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Lord Al Hayes is dressed up like he’s off on safari and welcomes us to a special edition of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, before the voice of Vince McMahon corrects him and says it’s the World Wrestling Federation’s ‘Wild Kingdom’ on Saturday Night’s Main Event. Vince runs down the line up (Ultimate Warrior vs Rick Rude, Demolition vs Rockers, Mr Perfect vs Tito Santana and the return of Hulk Hogan) while Jesse Ventura makes animal puns. The opening credits play and we also get a shot of Kerry Von Erich in them, so he’s scheduled for tonight’s episode too. Stacked card with all three titles being defended on the show, an appearance from Hulk Hogan and the SNME debut of Kerry Von Erich.
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Craig Johnson says how Austin isn’t content with just hurting a person, he wants to make sure they’re taken care of for good. Austin says that he’s glad he bought up that because he wants to talk on a serious note for once. On 7/4 they had a mixed tag team match with Chris and Toni Adams and he had Chris laid out in the middle of the ring. Toni comes in because she was concerned for Chris while he’s up on the top turnbuckle fixing to come off and break every bone in his body. Toni lays down on Chris sacrificing herself and trying to save him. He looks down and can see in her eyes that she’s scared, and she’s begging him ‘please don’t jump’, but he jumped anyway. He wants to apologise and say sorry…sorry that he didn’t break every bone in her stinking back! If she ever gets in his way again he’ll cripple her for life. Chris has come up with every stipulation he can think of, but with every stipulation Jeannie and he destroys them. They carted Toni off on a stretcher and Jeannie, being as concerned as she is and such a loving sweetheart, goes over to check on her. As she’s being carried off, the uncoordinated fool that she is, then falls off that stretcher! They were both concerned, but they didn’t have the time to get her a ‘get well’ card so he’s made one for her. It says ‘Toni, Get well fast you stupid tramp, ‘Stunning’ Steve Austin and Jeannie’. Get well fast, so that when she does come back to the ring they can put her out for good! He tells Chris to build those legs up by pushing her around in a wheelchair, but he won’t be pushing her around for long because he’s going to be in a wheelchair right beside her! Jeannie says that she doesn’t care what all these scuzzy, nine to five, sleaze of the earth people think of her, and that they should be honoured to be in her presence. She claims that her family are related to royalty and these people could never be compared to her. She is perfectly natural and women pay $3,000 to have a body like hers! Toni wanted her here this week to sign a contract as she wants all these matches, but where is she? Jeannie then accuses Craig Johnson of looking down her top and fantasising about her! She’s not impressed, but can’t help this effect that she has on men! Toni claims that she is jealous of her, that she wants to be back with that nasty, manipulative man. Is she kidding? Why would the independent woman that she is want to be at home cooking, cleaning and ironing shirts? Chris Adams can’t even pack his own wrestling gear! She’s the one who is jealous because she can never be like her! Austin was excellent here and Jeannie was really good too. It’s a shame Craig Johnson couldn’t keep a straight face when they are calling him out over looking down Jeannie’s top. Way to make your heels look weak when the announcer is laughing at them whilst they are chastising him.
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The Slugger is still being taped backstage and not in front of a live crowd. Jim Cornette says that he invited the Four Horsemen to join him, but Ric Flair and Ole Anderson are in a meeting as they speak with the Board of Directors over what happened at the Great American Bash, however he does have Arn Anderson and Sid Vicious (who is finally out of that tuxedo!) with him. Cornette says that there is no way that you can take a couple of freaks instances like what happened recently and count the Horsemen out. Arn says that when you have a problem, the only way to correct that problem is top identify and locate each and every source that is causing that problem. What they deal with as the Horsemen is not the ailment, but the solution that’s causing it. After each and every Bash bar none, they’ve had the greatest party the city of Baltimore has ever experienced, but not on this night, no such luck. They were up all night, but it was plotting and construing the destruction of each and every individual who contributed to this given day. The Great American Bash was one day out of their lives that has redirected their whole lives. The Horsemen of the 90s are not the Horsemen of the 80s; this team was handpicked, not through blood, not through sweat, but by necessity. The bigger they come the better they like it, they specialize in big men and you know who you are! Sid is growling in the background and it disturbs Cornette to be around him when he’s so upset. A lot of people have given him plenty of guff, from a distance, about what happened at the last Clash of the Champions, but that was a rip off and no human being could beat a man of Sid Vicious’ stature as Lex Luger did.
