Before I start this week’s edition of The Write Off I need to make a correction about my last column concerning the 1993 King of the Ring. In my last review I said that after Hogan dropped the belt to Yokozuna he was told to get the hell out of the WWF immediately by Vince McMahon. What I should’ve said instead was that Hogan was erased from the WWF as far as his on-air personality was concerned immediately after the 1993 King of the Ring. Reader Fred Wynne made sure to e-mail me about the error and provided me with information showing that on a WWF international tour Hogan fought WWF Champion Yokozuna throughout the summer, getting several DQ wins. I apologize to readers for the error and thank Mr. Wynne for bringing it to my attention. Now on with the review…
Event Details:
Location: The U.S. Air Arena in Washington D.C.
Hosts: Vince McMahon, Mr. Perfect, and Jim Ross
Reported Attendance: 14,000
-Mr. Perfect gets introduced to start the pay-per-view, as he makes his WWF return which would last 11 months before WCW swallowed him up
-Opening Contest: The Underdogs (Marty Jannetty, Hakushi, Barry Horowitz & Bob “Spark Plug” Holly) vs. The Bodydonnas (Skip, Rad Radford, Dr. Tom Pritchard & the 1-2-3 Kid accompanied by Sunny & Ted DiBiase):
Sunny does the ring introductions for the first three participants on the team and boy does she look hott. I can’t help but feel sad for her when I look at this old footage compared to what she’s doing these days. Jean Pierre Lafitte was supposed to be on the Bodydonnas team but DiBiase “paid off” Lafitte before the pay-per-view and the Kid got the spot instead. This was also fresh off of the 1-2-3 Kid’s heel turn, which occurred on the previous Monday Night Raw where he was the special guest referee and cost Intercontinental Champion Razor Ramon his match against Sid, and due to that Ramon tries to rush the ring at the start of this match but officials prevent him from attacking the Kid. Jannetty and Pritchard start the match and Jannetty gets the best of that exchange and we see several heel miscommunication spots to boot. Holly gets tagged in and nails a hurricarana, powerbomb, and a slam, but doesn’t cover as he chooses to work the arm instead. McMahon and JR discuss the 1-2-3 Kid’s tag title reigns with both Holly and Jannetty but fail to realize that those reigns constitute about eight days COMBINED. Tag to Hakushi who gets nailed with a spinebuster and we see a tag to the 1-2-3 Kid, who gets a top rope splash with some serious hangtime, for two. The Kid gets kicks in the corner and tags in Skip who tries a side suplex from the second rope but Hakushi shifts his weight around and crashes down on Skip. Holly and Skip have a go with a good wrestling sequence and the crowd chants for Barry Horowitz?!?! I’m still puzzled as to why Horowitz’s push was aborted; I mean the crowd liked the guy. Anyway, Pritchard comes into the ring and gets a two-count on a gutwrench sit-down powerbomb but he misses a moonsault, allowing Holly to hit him with a bodypress off the top rope, and that gets the pin at 5:39. However, just moments later Skip comes into the ring and schoolboys Holly while grabbing a hold of the tights and that gets a pin at 5:45 to even the odds at three-on-three. Hakushi rushes in and gets in some kicks and a slam but a reverse pump splash off the second rope hits knees. Skip gets a top rope hurricarana but also collapses after the move for a double KO. I might also note that NONE of these moves are being called correctly with all of them referred to as “look at that” or “OH!” or “my goodness did you see that?” 1-2-3 Kid comes back in and Hakushi shows some more of his explosive offense and a flying shoulderblock gets two. Hakushi was such an underutilized talent and this match helps to show that. Springing splash onto the 1-2-3 Kid from the apron misses and Radford is tagged in but the Kid hits Hakushi in the back of the head with a kick and that gets the pin at 8:31. Horowitz then comes in and gets beaten on by the heels but Radford keeps pulling up Horowitz after hitting him with a gutwrench suplex, a clothesline, and a Northern lights suplex, which never bodes well for the heel and it costs Radford when Barry rolls him up as he’s doing pushups for a pin at 11:48. Horowitz and Skip have another big showdown with Horowitz taking over but Skip gets a blind tag to the Kid who kicks Horowitz in the back and a legdrop eliminates him at 12:47 leaving Jannetty one-on-two. Skip gets crotched on a charge into the turnbuckles but gets a kneelift. Jannetty and Skip go through a couple nice sequences with Jannetty turning a powerbomb into a sunset flip for