenhallen (March 27, 1994)

Original Airdate: March 27, 1994

From Dortmund, Germany

The Headshrinkers v The Smoking Gunns: Samu and Billy Gunn start, and they do a pretty fast and furious criss cross - initially dominated by Billy, before Samu plants a superkick on him. Pinfall reversal sequence ends in Billy hooking a backslide for two, and a dropkick knocks Samu over the top. Tags all around, and Fatu knocks Bart Gunn around. Criss cross ends in Bart hooking a sunset flip for two, and a dropkick connects. Armdrag leaves Fatu in an armbar, and the Gunns work the part together. Bart gets clobbered to the turn the tide, and the Headshrinkers cut the ring in half on him. Samu misses a corner splash to allow the hot tag to Billy, and Roseanne Barr the door! Billy makes the mistake of trying to bash their heads together, but that goes badly, and the heels spike powerbomb him. Fatu goes up for the flying splash, but ends up slipping, and Billy is able to schoolboy Samu at 13:10. These two basically had a match together at every house show for a full year between mid 1993-94, and this was right on par with all of the other ones I’ve seen. * ¼ 

WWF Women's Title Match: Alundra Blayze v Leilani Kai: They feel each other out to start, with Kai getting some general control, but Blayze always fighting her off before she can build on any of it. Kai gets actual control with a sharp headbutt, and a snapmare takes Blayze down for a nervehold. Blayze dodges her in the corner and hook a sunset flip for two, so Kai chokeslams her to keep control, and a ropechoke follows. Kai tries a pop-up powerbomb, but Blayze counters with a rana into a cradle for two, and an enzuigiri is worth two. That allows Alundra to work a spinning toehold, but Kai counters into a cradle, and hammers her with mounted punches. Blayze comes back with a monkeyflip, but Kai blocks a second one, and chucks the champ across the ring by the hair for two. Butterfly suplex gets her two, but a clothesline misses. That allows Blayze to try for a German suplex, but Kai blocks. Blayze hooks a crucifix instead for two, and a bodyslam sets up a 2nd rope dropkick, followed by a bridging German suplex at 8:40. These two didn’t really have much chemistry together. ½*

Main Event: Yokozuna v Lex Luger: Yokozuna literally sits around for the first few minutes. Slugfest to start, won by the big man, so Lex criss crosses, and takes the monster off of his feet. Right hand knocks him to the outside, and that’s more resting for Yoko. He’s not even pretending, literally standing with his back to the ring, and catching his breath for a while. This is going to be a long one, even if it isn’t a long one. Yokozuna calls for a test-of-strength once he eventually gets back inside, and Lex takes about two years to think about it. Yeah, sure, take your time. Not like either of you are ever main eventing again after this run, might as well enjoy it. Yokozuna nails him after offering a clean break, and a clothesline drops Luger. Yokozuna with a ropechoke, and it’s nervehold time. Thank God, pretty sure one of them came close to breaking a sweat. Lex fights to a vertical base, so Yokozuna backelbows him back down, then dumps him to the outside for Mr. Fuji to abuse. Luger beats the count back in, where Yoko is once again taking a siesta, literally lounging. Lex tries slugging at him, but loses that exchange, and Yoko is ready to go back to the nervehold. These poor Germans. What have they ever done to anyone to deserve this? Yokozuna tries an avalanche, but Luger dodges. He makes a comeback, but the referee gets bumped in the process. That allows Yoko to grab the salt bucket, but it backfires. Luger covers, but the referee is loopy, and crawls over for a dramatic two count. Lex goes back on the comeback trail, and delivers a bodyslam, then the running forearm smash… to knock Yokozuna to the outside for a countout at 15:35 - with Lex not even pretending to try and get him back in. Wow, even now Luger can't score a pinfall over him? I get that they decided to go with Bret Hart as their top star (and rightly so), but Yoko wasn’t getting anywhere near the title again anyway, and it would have at least given Lex something to build on after choking in two big pay per view title matches. This was just a vote of complete no confidence. Hell, even during the buildup to WrestleMania, when Lex did get a few pinfall wins over Yoko in tag matches, even then they booked it like it was a total fluke. DUD

BUExperience:  This version omits the Rick Martel/Adam Bomb, Bastion Booger/Thurman Sparky Plugg, Randy Savage/Crush, and Razor Ramon/Shawn Michaels matches - basically all the stuff that might have actually been good. 

Don’t bother.

DUD