[1993-05-10-WWF-Raw] Shawn Michaels and Mr Perfect

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Shawn and Perfect brawl outside the Manhattan Center. This has more heat and intensity than their lousy house show match, that's for sure.

[Kevin Ridge]

Nice brawl outside but I was more interested in the Shawn versus Duggan.

[PeteF3]

Hot brawl, the kind that really set Raw apart from the stale and sterilized 1992 television. That's Howard Finkle's new car that Shawn gets hiptossed onto, cracking the windshield.

[WingedEagle]

HBK promo outside of Raw, Perfect jumps him and they brawl outside the building. Perfect throws him into a car door as they fight along 34th Street. Nothing so special here, but taking advantage of the city and these opportunities certainly made Raw feel different from the standard TV tapings of yesteryear.

[soup23]

I liked the brawl outside that looks like it was legit about to be broken up by the cops when we cut away. The brawl at WM 9 was good too showing this feud excelled in two minute bursts.

[garretta]

This is the type of stuff we've seen too little of from Vince over the years: real emotion, real chaos (as opposed to fake pro wrestling chaos that's just plain cheesy more often than not) and two competitors who just want to kick each other's asses. I wish it had lasted more than a minute.

 

A tip of the cap to Howard for taking one for the team with his new car windshield. I wonder how he explained all of this to whomever had to replace it.

 

I know it never happens, but I always root for one of the guys in these pull-aparts to go nuts and punch out one of the security people who are trying to hold them back just to see what would happen next.

 

Other than Curt's hiptoss onto Howard's car, we don't see any wrestling moves, which makes this more realistic. If they did this today, Shawn would have broken away from the people holding him back and caught Curt with Sweet Chin Music (after stomping his foot eight or ten times to let the world know it was coming), and Curt would have tried to hit the Perfectplex on Howard's hood.

 

This really makes me want to see their match from Providence, which I haven't gotten to yet. I hope it's not as bad as everyone's making it out to be!