WWF Royal Rumble Countdown Show (January 22, 1995)

 

Original Airdate: January 22, 1995

Your Host is Todd Pettengill from inside the Sun Dome in Tampa Florida

Royal Rumble ad

Todd is over by the entrance set, and welcomes the crowd

Video package looking at the WWF Title picture since Survivor Series, and hyping the Diesel/Bret Hart match for tonight 

Earlier today, Bret received an award from a German magazine publication naming him Wrestler of the Year

Todd is up in the stands now, trying to steal candy from babies. Or, pretzels, in this case

Yesterday on Superstars, Jeff Jarrett taunted WWF Intercontinental Champion Razor Ramon, and challenged him to a title match then and there. And it looked like Razor was game to accept, but Roadie messed with his microphone, so we couldn’t hear him do so. How is that some sort of flex? He connived his way out of a title shot?

Backstage, Stepahie Wiand catches up with Razor Ramon, Linda McMahon, and a representative from Make-a-Wish Foundation, along with a Make-a-Wish child. Linda gives them a check from the WWF, and Razor glad hands with the kid, while also cutting a promo on Double J

Out in the crowd, Todd is messing with the sound tech, since no one is same from his antics

Down at ringside, we spy Roadie messing with some cables ahead of Jarrett’s ‘performance,’ which is a nice little detail

Royal Rumble ad. Apparently, thirty guys will be competing for the chance to fuck Pamela Anderson. Only thirty?

Todd continues to be a dick, this time to the USF mascot

We see clips of wrestlers drawing their numbers earlier today

Todd gives us a POV shot of making an entrance through the tunnel, and all the way down to the ring. Fun

Undertaker/Irwin R. Schyster feud review video

Man Mountain Rock plays the national anthem on his guitar 

Jerry Lawler makes his entrance to do commentary on the pay per view show, as we get the Spanish commentary feed cutting in, to the visible annoyance of Vince McMahon

Todd finds Lawrence Taylor in the crowd, and welcomes him to the event. Good thing he pointed him out, I doubt we would have ever noticed that he was in the crowd at any point otherwise

Todd hits the ring for some last minute hype, including running the card down for the crowd. He claims that the applause is ‘about even’ for Bret and Diesel, which is just a complete and total lie

Royal Rumble ad

BUExperience: This was one of the better ones of these. It was just super lively, and never got bogged down in anything.