two. Sunny crotches Jannetty when he goes to the top rope after hitting Skip with a Rocker dropper but hits Skip with a TOP ROPE POWERBOMB for the pin at 15:24. Holy shit, that was one of the most awesome things I’ve ever seen. The Kid ambushes Jannetty and gets a guillotine legdrop for two. The Kid gets a dropkick as Jannetty is in the corner and we get a slugfest won by the Kid. The Kid slams Jannetty but misses a cannonball off the top rope and we have double KO #2. Jannetty unloads on the Kid in the corner and a dropkick gets two. However, Sid comes down to the ring as Jannetty hits the Kid with an elbow off the ropes and rams his face into the canvas, and the crowd starts chanting for Razor. Jannetty hits a Rocker dropper for two as the Kid puts his foot on the ropes and a cover away from the ropes gets two. The Kid hangs onto the ropes and when Jannetty tries to pry him away from them, DiBiase jumps onto the ring apron to distract the referee and that allows Sid to hot shot Jannetty across the top rope and the Kid covers to be the sole survivor at 19:07. This match was a great choice for an opener because even though it involved those on the bottom of the WWF food chain in terms of storylines, it showcased a lot of underused talent and the action was intense. However, the booking while making sense in putting the Kid over was rather ridiculous considering that the angle for the match was Horowitz vs. Skip, but the WWF just pulled the plug on that to hype the Kid, and thus the match left a poor taste in a lot of people’s mouths. ***½
-Jim Cornette, Owen Hart, and Dean Douglas tell Razor Ramon to ignore the 1-2-3 Kid and get a clear head for the upcoming “Wild Card” match
-Bertha Faye, Aja Kong, Lioness Sasuka, and Tomoko Watanabe (w/Harvey Wippleman) vs. Alundra Blayze, Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa, and Chapparita Asari:
Okay, here’s the point of this match: to showcase Aja Kong and build her up to an eventual challenge to Blayze’s championship since Bertha Faye’s run at the top had come and gone with the champion. This would be the first Survivor Series match involving women since the inaugural event in 1987 by the way. Asari and Mina Sasuka start the match and Asari gets swung around for two. Blayze gets tagged in and Sasuka screws up a whip into the ropes. Sky twister press by Asari, and Blayze hits Sasuka with the German suplex to get the pin at 1:41. Watanabe misses a moonsault when she comes in and Blayze hits her with a bodypress to the arena floor. Tag to Hasegawa, who gives a series of double-underhook suplexes to Watanabe, and she gets two off of some splashes. Tag to Aja Kong (think a female version of Vader if you’ve never seen her) and Hasegawa gets in some decent offense, such as some hard looking Rock Bottom’s, for two. However, Kong gets a kick when Hasegawa is in the air and a suplex variation gets the pin at 3:55. Asari tries a bodypress into Kong, which goes nowhere, and a second rope splash for Kong gets a pin at 4:24. Blayze comes in and gives Kong an enzeguri before tagging in Inoue, whose dressed like a retro Hawaiian, but Kong just sits on her to break up a sunset flip to get a pin at 5:00. Well looks like Blayze picked some crappy partners for this match. All three of the heels come after Blayze, which ends with Watanabi and Blayze going at it, and Blayze gets a snap suplex for two. Blayze hits her with a piledriver and that gets a pin at 6:29. Faye comes in and hits a splash while Blayze is in the corner, and she accidentally collides with an interfering Kong and gets German suplexed out of the match at 7:10. So we’re left with Kong and Blayze after the deadwood has been eliminated and Kong hits her with a superplex for two. Blayze goes for the German suplex but Kong rams her into the corner to break. Blayze gets a hurricarana for two. Missile dropkick off the second rope and a standing moonsault get two. Blayze tries to go back up top but Kong throws her off and when Blayze comes up to where Kong is on the top rope she gets headbutted off. Kong uses her weight to take down Blayze several times and a spinning backhand blow finishes at 10:01. Why didn’t they just do Blayze-Kong for the women’s championship at this pay-per-view instead of the tag team match? Nothing special showcased in this match and it’d be meaningless in the long run because Blayze left the WWF shortly after this, not wanting to work with Kong’s stiff style, leading to her dumping the women’s title in a trash can on Nitro which abandoned the planned Blayze-Kong title match at the 1996 Royal Rumble. *½
-Todd Pettengill interviews a Bill Clinton impersonator and that’s all that happens there. Zzzzz
-Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Goldust:
Sad to see Bigelow being used as jobber food in his last WWF pay-per-view appearance considering that he was in the WrestleMania XI main event that SAME year. Too bad to see backstage politics and that LT loss do him in, but that’s the wrestling business after all. Goldust was still an extreme character at this point as he’d just debuted at In Your House IV and had a less than stellar match with Marty Jannetty. However, the interview Goldust gives pre-match is pretty fun and I’m reminded how different the character grew with time as Goldust would stop quoting movie lines and things of that nature. Also, the Goldust ring attire is very bland here with the back of the tights having nothing on them so it’s just an outfit that’s the color of a hotel heavy cover (you know the one that’s always in the closet of those places). After an uber long entrance we finally get the bell rung to start the match and it doesn’t take long for Goldust to bail for no real reason. Bigelow dropkicks Goldust after his blind charge ate boot which sends Goldust to the floor but he pulls Bigelow out there only to accidentally hit the ring post. Back in, somehow Goldust recovers fairly easily after hitting the ringpost and clotheslines Bigelow to the floor. Back in, Bigelow with some headbutts that Goldust no sells and knocks Bigelow down for two. Hmm…if there is ever a sign that the writing is on the wall for a competitor that constitutes it. Front facelock wastes some time and he tosses Bigelow to the outside and takes Bigelow into the steps. The audience is pretty dead for this match because they realize that it’s just a squash for Goldust and Bigelow doesn’t stand much of a chance. Back in, Bigelow gets a side suplex but a falling headbutt misses and that gets two for Goldust. Neck vice by Goldust as the announcers blame the slow pace of the match on “mind games.” Bigelow fights up and falls backwards with Goldust on his shoulders, but that doesn’t lead to anything and Goldust gets a kneedrop for two. Goldust utilizes the THIRD resthold of the match with a chinlock and Bigelow gets another side suplex. Bigelow hits some clotheslines for two. Blind charge, though, eats buckle (although Goldust seems to forget the finish as he falls out of the corner on a whip and doesn’t stay there for the charge) and Goldust hits a bulldog to win at 8:19. Match was a squash for Goldust and Bigelow looked very apathetic in his performance, but who can blame him? ½*
-The impersonating Bill Clinton gets confronted by Bob Backlund who is “running” for the presidency
-Undertaker-Mabel Video Package is shown
-The Royals (King Mabel, Jerry “the King” Lawler, Hunter Hearst-Helmsley, and Dr. Isaac Yankem D.D.S. accompanied by Oscar) vs. The Dark Side (The Undertaker, Henry O. Godwinn, Fatu & Savio Vega accompanied by Paul Bearer):
This was the first appearance by the Undertaker since his orbital socket was damaged by Mabel and Yokozuna after a six-man tag match on an edition of Monday Night Raw and thus he debuts his white “death mask.” All of the Undertaker’s team is wearing one of his T-shirts which I guess is a cute visual but I guess if I had a big bad ass like the Undertaker on my team I’d go buy his merchandise too just to get on his good side. Perfect says that the Undertaker doesn’t look happy and I wouldn’t be too happy if I were him either considering who his partners are for this match. Fatu and Helmsley start the match and Fatu almost gets caught with a Pedigree but Helmsley backs off after seeing the Undertaker. We get a “dream match” in Yankem versus Godwinn which Yankem dominates and Helmsley comes back in to do some damage because he was having an issue with Godwinn that would culminate at the next In Your House in the infamous Hog Pen match. Godwinn gives a gorilla press slam to Helmsley and we get Savio Vega vs. Jerry Lawler. Boy these are interesting matchups, aren’t they? Crowd could care less about this garbage as they realize that this match isn’t going to pick up until the Undertaker gets tagged in. Mabel and Savio Vega renew their horrendous King of the Ring rivalry and Mabel gives him a Bossman slam to get another moral victory as if anyone cares. The match continues to plod on with no heat until Lawler gets tagged in and Vega no-sells his piledriver and tags in the Undertaker. Lawler tries to flee but none of his partners will tag him so the Undertaker just gives him a Tombstone to eliminate him at 12:18. The future Kane (Yankem) comes into the ring and the Undertaker gives him a flying clothesline and Tombstone to finish him off at 12:49. Helmsley tries to flee when it’s his turn but Godwinn threatens to throw the slop on him so in logic I don’t quite understand Helmsley goes back to the ring and the Undertaker chokeslams him from the apron into the ring for the pin at 13:34. Hmm…an ass kicking from the Undertaker or a slopping? I think I’ll take the slop. Mabel hits his belly-to-belly immediately on the Undertaker and gives a legdrop but when he dances the Undertaker sits up so Mabel runs away and gets counted out at 14:24. This match lasted fourteen minutes too long because everyone could tell the finish from a mile away. ½*
