WWF 95

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Wrestlezine Raw Report - 26th June 95

With the main emphasis of last night and probably tonight being Summerslam, we have to put up with Vincent and James and ringside, giving their thoughts on Crush being King, and Cornette's mystery hitman

Straight into the mixer with The Uprising in tag team action against The Smoking Gunns. Maybe their feud with the corperation is over. God I hope it is, and I can't wait for Roma to be finished with them. Anyway, JR and VM discuss the methodical nature of the Uprising, after putting The Hardy Boys out of action. Entertaining finish to this one saw the Uprising put Bart in the tree of woe position in the corner, and he was stuck. The Uprising put the boots to Billy and finished him off with a double DDT. The heel duo then lifted Billy up and Frankie Lancaster stood on the apron. They signalled for something, as Casey lifted Billy on to Lancaster, and they looked like they would slam Billy Gunn through the announce table. Out of nowhere The Hardy Boys made their return and The Uprising fled, looking shocked that Matt and Jeff were back

Undertaker comes out and he isn't happy. He calls out Diesel who doesn't respond. Taker says that he thought Diesel was scared, but running and hiding is just pathetic. Ouch. He then heads off to look for Diesel

Bret Hart was backstage as Pettingal tried to get his thoughts on last night. He revealed that he knew the man who assaulted him, and told him that if he ever wants to settle what they started before, then just ask, Bret's not scared. But he could of at least said a name

Virgil emerges next to modest pops, and Glenn Jacobs comes out, accompanied of course by Shawn Michaels, who holds his back. He even has to have his own seat at ringside. Basic squash here in Jacobs favour, which means I like the new direction they are taking with Virgil. Jacobs hit a big boot, and then followed it up with the chokeslam. He weren't finished there though, as he lifted Virgil up and slammed him down with a powerbomb for the 3 count. As the bell sounds, Michaels slides in and gets Jacobs to hold Virgil, and we listen to some Sweet Chin Music. Virgil is out as Michaels and Jacobs stand over him victorious

JR and Vince remind us to have our say on wwf.com as to whether multiple arenas should be used for Mania XII.

We come back and Dok Hendrix is in the ring, which has red carpet in, and a throne with other goodies. Hendrix introduces our new king, King Crush. That has absolutely no ring whatsoever. Crush comes out and says that he's been proving it for months. He proved to Raven, Luger, Bulldog, Ramon, Undertaker, Adam Bomb and everyone else who has crossed him that he is not to be messed with. He says that at Summerslam he will go on and realise his destiny when he wins the WWF World Title, and to prove that he is not messing around, he reveals that he has arranged a special match at In Your House III to prove that he's serious, when he takes on 500lb Mabel. Good God no, Mabel on a PPV? He ends the interview by telling Luger that they have unfinished business, and that will be sorted next week. He leaves with his robes and septors

Razor Ramon makes his first defence of his newly won Intercontinental Title as he takes on the dangerous, the talented, the future of the WWF, Pierre Oulette. Okay, I'm just trying to help Pierre get a reaction from the crowd. Ramon does a beatdown, damn, two squashes so far? Throwaway slam by the Bad Guy, and we know what's coming next. He lifts Oulette up and drops him with the Razors Edge, 1, 2, 3. Owen Hart then runs out and assaults Razor with the a chair, he picks the title up and claims that it's still his belt

The action keeps coming here, as Raven takes on King Kong Bundy. If you want Raven to look talented, Bundy would of been the answer 10 years ago. Screw that, Bundys always sucked. Raven takes the piss early on as he uses his pace to get away from the aerodynamic King Kong Bundy. Bulldog takes Bundy down and we have a beatdown. Evenflow DDT in a short and shit match for Raven, to take the 3 count. Raven celebrates as we are told he could be the next champ.

