Liz must choose between Savage and Hogan tonight! And that's all that gets hyped in the intro.
From Hershey, Penn.
"Mean" Gene Okerlund talks to Ravishing Rick Rude and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. Rude faces
Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake tonight. "You know about lousy-looking haircuts," Heenan says to Gene. Rude says a rude awakening will occur if Beefcake tries to use the sleeper on him.
Rick Rude vs. Brutus Beefcake- Brutus tells Gene Rude has no body, and by that he means Rude's hair. Brutus shakes his booty at Rude, much to his chagrin. Tie-up ,as Jesse notes the Ultimate Warrior's visage on the back of Rude's tights. Brutus gets a baaaack bodydrop, and punches in the corner. Brutus gets a sleeper, and rams Rude into the corner.Brutus rams Rude's head in another corner, like it's a strap match. Rude finally gets an atomic drop to take control. Rude hits a forearm, and knees Brutus's midsection coming off the ropes. He then gives Brutus his own turnbuckle medicine, according to Jesse. Snap suplex gets two. Rude gets a sleeper on the mat. Brutus elbows out but Rude locks it back on. Now Andre the Giant lumbers out, as Brutus kind-of Stone Cold Stuns Rude to escape. Brutus gestures at Andre, ducks a clothesline and gets an atomic drop on Rude. Rude tosses him out, and Andre butt-drops Brutus and chokes him on the floor. Jake the Snake Roberts then comes out with Damian in the bag, and Rude and Roberts brawl into the ring for a DQ. **1/4 Andre holds Roberts for some blows, until Beefcake evens things up. Andre chokes Jake in the ropes, but Brutus clotheslines Rude over the top. Beefer's blows get no-sold by Andre, who chokes Brutus until Big John Studd (!) makes a rare appearance. The giants stare each other down, until Andre flips over the top to escape Damian. Studd was back as a face and feuding with Andre. He refereed the Roberts-Andre match at Mania V, but soon disappeared because of his declining health. His face run was so short that appearances such as these are quite the rarity.
Jesse discusses Bad News Brown's assertion that Liz has given WWF president Jack Tunney "favors" to help Savage's career.
Hulk Hogan vs. Bad News Brown- I prefer to receive my Bad News from Wade Barrett, but YMMV. Gene talks to Hulk and Liz. Hogan tells Gene to "shut up," and not repeat those filthy lies. Savage putting Liz in the middle to destroy the Mega Powers is what hurt her the most, Hulk says. Hulk, chivalrous as always, is going to do what Savage couldn't do, and stick up for her vs. Brown. Seriously, what a dick. Has Hulk not seen that awesome Savage-Brown street fight from one of the "Best of the WWF" tapes? There is also a weird sound issue with this episode on the Network; i've had to turn it way down because of distortion. Bad News attacks to begin. Bad boot chokes Hogan on the mat. A thrust to the throat drops Chump Hogan, but Lust Hogan avoids two elbowdrops and Hulks Up. He hits a right hand off of the ropes, and Bad goes out, and Hogan attacks him. He pulls on the top rope to fling him back in, and shoulderblocks him down. An axe bomber drops BNB, and Hogan drops elbows. Hulk hits a big boot to drop Bad, but he pulls the heel up by his goatee. Hulk rams his head to the buckle, Bad no sells and headbutts Hogan. BNB whips him to the corner but eatst a boot. Atomic drop sends Bad outside. Hogan follows him, an rams Bad's head into the railing. They brawl outside,and bad whips him to the post. Bad misses a punch and hits the post, then grabs a chair. Hogan blocks the chair and hits bad with it. Brown rams it to his own head, as Jesse notes it had no effect on him. BNB tells Hogan to wait right there, and walks to the back. Joey Marella starts counting him out but Hogan stops him. Bad then comes back with a big shovel. Hogan blocks the object, and sends Bad back in. He whips Bad to the corner and gets clotheslined. He rams Hogan's head to the mat, and continues the beating. BNB slams Hogan, and drops a leg. He then kicks Hogan in the gut, and he falls outside. Bad menaces Liz, and Hogan catches him but gets posted. Back in, Bad gets a Russian legsweep for two. Bad gets the house mic, and says "Look at your hero!" He calls for the ghetto blaster, but misses. Hulk engages the Hulk Up sequence. He hits a high knee and drops the leg. **1/2. Liz then claps along as Hogan poses, and even cups her ear.
We see Randy Savage pacing outside of Liz's dressing room.
Ted Dibiase shows off the Million Dollar Belt to Okerlund. Gene says Jack Tunney and the WWF has not sanctioned the belt. He will face "shining star" Blue Blazer, who Ted says will fall and he'll be there for the three count.