-McMahon announces that the winner of the Diesel vs. Bret Hart will face the British Bulldog at the next In Your House pay-per-view and we get comments from both men addressed to the Bulldog
-Pettengill interviews Jim Cornette and Ted DiBiase who are concerned about each others loyalty in the Wild Card match before Shawn Michaels crashes the party
-Wild Card Match: Dean Douglas, Owen Hart, Yokozuna & Razor Ramon (w/Mr. Fuji) vs. Shawn Michaels, Sid, the British Bulldog & Ahmed Johnson (w/Ted DiBiase & Jim Cornette):
Yes, the above listing isn’t a typo. This was an interesting format for the match where WWF President Gorilla Monsoon made a “random” draw of eight WWF participants and put them together in this Survivor Series-style match which led to enemies (Razor Ramon-Dean Douglas, Michaels-Sid) being placed on the same side and stable partners (Bulldog-Owen/Yokozuna) against each other. I thought this was a very cool gimmick of a match and considering that it hasn’t been done in almost a decade now why not bring it back for this year’s Survivor Series? BRING BACK THE WILD CARD MATCH, CONTACT THE WWE NOW! Michaels and Owen start us off with a good wrestling sequence to begin and Michaels taking Owen to the outside with a headscissors and hitting Cornette on the rear end with his tennis racquet leading to Ramon laughing at Cornette. Douglas and Michaels give us the “match that should’ve been at the In Your House IV pay-per-view” showdown with Michaels pinballing Douglas between the corners and hitting a flying forearm and a top rope chop for two. Blind charge eats boot, though, and Douglas gets a slam only to miss a reverse pump splash off the second rope. Michaels hits a beautiful moonsault for two until Owen breaks and Ahmed comes in to a good reception taking out Douglas and Owen but when he tries to slam Yokozuna he gets beaten down by the big man and the rest of the heel on the team with Ramon even joining the fray in the corner. Ahmed, though, managed to powerslam Douglas which leads to him tagging Michaels and tossing Michaels on top of Douglas for two. Douglas bails after avoiding a superkick where he argues with Ramon and he goes back inside only to have Ramon deck him as he’s coming towards the ropes due to the momentum of Michaels kickout of a rollup and Michaels rolls Douglas up for a pin at 7:30. Well so much for being partners I guess but that’s what makes this matchup so great. Funny spot as Owen and the Bulldog end up against each other and offer each other a handshake only to try to hit each other immediately after they’ve joined hands. Well as the old saying goes: heels have allies while faces have friends. Michaels and Ramon get tagged in, though, and Michaels tosses Ramon only to have Ramon come back in and get a clothesline. Michaels get an elbow and a flying forearm, though, to gain the edge only to see a backdrop attempt get telegraphed into a Razor’s Edge which gets two after Ahmed breaks it up. Kneelift by Ramon gives us a double KO and they hit heads for double KO #2. Michaels tags in Sid who slows down the match considerably. Yokozuna of all people tries to save Ramon from some of Sid’s beating which points out to a funny part of this gimmick: that heels will try to save faces and vice versa just to try to win the match. Another collision gives us double KO #3 of the match and when they resume battle Ramon throws Sid off the top rope for two. Chokeslam by Sid leads to him calling Michaels into the ring as he holds Ramon for a superkick BUT Ramon moves and Michaels hits Sid instead and Michaels just shrugs like “oh well” in a funny moment. Ramon covers with Bulldog breaking up the first pin attempt but a second pin works to eliminate Sid at 16:18. Then to get revenge, Sid gets up and powerbomb Michaels behind the referee’s back as the referee is checking on a battle between Ramon and the Bulldog and Ramon covers for two. Now THAT’S how you get revenge! Owen and Yokozuna work over Michaels in succession with Yokozuna unfortunately working in his nerve