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Parsons is in gym gear as opposed to regular wrestling wear. He heads straight towards Jeff Jarrett, but referee Tony Falk gets between them and is physically pushing the Iceman back. Parsons comes out with a boxing stance, so not only are they redoing the Jerry Lawler/The Snowman angle, they’re doing the same kind of ‘shoot’ match too. A few speculative punches from Parsons and Jarrett takes him down. They roll around on the floor and exchange punches, but you can clearly see that they are being pulled. More grappling and rolling around whilst Craig Johnson informs us ‘this is not a wrestling match, it’s a fight’. Iceman with a head butt and they’re backed up into the corner, but Falk is in there trying to separate them and he again pushes Parsons back. More of the same and Iceman has finally had enough of Falk interjecting himself and manhandling him, so hits him for the DQ. Jarrett tries to prevent him from stopping the match, but overly officious Tony’s not listening. Heaven forbid this be about the wrestlers and not Tony Falk. Jarrett and Parsons continue to fight after the match and Falk gets nailed for a second time by Parsons, this time after Jarrett ducks out the way of one of his punches. A bunch of wrestlers eventually come out to keep the two of them apart and Jarrett is escorted back to the dressing room. Before he leaves Parsons tells ‘Jessica’ that he doesn’t care if he has to catch him at the store or at the church, but he belongs to him, then refers to the audience as a bunch of ‘rooty poots’! It’s difficult to watch this objectively and not compare it to the first Jerry Lawler vs The Snowman match, but this didn’t work for me and I found it pretty bad. A lot of rolling around, blatantly worked punches and not much else. Lawler and Snowman incorporated so much more in their match than these two did to where there was doubt if they were working or not. Tony Falk was also far too involved and shouldn’t be physically putting his hands on the wrestlers and pushing them around as much as he does. I’m not surprised that Parsons slugged him as I think I would have done the same if I was in his position. Even after the match and while Jarrett and Parsons are continuing to fight, the camera cuts to Falk holding his mouth and checking his teeth after he’s been hit for a second time. Why are they showing us this? I want to watch the wrestlers, not the referee! I didn’t notice Jerry Calhoun anywhere near as much as Falk, heck I didn’t even notice the guest referees in the Memphis feud unless they were part of an angle in the match. I’m half tempted to go back and count how many times he gets bumped in matches he’s officiating when I’ve finished working my way through the Yearbook. This guy is the absolute worst!
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End of an Austin squash and he’s on the outside holding the jobber so Jeannie can hit him. Jeannie would take a shot then turn to the camera, give a little wink, a smile, then hit him again, while Percy is cheering her on from the commentary desk. Craig Johnson is over to introduce them and says how Austin bought in Jeannie to make the odds two on one, then Chris Adams evened the odds by bringing in Toni. Now it seems like everyone wants to help out, including his broadcast partner. Austin says that no-one bought anyone in to make it one-sided, they can beat Chris Adams and his shrimp boat wife on any given day of the week! Last night was one of the easiest matches of his career and he was fixing to take the pin on Chris when out comes that little puke Chris Von Erich to interfere. He warns him not to interfere in his matches again, and wants to give a personal thanks to a ‘class act’ Percy Pringle and also Iceman Parsons for getting Jeff Jarrett off his back. They’ve got a return match next week, they’re going to give them one more beating, and he wants all the people to come out and see it. Jeannie also thanks Percy and says that Toni was out here earlier saying that she couldn’t fight and she was good for nothing. Anything that Toni can do though, she can do ten times better, “just ask husband!” She says that she’s not really into all the fighting as she’s a lady, but she does have an envelope with her for Toni. Inside the envelope are some pictures of Chris in not-so-innocent positions that were taken quite recently. Austin then calls out Johnson for looking down Jeannie’s top again, but she says she can’t help the effect that she has on men! She tells Toni that when she sees these pictures she’s going to want to divorce Chris, and then calls Percy over (with Austin giving him a round of applause!) to pass the photos on to her. Finally she offers everyone an apology as she doesn’t think he fans are lowlifes, she just feels sorry for them! She took a step back and realised they can’t help the way they are, they’re just sheep who live in a small town and they’re never going to change! A hug for Percy and they’re on their way. Jeannie was great here and outshone Austin who had a bit of a stumble when talking about Chris Von Erich. I’ll reserve judgment about Pringle and Von Erich being added to this feud for the time being as I liked Percy’s involvement here.
