From: zimmerma@corsa.ucr.edu (Christopher Robin Zimmerman) Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling Subject: WWF Monday Night RAW - 1/8/94 Date: 4 Aug 1994 04:41:00 GMT Organization: UC Riverside, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 173 Message-ID: <31prgs$l0l@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: corsa.ucr.edu One Year Ago on RAW: The Macho Man out-Doinks Doink with a Macho Midget. Squashes for The Steiners, Adam Bomb, and Mr. Perfect. We take a look at last weekend's 1-2-3 Kid victory over the Million Dollar Man. Oh, yeah, Jim Cornette shows up in the WWF. Hype for tonight's big match: Ramon and Michaels. They have a history, you know. Big ladder match at WrestleMania, and then we take you back two weeks to see Michaels and Diesel work over Ramon as he came to the aid of Lex Luger. Say, isn't that Vince McMahon's voice? Monday Night RAW, coming to you "live" from the Beeghly Center at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, OH 1.8.94 and broadcast on the USA Network. Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Randy Savage. Savage congratulates Vince on pinning the United States Justice System to the mat 1, 2, 3, and then does an Andres Cantor-like "Not Guilteeeeeee! Not Guilteeeeeeeee!" Shawn Michaels v. rRazor rRamon, part II - I'll bet you thought Savage would stop there. No way, the digs at our fine court system are still coming. As you might expect, Michaels is accompanied by WWF Intecontinental Champeen Diesel. Razor comes to the ring with no one. Staredown, Michaels with a shove. Lockup, go behind, whip, whip, missed clotheslin, missed hiplock, missed something or other...and that's in the first ten seconds. Michaels walks down Ramon's back and showboats, so Razor slugs him and Michaels flies out of the ring. Diesel stands over him so Razor stays in. Finally, Michaels tries to come back in, but Razor punches him first, and Shawn falls out. Repeat. On the third try, Michaels rakes the face. Michaels climbs to the second rope--and runs into a big fist. Michaels finally scores some offense with a surprise neckbreaker. Now it looks like they might slow down enough for me to keep up with them. Michaels with a knee to the back. Michaels with a punch, and a face in the turnbuckle. Whip, reverse, Michaels jumps on the ropes, tries a splash, Razor catches him and slams him for 2. Arm bar by Ramon. Savage is STILL putting down the justice system. Michaels with plenty o forearms. Ramon whips him into the corner, but MIchaels leaps over RAmon and delivers some more punches. Slam, stomp by Michaels. Michaels with the whip and dropkick for 2. Michaels with some more jabs, and a big roundhouse (and Ramon with a nice spit take). Michaels chokes Ramon on the second rope, then steps aside. While Referee "Blind" Dave Hebner has a few words with the Heartbreak Kid, Diesel gives Ramon another choke. Michaels with a headlock. Ramon with some elbows, and Michaels breaks the hold. They come off the ropes, Michaels tries a hip toss but Ramon turns it into a backbody drop for 2. Michaels quickly gets another 2 count, and goes back to the headlock. Again, Ramon elbows and punches out. Off the ropes, Michaels tries a Frankensteiner, but Ramon stops him, delivering a semipowerbomb and then following it up with a slingshot which takes Michaels outside and onto Diesel. Since someone's out of the ring, let's take an ad break. When we come back, we show you a replay of the semipowerbomb/slingshot, in case you didn't believe you just saw it. And now, Michaels has the edge...until he climbs the rope and Ramon throws him. Razor with his patented abdominal stretch..Michaels has a counter, the Stooges eyepoke. Michaels with an elbow to the back, another to the back of the head. Whip, Michaels puts his head down., and Ramon drives it into the canvas. Ramon with big back body drop (I miss Vince singing that out). Ramon with stomps to the back. Whip into a bearhug. Michaels sells it pretty well. Hebner makes sure that Michaels can't grab the hair. Finally, Michaels hits some desperate elbows to the head. He tries to pick up Ramon for a slam, but his back is hurt. Ramon goes back to the bearhug. Michaels climbs over Ramon and tries a sunetflip, no. Ramon sits on him for 2. Michaels reverses for 2. Ramon with another 2. Ramon comes off the ropes, and gets sent on a free trip outside. Diesel meanders over to see if he's ok. Hebner, still checking on Michaels, completely misses the delivered clothesline outside the ring. Let's take another ad break, since Ramon is outside the ring. When we come back, Diesel is putting Ramon back in as a courtesy. Michaels goes out, sets up Ramon on the apron, and delivers an elbow from the apron to the Bad Guy's head on his way to the floor. Everybody's back in, and Michaels is doing some boxing. Michaels then drags Ramon's face across the rope. Flying elbow for 2. 4 count chokes by Michaels. Razor blocks a punch, and delivers one. Michales' spit take is even better. Michaels with a sleeper! Razor goes down, but I bet his arm only falls twice. 1, 2, ...nope. Razor is finding some adrenaline! Back suplex! And now they're both down. Ramon is up at 5 and lays an arm across for 2. MIchaels gets up, and whips Ramon, who kicks him in the gonads. They're both down again. Michaels gets back up and whips Ramon...and they butt heads. They're both down again. I guess Michaels better not whip Ramon any more. This could be a double countout! Just after 9, they stir. This time it's Razor getting the advatage, delivering a series of blows. Razor whips Michaels into the turnbuckle. Michaels does his fllip and runs into a clothesline. 