Loss

Last few minutes. Austin is green, and Adams is clearly carrying him. Adams gets caught with the brass knucks Austin brought into the ring and loses the match by DQ. Adams does an interview after the match, telling Austin he'll always be Steve Williams to him.

It's interesting how they used Garvin in the USWA - as a guy who was still learning the ropes and wasn't quite ready to step in the ring with the top stars yet, but who kept antagonizing top stars. They work that into the layout here. Garvin spends the whole match running from the babyfaces while Travis tries to pull double duty for his team. We get a "Faggot!" chant. Classy. Fun stuff on the heel side with Garvin refusing to tag in unless the babyfaces were in trouble. Travis continues to look really good. Akbar has Steve Austin and Jeff Gaylord attacking Dundee in the aisle way before Jarrett runs them off, which results in a DQ. This match was consistent and hit the right points, but it didn't quite come together.

John Tesh narrates a video package talking about all of the health problems Superstar Graham has had as a result of years of steroid abuse. Graham says it's a conservative estimate to say 90% of all pro wrestlers use steroids. Bruno says he never touched steroids, but agreed with Graham about the percentage. Graham gives warnings about the risks he has faced, and yeah, there you go.

Last few minutes. Lots of heat, and probably worth checking out in full sometime. Doc and Gordy are destroying Tenryu's leg and Tenryu is desperate trying to fight them off. I wish we had included the whole thing. What is here makes it look like the best All Japan match of the year thus far. Hansen causes a DQ when he comes in with a chair to get Doc off of Tenryu's knee. But then he ends up turning on Tenryu, tying him to the ring ropes by his leg and having to be pulled off of him. JUMBO ends up coming to Tenryu's aid. Tenryu wants none of his help and starts fighting him off too. I like the angle. We've had a DQ and a countout so far in 1990 All Japan. I guess Misawa ushered in a new era in more ways than one.

I suppose this is the first-ever Misawa vs Kobashi singles match. Misawa horribly botches a neckbreaker early on. In spite of this getting some recommendations, I wasn't really expecting that memorable of a match, and we didn't really get one. This is one that needed to be on to see how the match evolved over the years from their first meeting. And Kobashi just works circles around Misawa in this. The match picks up a little when they start working to the finish. But without the historical factor, there's just not much to see here.

DDP has his diamond dolls. He's coming after Paul E. Dangerously. DDP was so annoying at this point.

The Lethal Weapons are Dennis Condrey and Doug Gilbert. Paul E. mentions that he gets asked all the time why he isn't in Atlanta anymore, and he says it's because he wanted to go out and find the very best tag team on the face of the earth. Really good stuff from Paul E.

They show a clip of the Pink Assassin, whose so impressive, what with his headscissors and eye raking, and not being able to sustain any offense for any length of time. 80s death-and-destruction synth music plays while they show this footage, and this gets increasingly bizarre. We missed The Wrestling School Dropout last week, but this week, The Pink Assassin is here. Pink Assassin works a very gay gimmick. I love, "You don't know a wristlock from a wristwatch? How does that sound, sassy?" He ends up getting attacked for daring to put his hands on whoever this host guy is. HOMOPHOBIA~!

Tony Atlas explains to us what it takes to be a champion in another terrific promo. We cut back to Paul E. and whoever the ICW TV host is in the ICW studio. Paul E. talks about Paul Orndorff returning to wrestling, and does a good job putting his return over as a big deal. Great promo. We close things out with a music video of Austin Idol set to David Lee Roth's "Shy Boy". This looks like a video made in Memphis that they were just able to procure.

Disc 6 is all about the great heel promos. Tony Atlas does a solid promo reminding Roadblock and Tom Pritchard that he *is* the ICW champ. Tom Pritchard makes him want to vomit, and Atlas promises him that he's in for a "good whuppin'". Lots of steroid references toward Roadblock. Remember when it was okay to mention steroids in promos?