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Mean Gene runs down the rules of the cage match for Summerslam and says that it’s been signed to conclusively determine, once and for all, who the better man is. He then introduces his guest at this time, the WWF Champion, the Ultimate Warrior. Gene says that he will be taking on Rick Rude for the title at Summerslam, but before the big one in Philadelphia he will be facing him on the road first. Warrior says that on the road is no different than this day, yesterday or tomorrow, and he’s had enough of the promises of ‘new challenges’ and ‘new strengths’ that Rick Rude is going to bring to him. He then loses me by talking about withdrawal symptoms, as the Warriors have lowered the dosage of the poison that they’ve spread??? Bobby Heenan on commentary then claims that the Warrior looks like a worried man, when in fact he looks nothing of the sort! Okerlund says that there is a possibility by the time that Summerslam rolls around he will no longer be the WWF Champion, but this match at Summerslam will be held inside a steel cage. Warrior says that he walked into the ‘Ultimate Challenge’ as a challenger and left with the WWF Championship. He shall never walk into combat as a challenger ever again, and a 15ft steel cage is no different from the places he came from, and no different to the challenges that were thrown down to him as he lay waiting for the opportunity. He will leave Rick Rude in one piece for now, but at Summerslam he will walk into the ring as the champion and he will leave with the full power of all his Warriors! Heenan then picks up that he never said ‘leave with the championship’, and surmises this to mean that he is scared. I had no idea that they were running Warrior/Rude house show matches prior to Summerslam, and even making reference about it on TV. If Rude can’t beat the Warrior around the horn before Summerslam, ‘how’ is he going to beat the Warrior inside a cage? He’ll be able to have Bobby Heenan helping him at the house shows, whereas he’ll be on his own here. If the two of them can’t get the job done, how is Rude on his own going to be able to do it? If I’ve seen this match at a house show and Warrior won, why would I want to pay to watch him face the same man in a cage? It’s clear that Hogan vs Earthquake is the ‘real’ main event and the match that they are hoping people will buy the PPV for. It does feel like they have given up on the Warrior already.
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Ted Dibiase says that one picture is worth a thousand words, so instead of going on about the Big Bossman’s background, he thought he’d bring us to the very neighbourhood where he grew up. He spots a young man mowing the lawn and Dibiase asks him if this is the Big Bossman’s neighbourhood and did he grow up here? He says “yes”, but they don’t like to claim him because the Bossman used to beat him and his friends up. Dibiase queries that he doesn’t look as old as the Big Bossman so he must have been a little boy? He says that he was and that the Bossman used to beat up on little kids all the time. When Dibiase questions what would he do if he saw someone like himself who was the same size as him and who could look him right in the eyes? He says he wouldn’t be around, and if you were as big as him, he’d turn and run. Dibiase says that he was nothing more than the neighbourhood bully then, and this is just one more example of what he’s said all along, that the Big Bossman isn’t what he appears to be. You can’t change the spots on a leopard and you can’t change the stripes on a tiger, he always was, and always will be, a great big obnoxious bully! He and every other hick in Cobb County, GA still have a price for the Million Dollar Man though! Same premise as the previous vignettes. We get the message now and the Big Bossman isn’t what he says he is.
