From: myleslee@next15pg2.wam.umd.edu (Alan Brady Ward)
Subject: WWF: Wrestling Challenge Recorded at Cap Centre
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:56:04 GMT

Attended WWF Wrestling Challenge/Prime Time recording for the near future.   
Almost five hours of wrestling.  WHEW!!!

Highlights...

Flair is champ.  Beat Macho Man in Hershey on Tuesday night (probably  
recorded Superstars up there) after he insisted on defending even though  
he was hurt.  Cap Centre crowd got to see the footage that will  
undoubtebly be this weeks update. Razor Ramon helped Flair get the victory  
by cold-cocking Savage.  Flair then puts him in figure four and he is  
powerless to resist.  Razor Ramon beat on the Macho Man after the match  
doing further damage to his leg.  (Second straight night of leg beating,  
rough week for Randy.)  Mike McGuirk announces that under strict doctor's  
orders, Randy won't wrestle tonight and a replacement will be chosen.

Mean Gene interviews Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair and Bulldog (at different  
times).  Shawn issues challenge to Davey Boy and rambles about his good  
looks.  Tells Sherri that he loves her but not as much as she loves him.    
Flair gloats, and goes so far as to say he's doing so.  Gene tries to say  
something and Flair says something like, "Don't cut me off little man!   
I'm not finished gloating yet!!"  Anyway, number one contender is UW and  
Flair basically invites him to "Walk that aisle."  Bulldog thanks Bret  
Hart for match of his life, thanks fans and then promises to defend belt  
with dignity and honor...  These will be on for several weeks, I guess.

Nailz fights a no-name and just quickly kicks the guy out of ring.  Picks  
up mike and begins ranting incoherrently.  I was pretty close and the only  
words I really understood were Boss Man which he said numerous times.  I  
guess he was taunting him because Boss Man finally came out and started  
beating on him.  He drove him away and propped up the poor no-name at the  
end.

Tito actually beat Kamala!!!  Yes, that's right, I said Tito actually won  
a match.  He wins via countout when Paul Bearer comes strolling down to  
ringside with his urn.  As soon as Kamala sees Paul, he leaves the ring  
post haste and high-tails it into the ringside seats (not near me  
unfortunately.)  The rest of the night, Tito didn't fare too well, so  
don't read too much into this victory.  Who knows if it will even make it  
to the shows.

Money Inc faught a few times so I wouldn't write DiBiase off just yet.   
They beat Virgil and Jim Powers and then faught some jobbers.

Jim Powers actually faught one match and won.  Could he be up and coming??   
NOT!!!

Comet Kid debuts.  Kinda a Japanese look to the costume.  Shoots streamers  
as he comes down to ringside.  Small guy, pretty agile.  Don't think he'll  
figure into the title picture any time soon.  He wrestled twice.

Mountie wrestled.  He sang.  Some guy said "Don't quit your day job."  I  
wholeheartedly concur.  I liked his old theme music even though I can't  
stand him.

Mean Gene had us cheer, boo and give thumbs down and chant "Weasle" for  
the Brain so they could splice that in whenever they needed it.  And  
believe me, by the end of the evening, they needed the canned applause for  
the jobber matches.  More and more seats were emptying as the evening  
progressed and many of those who remained were partially or fully asleep.   
The main matches advertised didn't even get underway until 11:15 PM or so.   
Someone obviously didn't like the ploy and shouted "Vince McMahon is an  
anarchist!!!" or something like that during this time.

Scheduled Named matches (perhaps not even on TV, deinitely only on Prime  
Time)...

Big Boss Man vs. Nailz: (Personal commentary - BORING!!!  I hate Nailz.  I  
mean, this is about the third time the Big Boss Man has repeated basically  
the same story line with a different person.)  It was a pier-six brawl  
from the beginning.  Nailz started beating on BBM as soon as he slid into  
ring.  Boss Man got upper hand and won.  Humourous scene when Nailz throws  
chair into ring after Boss Man drove him out w/nightstick (which he  
regained) and BBM caught it and proceeded to sit down in the middle of the  
ring.

Davey Boy vs. Papa Shango: Both men beat on each other alot.  Davey power  
slams Shango but he kicks out.  Shango throws flash powder in Davey's eyes  
and thus Davey wins via DQ but is reducing to writhing around the ring at  
the end and has to be helped out.

Flair vs. Undertaker: Flair looked pretty lame.  Undertaker man-handled  
him.  Best part for me was watch Paul Bearer's antics at ringside w/Mr.  
Perfect.  Another good scene, Flair put UT in figure four after knocking  
him out or something but all Paul has to do is point urn toward him and UT  
springs up and stares coldly into Ric's face making him very thoughtful.   
UT finally got a countout but of course, Flair keeps belt.

Razor Ramon vs. Bret Hart: (Personal Commentary: Razor is one of the worst  
stereotypes Vince has ever come up with.  I mean, and he's had some real  
hum-dingers.  On several occasions people in the crowd referred to him as  
Diamond Studd.  Vince would have been smart to leave him as is.  The  
accent is horrible as is everything else about him, CHICO.)  Bret is  
standing in for Macho.  He fights him for a while then gets tossed out of  
ring.  Razor gloats, and surprise, surprise, who should come hobbling down  
the aisle but Macho Man he gets in the ring and starts feebly beating  
Ramon.  Ramon quickly gets control and administers more damage to the leg  
of the Macho Man (that makes three nights in a row that Macho has had his  
leg beat on, maybe Randy should consider another line of work.)  Anyway,  
Bret recovers and drives Razor from the ring with a chair.

UW vs. Kamala: Was a great match, simply because it was the last match and  
very short.  It was along about midnight when it finally got underway.  UW  
dealt with Kamala very quickly.  Kamala didn't get to do much of anything.   
At the end UW beats on his whole entourage.  I was leaving so I didn't see  
how it happened, but he somehow ended up with KimChis jungle hat and put  
it on his head.

All and all, not a bad card.  Grade is lowered since we had to endure  
countless no name matches to get to them.  We saw several people on  
multiple occasions.  Still, maybe I'll see myself on TV???  These will  
likely span three weeks of TV time or so.

Al

  



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