Cornette and Ross have a fun discussion of the Wrestle War match between Flair and Luger. They obviously see things in different ways. We get post-match promos from Luger and Flair at Wrestle War. Luger does a really good promo explaining why he gave up the world title win to save Sting. Flair says he's Luger's master and Sting's master. Flair warns Luger that if he rides with Sting, he dies with Sting. Doing the promos right after the match and airing them over the weekend was a really cool touch. We wrap up with a PO box address where fans can send get well wishes to Sting.

Lawler is feeling confident, and wrestles the match in street clothes. Lawler wrestling in all black like this is an awesome visual. He makes quick work of Raper and the Jerry Lawler Hour of Destruction finally ends.

Chris Champion is out in a neckbrace, and says he's never been beaten up like Lawler beat him up last week. He says he could have handled himself in a fight, but Lawler attacked him from behind. He'd love to get Lawler in the ring and get even, but his doctor told him one wrong landing will kill him. But when he's healthy again, he's going to get Lawler, no matter where it happens to be. Lawler comes out and tells him he has to have a brain to have a concussion, so no way does he have a concussion. Lawler tells him he's safe, because he doesn't want the death of Chris Champion on his hands. So he's not going to hit him on the head, but he has no problem smacking him in the face. He smacks Champion around for a while and ends up attacking him with a chair. He goes for a piledriver on a chair, and Marlin tells him if he does that piledriver, he's done in Memphis for good. Lawler stops at that point and decides to just punch him in the face and then hit him with a chair again. Lawler finally stops and the locker room clears to take Champion out, and Lawler throws a stool at him on the way out for good measure! Such an incredible angle. But the one thing that's disappointing about this is that there was no knight in shining armor standing by and waiting to defend all of the people who had been wronged. Lawler is good enough in this run that a fresh babyface coming into the territory who could have kept up with him could have been a difference maker, but such a guy didn't exist. One of those times when wrestling suffers because the talent pool is more shallow than it was a few years prior.

Nate is back with chocolate pie in an attempt to cheer up Jerry Lawler. Lawler doesn't seem too interested, and says he doesn't want Nate talking about his personal life on television. He also says he didn't ask for this pie, and whenever he wants something, he'll get it himself. Lawler ends up saying since he got it, he must have been the one to want the pie. He ends up throwing the entire pie at him and covering him with the milk. Now that he's done all of this, Lawler is suddenly cheered up. Nate reaches his breaking point and quits. Lawler says he ain't quittin' nothin', he's going to mop up this mess, then he's fired. Lawler shoves him, and he shoves Lawler back, which prompts Lawler to beat the hell out of him. Eddie Marlin has to come out to break the whole thing up. Lawler is such an asshole jerk in this, and I wish heels were this despicable in wrestling now.

