From: bh929@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Palij)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: WWF @ MSG 9/11/92
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:10:40 GMT
Reply-To: bh929@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Palij)
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Overview:
	This was the first WWF house show in MSG in several
months (Democratic Convention met here during the summer and
other things apparently tied up the place).  Hard to say, but
I think that the place was about 50-60% filled.  This show will
not be televised (no Heenan and Monsoon doing commentary at
ringside, no cameramen) and probably just as well.  Nothing
really new or surprising and the angles played out here have
(I believe) been played out in house shows around the country.
Next WWF show at MSG scheduled for Sat Nov 28 (featured match:
Ric Flair vs the Gobblygooker ;-).  I sat about 8 rows from
ringside, facing the aisle that wrestlers used to enter the
ring but over to the left.  I missed some ringside action when
the people in front jumped up on their chairs.

Anyway, I'll try to keep it brief.


Match 1:  High Energy vs Skinner & Barry (The Winner) Horowitz
	Skinner & Horowitz came to the ring first and tried to
draw heat, talking back to some a-holes at ringside.  Crowd
pops when High Energy show (boy, these guys are short and
thick; with those pants on they looked like a couple of pudgy
kids).  Match was pretty slow with Skinner and Horowitz
beating up on HE for most of the match (shouts of boring from
the crowd did little to speed up the match).  Koko off the top
turnbuckle onto Horowitz for the win.  Barry and Steve Keirn
argue after the match with Skinner slapping Horowitz (setting
up intense hope for a Skinner vs The Winner fued) but they
shake hands and walk off into the sunset together. 
(Match time:  15 min for match plus 5 min for after match
activities;  too bad this wasn't televised, then the squash
matches would have lasted only a few minutes, but then the
whole card would have lasted a half hour). 

After this match The Fink (tm) announces that there is a *NEW*
WWF World Champion because of That Tuesday in Hershey (tm).
Mixed crowd response (Randy Savage was still listed as WWF
champ on the program).  As a result, Jack Tunney has ordered
Flair's scheduled match with the Undertaker to be a championship 
match  (does Tunney's abuse of the power of his position know
no bounds? ;-).  

Match 2:  Shawn Michaels (w/Sherri and heart-shaped mirror) 
vs Virgil.  Yawn.  Shawn tried to draw heat (he succeeded with 
a guy sitting not far from me who kept on yelling "Pretty Boy
Faggot" and other witticisms).  Some good moves along with
some Sherri chasing outside of the ring but Shawn backkicks
Virgil upside the head for the win at about the 14 min mark.

Razor Ramon comes out to draw heat.  Crowd response was kind
of mild at first but built up to a fairly high level (the guy 
who yelled Pretty Boy was now yelling "You're Uglier in Real 
Life"; I wanted to yell "Hey Scott" but didn't want to have to
explain it to the marks).

Match 3:  Mountie (w/small shock stick and no Jimmy Hart) vs 
Tito Santana.  Mountie beats up on Tito for most of the match and
wins after a chop to the throat from outside the ring (pins
with feet on the second rope).  Mountie get ready to shock
Tito who rolls aways and is able to grab the shock stick away
from the Mountie.  Tito now tries to shock the Mountie who
manages to run away.  Tito then gets a pop (but somebody
behind me yelled out "You still lost the match";  Tito's
status as Jobber to the Stars (tm) is unblemished).  The match
lasted about 14 minutes.

Match 4:  Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Razor Ramon
Randy limps to the ring to good crowd response.  He raises his
hands to the air, opening and closing them to get more
(something that he will do several times during the match).
Razor comes to ring and they face off slapping each other.
Randy sells Scott's moves well especially when Scott goes to
work on the leg.  At one point, outside of the ring, Scott
apparently has had enough and starts to walk back to the
dressing room but is dragged back into the ring by Randy.
Scott continues to work on the leg but Randy comes back with a
couple of off the top turnbuckle axe handles.  Randy bodyslams
Scott and goes for the pin when Ric Flair interferes (crowd
jumps up at this point, couldn't tell if Perfect was around).
While Randy and Ric are having fun Razor takes the belt to the
back of Randy's head and gets the pin.  Razor gets the mike,
spews for a few minutes over Randy and then leaves the ring.
Randy finally gets up, limps around, and is helped by the ref
back to the dressing room. (Do I smell a retirement coming?)
Match lasted about 15 min.

Intermission

Match 5:  Natural Disasters vs the Beverly Brothers (no Lanny)
Typhoon in for most of the match while being beat up by the
Bevs.  Tenta comes in and wins with the crotch splash.  Match
lasted about 9 minutes.

Match 6:  Bret Hart vs. Papa Shango
Fair heat to Shango, big pop for Bret.  Fairly active match,
both inside and outside the ring.  Shango runs into
turnbuckles after Bret who jumps away.  Bret rolls Shango up
and grabs tights for the pin.  About 11 min.

Match 7:  Ric Flair (w/Mr Perfect) vs the Undertaker (w/Paul
Bearer).  Fair amount of heat to Flair and big pop for UT.
The match went back and forth with Perfect coming in and
throwing the ref (the infamous Dave Hebner) out of the ring
when UT had Ric pinned.  Ref comes back in but no DQ until
several minutes later when Perfect hits UT with a chair (UT,
unaffected, turns around with his What Do You Think You're
Doing Look (tm)).  UT tombstones Flair who lays on the mat for
several minutes while UT and Paul argue with the ref about
putting Flair in the bodybag.  Perfect comes in and pulls
Flair out before UT and Paul can get their act together (much
to the crowd's disappointment).  Of course, Flair is still 
the WFF's Real World Champion.  About 12 min.

Sorry about the length, almost as boring as the actual show.
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