Jim Cornette is in the ring alongside Jimmy Del Ray and Sean Waltman. This had better be could, otherwise Tom Pritchard might complain. He tells us Yokozuna will face KOTR runner up Chris Candido tonight. Another squash? He introduces us to his new man, the man who was trained in the dungeon, but due to family favoritism graduated years after Neidhart, and Bulldog, and Owen, and Bret. The new man is introduced as Camp Cornette's hired hitman, Andy Martin. Martin comes out to huge boos as he gets into the ring and get appaulded, by the heels anyway. In only a few words, he tells Hart that he's going down. Don't worry Andy, you've got a good manager for that.

Paul Dibease is now taking on Chris Hero, so barring the opener, they're all squashes tonight. Steve Corino and Uncle Ted are in Paul's corner, and they do all the distracting so that the cold, calculated Dibease (Paul) can take apart the young up-and-comer. Sleeper by Dibease but Hero powers out at two arm drops. Dibease takes him down with a sleeper drop anyway, and beats him down with a knee lift. Million Dollar Dream is applied and Hero quickly taps. 3 on 1 beat down continues, until Paul Roma runs out. Paul Dibease fights as Corino and Ted flee, but Roma hits a swinging DDT to Paul Dibease (The Romabout according to JR). He then points at Corino and tells him that he's going to get him

Backstage, we see the door to the Camp Cornette locker room. Diesel walks up to it, and enters. Oh the suspense.

And now the big main event, as Yokozuna is out alone. The music of Chris Candido hits, and he walks out, but from behind comes Diesel with a clothesline. Powerbomb in the aisle, and he slides him in for Yokozuna to drop the Banzai. The rest of Camp Cornette comes out, and Andy Martin finishes the assault of with a Gut wrench Powerbomb. Diesel shakes Cornette's hand that's it for another week.

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Wrestlezine Wrestling End of Month Report

Pro Wrestling NOAH have confirmed their touring roster for the next 12 months, it is as followed:

Bobby Blaze

Dave Taylor

Eddie Gilbert

Five Star Flash

Gary Steele

JC Ice

John Hawk

Johnny Gunn

Kevin Sullivan

Man Mountain Rock

Matt Anao'i

Mikey Whipwreck

Rod Price

Skull Von Crush

Vampire Warrior

Shows for NOAH commence August 1st

WCW will debut their new show next week on NBC next Friday night at a late evening slot, the show is projected to be called WCW Friday night

In WCW, Meng and Stevie Ray both have just 3 months remaining on their contracts. No news on if they are to be offered new ones

In the WWF, Mabel and The Undertaker have 3 months remaining. Undertaker has been offered and accepted a new 2 year deal, no word on Mabel yet.

Tom Pritchard will be returning to the WWF active roster shortly

The WWF have confirmed that they have successfully signed a top member of WCW on a high salary contract. No word or hint as to who, but we will soon find out

The WWF also have several workers from their OVW training center ready to emerge. Some will be making their debut on Superstars this week, including the young duo of Yoshihiro Tajiri and Juventud Guerrera, who will compete under the name of 'Los Luchadores', and 'The Highlight' Billy Reil will also make his debut. Jerry Lynn and Eddie Guerrero will also wrestle singles matches

Seone has been fired, and Fatu may receive a minor push

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In Your House III Card

The latest card for WWF In Your House III, live on Pay Per View from the Mecca arena in Milwaukee.

WWF World Title Match

Bret Hart © Vs Andrew Martin

Crush Vs Mabel

Rumored Matches:

Owen Hart Vs Razor Ramon

Steve Corino or Paul Dibease Vs Paul Roma

Diesel Vs Undertaker

The Uprising Vs The Hardy Boys

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Superstars Report

The typical talk to take us into the opener on Superstars, as Bob Holly takes on Jerry Lynn. Lynn was impressive last week, and he now has a towel around his shoulders. He is starting to become like Mr Perfect. Hey, I heard rumors that the WWF had made a huge coup from WCW... Anyway, a stellar encounter between these two highly talented workers, Lynn especially looked good, and hit the move of the match with a release German suplex from the middle rope, but the cover only scored two. To his credit, Bob Holly did fight back, and signalled for the pole position, but Lynn flipped over the top and hit a bulldog to Holly. Lynn rolls him on to his stomach and locks in the camel clutch for the tap out win. Post match, Lynn lays a beating on to Holly before raising his arms in the air to huge jeers

Video hype for the upcoming Crush and Lex Luger match on Raw. Crush needs to go over clean if we are to believe that he has a chance at winning at Summerslam

Now Razor Ramon is backstage with Dok, and we have Razors thoughts on his amazing ladder match win and being sneak attacked on Raw by Owen Hart. Razor don't act bothered though, if Owen wants something, all he has to do is ask. REMATCH!