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Jim Ross is with Arn Anderson, and Ross says that before he went on air today he received this letter which says to ‘Ric Flair or The Horsemen’. Ric Flair isn’t there today but Arn Anderson is, and he’s got a picture that he wants him to take a look at and wonders if the name ‘Dustin’ means anything to him? Arn says that it doesn’t and he doesn’t know who that is. Ross then says he knows who the World Heavyweight champion is, does he not? Real, real vividly he knows who it is, and he tells Sting that if Ric Flair doesn’t get that belt back, then ‘killer’ Sid Vicious will. He wonders if that coup Sting pulled off with all those ‘Dudes With Attitude’ is going to be worth all the anguish that is put on him, as his life will never be the same when Sid gets through with him. If anyone makes a trip to the hospital from now, no matter who it is, they’re not going to blame them, they are going to blame Sting, as it’s on his head for what he’s done to the Horsemen. I was trying to work out Dustin Rhodes’ career timeline as ‘surely’ that’s the Dustin that they are referring to? A check on cagematch.net has him debuting in the WWF on 7/15 losing to Haku at a house show. Although this was a taped promo, this episode of WCW was taped on 7/16, so the promo would have been recorded sometime around then. I certainly get the impression that Dustin was scheduled to come in, but backed out to join his father in the WWF instead. Considering how young he was at the time, to be coming in to feud with the Horsemen sounds like he would have been in for a pretty big push. Ominous stuff from Arn and I like the way how he doesn’t shout or scream to get his point across. It comes over as much more deadly and menacing that way. After teasing it with the Ole promo, definitely looks like we are heading down the Sting vs Sid Vicious route.
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Gordon Solie is joined by Ole Anderson and Sid Vicious, and he wants to talk to ‘the Chairman of the Board’. Solie says that we’ve seen what happened, we saw Sid Vicious attacking Tim Horner trying to break his leg, and we saw Lex Luger come out, allegedly attacked by the Four Horsemen. Ole tells him that he can throw ‘allegedly’ out the window. Tim Horner they admit to, and the reason why is because they are going to be doing this to everybody when the chance arises. The one thing they’re going to make sure they do is take that World Heavyweight title back; it belongs to the Horsemen! With his experience, his attitude and this (Sid Vicious’) body, who’s going to be able to beat Sid Vicious? Solie says that there will be many who take their chances, like El Gigante, but Ole dismisses him and says that they’re looking at Sting, the Steiners, all the ‘superheroes’. Sid then states what Ole says is what’s going to happen, and that’s a promise! They’re teasing Sting vs Sid Vicious here, although they’ve obviously forgotten that Lex Luger beat him at the Clash (‘who’s going to be able to beat him?)! I actually thought there was a bit of a snafu here. They talk about the ‘alleged’ attack on Lex Luger which airs on the 7/28 episode of World Championship Wrestling, but this is dated 7/27. On checking my own records, Power Hour aired on the Sunday this week (7/29), so this is just dated wrong in the Yearbook and it’s not some error on WCW’s part
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Brother Love’s guest this week is the next WWF Heavyweight champion, ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude along with his manager Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan. He says that Summerslam is just around the corner, and he knows that ‘Brother Brain’ and himself can hardly wait to get the Ultimate Warrior inside that solid steel cage. Rude tells Love that he’s looking too far into the future, and that he will be locking horns with the Ultimate Warrior before Summerslam. As soon as that day comes, wherever in the world it may be, the Ultimate Warrior will go down and when he steps inside the cage at Summerslam, he will be stepping inside to face ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude, the WWF Heavyweight champion. He says that everybody knows that the man who leaves the cage is the man who wins the match, but it will be obvious for everyone to see that when the Ultimate Warrior climbs the side of the cage, he won’t be climbing to win his title back, he’ll be climbing to escape the punishment that Rick Rude is inflicting! He’s defeated him before, he’ll defeat him again, he will take his title and he will walk out through the cage door. Heenan then says that there is going to be a new WWF champion, lightning struck once before and it will strike again. Yup, this is from 7/21. Chalk me up as another who this feud is doing nothing for. I’ll write more about it after the Warrior promo from 7/22, but having a match between the two before Summerslam is just baffling (and I didn’t even realise they had the Saturday Night’s Main Event match, I assumed they were just talking about the house show loop.
