G1 Finals (1993)

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G1 Finals 1993 was the ninth G1 Finals event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 17th October 1993.

## Background

The main match heading into the show is WWF Champion Bret Hart vs Rick Martel. Martel was picked by Harley Race as the main trade for RAW after the brand split, since then Martel has done nothing of relevance only feuding with Million Dollar Corporation and a short feud against Owen for the european title which he lost. Leading up to this show, Martel aired his frustrations out to Harley who gave him a match against Tatanka for NO1 contendership which he won, Bret refused to fight Martel as he didn't feel like he deserved it, Martel has called out Bret being on everyone's shadow throught his whole career: Jim Neidhart, Mr.Perfect and Texas Tornado and now Ric Flair, him and Martel have brawled constantly throught just disrespecting each other

This year the G1 Tournament Final Match will be between RAW's Shawn Michaels and Smackdown's Sycho Sid, after 2 months of eliminations, Shawn defeated Mr.Perfect and 123 Kid, Sid defeated Owen Hart and Jerry Lawler to get this spot, the winner will be getting a world championship shot of their choosing next month at Survivor Series.

Bam Bam Bigelow returned at In Your House 8 after being gone since 1987, he entered the G1 but failed to qualify for the triple threats, eventually he won a world title shot winning a fatal 4 way. Bam Bam comes into this wanting to prove to everyone that he wasn't a waste of a signing and that he's one of the greatest "big men" this industry has to offer, Taker has called him a small step on his world championship reign

During Doink's intial takeover of Smackdown as he destroyed the lower midcard division, he kidnapped Yokozuna, when Yokozuna returned he had his memory completely erased and was back to his mid 1991 gimmick when he debuted, Doink's takeover led to him winning the tag team titles with Barry Horowitz against Steiner Brothers, Yokozuna started teaming up with Duane Gill as a comedy team but everytime Doink showed up, Yokozuna froze and couldn't move and Duane kept being attacked due to that. At In Your House 8, Duane and Yokozuna won a fatal 4 way to become NO1 contenders, Doink has interrupted every Yoko match since then but everytime Yoko manages to walk at least one step as his brainwashing is ending, at Summerslam he completely unfroze as he managed to beat up Doink but Horowitz still choked out Gill for them to retain the tag titles. But Doink took interest in this and challenged both men to another tag title shot as Yokozuna is still his puppet but now things have gotten a lot more interesting as he can actually fight back, Doink wants to see how much Yoko can do and how useful he is for him

Pierre and The Mountie feuded in early 1993 leading to them blowing off their feud in a no DQ match and agreeing to team up with each other. The Quebecers won a tag title NO1 contendership match before In Your House 9 but Headshrinkers attacked them and injured them as they instead wanted Rock N Roll Express in a rematch, they defeated them in the show and Quebecers returned to get their promised title shot

After Roberts lost against Undertaker for the world title at Summerslam and injured Savage to the point where he was gone for a while, Roberts put his focus on the IC title as he was the first ever champion of it and he wants it back, Ramon has accepted the challenge immediatly merely because beating Roberts would be amazing for the "bad guy"'s career

Roddy Piper returned saying he was tired of how Owen was acting like a cocky kid and he wanted to beat some sense into him, Owen has accepted the match wanting to retire and put Piper out of action for good, Piper says it's impossible for Owen to win the G1 which Owen takes offense to as he sharpshooters Piper and doesn't let go until security stops him

## Details

* Yokozuna says Doink has no power over him, as soon as he says this they disappear through the lights and on the titantron Doink and Horowitz announce they forfeit the tag titles
* Savage returns after the IC title match still with a bandaged arm, Roberts smiles but Roberts takes off his bandage and they brawl, he puts Roberts on the commentator's table and elbow drops him from the top rope to confirm he's completely healed
* The ref goes down during the G1 finals with a SCM by Shawn accidentally, Perfect appears and perfectplexes Shawn costing him the match. Sid immediatly picks The Undertaker
* In the main event, Martel does the model dive and gets SCM'd by Shawn to end the match in a DQ. Shawn says he's doing everything he can to make sure Bret stays champ because he wants to be the one ending Bret's reign