The second match saw a local tag team square up against Los Luchadores, also known as Juventud Guerrera and Yoshihiro Tajiri. Juvi in particular looks like he can be a star. The other teams names are mentioned as Ace and Storm. No boldening there, jobbers don't deserve it. Then again, why does Virgil get boldened. The Luchas look very impressive and hit simultaneous planchas to the jobbers to a huge reception from the crowd. The finish to this short and quick match sees Tajiri hit a huge karate kick to the back of Ace's head, and then Guerrera leaps from the top with a 450 splash. The duo then celebrate and head backstage victorious

In a pre-recorded segment, Shawn Michaels and Glenn Jacobs are discussing something. Michaels keeps saying that he's been in the industry to know that it will work, and that it will be their time. Contraversial

As Paul Roma enters for his singles match, we are told that he will face Paul Dibease at In Your House and at Summerslam, Roma gets to face Steve Corino. Oh but theres more, at IYH, the winner decides the stipulation for the match at Summerslam. Confused? Hey, at least you don't have to write about it. Anyway, the opponent tonight is Jimmy Del Ray. Isn't Tom Pritchard back from suspension? Anyway, short match here, with Del Ray attempting the superkick. Roma ducks it and we have a small package for 2. Roma awaits for Jimmy to raise, and slams him back down with a Romabout for the 3 count. Roma then raises his hands, as the hype for his 2 big matches continue

Billy Reil is now making his debut, and he is dubbed the highlight. I'll be the judge there. The opponent is, oh, a jobber. Something Lopez, either way it isn't important. Reil dominates the match with dropkicks and saults and flips, all that stuff that looks impressive. Spear out of the corner by Reil and he signals for something. Big slam follows it up, similar to the Bossman slam and it gets 3. Vince calls the move the Reil Thing, and it reilly did win him the match. Ok, I'll stop the puns.

Bret Hart is in a pre-recorded interview, basically calling Andy Martin a 'whiny little bitch'. That's got to hurt. He'll show Martin at IYH why he is better than him, why he the best there is, was, ever will be. You know, usually Hitman interview.

Eddie Guerrero is next in action against Adam Bomb. Wonder where Bomb has been recently. He's lost a bit of weight anyway, and dominates Eddie in the early going. Eddie ducks the clothesline and his crucifix pin attempt gets 2. He waits for Adam Bomb to get up and charges with a spear. It gets side stepped by the man from 8 mile island or whatever the hell it is. Adam Bomb hits a superkick and lifts Eddie up. He signals for the Meltdown, but Eddie rolls him up. HE HAS THE TIGHTS DAMNIT screams McMahon as Eddie scores another tainted victory, and quickly gets out of dodge

A poor quality video replays the events of Raw involving Undertaker, Diesel and Yokozuna. Why did Diesel hype Yoko?

Now it's the main event, as Owen Hart takes on... Virgil. VIRGILMANIA RUNS WILD ON SUPERSTARS as Owen Hart actually carries him to a decent match. Owen counters the Virgil hammerlock, and takes his head off with the enzurghi. He continues the momentum, before locking in the Sharpshooter victory as Virgil taps out frantically. As Owen releases it, he does the typical 'I want the belt' motion as Superstars closes for another week

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Wrestlezine Raw Report - 3rd July 95

Under 3 weeks until another meaningless PPV to set up Summerslam, we are hyped up tonight about the main event of Crush and Lex Luger. Should be fun. I hope

