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Vince McMahon, Roddy Piper, and Randy Savage are in the booth, broadcasting again from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. McMahon’s back is sore from last week as he winces when Savage slaps it. Piper promises to put Ric Flair in the obituary section when he catches up to him.
Non-Title Match: The Legion of Doom (WWF Tag Team Champions) (16-0) defeat Brian Donahue & Mike Fury when Hawk pins Donahue after the Doomsday Device at 2:52:
Piper is incensed when McMahon tells him that last week he would have faced major consequences if he had fought Flair, even after Flair touched him. Savage jumps in and tells Piper he knows how he feels because he cannot do anything by order of WWF President Jack Tunney either. In the split screen, the Natural Disasters and Jimmy Hart tell the Legion that their feud is not just for the tag team titles but the Legion’s lives. That cuts the Nasty Boys out as a third wheel in the program. The Legion dominate another pair of jobbers, popping the crowd with the Doomsday Device. Savage wonders, though, if the Legion can do that to the Disasters.
Gene Okerlund’s Update segment recaps the end of last week’s episode and scuffle between Piper and Flair. Flair and Bobby Heenan do a taped promo where they dare Piper to do something if he does not like the way he has been treated.
The Berzerker (w/Mr. Fuji) (23-0) defeats Scott Taylor via count out at 3:09:
Taylor began working in 1989 in the Northeast, mostly for the Massachusetts-based New England Wrestling. Phil Apollo helped him get an enhancement gig with the WWF and at the time of this squash he was still in high school. Taylor would go on to fame in the WWF’s Attitude Era as Scotty 2 Hotty.
In the split screen, the Berzerker screams about how only Fuji can control him and he likes breaking bones. The Berzerker jaws a lot with Fuji during the squash and methodically dissects Taylor, tossing the youngster over the top rope to remain undefeated. For some reason, Piper is not happy with the effort Taylor showed here, arguing that he could have done more to fight back against his bigger opponent.
Virgil (16-0) beats Mike Williams via submission to the Million Dollar Dream at 2:08:
Even though he is leaning more into becoming a babyface, Savage needles Piper about how he knows someone else that has a belt like the Million Dollar Championship. In the split screen, Ted DiBiase and Sensational Sherri talk about how Virgil needs to take care of the title because they want it back in its original form. Virgil is getting better in the ring as a singles act, figuring out a sequence of moves he can use in squashes to look good to fans and keep them engaged. In this one, he does a pescado and swinging neckbreaker to set up the Million Dollar Dream.
Irwin R. Schyster (16-1-2) pins Jim Powers after the Write Off at 2:27:
Powers gives as good as he gets for most of the squash, prompting Piper to say that Scott Taylor should learn a thing or two from the match. When Powers tries to comeback a second time after an abdominal stretch spot, IRS wisely decides to finish things with the Write Off and call it a day.
It is announced that WrestleMania VIII will take place Indianapolis, Indiana at the Hoosier Dome on April 5.
Sid Justice is this week’s guest on the Funeral Parlor. Bearer warns Sid that it is only a matter of time before a snake bites him. Sid yells about how he smells something rotten, arguing that it is the smell of Jake Roberts. He promises that justice will be served, and Roberts will end up back in hell.
The Nasty Boys (w/Jimmy Hart) (20-3) beat Kerry Davis & Bob Wiseman when Jerry Sags pins Wiseman after the Trip to Nastyville at 3:11:
Even though the Nasties have been a staple of the WWF’s programming for close to a year, McMahon still fails to get their names right. This is just a standard Nasty squash, providing nothing that the audience has not already seen.
The third Tito Santana vignette sees him practice stabbing a fake bull, something that he says will take endless hours of practice.
Sergeant Slaughter appears at Arlington National Cemetery, lamenting that he cannot take one of the places of the soldiers buried there because they never turned their back on the United States. He says he is at Arlington to ask for their forgiveness and restates his desire to have his country back.
The Dragon (22-0) pins Mike Durham after the flying body press at 2:38:
In the split screen, Skinner says he will stomp out the Dragon’s fire and skin him alive. Skinner is winning this feud going away on the mic. The Dragon goes through the motions to win as McMahon prefers to talk more about the next episode of Prime Time Wrestling.
Tune in next week to see Jim Neidhart, Jake Roberts, and the Big Bossman in action! Also, there will be a special interview with Ric Flair and the main event of Survivor Series will be announced!
The Last Word: It seemed weird that Vince McMahon was back to his announcing gig so soon after last week. He conceded during the show that he needed a back brace following Roddy Piper’s chair shot but in this era taking those types of blows, especially for a non-wrestler, would typically put that person out of action for a few weeks. Next week’s episode will be the beginning of the push toward Survivor Series. For fans who were not reading Dave Meltzer’s Observer the likely main event seemed to be Hulk Hogan against Ric Flair or at least having each man captain opposing teams to fit the pay-per-view’s gimmick. The Sergeant Slaughter segment went beyond hyperbole to sell his babyface turn, notably the bits of wanting to be dead rather than live with having been an Iraqi sympathizer during the Gulf War. As stated before, taking Slaughter off television for a longer period of time would have helped rehabilitate him more than these silly vignettes.
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