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Jimmy Snuka is advertising the WWF Ice Cream bars. He takes the ice cream out of the wrapper and is originally going to eat the wrapper, before thinking better of I and taking a bite out of the ice cream instead. Brother Love’s guests this week walk in the shadows of the WWF tag team champions Demolition. They are impostors of sorts, who couldn’t even carry the dirty socks of Demolition, and they call themselves the Legion of Doom. Vince McMahon appears to be a fan, describing them as awesome and hoping that they’ll hit Brother Love with one of those spikes! Love welcomes ‘Brother Impostors’, but Animal isn’t standing for it and tells him that the Legion of Doom walks in the shadows of no man on earth. Back in Chicago, when they were little punks, they got their butts kicked by more than three on two, more than five on two, but they aren’t right in the head because they liked it! Demolition and the World Wrestling Federation have never seen the likes of the Animal and the Hawk before! Hawk calls Love a ‘cretinous little gerbil face twit’ and says that a man has got to do what a mas has got to do, and they must rid themselves and everybody else of those who have idolised them to the point of becoming ‘their’ impostors, Demolition. Everyone wants to be the WWF tag team champions and their good friends the Hart Foundation are knocking at the door of Demolition. If they look over their left shoulder they’ll see the Hart Foundation, but if they look over their right, they’ll see them. They snack on danger and they dine on Demolition! Brother Love is lost for words and Vince McMahon says it looks like Hawk and Animal have been taking their Hulk Hogan vitamins by the load! No problem with Legion of Doom being on the Brother Love show and I felt like they fitted in straight away with the WWF. Hogan goes on the Love show, Warrior does, so why shouldn’t the Legion of Doom? Agree with garretta’s comments about Vince McMahon talking about them taking their Hulk Hogan vitamins. Whilst it was probably something I wouldn’t have picked up at the time if I was watching it, present day me reads something completely different into those comments.
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Doesn't really constitute one of 'the worst squash matches of all time' though does it?
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Gene recaps what happened on last week’s Superstars of Wrestling where the Rockers came to Paul Roma’s aid after he lost a match, but he took exception to them. Hercules comes out to back Roma up and the future Power & Glory attack the Rockers before a double dropkick sends them both flying out of the ring and they are then held back by officials. Taped interview from Hercules & Roma. Hercules says how they’re the best, baddest tag team in the WWF, but were missing one ingredient. Roma says ‘not anymore’, and then introduces Slick as their new manager. Slick says that it’s his pleasure to be associated with these two fine athletes, it’s a winning comination, and from this point forward they shall be known as Power & Glory.
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Drill Sgt. Slaughter is being driven around at the barracks, and oh how he loves the smell of napalm in the morning! There’s a stench in the air though, a disgusting smell! It smells like pinko commie, it smells like Nikolai Volkoff, it smells like pinko commie supporters, it smells like liberal, it smells like peace! And he hates smell of peace! What they need is a new smell, the smell of war! Nikolai Volkoff and his pinko commie supporters crossed Sgt. Slaughter and they’ll now be smelling a smell they’ll never forget, the smell of defeat!
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Dawna has had a makeover and is looking pretty glam (for 1990!) and even showing off a bit of flesh! Her guest today is the ‘Wrestler of the Month’ for July 1990, the ICW champion, Mr Tony Atlas. Atlas likes that she called him ‘Mr’ and that she clearly must have a lot of respect for him. Atlas is talking loud and Dawna has backed away, but he tells her to move in and stop acting like she’s scared of him. All the women want to be next to him! He’s pretty excited to be Wrestler of the Month to go along with his ICW championship, not to mention being the best looking man in town and the strongest man in the world! What more could a man ask for! Dawna has a question from Phil Albright, “Who?”, and he wants to know whether Atlas goes out and works out at the gym a lot? He’s not happy with this question! He does what he wants and he doesn’t ask him to do anything! He’s the champion of the world, the Wrestler of the Month, the strongest man in the world, the best looking man in the world, he doesn’t ask him to do nothing! Next question! The next question if from Aileen Parsons “Who?” “Aileen Parsons” “Who’s that?” “One of your fans” “I don’t have any fans…but tell me what she wants anyway” Aileen wants to know what his favourite kind of food is? That’s none of her business what he eats! He eats whatever he wants and he’ll eat her head off if he ever sees her at the arena! Dawna has one more question, this time from Steve Cohen, “Who?”, and he wants to know what Tony Atlas sees for himself in the future? The World! The other champions in the world have to hide their face underneath paint because they’re ugly, but he doesn’t because he’s good looking! Dawna thanks Mr Atlas for stopping by (he’s still loving the respect for the champ!), congratulates him on being Wrestler of the Month and says that she’ll see us later, whilst Atlas growls and flexes his bicep! This was hilarious and Dawna seemed to be really enjoying herself with Atlas here. I’d definitely call this as a ‘must see’ segment, even better if you’ve watched Dawna’s earlier Teen Reports.