The highly impressive Los Luchadores are set to open things up here in a match with Furnas and Lafon, also known as the Can-Am Express. A decent match, not as good as the one on Superstars, but Doug Furnas let it down with his inability to sell. He never even went down when Yoshihiro Tajiri planchaed over the top rope on to him. Instead he just staggered about, but Yoshihiro took him down with a stiff looking kick to the back of the head. Tajiri went back into the ring and drill Lafon with an enzurghi. Juventud went to the top rope and splashed down with a 450 splash, and cover Lafon for the win. Los Luchadores headed back up the ramp, undefeated in action so far

The Undertaker comes to the ring, and demands Diesel come out and stop running coward. Diesel does just that this week, but stops on the ramp. Taker simply rolls his eyes into his head as Diesel has a mic. He shows Taker footage of him laying out Chris Candido last week, and tells Taker he wants none of that. Taker nods, saying that Diesel can't run scared forever. Diesel reminds us of what happened last week, and that Undertaker has already had a shot at Big Daddy Cool. However, Taker has to now earn his shot, and seeing as Big D helped Jim Cornette last week, Cornette will now help him and at IYH 3, Undertaker will take on Yokozuna and if Taker wins, he gets at Summerslam. Meh, it's believeable

Razor Ramon is watching the show on a monitor when Owen Hart attacks him from behind. Owen quickly locks on the sharpshooter and Ramon is out cold. He challenges Razor to a rematch at IYH3, seeing as Owen has an automatic rematch clause in his contract, Razor has no choice. Owen proceeds to tell Razor that Ramon never beat him for the belt, he beat Michaels. You go girlfriend

Jerry Lynn is next out, this week with his hair in a ponytail as the WWF try more and more to emulate Mr Perfect. WHERES THE GUM? According to JR, Lynn is about to take on his most dangerous opponent to date, as he takes on Virgil. This guy is God. Virge charges in with a spear and hammers away. Lynn gets taken aback by this and resorts to the chop block to bring Virgil out of it. Figure Four sees Virgil get to the ropes. Virgil powers back, and ducks the clothesline. He tries to hit the cross arm bar then but a kick to the gut, and Lynn hits a Cradle DDT. Lynn could make the cover but locks in the Camel Clutch as Virgil screams he quits. Lynn eventually releases the hold, and stands with his arm raised in victory. He uses the towel to wipe a bit of sweat and heads backstage...

Where Bret 'Hitman' Hart is in a pre-recorded interview. Same sort of thing as Superstars. He'll prove he's better, best there is, yadda yadda yadda until Jim Cornette shows up. Hart argues, when from behind comes Sean Waltman, Andy Martin and The Heavenly Bodies. Corny tells Bret that he better watch carefully, as Andy Martin makes his in ring debut to show off what he is truly capable off

Waltman is soon at ringside though, for his match against Raven. This should be good. Waltman with a headlock, but it's countered. Arm bar gets countered and it seems whatever Waltman does, Raven counters it. Raven takes advantage and wears Waltman down with a bear hug. A rake of the eyes causes the release and Waltman now gains control. He misses the karate kick, but calls for the face crusher, which JR calls the Date with Destiny. Raven pushes his way out of it and a boot to the gut. He signals for an Evenflow DDT but Waltman hits a blatant low blow for the DQ. Waltman stands over Raven and begins telling Raven not to mess with Camp Cornette

Fatu makes his return here against Billy Reil. It will be interesting to see who goes over here, with rumors of both men getting a push. Fatu is now in just black tights and black boots, but does look a lot cleaner. Reil looks like a star in the making, and he goes on the attack with dropkicks and the such. Fatu powers his way back into the match with a huge headbutt, and then a big side kick. He heads up to the top and finishes the short match off with a diving headbutt. Fatu stands over Reil yelling something about it being his time

The Uprising head out, and they're confident that The Hardy Boys no longer want nothing to do with them. They are the best the tag team division has to offer, blah blah blah, and the inevitable run-in by the faces sees a tag brawl break out. Clothesline over the top to Lancaster and a dropkick sees Casey scamper up the ramp. They head backstage when Matt grabs a mic and tells them that they will have their revenge in a tag match at In Your House III. Matches coming out from everywhere tonight

