• British Bulldog vs. Bam Bam Bigelow is a good power match as well as great alliteration. Bigelow was nearly a jobber at this point, but he still tries and that’s why we love him and his CM Punk-esque moonsaults.
• The Triple Header is a fun waste of time until everyone takes a hit from the Stupid Bong.
• Bob Backlund introduces Dean Douglas, which is good for the viewers as Crazy Backlund is awesome but not so good for Dean who can’t possibly follow Vote For Backlund.
• Bret Hart was asked in the back ”Can you make a one-eyed pirate look good?” and Bret replied ”Of course I can, I’M BRET FUCKING HART.” The joy of watching Bret wrestle was that he made you think his opponent was good enough to beat him and this might be his crowning achievement as he goes 16:39 with a fucking pirate. The match is stupidly good, even with Bret’s crazy-arse dive at the start of the match.

Bad!

• Waylon Mercy makes his only PPV appearance against Savio Vega. Mercy suffered from Pillman Syndrome in that he was a great character but was physically gone by the time he started in the WWF. The match isn’t good in any sense of the word and Spivey would be gone soon. Shame really. If he’s remembered at all in 2012 it’s because of Wrestlecrap.com or Are You Serious?, which is kind of like being Orson Welles and being remembered for Transformers: the Movie.
• H.O.G. takes on Sid. It’s not a squash so Sid has to sell for a fucking hillbilly. Sid should rarely sell (preferably never), but he has to do his best impression of a man who knows what he’s doing for a one-joke mid-carder. H.O.G. at one point nails his Slopdrop finisher and Sid has to be saved by DiBiase. This was WWF’s biggest heel at this point, ladies and gentlemen.

Wrestlecrap!

• So…the main event. After flat-out promising one of the belts would change hands, WWF decides to bait-and-switch for no apparent reason.  Owen Hart & Yokozuna are the Tag Champions but Owen can’t be found so Cornette  replaces him with Bulldog (even though he’d already wrestled). The match goes on as scheduled until Owen decides to interfere near the end. Diesel thinks ”When in Rome!” and Jacknifes Owen for the pin despite Owen not being in the match but being a tag champion. Stupid ref. Before Raw even starts the next night, they announce the belts are to be returned back to Yokozuna & Owen due to the wrong guy being pinned even-though-he-was-tag-team-champion. So to recap: Cornette looks like an idiot for replacing Owen with someone who already wrestled, Diesel looks like an idiot for pinning someone not in the match, Owen looks like an idiot for taking one move and then getting pinned, the referee looks like an idiot for counting the pin and the WWF looks like an idiot for having to reverse the decision. ”Who booked this crap?” indeed.
• Ah, the sad story of Dean Douglas. Shane dropped his ECW Title to The Sandman so he could try his hand in the WWF and not have to take canes to the head every night. Douglas’ summary of his brief stint was”The Clique screwed me!” but he blames everything that went wrong in his career on everybody not named Shane Douglas, as if Dean Douglas was  going to headline Wrestlemania or something. Dean was an evil teacher who criticized the Ramon/HBK ladder match from last month’s Summerslam, giving us Ramon/Douglas for this show. Unlike other occupational gimmicks during this time, Dean was actually a good teacher (because he was smart and used big words!) but wrestling wise the guy’s matches were nothing special. Even with Bob Backlund in his corner, nifty looking tights and a fancy robe…he still looked and wrestled like Just Another Guy. His mic work was essentially ”Homework is bad, kids should do it and I am smart” (kids in attendance: ”boooo”).  In his first big match Douglas has to pull the tights after a distraction by 1-2-3 Kid to win, which is not a good sign. In short, Douglas was a shit character who carried himself like shit and was booked like shit. And this is in a match where Ramon actually bothered to try to make Douglas look good, just wait until we get to next month where Dean actually would get screwed by The Clique.

Overall!

• Some good wrestling, some terribly ideas and some interesting behind-the-scenes drama.