Monday Night Raw – March 27, 1995: Your Wrestlemania Commercial
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Night Raw
Date: March 27, 1995
Location: Memorial Civic Auditorium, Stockton, California
Commentators: Jim Ross, Gorilla Monsoon
Opening sequence.
JR and Gorilla are in some corner of the arena so yeah this is a special episode. How lucky we are.
We go to Vince McMahon and Todd Pettengill who promise to talk to almost everyone involved with Wrestlemania this year.
We recap Shawn Michaels vs. Diesel. They used to be friends but then Shawn bailed on their tag team, leaving Diesel to win the WWF World Title. Shawn is angry and won the Royal Rumble, earning himself a title shot.
Shawn makes Pamela Anderson miserable.
With Diesel gone, Shawn debuted Sid as his new bodyguard.
Vince and Todd speculate that Shawn might win the title and plug an online chat.
Salt N Pepa are ready for Wrestlemania.
Vince and Todd talk about Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow.
Recap of Bigelow vs. Taylor. Bigelow shoved him at the Royal Rumble and a match was eventually made.
Vince and Todd hype the match.
Fan Festival ad.
Chat about Undertaker vs. King Kong Bundy.
Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart
No holds barred. Bret starts fast and chokes on the ropes a bit before getting two off a DDT. They head outside with Bret in full control before Owen is tossed back inside to keep up the beatdown. Owen finally takes over with a rake to the eyes and a headbutt between the legs to slow things down. Back to the floor with Bret being sent into the barricade a few times in a row as this is already better than almost anything that would happen at Wrestlemania.
A quick poke to the eye breaks up the Sharpshooter (Gorilla: “Do what you can!”) and Bret goes chest first into the exposed buckle (of course). Owen goes up for the missile dropkick but dives into a slingshot into the steel (of course again), setting up the Sharpshooter to give Bret the win.
Rating: B-. Sweet goodness this needed to be on Wrestlemania instead of half of the drek we saw instead. These two had a much better rivalry than Bret vs. Backlund, which was long since done by this point. If nothing else it would keep Owen looking like a big deal and let Bret get his win back from last year.
Referee have to drag Bret off.
One more batch of interviews, this time from celebrities, fill in even more times.
Ted DiBiase and company are ready for Taylor and company.
One last BUY OUR SHOW speech finally wraps us up.
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