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Well, this is the fourth installment of my Wrestling Challenge Reviews and we go back to February 20th, 1993.
-High Energy vs. Money Inc.(c) for the Tag Titles-
Ted and Koko start off and Koko hits the headlock right away. Dibiase throws him to the ropes but is knocked over by a Koko shoulderblock. They go to the ropes and Koko it’s a flying shoulderblock to knock Teddy down. Ted takes over in the corner and an Irish whip to the corner is reversed. Koko tries for a high knee but Dibiase dodges and Koko’s knee hits the turnbuckle. Koko quickly tags out and Owen comes in. Dibiase goes for an arm-bar but Owen flips out and reverses it. Dibiase hits a hammerlock and tags into IRS. IRS goes off the ropes and is hip tossed over and Dibiase runs in onlt to get clotheslined. The heels bail and regroup. IRS comes back in and Owen starts working over his arm. Owen tags in Koko who goes to the second rope to drop an axehandle on IRS’ arm, but hurts his knee on the way down. Nice bit of psychology there. IRS sends Koko to the ropes but Koko leapfrogs over IRS, only to land on his feet and his knee gives out. Koko rolls out of the ring and Owen goes to check on him. IRS and Dibiase follow and start beating on the heels. IRS starts working over Owen as Koko is helped to the back by some referees. The heels of course double team and it leads to Dibiase working Owen over in the corner. A clothesline sends Owen down asn the heels toss Owen over. IRS drops an elbow and quicly tags in Dibiase and they hit a double clothesline. Dibiase covers but picks him up at two. That’s never good. Money Inc his a double suplex and IRS covers, only to pick him up AGAIN! Dibiase comes back in and hits a suplex and AGAIN picks Owen up at two. The ref rings the bell? Bret comes in and cleans house to end the whole thing at about 6:00 or so. The ref apparently DQ’ed the tag champs. It was a really decent match before the shitty finish. *3/4.
Lord Alfred Hayes recaps the whole Beefcake/Money Inc. Raw match. If you don’t know what happened, ask me to review! Anyways, in short. Money Inc are heels, they know how to hurt Brutus, they double team him and smash their briefcase into Brutus’ skull as Jimmy Hart turns face in the process. Of course, this means only one thing. HOGAN IS COMING BACK!
-The Steiner Brothers vs. Gary Key/Larry Ludden-
This is very early into the Steiners WWF career, so this match should be fairly quick. Hell, even if it wasn’t early in their WWF career this match would be quick. I’m not making sense. I have no idea which jobber is which, so I’ll call them jobber A and jobber B. Jobber A almost gets killed on a Scott Steiner belly to back release suplex, which accounts for 1/3 of his offense both then AND now. Rick beats on Jobber A for a while until Jobber B tags in and he gets beat on too. Scott tags in and lifts Jobber B onto his shoulders as Rick climbs to the top and hits a bulldog to get the easy pin.
We head to the WWE studios to chat with Sean Mooney who hypes the Hartford Civic Center houseshow. Of course, this means PROMOS! Doink! Mr. Perfect! Kamala/Rev. Slick!!
We go to an interview with Hacksaw’s wife who apparently is pregnant. She is pissed at Yokozuna for injuring him and she starts to cry and crap like that.
-Giant Gonzalez vs. 3 Jobbers (one happens to be Louie Spiccoli)-
They did the same sort of thing with Andre the Giant where he’d fight three jobbers. Only Andre the Giant looked like he could kick some ass. Giant Gonzalez wore the stupidest costume ever. The jobbers bail before Giant gets in the ring and they stand outside. Giant just grabs one (Louie) and pulls him and chokes him. For two minutes. Then he chokeslams him. The other jobbers run to the back as the ref counts them out. DUD. What a waste.
Mr. Perfect talks about Headlock on Hunger.
-Crush vs. Al Burke-
This is Crush’s dramatic return after being injured at the hands of Doink. Al Burker of course gets killed. Kona Crush finishes it and Al got no offense. DUD
Mene Gene does the hard sell for Wrestlemania as I FFWD. They ran down the matches basically
-The Narcissist Lex Luger vs. Virgil-
Lex is busy looking in the mirror. This takes a good minute or two. They start with a headlock an Luger just knocks Virgil down. Luger then tosses Virgil into the turnbuckle a few times. Luger sends Virgil to the opposite corner but Virgil bounces over a Luger charge. Luger stops just short of the ropes and turns around to level Virgil with a clothesline. Any hopes of this being a good match vanish when Lex forearms Virgil in the head and Virgil is knocked OUT. To show us this, he picks up Virgil a few times and spins him around, but he’s still knocked out. Pin is academic. If you didn’t know, it was “revealed” later on WWF TV that he had a steel plate in his forearm that caused him to knock opponents out. Of course, Gorilla wonders how this happened, how was Virgil knocked out? DUD.
More Mooney hyping for the house show. We get Ramon and Bret Hart promos and that ends our show.
Not a bad show as far as Wrestling Challenges go. The first match was pretty decent, but nothing to go our of your way to find.
Overall Wrestling Challenge Rating:
Match Rating: = 1.75/5 = .35
Interview/Backstage Segments Rating: = 0
Overall Enjoyment: 2.0
FINAL Wrestling Challenge RATING: = 2.35/2 = 1.175
5.0 = Perfect: Highest Recommendation Ever
4.1-4.9 = Near Perfect: Highly Recommended
3.1-4.0 = Perfectly Acceptable Show: Recommended
2.5-3.0 = Some flaws but overall it’s good: Mildly Recommended
2.0-2.4 = More flaws than above: Middling, thumbs in the middle
1.1-1.9 = Bad show, few redeeming qualities: Recommendation to Avoid
0.1-1.0 = Horrible, don’t watch. Strong Recommendation to Avoid
0.0 = WORST, EPISODE, EVER
Final Rating: 1.175
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