WWF Superstars (October 29, 1994)

 

Original Airdate: October 29, 1994 (taped September 27)

From Poughkeepsie, New York; Your Hosts are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler

Adam Bomb v Mike Bell: Vince is very, very excited at Bomb’s new mushroom cloud style pyro, which, fair, is pretty cool. Jerry then wonders how people would react if Adam knocked on their door to trick-or-treat. Pretty sure most people would be a little weirded out if a thirty year old showed up at their door in their underwear, asking for candy. Regardless of the date. Bomb with a DDT at 2:21. Bomb really needed to settle on a strong finisher, and a DDT wasn’t it. DUD

Todd Pettengill is in the studio for the Survivor Series Report! About damn time! It’s already almost Halloween, they’re slacking. The Bret Hart/Bob Backlund WWF Title match is officially on the books, though the towel stipulation hasn’t been added yet. They do acknowledge that Bob has challenged Hart to a submission match. They also announce a Casket match between Yokozuna and Undertaker, while openly acknowledging that they’ve been running that match at house shows for weeks. This was a weird era. But, at least, they’re talking up Chuck Norris as the enforcer to add some intrigue 

Jeff Jarrett v Rich Myers: Lawler keeps hyping Jarrett’s CD ‘Ain’t I Great,’ which Vince keeps noting he can’t find. “You have to be there right when the delivery trucks arrive,” the King suggests. What were they, Power Rangers? Because that’s what was really flying off the shelves in late 1994. I think it took me months to finally get my hands on a Red Ranger back then. Jarrett with the figure four at 2:33. Not much here, but I dug Jeff’s gear this week. DUD

Irwin R Schyster repossesses flowers off of a grave since the deceased didn’t pay enough in taxes. The headstone is obviously something they created for this (‘John Dough’), but it looks like a real cemetery, which just seems crazy disrespectful 

Razor Ramon v Gary Scott: The WWF Intercontinental title is not on the line. And, speaking of the belt, why does it look like it’s plated in rose gold in Razor’s graphic this week? Must be a lighting thing, probably a reflection off of Ramon’s pink gear, but it’s weird. The Razor’s Edge finishes at 2:35. DUD

Live Event News is Charlie Minn looking at WWF Women’s Champion Alundra Blayze visiting some celebration of the arts. In Connecticut. The Connecticut Artists Awards, apparently. And Keir Dullea is trying to fuck her. Which… yeah, fair

The New Headshrinkers v Barry Horowitz and Bob Starr: We get a fan doing the ring announcing here. And now Samu is out, and Sionne is in. This is only his second match in the role, and I’m not sure why they didn’t just call him ‘Barbarian.’ He was working house shows as Barbarian throughout the summer anyway. He didn’t even have Headshrinkers gear! Fatu with a flying splash at 2:36. This version of the team was destined to fail the moment Sionne had to crouch down for Fatu to do the splash. Not to mention that Sionne had a killer flying headbutt drop, they probably should have just used that as the finish. DUD

Jim Neidhart v Mike Khoury: So with Owen Hart losing the ‘final blowoff’ to Bret on the debut episode of Action Zone, and Bret officially on to the Backlund feud, Neidhart is kind of dead in the water. And, indeed, he was out of the promotion by the year’s end. Neidhart with a camel clutch at 1:35. DUD

Survivor Series ad. “From the director of WrestleMania X and SummerSlam.” What’s the deal there? The show didn’t have a Hollywood/movie theme, like WrestleMania XII, or whatever

We get footage of Vince hosting Ted DiBiase’s Million Dollar Team for an interview, taped on October 18 in Burlington Vermont, where the next set of Superstars episodes were taped. Nothing here, just a standard hype interview

Merchandise catalog ad. You have to appreciate an ad pushing you to buy something that’s only purpose is to sell you stuff

Mabel v Nick Barberri: Mabel quickly puts him away with a legdrop at 1:21. Mabel did his own rapping this week. DUD

Live Event News is another look at the Connecticut Artists Awards, where Blayze is hanging around with lifetime achievement winner Christopher Plummer 

BUExperience: It’s good that we’ve finally got some Survivor Series direction, but not much doing this week, as new toy Action Zone is getting all the exciting stuff (that RAW wasn’t already getting) at this point.