May 1995

WWF Intercontinental Champion Jeff Jarrett vs Undertaker - WWF RAW 5/29/95 KOTR Qualifying Non-Title A rare, marquee, competitive Undertaker on RAW against an opponent who is not someone you think of as a Taker opponent, the current IC Champion Jeff Jarrett. I have said it before I think Jarrett was the first of many over-pushes, start-stop pushes of Vince. From Tito through Razor, the IC title was either for someone on the come-up or a really over upper mid card act. I guess Bulldog and Marty were kinda flukey champs but they were transitional. Jarrett was the champion for the entire first half of 95. I like Jarrett and he was saddled with a terrible gimmick and eve…

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The culmination of Amano's rookie struggles against Bolshoi and her first major win is.....well it's clipped for one, so we only get about 8 minutes out of this. I imagine the length was close to the first two matches they had together (so the 10/15 mark) but who knows. The match is also kinda iffy. Bolshoi just spams 5 Uranage throws in the first showcased minute + a top rope dropkick, and Amano no sells to go into terrible forearms and a weird botched sequence that Bolshoi just flat-out refuses to try again so she does yet another Uranage for a near fall. The above pretty much spells out the sheer roughness of the match. It's not pretty at a lot of points. Even whe…