Connor McGrath
WWF Monday Night RAW
June 19th, 1995 (Taped June 5th, 1995)
From the Memorial Fieldhouse in Struthers, Ohio
Announcers: Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler
The Undertaker (with Paul Bearer) Vs Mike McReynolds
Vince McMahon tells us to not adjust our television sets! The Undertaker is coming out! And the SMELL is coming from Jerry Lawler’s feet. Lawler says he almost got arrested this afternoon for abusing his socks. His feet stink because he’s facing Bret Hart in six days at King of the Ring ’95 in a match where the loser kisses the winner’s feet. The Undertaker immediately mauls the jobber. He’s been more aggressive since Kama stole Paul Bearer’s urn and melted it down to make himself a dookie chain. The Undertaker is facing off against Mabel in a first round match at King of the Ring. He’ll get his hands of Kama if Undertaker wins his first round match and Kama wins his first round match against Shawn Michaels. The Undertaker wins with the Chokeslam and Tombstone. Vince McMahon is realistic saying Undertaker won’t be able to tombstone Mabel but he should be able to chokeslam him. McMahon is still disgusted by Lawler’s feet. The Undertaker does his old heel shtick of putting the jobber in a bodybag and stomping on him because Kama’s made him snap!
Vince McMahon hypes our main event between Sid & Tatanka and The New Headshrinkers plus we’ll get an exclusive interview with Sid & Tatanka’s opponents at King of the Ring, Diesel and Bam Bigelow. Lawler pulls out the model of the infected foot. Vince McMahon is APPALLED!
Todd Pettingell hypes the WWF Tour De Force! WWF is coming to; Dublin, Ireland! Birmingham, England! Royal Albert Hall in London! Kaimesha Lake, New York, and Baltimore, Maryland!
We get some footage of presidential candidate Bob Backlund destroying Man Mountain Rock’s guitar.
Man Mountain Rock says he doesn’t care what Backlund’s political platform is! He’s gonna get Backlund for wrecking his guitar!
Adam Bomb Vs Bill Payne
Vince McMahon wants Adam Bomb to drop a pesticide bomb on Jerry Lawler’s feet. HAH HAH HAH! Bill Payne looks kind of like current Matt Hardy with 1983 Michael Jackson’s haircut. Lawler’s on the cover of WWF Magazine this month. He says it’s been endorsed by the APA. Acolytes Protection Agency? No, five years too early for that! The American Pediatrist Association! Har har har! Adam Bomb wins with the flying clothesline.
Todd Pettingell, proud member of the Bomb Squad, is here with our King of the Ring report. He gives us a final rundown of the card. Todd razzes Lawler and the crowd heckles The King with Burger King chants. Lawler has another infected foot model. He pulls off some of their fake scabs and pushes one of the feet in Vince’s face. HOW DID WCW THINK THEY COULD COMPETE AGAINST THIS!? Todd Pettingell quotes Tom Petty and Elton John to hype the tournament. THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST KING OF THE RING EVER!
Before the main event, Barry Didinsky hypes the official DIESEL POWER t-shirt available for only $16 plus $3.95 shipping and handling! Call 1-800-TITAN-91. Hey, they don’t blur out that number. Maybe they got some of those Diesel Power t-shirts left.
Psycho Sid and Tatanka (with Ted DiBiase) Vs The New Headshrinkers
This is end of the line for the New Headshrinkers. Fatu would be repackaged shortly after this and Sionne would go back to his old name and head to WCW. Fatu displays some of his nifty dance moves after a flurry of offense on Tatanka. He then backs into SID and moonwalks to tag Sionne. SID sells a double headbutt in comical fashion. Speaking of absurd selling, Fatu does a 360 selling a SID clothesline. Impressive considering he’s a 300+ pound dude. Vince talks about how DIESEL and Lex Luger will be playing at a charity softball game in Oklahoma City with Troy Aikman, Barry Sanders, and Herschel Walker. Is that the real reason SID hated Diesel? Because he got to play in all of these charity softball games? SID powerbombs Fatu then powerbombs Sionne on the floor while DiBiase distracts the referee. The legal man Tatanka gets the pin. This match was a decent power match but it seemed way too competitive for a match between a team that’s main eventing the pay per view in six days and a team that’s literally having their last match in the company.
We see footage of SID injuring Diesel’s elbow at In Your House 1 and then Bam Bam Bigelow making the save for Big Daddy Cool.
Vince McMahon interviews Bam Bam Bigelow & Diesel via satellite from WWF Studios, both guys are wearing their own t-shirts. Whadda bunch of shills. Nice WWF ballcap on Diesel though. Bam Bam Bigelow accidentally slaps Diesel’s injured elbow. No wonder why the Clique hated him!
Jerry Lawler’s got some more EXCLUSIVE footage. Jerry Lawler is in his Dungeon of Doom Torture. None of these devices have anything on the torture that eight men will put themselves through to become an IMPOSTER King of Sunday Night. Lawler cuts a promo on Bret Hart.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley Vs Buck Quartermaine
Lawler says Helmsley is a man with a lot of class. So that’s how King is still on the commentary team. McMahon says Lawler has no class if he comes up with things like the Kiss My Feet match! Lawler cracks some more jokes about Bret Hart’s parents. The Pedigree makes its first of approximately a zillion appearances on RAW as Helmsley uses it to finish Quartermaine.
Vince McMahon mentions a recent WWF ad being reviewed by Siskel & Ebert. Siskel hated it and Ebert gave it a mild thumbs up. Vince guffaws and says being reviewed by them is like being reviewed by Beavis & Butthead. Lawler said Siskel’s opinion doesn’t matter because he gave thumbs up to Congo!
I’d rather watch Congo again than King of the Ring ’95…
Shawn Michaels Vs Gus Kantarrakis
Vince McMahon says the ladies love Shawn Michaels and the guys want to be him! Vince, stop hitting on HBK at work! Michaels mugs a lot in this match and hangs out in the crowd with the fans in the front row. Vince tells us to call the WWF Hotline to get an update on the injured Razor Ramon. They’re not sure if Da Bad Guy will be able to compete in The King of the Ring tournament. Michaels gets the win with the Sweet Chin Music and then boogies down for a bit. Uh oh! Kama comes out to attack HBK but HBK fights him off. The Undertaker saunters out to stare down Kama! Uh oh! Here comes Mabel now to stare down Undertaker! WHO WILL WIN THE KING OF THE RING ON SUNDAY!? I enjoyed this closing segment. I’m a sucker for segments where a bunch of participants in a tournament/battle royal/Royal Rumble all face off the week before the show.
Lawler cuts his bazillionth promo of the night on Bret Hart about Bret having to kiss his feet.
Next week on RAW: It’s the night after King of the Ring ’95 and RAW is live from Danville, Pennsylvania. WWF Intercontinental Champion Jeff Jarrett defends the title against Savio Vega in the main event plus the new King of the Ring will be in action!
