From: zimmerma@ucrengr.ucr.edu (Christopher Robin Zimmerman) Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling Subject: WWF Monday Night Raw - 21/6/93 Summary: Oh, I guess you saw it already. Message-ID: <33182@galaxy.ucr.edu> Date: 22 Jun 93 18:58:53 GMT Sender: news@galaxy.ucr.edu Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 125 Nntp-Posting-Host: ucrengr WWF Monday Night Raw, shown "live" from the Mid-Hudson Civic Centre in Poughkeepsie, NY on 21.6.93 and broadcast on the USA Network. "Courtesy Monday Night Raw - 6 weeks ago" The Kid beats Razor. Really from 5 weeks ago...but who's counting? Your hosts are Vince McMahon, the Macho Man Randy Savage, and Bobby the Brain Heenan. They discuss the Jannetty/Doink matchup. Heenan looks under the ring and comes back laughing. The Steiner Brothers v. Reno Riggins and Barry Hardy - The whole reason for this match, of course, is for you to see the Steiners with the belts. Plethora of title changes is run down. The "Stars & Stripes Challenge" will take place on the deck of the USS Intrepid on Sunday 4 July. Yokozima, WWF champion, defies *any* American athlete to slam him. Vince and Savage speculate on whether Rick could do it. Finish is a awful, lousy, completely terrible just horrendous Frankensteiner that for all we know could have injured Riggins. KotR encore ad. Doink (The Clown) v. Martyr Jannetty, 2 out of 3 falls - Doink enters on a unicycle, and the ad break isn't far behind. Savage tells us that he looked under the ring, too, and he didn't see a Doink. Lockup, to the ropes, clean break (?). Lockup, to the ropes, and a non-clean break (that's better), with the Clown chopping away. Headlock. Marty's a former intercontinental champion, you know. Jannetty with flip, Doink with "Greco-Roman hairpull." The purpose of a 2 out of 3 match, for us unenlightened fans, is so that "the better man wins," unlike those completely unpredictable one fall WWF matches (like the Kid's victory, undoubtedly). Anyway, there's been a pretty staredown all this time, and Doink dares Jannetty to pop him. After some running around antics reminiscient of an old Warner Bros. cartoon chase scene (did I use the word "cartoon" in a WWF report?), Jannetty gets another burst of offense. Armbar city. Doink reverses, Marty re-reverses. Doink goes out of the ring. He punches away when we comes back in. Jannetty reverses AGAIN. Sunset flip, backslide for 2. Unfortunately, Marty leaps into the corner and gives himself an atomic drop on the corner. Doink quickly scales the corner and delivers a buttdrop from the top. 1, 2, 3. Ad break. Segunda caida (heh heh heh) - Apparently, Jannetty is still hurt from that fall. Who can blame him? Doink punishes Marty, and then taunts him to boot. It's pretty funny stuff ("Oh, I'm SOOOO sooooorrrrrr-yyy..") Jannetty goes out, Doink climbs to the top and delivers a double axehandle from the top to the floor (which causes Savage to cry plagarism). Doink throws him back in and gets only 2. Jannetty leaves the ring again. Vince mentions some of the participants in the Stars & Stripes Challenge: Bill Fralic from the New York Giants, some guy who used to be a Green Bay Packer, some guy from the Pittsburgh Penguins, my mother...Jannetty manages a 2 count, no doubt refreshed from spending all that time out of the ring. Duelling suplex attempts, and Marty wins. He climbs to the top and delivers...no, he goes back down, at the insistence of referee "Blind" Dave Hebner. Crowd boos, ha ha ha. Jannetty delivers a devastating thrust kick (complete with sound effect!), but Doink is on the ropes, so no count. Again Jannetty climbs, and this time he delivers the fist. 1, 2, 3. Ad break. Third Fall - Doink tries to sucker Jannetty and fails. Doink goes out, gets Jannetty's leg and repeatedly rams it into the post. Doink with figure four (!), lots of two counts. The crowd moves Jannetty into turning it over, though. Doink quickly heads to the ropes. Jannetty has not one but TWO bad legs now, but still hits a back body drop before collapsing. Doink with half crab into a cross facelock into both at the same time. Doink switches to some other holds, all with the intent of working on one leg. Unfortunately, Doink takes too long to climb to the top. Jannetty comes to and tosses him across the ring. Marty limps over and delivers an elbow. While Jannetty takes the Clown to the corner to deliver the (Count along) ten punches, a second Doink enters and hides under the ring. The fans tell Marty what's going on, so he leaves the ring to find the second Clown. Hebner, unaware of everything, keeps his eyes on Marty. What no one seems to notice is that Doink #1 has come to and feels like walloping Jannetty. He does so, but Jannetty quickly has a resurgence and dropkicks him. Doink keeps rolling until he's out of the ring, and he goes under. He comes back in, Jannetty gets him again, and again he goes under the ring. This time the other Doink comes out. Marty is no match for the fresh Clown. After repeated 2 counts, Jannetty is finally finished off with a piledriver. Savage, who has had enough of this, storms the ring and takes out the Clown. He then goes under the ring, grabs Doink #1 and shoves him at Hebner. Always the just official, Hebner promptly reverses his decision and declares Marty the winner. Heenan, who left to confer with the Doinks, has a heated conversation with Savage as we fade... Promos: ICOPRO (Luger), GI Joe, WWF Figures Mr. Hughes v. Bobby Who - You heard it once... This Sunday on "All-American Wrestling," Gene and Bobby visit the USS Intrepid, which as you may have heard is the site of the Stars & Stripes Challenge. They talk a bit about the participants of the Challenge, and Vince closes it by saying (get this) "...and YOU KNOW WHO will be there." Doesn't this strike anyone else as odd? I know, I know... rRazor rRamon enters with the $10,000 and we take an ad break. The 1-2-3 Kid comes out in his L.KID outfit, yet again. The Kid is more than hesitant to enter the ring. Sing with me, kids: 1) Ramon misses move, 2) Kid hits move. Repeat as necessary. Finally, Ramon manages a (German?) suplex, and then it's all Ramon, culminating in a COLOSSAL slam. Grapevine, complete with hairpull. Another hold, freeing up Ramon's hands for slapping the Kid's face. Drop from the corner. "That's it!" But instead of the Razor's Edge, he throws him out of the ring! Razor's plan is immediately known to all when he removes the mats from the floor. He sets up the Kid for the Razor's Edge but the Kid manages to reverse. He climbs the rope and dives but misses Ramon, landing on the concrete (wow!). Ramon throws him back in. Ramon misses in the corner, and much in the same way as their first match, the Kid somersaults on top of him. He doesn't get the 3 count this time (or does he? No, definitely not). The Kid backs off, then grabs the $10,000 and takes off. Fortunately, the WWF camera can go past the curtain this week. Ramon following, the Kid goes all the way outside, enters a waiting car, and speeds off. Ramon just stands there. He can't believe it. Double countout, I presume, but the important thing is that the Kid has the $10,000 and Ramon didn't finish the job. Vince interviews Ramon. "Stickmang...you can run...but you can't hide..." Promos: WWF Figures (again), GI Joe (again), "WWF Royal Rumble" SNES cartridge (It's perfect!) Next week: Shawn Michaels vs. Kamala for the IC title, Yokozima interview. -- Christopher Robin Zimmerman, that RAW guy "Perhaps Duffy should have taken into consideration who's managing Friar Ferguson..." - Vince McMahon "Who, Hulk Hogan?" - Randy Savage