hold. Damn, Michaels is just taking a beating tonight but if I knew I was going to win the WWF title at WrestleMania I would too. Back to the match, though, as Owen misses a flying headbutt and Michaels tags in Ahmed who bowls over Ramon and Owen and delivers a Pearl River Plunge to Owen when he tries to deliver a backdrop and that gets a pin at 21:48. Ramon comes in and gives Ahmed a boot on a blind charge but Ahmed screws up the second rope bulldog sequence by not hanging near the corner so Ramon has to run across the ring and bulldog him. Ramon starts doing his own form of house cleaning but gets a spinebuster delivered courtesy of Ahmed. However, Ahmed taunts the people on the second rope which allows Ramon to nail a Razor’s Edge but the Bulldog smartly tags Ahmed when Ahmed is going down in the maneuver and comes in to pound on Ramon. Ramon hits a fallaway slam for two as Sid, the 1-2-3 Kid, and Ted DiBiase make their way down to the ring and when the 1-2-3 Kid grabs Ramon’s leg it’s enough of a distraction to allow the Bulldog to nail Ramon with a running powerslam for the elimination at 24:08. All I can say is that it just wasn’t Ramon’s night. I mean the 1-2-3 Kid wins his initial matchup, then Ramon can’t pin Michaels on a Razor’s Edge, then he can’t pin Michaels after a Sid powerbomb, and then he can’t even pin Ahmed after another Razor’s Edge but hey, that’s life. Yokozuna dominates Michaels and hits a legdrop but a Banzai Drop misses and Michaels tags in Ahmed. Ahmed slams Yokozuna and covers but the Bulldog interrupts the pinfall which gets him double-clotheslined out of the ring by Ahmed and Michaels. Michaels then turns around and gives Yokozuna Sweet Chin Music and a splash by Ahmed off the ropes finishes it at 27:35. A very wild matchup and I definitely enjoyed it just because of the intrigue of faces and heels facing each other or teaming with each other. The only thing that hurt the rating, though, was the stalling that existed a little too much for a match of this caliber but I loved the gimmick! ****
-Sunny and the Bill Clinton impersonator exchange sexual puns
-Diesel-Bret Hart Video Package
-No Holds Barred WWF Championship Match: Diesel (Champion) vs. Bret “the Hitman” Hart:
WWF President Gorilla Monsoon made this match No Holds Barred because of the two previous controversial finishes Diesel and Bret Hart had when they faced each other at the 1994 King of the Ring and the 1995 Royal Rumble. This match should’ve just been renamed “No Holds Barred Match to determine who will job to Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania” because that’s what it basically was but I’ll go off on that below this match recap. Diesel and Bret both take off turnbuckle pads to start the match and Perfect takes the dead time opportunity to say that he’s pissed he never go to wear the WWF Championship belt. Can’t say I blame him for that. Diesel beats on Bret with kneelifts in the corner after Bret’s initial attack on the legs fail and Bret bails after the beating. Outside, Diesel hot shots Bret across the guardrail and takes him into the ring apron. Bret rolls back outside the ring when Diesel tosses him back inside so Diesel follows and chokes him with his boot against the guardrail. I always love how referees in these types of matches try to make the wrestlers play by the straight and narrow which is ridiculous because THERE ARE NO RULES in these things! Back in, Diesel punches Bret back to the floor and then throws Bret into the steps outside the ring. Diesel rams Bret’s back into the ringpost and Diesel grabs a chair which he uses to crack across Bret’s back. Back in again, Bret gets whipped into the corner WITH AUTHORITY and Diesel hits a short-arm clothesline. However, a Jackknife is blocked by Bret as he holds Diesel’s leg and Bret bites and rakes Diesel’s eyes to go on offense. Bret works over Diesel’s left leg and applies a figure-four but Diesel gets to the ropes and the referee forces a break BUT WHY? This is no-disqualification so I don’t see why Bret has to break the hold under that circumstance and I’m glad Perfect points that out on commentary. Nevertheless, Bret breaks the hold and continues to pound on the leg but Diesel pokes him in the eye twice to avoid a Sharpshooter. Diesel kicks Bret into the exposed steel turnbuckle when he tries it again and Diesel tries to capitalize but Bret simply rolls outside, trips up Diesel, and rams his leg into the ringpost. Bret then decides to show us his Boy Scout skills by tieing Diesel’s leg to the ringpost which is a smart move as JR says he doesn’t understand this strategy. How could you NOT understand that strategy? He’s