[1994-10-31-WWF-Monday Night RAW] Lex Luger vs Bob Backlund

[Superstar Sleeze]

Lex Luger vs Bob Backlund - WWF RAW 10/31/94

LEX LUGER VS BOB BACKLUND!!! Now this I have to watch, it seems random on paper and even at the time because Backlund was beefing with Bret while Luger had feuding with Tatanka yet we get this Marty Sleeze Dream Match. 

Unfortunately, it seems a woke up in the middle of this good dream. It was humming along nicely and if this was given 15-25 minutes could have produced a beaut. I loved Luger throwing all of Backlund's usual shine shit back at him. We had the arm drags, the single leg pickups and generally discombobulating Backlund. All that was missing a wrenched in headlock. Backlund started to work the arm, got a nice organic belly to belly and a hammerlock slam. I would have liked a more emphatic transition to heat, but the work was great. Coming back from the break, Backlund was still working away before Luger came roaring back with a Powerslam. He looked like he was going to Rack him up, BUT Tatanka came out. Backlund applied the dreaded Crossface Chickenwing and before Luger could submit Tatanka attacked Luger, which was weird. Backlund applied it again, but Savage made the save. 

Were we going to get Savage vs Backlund?!? Now I got a serious case of blue balls. Tatanka setting up the finish with distraction made sense, but I guess they did not want Luger to submit but they wanted the hold applied. Why didnt they just have Tatanka attack, trigger the DQ, Crossface Chickenwing, Savage save. That is so much more logical. Anyways, I thought they were on pace to have a great championship-style match, but then it just ended.