WWF at Brendan Byrne Arena (August 27, 1994)

Original Airdate: August 27, 1994

From East Rutherford, New Jersey

The Bushwhackers v The Heavenly Bodies: The Bushwhackers clean house to start, but the Bodies come back in with a vengeance for a brawl. The Bushwhackers end up getting the better of it, and the Bodies take another powder. We get more dominance from the babyfaces via comedy spots, including one I’ve never seen before where they have the Bodies pin each other, and count the fall that the referee won’t. Finally, the Bodies use a cheap shot to turn it around, and they cut the ring in half. Jimmy Del Ray misses a corner splash to allow the hot tag, however, and the battering ram looks to put things away, but Tom Prichard makes the save. That allows a cheap shot, and Del Ray scores the pin at 13:06. I don’t dig this sort of thing, but the crowd did, and that’s what counts, really. ½*

WWF Women's Title Match: Alundra Blayze v Bull Nakano: The referee spends a really long time on instructions here. Blayze offers a handshake, but gets clobbered for her troubles. Bull goes for a powerbomb early, but Blayze escapes. She tries a dropkick, but Bull dodges, and starts whipping her across the ring by the hair. Nakano with a matslam for two, and a clothesline sets up a legdrop for two. Bull goes to a chinlock from there, but a pop-up backfires when Blayze hooks a rana for two. Blayze keeps coming with a spinkick, but a second one misses, and Bull grabs her in a chokehold. Nakano drills her with a clothesline for two, and she slaps a Boston crab on to try for the submission, but no dice. Bull responds by getting her in modified sharpshooter instead, but she can’t hold it well, and Blayze is able to avoid submission. Luna Vachon throws a cheap shot between Bull choking the champion down, and a cross corner whip sends Blayze flipping over the buckles to the outside. Luna tries to attack out there, but Blayze fights her off, so Bull comes out and nails the champion with an axehandle. Inside, Nakano delivers a piledriver for two, and a vertical suplex gets another two. Clothesline, but Blayze counters with a matslam, and adds another pair of them for two. Powerbomb, but Bull backdrops her way out of it for two. Bodyslam gets two, and a corner whip follows, but Blayze avoids the impact, and hooks a backslide for two. Rana, but Nakano counters with a powerbomb for two, and delivers another bodyslam. That allows Bull to go upstairs for a flying legdrop, but Blayze dodges. She tries a victory roll, but Bull blocks. Nakano goes to a German suplex, but Blayze counters to a victory cradle for two, so Nakano tries a clothesline, but Blayze counters again, this time to a bridging German suplex at 10:06. Good action here, with a great pace, and good use of storytelling. ***

Adam Bomb v Kwang: We get the fan as guest ring announcer bit for this one. Kwang attacks before the bell to kickstart the contest, and he hammers away. Rollup, but Bomb blocks, and blasts Kwang with a clothesline. Kwang ends up on the outside, so Bomb chases, and smashes him into the steps out there. Adam with a slingshot clothesline on the way back inside, and he’s getting some pretty good reactions from the crowd here. Bomb goes for the mask, but Kwang fights him off, and takes some pep out of his step with an enzuigiri. Legdrop, but Bomb rolls out of the way, and throws a dropkick. He tries a cross corner whip, but Kwang reverses, and follows in with a corner spinheel kick. That allows Kwang to take it to the mat in a nervehold, but Bomb fights to a vertical base, so Kwang dumps him to the outside. Kwang follows with some chops and a superkick on the floor, and he drags Adam back in with a snapmare into another nervehold. Bomb fights free, but Kwang blocks a sunset flip attempt, but misses a somersault senton splash. That allows Adam a sidewalk slam, and he’s in comeback mode now. Kwang tries fighting it off with a spinheel kick, but Bomb avoids it, and drops him with a DDT at 8:54. A big dude like him needed a better finisher than a DDT. Both guys were working hard here, and Bomb in particular looked really eager to turn in a good performance. * ½ 

WWF Tag Team Title Match: The Headshrinkers v Diesel and Shawn Michaels: Fatu and Michaels start, and the champion dominates some posturing, so Shawn leads him into a chase on the outside, where big Diesel is waiting with a clothesline. That draws Samu over for a proper brawl, but the challengers make the mistake of trying to ram their heads together, and the champions clean house. Shawn and Diesel regroup for a bit out there, and the dust settles on Samu and Diesel. Diesel uses his size to pound the champion, but Samu reverses a wristlock, and passes to Fatu for a double team. Diesel tries a clothesline, but Fatu ducks, so Shawn distracts him, and Diesel dumps him over the top - where Michaels is waiting with a superkick. That turns the tide, and the challengers go to work on cutting the ring in half. Finally Samu gets the hot tag, and Roseanne Barr the door! The referee gets bumped in the battle, so Shawn grabs the title belt, and uses it to the tune of a disqualification at 14:32, despite Fatu no-selling a shot to the head. This was a little long, but it was solid. *

Indian Strap Match: Tatanka v Irwin R Schyster: IRS attacks from behind after refusing to connect, and he dumps Tatanka to the outside. Irwin follows to smash him into the steps out there, and he goes to work on the way back in, but stops to gloat, and Tatanka fires up. Tatanka unloads on him for a bit, hammering and choking him with the strap, then going low with it to really make it a party. Tatanka with a bodyslam, but IRS reverses a vertical suplex on him, and adds a legdrop. He goes for the corners, and manages three, before Tatanka cuts him off. They slug it out over the final corner, and IRS throws a dropkick, which ends up knocking Tatanka into it for the win at 6:21. This was dull, but relatively short and inoffensive. ¼*

Main Event: Bret Hart and Razor Ramon v Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart: Bret and Owen start us off, and they do a bunch of posturing. Owen gets a hammerlock on, but Bret reverses, and they trade holds for a bit. Bret dominates, and hooks a schoolboy for two, sending Owen scurrying away to regroup. Meanwhile, Bret tags out, but Owen refuses to get back in, and teases a countout, before climbing in and tagging Anvil. Neidhart powers Ramon around, but Razor gets the better of him, so Owen tags in and tries to wrestle, and Razor sends him to the outside with a shoulderblock. Owen comes back in and tries a dropkick, but Razor catches him with a catapult into Neidhart, and he passes back to Bret to hit his brother with a 2nd rope axehandle. Kind of weird that they’re booking the guy who is challenging for the world title in a couple of days on pay per view like a comedy midcarder. The babyfaces take turns dominating Owen, until Neidhart manages a cheap shot on Razor to turn the tide. The heels work him over, but Razor wins a reversal sequence with a chokeslam on Owen, and Bret gets the hot tag - Roseanne Barr the door! Bret gets Owen in the Sharpshooter, but Neidhart saves, so Ramon comes in to take his turn at Jobber Hart, but Neidhart saves again. Ramon hooks a small package, but Neidhart turns it over - only for Bret to turn it back for the pin at 16:40. They had it firmly in cruise control here. *

BUExperience: This version omits the Pierre/Thurman Plugg opener, and a tag match pitting Bam Bam Bigelow and Jeff Jarrett against Mabel and Doink. No big loss there.

The rest is okay in the general sense, but other than the Women’s title match, nothing I’d bother with.

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