New matches in blue. Matches watched (or re-watched) in purple. January: Bull Nakano vs Mitsuko Nishiwaki (AJW 01/04/90) Brian Pillman vs Cactus Jack (NWA Worldwide 01/06/90) Ric Flair vs Bobby Eaton (NWA Main Event 01/07/90) Jumbo Tsuruta, Tiger Mask & Kabuki vs Genichiro Tenryu, Toshiaki Kawada & Ricky Fuyuki (AJPW 01/11/90) The Rockers vs Powers of Pain (WWF MSG 01/15/90) Kazuo Yamazaki vs Yoji Anjoh (UWF 01/16/90) Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Tatsuo Nakano (UWF 01/16/90) Tiger Mask & Kenta Kobashi vs Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith (AJPW 01/20/90) Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs Jumbo Tsuruta & Isao Takagi (AJPW 01/20/90) Ron Garvin vs Greg Valentine (WWF Royal Rumble 01/21/90) Jumbo Tsuruta, Kabuki & Mighty Inoue vs Genichiro Tenryu, Toshiaki Kawada & Ricky Fuyuki (AJPW 01/25/90) Jushin Liger vs Akira Nogami (NJPW 01/25/90) Ric Flair, Arn Anderson & Sting vs Buzz Sawyer, Dragon Master & Great Muta (NWA Power Hour 01/26/90) Genichiro Tenryu, Toshiaki Kawada & Ricky Fuyuki vs Giant Baba, Tiger Mask & Isao Takagi (AJPW 01/27/90) Genichiro Tenryu vs Isao Takagi (AJPW 01/28/90) Jushin Liger vs Naoki Sano (NJPW 01/31/90) February: Los Brazos vs Pierroth Jr., Ulises & Gran Markus Jr. (EMLL 02/02/90) Arn Anderson vs Bobby Eaton (NWA Main Event 02/04/90) Akira Maeda vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (UWF 02/09/90) Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs Kabuki & Mighty Inoue (AJPW 02/24/90) Jumbo Tsuruta, Kabuki & Mighty Inoue vs Genichiro Tenryu, Toshiaki Kawada & Ricky Fuyuki (AJPW 02/24/90) Midnight Express vs Rock & Roll Express (NWA Wrestle War 02/25/90) Ric Flair vs Lex Luger (NWA Wrestle War 02/25/90) Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (UWF 02/27/90) March: Yoshinari Asai, Super Astro & Kendo vs Negro Casas, Shu El Guerrero & Espanto Jr. (Hamada's UWF 03/01/90) Steve Williams & Terry Gordy vs Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu (AJPW 03/02/90) Xochitl Hamada & Kaoru Maeda vs Aja Kong & Bison Kimura (Hamada's UWF 03/05/90) Super Astro & Lizmark vs Negro Casas & Espanto Jr. (Hamada's UWF 03/05/90) Steve Williams & Terry Gordy vs Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen (AJPW 03/06/90) Ric Flair vs Tommy Rich (NWA Power Hour 03/09/90) Jushin Liger & Hiroshi Hase vs Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga (NJPW 03/15/90) Jushin Liger vs. Pegasus Kid (NJPW 03/19/90) Jerry Estrada vs El Satanico (EMLL 03/23/90) Eddie Gilbert vs Cactus Jack (NWA Power Hour 03/23/90) Ric Flair vs Ricky Morton (NWA World Wide Wrestling 03/24/90) Toshiaki Kawada & Ricky Fuyuki vs Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat (AJPW 03/27/90) Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs Rusher Kimura & Isamu Teranishi (AJPW 03/31/90) April: Atsushi Onita & Tarzan Goto vs Masanobu Kurisu & Dragon Master (FMW 04/01/90) Road Warrior Hawk vs Butch Reed (NWA Main Event 04/01/90, No DQ) Rick Martel vs Tito Santana (WWF Hottest Matches 04/04/90) Ryuma Go vs Masaji Aoyagi (Pioneer 04/05/90) Big Boss Man vs Jake Roberts (WWF/AJPW/NJPW Summit 04/13/90) Hulk Hogan vs Stan Hansen (WWF/AJPW Tokyo Dome 04/13/90) Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kazuo Yamazaki (UWF Fighting Area 04/15/90) Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoji Anjo (UWF Fighting Area 04/15/90) Jumbo Tsuruta & Kenta Kobashi vs Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey (AJPW 04/17/90) Devil Masami vs Cutie Suzuki (JWP 04/20/90) Pirata Morgan, Jerry Estrada & Emilio Charles Jr vs Atlantis & Angel Azteca (EMLL 04/20/90) Midnight Express vs Rock & Roll Express (NWA Main Event 04/22/90) Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Saito vs Keiji Muto & Masa Chono (NJPW 04/27/90) Lightning Kid vs