Andy Martin comes out with Jim Cornette to squash Johnny Swinger. The match just lasted over a minute, with Martin hitting a big boot, side walk slam and a big gutwrench powerbomb, which Cornette (on commentry) calls the exclusion. Cornette gets into the ring and raises Martins hand, and Martin does the world famous 'I want the belt' motion around his waist

WWF President Sgt. Slaughter makes his way out to the ring to a huge pop. The prez is here, this has got to be good. He tells us that he has been in the industry for nearly 20 years, in various feds. He went on to the WWF where we hear his life story. He gets to his point in that eventually, everyone has to retire and he's here to call it a day on his career. As far as the next president goes, he's open for applications but has two strong candidates in mind. Viva Guerrero shouts over the PA system and some generic music plays, as Eddie Guerrero comes out. He tells Serge to stop looking, because Eddie should be President. He's been overlooked enough by Slaughter, and now it's his chance to go straight to the top. Slaughter says that the President needs to be fair, that's why he can't let a cheater like Eddie take over. In Slaughters day, people like Eddie were sent to a boot camp and learned proper morals and understandings. Eddie then challenges Slaughter to a match with extra conditions. If Eddie wins, then he gets to pick the new president, if Slaughter wins his last match, then Sergeant Slaughter, Sgt. I just sunk the titanic with my chin, gets to pick the president. Slaughter accepts, but gets cheapshotted by Guerrero to mega heat. Guerrero heads backstage quickly, as we prepare for the main event

As Crush takes on Lex Luger, who's accompanied by co tag champion British Bulldog. Bulldog just watches as we have a disappointing main event, thanks to Luger. A brawl hits half way through the match, and Crush signals for the heart punch. Luger ducks and applies the torture rack. On the outside, Shawn Michaels and Glenn Jacobs run out and begin assaulting British Bulldog. Luger drops Crush and begins screaming at the heels. Lex turns back around, straight into a heart punch for the 3. Crush don't celebrate though, and instead hits another. Michaels and Jacobs run in and Jacobs powerbombs Luger to the mat. Michaels and Jacobs tell Luger that they want a tag team title shot, and Luger has until next week to answer. Crush then screams at the camera that he will win the title at Summerslam

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Superstars Recap

Bob Holly opens up Superstars this week in singles action against Pierre Oulette. I wonder if either of these is in line for a push. Holly looked far more impressive here and lifted Oulette up, and dropped him with the Pole Position

We see a video of Paul Roma going through the Million Dollar Corperation, and it asks the question, is Paul Dibease next

Another video, this time concerning the Undertaker/Diesel/Yokozuna program from Raw last week

The Heavenly Bodies are next in action to take on Los Luchadores. VERY good match followed. Yoshihiro ducked a double side kick attempt by the Bodies, and Guerrera took them down with a crossbody. Tajiri with a leg drop and Juventud took the win with the 450 splash on Tom Pritchard (of course) for the win

Camp Cornette are backstage, and they warn Bret Hart that Andy Martin will win the belt at IYH. Whatever

Another video, now hyping up the Wrestlemania Rematch between Owen Hart and Razor Ramon

Mo takes on Jerry Lynn now, and this was a decent match, by Mo's standards. Most of the hype on the match at IYH between Crush and Mabel. Lynn made Mo tap out with the camel clutch and remains undefeated

A video reminding us that The Allied Powers will answer the challenge by Michaels and Jacobs this week on Raw

Fatu takes on Adam Bomb in a dreadful affair. This one went for nearly 5 minutes, which was 4 minutes too long. Fatu won the match following the diving headbutt

Bret Hart does a pre-recorded interview reminds us why he is the champ

Main event sees Bam Bam, Tatanka and Kama take on Chris Candido, Hakushi and Billy Reil. After making the KOTR final, Candido is now a jobber. Decent match with the heels grounding Hakushi. Hot tag to Candido cleans house, but Kama drills him with the supreme driver for the victory.

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