WWF Monday Night Raw March 22, 1993. Shown live on USA from the Manhattan
Center in New York City, New York.
Vince McMahon, Randy Savage and Rob Bartlett welcome us.
We go to clips from the Michael Landon Awards from last Monday narrated by Sean
Mooney. We get comments from celebrity’s such
as Cindy Crawford and Leslie
Nielson. Hulk Hogan then gets on the stage. He says that the reason the WWF
travel all over the world
is because of the children. He then introduces his
“good friend and boss”, Vince McMahon, to present him with the
Michael Landon
Award of Honor. Vince enters the stage to the Rocky theme. Vince is very happy
to accept the award but says
he is not worthy of it. Vince says he salutes the
WWF superstars.
Raw intro video.
Back to the announcers. Tonight, Damien Demento and Repo Man vs. the Bushwackers,
Kamala vs. Doink The Clown, Money Inc in action
and Tatanka in action.
Match: Repo Man & Damien Demento vs. The Bushwackers (Luke & Butch).
The Bushwackers come from the balcony. Introductions are made as we go to break.
Commercial break.
We are back, the Bushwackers are still entering the ring. Luke falls down over
the guardrail. Vince mentions that next Sunday night,
USA will have a special
known as March To Wrestle Mania (a replay will be shown in place of Raw next
week). Vince says the Bushwackers
are from the land down under (even though they
are from New Zealand, not Australia. Or is New Zealand the land down under
also?).
The Bushwackers clothesline both Repo and Demento out of the ring early
on. Savage says he will face Yokozuna at the March To Wrestle Mania.
The Bushwackers eventually win after Repo Man falls victim to the battering ram.
This would be Barry Darsow’s final WWF appearance
until the Gimmick Battle Royal
at Wrestle Mania 17.
Tatanka is next.
Commercial break.
Match: Tatanka vs. Reno Riggins.
Riggins attacks Tatanka from behind while he is removing his necklace. Savage
says he hopes Tatanka doesn’t turn his back on Shawn Michaels
at Wrestle Mania.
Tatanka hit’s a back drop and it’s a squash fest from there until Tatanka puts
Riggins away with the Samoan drop.
We go to a video package of the late Andre The Giant. Andre becomes the first
inductee into the WWF Hall Of Fame.
Commercial break.
We are back. 3 actors from “One Life To Live” are shown in the crowd. I have
never heard of the show. I guess the announcers have not either
as Bartlett just
calls them Jason, Kevin and Billy.
Match: Money Inc (“Million Dollar Man” Ted Dibiase & IRS) vs. Scott Rich & Jeff
Armstrong.
Rich and Armstrong are 2 jobbers I have never heard of nor do I recognize.
Bartlett is shown channel surfing on a small TV during the match.
Total squash.
IRS pins Rich with the write off.
Its time for the Wrestle Mania 9 report with Gene Okerlund. In the main event,
Bret Hart defends the WWF Title against Yokozuna. Gene says
that this week on
Superstars and Wrestling Challenge, we will see the Bret Hart/Yokozuna contract
signing. Also, Money Inc defend the
WWF Tag Team Titles against the Mega
Maniacs. The Undertaker vs. Giant Gonzalez. Okerlund also reminds us that they
will have the
world’s largest toga party at Wrestle Mania, Gene recently got
his. The opening ceremony’s will include vestal virgins and belly dancers.
Gene
talks with Randy Savage. Savage will be riding in a sedan at Wrestle Mania.
Up next, Kamala vs. Doink The Clown.
Commercial break.
Match: Doink The Clown vs. Kamala (with the Reverend Slick).
Vince plugs the show Matrix, coming up after Raw. Doink is wearing a wig with
shorter hair than usual. Bartlett says he got a haircut.
Doink has a gift
wrapped present with him and sits it beside the turnbuckles. Doink takes the
early control, wearing Kamala down with an armbar.
Kamala finally breaks out as
we go to break.
Commercial break.
We are back and Kamala kicks Doink out of the ring. Kamala chases him and Doink
hands him the present. Kamala starts opening it to reveal
an empty box.
Meanwhile, Doink slides back into the ring to obtain the count out victory.
Doink crawls under the ring and Kamala goes under
after him. Doink then comes
out the other side and grabs a non folding chair. When Kamala sticks his head
out, Doink nails him with it.
Kamala eventually comes out and chases Doink to
the back.
Promo airs for WWF Mania. Bret Hart’s “respect” music video will premiere on
Mania this weekend.
When we return, the Rob Bartlett fan club.
Commercial break.
We are back. Vince mentions that Rob Bartlett won the 1993 Spam eating award. We
meet the Rob Bartlett fan club, they consist of 3 overweight
Raw girls. Bartlett
begins to make out with one of them and then wipes his mouth. Vince reminds us
about March To Wrestle Mania next Sunday.
It includes Randy Savage vs. Yokozuna
and Bam Bam Bigelow vs. the Undertaker. Also, an interview with the Mega Maniacs
and a midget
tag team match. No Raw next week as the March To Wrestle Mania
replay will air in its place.
Reviewed by Jim Bryan, jbryan21408@yahoo.com.