Jerry Lynn (PWA 04/90) May: Kazuo Yamazaki vs Tatsuo Nakano (UWF 05/04/90) Super Muneco, Cachorro Mendoza & Blue Demon Jr vs Bestia Salvaje, Tony Arce & Vulcano (EMLL 05/04/90) Riki Choshu & Masa Saito vs Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Chono (NJPW 05/05/90) Solar I & II vs El Supremo & Hombre Bala (EMLL 05/11/90) El Dandy, El Satanico & Emilio Charles Jr. vs Atlantis, Javier Cruz & Angel Azteca (EMLL 05/11/90) Madusa Miceli vs Aja Kong (AJW 05/13/90) Manami Toyota vs Etsuko Mita (AJW 05/13/90) Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Jumbo Tsuruta & Kabuki (AJPW 05/17/90) Hiroshi Hase vs Norio Honaga (NJPW 05/24/90) Riki Choshu vs Keiji Muto (NJPW 05/24/90) Toshiaki Kawada & Shinichi Nakano vs Ricky Fuyuki & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (AJPW 05/26/90) Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Akira Taue vs Jumbo Tsuruta, Kabuki & Masa Fuchi (AJPW 05/26/90) June: Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Jumbo Tsuruta & Kabuki (AJPW 06/01/90) Yoshihiro Asai & Kendo & El Hijo del Santo vs. Negro Casas & Fuerza Guerrera & Cuchillo (Hamada's UWF 06/01/90) El Dandy vs Angel Azteca (EMLL 06/01/90) Aja Kong, Grizzly Iwamoto & Bison Kimura vs Manami Toyota, Mika Takahashi & Kaoru Maeda (Hamada's UWF 06/04/90) Kenta Kobashi vs Bam Bam Bigelow (AJPW 06/05/90) Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs Kabuki & Ricky Fuyuki (AJPW 06/05/90) Gran Hamada, Perro Aguayo & Kendo vs Missionairies (Hamada's UWF 06/07/90) Negro Casas vs Yoshinari Asai (Hamada's UWF 06/07/90) Toshiaki Kawada vs Bam Bam Bigelow (AJPW 06/08/90) Steve Williams vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 06/08/90) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 06/08/90) Arn Anderson vs Paul Orndorff (NWA Clash of the Champions XI 06/13/90) Manami Toyota vs Yumiko Hotta (AJW Grand Prix 06/17/90) Jushin Liger vs. Pegasus Kid (NJPW 06/18/90) Yoji Anjo vs. Minoru Suzuki (UWF 06/21/90) Akira Maeda vs Nobuhiko Takada (UWF 06/21/90) Perro Aguayo, Ken Timbs & Villano III vs. Ringo Mendoza, Cien Caras & Sangre Chicana (EMLL 06/22/90) Steve Williams vs. Bam Bam Bigelow (NJPW 06/26/90) Riki Choshu, Kantaro Hoshino, Kuniaki Kobayashi, Kensuke Sasaki & Shiro Koshinaka vs Animal Hamaguchi, Super Strong Machine, Tarzan Goto, Hiro Saito & Masanobu Kurisu (NJPW 06/26/90) Perro Aguayo vs. Ringo Mendoza (EMLL 06/29/90) Mitsuharu Misawa, Akira Taue & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Jumbo Tsuruta, Masa Fuchi & Kabuki (AJPW 06/30/90) July: Midnight Express vs Southern Boys (NWA Great American Bash 07/07/90) Steve Williams, Terry Gordy & Johnny Ace vs Stan Hansen, Dan Spivey & Joel Deaton (AJPW Brody Memorial 07/12/90) Masa Fuchi vs Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (AJPW Brody Memorial 07/12/90) Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi vs Jumbo Tsuruta, Great Kabuki & Mighty Inoue (AJPW Brody Memorial 07/12/90) El Hijo del Santo, Octagon & Astro de Oro vs Pirata Morgan, Espectro & Espectro de Ultratumba (EMLL 07/13/90) Mitsuharu Misawa, Akira Taue & Kenta Kobashi vs Jumbo Tsuruta, Kabuki & Masa Fuchi (AJPW 07/17/90) Stan Hansen vs. Terry Gordy (AJPW 07/17/90) Midnight Express vs Tommy Rich & Tim Horner (NWA Power Hour 07/27/90) Steve Williams vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 07/28/90) Rick Martel vs Ron Garvin (WWF Prime Time Wrestling 07/30/90) August: Manami Toyota vs. Megumi Kudo (FMW Summer Spectacular 08/04/90) Big Boss Man vs. Ted DiBiase (WWF Supertape 3 08/08/90) Jushin Liger, Kuniaki Kobayashi & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Super Strong Machine, Tatsu Goto & Pegasus Kid (NJPW 08/16/90) Kenta Kobashi vs Dan Kroffat (AJPW 08/18/90) Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW 08/18/90) Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs Bull Nakano & Grizzly Iwamoto (AJW 08/19/90) Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Akira Taue, Masa Fuchi & Mighty Inoue (AJPW 08/31/90) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 08/31/90) September: Mitsuharu Misawa vs Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW 09/01/90) Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs Yoshiaki Yatsu & Isao Takagi (SWS 09/09/90) Shinya Hashimoto vs. Bam Bam Bigelow (NJPW 09/14/90) Great Muta vs Hiroshi Hase (NJPW 09/14/90) Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue (AJPW 09/30/90) October: Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Masa Fuchi (AJPW 10/04/90) Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (AJPW 10/07/90) Bill Dundee vs. Mark Callous (USWA Unified World Title Tournament 10/08/90) Eddie Gilbert vs Austin Idol (USWA Unified World Title Tournament 10/08/90) Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Mighty Inoue (AJPW 10/10/90) Genichiro Tenryu vs George Takano (SWS 10/11/90) Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi vs Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW 10/19/90) Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Mighty Inoue (AJPW 10/21/90) Keiji Muto vs. Hiroshi Hase (NJPW 10/25/90) Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (UWF 10/25/90) Akira Maeda vs Masakatsu Funaki (UWF 10/25/90) El Dandy vs El Satanico (EMLL 10/26/90) Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Mighty Inoue (AJPW 10/27/90) Rick & Scott Steiner vs Nasty Boys (NWA Halloween Havoc 10/27/90) Lex Luger vs Stan Hansen (NWA Halloween Havoc 10/27/90) Lightning Kid vs Jerry Lynn (PWA 10/90) November: Keiji Muto & Masa Chono vs Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW 11/01/90) Riki Choshu vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 11/01/90) Jerry Lawler vs Eddie Gilbert (WWA 11/09/90) Kaoru Maeda & Mika Takahashi vs Xochitl Hamada & Esther Moreno (Hamada's UWF 11/10/90) Bobby Eaton vs Tracy Smothers (NWA Main Event 11/11/90) Kaoru Maeda & Mika Takahashi vs Xochitl Hamada & Esther Moreno (Hamada's UWF 11/12/90) Kaoru Maeda & Mika Takahashi vs Xochitl Hamada & Esther Moreno (Hamada's UWF 11/14/90) Hyper Cat, La Diabolica, Miori Kamiya & Mayumi Yamamoto vs Esther Moreno, Xochitl Hamada, Takako Inoue & Noriyo Tateno (Hamada's UWF 11/14/90) Los Brazos vs Gran Hamada, Kendo & Yoshihiro Asai (Hamada's UWF 11/14/90) Aja Kong vs Bull Nakano (AJW Wrestlemarinepiad 11/14/90) El Dandy, Ringo Mendoza & Sangre Chicana vs El Satanico, MS-1 & Ken Timbs (EMLL 11/16/90) Pirata Morgan vs El Faraon (EMLL 11/16/90) Aja Kong, Bison Kimura, Madusa Miceli, Tarantula & Xochilt Hamada vs Manami Toyota, Mariko Yoshida, Kaoru Maeda, Mika Takahashi & Esther Moreno (Hamada's UWF 11/17/90) Ric Flair & Arn Anderson vs. Doom (NWA 11/17/90, Cage match) Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue vs. Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey (AJPW Real World Tag League 11/21/90) Demolition vs. The Rockers (WWF MSG Network 11/24/90) Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey (AJPW Real World Tag League 11/25/90) Lightning Kid vs Wellington Wilkins Jr. (PWA 11/90) December: Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (AJPW Real World Tag League 12/01/90) Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue (AJPW 12/07/90) Keiji Muto vs. Bam Bam Bigelow (NJPW 12/11/90) Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Tayayuki Iizuka (NJPW 12/13/90) El Dandy vs El Satanico (EMLL 12/14/90) Barry Windham & Arn Anderson vs Doom (NWA Starrcade 12/16/90) Riki Choshu vs. Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW 12/26/90) Date Unknown: El Hijo del Santo, Yoshinari Asai & Gran Hamada vs Negro Casas, Blue Panther & Fuerza Guerrera (WWA 1990)

