Event Details:
Location: Hersheypark Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania
Hosts: Vince McMahon and Bobby “the Brain” Heenan
Reported Attendance: N/A
-“Mean” Gene Okerlund interviews the Intercontinental Champion Honky Tonk Man with Jimmy Hart who says he is demanding to be the first to enter the ring for his title defense against “Macho Man” Randy Savage and that he’s going to steal Elizabeth
-“Macho Man” Randy Savage give Okerlund a crazy interview in which he says that he’s been in the “danger zone” of hell and he listened to some real Elvis music while he was there. Hmm…I think if I was in hell listening to Elvis music would be the last thing I’d think about.
-Intercontinental Championship Match: The Honky Tonk Man (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. “Macho Man” Randy Savage (w/Elizabeth):
Crowd is pretty hot in anticipation of possibly seeing a title change between these two. Lockup starts it off with the Honky Tonk Man getting a cheat shot over referee Dave Hebner when he tries to break it up. Savage, however, gets a kneelift and his awesome hot shot where he jumps all the way over the top rope to the arena floor. Savage takes Honky Tonk Man to the buckle after some choking and hits a kneedrop. Savage hits Honky with an elbow after Honky comes out of the corner on a whip but when Hart stalks Elizabeth on the floor, Savage comes to her aid and Honky gets in an axehandle to the back. Hmm, who if anyone except Savage or any other face would’ve thought that was a good idea. Back in, Savage hits an elbow off the ropes but Honky quickly regains the advantage and dances around while hitting Savage with his boring offense that includes fists and kicks. The only interesting thing in the arsenal is a second rope fistdrop but instead of covering Honky decides to be stupid (which is rare for a heel in those situations) and follow Elizabeth on the floor and Savage hits him from behind and gets a top rope axehandle to the arena floor. Well I guess that can be our form of poetic justice for this match. Back in, Savage takes Honky to the corner twice and gets a schoolboy for two until Hart grabs Savage’s hair to break. Savage hits a side suplex for two and Hart breaks that up with a hair grab as well. Savage climbs the top rope and Hart tries to grab the leg but Savage hits him away and hits a top rope axehandle but that only gets two when Jimmy Hart pulls Honky’s leg toward the ropes. Damn, that’s what you call managerial dedication. Savage finally has enough and knocks Hart out with a punch and hurls him to the floor. Honky bails after Savage reverses and tries to revive Hart in a funny moment. This brings out the Hart Foundation who also attempt to revive their manager, but to no avail, while Honky gets his ass kicked in the ring. Honky bails again and helps the Hart Foundation take Hart to the locker room and we go to a commercial break. When we come back Honky and the Hart Foundation return to the ring and we have a punch-kick fest from Savage and Honky. Honky hits Savage with a backdrop after a Savage blind charge goes into the turnbuckles and slams his face into the canvas. Honky gets some second rope punches but a fistdrop this time hits nothing and Savage unloads with elbows, a backdrop, and choking in the corner. Savage gets an elbow off the ropes for two. Suplex by Savage gets two. However, Honky gets an eye rake and tosses him to the outside where the Hart Foundation give Savage a beatdown and hot shot him across the guardrail. I have to say that’s a smart way to turn a title match into an unsanctioned lumberjack match. The Hart Foundation rolls Savage into the ring and Honky delivers an elbowdrop but it only gets two. Shake Rattle N’ Roll gets reversed with a backdrop and Savage hits a slam and the flying elbowsmash but Bret Hart runs in and hits Savage at two for a disqualification at 12:10. Afterwards, the heels beat up Savage and Honky gets ready to hit Savage with his guitar as the Hart Foundation holds Savage but in a historic moment, Elizabeth jumps in the way. However, Honky shoves her down to get some serious heat and then cracks his guitar over Savage’s skull. THEN, when the heels think they’ve won the day, Elizabeth brings Hulk Hogan into the ring and after Savage recovers they clean house and shake hands creating a prelude for the future Mega Powers. This was a nice segment to set up the show and got some heat for Jimmy Hart’s stable while giving us the beginnings of Savage-Hogan alliance. Match kept a decent pace and I enjoyed it but the rating would’ve been vastly different (and in a negative way) if Savage had decided to have one of his “the heel will beat me up until I hit my three moves to win” matches. ***
-Okerlund interviews Mr. Fuji who says Hulk Hogan is “tired” after his run-in after the Savage-Honky Tonk Man match which will help Sika take the title. Um, Hogan’s run-in was only about one minute worth of action so I doubt he’s that tired not even considering the fact that Sika has a snowball’s chance in hell at beating Hogan
-WWF Champion Hulk Hogan tells Okerlund that he’s ready to tear Sika and his managers apart because the WWF is his jungle
-WWF Championship Match: Hulk Hogan (Champion) vs. Sika (w/Mr. Fuji & Kim Chee):
