WWF Superstars (July 15, 1995)

 

Original Airdate: July 15, 1995 (taped June 27)

From Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Your Hosts are Vince McMahon and Dok Hendrix

Man Mountain Rock v Black Phantom: Vince is very excited that Rock will be one of the lumberjacks for the main event at In Your House. Stop the hype now, the buyrate record is a lock. Dok is confused as to why Rock keeps doing windmills. Clearly not a Who fan. Rock with a fujiwara armbar at 1:56. DUD

Fatu vignette. He’s no longer a Headshrinker, he’s driving a Mustang around in the ‘hood, and promising to ‘make a difference. now’ Vince wishing Fatu ‘all the luck in the world with that’ sounds like he’s writing him off already

Yokozuna and Owen Hart v Mike Khoury and John Crystal: The WWF Tag Team title is not on the line here. Some kid holds up a toy version of the WWF blimp, and the camera cuts from that to Yokozuna, as Vince says “and there you see the WWF blimp.” Nice dry sense of humor there. Meanwhile, the Allied Powers split screen in, and Lex Luger is still dining out on this whole ‘I slammed Yokozuna’ thing two years later. Move on, Lex. The guy who was Shawn Michaels’ nameless bodyguard at the time is now world champion. Things change. Yokozuna with a big leg drop, and Owen scores the easy pin off of it at 2:35. DUD

Todd Pettengill is in the studio for the In Your House Report. Crazy to think Jeff Jarrett is already a three time Intercontinental champion at this point. He just won it for the first time six months ago!

Duke Droese v Hunter Hearst Helmsley: HHH stalls to start, objecting to Duke’s stench. Helmsley tries walking out, but Duke drags him back, and uses a hiptoss, followed by a bodyslam. Duke barely got him up there. Duke unloads in the corner, but HHH throws a cheap shot, and puts the boots to Droese. Hunter with a jumping backelbow, but Duke escapes a chinlock, so Helmsley uses a hotshot. A vertical suplex gets him two, and a backbreaker is worth two. Back to the chinlock, but Duke manages a chincrusher to escape, and he makes a comeback. A sunset flip gets him two, and an atomic drop sends him into the corner, but they knock heads as Helmsley rebounds. That leads to a criss cross, and Duke catches him with a powerslam. Duke adds a backdrop, and a rotating spinebuster gets him two. Another backdrop, but he telegraphs it, and eats a pedigree at 7:41. House show level stuff, but totally competent. * ¼ 

WWF Superstars participated in the Special Olympics. I’m not sure sending Dink qualifies as ‘giving back’ 

With My Baby Tonight music video. Boy, they sure got a lot of mileage out of that one

Aldo Montoya v Tony DeVito: We get a fan doing the ring announcing for this one. I’m impressed, the little kid pronounced ‘Poughkeepsie’ correctly. Poor little guy probably ran out and told all his friends at school the next day that he got the gig, but then immediately threw all his cool points out the window when they asked who he got to announce. Aldo with a 2nd rope bulldog at 2:45. DUD

Backstage, Waylon Mercy gives Jerry Flynn a pep talk 

Walyon Mercy v Jerry Flynn: The announcers discuss potential candidates to replace outgoing president Jack Tunney, and Dok throws Jerry Lawler out there as one. That would have actually been pretty cool! Though they didn’t do heel authority figures yet at this point. I’m actually surprised they didn’t burn some TV time holding elections, there could have been some potential there. Mercy with a sleeper at 3:36. DUD

Todd is back with a second In Your House Report. They’re really doing a terrible job of getting the main event over, openly saying that Sycho Sid is afraid of Diesel, and just wants to run away from him. I get the babyface hero booking model, but he’s got to look vulnerable

Jerry Lawler is in Isaac Yankem’s office, cutting promos while Yankem drills some poor woman’s teeth

BUExperience: This… happened. That’s about all there really is to say.