2 count for Ramon. Ramon sets up Michaels for the superplex, but Michaels elbows him. Michaels with a plancha, but Ramon rolls it over for 2. Michaels with his superkick for 2. Michaels makes the "that's it" sign. He's picking him up! He's...no, Ramon countered and once again they are both down. Michaels wanted to use the Razor's Edge, but no dice. Finally, Ramon gets up and gives HIS "that's it" sign. Diesel climbs up on the apron, so Razor goes over and punches him out. Michaels sneaks up and Ramon punches HIM out. Michaels grabs the belt, and Ramon punches him before he can use it. As Hebner turns around and sees a belt in the ring, he feels it's his duty to remove it from the ring. Again, he fails to notice Michaels whiping Ramon into Diesel's big boot. Add a little pull of the tights and we have a 3 coutn for the Heartbreak Kid in his return match. Just in case you weren't sure there was an angle going on here, Michaels and Diesel demolish Ramon. Michaels sets up Ramon for the Razor's Edge...but a bevy of WWF referees show up and promise heavy fines, so Michaels just drops him in disgust. Wow! Todd Pettengill with *your* SSR, delivered to you by Domino's Pizza. It's four weeks away! Tickets are still available via TicketMaster. The new match is Lex Luger v. Tatanka. You may recall that last week Tatanka made the challenege right here on Monday Night Raw. That big double main event is Undertaker/Undertaker and in a steel cage match, Hart/Hart for the WWF Title. The Intercontinental Title will be on the line when Diesel takes on Razor. Todd suggests that Ramon needs a little backup for this match. Duh. Bull Nakano v. Alundra Blayze - you read right, this match is NOT for the WWF Women's title. Bull has the Orient Express theme (and I actually thought Kato was coming out...sigh) and a manager in Luna Tunes (trivia: Luna's theme used to be Tito Santana's years ago). We take an ad break. Gee, Bull has a pretty face. Bull with slap, and throw into the ropes. Bull with missed clothesline, Balyze with kicks. Bull with a punch to the gut off the roeps. Bull with big spinning hairpull. Bull with another big spinning hairpull. Blayze with some punches to the gut. Blayze with a flying head scissors for 2. Blayze with another kick, a missed kick, and Bull with a choke into a clothesline. Bull with another hairpull into a slam. Repeat. 2 count. Bull with a headlock, and then some nice hair wrenching. Blayze gets up and they trade slaps..Blayze loses that one. Bull chokes her on the ropes and snaps her to the canvas. Bull with a vicious piledriver. 1, 2, she pulls up her head (even though her foot is on the rope). Bull with a big powerbomb, but only 2. Blayze counters something with something else for 2. Blayze climbs the ropes and tries a flying head scissors, but completely misses. Bull with a scoop and a slam. Bull to the ropes, but misses a butt drop. Alundra hits her German suplex...and BULL KICKS OUT! Bull tries to slam Blayze, but she rolls into a bridge for 2. She climbs the ropes, BUll grabs her hair and thrws her, and SHE climbs the ropes. Alundra dropkicks her and she falss from the corner to the floor. Blayze follows and delivers a plancha (or is it a tope?) Bull recovers and whips Blayze into the post (no noise). Well, they're brawling pretty nicely, and that ref looks like he's made it to ten...double countout. Luna sneaks up on Blayze and delivers some weak double axehandles. Blayze whips Luna into Bull and they both go flying. Cue Alundra's music. Promos: ICOPRO (Ramon), GI Joe, Super Street Fighter 2 Hype for next week's big match: Bam Bam Bigelow & IRS vs. Doink & Tatanka You might think it's time for the King's Court, but the King doesn't. He's going out into the audience. Instantly, you KNOW there's a marriage proposal coming up. The King introduces us to Mike Boyle, who pops the question to his girlfriend Andrea. We'll get her answer after this ad break. When we come back, Lawler is asking Andrea if she's pregnant. Nope. Finally, she says "Yes." Lawler: "Love your husband, honor your husband, but get as much as you can in your name." Savage: "I have to agree with him..." Anyway, Lawler makes some pretty good jokes and then kisses her (or did he bite her nose?) and off she goes. After that, Lawler brings out Bob Backlund. For those of you that missed it, Backlund was pinned in his big title match with Hart. When Hart tried to shake his hand a second time, Backlund "snapped" and put Hart in a chicken wing. Backlund still makes triangles with his hands. Backlund makes a confusing interview... "You people have changed in the last ten years...how weak you are!...I was never pinned, and I did not submit!" Vince starts talking over Backlund, which means he really DOESN'T make any sense. Lawler: "Bret Hart claims to be a part of the New Generation...what do you say to that?" Backlund: "Bret Hart is part of a society that I want nothing to do with! They're not disciplined enough, they don't work hard enough, and they don't pay the price!" And there's some more shouting, and Lawler takes over. As we fade out, Backlund shakes hands with Lawler... The Smoking Scotsmen v. George Anderson & Tom Bennett Promos: Spiderman Venom: Maximum Carnage, Slim Jim (Savage), Mortal Kombat II This match is so exciting, we take an ad break in the middle of it...and the match is only five minutes long! Savage makes some more inside jokes about the trial. As we fade out, the Gunns get the three count. See ya next week! -- / Christopher Robin Zimmerman / kzim@koko.csustan.edu / zimmerma@corsa.ucr.edu /