Live from San Antonio, TXAttendance 8,000Your commentators are Gorilla Monsoon & Bobby HeenanIntercontinental ChampionshipBret Hart (C) Vs SkinnerBret retains by submission with the Sharpshooter. Bret carried Skinner as far as he possibly could here. The result is actually somewhat above average and better than I expected. Skinner's offense isn't that exciting, but Bret could make anything watchable. **1/4 out of 5Jake 'The Snake' Roberts cuts a chilling promo about how he got a rush from Elizabeth's fear when his cobra bit Randy Savage. He even turns the tables on Jack Tunney and says it will be his fault for what he does to Randy Savage. Savage cuts a great, wacky promo as well.'Macho Man' Randy Savage (W/Elizabeth) Vs Jake 'The Snake' RobertsSavage wins with the Flying Elbow drop. Afterwards, one of the best angles I've seen to this day occurs. Jake gives Savage three DDT's and absolutely tortures a distraught, Elizabeth. He ever goes as far as to strike her with a right hand. It's bone-chilling stuff that was ahead of its time. The match was very quick, but extremely intense and exciting while it lasted. The aftermath made up for everything and made Jake look like an absolute monster again.*** out of 5Jake Roberts says he got the best feeling of his life when he struck Elizabeth. He begs Savage to bring her out again so he can cultivate her. Wow. Jake was untouchable as a heel at this juncture. It's such a shame his run was wasted.The British Bulldog Vs The Warlord (W/Harvey Whippleman)The Bulldog wins with a crucifix. This was bloody awful and LONG. The Warlord's immobility really hampered this match in a huge way. It's even worse than their match at Wrestlemania 7, and I can't believe I'm saying that.* out of 5Sean Mooney is visibly perturbed by Randy Savage's intense promo. He cuts an over the top, yet tantalizing promo. Savage's specialty. Ted Dibiase & The Repo Man (W/Sensational Sheri) Vs Virgil & Tito SantanaDibiase and The Repo Man win. The match was OK, but the finish was awfully anticlimactic. The match didn't feel that important and is something you'd see on a Coliseum release or something.** out of 5Hulk Hogan cuts a promo on The Undertaker. It's solid, but nothing all that special.WWF ChampionshipThe Undertaker (C) Vs Hulk HoganHogan wins the title after throwing ashes in The Undertaker's face and scooping him up from behind with a roll-up. Well, this was a definite stinker, but it wasn't quite as bad as the abomination they had at Survivor Series. There was a tad more action this time around, but still way too much choking and way too many dull moments. It was also very sloppy at times. The Undertaker messed up a move and he even broke the ropes when he went to go run against them. Make no mistake about it, it was an ugly match, rendering The Undertaker's title win meaningless. He was protected, but still looked like crap.* out of 5Hogan's controversial title win would lead to the WWF title becoming vacant. The title would be up for grabs at the Royal Rumble in 92. Ric Flair would win the rumble and the title. Hogan was supposed to face Flair and win the title, but the lack of reaction and poor reviews at house shows changed all that. Overall, this is a pretty bad event. It was a "make money quick" type PPV after the Survivor Series PPV. It failed miserably. The only reason to see this is the stuff between Randy Savage and Jake Roberts.4.5/10
... View MoreThis was actually, in many ways, a better PPV than Survivor Series 1991. This is certainly true for match quality and the in-ring return of Randy Savage coupled with the Undertaker's shock title win over Hulk Hogan at SS gave this event a big time feel.There were an inordinate number of dark matches before the PPV section of the show started, this section lasted around 90 minutes.The Night kicked off with Bret Hart defeating Skinner to retain the WWE Championship. Hart was really starting to find his feet as a singles performer at this time and was starting to have good matches with everybody. Skinner here was no exception.Next up came the return of Randy Savage as he began a bitter rivalry with the now evil Jake Roberts. This was a good match, won by Savage in a nice finish. Macho Madness was back! Davey Boy Smith continued his strong singles run in the WWE with a win over The Warlord. This rivalry had been going on for a few months now and this was not an overly memorable chapter.Next up Ted DiBiase and Virgil continued their hostilities in a tag match. Virgil had been the slave of DiBiase for many years, but at the Royal Rumble earlier in the year Virgil had turned on DiBiase, knocking him out with his Million Dollar Belt. Virgil had then defeated DiBIase at Wrestlemania and won the Million Dollar Belt off DiBiase with a win at Summerslam. DIBiase got some payback here teaming up with the Repo Man to defeat Virgil and Tito Santana. This was quite an angle looking back on it.Finally we come to the Main Event, with Hulk Hogan cheating (!) throwing the ashes from Paul Bearer's urn into the Undertaker's face to help get the win and regain the WWE CHampionship. WWE President Jack Tunney was horrified with what he'd seen and stripped Hogan of the title, opting to put it up for grabs in the 1992 Royal Rumble.So there you have it, an entertaining night including a returning legend, a world title change, a successful IC Title defence and ending in controversy. All this in less than two hours! Under rated show. The night proved a failure, drawing a disappointing buyrate. It was 13 years before the WWE tried another PPV on Tuesday and almost two years before they tried another minor PPV. That is one that isn't part of the "Big Four" of the Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, Summerslam and Survivor Series.
... View MoreThis was an underrated card. MOTN had to go to Savage/Roberts(***1/2) It had excellent pyschology. And Roberts slapping Elizabeth(RIP) was denifitely too hot for T.V. Undertaker losing to Hogan was also pretty cool.Recommended.
... View MoreThe Tuesday in Texas was a great event, the way a wrestling event should be. It had five matches on it which were all good. Over the years wrestling promoters felt the need to cram a supercard with dozens of matches which resulted in some pretty poor and meaningless matches. Tuesday in Texas took the better route-a few good matches rather than dozens of pointless matches.Fantastic technical wrestler Bret Hart had a very good match with Skinner. The late British Bulldog battled fellow muscleman The Warlord in a powerful encounter. El Matador and Virgil had an exciting tag team encounter against Ted DiBiase and Repo Man. And the despicable Jake "The Snake" Roberts had a heated match with Randy Savage where Savage's wife Elizabeth got involved.(SPOILER AHEAD)The main event was great-Hulk Hogan regained his WWF Title from the evil Undertaker in a great match. One week earlier Hogan had been cheated out of the WWF Title by the Undertaker so it was great to see Hulkamania rule again.
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