going to tie his man to the ringpost and beat the hell out of him because he can’t move anywhere! Why is that a bad thing? Bret hits Diesel with a forearm off the second rope after Diesel can’t get away because he’s tied up and Bret brings in a chair but Diesel boots him in the face twice when he comes at him. Diesel tries to reach for the chair but Bret stomps on his fingers to get it back in a cool bit and uses the chair to tear up Diesel’s leg. Bret hits a backbreaker and goes up to the top rope with the chair but Diesel gets up, crotches him, and tosses him across the ring which gives him the time to untie himself. Bret comes at Diesel again and Diesel chokes him out and hits a sidewalk slam for two. Bret takes a sickening chest-first bump into the exposed steel turnbuckle and Diesel jumps on him as he’s draped across the second rope and that’s a funny bit because Diesel gets no momentum from it due to the busted leg. Diesel hits Snake eyes although I’d think that his busted leg would cause him to have problems even lifting Bret at this point. Diesel tries to his Snake eyes on the exposed turnbuckle but Bret fights out of that and a falling clothesline gets two. Second rope bulldog gets two. Side-Russian legsweep gets two. Bret clotheslines Diesel to the floor but a twisting pescado misses and Diesel rolls into the ring. Damn, that was a sickening bump there too. Bret tries to get back on the apron but Diesel uses the ring ropes to propel Bret through the Spanish announce table and the crowd doesn’t quite know what to make of that bump. Diesel comes outside and just gives the camera a shrug like “well I guess that’s that” and rolls Bret inside. Back in, Diesel tries to Jackknife Bret but Bret collapses during the setup and when Diesel pulls him up the second time Bret surprises him with a small package and that wins the belt to a thunderous ovation at 24:52. Afterwards, Diesel just goes off and Jackknife’s Bret twice after he just about takes out the entire WWF refereeing crew and tells the crowd “I’m back” in reference to his old heel persona but the crowd is split on the turn even though McMahon claims he’s getting booed out of the building. This match was a good brawl but some of Bret’s talent gets wasted in that kind of a match and Diesel’s slow pacing prevents any fast and interesting exchanges that might recover the match from such pacing. Nevertheless, this is about all Bret could get out of a Diesel. ***½
NOW, part of me thinks that this whole title change was a waste of time. I think that Bret’s third title reign (excluding the fourth which he only held for one day because of a freak accident at the Final Four pay-per-view to Steve Austin) was a complete waste as he went on to have a low buyrate PPV match with the British Bulldog, have a horrible match with the Undertaker at the 1996 Royal Rumble, and a decent but screwy finish cage match with Diesel at In Your House VI. I know Bret wanted the belt again because he was tired of playing second fiddle in a lot of fill-in feuds on the roster against the likes of Hakushi, Jean-Pierre Lafitte, Isaac Yankem, and Jerry Lawler but I think his WrestleMania loss to Michaels in 1996 did him more harm than good. I understand that the critics say Diesel’s title reign from 1994-1995 was killing the WWF but would four more months have hurt that much? I think it would’ve been more intriguing to save a Bret Hart-Shawn Michaels match for down the road because when Michaels managed to get his win over Bret for the title it gave him the ego that he didn’t have to return the job (which he refused to do at WrestleMania XIII which was planned) so in the long-run I think it contributed to Bret’s problems in the WWF rather than helping him. However, as I say all the time hindsight is 20/20 after all and I’d be lieing if I didn’t say I was thrilled when I was in 6th grade in 1995 to see this title change go down.
OVERALL TAPE RATING (BUST-****): **. You may be wondering why the tape rating is so low with three matches above *** but I give it such a low rating because there is nothing on this show that makes it historically significant. The “Wild Card” match has been lost in WWF lore as the key figures in it were on their way out of the federation, the Bodydonnas-Underdogs match didn’t elevate the 1-2-3 Kid into some sort of title contender, and the Bret-Diesel title change was just to there to transition the belt to Bret to give to Michaels at WrestleMania. Thus, if you want to see some good wrestling then this show might be worth a look but if your looking for something extra out of a wrestling tape then this isn’t one you need to have on your list.
