WWF Superstars (March 26, 1994)

Original Airdate: March 26, 1994 (taped February 22)

From Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Your Hosts are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler

Lex Luger v Duane Gill: It’s nice to have Lawler back. As much as I enjoy Johnny Polo, he was too over Vince’s head. Lawler is much more his speed, and makes for a better broadcast partner for him. Polo was great with Gorilla Monsoon, though. Even if Gorilla didn’t get his pop culture reference either, they came off like a grandfather and his annoying young grandson, as opposed to whatever McMahon/Polo was supposed to be. Lex with the torture rack at 1:06. Hey, at least he got a job done, give it to him. DUD

Backstage, Tatanka and Kwang warm up. Based on the look on Tatanka’s face here, I feel the need to clarify that it’s ‘for a wrestling match,’ not buttfucking

WrestleMania X Encore ad. For once, their selling of something as ‘the greatest ever’ is actually not just hyperbole

Diesel v John Chrystal: Vince sounds like he’s losing his voice here. Meanwhile, Shawn Michaels is nowhere to be seen this week, following the loss at ‘Mania. Diesel with the Jackknife at 2:23. DUD

Irwin R Schyster gives us tax tips

Tatanka v Kwang: Lawler is immediately in rare form with his offensive comments about Tatanka’s culture. Kwang with a sneak attack to get control right away, but he loses a criss cross, and Tatanka chops him down. A dropkick connects, and a hiptoss leads to a bodyslam when Kwang pops up. Tatanka dives with a flying tomahawk chop for two, and a swinging neckbreaker is worth two. Armbar, but Kwang escapes, so Tatanka dodges a charge, and schoolboys for two. Back to the armbar, but Kwang dumps him over the top to turn the tide, and works a nervehold on the way back into the ring. And a long one at that. Tatanka escapes and tries a sunset flip, but Kwang clobbers him to block, and delivers a legdrop for two. Back to the nervehold, as IRS shows up to confiscate Tatanka’s headdress. That draws Tatanka to the outside, and we have a double countout at 7:59. Really dull stuff here. ¼*

The Smoking Gunns v Jason Headings and Rich Meyers: We get the fan guest ring announcer deal here, as McMahon loses his mind about Burt Reynolds appearing at ‘Mania. He’s just the nicest man! The nicest, nicest man! Headings looks like a potential uber jobber. Which is a top level enhancement talent, not a jobber who drives people on weekends. The Gunns with a combo at 3:26. Some fun combos out of the Gunns. ½*

Todd Pettengill is in the locker room with the WrestleMania Report. Just a recap here

WWF Unbelievable ad. This time, Air Force One has to delay takeoff because the president wants to watch Monday Night RAW

WrestleMania X Encore ad. 10pm on a Monday?! Who was that even targeted at?

Owen Hart v PJ Walker: Owen does the bit where he tears the shades up in a kids face, but the kid he does it too actually seems completely thrilled instead of upset. That’s awesome! Guy tears up the shades, he tells him to go fuck himself! Good for you kid, don’t take no shit off nobody. Owen with the Sharpshooter at 2:46. Energetic work here. ¼*

A look at Fan Fest, which, yeah, looked awesome

WWF Unbelieveable ad, as this time the president can’t watch RAW in the White House because the first lady canceled the cable. I feel like this one should have aired before the plane one. Like how Tony Soprano has to go to his boat to fuck whores because his wife canceled the cable, or whatever

We close with a weird bit, as Jeff Jarrett shows up at the commentary booth to cut a promo on Thurman Plugg to hype next week’s match between them. Weird because Vince is suddenly on commentary with Polo again, with no mention made of where Lawler disappeared to. I guess they taped that interaction before decided to replace Johnny with Jerry, but they really show have retaped this bit then. It came off as particularly amateurish 

BUExperience: Not much this week, with some light WrestleMania fallout (this episode was taped before the pay per view), and not a lot of new direction yet.