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Tony Atlas says that when he was a young boy he was told that every dog has his day, but Chief Thunder Mountain won’t have his day in the ICW. He may have gotten a ‘slip’ win over him, but he’s never put the shoulders down of the Atlas and he never will! Next week he’s got another match with this big, fat, overweight, bad breath boy, and there will be no count out or disqualification. Only one man can walk out the ring a winner, and that’s him, the man himself, the ICW champion! These are so much better when Atlas has an opponent to talk about in his promo as opposed to just talking about himself. Cool WWF-style green screen behind him too!
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Steve Leach has been working on a painting of Kerry Von Erich for two years. Kerry says that he believed in him when he didn’t believe in himself, and he wouldn’t finish the painting until he won the World Heavyweight title. We get the big unveiling and the painting looks more like ‘Jungle’ Jim Steel than Kerry Von Erich! Prints of the painting are available for $9.95 if anyone wants a copy of it. Not sure when this advert is from as Marc Lowrance is in the ring and helping with the unveiling. This thing looks like it didn’t take two days to do, let alone two years!
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John Tatum is out for an interview with Craig Johnson and he says that Bill Dundee is the lowest form of man walking the earth! He’s kicked his girl in the head, he’s kicked him in the head, he’s taken his title, he’s taken his prestige, he’s taken everything he’s got, but now he wants another title match and a shot at getting this Southern title back? He’s not going to get a shot at the belt though, what he’s going to have to do is wrestle John Tatum John Tatum’s way, and that’s a Texas Tornado Death match. Bill Dundee is the lowest form of life, but there is one difference between ‘The Superstar’ and him. They’re both low down, women stealing men, but Dundee takes a man’s woman and keeps her forever, he doesn’t want to give her back. When he takes all these fat, ugly, Texas girls, he uses them for the night and then he gives them back! Lock up your daughters, lock up your sisters, lock up all the women in Texas as Bill Dundee will take them because he’s a thief! Next Friday in the Texas Death match he’s going to put him out of professional wrestling for good. Another great John Tatum promo. Just hope no-one in Dallas has been watching the Memphis TV, as so much for his ‘broken neck’. At least he will be able to feed his momma again though!
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We join the action just as Sweet Brown Sugar is covering his opponent to get the win. Iceman Parsons has been watching the match from ringside and gets on this mic and says that as he’s come down this far he might as well do what he does best, and that’s beat up on Uncle Tom’s and teach Sweet Brown Sugar what being black is all about! Parsons gets in the ring and squares up to Sugar, when out from nowhere comes Jeff Jarrett who goes flying at the Iceman. The dressing room empties to try and separate them, followed by matchmaker John Brozell. Sugar says how the people want to see these two fight, so let them fight! Brozell is not letting that happen though. Jarrett and Parsons break free on a couple of occasions, but aren’t able to do much before the wrestlers hold them back again. Jarrett is taken out of the ring first and it looks like Parsons hits and then head butts Brozell, but he doesn’t sell either shot! Eventually they are both ushered away, despite the crowds chants of ‘Let them Go!’ Jarrett’s run in was tremendous, the way he came flying in there at Parsons. This feud hasn’t grabbed me anywhere near as much as Jerry Lawler and The Snowman, but this was a good segment nonetheless. Not sure what went down when it looked like the Iceman struck John Brozell? You know full well that Eddie Marlin would have been bumping for him left, right and center if he was in Brozell’s shoes! -
Ric Flair says that he’s asked daily whether he is now at the crossroads of his career. The answer is no. Sting is the one who is at a crossroads, as he’s the one who now has the burden of being the man who beat Ric Flair. He has the burden of being the man who took the World title away from the Horseman. The bragging rights, the notoriety, the money, everything they thrive on, Sting took! They’ve got nothing to lose now. Fines mean nothing, Jim Herd and Ted Turner mean nothing, they’re on a mission to get that World title back. He paid the price with broken bones, blood and guts, and now Sting has got to pay that price to be in the hot seat. Good promo.