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To the tune of "Nothin' But A Good Time" by Poison. In a funny moment, just when you think you're done with Jimmy Valiant, he pops up to surprise you yet again. CHAMPYONE. BOOGIE WOOGIE.

Royal Furniture sets up the studio. Dave Brown gets to keep his stool, and Lawler gets a recliner! This stuff is gold.

Valiant simply says KING FISH, GOLD FISH. Lawler complains. Then we get another Jimmy Valiant spot. HANDSOME JIMMY. MEMPHO.

Dave Brown gets in a pot shot, asking if Christie Brinkley has called to express sympathy for him dropping the title. Lawler is out with Nate the Rat and is a little grumpy. We get some awesome sponsorship, as Lawler asks why they haven't replaced the studio furniture he destroyed the week before. Brown says these things take time, and Lawler calls him an idiot, and says if he called Royal Furniture, this stuff would be delivered quickly. He calls them while on the air, and makes arrangements to get the furniture quickly. I can't tell you how clever that is. Lawler recaps the match, saying he should have been DQd long before Valiant got the win, in which case he would still be champion. Hooray for Honesty. He wants Valiant out, but Valiant isn't there, but Dave cuts to a videotape. Valiant goes crazy, making a bunch of weird noises and making fun of JERRY THE KING LOSER. He PREACHES, getting on his knees about how much he loves the city where his mama and baby were born.

Clip from MSC. Lawler goes for his chain, but Valiant had already stolen it from him without his knowledge. He decks Lawler with it, and then Valiant beats him at his own game, tossing the chain before the referee can find it. Valiant finally wins the USWA title to the delight of the crowd.

THE ANTIBODIES OF HULKAMANIA CONTINUE TO REFUSE WHAT THE POISON CAN DO. These are starting to scare me.

Jimmy Valiant makes a crazy production of his entrance, even going all through the Sportatorium crowd and dancing. Someone holds up a picture of Valiant wearing a t-shirt that says Big Mama's Flowers, which cracks me up. Valiant kisses the referee before the match starts and Lawler demands an automatic DQ that he doesn't get. Lawler insists on him taking the doorag off his head. Valiant complies, but wipes it on his ass and chases Lawler around the ring with it. Lawler ends up hiding behind the referee, and Valiant starts spanking the ref! Then, Valiant kisses the cameraman, who gets an on-screen graphic that says "Skip Collins - Cameraman. Kissed By Valiant." Tremendous. Lawler keeps complaining about the counts he gets when trying pin attempts. The referee obliges his request the next time around, but he's always in the opposite position and he gets furious. This match is 100% stalling and bullshit, but it's entertaining stalling and bullshit. We also get a funny Marc Lowrance quote: "Jerry Lawler has been known to store can openers, slugs and other paraphernalia in his trunks."

J-Tex is disbanded, which is yet another the Horsemen turn was poorly timed. But now, we do have Sullivan's Slaughterhouse, which is a fun collection of crazy guys. Poor Cactus just cannot talk at this point. Luckily, Kevin Sullivan is there, an always reliable promo. Buzz Sawyer is acting more like the Buzz of old, so he seems to be back in his element. Sullivan angles them as guys who want to take on both babyfaces and heels, which is an interesting idea and could have probably been taken much farther. To quote Cornette, "their meatloaf isn't all baked".