McMahon says Sika is the number one contender to the championship which shows how absurd the heavyweight division was in terms of contenders for Hogan’s championship at the time. Heenan continues to re-assert Fuji’s idiotic claim that Hogan is “tired” after his Savage run-in. Sika kicks Hogan a lot to start after he gets in a cheap-shot over the referee. Hmm, I hate recycled spots in the same show. Fuji nails Hogan with the contractually required cane shot but Hogan avoids a Sika falling headbutt and brutally clotheslines him to the floor. Yikes, that was pretty stiff. Back in, Hogan hits a big boot and punches Sika and Kim Chee’s lights out. However, Sika knocks Hogan to the floor and does the “I’ll put you in a headlock and you shove me into the ringpost” spot and Hogan takes Fuji’s cane but the referee takes it away as we go to commercial. We come back and Sika regains the advantage inside the ring by using his head and choking like all good Samoan wrestling characters (with the help of Fuji of course). Chop by Sika (or something weak like that) gets two. A pectoral hold (which I’ve never seen before) bores me to the death and Hogan’s hand only drops twice but Sika gets a kneelift after Hogan punches out. Sika hits three falling headbutts and covers but only gets two and now it’s hulk up time! Hogan gets three fists, a bodyslam, and the legdrop gets three at 7:32. Afterwards, Hogan cleans house of Kim Chee for fun and poses for the crowd. Just a filler match that actually could’ve been a little higher if the repetitive offense would’ve been eliminated on Sika’s part. ½*
-Okerlund interviews “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff who is with Sir Oliver Humperdink and he declares war on the Heenan family and says he’ll make King Kong Bundy sing the blues tonight. Maybe he should worry about making his shoulders stay on the mat for a three-count instead.
-King Kong Bundy tells Okerlund that he should shut up. Ohhhh!!! I guess we know he’s a heel because he told Okerlund to shut up!
-“Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff (w/Sir Oliver Humperdink) vs. King Kong Bundy:
Great description of Humperdrink from Heenan: “a big, red haired, one eyed frog.” Bundy weathers Orndorff’s initial offense and takes him into the buckles and chokes him on the ropes. Orndorff actually gets Bundy over for a fluke sunset flip for two. Bundy gets an elbow off the ropes and gets a slam but misses an elbowdrop. Orndorff gets an eye rake, gives Bundy a rope burn, an elbow off the second rope, and a fistdrop off the ropes that gets two. Heenan is so dismayed that he leaves the announce position and heads to the locker room. Orndorff gets a dropkick off the ropes for two as Andre the Giant comes down to ringside and Heenan returns to the broadcast booth. Orndorff dropkicks Bundy to the floor and he and Andre have a consulting session as Orndorff consults Humperdink. I think I’d rather be consulting with Andre and I’ll let you think about that one as this show heads to another commercial break. When we return we see Bundy resist Orndorff’s blows and beat him around for a two-count. Orndorff rallies with a kneelift when Bundy puts his head down on a whip and punches him down. Two elbowdrops hit but when Orndorff tries a third one it misses and Bundy gets a kneedrop for two. CHINLOCK TIME but Orndorff’s hand only drops twice. Bundy’s blind charge into the corner eats buckle and Orndorff unloads. Bundy reverses a whip into the corner and it happens to be the corner Andre is in so he grabs Orndorff by the tights and pulls him back into the corner where Bundy hits an avalanche against the buckles for a three-count at 7:38. Nothing terrible here and was about as good as one could hope for out of these two. *
-WWF Tag Team Champions the Hart Foundation complain about Jimmy Hart being knocked out and that they’ll destroy the Young Stallions
-WWF Tag Team Championship Match: The Hart Foundation (Champions) vs. The Young Stallions:
Jim Neidhart and Paul Roma start and the Young Stallions quickly force Neidhart to tag in Bret Hart and Jim Powers gets a sunset flip and a crossbody off the ropes for two-counts. Bret gets a kneelift to Powers off the ropes, though, to turn the tide and after a backbreaker tags in Neidhart who pounds away. Bret gives Powers an elbowdrop as Neidhart distracts the referee and then gets a knee to Power’s back when he runs the ropes. The Hart Foundation makes Powers their bitch as they do brief beatdowns (and I do mean brief). Momentum swinging tag to Roma who knocks down the heels and we have a four-way brawl with the Hart Foundation being whipped into each other. The Stallions give Neidhart a double-dropkick and Roma powerslams Bret off the ropes but Neidhart interrupts the count at two. The Hart Foundation then give Roma the Hart Attack when the referee is trying to get Powers out of the ring and Bret covers for three at 4:32. This is the crap you see passed off for tag team wrestling in the WWE today. ½*
-Savage and Hogan cut a crazy interview about their two “forces” joining to Okerlund and Savage dubs the duo the “Mega Powers.” I always thought the Ultimate Warrior was weird but now I see where he may have gotten his crazy ideas from
OVERALL TAPE RATING (BUST-****): *. The only place you might be able to see this is if you go on eBay to purchase old WWF shows but if your being highly selective there is nothing special here. This tape only gets the * rating because of the opening Intercontinental title match and the Mega Powers uniting. Other than that it’s just a regular WWF show with the champions being showcased defending their titles against weak opposition.
