WWF King of the Ring Countdown Show (June 13, 1993)

 

Original Airdate: June 13, 1993

Your Host is Gene Okerlund in the control center

Gene starts with a look at the Hulk Hogan/Yokozuna match for the WWF Title. I love how Gene always has to add that Yokozuna is ‘from Japan’ every time, in case we don’t know who to boo

Next up, we take a look at the brackets for the tournament 

Also on the line: the WWF Intercontinental title, when Shawn Michaels defends against Crush. I thought having them go to a double countout in a tournament qualifying match to set up the title match was a neat way to get there

Also on the card: an eight-man tag! Because those guys matter, too. Hey, at least the pairings made sense there, instead of the usual mess of random guys they throw into these things

And that’s it. They then repeat everything from the top - twice - to fill the rest of the countdown

BUExperience: Even as far as these things go, this was extremely lazy. They only taped enough content for ⅓ of it, and then just replayed it twice! Pettengill would never.