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It is Jim Ross’s privilege and pleasure to introduce the new World Heavyweight champion, Sting. He says that all of a sudden newspapers, radio stations, TV are wanting to speak to him all of the time. It’s a bit of a strange feeling, but in his own eyes he’s still the Stinger and is still a regular guy. He is still going to go out there and howl and Hi Five all the little Stingers, he hasn’t changed one bit!
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Mean Gene is here with the Summerslam report. He recaps what was said in the ‘Update’, about Demolition facing the Hart Foundation in a two out of three falls match but with only two members of Demolition allowed at ringside, and that there will be an Intercontinental title defense. He then announces that it will be a double main event, of the Ultimate Warrior vs Rick Rude inside a 15ft high steel cage for the WWF title, and Hulk Hogan vs Earthquake with Tugboat, Dino Bravo and Jimmy Hart in their respective corners. Taped promos from both with Bravo warning Tugboat not to step out of line, otherwise he’ll deal with him himself. Earthquake welcomes Hogan back to the WWF. He knows he’s got revenge on his mind and is coming back to try and end his career, but it’s not going to happen, and he guarantees that his decision to come back for Summerslam will be the worst decision he’s made in his life. Tugboat is excited that the Hulkster is back, and can’t wait until the Earthquake looks him in the eye and realises that the only natural disaster at Summerslam will be him. Hogan says that he’s been reborn again and is the stark raving Hulkamaniac that you used to know! He says that Tugboat is like a lighthouse for Hulkamania, he protects him from any harm or injury, and just in case Dino Bravo makes a move in his direction, or Jimmy Hart tries to attack him with that megaphone, the Tugster will be there to watch his back. He owes the Earthquake for what he did to him, for trying to put him out forever, and for trying to make him retire. We then get a Warrior promo with him stood behind a cage. There is a hiss on the audio for this so I can only make parts of the promo out. Second time that has happened for a Warrior interview on the Yearbook, and again I’m not complaining. Gene says that more matches for Summerslam are being announced all the time and he’ll be back with more matches and more news next week. Double main event in name only, as it is clear what is being pushed as the real main event. My guess is the cage is a stipulation to keep Heenan out of interfering in the match (like he did at Wrestlemania V), but that is me just reading between the lines and based on nothing that we’ve been officially told.
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Wrestling Wrap Up with Jim Ross, and he announces that due to his actions at the end of the match he had with Tommy Rich where he physically assaulted referee Randy Anderson, Stan Hansen has been suspended. We get the closing moments of that match where Hansen is disqualified for throwing Rich over the top rope. He then nails Anderson with a clothesline after the match and kicks him in the head, before clobbering Rich in the head with his cowbell. Nick Patrick is with Jim Ross and says that a lot of things happen between wrestlers, but whenever a wrestler touches a referee he’s gone too far, and as of now Stan Hansen is suspended for 30 days and has been fined $5,000. Hansen comes to join them and he’s not happy. He’s about to punch Patrick when he tells him that if he puts his hands on him he’ll double the fine and suspend him for a year. Hansen all angry starts smashing his cowbell on the floor and says that nobody suspends him!
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Cowabunga is flicking through the TV channels trying to find something to watch. He sees a bodybuilder (which reminds him of Jeff Gaylord the Great), The Bold & The Beautiful, a lady in a swimsuit (‘that’s totally bodacious!’) amongst other shows before finding the wrestling, which is ‘totally radical dude!’. There is a cage up and it looks like it’s the WWF, until Cowabunga points out that it’s Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler (who appears to be one of his favourites by the way he’s cheering for him). His Master calls him, over but Cowabunga doesn’t want to move as he’s watching Jerry Lawler on TV. His Master says that Cowabunga is about to face his most difficult battle in the fight against evil, Gaylord the Great! He is strong and powerful, and Cowabunga must learn to strike hard and fade away without a trace! I still don’t know what to make of this. Poor Jeff Gaylord though, he has gone from challenging for the Unified title to seemingly feuding with Cowabunga in the space of a week!