Gene calls Liz out to the interview podium. Gene asks her are you going to be in Hulk's corner, or Macho Man's corner? It's the hardest decision she's ever had to make in her life. She cares for both men. She says "no" about being in Hogan's corner, and Macho Man comes out esctatic about what he thinks that means. She of course says she's not going to be in Savage's corner, either. Hulk comes out, and threatens to take the title at WMV. God Hogan was such a heel in this story, compared to Macho as a face. He even made sure to call Liz "his manager."
Gene talks to the Brain Busters. Arn Anderson is apparently the power guy in the group. I guessssss. Gene also said the Rude match was strike 1 against Bobby for the night.
The Brain Busters vs. The Rockers- Marty Jannetty tells Gene "when we're good, we're good; when we're bad, we're better." I'll let the reader make their own Marty joke. As I paused this video I noticed a fan in the front row wearing a WWF trucker hat, plaid shirt and suspenders. Vladimir, this guy ain't. Arn and Tully attack to start. Tully tries a slingshot but Marty gets out of it. Marty tries a sunset flip on Blanchard (no relation), and HBK hits Tully with a bodypress. The Rockers do-si-do when they're whipped together, and dropkick the Busters out of the ring. Arn forearms Shawn and heads up top, but Michaels kips up and slams Double A off. Michaels gets a Boston Crab, Tully jumps off of the top but Michaels hits him in the belly-welly (TM Dusty Rhodes, R.I.P.). Jannetty cuts him off, and the Rockers duck blows and superkick the Busters out of hte ring. Shawn suplexes Tully back in, and hiptosses him out of the corner. He hits a flying headscissors, and Power Man Arn000 is in. Arn gets a shoulderblock, but HBK gets a drop toehold. Arn kicks Shawn in the gut coming off the ropes, and he tags Tully. Heenan pulls the top rope down as Shawn hits it, and Michaels hits the floor. Jannetty comes over, but while the ref argues with him Heenan takes some cheaps shots. Heenan then gets thrown out by the ref. After a break, we see Marty pulling Tully in by the head. They slug it out, and Tully tags Arn while up for an atomic drop. Marty clotheslines Tully, but Arn takes off his head. Go ahead and celebrate, other Marty; you deserve it. Arn whips Jannetty into Tully's knee. Tully rakes his eyes across the top rope. Marty gets a sunset flip, but Arn gets tagged and cuts off Marty tagging HBK. With Marty outside Tully axehandles his back. Jannetty gets a sunset flip on Arn, broken up by Tully. Blanchard and Jannettty get a series of reversals, but Jannetty still can't tag Shawn. Arn rakes his laces on Marty's face, and gives him a HUGE spinebuster. HBK breaks that up. Arn gives him a bodyslam, but a Vader bomb hits knees. Shawn finally gets tagged in, and fires away on both busters. He dropkicks Arn, then knocks noggins. Tully sunset flips Shawn for two, and the brawl spills outside. Shawn alley-oops Tully onto Arn, and both teams get counted out. I think we have our first **** SNME match, folks! Rockers doubledropkick Arn, and dropkick Tully out, too. Each Buster gets dropkicked off of the apron as well. I love that in 1989 the WWF had the AWA (Rockers), Crockett (Busters) and WWF (Demolition) tag team champs from, let's say February 1988.
We flash back to the last SNME, where The Red Rooster turned on Heenan. Then we see the Primetime incident when the Brooklyn Brawler ebuts, and HOLY SHIT HE HIT GORILLA WITH A STOOL! I didn't remember that. Heenan said the Brawler is a "bigger, better nobody" than Rooster is.
Brooklyn Brawler vs. The Red Rooster- It may be hard to wrap your brain around Bobby Heenan managing the Brooklyn Brawler if you didn't watch back then, but this is how Steve Lombardi got that gimmick. It's always worth trying stuff like that; you just never know what will catch on. Brawler slaps Rooster around to begin. He rakes at Terry's eyes, as Bobby is mic'ed again. Taylor hits a dropkick and a hiptoss. Taylor rolls up the Brawler coming off of the ropes for the win. * Taylor gestures at Heenan while acting like a chicken. The Brawler of course clotheslines him from behind. McMahon calls it strike three of the night, though really Rockers-Busters was a draw. Jesse counters that Bobby got three hits tonight, so he's batting. 1000. I’m not sure these guys understand batting averages. Brawler attacked Rooster with Heenan, but the chicken ran them off.
Savage tells Gene he doesn't need anyone; he's the champion.
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