November 10, 201113 yr Author comment_5487857 Sean Waltman is a miracle worker. Bigelow looks good, but Waltman is the one carrying the other three. The match keeps wanting to fall apart, but he won't let it. I don't love this match. There are things in it that don't make sense, but literally every single good thing about this match is the result of something the Kid did. The post-match angle with LT is hot, but not in a Wrestlemania main event type way.
November 10, 201113 yr comment_5487858 I'd have to go back and watch as it's been a while but I don't remember this being a 1 man show atleast. Never was a huge Holly fan but I thought he had a good run around this time, same with Tatanka. Remember those 2 having a fun singles match either the week before or week after the Kid/Bam Bam match that's earlier on this set as part of the buildup. Never gave it much thought before but this was quite the card, weak Rumble aside.
November 10, 201113 yr comment_5487898 From what I remember, all four worked pretty hard. At the time I was glad to see Holly do something worthwhile for a change and Tatanka wasn't completely ruined by the heel turn yet.
February 2, 201213 yr comment_5493950 So was this Tatanka's best match ever? I liked this more than his match with HBK at Mania 9. Real good match thanks to Kid but I think the others weren't that bad either.
September 5, 201312 yr comment_5560620 Tatanka and Smoking Gunns vs Headshrinkers and Bigelow and SummerSlam '93 was better.
August 20, 201411 yr comment_5620484 I thought Tatanka sucked--out of shape, lazy, and just a bad heel all-around. Holly was just there, but wasn't a fuck-up or anything. Kid and Bam Bam were on another level. I have to disagree on the one-man show part, too. Bam Bam kept up with the Kid just as much as he did on TV, and was doing just as much to hold this match together. Kid wasn't working with a crash test dummy when he did that cool huracanrana spot, after all. All those miscommunication and timing spots could have made for a mess, but Bam Bam was in perfect position each time. This is a refreshingly southern tag layout all around with all the double-teams and distraction spots and hot tag teases--it just needed a better Ricky Morton than Holly and another heel who was stronger than Tatanka, and it'd be one of the better WWF bouts of the year. As it is, it was still pretty enjoyable with half of the participants turning in excellent performances. The big angle of course comes afterward, as Bigelow shoves down a laughing LT. This might be the first "shoot angle" the WWF ever ran, as the booth goes silent and you (at least in the original broadcast) faintly hear Lawler say, "Vince is not here, he's gone off headset" as though the situation were legitimately out of control. Then we awkwardly (by design) go to a video recap and come back to a somber apology from Vince. Kind of out-of-the-box stuff.
March 7, 20232 yr comment_6000556 Waltman and Bigelow steal the show here, and Holly and Tatanka are here for the ride. (Maybe the best Tatanka match ... ever?) I hated the finish, though - not conceptually, but the actual execution of it was horribly awkward. ***
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